You Have Hidden Treasure

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It's all. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.080 It is a joy to come into your homes and 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.120 if you're ever in our area, please stop buy and 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:06.800 be a part of one of our services. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:07.480 These are the. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.840 Finest people in all of Houston, Texas, right here at Lakewood. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.800 But so glad you tuned in and thank you again 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.080 for coming out. And I like to start with something 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.639 funny each week. And I should mention this was sent 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.080 to me by a woman. But according to the Alaska 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.440 Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:31.000 reindeer grow antlers in the summer, male reindeer lose their 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.200 antlers at the start of winter in early November. Female 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.240 reindeer keep theirs until the spring. This means that all 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.120 of Santa's reindeer, from Rudolph to Blitzen had. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.440 To be female. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.720 She goes on to say, we should have known only 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.440 women could drag around a fat men wearing a red 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.200 velvet suit all around. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:59.399 The world in one night and not get lost. Say 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.000 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.160 am what it says. I am. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.880 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.440 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.359 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.640 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:20.480 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.840 to talk to you today about how you have hidden treasure. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.080 It's easy to get stuck in life till where we 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.040 think we've reached our limits. I've gone as far as 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.440 I can go, and I'm not that talented. I could 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.120 never accomplish my dreams. Now, God wouldn't have given you 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.360 the dream and then not given you the ability to 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:40.760 do it. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.120 You have what you need. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.960 The problem many times is it's buried on the inside. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.560 It's hidden treasure. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.600 You have gifts and talents that you've not yet tapped into. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.560 There is potential that is waiting to be released. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.200 When God laid out the plan for your life, he 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.880 deposited in you the skill, the wisdom, the creativity, everything 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.960 you need to fulfill your destiny. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.120 Now here's the key. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.400 It's not what you have in you that matters, it's 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.120 what you get out. If you're going to reach your 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.680 highest potential, you have to tap into. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.440 That hidden treasure. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.000 I read where the continent of Africa has more natural 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:30.320 resources than any other continent. They have more gold, more 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:35.240 diamonds than North America, than Europe than Asia. But isn't 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.440 it interesting they're one of the poorest continents. Europe and 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.240 North America have these big cities, wealth prosperity. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:44.160 What's the problem. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.240 It's not what's in you, it's what you're getting out. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.400 Buried on the inside of you right now is hidden treasure. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.839 You are full of resources. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:01.680 There are books, movies, songs, ideas, inventions, businesses. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.480 Put in you by the creator of the universe. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.159 Now my challenge is don't die with the treasure still 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:12.360 on the inside. You have something to offer this world 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.640 that nobody else can offer. You are a unique, one 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.640 of a kind. When God made you, he threw away 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:24.000 the mold. Don't go around wishing you had somebody else's gift. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.320 If you had their gift, it wouldn't help you, it 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.000 would hinder you. You're not anointed to be them. You're 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.480 anointed to be you. If God wanted you to look 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.760 like them and have their personality and do what they 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.240 can do, then he would have made you that way. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.560 You have exactly what you need. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:48.720 You're tall enough, you're smart enough, you're attractive enough, you're 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:53.280 talented enough. Quick comparing yourself to somebody else, You've been 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:58.760 fearfully and wonderfully made. When you walk in your anointing 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.440 confidence and who God made you to be, knowing that 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.440 you've got what it takes then your hidden treasure, your gifts, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:07.480 your talents, that. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.200 Potential is going to be released. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.120 You'll step in to the fullness of your destiny. It 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.359 says in Ephesians three twenty that God is able to 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.599 do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:20.320 Ask or think. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.760 Here's the key, according to the power that works in you. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.279 Notice it's not according to the power that's in your 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.919 neighbor or your boss, your pastor, your priests, the bank, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.159 the stock market. It's according to the power that works 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:39.080 in you. In other words, it depends on what you're believing. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.919 You go around telling yourself, I'm just average, I'm not 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.479 that talented. I come from the wrong family, then the 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.920 exceeding greatness of God's power is not going to work 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.040 in you. That treasure is going to stay buried. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:54.960 Do yourself a favor. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:07:01.520 Quit discounting yourself, Quit belittling yourself. When God created you, 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.719 he wasn't having a bad day. He didn't make any mistakes. 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.480 You're not lacking, you're not at a disadvantage. You didn't 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.000 get short changed. You've been created in the image of 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.360 Almighty God. You have treasure on the inside. If that 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.120 treasure is going to come out. You have to have 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.440 the attitude. I've got what it takes. I'm not waiting 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.080 on it. I'm not hoping to get it one day. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.600 I'm not begging somebody to give me a break. I'm 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.440 not wishing I look like a friend. No, I realize 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:38.640 it's already on the inside. I'm equipped, empowered, talented, creative, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.680 well able. You live like that and you'll see the 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.160 exceeding greatness of God's favor. This is where Sarah in 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.000 the scripture almost missed it. God gave her a promise 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.680 that she would have a baby, but she was well 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.480 beyond the child bearing years, and she thought the promise 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.040 would come through somebody else. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.640 That made more say since she was too old. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.040 So she got her husband Abraham, together with a young 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.679 maid and they had a baby. Sarah said, thank you Lord, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.840 the promise came to pass. But God said, no, Sarah, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.119 I didn't put the promise in them. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.600 I put the promise in you. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.920 You have hidden treasure that's still buried in your womb. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.000 But as long as Sarah thought, I'm too old, I'm 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.040 at a disadvantage. I don't look like these younger women. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.600 She was talking herself out of what God wanted to do. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.640 How many times do we do the same thing. I 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.040 could never be in management, could never write that book, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.200 I could never build that house. No, God is saying 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.920 to you what he said to Sarah. I didn't put 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.000 the promise in somebody else. I put the promise in you. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.160 The treasure is on the inside. Now. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:57.280 It may be buried under doubt and fear, buried under disappointments, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.400 what didn't work out, perhaps buried under low self esteem intimidation. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.200 But the good news is the treasure is still in you. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.520 You may have talked yourself out of it, but you 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:10.800 didn't talk God out of it. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.359 God does not abort dreams. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.480 And if you'll get back in agreement with God, then 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.920 what he promised you he will bring to pass. Sarah 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.439 was almost one hundred years old when she gave birth. 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.200 To a baby boy named Isaac. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.360 The treasure came out, not through somebody else. Wasn't according 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.400 to the power in her maid or in her husband. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.160 The greatness of God's power was released when she chose 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.640 to believe. She rose up and said, hey, wait a minute, 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.360 this is my time, this is my destiny. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.400 I am not going to sit on the sidelines. I've 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:55.120 got something kicking on the inside. I've got potential, dreams, gifts, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.000 promises that are waiting. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:57.560 To be released. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.199 I want to light that same fire under you today. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.040 Some of you have been sitting on the sidelines, celebrating 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.000 everybody else, content to see the promises come to pass 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:09.680 in their life. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:10.520 And that's good. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.800 But God wants to do something amazing in your life. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.800 He wants you to be celebrated. You don't have to 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.240 sit on the sidelines. You have buried treasure. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:27.079 There are promises that God has spoken over you, dreams 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.200 that he wants you to give birth to. It's not 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.640 too late, you're not too old. It may look impossible, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.840 but our God can do the impossible. When you believe, 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:44.040 favor is released, when you believe hidden treasure comes forth, 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.320 when you believe, like Sarah, you're going. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.840 To give birth to those promises. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.920 It's interesting. When Sarah first heard the news that she 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.000 was going to have a baby, the scripture says it 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.439 was so far out she began to laugh. I can 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.240 hear her say, and Abraham, a baby, are you kidding? 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:04.760 I've gone through. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.560 The change of life that defies the laws of nature. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.559 She was saying I'm at a disadvantage. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.280 I don't have what it takes. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:18.319 Belittling herself, discounting herself. That's going to keep the treasure buried. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.040 I've learned it's just as easy to talk yourself into 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.640 it as it is to talk yourself out of it. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.560 Instead of thinking of all the reasons why you can't 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.000 get well, why you can't accomplish a dream, why your 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.600 marriage is not going to last. It's too late, I've 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.040 made too many mistakes. No, zip that up, and instead 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.560 of talking yourself out of it, start talking yourself into it. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.880 I can do all things through Christ. God is making 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.119 a way, even though I don't see a way. I'm anointed, equipped, talented, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.920 more than a conquer Well Joel, this sounds good, but 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.360 I don't see how it could get well. This sickness 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.360 has been in my family line for five generations. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.600 My grandmother died of the same thing. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.800 If you keep talking like that, it's going to be 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.600 six generations. Why don't you start talking yourself into it. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.160 God is restoring health back into me. The number of 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.960 my days he will fulfill. The tide of this battle 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:15.480 is turning. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.439 I will live and not die. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.440 In the scripture, God gave a promise to Jeremiah that 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.720 he would become a great prophet. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:28.840 And speak to the nations. But Jeremiah was young and afraid. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:30.800 He didn't see how it could happen. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.640 He started telling God all the reasons why it wouldn't 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.360 work out. He said, God, when I get up to speak, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.160 people mock me and make fun of me. I'm young, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.199 I'm tired, I'm intimidated. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.480 On and on. Just when you thought he was. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.120 Going to talk himself out of it, he said in 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:54.560 Jeremiah twenty verse nine, your word in my heart is 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.760 like fire shut up in my bones. He was saying, God, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.079 I may not see how it can happen. All the 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.880 odds are against me, but this promise you put. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.720 In me will not go away. It's like a fire. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.120 It's alive. I can't get away from it. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.040 You may be at a place right now where you 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.560 could easily give up on what God has put in 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.640 your heart. But I believe, like Jeremiah, there is fire 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.000 shut up in your bones. What God promised you will 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:27.440 not die. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:28.800 You can ignore it. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.560 You can try to talk to yourself out of it. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.120 Your mind may tell you that it's never. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.640 Going to happen. But deep down, you're going to feel. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:42.400 A stirring, a burning, a restlessness. That's the promise God 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.920 put in you. He loves you too much to let 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.880 you be average. He's going to push you into greatness. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.920 Your hidden treasure is about to come out. You need 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:58.000 to get ready. The gifts, the talents, the skills, the ideas, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.839 the untapped potential is about to come forth. You're going 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.200 to step into a new season. You're going to feel 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.800 a boldness. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.760 To do things that you've never done. It's going to 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.439 be a supernatural strength. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.360 God is going to open doors that no man can shut. Now, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.800 don't shrink back intimidated. The creator of the universe has 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.760 not only equipped and empowered you, but he's breathing in your. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:26.720 Direction right now. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:33.080 He's breathing favor, breathing healing, confidence, restoration. See a lot 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.280 of times we hear about what we can't do, But 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.440 I want to tell you what you can do. You 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.920 can accomplish your God given dreams. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.120 You can live healthy and whole. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.480 You can overcome every obstacle. You can set a new 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:53.360 standard for your family. You are not average, You're not ordinary. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.640 You have treasure on the inside. When I was a 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:58.800 little boy growing up. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.720 Our next door name had a big German shepherd dog 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.640 in their backyard, and even though their yard was fenced off, 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.080 they always kept the dog on a leash. And one day, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.920 when I was about nine years old, I was playing 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.200 baseball in the backyard with some friends and the ball 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.440 went over into the neighbor's yard. I didn't think much 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.440 about it. I'd been over there many times. I got 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.600 my ladder and I climbed over our six foot fence. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.680 When I got to the ball, the dog was about 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.800 fifty yards away. When he saw me, he took off 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.440 running toward me ninety miles an hour. 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.320 My heart sunk. For some reason, he wasn't on a 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.920 leash that day, I knew I was as good as dead. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.520 I turned around and took off, running toward. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.560 My fence as fast as I could, the whole time 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.360 under my breast, saying, Lord, forgive me of my sins. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.320 I'm about to come meet you. When I got to 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.720 the fence, all in one motion, I grabbed it with 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.320 one hand and I jumped as high as I could, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.840 and somehow I got over that fence. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.360 Right before the dog got to me. I was just 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:08.040 a little boy. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.080 I had practically jumped over a six foot fence. And 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.840 you know the saying white men can't jump. That day 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:19.080 I jumped. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.760 Here's my point. That dog helped me to. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.119 Discover potential that I didn't. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:30.840 Know I had. That dog helped me. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.560 To find some hidden treasure. I had never jumped that 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.640 high before. The truth is, I have never jumped that 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:43.560 high sense. You don't really know what's on the inside 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.720 until you put a demand on your potential. Some of 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.240 you are going to be offered a position that you 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.520 think is way over your head. You're gonna be tempted 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.040 to shrink back. I can't do that. I'm not qualified. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.200 I don't have the experience. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.000 No, it may be over your head, but it is 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:01.560 not over God's head. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:06.159 He has already deposited in you everything that you need. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.439 God wouldn't have given you the opportunity, nor put the 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.399 desire in you if. 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.720 You didn't already have everything you need. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.720 When you rise up with boldness, with confidence, then you're 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.200 going to see new gifts, new talents, new strengths, new confidence. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.280 All these things are going to come up out of you. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:29.800 They're on the inside. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.600 You just have to work with God to get them out. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.600 Some of you are going to have an opportunity to 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:40.280 go back and finish school, or to change careers, or 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.520 maybe to start your own business. The easy thing to 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.080 do is to play it safe and stay where you're comfortable. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.480 But if you're going to see this hidden treasure come out, 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.480 you've got to be willing to do something that. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:54.920 You've never done. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.040 If you're going to walk on water, you've got to 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.760 get out of the boat. You can't play it safe 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.000 whole life and expect to reach your highest potential. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.280 You've got to be willing to take some risk. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.600 I want you to feel this new sense of confidence, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.119 new boldness. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.640 You are full of possibility. Don't sit around thinking about 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:15.560 what you can't do. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.520 I could never be in management. I could never speak 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.600 in front of people like to you, Joel. I could 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.840 never jump over that six foot fence. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.280 I bet you could. If you saw that German shepherd chasing. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:31.000 You, you would discover things in you that you never 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.440 knew you had. Paul told Timothy in the scripture Stir 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.600 Up your Gifts. God is saying, I'm about to take 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.480 you someplace that you've never been. I'm about to show 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.080 you new ways to increase I'm about to open new 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:51.320 doors of opportunity. Well, Joel, I'm not that talented. I 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.720 could never lead my company in sales. 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.120 Who told you that? 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.399 The creator of the universe says you have everything you 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:04.520 need to excel. You are equipped, you are empowered, you 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:05.600 are anointed. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.600 This is your season to come up higher. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.879 God is about to release hidden treasure that's been buried 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:13.880 on the inside. 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.600 Get ready to do something that you've never done. Get 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.880 ready to go places that you've never been. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.719 I love the story of Susan Boyle, our special guest today. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:29.040 Many of you have seen Susan singing on Britain's Got 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.960 Talent when she surprised the judges and the world with 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:37.439 her incredible voice. What you may not realize was Susan 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:41.000 had not had an easy life. She was the youngest 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.840 of nine children. Her father was a miner struggling to. 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:45.960 Keep the family going. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.040 When she was born, her mother had trouble with the 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:55.400 delivery and Susan went without oxygen during the childbirth. While 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.520 the doctors were pleased that she survived, they told her 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:03.880 parents expect anything from Susan. She's at a disadvantage. She's 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.560 had this problem during birth. She'll never amount to that much. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.600 But what they didn't know was what Almighty. 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.000 God had placed on the inside. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.439 The doctors gave information from a medical point of view. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.359 They did their part, but there was hidden treasure that 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.480 nobody could see. Medical science said, you know, birth injury, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.639 slow learner, at a disadvantage. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:39.480 God said, masterpiece, one of a kind, equate, empowered. Now Susan, she. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.560 Could have let the experts talk her into settling for 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.919 an average, ordinary life, thought, hey, I'm at a disadvantage. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:46.879 It's not my fault. 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.600 I've had this troubled during birth. Now she had this attitude, 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:52.480 there is a treasure. 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.760 On the inside of me. I'm not going to go 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:55.960 through life. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.480 In self pity, focused on what I don't have. I 0:20:58.560 --> 0:20:59.960 know there's something that I do. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.080 You have. I've been fearfully and wonderfully made. 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.160 At the age of forty eight, her parents had both 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:07.919 passed away. 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:10.000 Susan was living alone. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.400 Looked like the odds were against her. Didn't know how 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:17.280 she's going to make ends meet. She could have gotten discouraged, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.760 but early one morning, she took a bus headed toward 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:25.040 a singing competition in another city. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.399 She had never traveled that far alone. 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.080 She accidentally got on the wrong bus and ended up 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.080 taking six buses to get to the venue. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.200 When she walked on the stage, you've seen the shows. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.920 Most of the contestants were very young, real hip, really 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.159 super cool, and when she went out it seemed like 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:48.280 quite a contrast. The lead judge, Simon cow asked what 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.480 she wanted to do, and she said sing. Some of 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.400 the audience began to snicker and laugh. They thought, here's 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:55.919 another performance. 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:56.800 That we're going to have to endure. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.919 But when Susan opened her mouth and started seeing, the 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:02.440 whole world listen to. 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.880 Her that clip. 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:11.720 That clip was viewed over three hundred million times on YouTube. 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.760 The most ever. News organizations from around the. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:19.560 Globe carry the story with the headline the voice that 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.160 stunned the world. Here's my point, there is a treasure 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.320 on the inside of every person. 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:27.880 God did not leave anybody out. 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:32.960 Does it matter what people have spoken over you, Does 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.320 it matter how many disadvantages you've had, or how many 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:40.080 odds are against you, if you'll just keep doing like Susan, 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.399 not get discouraged, not let people talk you out of it, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.640 not let your own thoughts tell you you're just average, 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.879 You're ordinary, nothing special about you, No just keep taking 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:56.439 those steps of faith, honoring God, being your best, talking 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.520 yourself into it instead of talking yourself out of it. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.720 You do that, and your treasure is going to be 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.680 released like God did for her. God will take you 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:09.959 places that you've never dreamed of. I'll read a story 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:14.119 about a five year old boy that loved the piano. 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:19.560 The only song he really knew how to play was Chopsticks. 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:20.600 Just a very simple tune. 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:24.040 One day, his father surprised him with tickets to the 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:29.879 symphony to hear this world renowned Italian pianist. This man 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:32.879 was one of the greatest piano players that had ever lived. 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:36.320 That night, on the way to their seats, the little 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.159 boy noticed the beautiful grand. 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:40.560 Piano up on the stage. 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.280 When no one was watching, He snuck over and sat 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:48.440 down and began to play his elementary version of Chopsticks. 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:53.040 About that time, the curtain began to rise. Everyone was 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:56.760 expecting to see this world renowned pianist. Instead they saw 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:59.960 this little five year old boy. He was so caught 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:02.960 up in his world he didn't realize what was happening. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:07.040 When he finally looked up, he was petrified. Just as 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:10.000 he was about to take off running toward his seats. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:13.720 He felt two big arms reaching around him. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:18.359 It was the world renowned pianist. He whispered in the 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:22.240 little boy's ears, keep playing. As that little boy kept 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:27.280 playing that simple rendition of chopsticks, this world renowned pianist 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:31.960 started playing a Beethoven symphony piece that was scored in 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:36.360 the same cadence and the same key. Under the direction 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.840 of the Master, he brought the rest of the orchestra in, 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:44.200 first the woodwinds, then the percussion, then the brass. 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:47.760 The father sat there in the audience with tears. 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:51.359 He never dreamed that simple tune that he had heard 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:54.679 in his home so many times would no longer sound 0:24:54.760 --> 0:25:00.439 like chopsticks, but it would become a beautifully inspired, fully 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:02.560 perfected Beethoven symphony. 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:05.840 What happened the Master stepped in. 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:09.760 Sometimes in life you may not feel like you have 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:14.159 the talent, the strength, the ability. But the good news 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:18.640 is God does. When you use what you have, the 0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:19.920 Master will show up. 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:21.520 God will put. 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:26.000 His hands over your hands. He'll take what you think 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:32.000 is very average, average talent, average skills, average education. But 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:36.320 when the Master steps in, he'll mix his super with 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:40.480 your average, and amazing things will begin to happen. When 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:44.000 I first started ministering fourteen years ago, after my father 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:48.160 went to be with the Lord. My sermons were very elementary, 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:53.000 very basic, and don't you say amen? Kind of like 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:55.760 that little boy. It was like I was playing chopsticks. 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:58.160 I was doing the best that I could, using what 0:25:58.240 --> 0:25:59.200 God had given me. 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:01.600 The thought just told me, Joe, you're not a minister. 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:03.439 You don't have what it takes. 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:06.239 I would replace those thoughts with I can do all 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:07.159 things through Christ. 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:09.480 I'm equipped, anointed, empowered. 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:12.600 Instead of talking myself out of it, I talked myself 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:17.200 into it. What happened, The Master stepped in. God put 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:20.560 his hands on my hands. He brought ability out of 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:22.000 me that I didn't know I had. 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:24.400 The treasure began to be released. 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.040 You may feel like you could never accomplish what God's 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.880 put in your heart. You don't have the resources, the education, 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:35.000 the talent. You may not, but God does. When you 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:38.879 make a move, God makes a move. I would still 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:41.879 be sitting on the sidelines if I had not taken 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:44.879 that step of faith. Every voice told me not to 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:49.640 do it. I was nervous, I felt unqualified, inexperienced. 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:51.159 But when I got out. 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:54.399 Of my safe zone and over into the faith zone. 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:58.119 The Master stepped in. God will bring things out of 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:01.800 you that you didn't know you had. In the coming days, 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:06.280 as you stretch your faith, you're going to discover confidence 0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:10.440 and abilities that you didn't know was in you. Instead 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.560 of just playing chopsticks, you're going to hear the woodwinds 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:17.399 join in. Supernatural breaks are going to come your way. 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:19.720 Just when you think it can't get any better, the. 0:27:19.720 --> 0:27:23.080 Brass, the percussion will join in the right people, the 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:24.199 right opportunities. 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:29.240 Before long, it's going to sound like a beautiful symphony. 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:32.040 You'll know, like I do, this is not just my talent, 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:36.320 my ability. This is the Master stepping in, God taking 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:40.840 my ordinary and making it extraordinary. Let me ask you today, 0:27:41.440 --> 0:27:45.399 if your time on Earth was up this week, is 0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:49.240 there something that we're missing out on? Is your treasure 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:54.560 buried under doubt, fear, under what somebody said? You owe 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:57.360 it to yourself and you owe it to the world 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.880 to tap into that hidden treasure. It's not too late, 0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:05.680 You're not too old. Like Jeremiah, there is fire shut 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:09.840 up in your bones. God has spoken promises over your life, 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:12.840 dreams that the creator of the universe put in you. 0:28:13.160 --> 0:28:16.240 Now don't do like Sarah and talk yourself out of it. 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:18.120 Start talking yourself into it. 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:22.000 Get up every morning knowing that you have exactly what 0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:22.679 you need. 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:25.560 If you do this, you need to get ready. Your 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:27.359 hidden treasure is going to come out. 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:30.840 The Master's going to step in and mix his souper 0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:34.600 with your natural and I believe in declare before you 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:38.080 leave this earth, you will release all of your potential, 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:41.320 all of your gifts will come forth, and you will 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:45.600 become everything God's created you to be in Jesus' name. 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:47.719 If you receive it, can you say it then? 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:52.560 Today we never like to close our broadcast without giving 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:55.440 you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:56.800 Would you pray with me? 0:28:57.520 --> 0:29:01.360 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 0:29:02.480 --> 0:29:06.280 Come into my heart. 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