You Are Very Powerful

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.440 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.520 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:37.240 the ministry. 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.720 If you enjoyed today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.279 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.160 Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your line. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.960 God bless you. It's great to be with you today. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.800 I hope you'll stay connected with us during the week 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.040 through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.680 you can come visit us in person. We'd love to 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.800 have you be a part of one of our services. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.200 But I'd like to start with something funny. And I 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.680 heard about this lady every day. She saw this old 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.919 man sitting on his front porch. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.240 Rocking in his rocking chair. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.240 He always seemed to be so happy, and one day 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.239 she got her nerve up and went over to him, said, sir, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.720 I can't help but notice you're always smiling and always 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.600 in a good mood. Tell me what is your secret 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.520 for such a long happy life? 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.040 He said, that's easy. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.040 I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day, I eat 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.600 nothing but junk food, and I never exercise. She said, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.640 that's amazing. How old are you he said, twenty six. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:41.000 Don't live like that. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.120 Here we go, y'all. This is my Bible. I am 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.680 what it says I am. I have what it says 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.239 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.440 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.799 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.880 I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.519 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.799 you are very powerful. We all face situations that look 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.760 too big, the opposition too strong, the dream too great, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.320 the sickness too bad. It's easy to live with a 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:21.840 weak mentality, intimidated, like we're at a disadvantage. This is 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:26.600 the way Solomon probably felt. His father, David had just passed, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.400 and David was an amazing leader. He had done great things. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.480 Now Solomon was in charge. He wasn't a warrior like 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:39.000 his father. He didn't go around defeating giants and conquering armies. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.880 He was suddenly thrust into this position. What he was 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.360 up against seemed daunting, overwhelming. I'm sure he was tempted 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.920 to shrink back things. This is too much. I can't 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.360 lead these people. But the scripture says Solomon took firm 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.920 control of the kingdom for the Lord his God was 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.760 with him and made him very powerful. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:02.840 And sometimes we see. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:07.760 Ourselves as limited, not enough, less than. But like with Solomon, 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.440 the Lord, your God. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:10.000 Is with you. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.320 He has not just made you powerful, but very powerful. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.039 What you're up against may be big, but it's no 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.920 match for you. The same power that raised Christ from 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.760 the dead lives in you. It's a power so strong 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.240 that it couldn't keep Jesus in the grave. A power 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.000 so strong that a teenage shepherd boy defeated a giant. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.240 A power so strong that prison doors open for Paul 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.279 and Silas, A power so strong that a fiery furnace 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.680 couldn't burn three Hebrew teenagers. A power so strong that 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.560 the Red Sea parted for Moses. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.880 That's the power that's in you. You are not ordinary, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.080 you are not common. You are very powerful. Now here's 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:56.480 the key. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.760 How you see yourself will determine whether you see this 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:06.520 great power. If you think weak, thoughts, insecure, intimidated, this 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.560 problem is too big. I can't accomplish my dreams. I'll 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.000 never break this addiction, then you are canceling out the 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.000 power you have to get in agreement with God. I'm 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.440 not looking at weak people. I'm not looking at average people. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:29.240 I'm looking at sons and daughters of the Most High God, Strong, confident, anointed, favored. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:31.920 Resurrection power is in you. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.600 Power to bring dead things back to life. You can 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.839 accomplish your dreams. You can set new standards for your family. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.560 You can defeat that cancer, you can break that addiction, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.640 you can end that dysfunction. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.120 It may stop some people, but not to you. You 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.320 are very powerful. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.600 In the scripture, the Syrian army was trying to overtake 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.960 the Israelites, but every time the Syrians made a move, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.160 the Israelites knew exactly where they they were going. They 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.279 stayed one step ahead, and this happened again and again. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.200 The Syrian commander was so frustrated. He was convinced there 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.760 was a spy in the camp leaking all this inside information. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.480 Called his men together and questioned them. One of the 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.960 leaders spoke up and said, Sir, it's none of us. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:24.000 There's a prophet in Israel named Elisha. Whatever you whisper 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.880 in secret, he tells the Israelites. The commander was so 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.880 furious he decided to go get Elisha. You would think 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.720 he would take four or five men, maybe a. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:35.760 Dozen at the most. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.080 Elisha wasn't any threat. He wasn't in the military, didn't 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.800 have any weapons. But this commander was so afraid of 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:48.080 Elisha that he got his whole army, thousands of troops, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.400 thousands of chariots, all to capture one man filled with 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:53.320 the spirit of God. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.680 What am I saying? Even the enemy knows how powerful 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:58.120 you are. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.040 He can see that you're not week, you're not average, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.480 you're not lacking. How much further will you go? How 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.120 much more will you accomplish? How many giants will you defeat? 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.400 If you'll start seeing yourself for who you really are, 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.760 not just powerful, but very powerful. There is a force 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.720 breathing in your direction greater than any force trying to 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:23.280 stop you. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.000 There's not a giant you can't defeat. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.360 An obstacle you can't overcome, an addiction you can't break. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.440 No weapon formed against you is going to prosper God 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.360 has armed you with strength for every battle. He surrounded 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.120 you with favor. Goodness, and mercy are following you. He's 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.280 going before you, making crooked places strength. When the enemy 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.000 comes against us, one way, God said he would defeat 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:50.600 them and cause him to flee. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:51.720 Seven different ways. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.160 He said he holds victory in store for the upright. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.320 There is a power working in you that's not of 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:00.000 your own ability. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:01.840 It's resurrection power. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.280 Now get rid of any weak thoughts, defeeding thoughts. It's 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.720 too much. I don't have the connections. I'll never meet 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.000 the right person. This dream is out of reach. Have 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.840 a new perspective. This problem may be big, but it's 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.040 no match for me. I am well able, I am 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.560 strong in the Lord. I can do all things through Christ. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.239 Though I am surrounded by trouble, I will not fear. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.520 Though I am attacked on every side, I will not 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.240 be afraid, for the Lord is my light and my salvation. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.640 The Lord is the strength of my life. If you're 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.360 going to tap into this power, you have to think 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:47.040 power thoughts. Inflation may be high, stock market shaky, banks 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.760 having trouble. You could be worried instead. God, I thank 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.239 you that you're Jehovah Jirah, the Lord by provider. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.400 You said even in famine, I would have more than enough. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.440 You said I would lend and not borrow. That my 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.760 cup would run over. Or the medical report may not 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.800 look good. Experts say you're not going to get well. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.880 God you said you would restore health back into me. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.000 You said I would live and not die. That with 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.760 long life you would satisfy me. Maybe you have children 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.040 that are off course. Doesn't look like they'll ever change. God, 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.560 you said, as for me and my house, we will 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.920 serve the Lord. You said, my children will be mighty 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.400 in the land, that from generation to generation we will 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.560 tell of your goodness. Learn to think power thoughts. That's 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.960 how you activate the power. When David went out to 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.960 face Goliath, he didn't have a chance in the natural, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.040 But David understood this principle that there was a force 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.920 working for him that other people couldn't see. He knew 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:52.280 that the Lord his God had made him very powerful. See, 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:56.000 our strength doesn't come from just our own ability, our 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:00.400 own will, power, our own determination. That's all good, but 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.839 you will face times we're on your own it's not enough. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.880 The giant is too big, the sickness too strong, the 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:08.920 trouble too great. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.679 That's when you're going to see. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:16.679 The Lord your God empowering you, a supernatural force enabling you, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.920 causing you to go further, to defeat giants, to accomplish 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:25.960 dreams that seem impossible. When David saw Goliath, he could 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.680 have thought, oh man, what was I thinking. He's twice 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.400 my size, he has a full set of armor. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:33.599 All I have is this slingshot. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.679 David looked at Goliath and said, you come against me 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.600 with a sword and a shield, But I come against 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.160 you in the name. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.400 Of the Lord God of Israel. He was saying, Goliath, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.480 I may look small, but I'm not on my own. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.280 There's a force that you can't see, a power that's 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.959 beyond my own ability. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.160 The Lord my God has breathed his power, his favor, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:59.760 his anointing. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.080 On my life. Victory starts in our mind. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.240 You can't think weak and be powerful you can't think 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:08.640 limited and be strong. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.400 You can't think fear and have courage. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.120 Is your thinking keeping you from being very powerful? Or 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.280 wrong mindset stopping the strength, the favor, the victory that 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.520 belongs to you. Start thinking power thoughts. I am strong, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.959 I am well able, I am confident. This challenge cannot 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.760 hold me back. I am full of resurrection power. I 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.000 can run through a troop and leap. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:35.800 Over a wall. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.880 If God before me, who dare be against me? David 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.360 went on to say, Goliath, this day I will defeat 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.120 you and feed your head to the birds of the air. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.360 That's how you activate the power, not by talking about 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.359 how you feel, but by talking. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.760 About what God says about you. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.000 Not by thinking weak, defeated, can't do it thoughts, but 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.839 by thinking power thoughts. And we hear these stories about 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:06.760 David and stories about Elisha, think, yes, they were powerful. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:07.839 They did amazing things. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.640 But man, Joel, they were in the Bible, they were called, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.000 they were chosen, they were anointed. Can I tell you 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:14.800 were called? 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.520 You were chosen, you are anointed. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:22.120 We see them as superheroes, and yes we honor them, 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.160 we respect who they are. But the truth is they 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.000 were people, just like you and me. They seemed ordinary, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.880 they looked average, yet they left their mark. They were 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.400 chosen to live in their day. You've been chosen to 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.600 live in this day. I am looking at modern day David's, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:46.000 Elisha's Ruth, Sarah's why don't you believe that you were 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.720 very powerful? That you were a giant killer, that you 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.880 were a burial breaker, that you were a history maker. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:58.079 Too often we see ourselves as average, limited, and Joel, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.079 I'm not powerful, I'm just ordinary. The truth is, some 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.640 of the things you've been through should have defeated you. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:06.640 If you were average. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.480 The dysfunction, the trauma, the loss would have taken you out. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.720 The fact that you're still here tells me that you 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.880 are very powerful. That sickness couldn't defeat you. Why because 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.000 you are so powerful? 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.920 That bad break, the person that walked away, the disappointment, 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.560 should have soured your life. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:27.840 But look at you. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.280 You're still standing. You're not bitter, You're blessed. You're moving forward. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.640 You're taking new ground that didn't happen on your own. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.080 The Lord, your God, strengthened you when you were weak. 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.320 He lifted you when you fell, He protected you in danger. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.600 He favored you when it didn't look good. He delivered 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.679 you from greater enemies. If you weren't very powerful, you 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.960 wouldn't still be here. It wasn't just your own mind, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.400 your own strength. It was the Lord, your God, breathing 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:02.119 on your life. If you're going to reach your highest potential, 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.720 you have to live with this mindset. I am very powerful, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.640 I have the favor of God. I can accomplish my dreams. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.800 I can overcome this bad break. I can raise my 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.959 children to serve the Lord. I can leave my mark. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.000 There was a lady in the scripture named Deborah. She 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.120 was living in a city that was overcome with violence 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.480 and all kinds of wrongdoing. Godden so bad you couldn't 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.280 even travel on the main roads. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:29.440 There was no order. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.000 But God put a dream in Deborah's heart to do 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:37.280 something about it. The scripture describes Deborah as a mother 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:38.200 in Israel. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:40.120 This is significant. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.320 It's telling us that she didn't have influence, the resources. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.640 She wasn't in the corporate world, she didn't have an 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:52.520 impressive title, wasn't highly educated. Plus, back in those days, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.600 women weren't in leadership like they are today. They were 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.760 pushed down and seen as secondary. God could have chosen 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.800 the keen to do something about it, or the governor, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:08.240 city leader, a wealthy businessman. Instead, he chose this mother. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.320 Sometimes God will ask you to do things that seem 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.920 over your head. He'll put dreams in your heart that 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.280 you can't accomplish on your own. You don't have the resources, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.200 the training, the connections. But God wouldn't ask you to 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.400 do it if you weren't well able. This is when 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.520 you have to have the right mindset, not weak limited. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.560 I'm ordinary, I'm just a mother. No, turn it around. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.400 The Lord, my God has made me very powerful. I'm 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.360 anointed for this assignment. I'm favored for this mission. I'm 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.360 well able to accomplish this dream. A lot of times 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.840 we discount ourselves. I'm just a mother. I'm just a student, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.480 just a teacher, a businessman, a doctor, a plumber. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.560 Now you're not just anything. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.160 You're a child of the most High God. He breathed 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:03.040 his life into you. He put his DNA on the inside. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.720 He's crowned you with his favor. You have royal blood 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:11.120 flowing through your veins. Resurrection power lives in you. Keep 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.400 your shoulders back and hold your head up high. Step 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:18.840 into that greatness that belongs to you. Deborah could have thought, God, 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.280 I can't do this. I'm a mother, I'm not in government. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.240 I don't have anybody backing me up. Deep down she 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.280 understood this principle. I'm not on my own. The Lord, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.640 my God, has made me very powerful. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.280 The scripture says. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:39.880 The highways were unoccupied, the city was shutting down until Deborah, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.040 a mother in Israel, arose. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.080 She stepped out in faith. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.800 God calls things to fall into place, and everything turned around. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.760 How could this mother impact the whole city? Started in 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.160 her thinking. She knew who she was, she knew the 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.680 favor of God was on her life. She saw herself 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.280 not as limited, but is very powerful. What can you 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.480 change if you start seeing yourself as very powerful? What 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.400 addictions can you break? What barriers can you overcome? What 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:17.000 dreams can you accomplish? If you'll get rid of weak, defeated, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.920 I'm ordinary mentality and start seeing yourself the way God 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.119 made you to be as very powerful. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.879 Friend of mine struggled with an addiction for many years. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.959 He'd gone to rehab and support groups several times with 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:32.720 no success. 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.320 And he's a good man, he loves the Lord. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.600 But he was always talking about how strong the addiction 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.840 was and how he didn't have the will power. He 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.440 was constantly down on himself, feeling guilty. As long as 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.399 you see the opposition as stronger, it's. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:50.119 Going to limit you. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.760 If you see the sickness, the debt, the trouble as 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.680 more powerful than your perception how you're. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.520 Seeing it is going to hold you back. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.879 You have to make a switch in your thinking that 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.760 greater is he that's in you than what's. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:07.480 Coming against you. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.960 I'm not asking you to deny the facts, just have 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:12.000 a new perspective. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.200 This addiction may be. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.159 Powerful, but I know my God is all powerful. This 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.119 sickness may be mighty, but I know my God is almighty. 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.040 This obstacle may be high, but I know my God 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:29.320 is the most high. The power in you is stronger 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.280 than any power that's trying to stop you. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.959 My friend changed his perspective. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.199 Instead of seeing the addiction as being so strong, he 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.159 started seeing himself as very powerful. Thoughts told him, come on, 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.600 you're just wishing, You're just hoping. You know you're weak, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.720 you know you can't do this. You have to learn 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.439 to talk back to yourself. Don't let the negative have 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.600 the final say when thoughts tell you that you're weak, 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.679 just answer back, no thanks. I am strong in the Lord. 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:01.359 You can't break it. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:02.320 No thanks. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.600 I can do all things, not in my own strength, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.480 but through Christ, who strengthens me. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.160 Well, this addiction is too powerful. No thanks. 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.600 Nothing can stand against my God. He always causes me 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.040 to try out. When you get in agreement with God, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.760 you see yourself as very powerful. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.200 That's what allows him to do great things. Today. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.160 My friend is not only free from the addiction, he's 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:27.840 helping other. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:28.560 People to get free. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:31.760 It was a ten year old boy that lived down 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.760 the street from this big bully, and the bully was 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.320 always bothering him and making his life miserable. And he's 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.800 trying to get his courage up to stand up against 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.080 the bully. But he looked so big and so intimidating 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.080 he couldn't. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.000 Do it well. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.520 That Christmas, his father bought him a telescope. He was 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.080 so excited, and one day he was out in the 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.160 front yard playing with it, but he was looking through 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.240 the wrong end. He was looking through the big side. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.920 His father came out and said, no, no, son, you're 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.040 doing it wrong. Turn it around and it will make 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.080 everything bigger. Like it was designed to do. The boy said, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.760 I know that, Dad, But right now I'm looking at 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.120 this bully and it makes him so small that I'm 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:15.320 not afraid of him anymore. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:18.360 Maybe you need to. 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:22.639 Turn the telescope around. You've magnified your problems long enough. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.920 You've magnified the bullies, the giants, the addiction, the debt, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:28.000 no wonder. 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.800 You feel weak, intimidated, not able. You have to make 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:32.400 the switch. 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:37.000 You'll change your perspective and start seeing things from God's 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.679 point of view. You'll realize what you're up against is 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.680 no match for you. It looks like Goliath, it looks daunting. 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.120 The truth is you're the one that's very powerful. You're 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:52.280 the one that has God's favor. You're the one that 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.960 can defeat giants. You're the one that. 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.120 Can break the addiction. The forces that are for you 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.040 are greater than any force that's trying to stop you. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:03.920 But the way this is going to happen is if 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.480 you keep your telescope turned around. You can't go around 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:09.440 magnifying all the negative. 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:10.560 You need to. 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.840 Magnify what God put in you. He didn't just make 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.119 you powerful, He made you very powerful all through the 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.560 day that should be playing in our mind. I am 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.160 very powerful. I have the favor of God. I can 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.520 do all things through Christ. I am strong in the Lord. 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.399 No weapon formed against me will prosper. I will defeat 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.760 this giant. I will break this addiction. I will leave 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.679 my family better than they were before. How many people 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.880 go around thinking just the opposite man, This problem's too 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.200 big and I'll never get well. I can't get out 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.760 of this neighborhood. I'm at a disadvantage. You can be 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.679 very powerful and cancel it out with the wrong mindset. 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.400 This is what Gideon almost did. 0:21:56.000 --> 0:22:01.560 He was hiding in a wine press, afraid, intimidated, thinking 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:03.119 the opposition was too big. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:05.720 God sent an angel and. 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.200 Said, mighty, hero, the Lord is with you. You are 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:13.440 to deliver the people of Israel from the Midianites. God 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.280 called him a hero while he was hiding. God called 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.000 him mighty when he felt weak. He called him a deliverer, 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.639 a history maker, when he saw himself as limited not able. 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:28.919 God has made you very powerful. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:34.880 The question is how do you see yourself strong, confident, favored, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.879 or do you see yourself like Gideon? These giants are 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:43.199 too big, can't do it? Had a disadvantage. You have 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:48.040 to turn that telescope around. You're making everything else so powerful. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:49.720 You need to start seeing. 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:50.800 Yourself as powerful. 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.040 Well, Joe, you don't know how has raised and what 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.200 I've been through. This medical report doesn't look good and 0:22:57.560 --> 0:22:59.480 I don't have the funds to go to college. 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:00.960 Is too big. 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.680 One touch of God's favor can turn it around. One 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:08.479 slingshot and that giant is defeated. One mother with the 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.920 favor of God, and the city has changed. You're looking 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:14.520 at how big your problem is. You need to start 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:17.680 looking at how big your God is. He said, He's 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.399 with you, and he has. 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:20.959 Made you very powerful. 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:25.920 You are anointed, you are favored. You can defeat giants, 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:29.680 you can change cities. You can take your family. 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:30.159 To a new level. 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.960 But even after the angel called Gideon a mighty hero, 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.119 Gideon started making excuses. He said, how could this happen. 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:42.320 I've come from the poorest family. I'm the least one 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:43.040 in this camp. 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:46.000 I don't have the training. I can't lead these people. 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:51.240 His weak, defeated mentality almost kept him from his destiny. 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:54.600 He finally did what I'm asking us to do. He 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:58.920 made this switch and saw himself as powerful. He went 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.640 out with the whole army, thirty two thousand men. He 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:06.320 was feeling good, but God said, you have too many people. 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.440 Tell everyone who's afraid that they can go home. Twenty 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:14.120 two thousand men left. Now he only had ten thousand. 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:17.560 He wasn't feeling quite as confident. God said it again, 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:21.320 there's still too many. All of them left except three 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.920 hundred men. He was up against an army of thousands. 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:28.960 Looked impossible, but they went out and defeated the Midianites 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:30.600 with just three hundred people. 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:35.200 God was showing us you don't need everything you think 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:38.239 you need. You don't need all those people to be 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.120 for you. You don't need to come from a certain family. 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:45.280 You don't need all that training. God has giving you 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:49.560 everything you need. He's breathed his favor on your life. 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.119 He'll cause the stone to hit the giant at the 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:55.399 right place. He'll heal you from the cancer, he'll break 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:59.160 that addiction. He'll send the right people across your path. 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:02.400 I know a man that was in a serious accident 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:06.240 years ago and wasn't supposed to live. By the grace 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:09.320 of God, he's alive, but he can't see very well, 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:12.080 and he's had to relearn how to speak and some 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.639 of his other motor skills. Since he couldn't drive, he 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:18.040 would take the bus to Lakewood every Sunday. 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:20.320 I'd always see him so faithful. 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:24.160 But when we moved from the other location, the bus 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:27.159 route didn't run from his house to the Compact center 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:30.320 where we are now, and he was very concerned. He 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:32.639 loved coming and I said, don't worry about it. Well, 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:33.920 have somebody come pick you up. 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:35.120 It's no big deal. 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.080 He said, no, Joel, I'm going to get the bus 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:41.720 route changed. I'm going to convince them to send buses 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:43.240 by my house to the church. 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:45.680 Being the great man. 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:48.000 Of faith that I am, I thought to myself, there's 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:51.880 no way. That's like an act of Congress. You need 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:57.359 lobbyist money connections. He could have thought, like me, too bad, 0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:00.880 what can I do. I don't have the influence the funds. 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:05.320 I'm physically challenged. But he had a different mindset. He 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:07.280 wasn't a Gideon looking at what. 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:07.959 He didn't have. 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:11.520 He was like Deborah, a mother, thinking I can make 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:14.879 a difference. He was like David, this giant is huge, 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:18.639 but I will defeat it. Deep down, he knew the 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:19.960 Lord his God. 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:21.400 Had made him very powerful. 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:26.240 He went down week after week to the public transportation meetings, 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:29.280 told them how he needed buses to run by Lakewood. 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:33.119 It just so happened that someone that loved Lakewood was 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:37.120 on the committee. God will always have the right people 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:40.840 at the right place, if you'll just have the boldness 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:44.240 to take the step of faith. Two months later, he 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:47.200 came in one Sunday morning, smiling so big. I'll never 0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:50.000 forget it, he said, Joel, I just got off the bus. 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:54.159 They changed the route and brought me this morning. I 0:26:54.240 --> 0:27:00.280 nearly passed out. So often we don't realize who we are. 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:04.080 We see ourselves as limited, ordinary, when. 0:27:03.920 --> 0:27:05.720 In fact we are powerful. 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:09.960 One of the staff members at the transportation office told 0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:12.639 me that in twenty years that she worked there, she 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:13.680 had never. 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:14.920 Seen anything change like that. 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.160 And if you were to see this gentleman in the natural, 0:27:18.240 --> 0:27:21.320 you would think, Hey, he didn't have the influence, he doesn't. 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:23.320 Have the funds, he's physically challenged. 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:27.680 But God loves to take those who are underestimated, those 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:31.320 who others discount, and cause him to shine brightly to 0:27:31.400 --> 0:27:33.080 make them very powerful. 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:36.560 I'm asking you get rid of excuses. 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:41.560 Quit telling yourself why you're limited, had a disadvantage, not enough, 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:42.919 been through too much. 0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:48.200 Don't go through life not recognizing who you are. The Lord. 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:50.800 Your God has made you very powerful. 0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:55.080 You are strong, you are anointed, you are favored. 0:27:55.560 --> 0:27:58.359 You can affect change, you can defeat. 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:02.840 Giants, you can accomplish, you can leave your mark. When 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:05.919 thoughts come telling you you're weak, you're not enough, you're 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:08.679 at a disadvantage, just say no, thanks, you have the 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:09.480 wrong person. 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:12.040 I know who I am. I am a child of 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:15.040 the Most High God, and I am very powerful. 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:19.240 If you'll do this, I believe and declare, You're gonna 0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:23.080 see giants fall, You're gonna accomplish dreams that amaze you. 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:28.960 God's gonna breathe on your life in a new way, favor, healing, breakthroughs, 0:28:29.280 --> 0:28:33.680 the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, and if 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:35.280 you receive it, can you say amen? 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:38.360 Today, I'd like to give you. 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:41.200 An opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:45.400 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll 0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:46.640 repent of my sins. 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:48.360 Come into my heart. 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:52.240 I make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:55.760 that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 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