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I want to 45 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 5: talk to you tonight about how the promise is in 46 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 5: you God has called each one of us to do 47 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 5: something great. We were never meant to live an average, 48 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 5: mediocre life. We were created to leave our mark on 49 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 5: this generation. One hundred years from now, people should look 50 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 5: back at you and me and say, wow, they were 51 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 5: history makers. 52 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 4: They were world changers. They made a difference. 53 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 5: But if that's going to happen, you have to realize 54 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 5: you are a person of destiny. Almighty God breeds his 55 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 5: life into you. You are not here by accident. Before 56 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 5: you were born. 57 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 4: God knew you and planned out all your days. 58 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 5: And the good news is God has already equipped you 59 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 5: with everything you need to fulfill your destiny. He has 60 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 5: solutions to problems you haven't even had. There is no 61 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,959 Speaker 5: obstacle too big, no dream you can accomplish, no enemy 62 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 5: you cannot defeat. 63 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 4: The power that is in. 64 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,839 Speaker 5: You is greater than any power that will come against you. 65 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 5: Now you've got to put your shoulders back, hold your 66 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 5: head up high. You are not weak, defeated, lacking limited. 67 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 5: You are strong, equipped, empowered, anointed, a child of the 68 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 5: Most High God. So often we look at others and think, Wow, 69 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 5: they're so amazing, and I'm so ordinary. My cousin is 70 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 5: so beautiful, but I'm so plain. My coworker is so smart, 71 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 5: yet I'm so average. No, they may be amazing in 72 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 5: certain areas, but can I tell you there's something amazing 73 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 5: about you. You are talented, you are attractive. You have 74 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 5: been fearfully and wonderfully made. God doesn't want us to 75 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 5: go around always just celebrating others, cheering them on. God 76 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 5: wants you to be celebrated. You are not second class. 77 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 5: You didn't get left out when God was handing out 78 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 5: the gifts, the talents, the looks. You have what you 79 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 5: need for the race that you're in now. Don't go 80 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 5: through life with the wrong image on the inside. 81 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 4: You are not ordinary. 82 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 5: You have been hand picked by the creator of the universe. 83 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 5: The scripture says you didn't choose God, but He chose you. 84 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 5: He has placed seeds of greatness on the inside of you. 85 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 5: There's something you can do to leave your mark on 86 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 5: this generation. 87 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 4: There's something you can excel in. 88 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 5: You can be a great business person, a great school teacher, 89 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:54,600 Speaker 5: a great home builder. 90 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 4: You got to stir up what's on the inside. 91 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 5: Don't settle for mediocrity when God's put greatness in you. 92 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 5: Now you say joel ife I just had more talent. 93 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 5: I just had a different personality. No, you have exactly 94 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 5: what you need. You just have to see yourself the 95 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 5: right way. I read where Back during World War two, 96 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 5: the famous actress Betty Grable was known. 97 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 4: For her beautiful legs. 98 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 5: She had them insured for a million dollars. That was 99 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 5: unheard of back then. A pair of legs worth a 100 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 5: million dollars. Can I show you another pair of million 101 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 5: dollar legs? 102 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 4: Just look down at your own. 103 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 5: If somebody offered you a million dollars to buy your legs, not. 104 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 4: One of you would do it. 105 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 5: A few years ago, a man lost his arm in 106 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 5: an accident. The court awarded him eleven million dollars for 107 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 5: that arm. 108 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 4: Look at your arm, it's worth eleven million. 109 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 5: In another city, a young lady was in a city 110 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 5: bus and she got hurt, injured her back, and lost 111 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 5: her ability to work, and the city awarded her twenty 112 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 5: million dollars. Think about it, Just those three things and 113 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 5: you're already worth thirty three million dollars. 114 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 4: You're starting to. 115 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 5: Feel better about yourself, aren't you. 116 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 4: You've got to. 117 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 5: Recognize what you have. God calls you his masterpiece. You 118 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 5: can do something great. Some of You are always celebrating others, 119 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 5: but God is saying it's time to celebrate yourself. There's 120 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 5: something special about you. For many years, I cheered my 121 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 5: father on. Daddy was my hero as a little boy. 122 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 5: We used to travel to different cities and I'd see 123 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 5: my father up on the platform speaking to thousands of people. 124 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 5: He was so warm and friendly. Everybody loved him. I 125 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 5: was so proud that he was my father. In the 126 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,679 Speaker 5: back of my mind, I thought I could. 127 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 4: Never do that. 128 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 5: He's so gifted, he's so talented. After I came back 129 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 5: from college, I worked seventeen years with my parents behind 130 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 5: the scenes the church doing the television production. And again, 131 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 5: week after week, I'd see my father on the platform, ministering, 132 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 5: making a difference, doing something great. I would do my 133 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 5: best to make my father look good, make sure the 134 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 5: camera angles were just right and the lighting was just perfect. 135 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 5: I would even go over to his house on Saturday 136 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 5: night and pick him out a suit and tie to 137 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 5: where the next morning for television at the church services. 138 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 4: I wanted to make my dad look good. 139 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 5: As my father got older, people would say, Geel, what's 140 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 5: going to happen when your dad goes to be with 141 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 5: the Lord, who's going to pastor the church. 142 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 4: My dad had never raised anybody up. 143 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 5: He'd tried many times to get me up to minister, 144 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 5: but I didn't think this. 145 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 4: Was in me. I was always too quiet, too reserved. 146 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 5: But when my dad died in nineteen ninety nine, all 147 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 5: of a sudden, I had this strong desire to step 148 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 5: up and pastor the church. I'd never ministered before, I'd 149 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 5: never been to seminary. Yet deep down I heard a 150 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 5: still small voice saying, Joel, you've spent your whole life 151 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 5: celebrating others. 152 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 4: Now it's time for you to be celebrating. 153 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 5: It's time for you to step in to a new 154 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 5: level of your destiny. 155 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 3: Now. 156 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 4: I always knew that. 157 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 5: God would take care of the church, but I never 158 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 5: dreamed it would be through me. I thought the promise 159 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 5: would happen some other way, But I discovered the promise 160 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 5: was in me. I believe God is saying the same 161 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 5: thing to you. You've celebrated others. Now it's time to 162 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 5: celebrate yourself. It's time for you to shine. It's time 163 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 5: for you to step in to a new level of 164 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 5: your destiny. Friends, there is a seed on the inside 165 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 5: just waiting to flourish. You may not feel like you 166 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 5: could do it, but God would not have given you 167 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 5: the opportunity unless he had already equipped and empowered you. 168 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 4: You have everything you need. 169 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 5: One time, God told Moses to go speak to Pharaoh. 170 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 5: Moses said, God, I can't do that. 171 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 4: I stutter. 172 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 5: Let me take erin my brother to speak for me. 173 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 5: God said, in effect, Moses, that's not necessary. 174 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 4: I've put the promise in you. 175 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 5: Moses begged and begged, and finally God said okay. When 176 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 5: they were standing before Pharah, just when Aaron was about 177 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 5: to speak, something came. 178 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 4: All over Moses. 179 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 5: He stepped up and said, wait a minute, Aaron, this 180 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 5: is my time, this is my moment. 181 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 4: The promise is in me. 182 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 5: He looked at Pharaoh and said, let God's people go. 183 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 5: The scripture says they both spoke to Pharah. I believe 184 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 5: Moses walked out that day knowing, I don't need anybody 185 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 5: to speak for me. I'm anointed, I'm equipped, I'm empowering. 186 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 4: In the same way. 187 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 5: God has put in you everything you need to fulfill 188 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 5: your destiny. Don't you dare sit back and think, Oh, 189 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 5: they're so great, they're so amazing. 190 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 4: I could never do that. 191 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 5: No step up and become all odds created you to be. 192 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 5: I heard about this minister before the service. He handed 193 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 5: a man a one hundred dollar bill and asked him 194 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 5: to secretly place that in his wife's bible, make sure 195 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 5: she didn't see it. 196 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 4: The man agreed. 197 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 5: During his sermon, he asked this woman to stand up. 198 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 5: They were all friends. He said to the lady, do 199 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 5: you trust me? She said yes, I do. He said, 200 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 5: will you do what I asked? She said yes, I will. 201 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 5: He said, then open your bible and give me a 202 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 5: one hundred dollar bill. She said, oh, I'm so sorry. 203 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 5: I don't have one hundred dollar bill. He said, do 204 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 5: you trust me? 205 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 4: She said yes I do. Will you do what I asked? Yes, 206 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 4: I will. Then open your bible and hand me a 207 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 4: one hundred dollar bill. 208 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 5: Reluctantly, she opened her bible, and much does her surprise, 209 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 5: she saw the money. She shook her head and said, 210 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 5: how did it get there? He smiled and said, I 211 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 5: put it in there. In the same way, God will 212 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 5: never ask you for something without first putting. 213 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 4: It in you. 214 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 5: When God gives you a dream, when you have that 215 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 5: desire and you know you're supposed to take that step 216 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 5: of faith. 217 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 4: You may feel unqualified, like. 218 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 5: You don't have the wisdom, the know how, the ability, 219 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 5: But if you'll dare take that step, you'll. 220 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 4: Discover things in you that you never knew you had. 221 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 4: I never knew this gift was in me, never knew 222 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 4: that I could get up in front of people. 223 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 5: I wonder how many gifts are in you right now, 224 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 5: just waiting to be released, if you'll dare step up 225 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 5: and believe that you have what it takes. This is 226 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 5: where Sarah, Abraham's wife, almost missed it. She thought the 227 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 5: promise would come through somebody else. 228 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 4: When God told her that she was going to do 229 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 4: something great. 230 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 5: She was going to have a child at an old 231 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 5: age and her husband would become the father of many nations. 232 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 5: She said, God, that's impossible. I'm eighty years old. This's 233 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 5: never happened before. I must not be hearing your right. 234 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 5: She took matters into her own hands. She had Abraham 235 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 5: get hooked up with one of her maids, and they 236 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 5: had a son. Sarah looked and said, there he is 237 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 5: the child of promise. God said no, no, Sarah. I 238 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 5: didn't say the promise was in somebody else. I said, 239 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 5: the promise is in you. You spent your whole life 240 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 5: celebrating others, Sarah, but now it's. 241 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 4: Time for you to be celebrating. 242 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 5: You're going to give birth. You're going to have that baby. 243 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 5: You're gonna do something great. You're gonna be a history maker. 244 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 5: Sure enough, some twenty years later, she gave birth to 245 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 5: that baby. The promise was fulfilled in. 246 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 4: The same way. 247 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 5: What God has placed in your heart is not going 248 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 5: to come to pass through your neighbor, through your cousin, 249 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 5: through your coworker, through your friend, through your parents. God 250 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 5: is saying I've anointed you, I've equipped you, I breathed 251 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 5: my life into you. Now quit looking for somebody else. 252 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 5: Quit thinking that you don't have what it takes. You've 253 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 5: been chosen by the creator of the universe. You don't 254 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 5: need anyone else to give birth to the promise that. 255 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 4: God put in your heart. 256 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 5: Doctor Todd Price is a friend of mine and a 257 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 5: member of Lakewood, and he recently told how he grew 258 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 5: up very poor, didn't look like he had much of 259 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 5: a future, but from the time he was small he 260 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,839 Speaker 5: had a deep desire to help children in need. One day, 261 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 5: he saw a program on television about how you could 262 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 5: sponsor a child for fifteen dollars a month that lived 263 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 5: around the world, and he didn't have any money, but 264 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 5: his heart was so moved he started mowing lawns in 265 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 5: the neighborhood, doing yard work to raise the money. From 266 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 5: the time he was twelve years old, he started sponsoring 267 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 5: a little girl that lived halfway around the world. What 268 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 5: caused him to do that? Why did he have that compassion? 269 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 5: It was the promise God put in him. It was 270 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 5: a seed of greatness just waiting to be developed. Doctor 271 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 5: Price wasn't raised in a religious home, but every night 272 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 5: before he'd go to bed, he'd say, God, please send some. 273 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 4: Wealthy person to help these children in need. 274 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 5: He was able to go to college, and in the 275 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 5: summer he would take trips overseas with a group of 276 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 5: doctors to treat the needy children. 277 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 4: When he looked in their eyes, he would pray even 278 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 4: more earnestly. 279 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 5: God, please send some wealthy person to help these children. 280 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 5: He went to medical school, continued going overseas, started his 281 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 5: own practice. 282 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 4: One of his main. 283 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 5: Suppliers heard how he helped needy children and they asked 284 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 5: if he needed some free medical supplies, vaccinations, antibotics, things 285 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 5: like that. 286 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 4: He said, sure, I do. He started taking a couple 287 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 4: of suitcases full. 288 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 5: Of medicines on each trip. He grew to where he 289 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 5: had to put them in boxes and have it shipped. 290 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 5: Eventually it got so large he was shipping huge containers 291 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 5: of medicines overseas, all the while praying, God, please send 292 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 5: some wealthy person to help these children in need. In 293 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 5: the last three years, doctor Price's Medical Missions organization has 294 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 5: treated over fifty million children in twenty one countries. He 295 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 5: has provided over five hundred million dollars worth of medicines 296 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 5: and supplies. He said, about two years ago, when I 297 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 5: was treating my twentieth million child, I finally realized that 298 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 5: God had answered my prayers. 299 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 4: But it wasn't like I thought. 300 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 5: I always prayed for God to send some wealthy person. 301 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 5: Now realize I am that wealthy person. 302 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 4: He was saying. The promise is in me. 303 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 5: Friends, you don't need anyone else to give birth to 304 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 5: what God is placed in your heart. Some of you 305 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 5: are waiting for the right person. God is saying you 306 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 5: are the right person. My annoying is on your life, 307 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 5: My favors on your life. You equipped and empowered. You 308 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 5: can do something great now. 309 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 4: Don't do like. 310 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 5: Sarah and say, Okay, God, let me go find somebody younger, 311 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 5: somebody smarter, more educated, more talented. 312 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 4: No, you've got what it takes. 313 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 5: Don't miss your destiny waiting for somebody else. When my 314 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 5: father went to be with the Lord, in the back 315 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 5: of my mind, I thought God would send us somebody 316 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 5: with great ability and a dynamic personality and a booming voice, 317 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 5: and all these degrees behind his names. I was looking 318 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 5: around the whole time. I was hearing that still small voice. Joel, 319 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 5: this is your time, this is your moment. The promise 320 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 5: is in you, I said God. I don't have the 321 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 5: booming voice, don't have the dynamic personality. 322 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 4: I don't have all the degrees. 323 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 5: God said Joel, I formed you before the foundation of 324 00:16:58,680 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 5: the world. 325 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 4: Now I put it in you everything that you need. 326 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 5: I wouldn't ask you to do it if you didn't 327 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 5: already have what it takes. Now I stepped up, like 328 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 5: doctor Price. I discovered I was the answer to my prayer. 329 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 5: Some of you are praying for somebody else, for another 330 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 5: person to come along and bring all your dreams to pass. 331 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 4: God is saying you're the answer to your prayer. 332 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 5: You're equipped anointed, You can do something great. 333 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 4: The good news is just like with Sarah. Just because we. 334 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 5: Don't believe it's going to come to pass, God doesn't 335 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 5: change his mind. You are still going to give birth 336 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 5: to everything that God's placed in your heart. What God 337 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 5: has spoken over you is still going to come to pass. 338 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 5: You need to get your fire back, get your dreams back. 339 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 5: You may have given up on it, but it doesn't 340 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 5: mean God gave up. Sarah waited twenty years. You can 341 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 5: still do something great. I love what Caleb did. He 342 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 5: and Joshua were the ones that went in and told Moses, 343 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 5: we are well able to take the Promised Land. 344 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 4: Let us go in at once. 345 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 5: The other people were very negative, and they talked Moses 346 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 5: and the Israelites out of going into the Promised Land. 347 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 5: Forty years later, now Caleb is eighty five years old. 348 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 5: You'd think that he had been in a rocking chair 349 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 5: taking it easy. No, Caleb is still fired up about 350 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 5: not making it into the Promised Land. He knows the 351 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 5: promise is still in him. He went right back to 352 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 5: that same place forty years later where the others would 353 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 5: not go in, and he said, God, give me this mountain. 354 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 5: What's interesting is that mountain had five giants living on 355 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 5: it been a lot easier to ask for a mountain 356 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 5: with less opposition, maybe one or two giants. 357 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 4: No, Caleb's attitude was, God. 358 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 5: This is what you promised me, and I'm not going 359 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 5: to settle for mediocrity when I know you put greatness 360 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 5: in me. And yes, i'm older, Yes it's been a 361 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 5: long time. I've made mistakes, I've gone through disappointments. 362 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 4: But God, I. 363 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 5: Still believe the promise is in me. I still believe 364 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 5: I can become everything you created me to be. At 365 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 5: eighty five, he went in, conquered the enemies, took the mountain, 366 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 5: saw the dream come to pass. Some of you think 367 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 5: that you've made too many mistakes. It's been too long, 368 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 5: you're too old. No, God is saying you can still 369 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 5: make it into your promised land. You can still do 370 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 5: something great. You're not too old. It's not too late, 371 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 5: you haven't made too many mistakes. The great news about 372 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 5: God is even when we miss opportunities didn't work out 373 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 5: the first time for Caleb, but God is so good 374 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 5: he will always give you another chance. God will bring 375 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 5: that opportunity across your path another time. Now, my encouragement 376 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 5: is get ready, be prepared, be comfident. Because the dream 377 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 5: didn't work out the first time doesn't mean that dream 378 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 5: has died. 379 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 4: What God has spoken over you is still alive and well. 380 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 5: The scripture tells us to fan the flame, stir up 381 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 5: the gifts. The promise is in you now, you say, Joel, 382 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 5: you don't know the mistakes I've made. 383 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 4: You don't know the life I've lived. 384 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 5: No, nothing that you've done is too much for the 385 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 5: mercy of God. The scripture says, God's calling on our 386 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 5: life is irrevocable. 387 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 4: That means God will never take it back. 388 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 5: Your destiny is not canceled because of a mistake, because 389 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 5: of a failure. Get back up and go again. Think 390 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 5: about Jonah. God told him to go left. He did 391 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 5: just the. 392 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 4: Opposite, He went right. God didn't say, too bad, Jonah, 393 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 4: I'm done with you. You had your chance. 394 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 5: No, God never gives up on us. Jonah got in trouble. 395 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 5: He was on the boat in a storm. They threw 396 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 5: him overboard. It was his fault. He brought the trouble 397 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 5: on himself. Surely God would say, See, Jonah, you should 398 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 5: have listened to me. 399 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 4: I told you. Now, look at you. You're done, You're finished. 400 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 5: No, God knew the promise was still in him. God 401 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 5: had that big fish to swallow him out, spit him 402 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 5: out on dry ground. Three days later, God said, come on, Jonah, 403 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 5: let's get busy. I've still got something great for you 404 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 5: to do. Some of you have made mistakes. He feel 405 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 5: washed up, like you're supposed to be on the sidelines 406 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 5: of life. But God is saying, the promise is still 407 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 5: in you. If you'll shake off the guilt, shake off 408 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 5: the condemnation, God will still get you to where he 409 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 5: wants you to be. He'll bring another opportunity across your path. 410 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,679 Speaker 5: You can still become all God's created you to be. 411 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 5: My brother Paul recently returned from doing medical missions in Africa. 412 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 5: One of the Safari guides that we know, a man 413 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 5: named Henry, told how when a gazelle or a wild 414 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 5: debeast is pregnant and about to give birth, a lion 415 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 5: will closely stalk that animal. 416 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 4: Day after day. 417 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 5: The lion will follow the pregnant mother, waiting for her 418 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 5: to go into labor. The lion knows when she goes 419 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 5: into labor. 420 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 4: She's an easy target. She can't defend herself. 421 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 5: So the lion will actually wait for the mother to 422 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 5: go into labor and then not only attack and kill her, 423 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 5: but the baby as well. 424 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 4: It's the same principle in life. 425 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 5: You will face your greatest attacks when you're about to 426 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 5: give birth to the dreams God places in your heart. 427 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 5: The enemy waits till you're close to the promotion, till 428 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 5: you're close to the breakthrough, just when you're about to 429 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 5: step into a new level. Don't be surprised if you 430 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 5: face opposition. You go through a disappointment, a friend you 431 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 5: are counting on is not there. 432 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 4: It's taken longer than you thought. 433 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 5: That simply means you're about to give birth to what 434 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 5: God has placed in your heart. The good news is 435 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 5: the forces that are for you are greater than the 436 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 5: forces that are against you. Your destiny cannot be stopped 437 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 5: by a bad break, by disappointments, by opposition by people. 438 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 4: No God has the final say. 439 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 5: When you're in agreement with God, he says, no weapon 440 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 5: formed against you will ever prosper. 441 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 4: Now I know some of you tonight. You're up against 442 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 4: big opposition, big challenges. That simply tells me you're. 443 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 5: About to give birth to what God's placed in your heart. 444 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 5: You're about to see a dream come to pass. Now's 445 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 5: not the time to get discouraged. Now's the time to 446 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 5: dig your heels in and say, you know what, I 447 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 5: am in it to win it. 448 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 4: I know the promise is in me. 449 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,479 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna let this disappointment, this setback, This person 450 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 5: still my destiny. I'm gonna give birth to everything that 451 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 5: God placed in my heart. That was the attitude of 452 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 5: a young man named Troy. I met his mother after 453 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 5: the service not long ago. She's a single parent mom. 454 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 5: This family had been through a lot of struggles. She 455 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 5: had some kind of sickness to where she had to 456 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 5: have brain surgery. They lost everything several years ago in 457 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 5: a huge flood. It's been one struggle after another. But 458 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 5: she told how her son, Troy, has always had a 459 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 5: big dream for his life. When he was in the 460 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 5: third grade, he wrote in a school paper that he 461 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 5: was going to get a scholarship to go to college. 462 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 5: As a little boy, the promise was in him to 463 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 5: go further, to do something great. Troy's goal is to 464 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 5: go to Georgetown University, not only get a four year degree, 465 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 5: but to get his master's and his doctorate in foreign relations. 466 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 5: His dream is to become the Secretary of State. For 467 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 5: a single parent mother in the natural, that kind of 468 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 5: education is almost impossible. I mean, she's just doing her 469 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 5: best to provide a living each day. Troy could have thought, well, 470 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 5: too bad for me. I got a big dream, but 471 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 5: I don't have the money, I don't have the connections. 472 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 4: No, Troy's attitude was the promise is in me. What 473 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 4: God has spoken over my life will come to pass. 474 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 5: He didn't sit back and expect God to do it 475 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 5: all for him. He excelled in school. He took college courses. 476 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 4: In the tenth grade. 477 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 5: This year, he graduated number two in his high school class. 478 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 4: Recently, Troy received. 479 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 5: Not one scholarship, not two, not five, not seven, not eight. 480 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 5: He was awarded nine scholarships worth over one point three 481 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 5: million dollars. He has his four year degree, plus his 482 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 5: master's and his doctorate studies totally paid for at Georgetown University. 483 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 5: Troy and his mom are with us here tonight. Tell 484 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 5: him that you're proud of him. His mother, Connie, handed 485 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 5: me the newspaper article. 486 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 4: It says he. 487 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 5: Will receive one of the finest educations available. Friends, what 488 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 5: God has promised you he will bring the past. 489 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 4: You may not see away, but God has a way. 490 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 5: If you'll be the best that you can be right 491 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 5: where you are, God will get you to where he 492 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 5: wants you to be. In the Scripture, God put a 493 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 5: promise in Jeremiah that he would be a great prophet 494 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 5: and speak to the nations. Jeremiah was young and afraid, 495 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 5: and he didn't think he could do it. People and 496 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 5: obstacles came against him. He got so discouraged he was 497 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 5: about to give up. In Jeremiah chapter twenty, he began 498 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 5: to tell God how bad it was. He listed one 499 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 5: complaint after another. God, these people are mocking me when 500 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 5: I speak, They make fun of me. I'm being ridiculed, 501 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 5: I'm tired, I'm lonely, I'm intimidating, on and on. Just 502 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 5: when you thought he was going to quit, he said 503 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 5: in verse nine, God, I feel like giving up. But 504 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 5: your word in my heart is like fire. Shut up 505 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 5: in my bones. He was saying, God, I don't see 506 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 5: how it can happen. All the odds are against me, 507 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 5: but this promise you put in me will. 508 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 4: Not go away. It's like fire. 509 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 5: It's like a burning I can't get away from it. 510 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 5: You too, may be at a place where you could 511 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 5: easily be discouraged and give up on what God is 512 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 5: placed in your heart. 513 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,120 Speaker 4: But the good news is, like. 514 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,360 Speaker 5: Jeremiah, there is fire shut up in your bones. There 515 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 5: is a promise that God has spoken over you that 516 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 5: will not die. You can try to ignore it. Your 517 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 5: mind will convince you that it's never going to happen. 518 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 5: But deep down you'll feel a burning, a restlessness, a fire. 519 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,199 Speaker 5: That's the promise God put in you. God loves you 520 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 5: too much to stay average. God is going to push 521 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 5: you into greatness. You're going to accomplish more than you 522 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,199 Speaker 5: thought possible. You're going to go further than you dreamed of. 523 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 5: You're going to see the exceeding greatness of God's power. 524 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,439 Speaker 5: What He's spoken over your life will come to pass. Friends, 525 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 5: you don't need anyone else to give birth to what 526 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 5: God is placed in your heart. Some of you are 527 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 5: still looking for the other person. You've got to realize 528 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 5: you are the right person. You were equipped, you are annointed. 529 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 5: You've got what it takes. Now stir up what's on 530 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 5: the inside, and yes, it's good to celebrate others. For 531 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 5: God is saying it's time for you to be celebrated. 532 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 5: It's time for you to rise to a new level. 533 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 5: It's time for you to do something great. If you'll 534 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 5: get up every morning knowing that the promise is in you, 535 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 5: then that fire shut up in your bones is going 536 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,719 Speaker 5: to cause you to rise higher. 537 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 4: I believe one hundred years from. 538 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 5: Now, people are going to look back at you and say, Wow, 539 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 5: they were a history maker, they were a world changer. 540 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 5: You're going to become everything God's created you to be, 541 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 5: and you're going to have everything God intended for you 542 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 5: to have. I believe it and declare it over to 543 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 5: each one of you. If you receive it, can you 544 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 5: say amen tonight? 545 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 4: Amen? Thank you for listening to the Joel los Deine podcast. 546 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 3: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 547 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:18,959 Speaker 3: those all over the world. 548 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 4: Visit joelostin dot. 549 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 5: Com slash give Hope to give a gift today. 550 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 4: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 551 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 5: I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 552 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 5: podcast to keep you. 553 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 4: Inspired all through the week. We're praying for you. I 554 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 4: know God's best is still ahead. We'll see you next time.