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Speaker 4: I hope you enjoy this message. We are here today
Speaker 4: and we thank you for everything that you've done.
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Speaker 4: Aren't good God, and we will worship you all the
Speaker 4: days of our life in Jesus' name. Amen. You know
Speaker 4: I was thinking about this earlier and I just want
Speaker 4: to encourage you with this thought. You know, sometimes in
Speaker 4: life we try to make things happen on our own.
Speaker 4: We're looking for our good breaks, we're looking for the
Speaker 4: right people, we're looking for opportunities, and that's all good.
Speaker 4: But when we're struggling to make things happen, I believe
Speaker 4: that that is not good for us. So let's take
Speaker 4: another approach, and that approach would be all through the day,
Speaker 4: just under your breath, when you're feeling like you're struggling,
Speaker 4: when you're wondering when you're gonna get that good break,
Speaker 4: what are your prayers going to be answered? If you'll
Speaker 4: just stop and say, God, I receive everything you have
Speaker 4: for me. God, You've got good things stored up for
Speaker 4: me today. And I'm not going to struggle and I'm
Speaker 4: not going to worry, but I'm just going to be
Speaker 4: in a receiving mode. When you go into a meeting,
Speaker 4: thank you, Father, I receive everything I need for this meeting.
Speaker 4: When you go in to see your family after a long,
Speaker 4: long day's work, take one deep breath and say God,
Speaker 4: thank you. I'm receiving everything I need to be a
Speaker 4: good husband, a good wife, a good mother. Thank you
Speaker 4: Father that I don't have to struggle, but I'm just
Speaker 4: receiving you. See the Bible says, no good thing will
Speaker 4: he withhold for those who walk up rightly. God's not
Speaker 4: withholding your answers. God's not withholding those good breaks. He's
Speaker 4: not holding onto those prayers waiting for you to get
Speaker 4: it right. If you see it or you don't see it,
Speaker 4: you should always be receiving what God has for you.
Speaker 4: I believe that's how we're going to live that exceptional life.
Speaker 4: You know, someone asked me why did you name your
Speaker 4: book Exceptional You? And see it is because I believe
Speaker 4: that each one of us have been called to live
Speaker 4: this exceptional life that Jesus came to give us. I
Speaker 4: believe that God is an exceptional God, and he fashioned,
Speaker 4: informed us, and created us into his exceptional image. He
Speaker 4: felled us with gifts and talents. He gave us qualities
Speaker 4: so that we could produce the exceptional in our life.
Speaker 4: You see, we're not common, we're not ordinary. We're exceptional.
Speaker 4: You are fearfully and wonderfully made, and God has you
Speaker 4: on a path that is uniquely your own. We're all
Speaker 4: in a different path, because no two paths are alike.
Speaker 4: But God's got us all on the road to victory.
Speaker 4: You see, we can't lose sight of whose we are
Speaker 4: and who we are. You see, when we lose sight
Speaker 4: of who we are, we take these God given attributes
Speaker 4: and we have a tendency to reduce them down in
Speaker 4: our own minds. We think we're not good enough, we're
Speaker 4: not qualified enough. But you have to live this truth today.
Speaker 4: You are exceptional because God made you that way. See
Speaker 4: God formed you, and he fashioned you, and he he
Speaker 4: says you are exceptional. In Ephesians one four, it says
Speaker 4: that God chose us before the foundation of the world.
Speaker 4: He adopted us to be his very own, not because
Speaker 4: he had to, but because he wanted to. And in
Speaker 4: that adoption he brought us in to a family, his family.
Speaker 4: He not only placed tremendous value and worth on our life,
Speaker 4: but he labeled us property of God. Your identity today
Speaker 4: is a child of the most High God. When you
Speaker 4: understand who you belong to and you really value what
Speaker 4: God is placed on the inside of you, that's when
Speaker 4: you're going to be able to stand up against challenges,
Speaker 4: overcome obstacles. See, you're not going to be tossed to
Speaker 4: and fro wondering if you're good enough. Is God helping me? No?
Speaker 4: You know, the creator of the universe is in full
Speaker 4: control of your life, and his thoughts are for you.
Speaker 4: You are for good and not evil, to give you
Speaker 4: a future and a hope. Don't disqualify yourself when God
Speaker 4: has already qualified you. Sometimes we discount what we have,
Speaker 4: but God will never discount us. In Matthew, he tells
Speaker 4: a story about Jesus. He had fasted forty days and
Speaker 4: forty nights. He was led into the wilderness and he
Speaker 4: came upon the enemy. Now he was weak, he was hungry,
Speaker 4: he was tired. He was vulnerable. See how I say
Speaker 4: that word vulnerable. My kids make fun of me so
Speaker 4: much because I don't know how to say that word vulnerable. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's move on. He was facing the enemy, and you
Speaker 4: know it's interesting because the first thing the enemy did
Speaker 4: was challenge his identity, challenge who he was and his worth.
Speaker 4: He was hungry. So the enemy offered him some stones
Speaker 4: and said, if you are the son of God, turn
Speaker 4: these stones into bread. If you are the son of God.
Speaker 4: See questioning who he was, challenging his worth, his value,
Speaker 4: his capability. See we know that Jesus could turn stones
Speaker 4: into bread because we see later on in that chapter
Speaker 4: that he took a little boy's sandwich and he fed
Speaker 4: five thousand with it. See, he could make some bread,
Speaker 4: but he wasn't going to make anything that the enemy
Speaker 4: told him to make. He wasn't going to answer to
Speaker 4: the enemy. He wasn't going to accept his challenge. You
Speaker 4: know what he did. He answered him with this. It
Speaker 4: is written, man shall not have lived by bread alone,
Speaker 4: but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth
Speaker 4: of God. You see, the enemy is still roaming around.
Speaker 4: He's still trying to challenge and disqualify us. We don't
Speaker 4: have to prove ourself. We don't have to answer to him. See,
Speaker 4: Jesus wasn't going to get out of his timing. It
Speaker 4: wasn't yet his time. God hadn't told him to multiply
Speaker 4: the bread. God didn't tell him to turn those stones
Speaker 4: into bread. The enemy was trying to get him to
Speaker 4: step out of his time and do something to prove
Speaker 4: who he was. You see, you and I don't have
Speaker 4: to prove who we are to any enemy, to any opposition,
Speaker 4: to any circumstance that we're facing. You may be facing
Speaker 4: a challenge right now, you don't have to prove yourself.
Speaker 4: The enemy may be saying, if God loves you, then
Speaker 4: why are you going through this? If God loves you,
Speaker 4: if you are a child of God, why are you divorced?
Speaker 4: You see, he wants you to take a fits and say, God,
Speaker 4: why am I doing this? But when you know who
Speaker 4: you are, you can say God, I know, and we'll
Speaker 4: get through this, and I'm gonna come out of it
Speaker 4: better more qualified than I went in. You see, don't
Speaker 4: forget who you are and who you are. You are exceptional.
Speaker 4: I love this story I heard Joel's father tell. It
Speaker 4: was a story about he and his friend Jesse, and
Speaker 4: they went to a high school football game where Jesse's
Speaker 4: son was playing ball, and so Jesse was so excited
Speaker 4: to take Daddy, oh that's what I call him, to
Speaker 4: see his son play football. So they're sitting in the
Speaker 4: bleachers and this young man was having a bad day
Speaker 4: out on the field. Every time he would get the ball,
Speaker 4: he would just fumble it. Anytime he tried to get
Speaker 4: it down the field, he just seemed to drop it
Speaker 4: or or someone would just take it from him. So
Speaker 4: he had one more chance, and they're sitting on the
Speaker 4: edge of their seats and he got the ball under
Speaker 4: his arm, gonna take it down the field. He stepped
Speaker 4: to the right, and he stepped to the left. All
Speaker 4: of a sudden, these two big old guys came and
Speaker 4: just tackled him, just took him to the ground. Well,
Speaker 4: my father in law was like, Oh, what do I do?
Speaker 4: What do I say? You're sitting there so quiet, a
Speaker 4: little bit embarrassed for Jesse. And then a few minutes
Speaker 4: later he felt this his elbow going in his ribs,
Speaker 4: and he looked at his friend Jesse, and Jesse said, John,
Speaker 4: did you see my son's two good moves? You see
Speaker 4: that was a proud father, a father who was cheering
Speaker 4: his son on, even on a bad day. And sometimes
Speaker 4: we think that God is sitting in the bleachers just
Speaker 4: watching us fumble through life, just seeing why can't they
Speaker 4: get it right? Almost hanging his head in embarrassment. But
Speaker 4: can I tell you you, sir, a good God. You
Speaker 4: have a loving, heavenly father who not only cheers you on,
Speaker 4: who not only supports you, but he came down from
Speaker 4: heaven to help you along the way. It's up to
Speaker 4: us to make a decision. We are exceptional. Hey, just
Speaker 4: because you're exceptional doesn't mean you're not going to face challenges,
Speaker 4: but through those challenges you can develop these exceptional attitudes,
Speaker 4: these exceptional choices, because real to produce exceptional is all
Speaker 4: about your choices, and it's about your attitude. You see,
Speaker 4: God wants you to have an attitude of victory. He
Speaker 4: doesn't want you to have an attitude of defeat. See,
Speaker 4: every day we have the opportunity to hit the reset button.
Speaker 4: God's mercies are new every single day. We can adjust
Speaker 4: and we can align ourself to God. If you feel
Speaker 4: yourself getting off course, just make the necessary adjustments to
Speaker 4: get back in line with God. He's right there. He's
Speaker 4: cheering you on. He is saying, get up and go again.
Speaker 4: You see, you can't fail unless you quit. Don't disqualify yourself.
Speaker 4: You know, when we walk in this exceptional, this exceptional life,
Speaker 4: we are giving an invitation for those around us to
Speaker 4: come in and be exceptional. We're giving them permission to
Speaker 4: be exceptional. Why is that? Because when we know who
Speaker 4: we are, we reflect who we are on other people people.
Speaker 4: That means we don't judge. That means we have mercy,
Speaker 4: We extend grace. They see our influence and it allows
Speaker 4: them to have a picture of exceptional that they can follow. You. See,
Speaker 4: I believe that our friends and our family are watching us,
Speaker 4: and we have a tremendous influence. So know this today,
Speaker 4: you are exceptional because God made you that way. In fact,
Speaker 4: I believe I'm looking at exceptional people right now because
Speaker 4: if you weren't exceptional, you wouldn't be sitting here today.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't be pressing through those obstacles and those challenges
Speaker 4: you're facing. You wouldn't be coming to this altar believing
Speaker 4: that you serve a God that can help you. You See,
Speaker 4: if you weren't exceptional, you would have already quit and
Speaker 4: you'd have already given up. So I just believe today,
Speaker 4: because you are exceptional, God is helping you produce that
Speaker 4: exceptional life. You will overcome your challenges, You will defeat
Speaker 4: every enemy. You will go to new levels. Because if
Speaker 4: God is for you, who dare be against you? Amen? Amen.
Speaker 4: He's an awesome God and we love him so much.
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