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00:00:00 This is Bishop Dale Broder. Thank you so much for joining our YouTube channel today.
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00:00:29 Our scriptural lesson today comes from Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 and 12.
00:00:35 Notice there these words in the amplified version of the scriptures.
00:00:39 In him also we have received an inheritance, a destiny.
00:00:45 We were claimed by God as his own, having been predestined, chosen upon it beforehand,
00:00:52 according to the purpose of him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of his will,
00:01:01 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ, who first put our confidence in him as our Lord and Savior,
00:01:10 would exist to the praise of his glory.
00:01:14 I'm talking today simply from the subject discerning destiny, discerning destiny.
00:01:20 Destiny is not something that you decide, it's something that you discern.
00:01:26 It is something that we discover that God has already decided.
00:01:31 God has a plan for you.
00:01:34 Every human being that comes in the world, it is never by happenstance God has a plan.
00:01:41 God has a plan.
00:01:43 Don't be so obsessed with destiny that you're just saying, "You know God, I want to find my destiny, I want to know why I'm here."
00:01:50 Begin to seek God because your destiny is in God.
00:01:55 It's a God-ordained destiny.
00:01:58 So when you're connected with the very God who designed us, who created us,
00:02:05 think of it as though he is the manufacturer.
00:02:08 He knows exactly why the thing was manufactured, why it was created, and how it functions optimally.
00:02:17 So we seek God, not merely the destiny of the thing, because our destiny is inseparable from God himself.
00:02:25 So this is why we are calling it discerning destiny as a part of our discernment series.
00:02:31 So we're discerning destiny.
00:02:34 You don't decide it the way that you decide, "I want to be a doctor, I want to be a teacher, I want to be a dancer, I want to be an actor, I want to be a football player, a basketball, baseball, soccer player, I want to be a painter."
00:02:45 No, you discover what God has already hidden in destiny for you.
00:02:52 You discover it, you discover it.
00:02:54 So don't go searching for destiny, go searching for God and you will discover destiny in your pursuit of God himself.
00:03:01 Destiny is a prepared place for a prepared people.
00:03:06 In the same way that heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people,
00:03:11 destiny is a prepared place for a prepared people.
00:03:16 So we go toward destiny. It's a place, it's a place.
00:03:20 And legacy is where success and destiny meet but do not compete.
00:03:27 So when you think about that, legacy is where success and destiny meet but do not compete.
00:03:36 So legacy is a very special thing. It's a special thing to us.
00:03:40 Now I want to read this same passage in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 11 and 12 in the message version of scripture.
00:03:46 And just listen to it in this version. Some versions bring out elements that make it a little clearer to us.
00:03:51 It's in Christ that we find out who we are.
00:03:55 See notice that's what you get in Christ.
00:03:57 It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we're living for.
00:04:03 Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up,
00:04:08 he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose.
00:04:16 He is working out in everything and everyone.
00:04:20 I want you to see that because God is God, he's orchestrating all things for all people.
00:04:26 God has a purpose. He doesn't create someone who doesn't have a purpose.
00:04:30 You could have a special needs child and God will use that child to bring faith and togetherness in that family,
00:04:37 teach you to be able to bond together.
00:04:39 I'm just telling you God can use things that other people will say, "Oh look at that."
00:04:43 And they'll be shaking their head but God has a purpose even in that.
00:04:47 Even in tragedy, though he didn't ordain it, God will use it to be able to bring a good thing out of it
00:04:53 because he's a good God and that's the way that God works.
00:04:57 So God has something for us. He has something for you.
00:05:01 You are not just a happenstance of the result of passion that happened in the back of a Chevrolet or Ford some years ago
00:05:08 with your mom and daddy looking at each other, "Goo-goo-aye."
00:05:12 No, no, no, no, no. God had something in store for you.
00:05:16 In the midst of all of that for you to come into being.
00:05:19 Your coming into being was not accidental. It was very strategic.
00:05:23 You have to understand that the result of who you have turned out to be.
00:05:28 When a man releases seed into a woman, he's releasing at least a hundred million.
00:05:34 And the one that makes it to that egg first, bam, there you are.
00:05:39 Here you are right now. You made it.
00:05:42 You're already a winner.
00:05:44 Somebody insults you the moment that they say you're one in a million.
00:05:48 You're not one in a million. You're one in over a hundred million.
00:05:52 Sometimes it's 250 million.
00:05:56 So some people are insulting you when they tell you you're one in a million.
00:05:59 You're more than that.
00:06:01 You are the winner of a competition of over a hundred million other seeds that were racing.
00:06:09 And how dare you think lowly of yourself
00:06:12 when you outran a hundred million other seeds that were in the race.
00:06:18 Bam, there you are.
00:06:20 God had a purpose. He had a purpose.
00:06:22 He had a purpose.
00:06:26 And He will work it for His glory.
00:06:29 Years ago, 30 years ago, I had billboards around Atlanta
00:06:33 with this message on it, "What legacy are you leaving?"
00:06:37 "What legacy are you leaving?"
00:06:40 And here's a simple secret.
00:06:42 The life you live is the legacy that you leave.
00:06:47 The life that you live is the legacy that you leave.
00:06:51 So if you want to leave a legacy of prayer, pray.
00:06:55 If you want to leave a legacy of love, love.
00:06:58 Demonstrate that love in various ways.
00:07:00 If you want to leave a legacy of prophetic ministry, prophesy.
00:07:05 If you want to leave a legacy of healing, heal.
00:07:08 Lay your hands on the sick.
00:07:10 The life that you live is the legacy that you leave.
00:07:14 Do you want to have a legacy as a teacher? Teach!
00:07:18 The life you live is the legacy that you leave.
00:07:23 But you're born on purpose, for a purpose.
00:07:26 God created you for purpose.
00:07:29 Lay your hands on your chest right now.
00:07:31 Say, "I am born on purpose."
00:07:34 With purpose.
00:07:36 For purpose.
00:07:38 Come on, say it like you mean it.
00:07:39 "I am born on purpose."
00:07:41 With purpose.
00:07:42 For purpose.
00:07:44 You are a purpose being.
00:07:47 You're a purpose on your way somewhere to happen.
00:07:50 And even if you're not going somewhere, God will bring purpose to you.
00:07:55 And it'll come and then something will come alive
00:07:59 the moment that that thing gets in close proximity to you.
00:08:03 It's almost like a beautician or a barber.
00:08:06 When your head is a mess, when you get in their proximity,
00:08:11 I mean, they may be shaking their heads,
00:08:13 "Lord, have mercy."
00:08:16 Don't you know what a comb is, a brush is, a shampoo?
00:08:20 But they know how to make it do what it do.
00:08:24 They have a creative ability to be able to see a clean, cut, freshly lined person.
00:08:30 When you get up out of that chair, you're going to look like somebody differently.
00:08:34 Somebody needs the gift.
00:08:36 Let me just tell you this.
00:08:37 God never creates a gift that is not necessary.
00:08:41 And understand this.
00:08:43 A gift is not a gift until it is given.
00:08:48 That's why you're created for purpose, with purpose, and on purpose.
00:08:54 You're created with purpose.
00:08:57 Some of you feel unsettled sometimes and somewhat frustrated
00:09:04 because destiny is in you calling.
00:09:12 And as destiny calls and the environment that is in your immediate atmosphere
00:09:18 does not match what you feel on the inside, frustration is the result.
00:09:25 Because--anybody understand what I'm talking about?
00:09:28 When you realize that there's something bigger in me,
00:09:30 that there's more in me than what's happening around me right now,
00:09:33 and you get frustrated, you get a bit antsy, and it's like,
00:09:36 "Lord, when is this thing coming?"
00:09:38 Because there's something on the inside.
00:09:39 Destiny is calling.
00:09:41 It is calling. It's saying, "Come, come, come up here."
00:09:43 It's always calling to us and, "Come here, come here, come here."
00:09:47 It's like, don't ever rest where you are.
00:09:51 Because destiny is calling you.
00:09:52 It says, "There's more for you.
00:09:53 There's more. There's more."
00:09:55 Notice 2 Timothy 1:9. Notice this.
00:09:58 "For it is He who delivered and saved us and called us."
00:10:03 He saved us and called us.
00:10:06 He saved us and called us with a calling in itself,
00:10:10 holy and leading to holiness.
00:10:13 Do you know that God is a holy God?
00:10:15 And He's looking for a holy people?
00:10:17 Holiness never goes out of style.
00:10:19 I'm just telling you, holiness is not a denomination.
00:10:22 Holiness is a way of life for the believers of God
00:10:24 who carry the Holy Spirit on the inside of them.
00:10:28 Notice, "It is He who delivered and saved us and called us
00:10:32 with a calling in itself, holy and leading to holiness,
00:10:35 to a life of consecration, a vocation of holiness."
00:10:39 He did it not because of anything of merit that we have done,
00:10:43 but because of and to further His own purpose and grace,
00:10:47 unmerited favor, which was given us in Christ Jesus
00:10:51 before the world began, eternal ages ago.
00:10:55 God saved you and called you for purpose,
00:10:58 to be able to live a life of holiness,
00:11:00 consecration, a vocation of holiness unto Him.
00:11:04 Not because of anything meritoriously that we have done,
00:11:08 but because of His grace.
00:11:10 It's not--God is saying, "I'm using you,
00:11:13 not because you're so good, but because I'm so good."
00:11:16 He's just reminding us that it's not because you're so good,
00:11:19 it's because I'm so good.
00:11:21 It's not because you're perfect that He said, "I'm perfect."
00:11:24 It's not because you're so gifted,
00:11:26 it's because I'm gifted and I give gifts unto you.
00:11:29 And He also makes us a gift.
00:11:32 But when God is calling you to destiny,
00:11:35 that means that He doesn't leave you where you are
00:11:37 and He doesn't make it to where whatever you've done in the past
00:11:40 completely satisfies you.
00:11:42 That's a sign that you're not finished.
00:11:44 That's a sign that destiny is still calling you.
00:11:47 Destiny is still calling you to say, "There's more to it."
00:11:50 I know you've had some highs in your life, but God says,
00:11:52 "Can you trust me? There are some higher mountains
00:11:54 I want to take you to.
00:11:56 I know you've been to the peak of this one,
00:11:58 but now it's time to go down into the valley
00:12:00 and come up now another mountain."
00:12:02 And see, it's hard to be on the mountaintop one time
00:12:06 and then go down to the valley.
00:12:08 May I tell you why God takes you to the valley?
00:12:10 Because the valley is the shortest distance
00:12:13 to get to another mountain.
00:12:15 You can't jump from one peak of a mountain
00:12:17 to the peak of another.
00:12:18 If you're going to go from one mountaintop
00:12:20 to another mountaintop, you have to go down
00:12:22 through the valley.
00:12:25 And while you're going to the valley,
00:12:27 that's where the water flows.
00:12:28 That's where the anointings flow.
00:12:30 I meant mountaintops give us perspectives,
00:12:33 but valleys mature us.
00:12:35 Valleys produce a humility in you.
00:12:37 Valleys produce a compassion in you.
00:12:39 Valleys give you something that you don't get up
00:12:42 on the mountaintop.
00:12:44 You got to be down here to appreciate being up here.
00:12:47 And when you get up here, now you see
00:12:49 there's my work down here, that I come up here
00:12:52 to get perspective.
00:12:53 I come up here to get charged by God,
00:12:55 empowered by God, anointed by God,
00:12:58 but my work is down in the valley.
00:13:01 You don't lay hands on other people
00:13:03 who are already in the top 1%.
00:13:05 You better get your behind down into the valley.
00:13:10 That's where the work needs to be done.
00:13:12 Ain't no need in teaching a seminar to the top 1%.
00:13:16 Your work is down here at the bottom.
00:13:19 W.E.B. DuBois talked about the talented 10.
00:13:23 That you get something, you're in the top 10%.
00:13:25 Your work is to go into work with the bottom 90%.
00:13:28 Get down to the valley.
00:13:30 Moses, get me down to the valley.
00:13:33 I'm showing you some fire and smoke up here.
00:13:36 I've shown you miracles, but you take this
00:13:38 and work this down in the valley,
00:13:40 because if it doesn't work in the valley,
00:13:42 it ain't flip up on top of the mountain.
00:13:47 He's gonna send you to where the need is.
00:13:50 Who am I talking to in this place?
00:13:54 You may not understand that why God brings people
00:13:57 to you that have problems.
00:13:59 It's because you've got an anointing in you
00:14:02 to be able to help them with those problems.
00:14:05 You've already been there.
00:14:07 You've already seen God deliver.
00:14:09 You wonder why.
00:14:10 You want him to bring everybody to you
00:14:12 that's already rich and already delivered
00:14:15 and already set free?
00:14:16 No, no, no.
00:14:17 He's gonna send the confused, the mixed up,
00:14:20 the twisted, the drug addicted, the sex addicted,
00:14:23 the know that it will last.
00:14:25 There's a reason that God is trusting you
00:14:28 with trouble, people.
00:14:30 You've got an anointing in you
00:14:34 to say, "Baby, that's not the way.
00:14:36 "This is the way. Walk you in it."
00:14:39 He's gonna send you back to the valley.
00:14:41 Your work is in the valley.
00:14:42 Your work is in the valley.
00:14:44 While you're on the mountain, the valley is calling.
00:14:47 "Get me down, Moses.
00:14:48 "There's some sinners in the camp.
00:14:50 "Get down. Get down, Moses."
00:14:57 See, when you're on your way to destiny,
00:14:59 you're on your way to destiny,
00:15:01 there's always this thing that says,
00:15:03 "Hey, why don't you just park up here
00:15:05 "on Jesus' street? Don't go back down there."
00:15:08 Only reason that he gave you a mountaintop experience
00:15:10 was to show you, was to empower you
00:15:12 to be able to go back to people that need
00:15:14 what he's placed on the inside of you.
00:15:18 And so when you're trying to get to destiny,
00:15:21 you've got to know which bridges to burn
00:15:23 and which ones to cross.
00:15:25 It takes discernment to know
00:15:27 which bridge do I burn and which do I cross.
00:15:31 If he's brought you out of drug addiction, burn it.
00:15:34 If he's brought you out of witchcraft
00:15:36 and demonic, confused identity, burn it.
00:15:41 To know this one, I burn this one,
00:15:43 but I cross that one.
00:15:45 He wants you to be able to burn it.
00:15:46 That's why they had to destroy--
00:15:48 when Elijah called Elisha,
00:15:50 Elisha slew his 12 yoke of oxen
00:15:54 so he'd never be tempted to go back.
00:15:56 He's like, "I've got to burn this
00:15:58 "so that if things ever get hard
00:16:00 "or where you're trying to bring me into this ministry,
00:16:02 "that I'm not tempted to go back."
00:16:04 That's why if you are stepped out in a business--
00:16:07 the word "businessman" in the Hebrew
00:16:09 means a man of faith.
00:16:11 It's a person of faith.
00:16:13 You've got to have faith when you go into business.
00:16:15 You know why?
00:16:16 Because some months it's hard to eat.
00:16:18 And you've got to be in a place where it's like,
00:16:21 "I realize that this goes with the territory.
00:16:24 "It's hard to eat this month.
00:16:26 "I don't have a guaranteed salary coming in.
00:16:29 "The business is not coming in this month.
00:16:31 "Should I fold up shop or should I stand and trust you, God,
00:16:34 "in the midst of this?"
00:16:35 Anybody understand what I'm talking about?
00:16:37 It takes faith when you don't have orders,
00:16:40 when nobody's ringing your phone.
00:16:42 It takes faith.
00:16:43 Who am I talking to in this place?
00:16:45 After having done all this stand,
00:16:47 you're going to have to fight for it.
00:16:49 You're going to have to say,
00:16:50 "Lord, I've been empowered for this purpose.
00:16:52 "Was I born? I was born."
00:16:54 The very thing that is your destiny
00:16:57 is the very thing that'll give you trouble.
00:16:59 You birth a child, give them time,
00:17:01 they'll give you trouble.
00:17:02 You can't throw your hands up.
00:17:04 You've got to realize,
00:17:05 "I am built for this.
00:17:08 "I am built for this.
00:17:10 "I am built for this."
00:17:13 Come on, say it.
00:17:14 "I am built for this."
00:17:16 Come on.
00:17:17 "I am built for this."
00:17:19 Say it.
00:17:20 "I am built for this."
00:17:23 [cheers and applause]
00:17:29 You're well able.
00:17:30 You are well able.
00:17:31 Don't let it intimidate you.
00:17:33 Let it bristle faith in your heart.
00:17:36 Let it cause faith and courage to rise up.
00:17:40 Rise up.
00:17:41 Rise up.
00:17:43 [cheers and applause]
00:17:46 [bell rings]
00:17:47 [music]
00:17:50 Know which bridge to burn
00:17:52 and know which one to cross.
00:17:54 It's scary to cross bridges
00:17:57 and you've never been across there.
00:17:59 It's, "God, I got to trust you
00:18:01 "because I don't have any guarantees
00:18:03 "crossing over a bridge
00:18:05 "that I've never been before.
00:18:06 "I don't know whether I'm going to be able
00:18:08 "to eat over here as well as I've been eating,
00:18:11 "and so I would rather stay with security
00:18:13 "than to go for opportunity."
00:18:15 But when you have faith on the inside of you,
00:18:17 faith says bump security.
00:18:19 God is your security.
00:18:21 Trust him.
00:18:22 Trust him.
00:18:23 Trust him and bust a move.
00:18:25 Trust him and bust a move.
00:18:27 Trust him and bust a move.
00:18:29 Trust him and bust a move.
00:18:32 Get out of the boat.
00:18:34 Get out of the safety zone
00:18:36 and walk on something that is unstable,
00:18:39 and I'll give you a testimony
00:18:41 that nobody will be able to take away from you.
00:18:44 [cheers and applause]
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00:18:54 It's a new day.
00:18:55 It's a new day.
00:18:56 It's a new day.
00:18:58 This is your season.
00:18:59 You're built for this.
00:19:02 You can stand, stand, stand, stand.
00:19:05 [cheers and applause]
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00:19:12 I want you to just hear what God was saying
00:19:15 to the church at Galatia in Galatians chapter 5
00:19:18 in verse 7.
00:19:19 "You ran well, but who hindered you?"
00:19:21 Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
00:19:24 Who scared you out of your destiny?
00:19:27 Who talked you out of your destiny?
00:19:29 Who talked you into coming back into something
00:19:32 that was safe and predictable and normal?
00:19:35 Who talked you out of obeying the voice of the Holy Ghost?
00:19:41 Let courage arise in your heart.
00:19:43 Let faith rise in your heart.
00:19:46 This is a new day.
00:19:48 This is a new day.
00:19:49 This is a new day.
00:19:51 And any time that you want to define evil,
00:19:54 evil is anything that has taken you away
00:19:56 from your God-called destiny.
00:19:58 It doesn't always look evil.
00:20:00 It doesn't always sound evil.
00:20:01 But evil is whatever pulls you away
00:20:03 from your God-ordained destiny,
00:20:05 the very purpose that God birthed you into the world.
00:20:08 I mean, he told us, didn't he, in Jeremiah 29, 11,
00:20:10 "I know the plans that I have for you," declares the Lord.
00:20:12 "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
00:20:15 Plans to give you hope and a future."
00:20:18 God's not looking for a plan.
00:20:19 He is a plan.
00:20:21 He is a plan.
00:20:23 He is a plan.
00:20:24 He is a plan.
00:20:26 People say, "What's your plan?
00:20:27 How you gonna make it?"
00:20:28 God, I'm looking unto him.
00:20:31 He is my hope.
00:20:33 He is my bread when I'm hungry.
00:20:35 He's my water when I'm thirsty.
00:20:37 He's my doctor when I'm sick.
00:20:39 You don't have any insurance.
00:20:41 He is.
00:20:49 He is your pension plan.
00:20:51 He is the one that gives you creativity in your mind.
00:20:54 He is the one that gives you determination.
00:20:56 He is the one that breathes into your nostrils
00:20:59 the breath of life and says, "Become a living soul.
00:21:02 Get up."
00:21:05 He is the one that will look at you and say,
00:21:07 "Son of man, daughter of man,
00:21:09 rise up, prophesy to these dead bones.
00:21:12 Prophesy, prophesy.
00:21:14 Do the miraculous.
00:21:16 Do the impossible."
00:21:17 I pray that God will make you a possibilitarian
00:21:21 to where you're relayed that with God,
00:21:24 all things are possible.
00:21:27 With God, all things are possible.
00:21:30 With God, all things are possible.
00:21:34 With God, all things are possible.
00:21:38 [applause]
00:21:44 I remind you again today that whatever is necessary
00:21:49 in your life and for your destiny,
00:21:51 it is possible.
00:21:53 It is possible.
00:21:54 It is possible.
00:21:55 It is possible.
00:21:56 God says, "Trust me.
00:21:58 Trust me.
00:21:59 Trust me.
00:22:00 Trust me.
00:22:01 Set your eyes upon me and trust me.
00:22:04 Set your eyes and trust me."
00:22:09 The quintessential question is,
00:22:11 if God has a plan for everyone,
00:22:13 why doesn't everyone know that plan?
00:22:17 I'm glad you asked because right after God says
00:22:21 that I know the plans that I have for you,
00:22:23 plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
00:22:25 plans to give you hope and a future,
00:22:27 he went on and said in the next couple of verses,
00:22:29 "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me
00:22:34 and I will listen to you.
00:22:35 Come and pray to me and I will listen to you.
00:22:38 You will seek me and find me when you seek me
00:22:41 with all your heart and I will be found by you,"
00:22:44 declares the Lord.
00:22:45 He says, "I want to tag you and have you to come
00:22:47 and chase after me.
00:22:49 I want to stir a curiosity."
00:22:50 He says, "I've got stuff hidden for people who are curious."
00:22:54 One of your greatest gifts that you can ever have
00:22:56 is to have the gift of curiosity to say,
00:22:58 "Let me turn aside and see this sight."
00:23:00 It's like, "God, let me see what you've got for me over here."
00:23:02 If you're not hungry to know anymore,
00:23:04 God will say, "I'll just leave you be."
00:23:06 But this is for hungry people.
00:23:08 This is not for nosy people.
00:23:10 This is for hungry people.
00:23:12 This is not for nosy people.
00:23:13 This is for hungry people.
00:23:18 He says, "I want people that will come and pray to me
00:23:20 and seek me, people that will sniff me out
00:23:23 and say, 'God, you're up to something.'"
00:23:25 They're saying, "God, you're getting ready
00:23:26 to do something in the world
00:23:27 and, God, I don't know what you're going to do,
00:23:28 but whatever it is that you're going to do, Lord,
00:23:30 I want to be in on it."
00:23:31 Whatever you're getting ready to do in this season,
00:23:33 God, don't do it without me.
00:23:35 Don't do it without me.
00:23:36 Lord, I want to be involved in prayer.
00:23:38 I want to be involved in strategic glory.
00:23:40 I want to be involved in mentoring and helping somebody else
00:23:42 and encouraging somebody else.
00:23:44 Lord, whatever, whatever, whatever you're doing
00:23:46 in this season, God, don't do it without me.
00:23:49 Don't do it--let me play some role in it, Jesus.
00:23:52 Let me play some role in it, Jesus.
00:23:55 Let me play a role.
00:23:57 Whatever you're doing in this season,
00:23:58 God, don't do it without me.
00:24:00 He says, "I want to do this so that I hide my purpose
00:24:04 so that only hungry people find me."
00:24:07 He says, "You're going to have to seek after this.
00:24:10 You're going to have to come to me.
00:24:12 You won't just stumble on this.
00:24:15 This is a result of a search.
00:24:18 A search is always intentional.
00:24:20 You don't stumble on anything when you are searching."
00:24:24 God says, "When you search for me,
00:24:25 when you look for me with all of your heart,"
00:24:27 he said, "I will be found by you.
00:24:30 You're going to find me.
00:24:31 I'm not trying to make you go on a wild goose chase," he said,
00:24:33 "but I want to make sure that you have a hunger
00:24:35 for what I have for you."
00:24:37 He's like, "I don't want to waste my time
00:24:39 giving something so valuable, and then you treat them
00:24:41 like a swine, like a pig with trampoline pearls."
00:24:45 He says, "I don't want to give this to somebody
00:24:47 who doesn't understand its value.
00:24:51 I want to give this to hungry people.
00:24:53 This is for hungry people."
00:24:57 And the greatest gift that you can give to God
00:24:59 is your hunger.
00:25:01 "Lord, I'm hungry for you.
00:25:02 I'm hungry for you, Lord.
00:25:03 I'm hungry for you.
00:25:04 I want more of you.
00:25:06 I want more of you, Jesus.
00:25:07 I want more of you, Jesus.
00:25:09 I want more of you."
00:25:11 I want you to see what he says in Luke 11,
00:25:13 verse 9 and 10.
00:25:14 He says, "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given."
00:25:17 This is Jesus talking.
00:25:18 Jesus said, "Ask, and it will be given."
00:25:19 He said, "Seek, and you will find."
00:25:21 He says, "Knock, and the door will be opened to you."
00:25:24 God did all of this so that you would just
00:25:26 simply passionately seek Him as to the why.
00:25:30 And I want you to see what he said in Acts,
00:25:31 chapter 17, in verse 26 and 27.
00:25:34 "For one man He created all the nations
00:25:36 throughout the whole earth.
00:25:39 He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall."
00:25:42 God has already decided your birth date
00:25:45 and your death date, and He has determined
00:25:47 your boundaries, who your mama is,
00:25:49 who your daddy is, what place you would be born in,
00:25:52 what language you would speak,
00:25:53 what kind of accent you would have,
00:25:54 how tall you would grow, the complexion of your skin,
00:25:56 the texture of your hair, the color of your eyes.
00:25:59 He discerned all of that.
00:26:00 He determined all of that, the boundaries.
00:26:03 He knew exactly what your voice would sound like.
00:26:05 He knew exactly everything.
00:26:07 He has already determined those boundaries.
00:26:09 And then verse 27, "His purpose was for the nations
00:26:13 to seek after God."
00:26:15 God said, "I want you to seek me."
00:26:16 I hope you see this.
00:26:17 "Seek after God and perhaps feel their way towards Him
00:26:21 and find Him."
00:26:22 It's like, "God, I don't know exactly what you're doing,
00:26:24 but I'm feeling after you.
00:26:26 I'm feeling after you.
00:26:28 I don't know, but I somehow sense that you're calling me.
00:26:31 Jesus, I don't know, I can't really see it,
00:26:33 but I'm feeling after you, Jesus.
00:26:36 I'm feeling after you.
00:26:37 I'm feeling after you.
00:26:39 I'm feeling after you."
00:26:40 "His purpose was for the nations to seek after God
00:26:43 and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him,
00:26:46 though He is not far away from any of us."
00:26:49 This is God's way of saying that I am always within reach.
00:26:53 I am always within reach.
00:26:55 I am always--we don't have a God who's unreachable.
00:26:58 You'll never call Him and then He'll say,
00:27:00 "No, no, no, I'm on the line with one of my other children."
00:27:03 You don't ever have a situation where God is unreachable.
00:27:07 When you're talking about getting discernment,
00:27:09 we must often go through the ask process.
00:27:12 And it is simply this ask--asking is simply ask and receive.
00:27:16 Just like a baby, they ask through their cry.
00:27:18 They're asking for milk.
00:27:19 They ask and they receive.
00:27:21 Seeking, though, implies time to do the search.
00:27:26 When you're seeking, it's time to do the search.
00:27:29 And then knocking, this requires both time and repetition.
00:27:33 And there are some things when God gives you a high calling,
00:27:36 you don't get it merely by asking and seeking.
00:27:38 You've got to knock.
00:27:40 That means it requires both time and repetition.
00:27:44 I've hit on this before and it didn't open up.
00:27:46 Hit it again.
00:27:48 Go back and try it again.
00:27:50 When you're fishing, you've got to throw your line in the water.
00:27:54 It's about the sensitivity of the Holy Ghost
00:27:56 because the fish are there.
00:27:58 And Jesus had to tell them, "Let down your nets on the right side of the ship."
00:28:03 My God, when God has to direct you by His voice,
00:28:06 He didn't miraculously put the fish there.
00:28:08 They were already there.
00:28:10 He knows exactly where they are.
00:28:12 It's that you've got to keep on knocking on this thing.
00:28:14 It's about time and repetition.
00:28:16 Time and repetition.
00:28:18 He says, "Go back again."
00:28:19 He said, "Rain is going to come."
00:28:21 And He said, "Go check one time."
00:28:23 It didn't come that time, but He's knocking this time.
00:28:27 He's got to sometime knock on heaven's door.
00:28:29 He says, "Go back and check a second time."
00:28:31 And a third time.
00:28:33 And a fourth time.
00:28:34 And a fifth time.
00:28:36 And a sixth time.
00:28:37 And a seventh time.
00:28:38 He said, "I see a little cloud."
00:28:41 Suppose He had stopped at the third time and said, "Three's a charm."
00:28:45 No, no, no.
00:28:46 When you knock, it requires both time and repetition.
00:28:50 Because when you know what you want is in the room, sleep,
00:28:54 you keep knocking on the door
00:28:56 in anticipation that I'm going to knock until I wake it up.
00:29:00 I'm going to knock until it rises from the dead.
00:29:02 I'm going to knock until this thing is open under me.
00:29:05 My God, sometimes you ask, sometimes you seek.
00:29:09 It is not that God has not heard you.
00:29:12 He's trying to see whether or not you have enough tenacity,
00:29:15 pertenacity.
00:29:17 My continual knocking is the belief that faith in God
00:29:23 shall cause this door to open.
00:29:26 It'll stop my enemies from vexing me.
00:29:29 Keep knocking, keep knocking, keep knocking, keep knocking.
00:29:34 Because God can open up the relationship.
00:29:37 He'll open it up.
00:29:38 God will open it up.
00:29:40 You don't get it on the first time.
00:29:42 Keep knocking.
00:29:43 It takes time and repetition, time and repetition, time and repetition.
00:29:50 Keep knocking.
00:29:52 Hear ye the prophetic word of the Lord.
00:29:56 [music]
00:30:04 I pray that you hear God.
00:30:06 Destiny is something that you have to discern.
00:30:09 You have to discern.
00:30:10 You have to discern.
00:30:11 You have to discern.
00:30:12 You have to discern it by the Holy Ghost.
00:30:14 Keep knocking.
00:30:16 Keep knocking.
00:30:18 I'm not telling you something that I read in the paper
00:30:22 or just read in a book.
00:30:23 I'm telling you what I've lived in my own faith.
00:30:27 When I knew that it was important that Word of Faith would own
00:30:30 where the epicenter is, Walmart owned that piece of property.
00:30:34 I asked them to sell it to me.
00:30:36 They said it's not for sale.
00:30:38 I said I'm not interested in renting.
00:30:42 And I said give me the first right of refusal.
00:30:44 Before you sell it to anybody else, call me.
00:30:49 I waited seven years.
00:30:52 Seven years later, the bishop was still knocking.
00:30:59 Some of you, because you didn't get it the first year or the second year
00:31:03 or the third year, I'm not telling you about somebody else's experience.
00:31:08 I had a word from God.
00:31:12 And all that I needed, no matter how long it takes, time and repetition.
00:31:17 Lord, Lord, Lord, I'm telling you how I prayed for seven years.
00:31:25 And I said God, seven is the number of completion.
00:31:29 Lord, I said do it this year, do it this year, do it this year, do it this year.
00:31:34 And my God, I said and God did.
00:31:39 Keep knocking, keep knocking, keep knocking, keep knocking, keep knocking,
00:31:44 keep knocking and let me just tell you that when it didn't open after three years,
00:31:49 there was nothing wrong with my faith.
00:31:53 Time and repetition, time and repetition, time and repetition.
00:32:02 While Daniel was locked up, he kept praying three times a day.
00:32:07 He kept praying time and repetition, time and repetition, time and repetition.
00:32:14 Ah, who is it that has become discouraged because it's taken too long?
00:32:19 Some of you got discouraged waiting on a business, you're waiting on a piece of property to sell.
00:32:23 You've been waiting to be able to conceive and have a child and you got discouraged.
00:32:27 But I hear the Holy Ghost saying if you will keep knocking, knocking, knocking.
00:32:32 Knock it in, bashi kibafah, mushkideh vash.
00:32:37 My, there's something about the time and the repetition, the time and the repetition, the time and the repetition.
00:32:43 Go back and sow again, keep praying again.
00:32:46 Don't let discouragement because it didn't happen by the time you thought that it should happen.
00:32:50 God's not wearing a watch.
00:32:53 He is time, He creates time.
00:32:56 He's the God that was, is and is to come.
00:32:59 He's not looking and measuring events by your calendar nor your clock.
00:33:04 But when we say God, I trust you, I trust you God, I trust you in your timing.
00:33:12 Because these things, there are certain things that will never break forth for you until the fullness of time.
00:33:19 In the fullness of time, in the fullness of time, in the fullness of time.
00:33:26 God didn't send Moses to do the work of liberating the children of Israel until he was 80 years old.
00:33:33 For the next 40 years, from 80 to 120, the Bible says that when Moses died at 120, that his natural force was not abated.
00:33:42 That he had the strength of a man 40 years old.
00:33:45 Because when you wait upon the Lord, my God, he has the ability to be able to renew your strength.
00:33:51 You gotta keep plugged into God, you gotta stay plugged into God.
00:33:54 Lord, I am plugged into you, I'm plugged into you, I'm plugged into you.
00:33:59 You have to understand that you may not always wonder why in the world things are taking so long for you.
00:34:06 Because sometimes you're asking for a shortcut and God has sent you on a detour.
00:34:13 And here's the difference, that detours are designed to get you there safely, but shortcuts are designed to get you there quickly.
00:34:20 And while you may get somewhere quickly, you may kill yourself in the process.
00:34:23 So God's not into shortcuts, he's into detours.
00:34:26 Because when he takes you on a detour, there are people that you need to meet.
00:34:30 There are experiences that you need to have.
00:34:32 There are lessons that you need to learn and there are things that you need to see.
00:34:36 So when God is taking you on a detour, he has a purpose in it.
00:34:39 He's maturing some things in you and he is eliminating some childish things out of you.
00:34:44 So let God take his time on the scenic route and take you on the detour.
00:34:51 Because the detour is God getting you there safely.
00:34:55 The shortcut is getting you there quickly.
00:34:57 And when you take shortcuts, you can endanger your life and cut your life short.
00:35:02 So sometimes the longest road is the shortest cut.
00:35:06 Because you get injured and now you got to take time to heal and recuperate and rehabilitate.
00:35:11 Because you took a shortcut to a place that God was calling you.
00:35:15 And he said, "If you'll just trust me."
00:35:17 It may not happen as fast as you want it, but it's the safest way for you to build a solidness in your character.
00:35:23 And a compassion and a tenderness and a meekness in your heart to be able to serve me so that success won't wreck you.
00:35:33 But it will bless you.
00:35:36 And it will bring you to a posture in God where you say, "Lord, I trust you. I trust you."
00:35:42 Though the circumstances slay me when I'm trying to drum up business and when there's no cause coming in.
00:35:47 "Lord, I trust you. Though you slay me, yet will I trust you. I will still trust you. I will trust you."
00:35:55 There's a major factors that define our life.
00:35:59 They are design. That's how you were made.
00:36:01 It's definition. It's how you were taught. It's your culture.
00:36:04 And then there's decision. And that's how you decide.
00:36:08 These are three things that shape your life. God's design for you.
00:36:12 How the culture defines you.
00:36:15 And your decisions shape who you are.
00:36:20 Sometimes when you're wondering, "God, who am I?"
00:36:24 You're puzzled.
00:36:27 And the thing about it, you have pieces of this thing. You don't have the whole thing.
00:36:32 And it's not until you get all of the pieces of the puzzle into place that you see the big picture of what you've been working on trying to create.
00:36:42 And this is why there are elements of your destiny that are determined by your shape.
00:36:49 You know how to put the puzzle together by the shape.
00:36:54 You don't have to force it because it is fitted for it.
00:36:58 And when it is the right piece to your life, it will bring the right P-E-A-C-E to your life.
00:37:11 There's piece in a right fit.
00:37:14 Piece in a right fit.
00:37:17 So it's your shape that tells you the thing that has been puzzling you.
00:37:21 You got to find the place that the odd, unique shape that you have fits.
00:37:28 And it's like, "Lord, this is what I've been searching for and feeling after."
00:37:32 And sometimes you try different things and you realize it doesn't fit, but now this one, it fits.
00:37:38 And here's your shape. Your shape, the S is your spiritual gift.
00:37:42 Your spiritual gifts, this is found in Romans chapter 12, verse 6 through 8.
00:37:47 There's different spiritual gifts than tongue, than interpretation, than working of miracles, than gift of faith.
00:37:52 These are different kinds of gifts here. These are mercy and kindness.
00:37:55 This is the gift of organization. This is the gift of generosity.
00:37:58 This is the gift of teaching. This is the gift of encouragement.
00:38:01 This is the gift of leadership. These are spiritual gifts.
00:38:05 Romans chapter 12, verse 6 through 8. These are spiritual gifts.
00:38:09 Find your spiritual gifts. The H is your heart.
00:38:13 Your heart is where your passions lie. Your passions.
00:38:17 How do you know what you're passionate about?
00:38:20 It's what would you do if you had unlimited time and you had unlimited money.
00:38:24 What would you do? It's your passion.
00:38:26 It's what is it that makes you the happiest.
00:38:29 When are you most fulfilled? That's passion. That's passion.
00:38:33 The A is your abilities.
00:38:35 What are the abilities that God has put in my life?
00:38:37 What is it that you do well?
00:38:39 Sometimes your shape. You can be passionate about something that you don't do very well.
00:38:44 You need to have an ability in this area as well.
00:38:47 Sing it as your gift. You need to be able to carry a tune.
00:38:51 Not just a passion for music. You gotta have an ability.
00:38:56 So when God has shaped you for something,
00:38:59 you got a spiritual gift in that area.
00:39:02 You got passion. A heart is in that area.
00:39:05 Then you got abilities. And then the P is your personality.
00:39:08 Because if God has called you to work with children, you won't be an impatient person.
00:39:12 You won't be a selfish person.
00:39:14 You have a personality where you like children and you enjoy teaching things and breaking things down.
00:39:20 And you're patient and kind.
00:39:22 That's a personality.
00:39:24 Then the E are your experiences.
00:39:26 Your experiences.
00:39:28 Because God will use where you've been.
00:39:30 He'll use your education. He'll use your skill, your training, your strategy.
00:39:35 That you learned in the secular world and God will say, "Bring that over to my kingdom."
00:39:39 I'm gonna use those experiences of every place that I took you on the detour.
00:39:43 Because I was building something and you might not have seen how that was connected to this.
00:39:48 But it's all connected because God will never waste time.
00:39:52 You'll never waste it.
00:39:54 So when your shape is your spiritual gift, it's your heart, your passion.
00:39:59 They're your abilities. It's your personality.
00:40:01 It's your experience. You begin to see things come into shape.
00:40:05 So ask God to show you your shape.
00:40:08 And it helps you.
00:40:10 And here's what I would say to you.
00:40:12 Stop focusing on how you were raised and study how you were made.
00:40:16 Study how you were made.
00:40:21 We're wonderfully and fearfully made.
00:40:23 Study how we were made.
00:40:25 David talked about that in Psalm 139.
00:40:27 Wonderfully and fearfully made.
00:40:29 And I want you to realize this.
00:40:32 Don't let your faults, your weaknesses, your mistakes, your poor decisions disqualify you from God's purpose.
00:40:41 God took people that were murderers and used them.
00:40:44 Liars and used them.
00:40:46 Adulterers and used them.
00:40:48 Alcoholics and used them for His glory.
00:40:51 God will not determine your future based on the mistakes of your past.
00:40:55 This is why He reminds us in Romans 8, 28, the Amplified Version.
00:41:00 And we know with great confidence that God who is deeply concerned about us
00:41:04 calls His all things to work together as a plan for good for those who love God.
00:41:10 All things, all things, not just the good things.
00:41:12 The good things and the bad.
00:41:14 The positives and the negatives.
00:41:16 The ups and the downs.
00:41:18 All things to work together for the good of those who love God
00:41:21 who are called according to His plan and purpose.
00:41:24 God says I'll work it.
00:41:26 He said when I call you I already knew every natural proclivity that you had,
00:41:30 every tendency that you had and I chose to use you anyhow.
00:41:34 I knew your weaknesses.
00:41:36 I factored that into the equation before I ever called you.
00:41:39 And I'll work that for your good.
00:41:41 I'll work it for your good.
00:41:45 How can we do that?
00:41:47 He says in Romans 8, verse 5,
00:41:49 "For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,
00:41:54 but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit."
00:41:57 He said we're coming in a time now that it's time for us to set our minds on the things of the Spirit.
00:42:02 Because the flesh is ruling and has been unleashed in a way that has produced such carnality
00:42:09 that has corrupted the holiness of God in the church.
00:42:13 And He says set your mind, set your mind, set your mind back on the things of the Spirit.
00:42:18 When you begin to look at godly desires and fleshly desires,
00:42:21 I want you to see a difference between the two that godly desires serve others,
00:42:25 fleshly things serve self.
00:42:27 Godly desires lead to life and peace, the flesh leads to death.
00:42:31 Godly desires are spiritual, fleshly desires are sensual.
00:42:34 Godly desires are driven by purpose, fleshly desires are driven by pleasure and comfort.
00:42:39 Godly desires lead to greater love for God, fleshly desires lead to greater lust for sex.
00:42:45 Godly desires promote love and unity, fleshly desires create envy and jealousy.
00:42:49 And godly desires edify us, fleshly desires demoralize us.
00:42:54 Your spirit and your flesh are at war with each other.
00:43:00 Galatians 5, 16 and 17 tells you that if you're guided by the Spirit, you won't obey your selfish desires.
00:43:06 The Spirit and your desires are enemies of each other.
00:43:10 They're always fighting each other and keeping you from doing what you feel you should.
00:43:15 But the good news of the gospel is that you can win this battle.
00:43:19 How do we win it?
00:43:22 You put on the whole armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's scheme.
00:43:31 Can, can.
00:43:33 That Greek word here that's can says that you are powerful enough to do this.
00:43:39 That you have the power.
00:43:41 It's not power from your willpower, it's the power of the Holy Spirit that's on the inside of you.
00:43:47 It's the power of the Spirit.
00:43:49 Don't be strong in yourself, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
00:43:55 Because He's the one.
00:43:57 He's called us for something beyond where we are.
00:44:01 He's called us.
00:44:03 He's called us.
00:44:07 I mentioned that my wife and I were in Israel with Julio Iglesias.
00:44:12 And he did three marvelous concerts there.
00:44:17 And we were having dinner with him one night and my wife looked up at him and she asked him, she said, "How did you get into singing?"
00:44:25 And he told us, I'd never heard this part of his story, but he said that he was a champion soccer player.
00:44:35 And he sustained the deadly injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down for two years.
00:44:41 While he was lying there in the hospital bed for two years trying to be rehabilitated, someone brought a guitar to him.
00:44:49 He never had any desire for music.
00:44:54 But they said, "While you're here, you may as well do something constructive with yourself."
00:45:00 And he taught himself to play.
00:45:02 And he came back and discovered that he had taught himself to play.
00:45:05 They said, "Well, you ought to try singing something now."
00:45:08 And the rest is history.
00:45:11 Isn't it amazing that God used an accident to shift His destiny?
00:45:18 All things. God didn't send the accident, but He took the accident to shift him into His destiny.
00:45:26 It really wasn't an accident, it was an incident that shifted him from one thing into His purpose for which he was born.
00:45:33 He sings in seven different languages. He's 80 years old today.
00:45:37 It's amazing that God could use something that looked like an accident that disrupted His plan of playing football, soccer,
00:45:52 and shifted him into a musical gift.
00:45:55 He's got a son, Enrique.
00:45:58 He never would have discovered his music had his daddy not found his voice in music.
00:46:04 And so what was storming in him? He was going down the wrong road, pursuing the gifts.
00:46:11 That wasn't how he was to make his mark.
00:46:14 And what if you're on the wrong road and have been on the wrong road for a long time?
00:46:21 It reminds me of the story of Sir Alfred, who was the discoverer of TNT dynamite.
00:46:28 He's a chemist and engineer that had been working with nitroglycerin, trying to figure out how to stabilize it.
00:46:35 And these things come at a cost.
00:46:37 His younger brother, Emil, died in an explosion with five other employees in his daddy's factory,
00:46:44 fumbling around with nitroglycerin.
00:46:48 He lost his baby brother.
00:46:50 He was the youngest boy of the family.
00:46:53 But it didn't stop him from working. He kept on working.
00:46:57 And it was the discovery he found out a way to stabilize nitroglycerin.
00:47:02 It became useful for being able to blast out tunnels and do mining, but it also had brought destruction.
00:47:10 And he had an older brother that one day, while he was in France in Canes, fell out with an intracerebral hemorrhage in his brain and dropped dead.
00:47:22 France printed the obituary of Sir Alfred.
00:47:28 And Sir Alfred is alive. They mistakenly thought that he had died, but his brother had died.
00:47:35 Ludwig died in France.
00:47:39 And they printed the story as the face of death, this doctor of death that had brought so much doom and gloom,
00:47:46 and how so many people were left maimed and decimated because of his dynamite and the destruction that it had caused all over the world.
00:47:54 He wakes up one morning, sitting there at his breakfast table, is reading his own obituary in the paper,
00:47:59 and it shocked him into saying, "This is not how I want to be remembered."
00:48:05 And he made a change that day and started thinking in I.D. 80.
00:48:10 And he came up with the idea of establishing the Nobel Peace Prize. His name is Sir Alfred Nobel.
00:48:18 Today he's better known for his causes for peace around the world than he is for the destruction that came by dynamite.
00:48:27 He shifted his destiny, but it took the death of his brother to give him a wake-up call and to shift from dynamite to peace.
00:48:36 And now he's got a legacy of peace that's still going.
00:48:40 And he had made what is equivalent in this day and time to about $275 million worth.
00:48:46 That money, he gave up the vast majority of it as a reward for the Nobel Peace Prize each year
00:48:52 because it's the interest that comes off the account that pays it in five different categories.
00:48:56 In medicine, in things for humanity, for the efforts of peace, in literature, various things.
00:49:02 Five different categories.
00:49:04 And it's interesting how being shifted from a path of destruction with creating dynamite, TNT,
00:49:12 to now being known around the world for the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:49:18 And he's been more instrumental in promoting peace and encouraging others to promote peace.
00:49:23 He shifted his destiny. It is to say that the way that you have lived up to this time is not in vain.
00:49:31 And you don't have to keep on going the same wrong way.
00:49:36 One of the worst nightmares that you could ever have in life is to spend your life chasing after dollars,
00:49:45 climbing up the ladder of success only to discover that the ladder was leaning against the wrong building.
00:49:53 And this is why God is saying, "I know the plans that I have for you."
00:49:58 They are plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.
00:50:03 They will bring fulfillment into your life when you step into your prophetic call.
00:50:07 When you step into the divine destiny.
00:50:09 And it is not something that you decide. It is something that once you get your heart so hungry
00:50:13 that you begin to get on your face before God and that you begin to seek Him.
00:50:17 And say, "God, show me. Show me the very purpose for which I am born.
00:50:21 Show me why you gifted me so. Show me why you keep bringing people to me, putting them in my path.
00:50:26 Show me, Jesus."
00:50:28 And when you really become hungry to wonder why is it that you've got these gifts in you
00:50:33 and that your shape has already predicted your future.
00:50:37 My God, your purpose is so inextricably connected to your purpose.
00:50:42 Your purpose and your passion, they're connected.
00:50:46 Your abilities, your personality, your experience, everything, there's a reason that God made you the way that you are.
00:50:52 There is a reason.
00:50:55 You are created on purpose, with purpose, and for purpose.
00:50:59 God designed you to be who you are.
00:51:04 And this time if you don't know to be able to feel after God.
00:51:08 We want certainty where God wants obedience.
00:51:12 He just says, "Trust me in the small things and keep walking. Just trust me, trust me, trust me.
00:51:18 Keep feeling after me. Lord, I think that you're leading me to do this."
00:51:21 If you'll obey God in the small thing that you think that He's doing, just follow Him. Follow Him.
00:51:26 If you wait until you have a guarantee, if you wait until it's totally clear, you're gonna be too late.
00:51:33 You'll miss it.
00:51:36 You got to go trusting and trembling.
00:51:40 Unless you don't have a guarantee.
00:51:43 Faith is not doing something in the absence of fear, it's doing it in the presence of fear.
00:51:48 It's saying, "Lord, I'm scared, but I'm going."
00:51:51 "I don't know how this is gonna work, Jesus. I don't know how you're gonna make this fall out."
00:51:57 But it's a way of saying that God's saying, "I'm gonna work it out. I'm gonna work it out. I'm going to work it out."
00:52:03 You'll be pulled over by the cops and blue lights are behind you.
00:52:07 And you're checking in, you don't even have your wallet.
00:52:09 And you say, "Jesus, I don't know what's gonna happen."
00:52:15 "And I don't know what's gonna happen either."
00:52:19 One night years ago, this is probably 20 years ago, my wife was driving late at night.
00:52:24 It's about 2 o'clock in the morning, we're on our way home.
00:52:27 I was in the car behind her.
00:52:29 She was drunk with sleep.
00:52:32 And her car was weaving on the road.
00:52:35 The cops pull her over.
00:52:37 She has no license, no insurance.
00:52:40 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:52:43 And I pull up behind them and they're giving her a sobriety test.
00:52:50 Her only crime is that she was drunk with sleep.
00:52:55 I had no guarantees, I had my license.
00:52:59 I wasn't sleepy.
00:53:03 But I'm her covering.
00:53:07 [applause]
00:53:15 I don't remember what I said to the officer, but they did let her go.
00:53:19 And she didn't have license and insurance.
00:53:24 But they let her go.
00:53:28 For that we're thankful.
00:53:30 I didn't know how it was gonna work out. I thought I was gonna have to go down there and get her out the next day.
00:53:37 But when you're trusted, when you have no guarantees,
00:53:43 there's something that God will show you.
00:53:47 Only having to walk through a scary situation.
00:53:51 There's no other way.
00:53:53 It's frightening.
00:53:55 And He won't immediately show you the outcome.
00:53:57 He'll give you a piece and let you know it's gonna be alright, but there's a lot of detail that's left out that it's gonna be alright.
00:54:07 And I can tell you that from experience.
00:54:10 Only thing that I had was a resolve down in my Noah.
00:54:14 Is to know that God's gonna work it out.
00:54:16 I don't know how, I don't exactly know when.
00:54:19 I know that He's gonna work it out.
00:54:22 That was my faith, God is gonna work it out.
00:54:26 When that woman left her dead child at home.
00:54:30 And the prophet of the Lord asked her, "What's wrong?"
00:54:33 And she said, "It is well with my soul."
00:54:37 That wasn't very specific, it wasn't saying that something as a mother was freaking out.
00:54:42 To know that my child is deceased.
00:54:46 But there was a resolve in her spirit that came out of her faith.
00:54:49 It said, "It is well."
00:54:51 "It is well with my soul."
00:54:54 And when you know that you're doing what God birthed you in the earth to do.
00:55:00 "It is well with my soul."
00:55:02 You may be having a hard time and the money may not be coming in the way that you need it.
00:55:06 But Lord I trust you.
00:55:07 "It is well with my soul."
00:55:09 Yeah, there's something that I can use right now.
00:55:12 "It is well."
00:55:13 "It is well."
00:55:14 "It is well."
00:55:15 Can you declare that by faith today?
00:55:17 "It is well."
00:55:20 That relationship that you're dealing with with a relative.
00:55:23 "It is well."
00:55:24 "It is well."
00:55:25 "It is well."
00:55:26 You ought to declare it in your business.
00:55:28 "It is well."
00:55:29 In your career.
00:55:30 "It is well."
00:55:31 In your schooling.
00:55:32 "It is well."
00:55:33 In that issue in your household.
00:55:35 "It is well."
00:55:36 What the crime that's happening in your neighborhood.
00:55:39 "It is well."
00:55:40 "It is well."
00:55:41 "It is well."
00:55:42 "It is well."
00:55:43 "It is well."
00:55:44 "It is well."
00:55:45 God's working it for your favor.
00:55:47 He's working it for your good and for his glory.
00:55:50 God is working it for your good and for his glory.
00:55:54 Why?
00:55:55 Because you are the called according to his purpose.
00:55:58 And you love him.
00:56:00 He works together for the good of those that love God and who are the called according to his purpose.
00:56:09 When you yield yourself to God, just say, "God, I give you myself."
00:56:13 "I trust you."
00:56:15 "I trust you."
00:56:18 And while I don't know the specifics, Lord, I'm going to ask you because there's a hunger in me to follow you.
00:56:24 I'm going to ask and keep on asking.
00:56:27 I'm going to seek and keep on seeking.
00:56:29 And I'm going to knock.
00:56:32 Time and repetition.
00:56:34 And keep on knocking.
00:56:36 And the promise of Jesus is that it shall be open unto you.
00:56:41 It shall be open unto you.
00:56:44 Knock and keep on knocking.
00:56:47 And it shall be open unto you.
00:56:51 I hope you got something out of the word of the Lord today.
00:56:53 I really do.
00:56:55 Hallelujah to the Lamb.
00:56:58 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to the Lamb of God.
00:57:02 He's an awesome God.
00:57:03 He's an awesome God.
00:57:04 He's an awesome God.
00:57:10 Let it be a declare that is well with my soul.
00:57:16 Things don't have to be perfect for them to be well.
00:57:24 Just declare it.
00:57:28 It is well.
00:57:32 It is well with my soul.
00:57:41 Sing it again, it is well with my soul.
00:57:51 It is well with my soul.
00:58:12 Declare it once again, whatever you're dealing with this week.
00:58:16 It is well.
00:58:18 It is well.
00:58:21 Oh God with my soul.
00:58:26 My soul.
00:58:29 My soul.
00:58:32 It is well.
00:58:35 It is well.
00:58:39 It is well with my soul.
00:58:49 Yes God.
00:58:55 It is well.
00:58:59 God's working on your behalf.
00:59:03 He will take the good, the bad, and the ugly and work it together for your good.
00:59:07 It is well.
00:59:09 It is well with my soul.
00:59:20 My God, I do declare that it is well.
00:59:23 It is well.
00:59:25 That we're born for God's purpose.
00:59:27 We belong to him.
00:59:29 We belong to him.
00:59:30 We belong to him.
00:59:32 And there's somebody who's here today.
00:59:34 You've not surrendered your heart to Jesus.
00:59:36 I'm gonna invite you to come right now and surrender to Jesus.
00:59:39 And if you're without a church home, I'm gonna invite you to come and make Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral your new church home.
00:59:45 Everybody needs a church home.
00:59:47 Everybody.
00:59:48 A place where you can be planted, rooted, and grounded so that you can bear fruit.
00:59:53 Even if you're without a church home, and you wanna surrender your heart to the Lordship of Jesus Christ today.
00:59:59 Come on today.
01:00:00 This is your day.
01:00:01 This is your time.
01:00:03 He loves you.
01:00:04 He loves you.
01:00:06 Come on.
01:00:07 Some of you have been going through.
01:00:08 You've been trying to seek him.
01:00:10 Salvation is the beginning of purpose.
01:00:12 It is well.
01:00:15 It is well with my soul.
01:00:25 You cannot find real peace without God.
01:00:28 It is well.
01:00:32 It is well with my soul.
01:00:40 With my soul.
01:00:43 It is well.
01:00:45 It is well.
01:00:47 It is well.
01:00:48 It is well.
01:00:52 It is well with my soul.
01:01:00 If you've been out in the world, one of the things that the world will do is that the world will rob you of your peace.
01:01:06 Sin will rob you of your peace.
01:01:08 Wickedness will rob you of your peace.
01:01:10 Vindictiveness and unforgiveness will rob you of your peace.
01:01:16 And to get it right with Jesus, it takes an experience with him of surrender.
01:01:23 Of saying, "Lord, I surrender to you.
01:01:25 I surrender to you.
01:01:26 I surrender to you."
01:01:28 You'll never have peace until you fully surrender that thing to God.
01:01:31 And to say, "God, I trust you with reckless abandon.
01:01:34 I'm feeling after you, God.
01:01:36 I don't know how this is going to turn on, turn out, but I'm trusting.
01:01:40 I'm trusting you.
01:01:41 I'm trusting you.
01:01:42 I'm trusting you."
01:01:45 There are four people that are in this house today.
01:01:48 You're under the threat of some litigation that's happening and you don't know the outcome.
01:01:53 And you don't get definitive answers from your attorney.
01:01:56 I want you to step down here so that God will bring clarity to you and the favor of God will come upon your life.
01:02:01 There's a peace.
01:02:03 You're in litigation.
01:02:04 Come on.
01:02:05 Come on.
01:02:06 Step out.
01:02:07 Come on.
01:02:08 [music]
01:02:15 Legal stuff will rob you of your sleep.
01:02:18 You need the peace of God.
01:02:20 They're coming now.
01:02:21 I know I heard this in the Holy Ghost.
01:02:26 God's getting ready to work on your favor in your case.
01:02:29 He's getting ready to show himself strong toward those whose hearts are turned toward him.
01:02:34 He's getting ready to show himself strong.
01:02:37 He's getting ready to show himself strong.
01:02:40 I see a stamp coming across a paper saying "vindicate."
01:02:46 I see another stamp that says "cancel."
01:02:49 I see another one that says "paid in full."
01:02:53 [music]
01:03:06 Come on, declare it.
01:03:07 [music]
01:03:14 Come on, tell Him.
01:03:15 [music]
01:03:42 Yes, God.
01:03:45 [music]
01:03:55 [music]
01:04:17 Stretch your hand.
01:04:18 God's going to give you fresh testimonies.
01:04:20 Father, in the name of Jesus, in the name, the name that is above every name, God.
01:04:25 Lord, we trust you today.
01:04:26 We trust you today.
01:04:27 I thank you, God, for those that you highlighted today with legal issues.
01:04:35 Lord, you're the Prince of Peace.
01:04:38 We call you into that situation even now.
01:04:42 You're the great Vindicator.
01:04:44 You're the one who's able to cancel everything that has been against us.
01:04:49 You're the one that's able to cause the charges to be dropped.
01:04:53 You're the one that brings peace in the midst of the storm, God.
01:04:56 We trust you today.
01:04:57 We trust you today.
01:04:58 Do what only you can do, God.
01:05:00 Give them a fresh testimony.
01:05:02 Show forth your strong arm of deliverance and salvation to those who are trusting you today.
01:05:08 Step in, God, as we look toward you.
01:05:12 Thank you for using trouble to draw us closer to you, to turn our attention to you, to depend upon you, God.
01:05:18 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
01:05:20 Father, every soul that has responded, Lord, today, I pray that you will meet them at the point of the spiritual need that is in their life.
01:05:27 Transform them.
01:05:29 Oh, God, do a work that only you can do, Father, for your glory, redeeming them, Father.
01:05:33 We thank you for the redemptive work that was already done on their behalf on the cross, on Calvary, God, and that today, today, today, these, Lord, come to submit themselves to you, to your lordship.
01:05:45 Father, and as you save them, allow them at the same time to realize that they are saved and called, saved and called with a holy call, saved and called, saved and called, saved and called.
01:05:58 Open their eyes, God.
01:06:00 Show them their calling.
01:06:01 Show them their purpose.
01:06:03 Show them the very raison d'etre, the very reason for their being, the reason that they were born.
01:06:09 Show them, God.
01:06:10 Show them. Show them.
01:06:12 Open their spirits.
01:06:14 Show them an experience with you and the revelation of your will in their lives, God.
01:06:19 Thank you for the destiny that you've already marked out for them.
01:06:22 For you lead them, Father, through the hunger in their own hearts to search it out, to feel after you, and to discover your power and glory working on their behalf.
01:06:32 Thank you, Father, for those who've come for membership here at WordofFaith Family Worship Cathedral.
01:06:36 May you teach us to love them as fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ.
01:06:40 Reveal to them their gifts, talents, and abilities to be used for the upbuilding of your kingdom.
01:06:44 And now, Father, we pray that the blessings of this house may also come upon their houses, and may their lives never, ever be the same again.
01:06:51 In Jesus' name, amen.
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