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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.400 Hi, this is Joel on Wednesdays. We bring you the 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:48.720 best of I hope you enjoy the podcast. Oh God 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.840 bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.000 And if you're ever in our area, please stop by 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.400 and be a part of one of our services. We'd 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.280 love to have you be a part. I promise you 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.600 will make you feel right at home. But thank you 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.800 so much for tuning in, and thank you again for 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.680 coming out today. And I like to start with something funny, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.920 and I heard about these three pastors. They were in 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.640 a boat together one day fishing. One of the pastors said, 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.000 we never get to let our hair down. Let's each 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.359 tell the area that we struggle in the most, our 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.920 greatest sin, so we can pray for each other. The 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.520 first pastor said, I hate to admit this, but I 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.920 have a problem with gambling. Sometimes I sneak out at 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.239 night and gamble. The second pastor said, I'm ashamed to 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.960 admit this, but I have a problem with cheating. I 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.680 hardly ever pay my taxes. The third pastor sat there silently. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.320 They waited and waited, and what he wouldn't budge. They said, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.160 we're not leaving until you tell us your greatest sin. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.440 He said, all right, My greatest sin is with gossip, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.119 and I can't wait to get off this boat. Hold 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.080 up your Bible, say it like you mean it. This 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.720 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.440 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.000 what it says I can do. Today, I will be 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.840 talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.080 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:17.079 the same in Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.079 to talk to you today about how you have what 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.040 you need. It's easy to think if I had more money, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.639 I could accomplish my dreams. If I had a bigger house, 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.360 then I'd be happy. If I had more talent, better personality, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.960 if I knew the right people, then I could do 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.000 something great. But as long as you feel like you're lacking, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.240 you don't have enough, you were shortchanged, then you'll make 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.800 excuses to be less than your best. You've got to 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.040 have a new perspective. God has giving you exactly what 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.480 you need for the season that you're in. You have 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.559 the talent, the friends, the connections, the resources, the experience 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.960 you need for right now. Does it mean that's all 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.280 you're ever going to have. You may need more next 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.960 month or next year. When that time comes, God will 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.600 make sure that you have more then. Psalm thirty four 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.719 says those who trust in the Lord will never lack 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.679 any good thing. Because your trust is in the Lord, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.560 you don't have to worry. Whatever you need, God will 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.680 make sure you have it when you need it. You 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.880 won't lack any good thing. This means if you don't 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.400 have it right now, don't fight it. Don't be discouraged. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.479 You don't need it right now. Our attitude should be 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:47.040 I'm equipped, empowered, and anointed for this moment. I am 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:53.520 not lacking, shortchanged, inadequate, missing out less than I have 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.640 what I need for today. This approach is so much 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.600 better than thinking if I just had the finances, if 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.240 the loan would have gone through, if they would have 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.560 been my friend, if I had a better personality. Listen, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.960 if you needed a better personality, God would have given 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.400 you a better personality. God wasn't having a bad day 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.960 when he created you. If you needed more talent, God 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.279 would have given you more talent. If you needed more friends, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.440 you would have more friends. Take what you have and 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.880 make the most of it. It's what you need for 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.479 right now. Years ago, I used to think if we 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.520 had a bigger building, if we had more members, if 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.640 I could minister better, if I had more experience. There 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.760 was always something I didn't have, or I couldn't do, 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.960 some reason I couldn't feel good about myself. One day 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.280 I realized what I'm telling you. I have what I 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.880 need for the season that I'm in right now. I 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.000 have the strength that I need for today. It may 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.840 not be enough strength for tomorrow. But that's okay. When 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.560 that day comes, God will give me strength for tomorrow. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.880 I have the talent, the qualifications, the experience I need 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.279 for right now. It may not be as much as 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.520 somebody else has, but that's okay. I'm not competing with them. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.520 I'm competing with myself to become the best me that 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.800 I can possibly be. Someone wrote an article one time 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.240 that talked about how I haven't been dis seminaryan how 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.640 I wasn't qualified to lead a large ministry. First that 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.160 kind of bothered me. Then I read in Galatians One 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.039 where the apostle Paul, who wrote over half of the 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.400 New Testament, said, I was not appointed by any group 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:49.320 or by human authority. My call is from God, who 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.039 raised Jesus from the death. Listen. People may not approve you, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:58.039 don't worry about it. God approves you. People didn't call you. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.719 People don't determine your destiny. People can't stop God's plan 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:07.320 for your life. God called you, God equipped you, God 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.400 anointed you. When you come to the end of your life, 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.200 you don't have to answer to people. You'll answer to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.480 Almighty God. Don't let what some person says or does 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.760 make you feel less than unqualified. You've been handpicked by 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.400 the creator of the universe. You are lacking nothing for 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.040 the season that you're in right now. Now, quit thinking 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.280 about all the things that you don't have, all the 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.280 things that you wish were different. Joel, all I have 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.040 is this old car. I'm depressed. No, have a new attitude. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.760 This old car is all I need right now. God 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.280 is on the throne directed my steps. When I need more, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.360 He'll give me more. All I have is this one friend. No, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.520 turn it around. This one friend is all I need 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.720 for this season. I'm not gonna sit around in self pity. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.680 When I need more friends, God will give me more friends. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.720 All I have is this low level job. You No, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.760 that's all I need right now. When it's my time 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.040 to be promoted, nothing can stand against my God. I 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:15.200 will be promoted. But in the meantime, I'm gonna keep 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.240 being my best right where I am. This is an 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:23.440 empowering way to live, not making excuses feeling short changed. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.000 If I just had more money, Listen, If you needed 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.000 more money to fulfill your destiny right now and God 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.920 withholds it, he wouldn't be a just God. The truth 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.800 is God has already lined up, the right people, the 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.720 right opportunities, the finances, the wisdom, the good breaks, the 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.120 protection you need. It's in your future. As long as 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.040 you keep honoring God, he will give you what you 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.679 need when you need it. That means if you don't 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.040 have it right now, you don't need it right now. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.720 My question is, will you try trust him? Will you 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.959 keep a good attitude and be your best, even though 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.079 it's taken longer than you thought, even though the problem 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.640 hasn't turned around, even though a dream hasn't come to pass. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.640 If you will be faithful right where you are, knowing 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.760 that you have exactly what you need for the season 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.480 that you're in, God will get you to where you're 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:26.199 supposed to be. In Second Samuel, chapter twelve, David had 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.760 gotten off course. The prophet Nathan was correcting him. In 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.160 doing so, he reminded David of what God had brought 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:39.319 him through. David had seen God's goodness, favor, protection, finance, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.400 is healing down through the years, and in verse eight, 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.720 Nathan made an interesting statement. He said, David, if it 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:51.080 had not been enough, God would have given you much 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.839 much more. In other words, David, looking back over your life, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.679 if you were ever lacking. If you ever needed more wisdom, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.560 more favor, more protection, more finances, God would have given 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.600 it to you. That tells me what I have right 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:13.000 now is what I need to fulfill my destiny. The 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:17.360 moment it becomes not enough is the moment God will 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.920 give you more. The moment something starts to keep you 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.760 from your destiny, the moment it begins to stop God's 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.439 plan for your life is the moment God will show up, 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.000 the moment God will intervene. So if it hasn't happened yet, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.000 don't be discouraged thinking that it's never going to work out. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.880 If it hasn't happened, you haven't needed it. When you 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:45.160 need it, it won't be one second late. The moment 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.560 you need a new friend, the moment you need a 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.000 good break, the moment you need an idea, it will 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:57.000 show up. Friends, God is closely watching your life. You 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.280 are his most prized possession, saying to you what he 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.400 said to David. If it's ever not enough, you can 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.719 count on me. I will always be there to give 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.400 you more. In nineteen fifty nine, my father was the 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.240 pastor of a large denominational church. They had nearly a 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.000 thousand members. Back then, that was a big deal. They 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.520 had just built a beautiful new sanctuary in my father's 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.280 future looked very bright. But one day, through a series 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.200 of events, he knew he was supposed to leave that 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.560 church and start Lakewood in the natural. He didn't have 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:39.440 a building, didn't have any organization backing him up. Most 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.120 of his friends thought he was making a mistake and 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.240 didn't support him. He could have made a list of 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.040 all the things that he didn't have. If he'd ha 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.920 stayed focused on that, he would have never moved off 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.240 a dead center. But my father took this step of 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.880 faith and he started Lakewood with ninety people in an 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.560 old run dawn feed store. But instead of thinking all 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.920 I have are these ninety people, his attitude was, these 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.559 ninety people are all I need. Instead of thinking all 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.560 I have is this old feed store, his attitude was, 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.360 this old feed store is all I need. See when 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.719 you realize the creator of the universe is directing your steps, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.520 giving you what you need, and the moment it becomes 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.840 not enough, God promises to show up and give you more, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.920 then you won't go around discouraged thinking, ah, it's not fair, 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.640 why don't I get any good breaks. When is this 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.679 ever going to change? Now, You'll just keep being your best, 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.520 honoring God. That's what my father did. Here we are today, 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.960 fifty four years later, Lakewood still going strong. But some 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.840 of you today or maybe a little discouraged because of 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.480 what has not happened. You're wondering when the problem's going 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.079 to turn around, when you're going to get that good break. Now, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.480 quit being stressed over it. God has you in the 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.040 palm of his hand. He is written every day of 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.480 your life in his book. God knows what you need 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.719 when you need it, and he knows how to get 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.959 it to you. If you don't have something right now, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.200 you didn't miss it. You didn't get short changed. God 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.880 didn't forget about you. As long as you're honoring Him 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.560 at the right time when you need it, the right 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.760 people will show up when you need it. The finances 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.959 will come when you need it. The healing, the restoration, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.960 the vindication will find you if it hasn't happened yet. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.080 Don't sit around sour. Have the attitude I don't need 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.480 it when I need it, God promises it won't be 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.840 one second length. In John chapter four, Jesus met a 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.640 Samaritan woman at a well. He asked her for something 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.080 to drink. She was a little surprised because in those 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.680 days the Jews didn't have anything to do with the Samaritans. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.000 She said, how can you ask me for something to drink? 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.360 Jesus said, if you knew who I am, you would 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.040 ask of me and I would give you living water. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.360 She immediately began to look in the natural. She said, 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.280 but sir, you don't have anything to draw water with. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.360 You don't have any kind of bucket, any kind of pall. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.760 How can you give me living water? I wonder how 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.200 many times we do the same thing. God tells us 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.840 he's going to do something great in our lives. Down deep, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.680 he puts a dream on the inside that we're going 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.800 to rise higher. We're going to see our marriage restored, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.560 We're going to get healthy again. We feel it so strongly, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.360 But like her, we start looking at what we don't 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.240 have the way we were raised, the obstacles in our path. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.760 Before long we talk ourselves out of it. Joel, I 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.720 can't do anything great. I don't have the talent. My 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.520 marriage is too far gone. The medical report is too bad. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.920 Now you're just looking in the natural. But we serve 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:07.240 a supernatural God. He can take something that's ordinary, breathe 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.240 on it, and turn it into something that's extraordinary. You 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.600 can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.480 you will go further than people that have great talent. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.760 Don't talk yourself out of it. All David had was 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:28.840 a slingshot and five smooth stones. It looked insignificant, ordinary, 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.040 nothing special, But God breathed on it, and he defeated 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:37.560 Goliath became the king of Israel. Sampson was surrounded by 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:42.320 a huge army. Everywhere he looked, there were horses, chariots, weapons. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:47.600 All he had was the jawbone of a donkey. No weapon, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.440 no armor, nobody backing him up. But he picked up 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.960 that jawbone. God breathed on it, and he defeated a 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.760 thousand men, the whole army. All Moses had was an 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.960 ordinary stick, something he found on the ground. Yet when 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.520 he picked it up held that rod in the air, 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.000 the red sea supernaturally parted. All my father had were 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:15.360 ninety people and an abandoned, run down feed store. Yet 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:23.320 God breed on them and did something extraordinary. Don't underestimate 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:29.320 what you have. It may look small, insignificant, compared to 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.920 what you're facing. It seems impossible. All the odds are 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.920 against you. But when God breeds on your life, the 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:42.120 odds dramatically change you and God are a majority. God 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.480 can open doors that should have never opened. God can 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.880 take you beyond where your talent, your education says you 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.240 should go. God can make a way even when you 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.360 don't see away. And it's not enough to just have 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.240 faith in God. That's important, but you've got to have 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.400 faith in what God has given you. You are not lacking, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.920 you were not shortchanged. You are not at a disadvantage. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.600 The creator of the universe is breathing on your life. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:16.720 He's breathing on your health, breathing on your finances, breathing 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.320 on your marriage. If you will be confident in what 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.320 God has given you, he can take what looks like 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.359 little and turn it into much. The Scripture even says 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.560 don't despise the day of small beginnings. In other words, 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.480 don't look at what you have and say, oh, Joel, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.080 I can't do anything great. I don't have a lot 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.920 of talent a feed store, God, I need a big building, 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.440 A low level job. God. I wanted to be in management. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.000 What God has given you right now may seem small, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.680 but don't let that fool you. When you use what 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.560 you have, God will multiply it. You'll see an explosion 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.200 of his goodness. One time, Jesus had been teaching thous 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.400 of people, was getting late in the day and everyone 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:07.159 was hungry. Jesus turned to his disciples and said, I 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.399 want you to feed all the people. They didn't have 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.760 any food out there in the wilderness. There were no 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:17.400 grocery stores. On the surface, it seemed like what Jesus 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:22.000 asked was impossible. But here's the key. God will never 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.040 ask you to do something and then not give you 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.280 the ability to do it. When joel, I can't raise 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.840 this child, he's too difficult. No, God wouldn't have given 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.040 you the child if you weren't able to raise him. Well, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.840 these people at work, they're driving me crazy. Know. When 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.560 God gave you that job, he gave you the ability 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.639 to be there with a good attitude. Well, I couldn't 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.680 accomplish my dreams. I don't know the right people. No, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.720 the moment God put the dream in your heart, he 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.919 lined up everything you need to bring it to pass. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.959 The disciples said to Jesus, we can't feed all these people, 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.960 it's impossible. We don't have any food. Jesus heard all 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.760 their excuses. He finally said to them, you've told me 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.919 all about what you don't have. All I want to 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.520 know is what do you have? They said, we just 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.560 have five loaves of bread, two small fish. But what 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.719 is this among so many? They looked at it and 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.520 dismissed it. It's not enough, Joel, I believe I could 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.920 do something great if I had more going for me, 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.359 if I had more talent, more friends, more money. No, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.640 you're just looking at the natural. Get rid of that. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:37.160 I don't have enough mentality. God controls the whole universe. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.400 He's saying to you today what Jesus said to the disciples, 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:46.480 Give me what you have. Don't make excuses, don't sit 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:51.080 on the sidelines of life feeling intimidated, short changed. Put 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.960 your life, your goals, your dreams into my hands. Jesus 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.040 took the five loaves, the two fish, prayed over it, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:03.560 and it's super naturally multiplied. It ended up feeding probably 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.720 fifteen thousand people plus. There were baskets full left over. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.280 That's what happens. When you give God what you have, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:15.399 he'll multiply it. Let me ask you are you talking 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.280 yourself out of something God has put in your heart. 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.800 I read a story about a young lady named Mary 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.119 the Thune. She was the youngest of seventeen children born 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.960 in South Carolina in the early eighteen hundreds. Her parents 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.560 were slaves. In spite of the odds being against her, 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.879 she was able to get a good education, even go 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.080 to college. From the time she was a little girl. 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.480 Her dream was always to teach young people. She was 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.040 a straight a student. You couldn't meet a finer young woman. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.679 She graduated from college, she turned her application in to 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.760 teach it to school. Several months later, she got word 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.240 back that she was turned down for some reason. She 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.120 wasn't accepted. But instead of sitting around thinking about how 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.800 bad life was treating her, she had the attitude, I 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.919 didn't get that position. I must not have needed it. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.560 If it was going to keep me from my destiny, 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.679 God would have never allowed it. She decided to start 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.760 her own school. She didn't have any money, no building, 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:25.080 no supplies, no equipment. She found some old cardboard boxes 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.040 and used them for desk. She would get red berries 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.919 each day drained the juice out of them, so her 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.480 students could use that for ink in their pens. A 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.160 few years later, a local college noticed what was happening 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.840 and asked her to join forces with them. It became 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:49.160 known as the Bethune Cookman College. Nineteen thirty two, President 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.720 Franklin Roosevelt appointed her as an advisor to his cabinet, 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.800 making her the first African American woman ever to become 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:03.080 a president or adviser. What am I saying? What you 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:08.080 have may seem small, but don't dismiss it. If you'll 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:11.920 use what God has given you, he'll multiply it. He'll 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.719 not only bring your dreams to pass, but he'll do 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.000 more than you can ask or think. In the scripture, 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:22.720 there were four lepers marching toward the enemy's camp. These 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:28.400 four men had nothing, no supplies, no food, no protection, 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.359 not even their health. In the natural, they didn't have 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.280 a chance. They could have been sitting around, depressed, focused 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.280 on what they didn't have. No, these men must have 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.520 been coming to Lakewood. They were using what God had 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:46.760 given them. As they were marching toward the enemy's camp, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.679 God multiplied. The sound of their footsteps sounded like a 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:55.600 huge army was attacking. Those enemies took off running for 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.959 their lives. When Joel, I don't have a lot of talent, 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:03.280 maybe not, but do you have any footsteps? I don't 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:05.640 have much money, maybe not, but do you have any 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:09.080 red berries? I don't have a big building for my 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.440 new business, maybe not, But do you have an old 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:16.600 rundown feedstore. If you'll use what God has given you, 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:22.080 he'll multiply it. He'll multiply your talent, multiply your resources, 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:26.840 multiply your influence. Listen, God is not into addition, He's 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:34.399 into multiplication. What you have today may seem small, but 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:37.479 if you'll keep honoring God, it's not going to stay small. 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:43.680 You're going to come into supernatural increase, good breaks, divine connections, 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:48.880 opportunities that you've never seen before. Friends. You have exactly 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:53.120 what you need to fulfill your destiny. Now here's a key. 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:56.600 It may not be as much as a family member, 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:00.359 a co worker, a friend, but that's okay. You're not 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:04.879 running their race. You're running your race. If God gave 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:08.200 you what they have, it wouldn't help you, it would 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:12.240 hinder you. You're not annointed to be them, You're anointed 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:15.960 to be you. When David went out to face Goliath, 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:19.320 King Saul tried to get David to wear his armor. 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:23.760 David didn't have any protection, just that slingshot. Saul had 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:27.000 good intentions, he said, David, at least wear my armor. 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:29.480 You're going to get out there and get killed. The 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:34.480 problem was David was much smaller than King Saul. When 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:38.040 he put that armor on, it swallowed him. It didn't 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:42.520 help him. It weighed him down. That's because what God 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:45.800 has given other people is not going to work for you. 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:49.639 Don't try to be like somebody else. I wish I 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:53.000 had their talent, their looks, their personality. No, if you 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:56.320 put that armor on, just like with David, you would 0:24:56.359 --> 0:25:01.760 be uncomfortable. It would slow you down. It wasn't designed 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.800 for you. You are unique, you are one of a kind. 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:11.480 God custom made your armory. You are wearing designer armor. 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:15.359 Nobody has what you have. When you go out today, 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:18.000 you need to walk with some swag as you leave. 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.120 I don't know what swag is, but it sounds good. 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:30.960 I'm too white having his swag. David took that armor 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:33.399 off and said, no, thanks, this is not for me. 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:37.000 I can't be who God created me to be wearing 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:40.960 somebody else's armor. I have what I need it may 0:25:40.960 --> 0:25:43.800 not be as much as somebody else, but if you'll 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:47.440 walk in your own anointing, if you'll use what God's 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:52.000 given you, you can have less talent, less resources, less friends, 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:55.600 but because God's breathing on your life, you will go 0:25:55.760 --> 0:25:59.400 further than people that have more talent, more resources. That's 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:03.960 what happened with David. He defeated Goliath with less equipment. 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:08.159 Goliath was wearing a full set of armor. All David 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:12.760 had was the slingshot. The difference was that slingshot was 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:16.199 a part of David's divine destiny. If he would have 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:19.680 looked at it and thought, it's nothing, it's small, it's insignificant. 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:22.520 If he would have dismissed it, he would have missed 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:27.840 his destiny. Don't dismiss what God has given you. It 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:31.639 may not be as impressive as somebody else has. You 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:35.480 may not have the talent, the looks, the personality, the income, 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:39.440 the influence as they do. But when you realize what 0:26:39.560 --> 0:26:44.720 God has given you has been custom made. He specifically 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:48.280 gave you your gifts, your talents, your look, your personality. 0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:51.840 It wasn't a random happening. God didn't close his eyes 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.639 and say here, just take this. No God matched you 0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:58.159 for your world. He put in you exactly what you 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:02.440 need to fulfill his plan for your life. A few 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.359 years ago I was speaking to several hundred pastures, and 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:08.680 afterwards we had a time for questions, and this one 0:27:08.760 --> 0:27:11.600 pasture stood up. He must have been six foot five, 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:15.400 three hundred pounds, a very large man. I'm five foot 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:18.600 nine inches tall. Television makes you look bigger than you 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:21.439 really are. And they were surprised at how small I was. 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:24.840 And he said, very dramatically, Joel, I just want to 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:30.320 know how much do you weigh. I smiled and said, 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:33.760 I'm one hundred and fifty pounds of pure steel. You 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:39.359 got to be confident and who God made you to be. 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:44.040 You're not too short, you're not too tall. You're the 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:48.960 right size. You have the right personality, you're the right nationality. 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:52.639 You've been custom made by the creator of the universe. 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:56.359 Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high. You 0:27:56.400 --> 0:28:00.400 are not lacking. You haven't been short changed. If you're 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:04.359 not at a disadvantage, you have exactly what you need 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:07.879 for where you are. Get up every morning and remind yourself. 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:11.760 I have the strength, the talent, the friends, the resources, 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:15.639 the qualifications. I need for today. If you will do that, 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:19.080 because your trust is in the Lord, I believe and 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:23.000 declare you will never lack any good thing. God is 0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:25.480 going to take small, turn it into much. 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