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I know you're 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.480 going to leave encouraged and inspired. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.920 Ure you subscribe to get new messages every week, and 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.480 follow us on social media to stay connected. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.040 We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:10.600 Enjoy the message. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.200 God bless you. It's great to have you with us today. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.640 I know God has amazing things in your future now. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.120 I hope you'll stay connected with us all through the week. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.400 You can download our podcast listen to the message at 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.400 any time, or you can go to our YouTube channel. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.639 But thanks for tuning in. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.520 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.640 about this country grandmother. She'd go out on her front 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.720 porch every morning and thank the Lord for another day. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.600 Her neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back, there's 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.920 no such thing as the Lord. One day he overheard 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.640 her asking God to give her groceries for the week. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.760 He snuck over early the next morning put groceries on 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.520 her front porch. She came out and said, thank you, Lord, 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.680 you did it again. He laughed and said, God didn't 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.080 give you those groceries. I put them there. She said, Lord, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.000 thank you not only sent me the groceries, but you've 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.280 made the devil pay for them. Say it like you 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.480 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.079 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.440 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.119 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.760 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.600 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.400 I want to talk to you today about you are 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.480 good seed. Life tries to convince us that we're average. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.280 There's nothing special about us. We have too many obstacles. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.040 We'll never accomplish our dreams. We've made too many mistakes. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.560 We'll never leave our mark. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.920 We don't realize who we are. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.240 The scripture says we have the divine nature of God. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.040 We are his offspring. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.040 That means you have the DNA of Almighty. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.240 God in your seed. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.880 Is favor, creativity, courage, new level. You can't have God's 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:07.000 DNA and be average. That seed will override challenges. That 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.880 seed will propel you where you can't go on your own. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.720 If you're going to reach your potential, you have to 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.800 know you are good seed. God wouldn't have breathed his 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.240 life into you. He wouldn't have chosen you before you 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:25.159 could choose him. If you didn't have purpose, destiny, greatness. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.919 There's something in you that will cause. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.000 You to leave your mark. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.960 You may have made mistakes, but that didn't stop the seed. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.760 You may have come from negative circumstances, but that doesn't 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.320 change your seed. Don't let how you were raised, what 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.160 you didn't get, any dysfunction convince you that you're not 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.679 up to par you can't do something great. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.160 The environment doesn't change the seed. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.800 You can have bad circumstances, but because you're good seed, 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.040 you're still going to shine, You're still going to blossom. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.360 A young lady told me how when her mother was 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.719 pregnant with her, she was addicted to drugs. When she 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.920 was born, she had the same addiction. It seemed like 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.720 she was at a disadvantage. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:10.880 She was sent from. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.799 Foster home to foster home. All the odds were against her. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.159 But today she's successful. She runs her own company, she 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.360 has healthy children, a great marriage. Why is that bad 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:28.320 circumstances can't stop a good seed? Can I tell you 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.799 you are a good seed? God has crowned you with fever. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.640 You have royal blood flowing through your veins. You wouldn't 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:40.279 be here if you weren't equipped, empowered and anointed. You 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.520 may have been raised in an unhealthy environment by people 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.000 that had issues, but here's the key. You came through 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.320 your mother, but you came from Almighty God. Who you 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.880 come from is more important than who you come through. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.359 And the soil may not always be perfect. But because 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.800 you're seed is so good, you will succeed despite the dysfunction. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.920 You will prosper despite the economy. You will raise great 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:13.039 children despite negative influences. You will overcome the illness, despite 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:18.120 what the medical report says. All these negative circumstances, Really 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.600 they're just fertilizer. They can't stop your seed. The stinky stuff, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.119 the bad breaks, the people that walked away. We don't 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.960 like it, but it didn't stop your destiny. It simply 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:36.400 fertilized your seed. It made you stronger, more confident. Don't 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.760 complain about the fertilizer. You need fertilizer to boost your growth. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.120 We have some flower beds at home. A couple of 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.320 times a year we put mult in them. One of 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.240 the main ingredients of mulch is manure. It smells so 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.080 badly you can hardly stay outside, But in a couple 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.560 of months the smell is gone and the plants are blooming, blossoming, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:00.880 see new growth. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.120 The fertilizer as. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:08.000 Stinky as it smells, it's providing valuable nutrients and minerals 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.720 for the plants. Sometimes life stinks. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.280 We go through things that are not fair. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.880 We came down with an illness, our child is struggling, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:22.440 the business has slowed. We think these negative circumstances are 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:23.440 going to stop us. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.560 Have a new perspective. It's fertilizer. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.560 It stinks, but it's not working against you. It's working 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.800 for you. God is going to take what was meant 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.280 for your harm and. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.520 Turn it to your advantage. It was meant to stop you. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.240 But if you'll keep believing, keep thanking God, keep doing 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.840 the right thing, you're going to come out stronger, healthier, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.440 better than you were before. Don't sweat the stinky stuff. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:55.480 We all have fertilizer. That coworker that gets on your nerves, 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.960 always trying to stir up trouble. Next time you see them, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.080 instead of being frustrated under your breath, you're just fertilizer. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.760 You're trying to push me down. You don't realize I'm 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.679 good seed. I have the DNA of Almighty God. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.240 What He's destined for you. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.800 No person can stop what God has put in your seed, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.040 that greatness, that purpose. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.440 No sickness, no addiction, no trouble. All the forces of. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:28.560 Darkness cannot keep your seed from flourishing. Just ask Joseph, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.800 betrayed by his brothers, thrown into a pit, sold into slavery, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.920 falsely accused, put in prison, one bad break after another. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.120 He could have been depressed. God, you said I'd be 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.840 in leadership. I must have heard you wrong. He understood 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:50.200 this principle that bad circumstances cannot stop good seed, that 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.160 negative situations are simply fertilizer. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.040 They're necessary so you can bloom. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.960 When his brothers betrayed him, instead of trying to get even, 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:04.840 his attitude was, they just fertilized me. When Potiphar's wife 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.600 falsely accused him, I'm not worried more fertilizer. One day, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:14.280 unexpectedly the Pharaoh called for Joseph. He went to the palace. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.960 He ended up making Joseph the prime minister of Egypt. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.800 When you understand that you are good seed, that what 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.800 God promised will come to pass, then you won't complain. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.760 About the fertilizer. The fertilizer is necessary, Yes, it stinks. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.760 Yes, it's uncomfortable, but it's making that seed stronger. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.359 It's developing your character. It's giving you endurance. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.680 It's getting you prepared to blossom in position to see 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.120 the greatness of our God. I talked to a man 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.640 that was so upset because his boss was against him 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.800 and always trying to make him look bad. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.839 I told him what I'm telling you. It's fertilizer. Stay 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:56.120 on the. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.960 High road, and God will not only do a work 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.400 in you, but he'll take care of your enemies. It 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.080 may stink right now, but don't worry. Fertilizer stinks. That 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.520 means you're about to see new growth. He got his 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.840 passion back and went to the office, being his vest, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.640 taking the high road, working under God, not on de man. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.960 Several occasions he should have been promoted, but because of 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.760 this unfair boss, he was passed over. One day, the 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.800 CEO of the whole company was in town and this 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.800 man had to give a report. The CEO was very 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.400 impressed with his work. About a year later, a position 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.800 came available that should have gone to his boss, but 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.440 this CEO skipped over the boss and went straight to 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.880 this man and offered the position to him. Now instead 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.280 of having to work for that boss was hard to 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.480 get along with, the tables have turned. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.840 The boss is working for him. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.080 One touch of God's favor and you'll go from the 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.720 back to the front, from the prison to the when Joel, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.240 I've got a lot of fertilizer on me, I have 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.720 a lot coming against me that tells me you're about 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.640 to blossom in an amazing way. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.800 You wouldn't have that difficulty. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.160 You wouldn't have all the fertilizer if God wasn't about 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.280 to do something. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.120 Awesome in your life. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.839 I was out on my driveway the other day and 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.600 I saw this weed growing up in the middle of 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:24.800 the concrete. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.520 I thought, how is that possible? 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:31.040 The concrete is hard, there's no good soil, The conditions 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:35.120 are totally unfavorable. But when God wants your seed to 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.240 come up, concrete can't stop it. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.160 Bad breaks can't stop it. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.679 The life God put in you is more powerful than 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.560 any force that's trying to hold you back. Think about 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.600 a little seed, even planted in the ground. The dirt 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.559 that's on top of it is hundreds of times heavier. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.160 People can walk on top of the dirt, push it down, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.120 compact it, make it harder. Seed doesn't look like it 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.240 has a chance. The dirt could say, too bad, you're done. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:10.560 You'll never overpower me. I'm bigger, stronger, heavier. But the 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.560 seed doesn't worry. The seed doesn't start complaining. I thought 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.800 I was supposed to grow. I thought I was going 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.480 to be a beautiful flower. I guess it wasn't meant 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.240 to be. No, the seed just rest in what God 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.320 created it to be. The seed doesn't have to do 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.640 the work. It lets the life put in it by its. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:30.920 Creator do the work. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.760 Before long, that little seed opens up, and against all odds, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.400 it begins to push back the dirt. Over time, it's 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.400 standing above the ground with beautiful flowers shining brightly. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.600 You may have some dirt on you. Now, don't worry. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.120 You are a good seed. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.920 What God put in you is more powerful than what's 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.120 trying to stop you. Like that little seed, you don't 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.440 have to make it happen, try to manipulate things, force 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.360 it to work, live stressed out. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.800 No, you can rest knowing that the seed is going 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:05.640 to do the work. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.679 The scripture says God watches over his word to perform it. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.920 His word is called seed. In the same way God 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.320 is watching over your seed. He's making sure what he 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.640 put in you is going to come to pass. Good 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.840 seed is not stopped by bad circumstances. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:26.320 Good seed is. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:30.480 Not stopped by opposition. In life, you'll have some dirt 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.760 put on you. At times, it feels like you're buried. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.880 You'll never get past this sickness, this trouble, this addiction. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.800 It's dark, you feel pressure all around. You don't see 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.640 a way out. The good news is you're not buried. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.360 You're planted. The difference is when you're. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:55.000 Buried, you're done, But when you're planted, you're coming up again, stronger, healthier, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:56.240 more successful. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.520 But here's the key. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.880 Being planted feel the same as being buried. It's dark, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.000 it's uncomfortable. We don't see anything good. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:07.040 There's pressure. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.800 If you judge things too soon, you'll get discouraged, give 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.319 up on your dreams, think it will never work out. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.480 God has you hearing this to let you know you're 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:23.680 not buried, you're planted. Yes it's uncomfortable, Yes you don't 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.200 understand it, but this is not the end. The seed 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.320 God put in you is about to spring forth the dreams, 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.960 the health, the freedom, the abundance, the right people don't 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.320 be discouraged. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:37.360 By the dirt. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.080 The seed is designed to push back the dirt. It's 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.480 designed to outlast the opposition. The seed will not fail. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.200 The life of Almighty God is in that seed. My 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.160 grandfather was a great gardener. He loved to plant things. 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.400 He knew how to grow all kinds of fruits, vegetables, flowers. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:14:59.840 One thing that made. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.600 Him say so good at gardening is he knew when 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.760 to plant. He knew there was a specific time to 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.360 plant tomatoes, a specific time to plant roses. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.080 Just because he had good seed. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.400 If he didn't plant it at the right time, it 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.280 wouldn't become what it should. He didn't just randomly plant 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:19.640 whenever he felt like it. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.520 He did it strategically. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.400 He made sure it was the right season and all 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:26.640 the conditions were in. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.480 Place so the seed could grow. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.800 Jesus said in John fifteen that God is the gardener. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.160 He knew exactly when to plant you. You could have 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.440 been born three hundred years ago. You could have lived 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.560 two hundred years from now. You didn't just happen to 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.480 show up on planet Earth today. Your parents just decided 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:49.360 to have a baby. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.480 God knew you before you were formed. In your mother's womb. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.520 And when God, as the master gardener, thought about when 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.120 to plant you, he didn't just randomly do it, just 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.800 pick a date, pick any time. God is strategic, like 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.320 my grandfather, knew there was a specific time to plant. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.360 God looked down through the ages of time. He studied 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.560 what would be going on, what the economy would be like, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.560 the culture, the technology, the opposition. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.680 He took into account everything. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.120 We would face. Then he put his DNA in us. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.560 He matched us for the season we would live in. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.960 The scripture says in Acts seventeen, God predetermined when you 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.760 would be born, where you would be born, and what tribe, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.880 what family you would come from, before your parents ever 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.080 breed the breath, before they ever showed up. God already 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.920 knew you and chose when you would live. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.320 He planted you for this time. This is your moment. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.920 You've been equipped and empowered. He put his anointing on 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.120 your life favor. You have the talent, the courage, the connections. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:09.680 Everything has been strategically thought out. You're not lacking. The 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.960 obstacles you face are not too much for you. If 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.560 you couldn't handle it, God wouldn't have planted you. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:15.920 Now. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.120 If the giants were too big, You wouldn't be here. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.080 If the dream wasn't attainable, you wouldn't have breath. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.240 You are here for such a time as this. God 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.080 knew there would be a pandemic. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.440 He knew there'd be people trying to stop you. He 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.919 knew about that illness. You'd have to face the opposition 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.359 that looks too big. The fact that He planted you 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.879 now tells me the conditions are right for you to succeed. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.240 The conditions are right for you to leave your mark. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.480 The circumstances may not be good, but God wouldn't have 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.560 planted you at this time if the soil wasn't conducive 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:00.119 for your seed to grow. And sometimes the soil may 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.520 feel like concrete, but you have to remind yourself you're 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:04.840 still going to blossom. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.520 You're still going to flourish. Why you are good seed. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.719 You've been strategically planted by the master gardener. You're not 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.880 like a weed you just randomly popped up, randomly got. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:18.960 Here with no purpose. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:24.200 No, your destiny has been carefully planned. When you understand 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.320 that you've been chosen for this time, it will give 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.879 you a greater confidence. God could have chosen David to 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.639 live now. He could have chosen Abraham, Sarah, Ruth. But 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.199 when he strategized about who will be the right people 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.720 for the year twenty twenty, Who can I trust in 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.920 that difficult time, Who has the courage, the talent, the 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.640 fortitude to carry out my will to do awesome things? 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.520 He passed over all the saints of old. He looked 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:01.000 beyond Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Mary, Martha, and he looked into your eyes. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.080 He said, that's who I can count on. That's the 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.359 right one for this hour. He didn't just send you 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.720 here on your own. He put his DNA in you. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.200 He equipped you with what you. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.720 Need to succeed at this time. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.160 You may not have what Moses had, but you don't 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.880 need what he had. God planted you now because this 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.560 is the right time for you to flourish, to blossom, 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:31.520 to accomplish dreams, to overcome obstacles, to leave your mark 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.280 even in the natural. Do you know what a miracle 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.320 it is that you were conceived. When your seed was 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.640 trying to connect with your mother's egg, there were two 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.080 hundred and fifty million sperm fighting for that one spot. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.199 What are the chances that you would win You're not 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:51.000 an accident. 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.160 When it was your time, God said, all right, I'm 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.440 going to plant them now. That's why you could fight 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.159 off two hundred and fifty million and your seed connected. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.760 You entered that womb. God destined you to be here 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.120 before you showed up. You defied the odds before. 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:09.520 You were born. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.879 You defeated giants. You're already an overcomer. You're already victorious. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.720 You were born with favor. Without God's blessing, you would 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.880 have never made it into this world. Here's my point. 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.199 God wouldn't have gone to all that trouble if you 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.760 were average. He wouldn't have carefully and strategically planned out 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.280 your destiny if you were just supposed to drift through life, 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.199 overcome by problems, struggle to make it. 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.680 He chose you because you are good seed. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.160 You have greatness in you. You are destined to take 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:47.360 your family to a new level. After all, God has done, 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.880 hand picked you for this time, put his DNA in you, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:52.919 crowned you with his favor. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.560 Don't you dare or go through. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.280 Life think in your ordinary I can't overcome this challenge. 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.840 I'll never get well, I've reached my limits. God wouldn't 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.480 have planted you. Now, if that was going to stop you. 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.600 He knew what the economy would be, he knew the struggles, 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:13.199 the opposition. The fact that he planted you is a 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:17.560 sure sign you are well, able to overcome, well, able 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.600 to raise those children, well, able to beat that cancer, well, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:26.480 able to accomplish your dreams. Jeremiah said, you will be 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.280 like a tree planted by the water, a tree not 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:34.040 bothered by the heat or long months of drought. Your 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:38.639 leaves will stay green, they will keep on producing luscious fruit. 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.560 Good seed is not affected by the drought. Good seed 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:48.879 keeps on producing even in famine. Good seed outlast the opposition. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:54.280 Good seed accomplishes dreams bigger than you imagine. I know 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.560 today I am looking at good seed. I'm looking at 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.720 people that have been picked by the creator of the universe. 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:07.400 I'm looking at people that have greatness in them, great parents, 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:13.040 great students, great leaders, people that have great influence, great wisdom, 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:14.400 great opportunities. 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:17.560 I'm looking at people that are healthy. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:23.320 Free, redeemed, restored, victorious. Well, Joel, this sounds good, but 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.480 I've made a lot of mistakes. That's why I'm down 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.359 on myself. That didn't change your seed you are still 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.840 good seed. Abraham is the father of our faith. He 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:39.399 was a great man. No disrespect, But Abraham lied, told 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:43.160 a king that Sarah was his sister and not his wife. 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.560 Abraham had a baby out of wedlock. 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:47.040 He wasn't perfect. 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:51.760 He made mistakes, but the scripture says Abraham did not 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:56.159 waver in his faith. Lying seems like wavering to me. 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.520 Having a baby with someone other than your wife seems 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:03.600 like wave. But God doesn't judge the way we judge. 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:07.640 We look at our faults, our weaknesses, the times we failed. 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:11.800 We let the accuser fill our mind with condemnation. I'm 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:15.240 not good seed. Look at the mistakes I've made. I'm 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:19.080 not good seed. I went through a divorce, my business failed. 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:22.880 I'm struggling with an addiction. Do you think you can 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:26.720 do something that will change the seed God put in you, 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.879 that you can override what he breathed into your DNA. 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:35.160 You're not that powerful. You can't change what God has 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:39.280 already done. He's saying to you what he said to Jeremiah. 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:43.200 I knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb, 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:49.000 and I approved you before Jeremiah did anything good, before 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:50.560 he showed up on planet Earth. 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:52.520 God said I approved you. 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:57.040 Too often we're trying to work for God's approval to 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:00.000 be good enough, strong enough, disciplined enough. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:02.680 The problem is we all fail. 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:06.600 We all make mistakes, but that doesn't change what God 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:07.680 put in you. 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:09.480 You are still good seed. 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.600 You can still have fulfilled your destiny. 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:16.760 You can still become who you were created to be. Gon'na. 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:19.520 Let the accuser convince you that you've blown it too 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.919 many times you don't measure up. God will never be 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:26.760 pleased with you. God is saying to you today, I've 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:30.879 approved you. My hand of favor is on you. I 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:35.360 have forgiveness for your mistakes, mercy for your failures, favor 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:38.760 for your future. Now, I wonder what would happen if 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:41.440 every day you would start saying, I. 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:42.360 Am good seed. 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:46.760 When the accuser whispers you're a hypocrite, look at your mistakes. 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:50.360 Say it again, Father, thank you that I am good seed, 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:53.520 that you have mercy for my mistakes, that what you 0:24:53.640 --> 0:24:55.400 started in my life. 0:24:55.119 --> 0:25:00.160 You will finish. Good seed will override mistakes. You've made. 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:04.080 Good seed over ride failures times you didn't measure up. 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:08.320 You've been planted at this time not only because God 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:09.920 believes in you, But. 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:14.040 He's equipped you. You are full of can do power. 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:17.800 The forces that are for you are greater than forces 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:20.879 that are trying to stop you. God is breathing in 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:24.399 your direction right now. Chains that have held you back 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:28.760 are being broken. New doors of opportunity are about to open. 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.120 God is about to show you a sign of his favor. 0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:36.200 He's going to do something unusual, out of the ordinary, 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:39.560 something that's never happened in your family. It's going to 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:40.760 defy the odds. 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:41.520 Get ready. 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:44.920 The greatness God put in you is about to come out. 0:25:45.440 --> 0:25:47.959 He doesn't have you here just to take up space. 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:52.159 There's an assignment for you to accomplish something that only 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:53.000 you can do. 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:55.240 Without you stepping. 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:58.040 Into your purpose, this world will not be what it 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:01.399 should be. There was a young Jewish lady in the 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:02.919 scripture named Esther. 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:04.439 She was an orphan. 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:07.760 She had lost both of her parents, raised in poverty, 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:10.760 She had all these bad breaks. Looked like she was 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:14.520 at a disadvantage. She would never do anything great. But 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:19.640 bad circumstances can't stop good seed. What didn't work out, 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:23.359 how you were raised, who left you, the illness that 0:26:23.520 --> 0:26:26.960 didn't stop your destiny? That doesn't mean you'll never leave 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:30.560 your mark. Why, Because you are a good seed. The 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:34.359 most tied God breathed his life into you. You're still 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:37.600 going to flourish. You're still going to meet someone great. 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:40.800 You're still going to live healthy and whole. You're still 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:45.400 going to start that business. The King of Persia decided 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:48.080 to have a beauty pageant so he could find a wife. 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:50.360 Someone invited Esther to enter. 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:53.800 Out of the thousands of girls in the Persian Empire, 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:58.720 Esther was chosen as the queen, the least likely one. 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:02.120 A man named Hayman, one of the king's advisers, came 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:04.679 up with a plan to get rid of all the Jews. 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.320 The king didn't know that Estra was Jewish. 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:10.240 When her uncle heard about it, he said, you have 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:12.640 to talk to the king, tell him about this plan. 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:16.480 She said, I can't go in without the king holding. 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:18.280 Up his scepter. I could lose my life. 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:22.439 Her uncle said, if you remain silent, help for the 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:24.480 Jews will come from someone else. 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:26.400 But who knows that. 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:29.520 You were brought to this position for such a time 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:32.800 as this. He was saying, Esther, this is what you 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:36.400 were born for. This is your time to shine. Estra 0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:38.720 got her courage up went in to see the king. 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:42.800 She ended up saving the people of Israel. Who would 0:27:42.800 --> 0:27:46.280 have thought God would have used this young girl, someone 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.600 that was seen as insignificant, Yet we're talking about her 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:52.840 as one of the heroes of faith. All the odds 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:57.399 were against her, but bad circumstances can't stop good Seed. 0:27:57.840 --> 0:28:00.560 Can I tell you again? You are good? 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