You Belong.

I want to make a pronouncement over your life. You

belong here. You belong here.

You belong here, from the front of the room to

the back of the room, from the most educated to

the least educated, from those who everybody knows your name

to nobody knows your name, you belong here.

It's so easy in this world to.

Project confidence, but to really possess confidence is a different thing.

It's easy to appear confident, But when Paul got ready

to defend his ministry, he didn't list his credentials. He said,

the reason I'm confident is because I belonged to Christ.

I know who I belonged to. I belonged to Him.

And so wherever He puts me, and whatever he gave

me to do, and whatever giant he put in front

of me, he already promised and guaranteed in advance to

get me the power to triumph over it. So if

God puts something really big in front of me, that

means he's so big inside of me that he is

greater than anything that comes against me.

Now, came to preach to somebody.

Today who's intimidated by your situation.

Your giants are no match for your God.

Stop looking at your life from a surface level, because

you'll always be discouraged, you'll always be afraid, you'll always

back down, you'll always shrink. If I looked at my

life from a surface level, I wouldn't be up here

preaching today. I grew up in a town of six

thousand people, in the town of Monks Corners, South Carolina.

There are six thousand people who just logged off of

YouTube streaming live when they saw Pastor Joel We wasn't

preaching this Sunday.

I mean, this.

Center section is like the size of the town I

grew up in. And there's a part of me that

will feel, even as I'm preaching to you, I don't

belong here, And I will have to tell myselfs many

times through this message you belong here.

You belong here. Donose just stiff feel that sometimes.

Even as good as you can sing like, isn't there

times when you feel like awkward and you look like man,

you're like you're you're even you're you're moving around and

you're like, I'm moving weird right now, you know, And

you have to remind you said, no, I belong here.

God positioned me here, God called me here, and it's

not just for a stage. I'm not just saying for

a stage. To raise those kids to survive this season.

You have got to know. You've got to have the

kind of confidence that comes from knowing who you belong to.

And when you know who you belong.

To, it's very powerful because you can see beneath the

surface to know that even what looked like just a

stick in Moses's hand, which was completely in sufficient to

part a body of water like the Red Sea, when

activated in faith and stretched out in faith, it became

enough to.

Drown an entire enemy nation. So whatever is in your hand.

Today that God has given you, you've got to learn

to look at it at a different level.

Like if it's a little boy's.

Lunch and it doesn't even look like enough for that

little boy to eat and be full, You've got to

look at it a little different and know, if I

can get this in the hands of Jesus, if I

can get this in God's hands, these abilities, these talents,

this opportunity, if I can get this.

To the source, he will multiply it.

And not only is everybody gonna get fed, not only

is this little bag of food about to become a

Golden Corral buffet. Not only is everybody going home with leftovers,

but it is going to set the stage for me

to believe that every time God puts me in a

situation where I feel I'm not enough, I have a

history with him to know that beneath the surface of

my situation is a revelation of a God who is

in me.

That is greater than whatever's against me.

I know y'all heard me preach his three times, but

shout about it.

It is enough. I am enough. It is enough. I

do belong.

I like how he told that boy go back up

there and look again.

I heard something.

I heard the sound of the abundance of rain. Elijah said,

you need to take another look, and I.

Came to clear over your life. You need to take

another look.

You've been saying, Oh, I got only a little bit

of oil in my house. It's certainly not enough for

this situation. Take another look. Go around and ask your

neighbors for other jars.

You'd be surprised what.

It could become when you believe that you belong, when

you believe that the one who called you will never

forsake you, but will enable you. Paul said, you're judging

by appearances, you keep comparing your behind the scene mean

with everybody else's highlight reel. No wonder you're depressed your.

Scroll and paths all day long.

These moments that don't tell the whole story. They're carefully

selected scenes.

I'm not saying delete Instagram.

But maybe maybe you're tripping running your race because you're

looking all around you. Maybe judging by appearances, pause like

it's not it's not what it looks like. Hey, thank

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