Discover Your Greatness

Your greatness doesn’t come from where you’ve been, it comes from your Heavenly Father. He knows how to bring out the gifts and talents He placed inside you.

Dear Lord,
Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week.. Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

Don’t come up with excuses to settle. I’ve gone as far as anyone in my family.
I didn’t have anybody to help me. My father wasn’t around your heavenly father was there the whole time.
He’s been watching over you. Even before you were born when he started, he’s going to finish.
There are gifts and talents in you.
He’s about to bring out, you’re going to step into a new home.
Be confidence, see favor and increase that your family has never seen God bless you.
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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this little girl, she was sitting on her grandfather’s lap she noticed how wrinkled his face was and she contemplated the difference between his and hers.
She said, granddaddy, did God make you? He kind of laughed and said yes, honey.
He made me a long time ago. She then asked, did God make me?
He said yes, he made you just a little while ago. She thought about at a minute and said, granddaddy.
God’s getting better, isn’t he say it like you mean it, this is my bible.
I am what it says. I am. I have what it says. I have.
I can do what it says I can do today. I will be taught the word of God.
I boldly confess, my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be the same in jesus’ name.
God bless you. I want to talk to you today about discover your greatness.
Saul was the leader of Israel for 40 days.
A giant named Goliath came out in the morning and the evening to taunt the Israelites his size and strength, coupled with his intimidating threats, paralyzed the Israeli army.
That is until a teenager named David showed up to bring lunch to his brothers.
And when he heard the insults from Goliath and saw the soldiers running in fear.
Something rose up on the inside.
He said, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he would defy the armies of the living God.
He went out to face Goliath, not wearing any army still dressed as a shepherd from taking care of his father’s sheep, not with a sword or a spear, but with a slingshot that he had used to keep lions and bear from his sheet, he picked up five smooth stones and ran toward the giant.
Saul and his men were watching this drama play out intently certain that David was about to be crushed.
But David slung a rock with such skill and such force.
It hit Goliath in the forehead and knocked him unconscious. Saul stood there in disbelief. He couldn’t understand it.
How did David learn to fight like a warrior?
Where did he learn to speak so powerfully that he had both camps, the Israelis and the Philistines spellbound.
Where did he get this confidence? This leadership who trained him?
He went over to David and didn’t say wow, congratulations. That was so awesome. Thank you for stepping up.
He said, David, tell me about your father. He was saying, where do you come from?
How could you do this? You must have an incredible father. David said his name is Jesse.
We live in the city of Bethlehem. I can imagine Saul telling an assistant find out about Jesse.
I want to know everything the research comes back. He’s a shepherd.
He comes from an ordinary family lives in a typical house shops at Walmart, eats at Chick Fil A watches the Kardashians.
There’s nothing significant about him. Saul was perplexed. How could this teenager have such greatness? In him.
How could he rise up and become a hero when he comes from an average family?
The reason Saul was confused was David didn’t give him the whole answer.
He told him about Jesse who his natural father was.
But he didn’t tell him about his heavenly father, your greatness, your courage, the hero in you.
It doesn’t come from your natural father. The scripture says every good gift comes from your father in heaven above.
Now, Jesse was a good father. He did his best to care for his family.
He had David take lunch to his brothers. He wanted to make sure they were ok.
But like any of us, Jesse had shortcomings. He had limitations. He didn’t speak faith into David.
He didn’t encourage him to go after his dreams.
When the prophet Samuel showed up at his house to anoint the next king of Israel.
Jesse didn’t bring David in from the Shepherd’s fields. He didn’t think David was king material.
He thought David, he’s too small, too young. He’s not that talented. He’ll never do anything great. He discounted David.
The good news is people don’t determine your destiny, your gifts, your talents, your potential, the king in you.
It comes from your heavenly father. That’s why Saul was confused. He saw greatness in David.
He knew there was a king in him, a world changer. He thought, am I missing something?
Isn’t this Jesse’s son? Doesn’t he come from an average family? They’ve never done anything significant.
Here’s the key you come through your father, but you come from Almighty God.
He knew you before you were formed in your mother’s womb.
You may have had a father like Jesse that couldn’t see your potential.
That didn’t encourage you to dream big to pursue what God put in your heart feels like you’re limited.
Like David, you were left out in the field. No, God knows how to bring you in.
He knows how to cause the gifts He’s put in you to come out how to make you shine.
Your time is coming. You’re going to go further than people thought you’re gonna accomplish dreams bigger than they’ve imagined.
There will be people like Saul in disbelief thinking, how could you defeat that giant?
How could you start that business? How could you get the compact center?
How could you lead your company in sales?
What you’re going to accomplish is not going to match where you come from now.
You may have had a great family. People that have excelled, done big things.
But what God has for you is greater. He wants every generation to increase.
And I’m proud to be the son of John Osteen. He was an awesome father.
But I realize I’m not just John’s son, I’m a son of the most high God.
And yes, we celebrate our fathers. We honor them.
But I’m saying, don’t stop there, recognize the gifts, the courage, the creativity the greatness.
It comes from your heavenly father. Don’t discount yourself. Don’t come up with excuses to settle.
I’ve gone as far as anyone in my family. I didn’t have anybody to help me.
My father wasn’t around your heavenly father was there the whole time.
He’s been watching over you even before you were born. What he started? He’s going to finish.
There are gifts and talents in you.
He’s about to bring out, you’re going to step into a new boldness, confidence, see favor and increase that.
Your family has never seen my father’s parents, my grandparents, they were very good people.
They were loving and kind, but they didn’t have much vision. They lost everything during the great depression.
They were very poor and struggled to make ends meet.
My father went to school with holes in his shoes and holes in his pants.
He had to drop out of high school to work on the farm.
It looked like he was limited that his destiny was to just survive. It’s all he had seen growing up.
But at 17 years old, he was walking home from a nightclub at two o’clock in the morning, he looked up at the stars and began to think about God and what he was going to do with his life.
He wasn’t raised with any kind of faith. He’d never been to church.
But that night, he felt a sense of purpose. He knew he was made for more.
The next morning, he went to church with a friend and gave his life to Christ.
Something came alive on the inside. He felt God calling him to become a pastor.
Nobody in his family had any kind of training for ministry, no background of pastors or leadership. They were farmers.
He told his parents he was going to leave the farm and go out and start ministering.
They said, John, you better stay here with us all. You know how to do is work on the farm.
You’re going to get out there and fail. They meant well, they were trying to protect him.
But like Jesse, they couldn’t see his potential, they couldn’t see his greatness. They thought we’re poor.
All we know how to do is farm and that’s our son. We raised him.
That’s all he knows how to do. They didn’t realize greatness doesn’t come from people.
It comes from God and yes, our fathers, our natural fathers, our family, they influence us.
They teach us what they know. But your gifts talents, courage favor, it comes from your heavenly father.
You are not limited by what people didn’t give you.
My father had to hitchhike but he left home and started ministering in the prisons in the senior citizens’ homes, doors started opening, he was able to go back and finish high school, went to seminary, pastored, great churches, started Lakewood pastored here for almost 40 years.
Along the way. I can hear someone asking whose son is that he sure is talented.
He’s such a great speaker, such a gifted leader impacted so many people when they found out who his parents were.
They thought how could that be? That doesn’t make sense.
It’s because they were only looking at it in the natural. Every good gift comes from your heavenly father.
What he’s destined for your life is not limited by what kind of natural father you had.
Jesse couldn’t see the greatness in David.
My grandfather couldn’t see the greatness in my father, but just because they didn’t see it, that didn’t stop it from coming to pass.
I hope you had a great father like I did, loving kind, empowering a father that pushed you further, help you to be confident and secure.
But even if you didn’t, you’re still going to do great things, you’re still going to leave your mark.
Maybe your father was like Jesse. He didn’t believe in you or he wasn’t around.
He talked down to you when you think of your father, it’s not a fond memory.
It’s a source of pain and disappointment. Perhaps he was like my father’s dad. He meant well.
But he told my father what he couldn’t accomplish how he was going to fail.
What I want you to see is that is not to stop your destiny.
Your heavenly father overrides what people do. Your greatness doesn’t come from your natural bloodline, from your lineage.
It comes from your father in heaven. What he’s spoken over your life will come to pass.
Tell me about your father. Well, he was so busy, Joel. He didn’t have time for me.
He discouraged me. He was loving. But man, he had some rough edges. I don’t mean that father.
Tell me about your heavenly father. He spoke worlds into existence. He flung stars into space.
He fearfully and wonderfully made you. He said you’re a masterpiece. He’s equipped you empowered you anointed you.
He put seeds of greatness in you.
He calls you a history maker, a giant killer, a world changer, whether your natural father was great or not so great, whether you have fond memories or not.
So fond memories, when you recognize who your heavenly father is that he is the giver of all good gifts.
That means if your father was loving, kind, talented, generous that all came from our heavenly Father, maybe it was just the opposite then, despite what’s in your natural bloodline, despite the dysfunction, the limitation, you’ll be the exception.
You’ll defeat giants, you’ll accomplish dreams, you’ll become all you were created to be in my grandparents’ defense.
They had no history of leadership. They didn’t know how to train my father to become a pastor.
They had never experienced abundance, more than enough influence. No wonder they couldn’t see it. It was foreign to them.
Don’t fault people that can’t see what you can see. God will put things in your spirit.
That your parents, your relatives, people around you can’t fathom it’s too big, too great, too influential.
They can’t comprehend it. They’ve never seen it.
You’re going to set a new standard, you’re going to accomplish dreams bigger than they’ve imagined.
You’re going to see honor, influence wealth that your family has never experienced. There’s no history of it.
When you look back, it’s all one level. I don’t see how that can happen.
You’re looking at your natural lineage.
I’m asking you not to look back but to look up your heavenly father has some big gifts coming, big favor, big opportunities, creativity, ideas, resources that will exceed your expectations.
He’s about to catapult you into greatness, into abundance, into new levels of your destiny.
See, there are times that for generations, everything is the same going along fine, no complaints.
Then suddenly like with David greatness comes out, there’s no explanations.
How could he defeat that giant Jesse couldn’t train him for that.
He couldn’t train him to become a king that wasn’t in Jesse. He’d never experienced any of that.
It was his heavenly father shining down favor.
When Jesus was on the earth, he went around healing the sick and curing the lepers and teaching with such authority and wisdom that great crowds followed him.
When people looked at his background where he had come from, they couldn’t understand it.
They asked, is this not the carpenter son? They were saying, isn’t this Joseph’s child?
We know, Joseph, he builds cabinets. He’s not anything special. How could his son be doing miracles?
How could his son be this influential? Where did he get this wisdom to teach in the synagogues? Like Saul?
They were looking at his natural father, they were looking at his background, his training, where he lived, they didn’t realize who his heavenly father was.
And sometimes life will try to tell you that you’re average, you’ve reached your limits going as far as you can look at your family.
There’s nothing special about you. You can’t do anything great. You’re just William’s son. You’re just Casey’s son.
That may be true. But you have to realize you have another father, no discredit to your natural father, but your heavenly father is the giver of all good gifts.
Now, I believe God is about to show out in your life in such a way.
People will look at you and think is this not Jesse’s son? How can he defeat that giant?
His father is a shepherd. Is this not Jack Osteen’s son? How can so be pastoring a church of thousands?
They’re farmers. Is this not William’s son? How can he be leading that company? Williams struggle with an addiction.
Is this not Jose’s son? How can he be that successful? Jose was never around growing up?
Your destiny is not limited by how you were raised. It’s not limited by what level your parents reach?
God wants you to go further? Now get in agreement with him. Quit seeing yourself as average limited.
We all struggle with these addictions. Joel, this depression, we never get any good breaks. That’s just who we are.
That is not who you are. Your spiritual bloodline, overrides your natural bloodline.
If you’re going to see the greatness that belongs to you, the favor, the influence, the talent, you have to look to your heavenly father.
That’s what David did. That’s where he got the courage, the strength, the favor.
He wasn’t looking at his history, his family line, what his father had accomplished.
If he had stayed focused on that, he would have never left the shepherd’s fields.
He would have lived limited intimidated. We wouldn’t be talking about him. David understood this principle.
He said to Goliath, you come against me with a sword and a spear, but I come against you in the name of the Lord God of Israel.
He was saying, you may be big, you may be powerful, but I know who my heavenly father is.
I know what he’s put in me in the scripture.
God promised Abraham that he was going to be the father of many nations.
He was 80 years old and had never had a child.
His wife, Sarah had gone through the change of life.
There was no way in the natural that they could have a baby.
But God told Abraham to do something interesting to go outside his tent at night and look up into the sky and the number of stars he could see that’s how many descendants he was going to have.
It looked impossible to have Children looked like it was too late. God could have given him this promise.
At 35 years old, he could have spoken to him at a more reasonable time when it was common to have a child.
But often God waits till the odds are against us till we don’t see how it can happen.
So when he brings it to pass, everyone will know it was his favor.
But the time we’re waiting, that’s a test of our faith. Are we going to get discouraged?
Talk ourselves out of it? It’s never gonna happen. Joel. It’s been too long. This giant is too big.
I can imagine those thoughts came to Abraham. That’s when God said Abraham, get outside your tent and look up.
God was saying Abraham, you’re looking at it in the natural, as long as you’re in your tent, all you can see is you and Sarah, you’re focused on what you can accomplish.
You have to get outside your tent and look up, bring me into the picture. Recognize I’m your source.
No, you can’t father this child in your own efforts. You are too old, but I’m your heavenly father.
I can make things happen that you can’t make happen.
Get your eyes off your impossibilities and get your eyes on me. See when we’re in our tent.
All we can see is our limitations. How we were raised.
What we can’t do in our tent is our father, our grandparents, our relatives, you have to get out of your tent and look up.
Have a bigger vision. You’re not doing life on your own.
Yes, you have natural parents, relatives, but your heavenly father controls the universe.
He makes ways where you don’t see ways.
He’s not limited by who raised you by your background by what seems impossible.
If you’ll get out of your tent and get a new perspective, start believing that you’re favored, declaring that good things are coming, then you’ll see your Heavenly Father turn impossible situations around.
Take you further than you ever dream. Seemed like David as a teenager was stuck in the shepherd’s fields.
God put big dreams in his heart down deep. He knew he was destined to leave his mark.
But year after year taking care of sheep, I can imagine. He started to get discouraged.
It’s never going to happen. God said David, get out of your tent, get a new vision.
I can see him in the fields at night, looking up at the stars.
He feels this new sense of destiny.
He can hear his heavenly father whispering the greatness I put in you is about to come out.
Keep believing, keep dreaming. Keep being your best.
When my father was coming home from that nightclub at two o’clock in the morning for some reason he looked up at the stars.
He felt limited no future to speak of.
But that night as he looked up, something began to happen, faith began to rise, hope that he had never felt a dream to do something insignificant with his life.
What happened? He got out of his tent, he knew he had come through his parents.
But that night, he started to realize who he had come from, that his heavenly father was calling him that he wasn’t just the son of Jack Osteen, but he was the son of the most high God.
You may feel limited like you’ve gone as far as you can deep down.
You know, there are bigger things in you every circumstance. It says that you’re stuck.
God is saying come out of your tent, look up, you’re focused on the natural.
You have to change your perspective. You’re not limited by your background.
You’re not at the mercy of who raised you. What you didn’t get, what looks impossible.
Your heavenly father is about to breathe on your life in a new way.
New doors are about to open, new gifts are about to come out.
The greatness God put in you is about to show up.
There was a young boy back in the early 19 hundreds that was raised by a single mother in the hills of Tennessee because his mother was not married, the neighbors wouldn’t allow him to play with their Children was very looked down on back.
Then they would make remarks like what’s he doing in our town? And who’s his father? Anyway?
Saturdays, he would go up with his mother to the local store and people would make disparaging comments loud enough for him to hear here they are again.
Did you ever figure out who his father is?
This little boy grew up insecure, always feeling like there was something wrong with him.
At 12 years old, a new pastor moved into town. He was a young minister, very gifted and passionate.
This young boy had never been to church but one Sunday, he decided to go hear this new minister that everyone was talking about.
He arrived late and sat in the back.
So no one would notice as he listened that day, he felt a love and acceptance that he had never felt he had planned to leave early.
But he was so engrossed in what the minister was saying it was over before he knew it.
He got caught in the crowd as he was leaving, the young minister was greeting the congregation at the door.
He saw this young man. He noticed that he wasn’t with anyone. He didn’t know anything about him.
He said very innocently, very friendly young man whose child are you? The room grew completely silent.
That was the question everyone wanted to ask. The boy didn’t know what to say. Put his head down.
The minister realized something was wrong. And how the little boy was very uncomfortable.
He looked at him and said, oh, I know who your father is. I can see the resemblance so strongly.
You’re a child of almighty God. That day was a turning point in the young boy’s life.
The stronghold of insecurity and shame was broken. 30 years later, that young boy was elected governor of Tennessee.
If you ask him, Ben Hooper would tell you the day he really got elected was the day that minister told him who his father was.
Tell me about your father. I don’t mean your natural father. They may not have been there.
They may have made mistakes. They may not have believed in. You. Tell me about your heavenly father.
Do you realize who you belong to that?
Your gifts, your talents, your greatness doesn’t come from people from family, from relatives. It comes from your heavenly father.
When he breathed life into you. He put his DNA on the inside. That’s how David could do something.
No one in his family had done.
That’s how my father could break out of poverty and limited thinking and make a difference with his life.
Our natural DNA gets passed down, but your spiritual DNA will override the natural.
I saw a documentary on championship racehorses, the kind you see at the Kentucky Derby.
It’s not a coincidence that these horses are the fastest horses in the world.
They’ve been carefully studied and carefully bred for generations it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to breed a racehorse with a champion stallion.
It’s very expensive before breeding.
The owner will go back 50 or 60 years and study the bloodline of a particular stallion.
They’ll research his father, his grandfather.
They’ll study how long their stride was, the length of their legs, their takeoff speed, their endurance with all this information, they’ll choose the stallion they believe to be the perfect match.
They understand. Winners don’t just randomly happen. It’s in their DNA.
That’s how it is with you and me because of who your heavenly father is. You can defeat giants.
You can accomplish great dreams. You can break addictions, you can set new standards. I’m not looking at ordinary people.
You have the DNA of a champion. There’s no limit to what you can achieve.
I know who your father is. There’s no obstacle you can’t overcome. I’ve seen your father do it.
There’s no struggle that can hold you back. Your father is Jehovah Jarah, the Lord, your provider.
Now do your part come out of your tent. Get a new perspective.
You’re not limited by who raised you.
You’re not at a disadvantage because of what you didn’t get who went before you.
You are hearing this because you’re about to see the greatness in you come out.
People are going to wonder is this the carpenter son? Is this Jesse’s son? Is this Jack Osteen’s son.
Get ready. You’re about to defy the odds, I believe and declare God is about to do something unusual, uncommon favor that will catapult you ahead, gifts and talents coming out that you didn’t know you had courage, confidence, creativity like you’ve never seen healing is coming.
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