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See terms and conditions at 34 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 3: UNEs dot co. 35 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 36 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 37 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 5: the ministry. 38 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 40 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 41 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 5: your life. 42 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 4: God bless you. It's great to be with you today. 43 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 5: We're in our nation's capital, Washington, d C. We're here 44 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 5: at National's Park. Let me tell you, these are the 45 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 5: finest people in all of DC right here with me 46 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 5: in the stadium tonight, having a great time. 47 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 4: America is not of hope. 48 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 5: Thank you so much for tuning in, and thank you again. 49 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 4: For coming out. 50 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you tonight about how God's 51 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 5: destiny for your life will come to pass. We don't 52 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 5: realize how much God is in control. Every aspect of 53 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 5: our life, down to the smallest details, has already been 54 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 5: planned out. God lined up the right people to come 55 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 5: across your path. He arranged the right breaks to be 56 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 5: in your future. He already has solutions to every problem 57 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 5: that you will ever face. God is in complete control 58 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 5: orchestrating it all. The scripture says, the Lord of host 59 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 5: has purposed. 60 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 4: Who will annull it? This is saying God. 61 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 5: Has a purpose for your life. He's already planned out 62 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 5: your days. Then it asked the question who will annull it? 63 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 5: God is saying, who can stop my plan? Who is 64 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 5: more powerful than me? I created the whole universe, I 65 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 5: flung these stars into space. 66 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 4: Now. Who can make a mistake so big that. 67 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 5: I can't forgive it? Who can have a problem so 68 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 5: large that I can't solve it? Who can have a 69 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 5: dream so great that I can't bring it to pass? Friends, 70 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 5: God's plan cannot be stopped by a bad break, by sickness, by. 71 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 4: Somebody walking out on you. 72 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 5: All the forces of darkness cannot keep you from your destiny. 73 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 5: But sometimes we think, because we have made mistakes and 74 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 5: we're not where we want to be in life, surely 75 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 5: we must have stopped God's plan. 76 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 4: I say this respectfully. You're not that powerful. 77 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 5: You may have made mistakes, but it wasn't a surprise 78 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 5: to God. He already has the mercy. Why don't you 79 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 5: shake off the guilt and move forward. Nothing that you've 80 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 5: done or haven't done, has canceled your destiny. Had a 81 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 5: lady write me a few years ago. She had been 82 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 5: in an automobile accident where she had broken her neck. 83 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 5: For months after the surgery, her husband had stayed home 84 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 5: to help take care of her, and she felt badly 85 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 5: that he had missed so much work, and she finally 86 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 5: convinced him that she was okay to stay alone by herself. 87 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 4: He reluctantly agreed to go back to work. One day, 88 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 4: she was. 89 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 5: So depressed and she was in so much pain that 90 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 5: she decided to end her life. There was a gun 91 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 5: rack over in the corner. Her husband was a big hunter. 92 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 5: She couldn't walk over there by herself. She was going 93 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 5: to crawl, but when she got out of the chair, 94 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 5: she lost her balance, knocked over the end table and 95 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 5: fell flat on her back. 96 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 4: She couldn't move. 97 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 5: The remote control for the television hit the floor and 98 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 5: the batteries came out. When it did, it change the 99 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 5: channel on the television, and it just so happened to 100 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 5: flip to a station where I was ministering. Her first 101 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 5: thought was, Oh great, I'm dying now. I've got to 102 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 5: listen to this TV preacher to add to my misery. 103 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 5: That day, I was talking about how God can turn 104 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 5: any situation around, how he can take your darkest hour 105 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 5: and turn it into your brightest hour. She began to 106 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 5: feel a peace like she'd never felt before. She said, 107 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 5: I couldn't move my body, I couldn't open my eyes, 108 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 5: but I could feel tears of joy running down my cheeks. 109 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 4: That moment was a turning point. 110 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 5: Today, several years later, she's happy, healthy, halt on the. 111 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 4: Way to fulfilling her destiny. What am I saying? You 112 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 4: are not powerful enough to stop God's plan. 113 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 5: All of your days have already been recorded, They've been 114 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 5: numbered by the creator of the universe. If it's not 115 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 5: your time to go, you're not going to go. God 116 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 5: has the final say. There was an article in the newspaper. 117 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 5: Last week, this police officer was attacked by men high 118 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 5: on drugs. This man stabbed the officer in the head. 119 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 4: The three and a. 120 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 5: Half inch knife blade went straight into his brain. He 121 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 5: was rushed to the hospital. His family was told that 122 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 5: he was most likely brain dead, and even if he 123 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 5: did live, he would never be able to walk or 124 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 5: to talk. The neurosurgeon had all the X rays done. 125 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 5: When they came back, he was amazed. The knife blade 126 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 5: missed the part of the brain that controls motor skills 127 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 5: by less than a millimeter. It missed the part of 128 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 5: the brain that controls speech by less than a millimeter. 129 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 5: It missed the main nerve that gives sensation by less 130 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 5: than a millimeter. 131 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 4: It missed the main artery. 132 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 5: That supplies blood to the brain by less than a millimeter. 133 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 4: The surgeon said, it is unbelievable. 134 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 5: The only way I can describe it is he was 135 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 5: less than a millimeter away. 136 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 4: From death in every direction. A fraction this way he'd 137 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 4: be dead, a fraction this way, totally incapacitated. 138 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 5: Friends, nothing can snatch you out of God's hand. An 139 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 5: accident cannot stop God's plan. A crazy person cannot stop 140 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 5: God's plan. God is in complete control of your life 141 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 5: right now. God is working behind the scenes, arranging things 142 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 5: in your favor. 143 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 4: He's making a way where you don't see away. You 144 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,239 Speaker 4: don't have to live. 145 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 5: Worried, stressed out, trying to force everything to happen. All 146 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 5: you've got to do is keep God first place, honor 147 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 5: Him with your life, and you will come into these 148 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 5: destiny moments where you see God supernaturally protecting you. You know, 149 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 5: if it had not been for His angels, you wouldn't 150 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 5: be alive. Destiny moments where you're at the right place, 151 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 5: you meet the right person that lead to a promotion 152 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 5: that wasn't a coincidence, that was the favor of God 153 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 5: moving you towards your divine destiny. 154 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 4: Or maybe in your health. 155 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 5: Like my mother, you were told that you're never going 156 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 5: to get better. One day you go back to the 157 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 5: doctor and they say, we don't understand it. It's starting 158 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 5: to turn around. That's not a lucky break. That's Almighty 159 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,679 Speaker 5: God saying I've got a destiny for you to fulfill. 160 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 4: My plan will come to pass. 161 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 5: Now you may not see how this can happen, but 162 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 5: that's okay. God has a thousand ways to do it 163 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 5: that you've never thought of, Just like God can direct 164 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 5: that knife blade to be so precise that it's a 165 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 5: fraction away from everything that matters. God is directing your 166 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 5: steps down to the smallest details. He can make things 167 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 5: happen that you could never make happen on your own. 168 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 5: He is for you, He is on your side, and 169 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 5: what He has purposed for your life will come to pass. 170 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 5: My father was ordained as a Baptist minister, but back 171 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 5: in the nineteen fifties, he felt like what God had 172 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 5: put in in his heart was bigger than any one denomination. 173 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 5: He took a step of faith and he left the 174 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 5: Baptist church where he was pastoring. He started his own 175 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 5: independent church, but he didn't have the courage to take 176 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 5: the name Baptist off. 177 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 4: He called it Lakewood Baptist Church. 178 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 5: Every time he thought about dropping the word Baptist, he 179 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 5: would get cold feet, and he wouldn't do it. That's 180 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 5: all he had ever known his whole life. The sign 181 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 5: in front of the church was made up of three 182 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 5: separate boards. 183 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 4: Stacked on top of each other Lakewood. 184 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 5: The top board separate, the middle board Baptist, and the 185 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 5: bottom board Church. One day, a big storm came through 186 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 5: and the wind blew the name Baptist off. My father 187 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 5: took that as a sign from God. From that day forward, 188 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 5: we've been known as Lakewood Church. 189 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 4: What am I saying? 190 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 5: Even when you don't have the courage to do what 191 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 5: you know you're supposed to do, God won't leave you 192 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 5: there and say too bad, you should have more faith. No, 193 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 5: God will push you into your divine destiny. God knows 194 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 5: how to get you to where you're supposed to be. 195 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 4: I like what my friend Joyce Meyer says. 196 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 5: She told someone I've been walking with God for twenty years. 197 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 5: She heard the Holy Spirit say on the inside, excuse me, 198 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 5: you've been walking with me for two years. I've been 199 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 5: dragging you the other eighteen. But God is so good, 200 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 5: so loving, so forgiving. Even if he has to drag us, 201 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 5: He'll still get us to our destiny. 202 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 4: We don't have to live down on ourselves because we 203 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 4: don't think we have enough faith. 204 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 5: We don't have to go around stressed out because it's 205 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 5: not happening on our timetable. We can stay in peace 206 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 5: knowing that our God, the creator of the universe, is 207 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 5: in complete control. God knew when we wouldn't have the faith. 208 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 5: He knew when we'd need a push, Just like with 209 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 5: my father, He's already got your destiny moments lined up 210 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 5: where you will see his hand of favor, you'll connect 211 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 5: to the right person. A problem you've had for years 212 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 5: suddenly turns around, an opportunity of a lifetime suddenly is 213 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 5: in front of you. Those are destiny moments that God 214 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 5: already has in your future. I read about a young 215 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 5: lady that was going to meet her fiance's parents for 216 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 5: the first time. 217 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 4: They were known to be very picky and. 218 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 5: Not easily impressed, and she was kind of nervous about it. 219 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 5: As she was leaving the house, she knocked over a 220 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 5: coca cola and it's spilled on the floor, and it 221 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 5: splashed up on her shoes, on her pant legs, and 222 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 5: she was standing in the middle of it. 223 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 4: She got some napkins and cleaned it up. 224 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 5: She went on her way, and as she got to 225 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 5: her fiance's parents' home, she met them and they. 226 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 4: Were very nice. The whole time. 227 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 5: Their little dog that they'd had for many years was 228 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 5: at this young lady's feet, following her all through the house, 229 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 5: would not leave her side. When she stopped, the little 230 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 5: dog stopped where she sat. The dog sat right at 231 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 5: her feet for two hours. This dog was her best friend. 232 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 5: As she was leaving, the mother said, We've had a 233 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 5: lot of guests in our home, but our little dog 234 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 5: has never taken to anyone like she's taken to you. 235 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 5: She usually barks and is at a distance. But there 236 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 5: must be something really special about you. What she didn't 237 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 5: realize is that little dog like the smell of coca 238 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 5: cola on her shoes. Friends, God works in mysterious ways. 239 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 5: He knows how to get people to like you. He 240 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 5: knows what it's going to take to push them over 241 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 5: to your side. Why don't you trust him? Why don't 242 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 5: you believe that in your future are these destiny moments. 243 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 5: You may not be able to make it happen, but 244 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 5: God knows how to make it happen. If God has 245 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 5: to use coca cola to have a dog follow you around, 246 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 5: he will. If God has to use the wind to 247 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 5: blow the name off of your sign to get you 248 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 5: into the fullness of his destiny, he will. If God 249 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 5: has to cause the remote control to get stuck on 250 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 5: just the right station. 251 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 4: He will. He's God, He's in complete control. 252 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 5: But sometimes we get all worked up trying to make 253 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 5: things happen. We're discouraged because somebody won't be our friend, 254 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 5: and we're working over time trying to. 255 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 4: Convince them to like us. 256 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 5: Now, if somebody doesn't like you, don't take it personally. 257 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 5: Doesn't mean that they're a bad person. They're just not 258 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,200 Speaker 5: a part of your destiny. If you'll keep moving forward, 259 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 5: you will come into the people God has ordained for you. 260 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 5: God has divine connections in your future. People that will 261 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 5: celebrate you, people that will want to be your friend, 262 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 5: people that will even go out of their way to 263 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 5: be good to you. There was a lady driving to 264 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 5: work one morning. She got pulled over by a police 265 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 5: officer for not coming to a complete stop at the 266 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 5: stop sign. The officer asked if there was any reason 267 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 5: she was in such a hurry. She said, no, officer, 268 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 5: I'm just going to work. I teach third grade at 269 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 5: the elementary school around the corner. He wrote her a ticket. 270 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,239 Speaker 5: She drove off so disappointed she was mad at herself. 271 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 5: She didn't have the extra money now. It was going 272 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 5: to make her budget tight. But a couple of minutes later, 273 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 5: she got pulled over again by the same officer. He 274 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 5: came up to the window and said, give me the 275 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 5: ticket back. He took it and tore it into pieces. 276 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 5: He said, when I was in third grade, I was 277 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 5: mean to my teacher. I want to be nice to 278 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 5: you to try to make up for it. 279 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 4: God has it. 280 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 5: All lined up, big ways, sparing your life from that 281 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 5: knife blade, small ways, causing you to find a police 282 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,359 Speaker 5: officer that's remorseful. 283 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 4: God's in complete control. 284 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 5: I want you to have this confidence that you're not 285 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 5: just randomly going through life hoping everything works out. 286 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 3: No. 287 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 5: God is strategically orchestrating your steps. 288 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 4: You are not here by accident. 289 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 5: You didn't just happen to show up in the year 290 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 5: twenty twelve. God hand picked you. You've been chosen by 291 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 5: the creator of the universe. God not only ordained for 292 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 5: you to be here, but He has a specific plan 293 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 5: for your life, something for you to accomplish. You haven't 294 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 5: made too many mistakes, you haven't missed too many opportunities. 295 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 5: If you will keep moving forward, you will come into 296 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 5: your destiny moments where you see God's hand to favor. 297 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 5: That's him bringing about his purpose in your life. If 298 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 5: you're going to live in victory, you've got to get 299 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 5: this down on the inside. Really, all through the day, 300 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 5: in the back of our mind, this should be playing. 301 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 5: I'm a person of destiny. God breathed his life into me. 302 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 5: His favor surrounds me like a shield. No weapon formed 303 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 5: against me will prosper. 304 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 4: What God started in my life, he will finish. 305 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 5: I will become everything He's created me to be. I 306 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 5: met a young man a few years back. He came 307 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 5: from a very dysfunctional family, and he was extremely troubled 308 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 5: by it. 309 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 4: All they were into drugs. All he had seen growing 310 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 4: up was anger and. 311 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 5: People stabbing each other in the back and addictions. His 312 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 5: parents never encouraged him. They did just the opposite. They 313 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 5: were always belittling him, telling him how he was never 314 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 5: going to amount to anything. 315 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 4: He made an interesting. 316 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 5: Statement, He said, Joel, it doesn't seem fair that I 317 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 5: was born into this family. It's almost like they have 318 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 5: cursed my future. Now, how you were raised doesn't have 319 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 5: to stop your destiny. 320 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 4: People may have. 321 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 5: Done you wrong, you may have heard things growing up 322 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 5: that you should have never heard. 323 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 4: But know this, Before anyone could put a curse on you, 324 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 4: God put a blessing on you. 325 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 5: The good news is the blessing always overrides the curse. 326 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what people have said about you. It 327 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 5: matters what God said about you. When God created you, 328 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 5: he stepped back and said that was good, another masterpiece. 329 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 5: Take this in the right way. You didn't come from 330 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 5: your parents. You came through your parents. You came from 331 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 5: Almighty God. He is the giver of all life. 332 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 4: Just because you were. 333 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 5: Raised in a negative environment, or maybe you're around people 334 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 5: now that are just stuck in mediocrity, you don't have. 335 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 4: To stay there. That is not who you are. 336 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 5: Shake off every negative comment people have spoken over you 337 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 5: and reprogram your thinking. I am not who people say 338 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 5: I am. I am who God says I am. I 339 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,959 Speaker 5: am valuable, I am talented, I am a masterpiece. I 340 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 5: am blessed, and I cannot be cursed. One time in 341 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 5: the Old Testament, the king of Moab sent word to 342 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 5: Balem to come to their city so. 343 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 4: He would curse the people of Israel. 344 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 5: They said, Balem, we know what you ask God to do, 345 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 5: he will do, and if you will come curse these 346 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 5: people for us, we'll pay you a lot of money. 347 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 5: Baalim said, will stay overnight and let me pray about it. 348 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 5: But I will only say what the Lord instructs me 349 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 5: to say. Balem prayed about it, and the Lord said, Balim, 350 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 5: there's no use you going with them. 351 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 4: What I have blessed, no man can curse. 352 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 5: Notice when God puts the blessing on you, doesn't matter 353 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 5: what people say, doesn't matter how somebody treats you. All 354 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 5: that matters is Almighty God has blessed you, and everything. 355 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 4: Else as of no effect. 356 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 5: They begged him and begged him to come, and Baalim 357 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 5: finally went. He told the king, here's what the Lord says. 358 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 5: They will succeed and become a great nation and have 359 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 5: descendants too numerous to count. 360 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 4: The king said, Balim, what are you doing. 361 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 5: I brought you here to curse them, but instead you're 362 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 5: blessing them. He said it again, I cannot curse what 363 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 5: God is already blessed. 364 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 4: Get that down in your spirit. When God created you, 365 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 4: he breathed his blessing into you. 366 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 5: You have the dna of Almighty God. Royal blood is 367 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 5: flowing through your veins. You are wearing God's crown of 368 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 5: favor like this king. And people try to do you wrong, 369 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 5: or maybe you go through some disappointments. It's easy to 370 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 5: let that cloud your future. Have a new perspective. What 371 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 5: God is blessed. 372 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 4: No person can curse. 373 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 5: Maybe somebody's talking about you, your attitude should be no 374 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 5: big deal. They are powerless to stop the blessing on 375 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 5: my life. Well, you got some bad breaks, you got 376 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 5: laid off. Yes, that's true, but I'm not worried about it. 377 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 5: I know the blessing always overrides the curse. Well, you 378 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 5: came from a rough family, you had a rough background. 379 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 4: That's all right. 380 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 5: Where I am is not where I'm staying. I know 381 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,159 Speaker 5: the blessing of God will get me to where I'm 382 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 5: supposed to be. Here's what I've learned. The enemy doesn't 383 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 5: fight you for where you are. He fights you for 384 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 5: where you're going. Sometimes, like this young man, we think, 385 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 5: why am I facing this opposition? 386 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 4: Why was I born into this family? It's because of 387 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 4: what's in your future. 388 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 5: When I first started ministering twelve years ago, I was 389 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 5: not only dealing with the loss of my father, but I. 390 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 4: Was learning how to minister. 391 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 5: I had never done this before, and at one point 392 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 5: it seemed like everything was coming against me. People were 393 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 5: talking and I didn't know if I could do this 394 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 5: and I thought, why do I feel this resistance? 395 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 4: Why is this such a struggle. 396 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 5: Later I realized the enemy wasn't fighting me for where 397 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 5: I was. He was fighting me for where I was going. 398 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 5: He didn't want me to be standing with you here tonight. 399 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 5: He didn't want the Compact Center to become Lakewood Church. 400 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 5: He didn't want our message of hope and faith and 401 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 5: victory to go around the world. 402 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 4: You may be facing difficulty. 403 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 5: And you think, well, Joe, if I want to fulfill 404 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 5: my destiny, why are these circumstances, why are these people 405 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 5: coming against me? 406 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 4: Here's why. 407 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 5: It's because God has something amazing in your future. There 408 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 5: are new levels of your destiny. You have not touched 409 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 5: the surface of what God has in store. You are 410 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 5: going to see Ephesians three twenty exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. 411 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 4: Now get your passion back. 412 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 5: No obstacles too much for you, No difficulty is too great. 413 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 5: You and God are a majority. If God be for you, 414 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 5: who dare be against you? Think about with Moses. His 415 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 5: destiny was to deliver the people of Israel from slavery. 416 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 4: God had something big in his future. 417 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 5: Yet when he was born, the king ordered all the 418 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 5: male babies two years old and under to be killed. 419 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 5: It looked like God made a mistake, looked like it 420 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 5: wasn't going to happen. No, God was still in control. 421 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 5: God had it all figured out. Moses's mother put him 422 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 5: in a little basket and sent him down the Nile River. 423 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 5: It just so happened. Pharaoh's daughter went out to take 424 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 5: a bath. She heard the cries coming from the basket. 425 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 5: A destiny moment. God positioned Pharaoh's daughter to be at 426 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 5: the right place, at the right time ten minutes later, 427 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 5: and Moses would have floated on by. 428 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 4: See. 429 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 5: God's plan for your life is down to the very second. 430 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 4: God is not a vague God. 431 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 5: He's a precise God, a detailed God, an exact God. 432 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 5: Every step of your life has been strategically orchestrated. God 433 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 5: has already taken into account every attack that will come 434 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 5: against you. He already knows every setback. The good news 435 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 5: is He's already planned your comebacks. Fro's daughter took Moses in. 436 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 5: She said, I need somebody to nurse the baby. An 437 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 5: assistant said, I know just who to get. She went 438 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 5: and got Moses' mother. His life was not only spared, 439 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 5: but Moses grew up in the palace with his own mother. 440 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 4: He went on to fulfill his destiny. 441 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 5: What God has purposed for your life will come to pass. 442 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 5: I met a young lady that grew up in Rwanda. 443 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 5: She and her family are strong believers. At twenty two 444 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 5: years old, she came home from college for Easter break. 445 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 5: There were two main tribes in Rwanda, and they had 446 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 5: gotten along peacefully for many many years. They considered themselves 447 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 5: all Rwanda's But one day the president of the nation 448 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 5: was killed. These rebels, all from one tribe, started killing 449 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 5: people from the opposing tribe, a genocide. They went on 450 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 5: a rampage, going from town to town, ruthlessly slaughtering men, women, children, 451 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,479 Speaker 5: anyone from the opposing tribe. Some of the people that 452 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 5: were doing the killing she had grown up with, she 453 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 5: had played with, even had them in her home. 454 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 4: It was unthinkable. 455 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 5: Her parents snuck her to a pastor's home from the 456 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 5: opposing tribe. 457 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 4: She and six other girls. 458 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 5: Hid in this small bathroom week after week, never making 459 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 5: a sound, never talking, never coughing, never whispering. The bathroom 460 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 5: was three feet by four feet with a toilet in 461 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 5: the center. 462 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,120 Speaker 4: Seven people in there again and again. 463 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 5: The rebels would knock on the pastor's home, calling her 464 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 5: by name, specifically asking for her. The pastor would say, no, 465 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 5: she's not in here. One time they came and searched 466 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 5: the house. They had their hand on the doorknob of 467 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 5: the bathroom where they were hiding, but just before they 468 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 5: turned it, they got distracted and walked away. For ninety 469 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 5: one days, she stayed in this bathroom, never left. Once 470 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 5: she went in weighing one hundred and twenty pounds, she 471 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 5: came out weighing seventy pounds. During those three months, her parents, 472 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 5: her relatives, and nearly one million Rwandans were killed in 473 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 5: this senseless genocide. 474 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 4: Very sad, but here's my point tonight. 475 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 5: If it's not your time to go, all the forces 476 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 5: of darkness cannot stop you. What God has purposed for 477 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 5: your life will come to pass. God is bigger than 478 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 5: any enemy, bigger than any injustice, bigger than any sickness. 479 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 5: The scripture says, when the enemy comes in like a flood, 480 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 5: the spirit of God will raise up a barrier. 481 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 4: God knows how to protect you. 482 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 5: Just as God can make blind eyes see, God can 483 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 5: make sea and i blind. 484 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 4: God can shield you from the enemy. 485 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 5: Now Quit worrying about your future, Quit trying to figure 486 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 5: it all out. 487 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 4: God has you in the palm of his hand. Come 488 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 4: back to that place of peace. 489 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 5: There is a hedge of protection around you that the 490 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 5: enemy cannot cross. 491 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 4: What is meant for your harm? 492 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 5: God said he would use to your advantage Today. This 493 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 5: beautiful young lady works for the United Nations. She goes 494 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 5: around the world telling her story, letting people know that 495 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 5: when you believe, all things are possible. When you don't 496 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 5: see a way, God can make a way. When it 497 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 5: looks like it's over, God has the final say. God 498 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 5: said in Hebrews, I will not, I will not. I 499 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 5: will not fail you in any way. Three times God 500 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 5: said the same thing. He knew we would all face 501 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 5: situations that look impossible. Times when the medical report says 502 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 5: no way, the financial situation says you're never going. 503 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 4: To make it in the natural, you could never. 504 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 5: Accomplish your own dreams. Let this sink down into your spirit. 505 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 5: God is saying, I will not fail you. I will 506 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 5: not let you go under. My purpose for your life 507 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 5: will come to pass. I will connect you to the 508 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 5: right people. I will take care of your children. I 509 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 5: will turn the financial situation around. I will give you 510 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 5: another chance. I love you too much to let you 511 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 5: miss your destiny. My challenge is stir your faith up. 512 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 4: Shake off every disappointment, shake. 513 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 5: Off every negative comment people made, shake off the self pity, 514 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 5: and put on a new attitude. Get up every morning 515 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 5: and say, Father, thank you that your destiny will come 516 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 5: to pass. Thank you that I will leave my mark 517 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 5: on this generation. Always remember this. Before anyone could put 518 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 5: a curse on you, God put a blessing on you. 519 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 5: If you will have this attitude of faith, honor God 520 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 5: with your life, You're gonna come in to your destiny moments. 521 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 5: That favor is gonna thrust you to new levels. I 522 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 5: believe and declare over each one of you that you 523 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 5: will see God's purpose come to pass in your life. 524 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 5: You will overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become 525 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 5: everything God's created you to be. 526 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name. 527 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 5: If you receive it, come on, give the Lord a 528 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 5: shout of. 529 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 4: Praise it I don't men. 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