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I 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.320 like to start with something funny, and I heard about 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.480 this professor. He was going to prove to his students 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.560 that there is no God. He said, God if you're real, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.600 knock me off this platform. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.960 I'm giving you fifteen minutes to do it. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.840 With every minute that went by, he taunted God, God, 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:29.840 I'm still waiting. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:34.680 I'm still here the last minute. Three hundred pound football. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.720 Player walking down the hallway overheard what he was saying. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.160 He took off, running toward him full blast, put his 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.160 shoulder down, send him flying off the platform. The professor 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.040 got up in a daze, said, what in the world 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.440 do you do that for? Football player replied God said 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.760 he was busy, so he sent me. Say it like 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.600 you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.920 it says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.320 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.680 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.399 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.320 never be the same. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.040 In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.359 I want to talk to you today about your destiny 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:23.239 is calling. In the scripture, God called Abraham a father 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.600 of many nations. At that time, he didn't have any children. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.040 He and his wife Sarah were too old to have kids. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.040 It looked like God. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:33.600 Made a mistake. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.040 Abraham could have thought, God, what do you mean. I'm 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.680 not a father of many nations. I'm childless. My wife 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.680 is barren. Here's the principle. God calls you what you 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.880 are before you become it. People call you what you 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.440 are after it happens. God calls you what you are 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.960 before it happens. When God rejected Saul as the king 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.680 of Israel, he told Samuel, I have a man after 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.560 my own heart. David will be the next king. What's 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.640 interesting is David wasn't a man. He was a teenager. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.560 He was out taking care of his father's sheep. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.240 He was a boy. Yet God called. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:19.200 Him what he would become in the same way God 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:25.760 calls you blessed, successful, strong, healthy, talented. That may not 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.599 all be true right now. You could say, like Abraham, God, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.920 what do you mean, I'm not blessed, I'm struggling in 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.680 my finances. I'm not healthy. I'm dealing with this illness. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:37.799 Don't worry. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:38.800 It's on the way. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.120 God calls things that are not as if they already were. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.520 There are promises that God has spoken over you, dreams 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.400 and goals He's placed in your heart. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.960 You didn't come up with them on your own. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.520 Those aren't just your ideas. God put them there. The 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:58.520 scripture talks. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.239 About the secret put of your heart. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.920 That means the things you're dreaming about you haven't told 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:11.680 anyone seems too big, too far out. That's your destiny calling. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.160 That's God telling you what you can become. You may 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.760 not see how it can happen. Every circumstance may say 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.159 you don't have the talent, you don't come from the 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.200 right family. You tried last time, it didn't work out. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.120 Don't talk yourself out of it. God has spoken it. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.280 He controls the universe. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.000 All he's looking. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:37.040 For is someone who will agree with him, someone who 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.320 will rise up in faith and say, yes, I can 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.040 hear my destiny calling. I may not see away, but God, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.400 I know you have a way. If you speak it, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:47.600 I believe I. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.600 Can become it. Human nature says, when I see it, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.560 I'll believe it. Faith says, I'll believe it, then I'll 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:55.960 see it. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.680 God will speak things over you that don't seem logical. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.719 When you're sick, the medical report says you won't get well. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.360 God says just the opposite. He calls you healthy, wholes strong. 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.760 When the odds are against you. You don't have the. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:19.640 Connections, the resources, the experience. God calls you successful, prosperous. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.680 The head, and not the tale. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.240 When you're struggling with an addiction, everybody in your family 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:30.120 has had it. If you'll listen, you'll hear your destiny saying. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.039 You are free. This addiction is temporary. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.479 The buck stops with you. God doesn't call you what 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.840 you are. He calls you what you can become. This 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.760 is what happened with my father. He was raised on 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:48.039 a cotton farm. His family lost everything during the Great Depression. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.880 They were very poor, barely had enough food to survive. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.440 He went to school with holes in his pants, holes 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:56.160 in his shoes. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.039 Eventually he had to drop out of high school to 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.400 help his parents on the farm. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.560 Didn't look like he had much of a future. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:11.600 Limited education, poverty defeated mindset. But at the age of seventeen, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.600 Daddy gave his life to Christ, the. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:15.960 First one in his family. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.760 All of a sudden, he had a desire to become 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.000 a minister. He knew that's what he was going to 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.160 do with his life. Notice the principle. God called him 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.760 a pastor before he ever had a church, before he 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.600 had any credentials, before he had. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.160 Ever been to seminary. He could hear his destiny calling. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.720 He could have talked himself out of it, thought me 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.680 be a pastor. That's never going to work out. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.440 Instead, he let the seed take root. He believed what 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.240 God had spoken over him. He started telling people, I'm 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.400 a pastor, I'm a minister. They looked at him like 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.960 he wasn't all there. Even his family told him, John, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.040 you're not a minute. You better stay here on the 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.240 farm with us. All you know how to do is 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.720 pick cotton. But people can't see what God sees in you. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.320 God sees your potential. He knows what you're capable of. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:14.840 He's the one. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.120 That breathe life into you. Don't let people talk you 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:18.720 out of it. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.320 Don't let family members convince you you don't have what 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.000 it takes. They're calling you what you are. God is 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.600 calling you what you can to come. They can't hear 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.880 what you hear. Don't expect people to cheer you on. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.480 Don't count on your friends to keep you encouraged. They 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.720 may not be for you. They may think you're far 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.760 out and try to talk you out of it. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:44.760 Don't worry. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.120 You don't have to have other people when you hear 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.920 your destiny calling. That's between you and God, and some 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.680 things you have to go alone. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.240 You have to say. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.480 God, they may not be for me, but I know 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.079 you are for me. You put this promise in my heart. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.800 I'm not going to be moved by who's not cheering 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.760 me on, not going to give up because nobody's encouraging me. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.559 I know you being for me is more than enough 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.160 to get me to where I'm supposed to be. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:17.600 Friends. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:22.000 You and God are a majority. That promise is not 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.719 dependent on your family, your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.640 your boss, the critics, the naysayers. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.400 It's dependent on you. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.640 When you're at tempted to get discouraged to settle for mediocrity, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.360 you have to dig your heels in and say, I 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.920 don't think so. I am in it to win it. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.640 Keep pressing forward, keep honoring God. Your destiny is calling. 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:44.720 Luke. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.920 Chapter one, an angel appeared to Zachariah and told him 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.080 that he was going to have a son that they 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:56.160 were to name John. Zachariah's wife, Elizabeth, had been bearing 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.560 for many years. They had been praying, believing to have 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:04.480 a child. While Zachariah was excited about the news. He 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.160 started reasoning it out. It didn't seem possible. Like Abraham 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:13.480 and Sarah, they too were way too old. And Zachariah 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.520 said to the angel, how can I be sure this 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.720 is going to happen. I'm an old man and my 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.640 wife is well along in years. Was saying, in effect, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.960 I can hear my destiny calling, but I don't see 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:27.760 how it can happen. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:28.840 We're too old. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.640 God was telling him what he could become, but because 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.439 he had been childless for so many years. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:37.480 He couldn't conceive it. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.400 When you've been a certain way for a long time, 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.240 you prayed and believed and it hasn't happened, it's easy 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.880 to settle for who you are instead of believing for 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.760 who you can become. Too often we get comfortable with mediocrity. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.560 I talked to a gentleman recently. He struggled with an 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:02.360 addiction since high school. He's in his forties. He said, Joel, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.880 I've done everything I can. I've gone through treatment, rehab, counseling. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.520 Nothing has worked. I guess this is my lot in life. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.600 He was saying, this is who I am. Yes, that 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.360 may be who you are, but you don't have to 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.320 stay that way, God is telling you what you can become. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.760 Freedom is in your future, Wholeness is in your future. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.120 Breakthroughs are headed your way. Maybe you've been single a 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.440 long time. You don't think you'll ever meet the right person. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.400 That is not the end, that's a season. God has 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.240 already lined up a divine connection for you, somebody better 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.760 than you can imagine. Perhaps you feel stuck in your career. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.239 You can't seem to get a good break. That's not permanent, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.160 it's only temporary. There is promotion in your future. There 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.520 are new levels up ahead. Now, don't do like Zachariah. Joel, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.640 this is too good to be true. I don't see how. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.560 Let the seed take root. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:06.360 That's your destiny calling, Zachariah said to the angel, are 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.600 you sure this is going to happen? The angel said, Zachariah, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:15.000 I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.840 He sent me to tell you this good news. But 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:22.320 because you didn't believe my words, you will remain silent 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.720 and not able to speak until the day it happens. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.520 From that moment on, Zachariah couldn't talk. He walked out, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.760 saw his family and friends couldn't get a word out 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.800 for nine months he was silent. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.240 Why was that. God knew if he went. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.760 Around saying it's never going to happen. This angel told 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.600 us we're going to have a baby. We're too old, 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.480 the promise never would have come to pass. You can 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.280 talk yourself out of your victory when you hear your 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.319 destiny calling. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.520 You may not see how it can happen. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.360 But don't start talking about how it's not going to 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.440 work out. Do yourself a favor and zip it up. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.880 It may seem unlikely. The medical report says, no way, 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.080 the child is off course. But if Gabriel we're standing 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.120 here today, he would say the same thing to you 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.040 that he said to Zachariah. I stand in the presence 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.040 of Almighty God. What he promised you will come to pass. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.160 If you will stay in faith. All the forces of 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:29.480 darkness cannot keep it from happening. God will open doors 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.440 that no man can shut. He'll turn situations around that 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.400 look impossible. When there are obstacles trying to stop you. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.720 God said He'll cause you to run through a troop 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.880 or leap over a wall. That means, if you can't 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.640 get through it, God will cause you to go over it. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.199 Bottom line is God will get you to where you're 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.640 supposed to be. People can't stop you. Bad breaks can't 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.440 stop you. Sickness can't stop you. God has the final say, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.240 and we're not supposed to get duck in one level. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.920 Be grateful for where you are, thank God for what 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.840 He's done, but keep your faith stirred up. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:09.760 God wants to take you. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:14.439 From glory to glory, from victory to victory. There are 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.120 new mountains for you to climb. He's going to open 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:22.640 new doors, give you greater influence, bring gifts and talents 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.320 out in a new way. This is where you are, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.000 but God is saying you can become something greater. Nine 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.600 months later, Elizabeth gave birth to a baby boy. The 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.920 promise was fulfilled and her friends and family were so 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.400 excited for they knew that was the. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:40.360 Favor of God. 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.640 And on the eighth day they came together, they decided 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:49.280 to name the baby Zachariah, after the father. The friends 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.400 and family came up with the name, but Elizabeth, the mother, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.600 spoke up and said, no, his name will not be Zachariah. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.560 His name will be John. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.760 They looked at her strangely, Elizabeth, what do you mean 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.760 nobody in your family is named John. And back in 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.360 those days, it wasn't good enough for the mother to 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.280 name the baby. Women didn't have the authority and influence 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.840 that they have today. So they looked at the father, Zachariah. Well, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.240 he still couldn't talk. He motioned for something to write on. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.680 Much to their surprise, he wrote down the name John. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.640 The moment he did he could speak again. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:30.960 His mouth was open. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.960 But the scripture says they named the baby, not the 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.080 mother or the father, but friends and family came up 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.320 with what they thought the best name for the child was. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.360 And sometimes well meaning people will try to name your baby. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.640 I say this respectfully. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.680 We all have theys in our life and we should 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.920 listen to counsel, take it vice. But you cannot let 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.440 other people name your baby. Don't let somebody else name 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.880 your future. You know what God put in your heart. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.840 You can't please people all the time and please God 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.960 all the time. Sometimes people will name you something that 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:20.720 you're not. They'll name you average, not talented, addicted too talk. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.200 Don't let them put limitations on you and convince you 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.880 that you can accomplish your dreams. Sometimes, because of their 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:34.120 own issues, they're not dealing with their own insecurities. They'll 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.840 try to keep you down so they don't look so bad. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.040 You may have to disappoint a few people in order 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.160 to fulfill your purpose. Life is too short to hang 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.520 around people who are not making you better, who are 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.880 not pushing you forward. You don't have time to waste 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.160 with people that are causing you to compromise, draining your energy, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.320 getting your off course, negative, critical, bitter, jealous people. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.360 Your destiny is calling. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.520 You have an assignment to fulfill, well, Joel, What if 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:07.639 I hurt their feelings? 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.720 What if you miss your destiny? What if you don't 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.240 become all you were created to be? Who's naming your baby? 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.399 It's interesting how back then the mother couldn't name the child, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.639 so they had to look to Zachariah, the father, and 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.640 ask him, what's the baby's name. The principle is let 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.800 your heavenly father name your future. That's why we say 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:35.200 every service, I am who God says I am. We're saying, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.240 in effect, i am not who people say I am. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.800 I am not who my circumstances say I am. I 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.440 am not who my past says I am. I am 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.760 not who my mistakes say. I am I am who, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.919 the most tied God, the creator of the universe, the 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.040 one who spoke worlds into existence. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.160 I am who, he says I am. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.679 People may tell you you're addicted, you'll never get on the 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:00.399 right course. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.280 The good news is they can't name your future. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.679 God says you are free, you are clean, you are whole. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.280 You may not be there yet, but God's telling you 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.360 what you can become. Your past may tell you you're 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.760 washed up, you made too many mistakes. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:18.800 You're a failure. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:23.760 But your heavenly father says you are forgiven, you are redeemed, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:24.959 you are restored. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.640 My mercy is bigger than any mistake. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.200 The critics, the naysayers, the haters may tell you you're 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.639 not valuable, you're not attractive, you don't have anything to offer. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.480 Don't believe those lies. They don't have the authority to 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.440 name your future. Your heavenly Father says you are one 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:49.320 of a kind. He names you a masterpiece, a prized possession. 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.200 He said You've been fearfully and wonderfully made. He's crowned 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.760 you with favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.600 He's created you to reign in life as a king, 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:07.280 make sure, your heavenly father is naming your future. When 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.320 God gave Abraham the promise that his wife Sarah was 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.080 going to have a baby she was seventy years old, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.760 didn't seem possible. In fact, when Abraham told Sarah, the 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:22.159 scripture says, she laughed. She thought, yeah, right, Abraham, me 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.000 have a baby at my age. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.840 She had been baring for so many years. They had 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:29.639 prayed and believed. 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:33.879 Everybody else was having babies, but Sarah couldn't have one now. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.880 When she heard this promise that, after all these years, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.040 when it defied the laws of nature, that she was 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.160 going to have a baby, that was so. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.320 Far out that it was funny to her. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.080 And sometimes God will put a promise in our heart 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.880 that's difficult to believe. Instead of latching onto it, too 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.720 often we do like Sarah and think that's never going 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.680 to happen for me. Joel, I'll never get out of debt, 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.720 be able to pay my house off. I'll never have 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.400 the funds to build that orphanage I'm dreaming about. I'll 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:08.840 never be free from this depression. I've had it my 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.600 whole life. This is the way Sarah felt, and God 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:18.000 did something interesting. He changed her name from Sarah to Sarah. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:23.480 Sarah means princes. If anybody didn't feel like a princess, 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:29.600 it would have been Sarah. I can imagine she felt inadequate, unattractive, 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:34.720 left out. Life hadn't treated her fairly. God knew he 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:39.119 had to change her mindset. Her destiny was calling, but 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.200 she had been through so much she. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:42.640 Couldn't hear it any longer. 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:48.280 Now, every time someone said good morning, Sarah, they were saying, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:49.600 good morning, princes. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:51.400 How are you, Sarah? 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.400 How are your princes? Over and over she heard that 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:59.960 word princess. Something began to come alive on the inside. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:04.800 She started carrying herself differently instead of discounting the promise. 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.080 Now I can hear her telling people, I'm going to 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.960 have a baby. God's going to do something special in 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.600 my life. She let the seed take root. At the 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.679 age of ninety, against all odds, she gave birth to 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.680 a baby boy. The promise God put in you may 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.480 seem far out. It's taken a long time. You tried 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.439 and it didn't work. But God didn't bring you this 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.280 far to leave you what he started in your life. 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:34.639 He's going to finish. 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:38.879 There's no problem too big, no dream too great. God 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.600 is not limited by your age, your income, your background, 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.000 your nationality, bio medical report. 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.000 He has all power. 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:51.919 When he speaks, worlds come into existence. He wouldn't have 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.159 given you that promise if he didn't know how to 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.240 bring it to pass. Why don't you shake off doubt, 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.480 shake off negativity, and get a fresh new vision for 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:06.920 your life. God is calling you into new levels. He's 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:11.920 calling you into freedom, into health, into abundance, into victory. 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.280 If you'll get in agreement with him, he'll take you 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.639 places that you've never dreamed. He'll make things happen that 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:21.879 you could never make happen on your own. This is 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.400 what happened to a friend of mine. She grew up 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:28.360 in a small town in Mississippi. She was raised very 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:33.840 poor in a dysfunctional environment where she suffered abuse. It 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:38.040 looked like she would become a statistic never amount to much. 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:41.639 But one morning, at the age of five, when the 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:45.040 milkman was dropping off the milk at their small house, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.280 he looked her in the eyes and said, young lady, 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:53.240 one day you're going to become Miss America. Up to 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:57.320 that point, nobody had ever told her what she could become. 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:03.240 All she had seen and heard was function, defeat, abuse, mediocrity. 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.840 When she heard that a seed was planted in her heart. 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:12.560 Every Tuesday, year after year, this milkman would tell her 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.719 the same thing, You're going to become Miss America in 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:21.280 the natural. She had no reason to even entertain that thought. 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:23.800 She didn't have connections. 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:27.879 Resources, stability, nobody to help her with their dreams. But 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:30.399 if you could do it on your own, it wouldn't 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:33.760 take faith. God will put things in your heart that 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:38.160 seem beyond your talent, beyond your ability, beyond your reach. 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:42.679 Now eleven years old, this young girl was involved in 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:45.119 a head on automobile accident. 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:47.000 She was thrown from. 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:50.160 The car and broke her leg in thirty two places. 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.520 She had to have two hundred stitches on her face. 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.679 So much for becoming Miss America. For five years she 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.600 was crippled and in a wheelchair. Most people would have 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:05.440 given up. Not this young lady. That dream was deep 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:09.240 down in her heart. At nineteen, she entered her local 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:12.760 beauty pageant in one first place. She went on to 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:17.639 win the Mississippi contest. Later that same year, nineteen eighty, 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:20.639 our friend Sheryl Pruitt Salem became. 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:25.720 Miss America the promise was fulfilled. She and her husband, 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:29.520 Harry are now ministers. They go around the world helping others. 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:33.560 But it all started when that milkman told her what 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:38.280 she could become. God will use people to speak life 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:42.520 into your destiny. I believe he's using me now to 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:45.520 let you know you have seeds of greatness. 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:47.560 You haven't seen your best days. 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:51.840 You have what it takes to accomplish your dreams. That 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:55.800 obstacle cannot stop you. That sickness is not going to 0:24:55.840 --> 0:24:59.560 defeat you. You haven't made too many mistakes, you haven't 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:03.720 missed too too many opportunities. Your future will be brighter 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:07.240 than your past. Now do your part and stir your 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:10.879 faith back up. Don't let disappointments talk you out of it. 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:14.160 Don't let what somebody did cause you to live bitter 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:16.000 and give up on your dreams. 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:18.320 God has beauty for those ashes. 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:20.960 He said he would pay you back double for the 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:22.560 unfair situations. 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:26.359 Nothing that's happened to you can keep you from your destiny. 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:31.280 There are new levels up ahead, new friendships, new opportunities. 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:35.440 Don't let a bad break name your future. Don't let 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:39.760 a disadvantage convince you to settle for mediocrity. God put 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:44.080 greatness in you. He created you to leave your mark 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:47.760 on this generation. You're supposed to do like her and 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:51.199 set a new standard for your family. You may have 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:54.280 had some setbacks, but the forces that are for you 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:56.880 are greater than the forces that are against you. 0:25:57.160 --> 0:25:59.920 The most high God is breathing in your direction. 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:05.119 In the Scripture of God called Jeremiah to be a 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:10.159 prophet to the nations. Jeremiah was young and unsure of himself. 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:12.920 He said, God, I can't speak to the nations. I'm 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:16.200 too young. I'm afraid I wouldn't know what to say. 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:20.680 God said, Jeremiah, before you were formed in your mother's womb. 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:24.760 I knew you before you were born. I consecrated you 0:26:25.119 --> 0:26:28.919 and set you apart. God was saying, Jeremiah, before you 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:32.960 showed up on this earth, I already knew everything about you. 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:37.280 I knew every weakness you would have, every shortcoming. I 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:40.840 knew every person that would do you wrong, every bad break, 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:44.919 and I've already calculated all that into my plan. 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:46.320 For your life. 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:50.200 Like Jeremiah, it's easy to come up with excuses. God, 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:53.119 I don't have a good personality. I still struggle with 0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:56.320 my temper. God these people did me wrong. I didn't 0:26:56.359 --> 0:26:59.600 have a good childhood. My boss plays favorites. God has 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:03.320 all already taken that into account. It doesn't have to 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:07.320 stop you. God went on to tell Jeremiah, say not 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:09.000 that you are too young. 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:10.600 If you're going to. 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:13.560 Reach the fullness of your destiny, you have to get 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:15.520 rid of the say nots. 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:16.359 Say not. 0:27:16.600 --> 0:27:20.040 This problem is too big. Say not, I'll never get well. 0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:23.480 Say not, I don't have the talent. Say not. I've 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:27.160 had too many disadvantages, I have too many weaknesses. Gone 0:27:27.160 --> 0:27:30.320 as far as I can before you were formed in 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:34.440 your mother's womb. God equipped you and empowered you. 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:37.720 You are not lacking. You didn't get short changed. You 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:38.600 are well able. 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:43.280 Now don't let the say nots keep you from your destiny. 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:47.520 Get your mind, your words, your vision going in the 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:48.320 right direction. 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:51.080 You are who God says you are. 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:56.520 He says you are strong, healthy, forgiven, redeemed successful. Now 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.040 you may not be all that yet. You have to 0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:02.480 believe it first, and then you'll become it. If you'll 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:05.600 do this, I believe and declare you are about to 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:10.399 rise to a new level, overcome every obstacle, accomplish every dream, 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:13.440 and become everything God's created you to. 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:16.760 Be in Jesus' name. If you receive it, can you 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:17.639 say amen? 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