Speaker 1: What a joy to be with you today.
Speaker 2: If we're praying for you and your family, I know
Speaker 2: God has great things in store. You wouldn't be alive
Speaker 2: if there weren't more victories in front of you. So
Speaker 2: know that we love you, we're praying for you, and hey,
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Speaker 2: But thanks for tuning in today. I like to start
Speaker 2: with something funny, and I heard about this man that
Speaker 2: was out walking on the beach. God said, son, you've
Speaker 2: been so faithful, I'm gonna grant you one special wish.
Speaker 1: He was so excited.
Speaker 2: He said, God, I've always wanted to go to Hawaii,
Speaker 2: but I'm afraid to fly. So my wish is that
Speaker 2: you would build a bridge across the ocean. God said, son,
Speaker 2: that's impossible. Think of the logistics of that. Now take
Speaker 2: a moment and wish again. The man thought about it
Speaker 2: and said, okay, God, I've been married four times. All
Speaker 2: my ex wives say I am so insensitive. So my
Speaker 2: wish is that I would be able to understand a woman.
Speaker 2: I want to know why they think like they think,
Speaker 2: why they feel like they feel. There was a long pause,
Speaker 2: and God said, do you want two lanes or four
Speaker 2: lanes on that bridge? Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind
Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 2: to talk to you today about.
Speaker 1: Remember who you are.
Speaker 2: We all face challenges in life that we don't know
Speaker 2: how are going to work out? How am I going
Speaker 2: to get well? How am I going to meet the
Speaker 2: right person? How is this dream going to come to pass?
Speaker 1: But here's the key.
Speaker 2: The how is not as important as the who. When
Speaker 2: you know who you are a child of the Most
Speaker 2: High God, crowned with favor, with royal blood flowing through
Speaker 2: your veins, then the who will override the how. The
Speaker 2: how is not up to us. The how may look impossible.
Speaker 2: If you stay focused on how, you're going to get worried, discouraged.
Speaker 2: Your job is not to figure everything out. Your job
Speaker 2: is to honor God, be your best, and he will
Speaker 2: take care of the how.
Speaker 1: We spend too much time on the how.
Speaker 2: How is my child going to get back on course?
Speaker 2: How am I going to make it through this pandemic?
Speaker 2: How can I overcome this opposition at work? Why don't
Speaker 2: you spend that same time on the who?
Speaker 1: Father? Thank you that I am your child.
Speaker 2: Thank you that you hand picked me, You chose me
Speaker 2: before I could choose you. Thank you that you are
Speaker 2: for me, that you are fighting my battles. If you'll
Speaker 2: focus on the who, God will take care of the how.
Speaker 2: When our children were small, they never once said, Daddy,
Speaker 2: how are we going to pay our bills this month?
Speaker 2: How are we going to get to school tomorrow? How
Speaker 2: are we going to have something for dinner tonight? They
Speaker 2: were never concerned about the how, because they knew the who,
Speaker 2: because they belonged to us. They knew their father was
Speaker 2: going to take care of it. They knew Daddy is
Speaker 2: going to keep us safe. Daddy's going to make sure
Speaker 2: we get there. Daddy's going to protect us, provide show
Speaker 2: us favor. What if we had that same kind of
Speaker 2: childlike faith, not trying to figure out all the hows,
Speaker 2: worried about how our health is going to improve, and
Speaker 2: how we're going to accomplish the goal, how we're going
Speaker 2: to get out of this difficulty.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you your heavenly Father is going to take
Speaker 1: care of the hows.
Speaker 2: When you understand that you belong to him, then you
Speaker 2: can live from a place of peace knowing that Daddy's
Speaker 2: going to protect you, Daddy's going to show you favor,
Speaker 2: that he's going to turn that problem around. As an
Speaker 2: earthly father, I knew how to do things that my
Speaker 2: children didn't understand. I had experience, wisdom, strength that they
Speaker 2: didn't have. How much more so our heavenly father. He
Speaker 2: created the universe, He flung stars into space.
Speaker 1: He has ways of doing things that we can't see.
Speaker 2: He's working behind the scenes lining up what you need
Speaker 2: to accomplish your dreams. He already has a solution to
Speaker 2: that problem that's stressing you out. He has angels watching
Speaker 2: over you, he has favor surrounding you. He's put a
Speaker 2: blessing on your life that circumstances and people cannot stop.
Speaker 2: You have an advantage because of who your heavenly Father is.
Speaker 1: When you face situations you don't.
Speaker 2: See how they could work out. Don't live worried. The
Speaker 2: how is not up to you. God wouldn't have allowed.
Speaker 1: It if it was going to keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 2: He won't let you get in a problem that he
Speaker 2: can't get you out of. If you'll stay focused on
Speaker 2: the Who, knowing that you are His child, that you
Speaker 2: are blessed, favored, anointed, empowered, then.
Speaker 1: God will take care of the how. This is what
Speaker 1: David did. At seventeen years old.
Speaker 2: He was out in the shepherd's fields when his father
Speaker 2: asked him to take lunch to his brothers. They were
Speaker 2: serving in the army in another city. When he arrived,
Speaker 2: he heard Goliath, the champion of the Philistine army, taunting
Speaker 2: the Israelites. They were all afraid, but something rose up
Speaker 2: in David, a fire, a passion and anointing. He said,
Speaker 2: who is this man that he should defy the armies
Speaker 2: of the living God.
Speaker 1: He told King Saul that he wanted to fight Goliath.
Speaker 2: Saul laughed. Goliath was twice David's size. He was their
Speaker 2: most skilled warrior. He was wearing a full set of armor.
Speaker 2: David had no military training, no experience. The how seemed impossible,
Speaker 2: no way in the natural. But David understood this principle
Speaker 2: that the howl wasn't up to him. He stood before
Speaker 2: Goliath said you come against me with a sword and
Speaker 2: a shield, but I come against you in the name.
Speaker 1: Of the Lord God of Israel.
Speaker 2: He was saying, in effect, Goliath, I may be small,
Speaker 2: I may be inexperienced. The odds are against me, but
Speaker 2: I have a secret. I know who I am. I
Speaker 2: belong to the most high. I have an advantage. Favor
Speaker 2: is on my life.
Speaker 1: He didn't focus on the how, He focused on the who.
Speaker 2: He took his slingshot out, slung that rock, hit Goliath
Speaker 2: in the forehead, knocked him unconscious. When you know who
Speaker 2: you are, you'll defeat giants that are much bigger. You
Speaker 2: may be facing situations now now that you don't see how.
Speaker 1: They could work out. You could live.
Speaker 2: Worried, stressed. You have to shift your perspective from the
Speaker 2: how to the who who you are is more powerful
Speaker 2: than any force trying to stop you. You're not just anyone.
Speaker 2: You belong to the most God. He breathed life into you,
Speaker 2: He chose you, and the good news is he's backing
Speaker 2: you up. He has the hows.
Speaker 1: Already figured out.
Speaker 2: There's no giant too big for him, no sickness too great,
Speaker 2: no addiction too powerful, no obstacle too strong.
Speaker 1: Like David, you may not see the how. That's okay.
Speaker 1: The how is not up to you.
Speaker 2: When you know who you are, you live from a
Speaker 2: place of faith, a place of trust, a place of confidence,
Speaker 2: then you're going to see God show.
Speaker 1: Out in your life.
Speaker 2: You don't have to have big resources, big talent, big connections.
Speaker 2: God will take your sling shop what seemed small and
Speaker 2: put his favor on it, and you will defeat great giants.
Speaker 2: It's not so much what you have, it's the blessing
Speaker 2: on what you have. It's the favor on what you have.
Speaker 2: Where does that come from your talent, your family, from
Speaker 2: being good enough?
Speaker 1: No, it comes from who you are.
Speaker 2: When God created you, he put his blessing on you,
Speaker 2: He put his favor.
Speaker 1: Now quit trying to figure out.
Speaker 2: All the hows and rest in the Who I heard
Speaker 2: about these baby cub bears. They were out in the
Speaker 2: woods playing having fun when this pack of wolves came
Speaker 2: out of nowhere and started toward them.
Speaker 1: The cubs saw the wolves out in.
Speaker 2: The distance, but they didn't get alarmed.
Speaker 1: They didn't take off running.
Speaker 2: Seemed like they were naive, like they were about to
Speaker 2: be harmed, but.
Speaker 1: It didn't bother them.
Speaker 2: When the wolves got about twenty yards away, out of
Speaker 2: nowhere came this huge mama bear with their paws up
Speaker 2: in the air, growling forcefully, just like she was saying,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 1: Make my day.
Speaker 2: Those wolves stopped in their tracks, turned around, and went
Speaker 2: back to where they came from. The reason the cubs
Speaker 2: weren't upset, the reason they didn't panic, is they knew
Speaker 2: who they belonged to. They didn't worry about the how,
Speaker 2: how they were going to stay safe, how they were
Speaker 2: not going to be harmed. They knew Mama would take
Speaker 2: care of the howl. You may have things coming against you,
Speaker 2: but you're.
Speaker 1: Not on your own. Because of who you are.
Speaker 2: You can stay in peace, not because Mama Bear is
Speaker 2: backing you up, but because the Most High God has
Speaker 2: your back. He's watching over you. He's pushing back forces
Speaker 2: of darkness. He's not allowing that sickness to take you out.
Speaker 2: He's not letting those people keep you down. They may
Speaker 2: have shown up, but God sees it. He knows what's happening,
Speaker 2: and he is.
Speaker 1: On his way. Quit worrying, quit losing sleep.
Speaker 2: God has you in the palm of his hand. He
Speaker 2: never asked us to figure out the how. In fact,
Speaker 2: the scripture says, trust in the Lord with all your heart,
Speaker 2: lean not to your own understanding. If you only lean
Speaker 2: to your understanding, you're going to get frustrated. Because sometimes
Speaker 2: there is no logical solution, there's no way out in
Speaker 2: the natural.
Speaker 1: But we serve a supernatural God.
Speaker 2: He can make things happen that we couldn't make happen.
Speaker 2: When Victoria and I had been married about two years,
Speaker 2: we lived in an apartment complex and one evening we
Speaker 2: were out walking through this nice neighborhood with big trees
Speaker 2: and beautiful two story homes. We came to this one
Speaker 2: house that was under construction and it was just about finished.
Speaker 2: It was late in the day, no one was working,
Speaker 2: so we went to look at it.
Speaker 1: The front door was unlocked, so we walked in. It
Speaker 1: was so beautiful.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget the tall ceilings, the big curved windows,
Speaker 2: it was all so spacious and well done. As we
Speaker 2: were walking out the front sidewalk, Victoria stopped, turned around
Speaker 2: and said, Joel, one day we're going to live in
Speaker 2: a house just like this.
Speaker 1: That was so far out of my.
Speaker 2: Thinking, so unbelievable. I couldn't even fathom it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I started telling her all the reasons why it wasn't
Speaker 2: going to happen. I said, Victoria, that's impossible. This is
Speaker 2: how much we make I work for a ministry, even
Speaker 2: if we say for years, we wouldn't have enough. I
Speaker 2: went on and on that no more affected her. She said, no, Joel,
Speaker 2: I know down in my spirit is going to happen.
Speaker 2: The more she believed, the more aggravated that made me.
Speaker 2: I did my best to convince her to be a doubter.
Speaker 2: Come on, we're limited well enough, we're at a disadvantage.
Speaker 2: Her attitude was no, thanks. I know who I am.
Speaker 2: I am blessed, I am favored, i am anointed. I'm
Speaker 2: a child of the most High. I wonder how many
Speaker 2: times we're doing like I did. I can't get well
Speaker 2: have you seen the medical report. I'll never break this addiction.
Speaker 2: I've had it since high school. My business will never succeed.
Speaker 2: I don't have the resources, the connections.
Speaker 1: All this time, you're focused on.
Speaker 2: The how, thinking about what you can't do, what you
Speaker 2: don't have. God is saying, let me take care of
Speaker 2: the how. You just focus on the who. You Believe
Speaker 2: that you're my child, Believe that you have an advantage.
Speaker 1: Believe that I'm a good father.
Speaker 2: Believe that I will take care of you, heal you,
Speaker 2: restore you, favor you, prosper you. We would walk that
Speaker 2: pass several times a week. Every time Victoria would say,
Speaker 2: there's that house.
Speaker 1: We're going to live in something like that.
Speaker 2: One day, hearing that over and over, she started to
Speaker 2: convince me, you've heard that saying if you can't beat them,
Speaker 2: join them. She wasn't going to sit down to where
Speaker 2: I was, so I decided to rise up to where
Speaker 2: she was. Don't let people speaking doubt, defeat, negativity.
Speaker 1: Cause you to give up on your dreams.
Speaker 2: Instead of letting them talk you out of it, you
Speaker 2: need to keep saying it so much that you talked
Speaker 2: them into it. Several years later, we bought an old
Speaker 2: Rundown house on a nice piece of property close into
Speaker 2: the city. The day we closed on the house, we
Speaker 2: were standing in the front yard. A car pulled up
Speaker 2: and stopped. This lady got out and said she was
Speaker 2: a relator. She asked if we wanted to sell the property.
Speaker 2: I said no, we just bought it. She said, well,
Speaker 2: how about selling it for a significant profit. I told
Speaker 2: her that we wanted to keep it. She said, congratulations,
Speaker 2: you just bought your dream house.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what she was talking about.
Speaker 2: A few months later, the neighborhood changed the deed restrictions
Speaker 2: where you could subdivide the lots.
Speaker 1: A year later, we.
Speaker 2: Sold half the property for more than we bought the
Speaker 2: whole property for. A builder built two homes on it,
Speaker 2: one for us. We sold that home and bought a
Speaker 2: house down the street from the original house. Victoria said
Speaker 2: we were going to live in. When we moved in,
Speaker 2: I said, Victoria, here's this house. I always said we
Speaker 2: were going to live in.
Speaker 1: She almost didn't even.
Speaker 2: Let me say there are you trying to figure out
Speaker 2: the house?
Speaker 1: Leave that up to God. You focus on the who.
Speaker 2: Lord, Thank you that I'm your child, that You've chosen me,
Speaker 2: that you've ordered my steps. You said your plans for
Speaker 2: me are for good. You said you would do more
Speaker 2: than I can ask, think or imagine. One time, the
Speaker 2: disciples asked Jesus how to pray, and he gave them
Speaker 2: what we know now as the Lord's Prayer. He started
Speaker 2: off saying, our Father, who aren't in Heaven.
Speaker 1: Goes on to talk about give us.
Speaker 2: Our daily bread, protect us from evil, help us to forgive,
Speaker 2: on and on. But it's significant that before we ask
Speaker 2: for our needs, before we ask for protection for guidance,
Speaker 2: God said, I want you to acknowledge who you are.
Speaker 1: I want you to see yourself as my child, our father.
Speaker 1: You're saying, God, I know who I am. I belong
Speaker 1: to you. You're my father.
Speaker 2: You created me, you love me, you care for me,
Speaker 2: you protect me, you favor me.
Speaker 1: If you don't know who.
Speaker 2: You are, then the rest of this prayer is not
Speaker 2: going to be effective. You can't ask in faith for
Speaker 2: the daily bread, the protection, the provision if you don't.
Speaker 1: Know you're his child.
Speaker 2: You may have some house, you don't know how you're
Speaker 2: going to finish school, how your family is going to
Speaker 2: stay together, how you're going to come out.
Speaker 1: Of that depression. But if you'll just keep the who.
Speaker 2: God, You're my father, I'm your child. God, I trust you.
Speaker 2: When you know the who, God will take care of
Speaker 2: the hows.
Speaker 1: Luke Chapter one.
Speaker 2: There's the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus. She
Speaker 2: was a teenager living in Nazareth, one of the poorest
Speaker 2: cities of that region. An angel appeared to her and
Speaker 2: said that she was going to have a baby without
Speaker 2: knowing a man.
Speaker 1: He said he would be the Messiah. They were to
Speaker 1: name him Jesus. Mary was confused. She thought, that's impossible.
Speaker 1: You can't have a baby without a man. That defies
Speaker 1: the laws of nature.
Speaker 2: She said to the angel, how can I have a baby?
Speaker 2: I'm a virgin. Mary had a how. I don't see
Speaker 2: how this can happen. The angel said, the Holy Spirit
Speaker 2: will come upon you. The power of the Most High
Speaker 2: will overshadow you, and you will have this child. He
Speaker 2: was saying, in effect, Mary, don't worry about the how.
Speaker 1: God will take care of the how.
Speaker 2: Like Mary a howl. God's given you a promise, but
Speaker 2: seems impossible.
Speaker 1: How can you get well? How can you come out
Speaker 1: of death? How can you accomplish your dream? God is
Speaker 1: saying to you.
Speaker 2: What he said to Mary, The power of the Most
Speaker 2: High will overshadow you. One version says, overtake you those
Speaker 2: dreams that look impossible. You're going to see God's favor
Speaker 2: overtake you. Healing, overtake you, Freedom, overtake you. Overtake means
Speaker 2: you can't outrun it, you can't hide from it.
Speaker 1: The power of.
Speaker 2: The Most High is going to make things happen that
Speaker 2: you couldn't make happen. Don't worry about the house may
Speaker 2: seem too big, too late, too far, too much.
Speaker 1: That's the way Mary felt. Listen to what she said.
Speaker 2: She could have doubted like I did. Who will never
Speaker 2: live in a house like that?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Have a baby without a man?
Speaker 2: But Mary said in verse thirty eight, I am the
Speaker 2: Lord's child. Accept whatever he wants. May everything you said
Speaker 2: come true. Instead of focusing on the how, she switched
Speaker 2: over to the who I know? Who I am the
Speaker 2: Lord's child, I am favored, I am blessed, I am anointed.
Speaker 1: Why don't you do like Mary and leave the.
Speaker 2: Howl up to God and just stay focused on who
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 1: Lord.
Speaker 2: Thank you that you're my father, that you're working in
Speaker 2: my life, that you're taking me where I can't go
Speaker 2: on my own.
Speaker 1: God is going to put dreams in your heart that
Speaker 1: seem impossible.
Speaker 2: Obstacles will come that look too big, enemies too strong.
Speaker 2: That's when it's easy to let the howls talk you
Speaker 2: out of it.
Speaker 1: I don't see how this can work out, Joe. You
Speaker 1: don't have to. The how is not up to you.
Speaker 1: The power of the Most High is going to work
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 2: Take the pressure off yourself. Quit living worried, frustrated. It's
Speaker 2: not going to be by your strength, by your ability,
Speaker 2: but by the spirit of the living God. The Angel
Speaker 2: told Mary that it was going to happen without knowing
Speaker 2: a man. He was talking about the physical, but this
Speaker 2: has a deeper meaning. God was showing us that you're
Speaker 2: not dependent on people. What you're believing for can happen
Speaker 2: without a man. Well, if I can just get this
Speaker 2: manager to like me, if I can get this friend
Speaker 2: to give me a good break, you don't need who
Speaker 2: you think you need. When it's your time, the power
Speaker 2: of a Most High will overtake you. When God shows up,
Speaker 2: nothing can stand in his way. Chains will break, doors
Speaker 2: will open, Opportunity will come if it can happen without
Speaker 2: a man, then it can happen without a bank, without
Speaker 2: the treatment, without the experience, without the resources.
Speaker 1: God is about to surprise you, Like with Mary.
Speaker 2: It's going to be something you've never seen, something that's
Speaker 2: never happened in your family, something that defies the odds
Speaker 2: catapults you into your destiny. I talked to a young
Speaker 2: lady that had big dreams. She knew God's hand was
Speaker 2: on her, but she made poor decisions. She was at
Speaker 2: the wrong place the wrong time. She ended up in prison.
Speaker 2: She was so depressed and so down on herself that
Speaker 2: she didn't want to live.
Speaker 1: Someone gave her one.
Speaker 2: Of my books and she started reading it. Hope began
Speaker 2: to feel her heart. Dreams started coming back to life.
Speaker 2: She got her passion back.
Speaker 1: She believed that she was.
Speaker 2: Still a child of God, redeemed and forgiven. The problem
Speaker 2: was the how how could she fulfill her purpose. She
Speaker 2: was in prison, looked like she would be there for
Speaker 2: many years, but through a series of unusual events, she
Speaker 2: was unexpectedly released years ahead of schedule. When the power
Speaker 2: of the most high overtakes you, doors will open that
Speaker 2: shouldn't open. She went back to school and got her
Speaker 2: master's degree in counseling, then her PhD. Now she's helping
Speaker 2: people that were like her in a dark place struggling
Speaker 2: with depression. She said, I never dreamed I would be.
Speaker 1: Where I am.
Speaker 2: You don't have to figure out the how, Just get
Speaker 2: the who right and God will take care of the how.
Speaker 2: You may have made mistakes, that's not.
Speaker 1: Who you are, that's what you did.
Speaker 2: You are still a son, a daughter of the Most High, forgiven, redeemed, restored,
Speaker 2: called equipped, chosen, and anointed. Keep your shoulders back, hold
Speaker 2: your head up high. The enemy would love for you
Speaker 2: to go through life with your who messed up thinking
Speaker 2: you've blown it, You missed your chance. You're not worthy,
Speaker 2: not valuable. Just sit on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies.
Speaker 2: Nothing you've done has changed who you are. No mistake
Speaker 2: you've made has disquali. When you gave your life to Christ,
Speaker 2: you were.
Speaker 1: Born into God's family. You can't get unborn. His calling on.
Speaker 2: Your life doesn't go away because you've made mistakes. He
Speaker 2: took wrong turns, you got off course.
Speaker 1: You are still his child.
Speaker 2: In the scripture, God told Jonah to go one way,
Speaker 2: but he went the other. He knew what he was
Speaker 2: supposed to do, to go to the city of Nineveh
Speaker 2: tell them to repent, but he went exactly opposite.
Speaker 1: He ended up on a boat in the middle of
Speaker 1: a huge storm.
Speaker 2: He finally admitted to the crew that he was the problem.
Speaker 2: They were so grateful, they said, thank you, Jonah. They
Speaker 2: threw him overborne. He should have been done. This should
Speaker 2: have been the end of his story, but it just
Speaker 2: so happened. There was a big fish that swallowed Jonah.
Speaker 2: Even when we make mistakes, even when we bring trouble
Speaker 2: on ourselves, God is so merciful, He'll still protect us.
Speaker 1: He'll still provide a way of escape.
Speaker 2: Jonah was sitting in the belly of that well, seaweed
Speaker 2: wrapped around his head.
Speaker 1: It was dark, smelly.
Speaker 2: He didn't see how he could get out. He could
Speaker 2: have complained, been depressed. He said in verse seven, my
Speaker 2: life was slipping away. Then I remembered the Lord, my God.
Speaker 2: He was saying, in effect, I was just about done.
Speaker 1: Then I remembered who I am.
Speaker 2: He started thanking God in the belly of the well.
Speaker 2: The how looked impossible. How could he get out? How
Speaker 2: could he survive? All the odds were against him. But
Speaker 2: as he was thanking God. The scripture says God caused
Speaker 2: the fish to spit him up on dry ground. You
Speaker 2: don't have to figure out the how God controls the universe.
Speaker 2: He controls fish. One time he told Peter to go
Speaker 2: to the lake, and the first fish he caught had
Speaker 2: coins to pay their taxes. God controls the economy, He
Speaker 2: controls answers.
Speaker 1: He even controls your enemies.
Speaker 2: The scripture says God caused.
Speaker 1: Pharaoh to harden his heart.
Speaker 2: When you remember who you are, God will cause things
Speaker 2: to happen. The medical report doesn't look good, don't worry.
Speaker 2: God can cause you to get well. He controls the
Speaker 2: number of your days. People at work are against you.
Speaker 2: They're more powerful, have more influence. God will cause you
Speaker 2: to overcome. That's not your battle. The how is not
Speaker 2: up to you. The battle is the Lord's. Your business
Speaker 2: seems stuck, look like you've reached your limits.
Speaker 1: God will cause you to succeed.
Speaker 2: He'll cause opportunities to come your way. When you know
Speaker 2: who you are, you won't get discouraged by the how.
Speaker 2: You know the Lord will cause things to happen. I
Speaker 2: believe even now, God is causing your health to turn around.
Speaker 2: He's causing that depression, that anxiety, that fear to leave.
Speaker 2: He's causing the right people to find. He's causing you
Speaker 2: to conceive that baby you've been dreaming about. He's causing
Speaker 2: that trouble in your family to resolve, causing that child
Speaker 2: to get back on course. You couldn't make it happen.
Speaker 2: The odds were against you. But suddenly things are going
Speaker 2: to fall into place. Well, Joel, this sounds good, but
Speaker 2: I don't see how it can happen. Neither did Jonah,
Speaker 2: neither did Mary, neither did David.
Speaker 1: But the how is not your job.
Speaker 2: You focus on the who and let God take care
Speaker 2: of the how. He parted red seas, he brought water
Speaker 2: out of a rock. He caused Isaac to prosper in
Speaker 2: a famine, Sarah to have a baby at eighty four leopards,
Speaker 2: to defeat a huge army. He knows how to get
Speaker 2: you to your destiny. And in difficult times, when life
Speaker 2: is not fair, when we've made mistakes, gone through disappointments,
Speaker 2: that's when it's easy to get discouraged, give up on
Speaker 2: that dream.
Speaker 1: You have to remember who you are.
Speaker 2: Father, Thank you that I am your child, that you
Speaker 2: have me in the palm of your hand, that you
Speaker 2: are making ways where I don't see away, that you
Speaker 2: will get me to where I'm supposed to be. When
Speaker 2: we greet people, we often ask how are you? If
Speaker 2: we were honest, sometimes we'd answer I'm lonely, I'm fighting
Speaker 2: an illness, I've been through a loss, I'm in a.
Speaker 1: Belly of a well.
Speaker 2: That's how you are, but that's not who you are.
Speaker 2: Circumstances may have taken your how. The good news is
Speaker 2: they couldn't.
Speaker 1: Take your who. You may have been through.
Speaker 2: Disappointments, bad breaks, loss that didn't affect your identity.
Speaker 1: You are still His child.
Speaker 2: You are still blessed, You are still favored, You are
Speaker 2: still forgiven. You still have an awesome destiny to fulfill.
Speaker 2: Quit worrying about the how and start focusing on the who.
Speaker 1: If you'll do.
Speaker 2: This, I believe and declare life with Mary, the power
Speaker 2: of the most High is about to overtake you. Dreams
Speaker 2: that look impossible are about to come to pass. Problems
Speaker 2: that seem permanent are about to turn around. Healing is coming,
Speaker 2: Breakthroughs are coming, freedom is coming, the fullness of your
Speaker 2: destiny in Jesus' name and if you receive it, can
Speaker 2: you say him in today? I'd like to give you
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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I
Speaker 2: repent of my sins.
Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior.
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