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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 5: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 5: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 5: put God's very best in your life. 38 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 3: Will God bless you? 39 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 5: It's always a joy to come into your homes. 40 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 3: We love you. We know God has. 41 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 5: Great things in store. He rewards the people that seek 42 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 5: after him. If you're ever in our area, please stop 43 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 5: by and be a part of one of our services. 44 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 5: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 45 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in. Thanks again, for 46 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 5: coming out today. I like to start with something funny, 47 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 5: and I heard about this husband and wife. They argued 48 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 5: month after month about who should make the coffee in 49 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 5: the morning. 50 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 3: The husband definitely thought it was the wife's job, and 51 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: she just didn't agree. 52 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 5: And after several heated debates, the wife finally said, I 53 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 5: can prove to you from the scripture that the man 54 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 5: is supposed to make the coffee. He said, what are 55 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 5: you talking about. There's nothing in the Bible about the 56 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 5: man making the coffee. 57 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 3: She said, sure, there is. She opened her Bible and pointed. 58 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 5: To the Book of he Brews. All right, say it 59 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 5: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 60 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 5: what it says. I am. I have what it says 61 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 5: I have. I can do what it says I can do. 62 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 5: Today I will be taught the word of God. I 63 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 5: have boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 64 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 65 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 66 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 5: how you are blessed and cannot be cursed. In life, 67 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 5: we all have negative things that happen to us. We 68 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 5: go through situations that are unfair. If we're not careful. 69 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 5: They can cloud our future and keep us from pressing forward. 70 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 5: And I know people that weren't raised in a healthy environment. 71 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 5: They had parents that had issues, and now it's making 72 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 5: it much more difficult on them. A young man recently 73 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 5: told how his father was an alcoholic. 74 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: He was never around when he was growing up. 75 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 5: His mom had plenty of issues of her own, and 76 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 5: he ended up being passed from foster home to foster home, 77 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 5: and now he's struggling trying to overcome his own challenges. 78 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 5: He said, Joel, my parents put me at such a disadvantage. 79 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 5: It's almost like they cursed my future. But here's what 80 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 5: I've learned. Before anyone could put a curse on you, 81 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 5: God put a blessing on you. The good news is 82 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 5: the blessing always overrides the curse. When you understand who 83 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 5: you are and what God has already done, then no 84 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 5: matter what someone else did, no matter how unfair it was, 85 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 5: no matter how you were raised, you won't get better. 86 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 5: You won't live with a chip on your shoulder, you 87 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 5: won't try to get even. You realize that cannot stop 88 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 5: you from fulfilling your God given destiny. You may have 89 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 5: had parents that put you at a disadvantage. But understand, 90 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 5: you didn't come from your mother. Of course, we love 91 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 5: our mothers, but you didn't come from your mother. You 92 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 5: came through your mother. You came from Almighty God. 93 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 3: He gave your life, he gave your breath. 94 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 5: God used our mother to get us here. 95 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 3: But we came from God. 96 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 5: That means your destiny, your assignment, your purpose cannot be 97 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 5: ruined by who you came through. You came from the 98 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 5: most high God, He has the ultimate saying. I had 99 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 5: a young lady tell how she was one of these 100 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 5: cocaine babies. Her mother had all kinds of addictions, and 101 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 5: when she was born, she was addicted as well as 102 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 5: a baby. This mom left her at an early age, 103 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 5: and now she's struggling with other addictions, with her sense 104 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 5: of value, her sense of identity. I told her what 105 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 5: I'm telling you. You came through your mother, love her, 106 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 5: respect her, pray for her. 107 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 3: But you didn't come from her. 108 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 5: You came from Almighty God, and he has already planned 109 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 5: out a great life for you. You may have gotten 110 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 5: off to a rough start, but it's not how you 111 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 5: start that matters, it's how you finish. 112 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 3: Now, I heard. 113 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 5: Somebody say don't let your heredity stop your destiny. Don't 114 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 5: let how somebody treated you or what they did or 115 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 5: didn't give you keep you from pressing forward and becoming 116 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 5: all God's created you to be the people that raise you. 117 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 5: They may have had addictions, but that doesn't have to 118 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 5: be your future. 119 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 3: You can be the one to break that negative cycle. 120 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 5: Your parents, they may have had anger issues, never amounted 121 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 5: to much, but you don't have to keep letting that 122 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 5: curse be passed from generation to generation. You can be 123 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 5: the one to say no more, this is a new day. 124 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 5: I may have had an unfair past, but I'm not 125 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 5: gonna have an unfair future. I know God put a 126 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 5: blessing on me before anybody could put a curse, and 127 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna let my heredity stop my destiny. Well, 128 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 5: you said, Joel, I was just raising such a dysfunctional family. 129 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 5: You should see how messed up we are. So let 130 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 5: me tell you a secret. Every family has a little dysfunction. 131 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 5: There is no such thing as the perfect family. I 132 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 5: used to think we were. Then my brother Paul came along. 133 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 5: What am I saying? Quit making excuses. I know people 134 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 5: that are fifty years old still talking about what mama 135 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 5: didn't give them, how daddy wasn't around. How unfairly they 136 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 5: were treated. And I'm not making light of that. It 137 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 5: may have been unfair. All I'm saying is, don't let 138 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 5: that ruin the rest of your life. 139 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: God knew who your parents would be. 140 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 5: Your mom and dad didn't just get together and decide 141 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 5: to have a baby. No, before you were even a 142 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 5: thought in their mind. God had already planned out your life. 143 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 5: Talks about in Psalm one thirty nine how God knew 144 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 5: us even when we were an unformed substance. He looked 145 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 5: at that substance and said, this is my purpose for 146 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 5: this person. This is when they will live, This is 147 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 5: who their parents were will be, This is their assignment. 148 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 5: He then breathed his life into you and sent you 149 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 5: through your mother, through your father. They may have had issues, 150 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 5: but that doesn't have to stop you. The creator of 151 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 5: the universe breathed his purpose into you. You are a 152 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 5: person of destiny. You've got to have this down in 153 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 5: your spirit. You are not an accident. You have been 154 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 5: hand picked by Almighty God to be here at this 155 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 5: time in history. Sometimes we hear parents say we weren't 156 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 5: expecting this child. 157 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 3: They were a surprise. They were an accident. 158 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 5: No, they may have been a surprise to you, but 159 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 5: they weren't a surprise to Almighty God. 160 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: No child can be born without God. 161 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 5: Breathing his life into them. You may think, well, Joel, 162 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 5: I was unwanted. I was an unplanned pregnancy. My mother 163 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 5: and father weren't married. No, you wouldn't be here if 164 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 5: God didn't give life to your seed. In God's eyes, 165 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 5: there's no such thing as being illegitimate. You didn't just 166 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 5: show up unwanted, unannounced. God had already planned out your 167 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 5: days long before you ever entered into this world. That's 168 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 5: what God said to Jeremiah. Before you were born. I 169 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 5: knew you, and I already called you to be a 170 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 5: prophet to the nations. Notice he had an assignment from 171 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 5: Almighty God before he was ever even born. That means 172 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 5: my past didn't start with my parents. It started with 173 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 5: my God. You may not have had the blessing of 174 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 5: having a father in the home when you're grown up, 175 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 5: or maybe you didn't have a mother that really loved 176 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 5: you and spoke faith into you, but that doesn't have 177 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 5: to stop you from fulfilling your purpose. A parent may 178 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 5: not have given you their blessing. The good news is 179 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 5: God gave you his blessing. The very fact that we 180 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 5: woke up with air to breathe today, that should be 181 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 5: a reminder that we are called, we are chosen, we 182 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 5: are anointed, we are set apart, we are people of destiny. 183 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 5: You've got to get rid of every thought that's telling 184 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 5: you that you're a mistake. You didn't really have a 185 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 5: father around, you didn't have a good mother. Now listen, 186 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 5: the scripture says God will be a father to the fatherless. 187 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 5: You don't have to have everybody else's approval. You have 188 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 5: God's approval. That's all that really matters. I think about 189 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 5: our friend Israel Houghton, one of our worship leaders, when 190 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 5: his mom was pregnant with him. She was a teenager 191 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 5: living in Iowa. She was white, the father was black. 192 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,479 Speaker 5: They weren't married. This was back in the nineteen seventies. 193 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 5: Her parents said, you're not going to keep this child. 194 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 5: It's a mistake. You're going to ruin your life and 195 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 5: the baby's life. They gave her an ultimatum, either abort 196 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 5: this baby, or you're not welcome in our home anymore. Sadly, 197 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 5: sometimes when our children need us, the mother. 198 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 3: We helped him the least. 199 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 5: That young lady made a decision to keep the child. 200 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 5: She moved to California all by herself. At seventeen years 201 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 5: of age. She was on the street corner and somebody 202 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 5: talked to her about finding peace with God. That day, 203 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 5: right then and there, she gave her life to Christ. 204 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 5: That person gave her a Bible. When she got home, 205 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 5: she opened it. The first word she saw was Israel. 206 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 5: She thought, that's what I'm gonna name my baby. 207 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 3: Today. 208 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 5: We all know that Israel was not a mistake. 209 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 3: He was not a mac for them. 210 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 5: He's one of the great worship leaders, one of the 211 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 5: great psalmists of our time. 212 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 3: He's written songs that are sung. 213 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 5: All over the world, won Grammy Awards, all kinds of 214 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 5: other accolades. 215 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 3: But Israel could have sat around with a. 216 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 5: Chip on his shoulder and thought, why didn't I have 217 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 5: a normal upbringing? 218 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 3: Why wasn't my father around? 219 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 5: Why did these kids make fun of me at school 220 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 5: because I'm half white and half black. No, deep down, 221 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 5: Israel new I'm a person of destiny. 222 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 3: I have a purpose to fulfill. Yes, I came. 223 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 5: Through my mother and I love her, But I came 224 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 5: from Almighty God. 225 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 3: I know he has an assignment for me. 226 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 5: He didn't let his heredity stop his destiny. You may 227 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 5: have a thousand reasons why you could live with a 228 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,719 Speaker 5: chip on your shoulder and stay defeated and depressed. No, 229 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 5: you may have a reason, but you don't have a right. 230 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 5: Almighty God breathed his life into you. He's given you 231 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 5: an assignment. You are not here to just take up space. 232 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 5: You're not supposed to just drag through the day with 233 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 5: no enthusiasm. You're supposed to be living an abundant life, 234 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 5: pursuing your God given dreams, making a difference in our world. 235 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 5: You got to dig your heels in and say I 236 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 5: am not settling where I am. It may have been unfair, 237 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 5: it may not have been right, but I know who 238 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 5: I am. I am a person of destiny. I'm a 239 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 5: person of purpose, and I realized before anyone could put 240 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 5: a curse on me, God put his blessing on me. 241 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 5: So I am going to rise up and become everything 242 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 5: He's created me to be. 243 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 3: Here's my point. 244 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 5: You've got to get rid of any excuses that are 245 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 5: holding you back. Well, George, I just come from the 246 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 5: wrong family. No God knew who your parents would be. 247 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 5: He's not up in the heaven scratching his head saying, ah, man, 248 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 5: I wanted Israel to do something great. How did he 249 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 5: ever get hooked up with those two? No, God knew 250 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 5: exactly what he was doing. There is nothing that has 251 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 5: happened to you that can keep you from your God 252 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 5: given destiny. If you will get rid of the excuses, 253 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 5: rise up in faith with a holy determination pressing forward, 254 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 5: then you will see God's plan for your life begin 255 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 5: to unfold. God will open up doors that no man 256 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 5: can shut. He will take what was meant for your. 257 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 3: Harm and use it to your advantage. 258 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 5: Your heredity does not have to stop your destiny. Here's 259 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 5: what I've learned. The enemy doesn't fight you for where 260 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 5: you are. He fights you for where you're going. He 261 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 5: doesn't fight you for the present. He fights you because 262 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 5: he knows what's in your future. He would have loved 263 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 5: to talk Israel's mom into aborting him. Why did he 264 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 5: fight her so hard? He knew where Israel was going. 265 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 5: He knew Israel was going to do something great. When 266 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 5: I first started ministering ten years ago, it was very difficult. 267 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 5: I was not only dealing with the loss of my father. 268 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 5: But I was learning how to minister, and at one 269 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 5: point it seemed like everything was coming against me. People 270 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 5: were talking and I wasn't even sure I was able 271 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 5: to do this, and I thought, why is everything such 272 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 5: a struggle? Why are these people against me? I'm not 273 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 5: bothering anybody. I'm just trying to carry on what my 274 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 5: mom and. 275 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 3: Dad had started. 276 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 5: I realize now the enemy wasn't fighting me for where 277 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 5: I was. 278 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 3: He was fighting me for where I was going. 279 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 5: He didn't want us to make it here to the 280 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 5: former Compact Center so we could. 281 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 3: Celebrate each week. He didn't want me to be a 282 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 3: voice of hope that would go around the world. 283 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 5: He didn't want me to write the books, send out 284 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 5: all the podcasts. 285 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 3: He doesn't fight you for where you are. 286 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 5: He fights you because he knows in your future is 287 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 5: favors good breaks, supernatural opportunities, divine connections. He's fighting you 288 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 5: because he knows you're gonna do damage to his kingdom 289 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 5: and you're gonna advance God's kingdom. 290 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 3: When times get tough. That should be a reminder. 291 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 5: This is just a sure sign that God has something 292 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 5: great in story. I know this gentleman that was raised 293 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 5: by a single parent mother. He never knew his biological father. 294 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 5: When he was five or six years old old, his 295 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 5: mother married, and this stepdad was very mean, very condescending. 296 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 5: He was always telling him how he was never going 297 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 5: to amount to anything, how slow he was, how clumsy 298 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 5: he was, how he couldn't do anything right. He grew 299 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 5: up incredibly insecure, feeling inferior. When he was in his teens, 300 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 5: his mother remarried. This second stepfather was just the opposite. 301 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 5: He began to speak faith into this young man, tell 302 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 5: him how talented he was and how he could do anything, 303 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 5: and how he was this person of destiny. When the 304 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 5: young man graduated from high school, he was working as 305 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 5: a janitor in a small town, cleaning an office complex. 306 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 5: The stepfather asked him what he wanted to do with 307 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 5: his life. He'd been beaten down for so many years. 308 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 5: He couldn't see himself doing anything different. He said, well, 309 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 5: I just want to be a janitor and continue to 310 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 5: clean this office building. The stepfather looked at him and said, listen, Robert, 311 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 5: you can become so much more. You have the seed 312 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 5: of almighty God. You've got to have a bigger vision 313 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 5: for your life. 314 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 3: He said, I'll make a deal with you. If you'll 315 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 3: go to college. 316 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 5: I'll pay for every book, I'll pay for every course, 317 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 5: I'll pay for every degree that you get. When Robert 318 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 5: heard that something leaped on the inside, he knew God was. 319 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 3: Speaking to him. 320 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 5: He went to college and got his bachelor's degree, and 321 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 5: then got his master's degree, and then got a doctorate. 322 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 5: He liked it so much he decided to go to 323 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 5: seminary and got another degree. After four degrees, the stepfather said, 324 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 5: I think that's good enough. Today Robert is extremely successful 325 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 5: fulfilling his God given purpose. 326 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 3: What happened he didn't let his. 327 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 5: Heredity stop his destiny. He realized the enemy wasn't fighting 328 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 5: him for where he was. He was fighting him for 329 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 5: where he was going. But it all started when somebody 330 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 5: spoke faith into him, when that stepfather told him what 331 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 5: he had on the inside. 332 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 3: That's what I'm doing today. 333 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 5: I'm calling forth your seeds of greatness. Someone may have 334 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 5: told you what you can't become, but I'm here to 335 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 5: tell you what you can become. You are a person 336 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 5: of destiny. You are equipped, you are talented, you are creative. 337 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 3: Don't you dare. 338 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 5: Let what someone has said about you, or how someone 339 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 5: has raised you to limit your life. It may not 340 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 5: have been fair, but God is fair. It may have 341 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 5: clouded your future, but I believe today the clouds are 342 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 5: beginning to dissipate. The sun is starting to shine forth. 343 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 5: You're going to step into a new dimension in your life. 344 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 5: You know the truth, and the truth is setting you free. 345 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 5: You realize, before anyone could put a curse on you, 346 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 5: God put a blessing, and his blessing always. 347 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 3: Overrides the curse. 348 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 5: When you really understand that you you've been blessed by 349 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 5: the creator of the universe, then no matter what comes 350 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 5: against you, it won't affect you. When somebody's talking bad 351 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 5: about you, trying to pull you down, trying to steal 352 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 5: your joy, you just shake it off. You know God's 353 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 5: fighting your battles. You know God is your vindicator. I 354 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 5: love the time in the scripture when a prophet was 355 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 5: walking down the road with some of his men, and 356 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 5: this young man came up and started badgering the prophet, 357 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 5: criticizing him, trying to make him look bad, and everywhere 358 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 5: this group went, the young man falling from a distance 359 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 5: and just kept annoying him, pestering him Finally, one of 360 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,239 Speaker 5: the men said to the prophet, do you want us 361 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 5: to go and shut this guy up? We are so 362 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 5: tired of hearing him. The prophet said, no, let him 363 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 5: keep talking. Maybe God will hear him and bless me 364 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 5: for it. That's the attitude we should have. Somebody talking 365 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 5: about you, trying to make you look bad. You don't 366 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,479 Speaker 5: lose your joy, you don't get upset. You know, the 367 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 5: more they talk, the more God's gonna bless They're trying 368 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 5: to curse your future. They don't realize what God is blessed. 369 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 5: No person can curse. They meant it to harm you, 370 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 5: but God's gonna cause it to backfire. 371 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 3: You're gonna come out better off than you were before. 372 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 5: One time in the Old Testament, the king of Moab 373 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 5: sent word to Balim, asking him to come to his 374 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 5: city and to curse the people of Israel. The Israelites 375 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 5: were about to come through where the Moabites lived, and 376 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 5: when the king saw how many there were, he sent 377 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 5: his men with a large amount of money. And they said, Balim, 378 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 5: we know what you asked the Lord. He will do 379 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 5: and the King will pay you all this money if 380 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 5: you'll just come back with us and curse these people. 381 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 5: He said, we'll stay overnight and let me pray about it. 382 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 5: But understand, I can only say what God tells me 383 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 5: to say. He prayed about it, and in numbers twenty 384 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 5: two twelve, God said, Balem, there's no use you going. 385 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 5: What I have blessed, you cannot curse. Notice when God 386 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 5: puts the blessing on you, it doesn't matter what somebody says. 387 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what they do, doesn't matter how you 388 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 5: were raised, doesn't matter how unfair it was. 389 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 3: All that matters is. 390 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 5: The creator of the universe put his blessing on you, 391 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,239 Speaker 5: and everything else is of no effect. They may say it, 392 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 5: but if you don't let it take root. 393 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 3: It's not gonna stop you. 394 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 5: It may be unfair, may look like they're getting the 395 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 5: best of you, but if you will stay in faith, 396 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 5: sooner or later you will see the blessing overrode the curse. 397 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 5: It didn't stop you, It promoted you. It was meant 398 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 5: to slow you down, but instead you accelerated. They went 399 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 5: back and told the king that Balem wouldn't come. He said, well, 400 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 5: take some more money and go back and tell him 401 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 5: he's gotta come and curse these people. 402 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 3: They went back, and Balim said, and. 403 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 5: Guys, even if you offer me a palace filled with 404 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 5: silver and gold, I am powerless to do anything against 405 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 5: the will of the Lord, my God. They stayed the 406 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 5: night and finally talked Balem into going. He got there 407 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 5: and the king said, Balem, what took you so long? 408 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 5: I've been waiting for you to curse these people. Balim said, 409 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 5: I'll pray one more time, but I can only say 410 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 5: what the Lord instructs me to say. He prayed the 411 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 5: next morning. He said to the king, here's what the 412 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 5: word of the Lord says. These people will succeed and 413 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 5: become a great nation and have descendants too many to count. 414 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 5: If I could just be one of them. The king said, Balim, 415 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 5: what are you doing? Would you stop? I'm paying you 416 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 5: to curse them instead your blessing them. Balem said it again, 417 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,880 Speaker 5: I cannot curse what God has already blessed. 418 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 3: Now, I hope you'll get that down in your spirit. 419 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 5: When God breathed his life life into you, he breathed 420 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 5: his blessing. You have the dna of Almighty God. His 421 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 5: royal blood is flowing through your veins. You'll wear in 422 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,120 Speaker 5: his crown of favor, just like this king. When somebody 423 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 5: tries to curse you, In other words, when somebody does 424 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 5: you wrong, you got a bad break, you went through 425 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 5: an unfair situation. It looks like it's clouded your future. 426 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 5: Now you've got to have a new perspective. What God 427 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 5: has blessed, no person can curse. Does it matter if 428 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 5: they speak defeat over you night and day. They may 429 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,880 Speaker 5: try to make you feel small and insecure. They may 430 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 5: try to intimidate you into shrinking back in fear, but 431 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 5: there's no reason to be afraid, no reason to get 432 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 5: upset or be intimidated. The good news is the creator 433 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 5: of the universe put his blessing on you, and just 434 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 5: like Balem said, they are powerless to stop it. That 435 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 5: means nothing they say, nothing they do, can take that 436 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 5: blessing away from you. When you really understand this, there's 437 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 5: a real freedom. Somebody's talking bad about you, your attitude 438 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 5: is no big deal. I know they are powerless to 439 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 5: stop the blessing God put on my life. Well, you 440 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 5: got laid off, got some bad breaks, aren't you worried? No, 441 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 5: I'm not worried. I know the blessing God put on 442 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 5: me will always override the curse. Well, you got off 443 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 5: to a rough start in life. You're still in the projects. 444 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 5: Doesn't look like you have much of a future. 445 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 3: Know where I am is not where I'm staying. I 446 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 3: know the blessing on my life will get me to where. 447 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 5: I'm supposed to be. I love the story of Mordecai. 448 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 3: In the scripture. 449 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 5: He was the one that encouraged his cousin Esther to 450 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 5: rise up and save God's people. 451 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 3: But there was another man by the name of Hayman. 452 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 5: He worked directly with the king, and Haman didn't like Mordecai. 453 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 5: He was always trying to push him down and always 454 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 5: trying to make look bad. It was because he was 455 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 5: intimidated by Mordecai. I believe he was jealous and afraid 456 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 5: that Mordecai might outshine him. Now I found in life 457 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 5: there will always be people that don't want you to 458 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 5: rise any higher. 459 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 3: They think if they can. 460 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 5: Keep you small, keep you down, it'll make them look bigger. 461 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 5: So they'll do everything they can to keep you from succeeding. 462 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 5: It may mean talking behind your back, not inviting you 463 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 5: to an important meeting. 464 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 3: Not giving you the credit you deserve. 465 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 5: It's easy to get frustrated and want to get in 466 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 5: there and set the record straight. But I've learned if 467 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 5: you'll just leave it up to God and still on 468 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 5: the high road, God will fight your battles for you. 469 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 5: It may look like they're getting the best of you, 470 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 5: like they're keeping you from being promoted, but don't get discouraged. 471 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 5: Your time is coming. God always has the final say. 472 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 5: They may keep you down temporarily, but like Balim said, 473 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 5: and they are powerless to curse what God has already blessed. 474 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,199 Speaker 5: One night, this king couldn't sleep. He asked an assistant 475 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 5: to go get him the record books of everything that 476 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 5: had gone on in that city. 477 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 3: It just so happened. He opened to the page. 478 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 5: Where it talked about where Mordecai had done a great 479 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 5: deed and saved the city from harm. 480 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 3: The next morning, the king called Haman in and. 481 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 5: Said, Hayman, what do you suggest I do to honor 482 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,360 Speaker 5: a person that is really pleased the king and done 483 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 5: a great deed for our city. Haman was so full 484 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 5: of pride and so stuck on himself he thought the 485 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 5: king was talking about him, so he played it up 486 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 5: really big, went overboard. He said, I think wa to 487 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 5: have a big parade. Put a royal robe on this person, 488 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 5: march him up and down the streets, blowing trumpets, announcing 489 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 5: how great he is. The king said, Hayman, that's a 490 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 5: great idea. I'm putting you in charge. Now go get 491 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 5: Mordecai and do just what you said. Friends, God knows 492 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 5: how to vindicate you. He can take the very ones 493 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 5: that are trying to curse you and use them to 494 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 5: be the ones that bless you. David said in Psalm 495 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 5: one O nine they will curse me, but God you 496 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 5: will bless me. And some of you have had a 497 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 5: lot of negative things come against you. It's worn you 498 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 5: down to where you're not really expecting God's blessings. That 499 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 5: I believe today a new seed is taken root. You're 500 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 5: not gonna let your heredity stop your destiny. You're not 501 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 5: gonna allow what someone has said to keep you from 502 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 5: pressing forward. You're not gonna let a jealous, critical person 503 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 5: steal your joy. You know God is fighting your battles. 504 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 5: You know he put a blessing before anyone could put 505 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 5: a curse. And I realized you could not choose who 506 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 5: your parents were, You couldn't choose how you were raised. 507 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 5: You couldn't choose when you were born. But you can 508 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 5: choose to walk in the blessing. You can choose to 509 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 5: fulfill your purpose. You can choose to not live life 510 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 5: bitter looking back, but pressing forward in faith. You may 511 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 5: have had some generational curses in your family line, but 512 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 5: when you came to Christ, the scripture says you became 513 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 5: a new creation. 514 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 3: Old things have passed away. 515 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 5: Just like there were generational curses, I believe now there 516 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 5: are generational blessings, and what God has blessed, no person 517 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 5: can curse. Now I'm asking you today to rise up 518 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 5: in faith. Say yes, I may have had some bad breaks. 519 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 5: Yes it may have been unfair. 520 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 3: But I'm not worried. I'm not discouraged. I know the blessing. 521 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 5: God put on my life will always override the curse. 522 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 5: If you do that, I can tell you with confidence. 523 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 5: Favor is in your future. Good breaks is in your future, 524 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 5: Vindication is in your future. 525 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 3: New opportunities are in your future. 526 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 5: Healing, health, wholeness, promotion, victory is in your future. 527 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 3: Friends, you are blessed and you cannot be cursed. Do 528 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 3: you receive that blessing today? 529 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 530 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 531 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll 532 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 3: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 533 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 3: you my Lord and savior. 534 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 535 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 5: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 536 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 5: Keep God first place. 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