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Your Destiny Outweighs Your History

Joel Osteen
June 27, 2021 31m 24s

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What God has prepared for your future is greater than anything you’ve faced in your past. He’s not only going to bring you out of the opposition, He’s going to bring you out better than you were before. Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, you're more fulfilled, 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.280 more rewarded than you've ever been. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.520 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.640 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:53.320 the ministry. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.800 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.400 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.440 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.040 your line. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:05.880 God bless you. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.679 It's great to have you today, and if you're ever 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.360 in our area, please stop by be a part of 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:12.400 one of our services. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:13.640 We would love to have you. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.480 I hope you'll stay connected with us throughout the week. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.320 You can download our daily podcast, have a YouTube channel, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.280 watch the messages anytime, follow us on social media. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.480 We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.800 But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.760 again for coming out in person. I'd like to start 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.760 with something funny, and I heard about this elderly lady. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.760 She was at the store and accidentally locked her keys 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.119 in the car, and she had a coat hanger and 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.760 she was trying and trying, but she couldn't get it open. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.200 She prayed and asked God to help her. About that time, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.840 this guy pulls up on a motorcycle, rough looking, dressed 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.000 in leather, tattoos, a skull cap. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.520 Fifteen seconds later, he had the car open. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.520 She hugged him, said Lord, thank you for sending me 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.919 this nice man. He said, Lady, I'm not a nice man. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.200 I just got out of prison for auto theft. She 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.240 hugged them again, said Lord, thank you. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.440 You even sent me a professional say like you mean it. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.639 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.280 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.800 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.560 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.760 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.120 the same. In Jesus's name. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.079 God bless you. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.160 I want to talk to you today about your destiny. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.400 Outweighs your history. If you add up the negative things 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.680 in your past and put them on a scale, at 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.760 times it would be way out of balance. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:44.720 The negative is much heavier. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.160 You're dealing with an illness, you went through a loss, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:49.400 you had to set. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:50.560 Back into your finances. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.080 It's easy to look at what we've been through and 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.440 get discouraged, lose our passion. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:00.480 The problem is you're only weighing your history, looking at 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.280 the negative things that have happened. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.760 What you can't see is what God has in your future. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.240 He wouldn't have allowed the difficulty if it was going 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.880 to leave you in a deficit. If you're going to 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.960 get the proper assessment, you have to put not just 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:16.600 your history on the scales. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.920 You have to put your destiny. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.400 There are things in your future God has already ordained 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.960 for you, promotion, healing, divine connections. They're not just going 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.000 to tip the scale, but they're going to far outweigh 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.719 the disappointment, the pain, the loss. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.039 And this is where faith has to kick in. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.799 I'm at a deficit right now, gone through this struggle, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.560 I had a set back. I'm not denying that, but 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.440 I know this God is still on the throne. What 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.640 he has in my future is going to far surpass 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.239 what I'm dealing with now. The scripture says Jesus endured 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.720 the pain of the cross, looking. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.320 Forward to the joy that was coming. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.120 When he was being mocked by the soul soldiers, beaten 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.400 with whips, nailed on the cross, he was at a deficit. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.880 It looked like the enemy got the best of him. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.480 People thought, if he is who he really said he is, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.200 he come down off that cross. He wouldn't be up there, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.640 defeated all the circumstances said he was done. But God 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.560 has the final saying he won't let you get in 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.800 a problem that he can't bring you out of. The 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.960 Odds may be against you, but the most high God. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:27.480 Is for you. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.479 On the cross, Jesus said, my God, why have you 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.960 forsaken me? There will be times where it feels like 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.920 God is forgotten about you. Why did this bad break happen? 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.560 Why did this person leave? Why did the pandemic hit 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.800 slow my business down? If you judge your life by 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.080 where you are right now, you'll get discouraged, give up 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.000 on dreams. It's because you're only putting your history on 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.440 the scale, your way out of balance. What you're missing 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:01.520 is what's coming. You have to endure some things looking forward. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.360 To the joy that's on the way. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.880 You have to know that God is still on the throne, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.479 that he's ordering your steps, that what he started he's 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.719 going to finish. No bad break can stop him, no person, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.440 no pandemic, no loss, no sickness. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.880 He sees what's not fair. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.760 He sees what didn't work out, the lonely nights, the 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.880 times you feel forgotten. The Psalmist said, weeping may endure 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.680 for a night, but joy is coming in the morning. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.000 Jesus died on the cross. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.880 The forces of darkness celebrated, thought they had finally won. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.279 But on the third day, God said, I don't think so, 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.320 my son is not going to end in a deficit. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.280 He arose and is alive with all power. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.280 The point is he had to go through some things 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.039 to fulfill his purpose. I'd rather God make it easy, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:54.279 just float. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.760 Through life with all good breaks. But that's not how 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.240 it works. You can't become all you were creed. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.960 To be without opposition, things you don't understand, people that 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:05.640 turn on you. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.760 Times it looks like you're done. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.880 The way to endure is to keep reminding yourself that 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.040 what God has in your future is not just going 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.560 to make up for what you've been through, not just 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.960 bring you back to even but God is going to 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.840 bring you out better, increased, promoted, healthier, to new levels 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.800 of your destiny. He's designed your life to where the 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.040 good things in your future will outweigh the negative things. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.080 In your past. The scripture puts it this way. God 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.280 has taken you from glory to glory. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.920 The path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. He 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.679 already has a solution to the problem that's holding you back. 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.400 He's already arranged restoration for that loss, a new beginning 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.520 for that setback, promotion for that injustice. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.160 It's already on the schedule. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.160 It's just a matter of time before you see the 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.040 scales tip in your favor. Now, when those lies come 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.600 saying God has forgotten about you, it's never going to 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.960 work out. You've seen your best days, just say no thanks. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:09.160 I know a secret. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.800 This may be difficult, it's not fair, but this is 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.800 not how my story ends. Favor is in my future. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.200 Good breaks are headed my way. The right people are 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.240 tracking me down. There's a lady in the scripture named Naomi. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.360 She was married with two sons. They left her hometown 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.520 of Bethlehem because of a famine and moved to the 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.839 city of Moab. They found food and a nice place 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.920 to live. Life was good. Then Naomi's husband unexpectedly died. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.800 She became a widow. If that wasn't hard enough, a 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.000 few years later. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.760 Both of her sons died. She was so heartbroken she 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.040 decided to move back home. She told her two daughters 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.160 in law, Orprah and Ruth, that she was leaving and 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.720 they should move on and find someone else to marry. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.880 Orpah kissed Naomi goodbye her way, but Ruth said, no, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:03.640 I'm going wherever you go. 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.240 I'm going to stay with you and help take care 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:06.520 of you. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.760 We all face these unexpected challenges, things we didn't see coming, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.880 where our scales get way out of balance. If you 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.079 don't understand this principle that God is going to make 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.720 your destiny outweigh your history, that he's going to make 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.640 up for the unfair things, that the loss, the bad break, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.400 the disappointment is not going to stop your purpose. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.480 Then you'll get bitter, you'll give up on dreams and 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.520 live sour. This is what. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.240 Naomi did when she got back home. People said, Naomi, 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:38.559 we're so glad to see you. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:39.959 She said, don't. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:44.640 Call me Naomi, call me Mara. Naomi means my joy, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.080 Mara means bitter. She was saying, there's nothing joyful about 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:49.720 my life. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.040 Do you know what I've been through? 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.400 She said in verse twenty one, I left Bethlehem full, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.720 but I came home empty. There are times that life 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.160 deals us such a blow that we feel empty. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:03.960 We have nothing left again. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.720 We started out good, We were passionate pursuing dreams, but 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.440 we lost a loved one. The business didn't make it 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:12.959 an unexpected illness. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:14.439 Now we feel empty. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.720 The beauty of our God is He's not going to 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.360 leave you empty. He knows when life has been unfair. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.079 He knows when you don't feel like you can go on. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.240 He comes to the empty places. He has strength for 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:33.240 the weary, fresh vision, fresh anointing. Even now, God is 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.920 breathing on your life. You are about to come. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.160 Out of that empty place. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.040 Things are shifting in your favor. New doors are about 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.960 to open. The right people are about to show up. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.160 You're going to see a sign of God's goodness, letting 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.439 you know that He's about to tip the scales. They 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.160 may be out of balance now, but he's not finished. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.120 He has something coming that's going to far outweigh the loss, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.599 the heartache. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.040 The disappointment. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.800 Naomi's daughter in law, Ruth, would go out into the 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.880 fields each morning and pick up. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.400 The leftover wheat. That's how they survived. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.240 One day, the owner of that field, a man named Boaz, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:16.200 told his workers to leave handfuls of wheat on the ground. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.240 On purpose for Ruth. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.280 Now she came back in a fraction of the time 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:21.880 with more wheat than ever. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.040 I can hear Naomi saying, Ruth, what happened? 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.800 Where'd you get all this wheat? How'd you come back 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:28.720 home so fast? 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.320 Who said, I don't know? It was just laying there 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:32.520 waiting on the ground. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.560 Naomi had been through great heartache. She was at an 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.840 empty place. But notice how God began to work favoring her, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.600 causing people that she had never met to be. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:44.199 Good to her. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.520 Boaz ended up falling in love with Ruth. They got married. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.640 They had a baby that they named Obed. Naomi was 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.120 so excited when she saw that little boy. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.679 She felt this new sense of purpose. The scripture says. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.400 The women of the town rejoiced and said to Naomi, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.680 God has given you another son. May this child restore 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.960 your youth. Naomi took care of him like he was 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.520 her own son few years earlier. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.720 She was empty, she was bitter. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.959 She thought she'd seen her best days. She never dreamed she'd. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.520 Be this happy, this fulfilled. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.440 God knows how to tip the scales, how to make 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.360 what was meant for harm and turn it to your advantage. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.760 You may be at an empty place. You don't see 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.079 how you could ever be happy again. If Naomi were here, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.319 she would tell you that's not how your story ends. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.239 God has things in your future better than you've imagined. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.600 You may not understand it right now. It's not fair. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.480 Trust him. It's all a part of his plan. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.800 He's going to bring you to a blessed place where 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.520 you're more fulfilled, more rewarded than you've ever been. What's 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:00.200 significant is this wasn't just any baby. Obed was the 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.760 grandfather of David. Out of David's family line came Jesus. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.680 Naomi's disappointments having to move back home, that was all 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.199 a part of God's plan. She was instrumental in our 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.440 Savior being born. At the time, she couldn't see it. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.480 She felt empty. She got bitter, but God was still 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.560 in control. He was still ordering her steps, causing Boaz 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.440 to see Ruth having Naomi helped raise. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.560 That little boy. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.440 Naomi never dreamed thousands of years later we would be 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.079 talking about her when you go through disappointments, loss if 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.600 you could only see how God is going to make 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.240 it up to you, if you only knew the doors 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.959 he's going to open, the people he's going to bring. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.840 Then in those times that you could stay bitter, instead, 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:49.960 you'd stay in faith. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.080 You could give up on your dreams, but you'll keep believing. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.720 You could live defeated, but you'll live passionate, expecting God's favor. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:02.440 One reason Naomi got bitter is she kept telling herself 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:03.240 the wrong thing. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.080 She said, I'm empty, I have nothing to give. I've 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.240 seen my best days. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.080 She was focused on what she lost, what didn't work out, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.520 how it wasn't fair. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:15.959 Her own thoughts were defeating her. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.600 What you're telling yourself in difficult times will make you. 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.040 Or break you. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.920 You may feel empty, but don't go around announcing it. 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.680 Telling everyone you're broke, defeated, addicted, lonely. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:29.760 That's not helping you. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.360 Those words are going out of your mouth and right 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:33.840 back into your own spirit. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.560 Every time you say it is becoming more of a reality. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.280 That's why the scripture says, let the weak say I'm strong, 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.480 Let the poor say I'm well off. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.400 Let the addicted say I'm free. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.560 Let those who have gone through bad breaks say good 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.120 things are in my future. I'm not saying to deny 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.160 the facts. Just don't let the facts have the last word. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.560 Say what God says about you. I feel empty, but 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.480 I believe fullness has come. Favor is coming, healing is coming. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.920 When you have the right perspective, you can stay in 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.040 faith even when life is not fair. You can move 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.400 forward even when you should be stuck. Often it's not 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.760 the storms that defeat us. It's how we respond to 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:21.000 the storms. There's collateral damage we can avoid if we 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.400 don't add to the storm by getting bitter, giving up 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.240 on our dreams. When difficulties come, you have to be 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.040 careful what you're telling yourself. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.280 It's easy to get in agreement with the lies. It's 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.520 all down here. From here, you'll never be happy. Look 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:37.560 at what you've been through. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.280 Naomi kept repeating her pain. I went out full, but man, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.840 now I'm empty. Lost my sons, lost my husband. What 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.640 she was saying was true, But this is where faith 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.560 has to kick in. Yes, I've been through loss, but 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.840 I know God still has a purpose for me, that 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.240 there are still good things in my future. Pay attention 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.440 to what you're telling yourself. One thing Naomi did right 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.960 is she kept moving forward when she lost hers sons. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.560 She said, I'm gonna move back home. She was saying, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.040 in effect, I'm not staying in this sorrow. I'm letting 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.880 go of the old and moving. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.920 On to the new. Don't get stuck in what didn't 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:17.440 work out. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.120 You may not understand it, but God wouldn't have allowed 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.040 it if it was going to stop your purpose. Don't 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.200 put a question mark where God put a period. If 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.440 you prayed, you believe you did your best, and your 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.400 loved one didn't make it. The door closed, the friend 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.000 walked away. Accept it as God's will, and move forward. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:42.360 The scripture says Naomi returned to Bethlehem at the start 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.080 of the barley harvest. If she had stayed in Moab 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.600 in self pity, she would have missed the harvest season. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.200 Wasn't a coincidence that she was moving back home in 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.480 a time of abundance. Don't miss your harvest because you're 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.880 stuck on who hurt you? What you didn't get? My 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.520 skill's way out of balanced, Joe, I don't understand it. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:05.680 Move forward. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.600 There's a harvest waiting for you. God has already ordained 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.000 the good braks. He's already spoken to the workers to 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.840 leave you handfuls on purpose. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.760 Boaz is already watching for you. You just have to get there. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.760 May not be physically, but in your mind. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.760 You need to pack up and leave. No more dwelling 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.400 on the heartache, living bitter. Nothing good is in front 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:28.639 of me. 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:33.040 The problem is you're still in Moab. Moeb is the defeat. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.080 Moeb is the things that weren't fair, the things you 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.040 don't understand. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.000 You have to get to Bethlehem. That's where the harvest is. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.720 That's where God is not just going to make it 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.840 up to you, not just tip the scales, but you're 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.120 going to see him show out in your life. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.119 Do something that you've never seen. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.720 This is what my father had to do in the 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.439 nineteen fifties. He'd been pastoring a church for many years. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.240 Everything was going great. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:01.080 Was growing. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.199 They had just built a beautiful new sanctuary. He was 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.480 on the state board for his denomination. His future looked 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.359 very bright. My sister Lisa was born with something like 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.840 cerebral palsy in the doctors told my parents that she'd 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.480 probably never be able to walk or feed herself. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.000 They were devastated. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.000 My father went to a hotel downtown to get alone 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.560 for a few days and pray, and he read the 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:26.680 scripture like he. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.400 Was reading it for the first time. He saw how 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:29.920 God is. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.679 A healer and how he wants us to live an abundant, 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.080 victorious life. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.480 He came back and told his congregation. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.159 Thought they'd all be so excited, but they didn't like 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.400 his new message of faith and victory. It didn't fit 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.960 into their tradition. Long story short, he had to lead 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.560 the church. Lifelong friends never spoke to him again. My 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.800 father was at an empty place. He came in full passionate. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.800 Things were growing, but now no job. Little girl not well. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.879 What do you do when you're empty? When life throws 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.080 you occur, when the. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.440 Scales are out of balance, Thoughts. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.200 Are telling you you've seen your best days. God says, 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.160 when you're empty, come to me. I'm still in control. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.199 I'm still ordering your steps. I'm not gonna leave you 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.879 out of balance. The Psalmist said, in his presence is 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.919 fullness of joy. You may be empty now, but fullness 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:28.000 is coming. My father didn't do what Naomi did. He 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.840 didn't get bitter. He didn't give up on his dreams. 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.120 He was hurting, but he knew it wasn't a surprise 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.439 to God. He and my mother prayed for God to 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.080 heal Lisa. Little by little, she got better. At a 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.080 year old, she lifted her head for the first time, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.760 something the doctor said she wouldn't be able to do. Today, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.520 she's perfectly healthy and whole, eighty nine years old, still 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:55.959 going strong. My father didn't sit I'm not gonna look 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.959 at her. My father didn't sit around in self pity. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.640 He and my mother found an old rundown feedstore, this 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.600 little building. On Mother's Day nineteen fifty nine, they started 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.360 Lakewood with ninety people. The scales were way out of balance, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.439 rejected by his former church, years of hard work, nothing 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.280 to show for it. But God knows how to make 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.040 it up to you. And some of the doors that 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.240 close that we don't understand, people that do us wrong, 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.480 challenges that come out of nowhere. We can't see it 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.520 at the time, but it's all a part of God's plan. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:31.960 Had my father not left that. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.919 Church, he would have never seen Lakewood. He wouldn't have 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.280 seen the favor and growth that he did. Those scales 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.720 that were way out of balance on the negative on 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:46.119 his history, they went way out of balance on the good, favor, promotion, influence, 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.680 like he's never dreamed. Your destiny is going to outweigh 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:54.680 your history. Keep moving forward, keep doing the right thing, 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:58.840 keep honoring God. You're going to come in to your Bethlehem, 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.439 the harvest sea and is already in progress. You're going 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.800 to walk into blessings, restorations, new opportunities, healing that God 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:11.200 has already prepared. It's not at the place of sorrow, 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.320 the place of loss, the place. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:13.800 Of heart ache. 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.040 Leave that place and move on to the new things 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:21.359 God has in store. In the Scripture, the prophet Samuel 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.320 chose a young man named Saul to be the next 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.040 leader of Israel. Saul was tall, strong, good looking. He 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.560 looked like a king. I can imagine how proud Samuel 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.280 was of Saul that he took time to mentor him, 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:39.639 teach him to lead with wisdom and excellence. Saul started 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:44.359 off good. He defeated armies, rescued the Israelites. But over 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.760 time Saul got off course. He started compromising, not making 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:53.280 good decisions. Finally, God told Samuel that he was rejecting 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:54.480 Saul as the king. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:56.920 Samuel was so disappointed. 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:01.280 The scripture says he wept and wept like Naomi. 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:03.080 He was at an empty place. 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.000 He'd poured his heart and soul into Solve, he'd prayed 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.040 for him, taken him under his wing. 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.000 Now it looked like it was all a waste of time. 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:17.600 Samuel was sitting around discourage in self pity for Samuel. Sixteen, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.160 God said Samuel, how long are you going to mourn 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:21.840 over Saul? 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.600 God is asking us, how long are you going to 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:27.480 mourn over? What you've lost. 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.359 How long are you going to be discouraged over the 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.800 relationship that didn't work out, the position you didn't get, 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:36.920 the loved one that didn't make it. The problem with 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.320 continuing to mourn is it will keep you from going 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.520 to Bethlehem. It will keep you from the harvest that's 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.359 already in process, from the new things God has in store. 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.240 And yes, there's a timeful mourning, but you can't let 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.520 a season of mourning turn into a lifetime of mourning. 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.639 God told Samuel, fill your horn with oil and be 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:01.639 on your way. I'm sending you to the house of Jesse. 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.800 I've chosen one of his sons to be the next king. 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.800 I can imagine Samuel thinking, God, Saul is still on 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:12.919 the throne. He's technically still in charge. You're telling me 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.040 to anoint my future while my past is still on 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.840 the throne. You're telling me to start over in a 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:22.359 feed store with ninety people. You're telling me to go 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:25.560 back to Bethlehem. I just want to stay here in Moab. 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:26.760 I've been through too much. 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.640 Are you waiting for God to change things while God 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.359 is waiting for you to anoint your future? That means 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.200 you're not seeing anything happening, but you're believing, you're declaring. 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:42.000 You're walking by faith and not by sight. The medical 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.200 report doesn't look good, but I know God is restoring 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.639 health back into me. Went through a loss, a bad break. 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:51.439 I know what was meant for harm. God's turning to 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:55.119 my advantage. Had to set back in my finances. 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:57.439 Business went down. That's not the end. I know. 0:23:57.560 --> 0:23:59.760 I will lend and not borrow what I touch what 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:04.480 and succeed. You can't wait for everything to change. Then 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:07.960 you'll believe. Then you'll have a good attitude. Or even 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:10.600 though your past is still on the throne, you need 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:16.520 to start declaring favor, restoration, health, victory. God told Samuel 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:22.879 to fill your horn with oil. Oil signifies joy, praise, expectancy. 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:24.320 Don't drag around. 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.680 Look what I've been through, man, This pandemic was so hard. 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.760 My back's been hurting for three years. My boss won't 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.800 give me any credit. Fill your horn with oil, not 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.560 with complaints. Get your praise back, put a smile on 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:40.800 your face, have a report of victory. If you'll fill 0:24:40.840 --> 0:24:43.920 your horn with oil and be on your way, you're 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:47.320 going to see God tip the scales, not a little bit, 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.280 but He's going to open the windows of heaven, bring 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:55.320 great opportunities, new people, turn mourning into dancing. He's not 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:57.760 going to equal it up the good and the bad. 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:02.119 No, your destiny is going to fall Outweigh your history. 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:06.080 Samuel was disappointed when Saul didn't work out, but he 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:10.000 filled his horn with oil and anointed David. David was 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:14.000 the greatest king that ever lived. Notice how God does things. 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:18.000 He doesn't trade an okay king for another okay king. 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:21.800 God was saying, you lost something that was painful. 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:25.960 You put time and energy into that relationship, that company, 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:27.760 that dream, it didn't last. 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.280 Don't worry. I'm about to send to David. 0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:34.399 I'm about to bring someone or something so awesome, so 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.600 out of the ordinary that it's going to far Outweigh 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:41.000 what didn't work out. There was a lady in the 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:43.080 scripture that was about to give birth. 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:44.520 She was an Israelite. 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:47.440 She had just heard that the Ark of the Covenant 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:51.119 had been stolen. That's where God's presence was. She was 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:55.120 so upset, so distraught. When she gave birth, she named 0:25:55.160 --> 0:26:00.399 her son Ichabod. Ichabod means the glory has departed. She 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:04.200 named her future based on her past She could have 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:08.080 just easily named him the glory will return. She could 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:11.920 have named him what Zachariah prophesied, double the glory. 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:13.960 But she was so caught up in what. 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:17.199 She had been through, the disappointment, the heartache, that it 0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:18.360 soured her future. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:21.320 Now. I wonder how many of us are doing the 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:23.360 same thing. We're focused on what. 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:27.040 Didn't work out, who hurt us, what we lost. We 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:30.080 don't think it's ever going to change. Don't name your 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:34.080 future based on your past. Get that Ichabod's spirit. 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:35.640 Off of you. This is a new day. 0:26:36.080 --> 0:26:38.760 God is doing a new thing. The enemies you've seen 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:42.000 in the past you will see no more. Here's what 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:50.760 you should name your future. Blessed, prosper us, victorious, healthy, strong, wise, talented. 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:54.240 Things may be rough right now, but your attitude should 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:55.960 be this is only temporary. 0:26:56.400 --> 0:26:59.280 It's just a matter of time before things change in 0:26:59.359 --> 0:26:59.960 my favor. 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:03.000 I'm gonna come out better off than I was before. 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:04.920 This is what David did. 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:09.160 He went through all kinds of heartache, disappointments, people coming 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:12.439 against him, but he didn't name his future based on 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:16.280 his past. He said, I am confident I will see 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:18.639 the goodness of God in the Land of the Living. 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:22.280 That's my prayer for you, that you will be confident 0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:24.640 that your best days are still in front of you, 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:28.200 that you will know down deep that your destiny. 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:32.040 Will outweigh your history, that the negative things of the past. 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:35.639 Are not how your story ends. My question today is 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:40.320 are you weighing things too early? You've had disappointments. Life 0:27:40.320 --> 0:27:43.760 has thrown you some curves. Now you've accepted that you're limited, 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:47.359 you had a disadvantage. Can I encourage you the best 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:49.000 part of your life is still. 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:49.960 In front of you. 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:52.960 You wouldn't be breathing if there were not new victories 0:27:53.000 --> 0:27:57.560 and new opportunities. God saw everything that happened, the loss, 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.920 the bad breaks, those weighed a lot. There is favor 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:03.919 coming that's going to tip the scale to where the 0:28:03.960 --> 0:28:09.160 blessing far outweighs the negative. Now do your part anoint 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:12.440 your future, even though the past is still on the throne. 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:17.360 Dare to believe, start expecting favor. There is a harvest season. 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:21.719 God has already prepared, something already in the works that 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:25.600 you're going to step into. I believe and declare even 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:29.359 now things are shifting, the weight of the negative is 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:32.879 going to pale in comparison to the weight of the glory. 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:37.199 Like with Samuel, the disappointment was painful, but David is 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:40.840 about to show up something better than you've imagined. Favor 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:46.880 is coming, healing, restoration, promotion, breakthroughs, the fullness of your 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:49.920 destiny in Jesus's name, and if you. 0:28:49.960 --> 0:28:54.280 Receive it, can you say amen? Today? I'd like to 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:57.080 give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of 0:28:57.120 --> 0:28:59.040 your life. 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