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Well, God bless you. Always a joy to 42 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 4: come into your homes and if you're we're in the 43 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 4: Houston area, please stop by be a part of one 44 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 4: of our services. These are the finest people in all 45 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 4: of Houston, Texas right here at Lakewood. We'd love to 46 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 4: have you come out. But thanks for tuning in and 47 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 4: thank you again for coming out today. And I like 48 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 4: to start with something funny. And I heard about this wife. 49 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 4: She was taking a nap on Valentine's Day in the afternoon. 50 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 4: When she woke up, she called her husband said, honey, 51 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 4: I had a dream that you bought me a beautiful 52 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 4: diamond ring for Valentine's Day. What do you think this 53 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 4: dream means? He said, you'll find out tonight. That evening, 54 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 4: he brought home a small box, beautifully wrapped. She was 55 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 4: so excited she opened it up. It was a book 56 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 4: entitled The Meaning of Dreams. Hold up your Bible, say 57 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 4: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 58 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 4: am what it says I am. I have what it 59 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 4: says I have. I can do what it says I 60 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 4: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 61 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 4: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 62 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 63 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 64 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 4: removing negative labels throughout life. People are constantly sticking labels 65 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 4: on us, telling us what we can and cannot become. 66 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 4: And sometimes this is good. People speak faith into us, 67 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 4: they encourage us. But then there are times that people 68 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 4: put negative labels on us. You cannot stop the negative comments, 69 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 4: you can't prevent the negative labels, but you can choose 70 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 4: to remove them. As a teenager, Disney was told by 71 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: his art instructor that he wasn't creative, he didn't have 72 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 4: any imagination. Disney was smart enough to remove that label. 73 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 4: He went on to do pretty good. Lucille Ball was 74 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 4: told that she didn't have any acting skills, she should 75 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 4: try a different profession. She removed that label, starting I 76 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 4: Love Lucy for many years. Winston Churchill felled the sixth grade, 77 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 4: told he wasn't smart enough. He went on to become 78 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 4: one of the greatest prime ministers that's ever lived. The 79 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 4: common denominator in the success of these people is they 80 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 4: chose to remove the negative labels the same way today 81 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 4: people put labels on us. When my father went to 82 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 4: be with the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, I stepped 83 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 4: up to pastor the church I had never ministered before. 84 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 4: One Sunday after the service, I overheard two ladies talking 85 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 4: in the lobby. One said he's not as good as 86 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 4: his father. The other answered back, yes, I don't think 87 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 4: the church is going to last. I was already insecure, 88 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 4: I already felt unqualified, and boom, another negative label. Not 89 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 4: good enough, not up to par, inferior. That's the way 90 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 4: the enemy works. He would love to put labels on 91 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 4: you to keep you from reaching your highest potential. He 92 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 4: doesn't fight you for where you are. He fights you 93 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 4: for where you're going. He knows God has amazing things 94 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 4: in your future, so he'll try to discourage you, intimidate you, 95 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 4: make you feel inferior. And words are like seeds. If 96 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 4: you dwell on them long enough, they will take root 97 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 4: and become what was said. And I tried to remove 98 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 4: that negative label, but it wasn't easy. Those thoughts would 99 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 4: play in my mind again and again, You're not good enough, 100 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 4: you don't have what it takes. It was like trying 101 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 4: to peel a bumper sticker off of a car that's 102 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 4: been there a long time, and you know you peel 103 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 4: it and it tears you. Gotta work and work. I 104 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 4: fought those thoughts in my mind day after day. Finally 105 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 4: I removed that negative label, and I put some new 106 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 4: labels on. I can do all things through Christ. I 107 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,799 Speaker 4: am strong in the Lord. I am annoying. Here's my point. 108 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 4: If I had made the mistake of wearing that negative label, 109 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 4: I don't believe I would be standing here today. Wrong 110 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 4: labels can keep you from your destiny. Don't go the 111 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 4: next twenty years allowing one negative comment to hold you back. 112 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 4: You are not who people say you are. You are 113 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 4: who God says you are. People will label you not 114 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 4: good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. God 115 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 4: labels you strong, talented, valuable, more than a conquer Make 116 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 4: sure that you're wearing the right labels. Many people don't 117 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 4: know any better. They wear the negative labels right they're 118 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 4: the truth. They become so ingrained in their thinking they 119 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 4: end up becoming what people say they are instead of 120 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 4: what God says that they are. Are. There labels that 121 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 4: are holding you back today, what a coach said, what 122 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 4: a counselor said, even negative comments spoken by your parents. 123 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 4: This is the time to remove every negative label. People 124 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 4: don't determine your destiny. God does. The only power that 125 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 4: label has over you is the power that you give 126 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 4: it if you will remove it. In other words, quit 127 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 4: thinking about it, quit acting like it's the truth. Then 128 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 4: that label will have no effect on you. Those two 129 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 4: ladies said the church wouldn't last. I didn't have the talent. 130 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 4: They couldn't stop my destiny. They couldn't stop what God 131 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 4: had already ordained. The only way they could have limited 132 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 4: me is if I would have warned their negative label around. 133 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 4: I know a gentleman. He told how he overheard his 134 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 4: junior high teacher telling his mother how he was a 135 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 4: slow learner. For thirty years, he wore that label around, 136 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: never had a good job, never had real success, just 137 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,679 Speaker 4: kind of floundered through life. And one day I told 138 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 4: him what I'm telling you, You've got to remove that label. 139 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 4: Your teacher may have been sincere. She may have made 140 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 4: an assessment based on where you were at the time, 141 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 4: but this is a new day. She didn't know what 142 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 4: God put in you. If you're going to reach your 143 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 4: highest potential, you got to say no, thanks. I am 144 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 4: not wearing that slow learner label anymore. That may have 145 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 4: been her opinion, but I have another opinion. It's from 146 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 4: my creator, and he says I have the mind of Christ, 147 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 4: that I am full of wisdom, that I can fulfill 148 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 4: my destiny. Don't let negative labels hold you back. I 149 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 4: talked to a high school student one time, and she 150 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 4: was about to take her final exams, and she said, Joel, 151 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 4: will you pray that God will help me to make 152 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 4: seas on these tests? I said, why do we want 153 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 4: to pray for c's and not a's. She said, oh no, Joel. 154 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 4: My high school counselor told me, I'm just a C student. 155 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 4: She didn't know any better. Somebody stuck a label on her. 156 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 4: She was wearing around like it was the truth. Have 157 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 4: you ever thought about the same God that can help 158 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 4: you make a C can help you make an A. 159 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 4: Why don't you remove that label? The same God that 160 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 4: can help you get by in life can help you 161 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 4: excel in life. The same God that can give you 162 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 4: an apartment can give you a beautiful house. Are there 163 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 4: labels that are holding you back? The label divorced, I'll 164 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 4: never meet anyone new. The label overweight, I'll never get 165 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 4: in shape, the label addicted, I'll never break these bad habits. 166 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 4: Whatever label you're wearing, you're going to become what that 167 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 4: label says. You're giving it the power. And this is 168 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 4: why some people can't break an addiction. They're wearing that 169 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 4: label addict. The real battle is taking place in our mind. 170 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 4: If you think you're an addict, you've already lost. You've 171 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 4: got to change the label. God says you are free, 172 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 4: you are clean, you are healthy, you are a whole. 173 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 4: Don't go the next twenty years wearing that addict label. 174 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 4: Put some new labels on. Today. I had a young 175 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 4: man tell me how he was the main drug dealer 176 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 4: in his neighborhood. He was sincere. He wasn't proud of it, 177 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 4: he said, Joel, I know this is not right. I 178 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 4: don't like doing it, but it's the only thing that 179 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 4: I'm good at. He was wearing that drug dealer label. 180 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 4: That's all he thought he could do. I told him, 181 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 4: if you can sell drugs, you can sell medical supplies. 182 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 4: If you can sell drugs, you can sell stocks and bonds. 183 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 4: Think about this. To sell drugs, you have to get 184 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 4: the word out. That's advertising. You have to manage your inventory. 185 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 4: That's administration. You have to take care of your clients. 186 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 4: That's customer service. Don't sell yourself. Short removed any labels 187 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 4: that are holding you back. Let me ask you who 188 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,199 Speaker 4: told you all you can do is sell drugs. It's 189 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 4: not the truth. Who told you all you can make 190 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 4: in school are c's and not as a counselor. They 191 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 4: didn't know what God put in you. Who told you 192 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,199 Speaker 4: you could never succeed, You'll not be as good as 193 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 4: your father. Two ladies in the lobby. They don't determine 194 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 4: your destiny. Who told you you'll never own a nice house, 195 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 4: you'll never get married, You'll never accomplish your dreams. Those 196 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 4: labels did not come from your creator. Just because somebody 197 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 4: spoke them over you doesn't mean it's the truth. You 198 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 4: have the power to remove those negative labels. Some of 199 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 4: you have been wearing them way too long, things like 200 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 4: you'll never go to college. Nobody in your family has 201 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 4: take that label off. You can be the first. You'll 202 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 4: never get out of that neighborhood. All the odds are 203 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 4: against you. That's what they told my father. He removed 204 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 4: the label. God took him places that he never dreamed of. 205 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 4: You'll never get well, That sickness is terminal. It's what 206 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 4: they told my mother. She removed the label. Thirty two 207 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 4: years later, she's still healthy, whole, strong. Friends, We serve 208 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 4: a supernatural god. He can do what medicine cannot do. 209 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 4: He's not limited by your education, your background, the family 210 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 4: you come from. He's not moved by the things people 211 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 4: have spoken over you. He's not up in heaven all 212 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 4: frantic trying to figure out how to get you to 213 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 4: your destiny. He knows the end from the beginning. He 214 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 4: already has solutions to problems you've not even had. He's 215 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 4: all powerful and all knowing. People may have tried to 216 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,359 Speaker 4: push you down, but if you'll just remove those labels 217 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 4: and get in agreement with God, he'll push you up. 218 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 4: He'll take you where you could not go on your own. 219 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 4: You don't have to figure it all out. All God 220 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 4: asks you to do is believe. When you believe, all 221 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 4: things are possible. When you believe, doors will open that 222 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 4: she have never opened. When you believe, God will take 223 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 4: you from the back to the front. Don't let negative 224 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 4: labels hold you down. People will tell you you're all washed up, 225 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 4: you've made too many mistakes. If you wear that label, 226 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 4: it will keep you from the amazing future God has 227 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 4: in store. God says, my mercy is bigger than any mistake. 228 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 4: God says, I can still get you to your destiny. 229 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 4: God says I'll give you beauty for those ashes. I'll 230 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 4: pay you back double for the unfair things that have happened. 231 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 4: You wouldn't be alive unless God had another victory in 232 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 4: your future. Why don't you take off the washed up label, 233 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 4: take off the failure, guilty, condemned labels, and put on 234 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 4: some new labels, redeemed, restored, forgiven, bright future, new beginning. 235 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 4: People will tell you you're too small, you're too quiet, you 236 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 4: don't have a good personality, you come from the wrong family. 237 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 4: Don't you dare go through life? Were in those labels? 238 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 4: You have been made in the image of Almighty God. 239 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 4: God did not make any mistakes. You are the perfect size, 240 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 4: You have the right personality, the right gifts, the right looks, 241 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 4: the right skin color, says in Psalms. You have been 242 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 4: fearfully and wonderfully made. You are not an accident. God 243 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 4: designed you precisely for the race that's laid out for you. 244 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 4: Remove those labels too big, too small, unattractive. Put on 245 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 4: this new label, fearfully and wonderfully made. One label far 246 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 4: too many people wear is the label average ordinary. Feel 247 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 4: nothing special about me. I'm just one of the six 248 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 4: billion people on the Earth. Listen. You were never created 249 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 4: to live an average life. You have seeds of greatness 250 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 4: on the inside. You were created to be a history maker. 251 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 4: You're not supposed to live and die and nobody even 252 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 4: knew you were here. You're supposed to leave your mark 253 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 4: on this generation. God has an assignment for you that 254 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 4: nobody else can fulfill. God needs you. He needs your gifts, 255 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 4: your smile, your love, your passion. You are a part 256 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 4: of his divine plan. You have something to offer that 257 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 4: nobody else can offer. Nobody has your exact personality, your 258 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 4: exact looks. There is something unique about you. Don't wear 259 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 4: that average label. If you think your average, then you'll 260 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 4: be average. If you think you're ordinary, then you'll live 261 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 4: an ordinary, get by life and never do anything great. 262 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 4: The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You 263 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 4: have the fingerprints of God all over you. The creator 264 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 4: of the universe breathed his life into you. He crowned 265 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 4: you with his favor. You have royal blood flowing through 266 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 4: your veins. You have a destiny to fulfill something greater 267 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 4: than you've ever even imagined. But if it's going to happen, 268 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 4: if you're going to become all God's created you to be. 269 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 4: One of the first things you got to do is 270 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 4: take off the average label, take off the ordinary label. 271 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 4: Put on these new labels, masterpiece, valuable, one of a kind. 272 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 4: This is what David did when the prophet Samuel came 273 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 4: to annoint one of his father's sons as the next 274 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 4: king of Israel. David's father, Jesse, didn't even bother to 275 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 4: bring David in from the shepherd's fields where he was 276 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 4: taking care of the sheep. Jesse thought, I know it's 277 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 4: not David. He's too small, too young, not that talented, 278 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 4: not as smart as his brothers. David had all these 279 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 4: negative labels put on him by his own father. Samuel 280 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 4: looked at the other seven sons said not this one, 281 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 4: not this one, not this one. Finally ran out, said 282 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 4: to Jesse, do you have any other sons? It's none 283 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 4: of these. Jesse said, yeah, my youngest son, David is 284 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 4: out in the shepherd's field. But I know it's not him. Friends, 285 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 4: God doesn't label the way people label. People look on 286 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 4: the outside. God looks on the heart. God knows what 287 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 4: you're capable of. God can see the seeds of greatness 288 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 4: that He's placed in you. It's so easy to let 289 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 4: what someone has spoken over us to keep us from 290 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 4: really believing in ourselves. David walked in. Samuel took one 291 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 4: look at him and said, he's the one that's the 292 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 4: next king of Israel. Right there, David had to make 293 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 4: that decision that I'm asking you to make. He had 294 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 4: to remove the negative labels. He'd heard them a thousand times, 295 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 4: too small, too young, you don't have what it takes. 296 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 4: What's interesting is David's brothers, even though they saw Samuel 297 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 4: anoint David as the next king, they still tried to 298 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 4: stick their negative labels on him. David was out where 299 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 4: the army gathered. His oldest brother, Elieb said, David, what 300 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 4: are you doing out here? And with whom have you 301 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 4: left those few sheep you're supposed to be taking care of. 302 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 4: What was Elieb doing? Sticking a label on him inferior? 303 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 4: Not good enough? Intimidated? David could have said, yeah, right, 304 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 4: what was our thinking? David could have accepted that label 305 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 4: and let it hold him back. But this time David 306 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 4: had a different attitude. He said, Eliab, what you say 307 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 4: about me doesn't change what God said about me. You're 308 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 4: still labeling me. We defeated inferior. You don't realize I've 309 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 4: gotten rid of those labels, and the creator of the universe, 310 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 4: the God God who breathed life into me, puts some 311 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 4: new labels on me. They say giant killer, more than 312 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 4: a conqueror, destined for greatness, King of Israel. Now you 313 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 4: may have had negative things spoken over you, even by 314 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 4: people that should have been encouraging you. I love what 315 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 4: Isaiah said. No weapon formed against you will ever prosper. 316 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 4: But every tongue raised in judgment. That means every negative 317 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 4: label you will show to be in the wrong. Notice 318 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 4: God's not going to do it. You have to show 319 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 4: it to be in the wrong. In other words, you 320 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 4: have to remove the negative label. Nothing that was spoken 321 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 4: over you has to define you, even if it was 322 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 4: from people who raised you. Nothing that's happened in your 323 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 4: past has to keep you from your destiny. Even if 324 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 4: you've made mistakes are gone through unfair situations. You can 325 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 4: show it to be in the worl wrong by shaking 326 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 4: off the self pity and moving forward with your life. 327 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 4: Will you dare do like David and remove the negative labels. 328 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 4: Quit dwelling on what your mama said, what a jealous 329 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 4: sister said. What a cranky coworker said. What a cynical 330 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 4: neighbor said. You are not who people say you are. 331 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 4: You are who God says you are. They cannot stop 332 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 4: your destiny. Remove the old labels. I'll give you some 333 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 4: new labels to wear. Giant killer, history maker, world changer. 334 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 4: My friend Coach Dell Brown, he's the legendary coach of 335 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 4: the LSU basketball team, told me a story. He was 336 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 4: speaking to a group of soldiers at a military base 337 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 4: in California. When he finished, a young man came up 338 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 4: to him that stood nearly seven feet tall two hundred 339 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 4: and fifty pounds. He said, Coach Brown, I want to 340 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 4: try out for our basketball team, but I can't dunk 341 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 4: the basketball. I can barely jump when I run up 342 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 4: and down the court. My legs tire out so easily. 343 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 4: I can only play a few minutes. Coach Brown asked 344 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 4: him how long he had been in the military. He said, 345 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 4: I'm not in the military. My father is. I'm thirteen 346 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 4: years old. He wore a size seventeen shoe. Coach Brown 347 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 4: took this young man under his wing, said, when I 348 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 4: get back to Louisiana, I'm going to send you my 349 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 4: training program, it'll help strengthen your legs and increase your endurance. 350 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 4: Three months later, he got a letter from the young 351 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 4: man saying, Coach Brown, I've done everything you've asked me 352 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 4: to do, spend hours in the gym and in the 353 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 4: weight room working out, but my basketball coach just cut 354 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 4: me from the team. He told me I'm too big, 355 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 4: too slow, too clumsy. I'll never be able to play basketball, 356 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 4: all those negative labels. Coach Brown wrote him back and said, 357 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 4: in effect, listen, son, if you'll just keep working out, 358 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 4: keep being your best each day, and keep asking God 359 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 4: to help you, God will get you to where you're 360 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 4: supposed to be. That young man had to make a decision. 361 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 4: Am I going to wear these negative labels through life? 362 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 4: Too big, too slow, too clumsy? Or am I going 363 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 4: to follow the dream that God's placed in my heart? 364 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 4: Am I going to believe I'm a giant killer and 365 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 4: I can do all things through Christ? He decided to 366 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 4: remove the negative labels That young man. Shaquille O'Neill ended 367 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 4: up going to LSU playing for Coach Brown, broke all 368 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 4: the records. You know how, Shaquille has become one of 369 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,479 Speaker 4: the greatest basketball players that's ever played. But I wonder 370 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,199 Speaker 4: where he would be if he would have believed the 371 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 4: negative labels. What if he had thought, I guess I 372 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 4: am kind of too big, too slow, too clumsy. We 373 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 4: wouldn't be talking about him today. Has somebody told you 374 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 4: you can accomplish your dreams? Like the ladies in the lobby, 375 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 4: You're not talented, you're too big, too small, you don't 376 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 4: have the experience. No, God didn't put the promise in them. 377 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 4: He put the promise in you. Now along the way, 378 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 4: there will always be negative voices trying to label you. 379 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 4: But God would not have given you the dream unless 380 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 4: he had already equipped you. You already have what you need. 381 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 4: What may seem like a limitation, too tall, too short, 382 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 4: God can use as an asset. God knows what he's doing. 383 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 4: He has designed you specifically for the race that you're in. 384 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 4: You may kind of feel like Shaquille that you've been 385 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 4: cut from the team. The experts have told you what 386 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 4: you can't do, what you don't have. Here's what I've learned. 387 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 4: The experts can be wrong. Experts built the Titanic and 388 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 4: it sunk. Amateurs built the Arc and it floated. The 389 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 4: expert said, we would never have this facility, but here 390 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 4: we are today. The expert said, my father would never 391 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 4: get out of poverty, but he did. The expert said 392 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 4: my mother wouldn't be alive today, but she is. The 393 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 4: expert said David was too small. God said he was 394 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 4: just the right size. The expert said that I couldn't 395 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 4: pastor a large church. I didn't have the experience, but 396 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 4: I've done pretty good. The expert, I've got one more. 397 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 4: The expert said, my brother Paul would be handsome. Didn't happen. 398 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna look. Don't let the experts talk 399 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 4: you out of what God has put in your heart. 400 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 4: In the scripture, a lady named Rachel died while giving 401 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 4: birth to her second son. There were complications in labor 402 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 4: and delivery for air trying to birth this child, and 403 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 4: so much pain and agony, And right before she died, 404 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 4: she gave birth. She named the boy ben an Ie, 405 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 4: which means son of my sorrows. She labeled him based 406 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 4: on what she had experienced. Now this little boy was 407 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 4: going to have to go through life being called son 408 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 4: of my sorrows. Sometimes people will put a negative label 409 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 4: on you, not because of anything you've done. But because 410 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 4: of the pain and heartache they've experienced, hurting people end 411 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 4: up hurting other people. Bitter people are quick to stick 412 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 4: on those negative labels. Few minutes after Rachel died, her husband, Jacob, 413 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 4: came rushing in. The nurses were holding the baby. They 414 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 4: handed him to Jacob and said, this is your son. 415 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 4: His name is ben and I son of my sorrows. 416 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 4: When he heard that, something came all over Jacob. He 417 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 4: rose up and said, no, that is not his name. 418 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 4: No matter what he's been through in the past, my 419 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 4: son will not be called son of sorrows. His name 420 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 4: will be Benjamin. Benjamin means son of strength, son of power, 421 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 4: son of my right hand. Benjamin grew up to become 422 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 4: a great leader. Out of his family line came the 423 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,239 Speaker 4: kings of Israel, one king after another. See God had 424 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 4: a great destiny for Benjamin to fulfill an assignment. But 425 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 4: God knew that if he went through life we're in 426 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 4: that label son of sorrow, he would never become what 427 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,880 Speaker 4: he was created to be. So God stepped in and said, no, no, 428 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 4: he's not wearing that label. He's not a son of sorrow, 429 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 4: not a son of defeat, not a son of disappointment. 430 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 4: This child is a son of destiny. This child has 431 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 4: seeds of greatness. His name will be Son of Strength. 432 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 4: God knows how powerful labels are. Maybe somebody has tried 433 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 4: to label you average, slow, learner, not talented, too many mistakes. 434 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 4: Now God is saying the same thing to you that 435 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 4: he said to little Benjamin. I am changing your name. 436 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 4: I'm placing a new label on you. No more son 437 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 4: of sorrow, no more son of mediocrity, no more son 438 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 4: of broken dreams. I'm renaming you to son of strength, 439 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 4: to daughter of destiny, to child of influence, child of greatness, 440 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 4: child of victory. Now my challenge, remove the old labels 441 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 4: and start going by your new names. Masterpiece, valuable, one 442 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 4: of a kind, more than a conquer, history maker. Those 443 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 4: are the labels that we should be wearing. One last key. 444 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 4: People can call you many different things, but you are 445 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 4: not what people call you. You are what you answer to. 446 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 4: They can call you slow, lazy, too old, all washed up. 447 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 4: That's all right. Just don't answer to it. Answer to victorious, 448 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 4: answer to talented, answer to history maker. If you'll do that, 449 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 4: I believe in declare. Today is going to be a 450 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 4: turning point. The bondages from the past are no longer 451 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 4: going to have any effect on you. You are going 452 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 4: to rise up and become the son of strength, the 453 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 4: daughter of influence, the child of victory, child of blessing, 454 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 4: child of favor, child of greatness. You will overcome every obstacle, 455 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 4: defeat every enemy, and become everything God's created you to be. 456 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say amen? Well, 457 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 4: we never like to close our broadcast without giving you 458 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 4: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 459 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me today? 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