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I 45 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 4: like to start with something funny. 46 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 5: And one day Adam said to God, why did you 47 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 5: make Eve so beautiful? 48 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 4: God said, so you would love her. 49 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 5: He said, well, why did you give her such long 50 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 5: flowing hair? God said it again, so you would love her. 51 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 5: Said well, God, why did you give her such a 52 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 5: great figure? God said the same thing, so you would 53 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 5: love her. Adam said, all right, God, you made her 54 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 5: so beautiful, so attractive. Why did you make her so dumb? 55 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 5: God said that's easy, Adam, so she would love you. 56 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 5: And all the ladies said, Amen, say it like you 57 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 5: mean it. 58 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 59 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. 60 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 5: I can do what it says I can do. Today 61 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. 62 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 63 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 64 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about you are 65 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 5: fully loaded. When God created you, he put in you 66 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 5: everything you need to fulfill your destiny. 67 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 4: God is a strategic God. He's not random. 68 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 5: He didn't just create you and say, let's see what 69 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 5: they can do. Let's see what happens. 70 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 4: God is precise. 71 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 5: He's intentional down to the smallest detail. When He laid 72 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,239 Speaker 5: out the plan for your life, he carefully studied it. 73 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 5: He thought about what you would need, what it would 74 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 5: take to get you there. 75 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 4: Then he matched you with your world. 76 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 5: He gave you the talent you need, the creativity, the strength. 77 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 5: You're the right size, you have, the right looks, the 78 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 5: right personality, the right family. 79 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 4: You didn't get short changed. 80 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 5: You are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race 81 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 5: that's been designed for you. Now quit wishing you were 82 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 5: something different. If I had a better personality, then I 83 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 5: could do something great. If I came from a different family, 84 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 5: If I wasn't so small, Joel. 85 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: Have a new perspective. If you needed to be taller, 86 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 4: God would have made you taller. 87 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 5: If you needed a different personality, he would have given 88 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 5: you one. If you needed to be another nationality, you 89 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 5: would be another nationality. 90 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 4: God doesn't make mistakes. You're not faulty. 91 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 5: You have been fearfully and wonderfully made. When God created 92 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 5: the universe, when he flung stars into space, he said 93 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 5: that was good. When he created mountains, ocean sunsets, he 94 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 5: said that was good. When he made animals, lions, eagles, butterflies, 95 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 5: he said that was good. But when God created you, 96 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 5: when he saw how magnificent you are, how strong, how attractive, 97 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 5: how talented. God looked at you and said that was 98 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 5: very good. He didn't say the solar system was very good. 99 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 5: He didn't say the rocky mountains were very good. The 100 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 5: only time he used very good is when he created you. 101 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 5: In Ephesians, he calls you a masterpiece. When the creator 102 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 5: of the universe says you are very good, that means 103 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 5: you are bad to the bone. Now, don't go around 104 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 5: feeling shortchanged, like somehow you're lacking. 105 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 4: You didn't get enough. You can't do what they can do. 106 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 5: If you didn't get what somebody else has, that means 107 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 5: you don't need it. 108 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,679 Speaker 4: Quit comparing yourself and run your race. 109 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 5: Be who God created you to be. You are an original. 110 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 5: You have something to offer the world that nobody else has. 111 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 5: Let your gifts shine, show your talent, your personality, your style. 112 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 5: We don't need an imitation. We don't need a copy. 113 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 5: We need the original you. When we want what somebody 114 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 5: else has, we wish we had their looks, their talent, 115 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 5: their personality. The truth is, if you had it, it 116 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 5: wouldn't be a blessing. 117 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 4: It would be a burden. It wasn't designed for you. 118 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 5: The reason it works for them is because it fits them. 119 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 5: They're walking in their anointing. You are not anointed to 120 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 5: be somebody else. As long as you're trying to be 121 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 5: like them, you'll be frustrated. The anointing on your life 122 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 5: is to be who God called you to be. 123 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 4: Be confident in what you have. 124 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,239 Speaker 5: You have the right looks, the right talent, the right personality. 125 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 5: It may not be what somebody else has, but you're 126 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 5: not running their race. When my father went to be 127 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 5: with the Lord, he had pastored Lakewood for forty years. 128 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 5: I had been behind the scenes doing the television production, 129 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 5: and when he died, I'd only ministered one time. But 130 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 5: I knew I was supposed to step up and pastor 131 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 5: the church. But I thought I needed to be like 132 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 5: my dad. After all, people had come to hear him 133 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 5: for years, and I knew that's what they were expecting. 134 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 5: In the first few months, I tried to preach like 135 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 5: my dad and lead like my dad, but it was 136 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 5: a struggle. 137 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 4: Now. I had good intentions. 138 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 5: I wanted to honor my father, but there's no grace 139 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 5: on your life to be somebody else. 140 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 4: One day I read a scripture. 141 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 5: It says an acts David fulfilled his purpose for his generation. 142 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 5: I heard something down in here, say, Joel, your father 143 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 5: fulfilled his purpose. Now quit trying to be like him 144 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 5: and go out and fulfill your purpose. 145 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 4: It was like a stronghold. 146 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 5: Was broken in my mind. I realized, I'm free to 147 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 5: be me. I quit trying to imitate my father, and 148 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 5: I stepped into my own ANOI. That's when the ministry 149 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 5: begin to grow. See, I've learned it's easy to be me. 150 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 5: I don't have to pretend, I don't have to perform. 151 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 5: Takes all the pressure off. I can relax and just 152 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 5: be myself. When you're comfortable with who you are, when 153 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 5: you're not trying to impress people, you're not trying to 154 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 5: be something that you're. 155 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 4: Not, then your own uniqueness will come out. 156 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 5: You'll be more creative, your talent will come out in 157 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 5: greater ways. The right people will show up. Why Because 158 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 5: you've stepped into the anointing on your life. 159 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 4: Be you. You are powerful when you're you. Here's the key. 160 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 5: Nobody can beat you at being you. You can be 161 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 5: a better you than anybody in the world. You have 162 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 5: an advantage. You've been anointed to be you. When I minister, 163 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 5: I'm more conversational. I don't get real loud or real excited. 164 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 5: But growing up, I used to think to be an 165 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 5: effective minister you had to be loud and forceful and dynamic. 166 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,719 Speaker 5: And I have minister friends that are that way, and 167 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 5: they are very powerful. 168 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 4: That's who they are. 169 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 5: But I've learned when you're who you are, you can 170 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 5: be quiet and be powerful. You can be small and 171 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,359 Speaker 5: be powerful, you can be behind the scenes and be powerful. 172 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 5: The whole key is to be you, because when you're you. 173 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 4: You activate your anointing. 174 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 5: There's a favor, a blessing, a grace that is unique 175 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 5: to your life. But too often when we see someone 176 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 5: that's more talented, more successful, more blessed, there's a tendency 177 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 5: to be envious and think, why can't I do that? 178 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 4: I want what they have. 179 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 5: If we're not careful, before long we'll be competing with them, 180 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 5: trying to outperform them, outdress them, drive them, outwork them. 181 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 5: The problem is you're competing with someone that's not in 182 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 5: your race. Your race is specifically for you. You are 183 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 5: not in competition with your friends, your neighbors, your co workers, 184 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 5: your siblings. 185 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 4: The only competition. 186 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 5: You have is with yourself to be the best that 187 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 5: you can be. I realize I can't preach like Bishop Jakes, 188 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 5: I can't sing like Steve Crawford. I can't do surgery 189 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 5: like my brother Paul. But I can encourage someone. I 190 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 5: can inspire a few people. I can't smile. I'm good 191 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 5: at that. Don't get distracted trying to keep up with 192 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 5: someone you are never supposed to keep up with. When 193 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 5: you understand you are fully loaded for the race that's 194 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 5: been designed for you. Instead of competing with people, you'll 195 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 5: celebrate them. The right attitude is they may have something 196 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 5: that I don't, but that's okay. 197 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 4: I'm not running their race. 198 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 5: I'm equipped from my destiny. This is why King Saul 199 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 5: lost the throne when he saw David rising higher than him, 200 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 5: gaining more influence. Instead of celebrating David, he became jealous. 201 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 5: People started seeing Saul has defeated thousands. He was happy, 202 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 5: people are celebrating me. I've done something great. But then 203 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 5: the song continued and David has defeated. 204 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 4: Tens of thousands. 205 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 5: Saul couldn't handle anybody being in front of him. He 206 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 5: didn't realize they weren't in the same race. He wasn't 207 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 5: competing with David if he would have been happy for him. 208 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 4: He wouldn't have missed his destiny. 209 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 5: When we start competing with people, we get distracted, we 210 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 5: lose focus. Before long, we're wasting time on things that 211 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 5: are not moving us toward our purpose. I heard a 212 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 5: quote successful people are so focused on their own goals 213 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 5: they don't have time to look around to see what 214 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 5: everybody else is doing. Run your race, and when somebody 215 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 5: passes you by, don't be intimidated. 216 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 4: Be inspired. If God did it for them, he can 217 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 4: do it for you. 218 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 5: But if you can't celebrate people that are further along 219 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 5: than you, then you'll never. 220 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 4: Get to where they are. 221 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 5: You have to pass the test of being happy for 222 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 5: people that have passed you up, because there will be 223 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 5: the tendency to be jealous, start finding being critical. Well, 224 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 5: they don't deserve it. They're not that talented anyway. Let 225 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 5: me tell you some bad things I heard about them. 226 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 5: Don't fall into that trap. God's showing them favor doesn't 227 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 5: mean he's not going to show you favor. 228 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 4: Be happy for them. 229 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 5: And when you see someone that's blessed the right higher, 230 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 5: it's easy to think, well, they've just had a lot 231 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 5: of good breaks. What you may not realize is the 232 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 5: favor on their life didn't come without pain. The promotion 233 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 5: didn't come without struggles, without them fighting off discouragement, without 234 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 5: them pressing forward when they felt like giving up. You 235 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 5: don't know what it took for them to get where 236 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 5: they are. Sometimes we come in at the end of 237 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 5: the movie. We see everything working out. They're happy, blessed, successful. 238 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 5: What we didn't see was the middle, the tears, the 239 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 5: lonely nights, the struggles. Be big enough to celebrate what 240 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 5: God's doing in their life. 241 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 4: Don't be a saul. 242 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 5: Don't miss your destiny because you're sour that somebody passed 243 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 5: you up. Their success is not stopping what God wants 244 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 5: to do in your life. 245 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 4: God didn't use up all of his favor on them. 246 00:13:59,120 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 4: It's a test. 247 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 5: Are you going to compete with them, spend all your 248 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 5: energy trying to keep up, or are you going to 249 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 5: celebrate what. 250 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 4: God has done. 251 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 5: You can tell who your true friends are not by 252 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 5: who comes when you fall. When you make a mistake, 253 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,479 Speaker 5: people will feel sorry, they'll show up to help you. 254 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 5: Your true friends are the ones that show up when 255 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 5: you succeed. They celebrate when you're promoted. They're happy when 256 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 5: God blesses you. They're high five. 257 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 4: In you when you move into that new house. You've 258 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 4: heard the saying it's lonely at the top. 259 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 5: It's because not everybody can handle your success, and too 260 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 5: often people get envious, jealous, critical. 261 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 4: Let's pass this test. 262 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 5: When somebody passes you by, give them a high five, 263 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 5: and keep running your race. 264 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 4: Don't look to the left nor to the right. Keep 265 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 4: being who God's made you to be. 266 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 5: One time, I was out running through my neighborhood and 267 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 5: I saw this man in in front of me about 268 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 5: a quarter of a mile and he was running two 269 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 5: and I thought, I'm going to catch him. I had 270 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 5: about a mile to go before I needed to turn 271 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 5: off and go down my path, and I picked up 272 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 5: the pace and started gaining on him, gaining on him, 273 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 5: and I was feeling better. Look what I'm doing, getting 274 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 5: closer and closer, and I finally passed him up. 275 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 4: I beat him. 276 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 5: He didn't know we were racing, but I felt good 277 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 5: about it. About that time, I realized I was so 278 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 5: focused on catching him, I missed my turn. I had 279 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 5: to turn around and go back about six blocks to 280 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 5: where I was supposed to turn. That's what happens when 281 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 5: we start competing with people, it's a distraction. We're running 282 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 5: in a race we're not supposed to be in competing 283 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 5: with people that many times don't even know it. If 284 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 5: that man knew we were racing, I'd probably still be 285 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 5: trying to catch him. 286 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 4: He would have sped up. Don't get distracted, run your race. 287 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 5: In the scripture, John the Baptist was baptizing people and 288 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 5: gaining a. 289 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 4: Lot of attention. 290 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 5: One point, the Jewish leaders came and wondered if he 291 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 5: was the Christ. Without missing a beat, John said, I 292 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 5: am not the Messiah. It's important to know not only 293 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 5: who you are, but to know who you're not. If 294 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 5: you don't know this, you can spend your life trying 295 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 5: to be something that you're not. John had no problem 296 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 5: saying I am not the Messiah. He was saying, I 297 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 5: don't have to be the Messiah to feel good about myself. 298 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 5: I'm content with who God made me to be. If 299 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 5: you're trying to be something you're not, you'll be frustrated. 300 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 4: There's no grace for it. 301 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 5: It'll be a constant struggle, always like it's uphill. If 302 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 5: Saul would have understood this, he could have kept the throne. 303 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 4: If he would have accepted I am not David. He's 304 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 4: defeated tens of thousands. He's done great things. I've defeated 305 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 4: a thousand. God, you bless me. It would have been 306 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 4: a different story. 307 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 5: Most of the time, we're happy until we start comparing. 308 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 5: When Saul heard the numbers David tens of thousands, I 309 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 5: can imagine him asking someone how many did they say, 310 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 5: David has defeated. When they answered tens of thousands, Saw's 311 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 5: whole perspective changed. He was no longer content with his success. 312 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 5: Now he was envious, jealous. He basically spent the rest 313 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 5: of his life trying to be David. 314 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 4: All he had to do is realize I am not David. 315 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 4: God has blessed him in a different way. 316 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 5: We have to understand the sovereignty of God may not 317 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 5: seem fair to us, doesn't always make sense, but. 318 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 4: God's ways are not our ways. 319 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 5: And the scripture talks about how God has given to 320 00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 5: every person different gifts, different talents. According to our own ability, 321 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 5: everyone doesn't get the same, but what He gave you 322 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 5: is what you need to fulfill your destiny. Whether you're 323 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 5: a Saul and you can defeat a thousand or you're 324 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 5: a David and you can defeat ten thousand. The right 325 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 5: attitude is I'm going to take what God's given me and. 326 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 4: Make the most of it. 327 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 5: Don't compete, don't compare, just run your race. In the parable, 328 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 5: Jesus told of the talents, the owner gave one man 329 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 5: one talent, another man two talents, and another man five talents. 330 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,719 Speaker 5: It seems like if God was fair, he would have 331 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 5: given them all the same number. 332 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 4: But God is sovereign. 333 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 5: He may give you five talents and give me two talents. 334 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 4: He's God. I can complain about. 335 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 5: The two, try to compete with you and outperform you, 336 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 5: but that doesn't change the fact that you still have five. 337 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 4: And I still have two. 338 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 5: A better approach is to say, God, I recognize you 339 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 5: are sovereign, and before you gave me these two talents, 340 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 5: I didn't have any. So instead of complaining about the 341 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 5: two and competing with the five, I'm going to take 342 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 5: these two talents and be the best that I can be. 343 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 5: It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not, 344 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 5: but knowing what you're not will help you stay focused 345 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 5: on becoming who you are, because there will always be. 346 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 4: Pressures to be this, to be that, to be the other. 347 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 5: Everyone will have opinions about you, but down in your heart, 348 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 5: you know who you are. You can't let the outside 349 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,239 Speaker 5: pressures and other people squeeze you into becoming something that 350 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 5: you're not. When I first started ministering, I was young 351 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 5: and didn't have much experience. 352 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 4: I had a lot of people giving me opinions. 353 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 5: They told me how to lead the church, how to minister, 354 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 5: what I should speak on, and sometimes it wasn't what 355 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 5: they said, just what they inferred. I could feel the 356 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 5: pressure to be who they wanted me to be, and 357 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 5: they were good people. 358 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,360 Speaker 4: But people didn't breathe life into you. People didn't lay 359 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 4: out your plan and purpose. 360 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 5: People didn't put gifts and talents on the inside. And 361 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 5: I was always respectful, but I was firm and a 362 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 5: lot of their advice when I heard it, I knew 363 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 5: it wasn't what God put in my heart. 364 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 4: I had to be bold and say I am not that, 365 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 4: I am, not that I am not that, this is 366 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 4: who I am. 367 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 5: You have to be strong. It's your destiny. When you 368 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 5: come to the end of life. You're not going to 369 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 5: answer to people. You're going to answer to God. 370 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 4: And people may mean well, they may love you. 371 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 5: But if it doesn't bear witness in your spirit, you 372 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 5: have to be bold and say, like John, that is 373 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 5: not who I am. 374 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 4: And here's the key. 375 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 5: You don't have to have a great gift for God 376 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 5: to use you in a great way. 377 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 4: You know what took David to the. 378 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 5: Throne wasn't his leadership skills, his ability to write music, 379 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:13,880 Speaker 5: his personality, his size. 380 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 4: What promoted David was his gift of slinging a rock. 381 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 5: He was good with a slingshot out in the shepherd's fields. 382 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 5: He had spent hours practicing as a teenager while he 383 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 5: was taking care of his father's sheep. He could have thought, God, 384 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 5: why didn't you give me an impressive gift? Why did 385 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 5: you just give me one talent? I'm an expert with 386 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 5: a slingshot. 387 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 4: Big deal. 388 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 5: That's never going to take me any place. But if 389 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 5: you'll be faithful with the gifts you have, if you'll 390 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 5: develop it, grow, learn, get better, that gift will open 391 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 5: doors to places you've never dreamed. Don't discount your gift. 392 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,239 Speaker 5: It may seem small to you compared to others. It 393 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 5: feels insignificant, but there is nothing ordinary about you. You 394 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 5: have the fingerprints of God all over you. God made 395 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 5: you in his own image. He crowned you with favor. 396 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 5: You have royal blood flowing through your veins. Don't believe 397 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 5: those lies. There's nothing special about you. You're not as 398 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 5: talented as your brother. You don't have a big personality 399 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 5: like your friend. You don't have the design skills like 400 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 5: your coworker. Maybe not, but you do have a slingshot. 401 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 4: There's something God has given you. 402 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 5: That slingshot may seem ordinary, but when God breathes on it, 403 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 5: you'll defeat a giant twice your size. You'll be promoted 404 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 5: beyond your talent. You'll go places where you. 405 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 4: Didn't have the experience. 406 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 5: You weren't next in line, but suddenly the door opened, 407 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 5: Suddenly the compact center is yours. Suddenly people are celebrating you. 408 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 4: But too often we. 409 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 5: Look at others and think about how great they are. 410 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 5: We put them on a pedestal. But God has put 411 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 5: greatness in you. He's given you gifts, creativity, dreams. He 412 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 5: created you to leave your mark on this generation. You're 413 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 5: not supposed to live and die and nobody knew you 414 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 5: were here. There is something significant about you, something that 415 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 5: will cause you to stand out. We're years from now, 416 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 5: people will look back and say you made the world 417 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 5: a better place. 418 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 4: Stir up those gifts, Stir up that faith. 419 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 5: Don't get so caught up in celebrating others that you 420 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 5: don't recognize there's something. 421 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:45,439 Speaker 4: In you to be celebrated. Jeremiah said, your word, Oh Lord, 422 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 4: is like fire shut up in my bones. 423 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 5: There is something shut up in you, something big that's 424 00:23:54,040 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 5: about to be released. Dreams, books, movies, inventions, businesses, ministries, 425 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 5: potential that you haven't tapped into, gifts and talents that 426 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 5: you didn't know were there. 427 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 4: You haven't seen them yet because it hasn't been the 428 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 4: right time. But your season is coming. 429 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 5: The good break, the promotion, the opportunity, it's on the 430 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 5: way now. Don't be surprised if there's opposition. 431 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 4: That promotion may be disguised as Goliath. 432 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 5: That giant looks like it's there to stop you, but. 433 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 4: It's a setup. 434 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 5: It's going to thrust you to a new level. You're 435 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,479 Speaker 5: going to discover what the slingshot was all about. 436 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 4: It was a test. 437 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 5: You proved your faithfulness. You did the right thing when 438 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 5: nobody was watching. You kept a good attitude when it 439 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 5: wasn't fair. You celebrated others when you could have been jealous. 440 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,719 Speaker 4: Now your time is coming. 441 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 5: What's been shut up in your spirit is about to 442 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 5: be released. It's going to be bigger, more rewarding, more 443 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 5: fulfilling than you ever imagine. It's not going to come 444 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 5: through your neighbor, through your cousin, through your boss, through 445 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 5: your pastor. 446 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 4: It's going to come through you. 447 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 5: It's your baby, It's your time to be celebrated. This 448 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 5: is what happened in the scripture with Sarah. She and 449 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 5: her husband Abraham were very old. Sarah had been bearing 450 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 5: her whole life and not able to have children. But 451 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 5: in Genesis seventeen, God said to Abraham, I will give 452 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 5: Sarah a son. She will be the mother of nations. 453 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 5: Kings of people will come out of her. Every circumstance 454 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 5: said it was impossible. She was out in the desert, 455 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 5: no fertility treatments, no medical. 456 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 4: Procedures, eighty years old. 457 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 5: Yet God said, you have kings in you, you have 458 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 5: nations in you. He was saying, Sarah, what I've put 459 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 5: in you is more than you can imagine. 460 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 4: God is saying the same thing to you. 461 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 5: There are kings in you, There is greatness in you. 462 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 5: It's much bigger than what you think. Don't let circumstances. 463 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 4: Talk you out of it. You may not see how 464 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 4: it could work out. 465 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 5: God has ways to do it that you've never thought of. 466 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 5: One touch of God's favor will catapult you to the 467 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 5: next level. When Sarah heard this, it was so unbelievable. 468 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 4: She laughed. She said, me, have a baby. I don't 469 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:33,879 Speaker 4: think so. 470 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,479 Speaker 5: She loved the idea, but since she was so old, 471 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 5: she thought the baby would have to come through somebody else. 472 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 4: So she tried to help God out. 473 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 5: She had Abraham sleep with her maid and they had 474 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 5: a son. She was so excited. She said, God, you 475 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 5: did what you said. God said, Sarah, that is not 476 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 5: the promised child. I didn't put the promise in somebody else. 477 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 4: I put the promise in you. 478 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 5: At ninety years old, against all odds, she became pregnant 479 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 5: and gave birth to a son named Isaac. What God 480 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 5: put in you, He's still going to bring to pass. 481 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,959 Speaker 5: You are pregnant with destiny. You are pregnant with greatness. 482 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 5: It's not going to come through others. 483 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 4: You're going to shine, You're going to excel, You're going 484 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 4: to be promoted, You're going to be celebrated. Friends, you 485 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 4: are fully loaded. You're not at a deficit. 486 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 5: You're not lacking, You're full of potential, full of favor. 487 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 5: Like Sarah, you may have been barren for a long time. 488 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 5: You don't see how it can happen. Get ready, this 489 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 5: is a new day. 490 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 4: Things are changing in your favor. 491 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 5: I believe and declare what's been shut up in your 492 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 5: spirit is being released. Dreams are being released, potential, promotion, healing, abundance, vindication, breakthroughs, 493 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, and if 494 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 5: you receive it, can. 495 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 4: You say amen? Today I'd like to give you an. 496 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 5: Opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 497 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 5: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent 498 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 5: of my sins. Come into my heart. 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