Royal DNA | Hope Carpenter | Calling All Queens

We got a God that tells us we are well able. We are well able to take whatever mountain is in your way. You are well able. He's already equipped you. The Bible says He's given you everything for life and for godliness. Listen, you are the head and not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You got the Holy Ghost who is your helper in all things, who leads you. Into all truth, who guides you when you are lost and confused. Isaiah 43:1-2 says, "Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name." You are mine! Oh, I can't believe it's finally here. I can't believe it's finally here. Ladies, can I ask you to do something? Not on this side, but on this side. Could I ask y'all to come in the middle so I could see y'all? This whole side, could I get you this little area right here to move over? Come on. Thank you. Thank you. Online, I love you. Thank you for making the investment, for taking the time. Wherever you are all across the world, I am so grateful for you. We love you. Ron Carpenter loves you. He sends his love. He sends his best. You know, he tried to sneak here. He tried, he tried, he tried to sneak. And it's not because he really wanted to see you. He didn't want to be without me for 7 days. So, you know how they get. You know, they're just babies. They can't function and they can't, you know, they don't know where the mayonnaise is and all those things. But so far so good. You know, I hadn't got a call from the emergency room or the ER or any of those things. So I'm just, He loves you. He sends His love. And I'm so thankful to have a husband and a covering who thinks big, who pushes me to go. And when I come to him with crazy ideas like calling all queens in San Antonio, Texas, and we're like, and, and who do we know there? And why are we going there? And all of those things. And he says, baby, if that's what God said, then that's what we're going to do. And so I, I know that For me, it has stretched my faith. It stretched me. It stretched our team. Y'all, we could have had a conference in California or South Carolina and it'd been easy. It would have been very easy. We have our own place, our own, you know, structure. We have our own dishes. We have our own tablecloths. We have our own caterers. We got our own cameras and wouldn't have to fly anybody here. And our worship team and all those things. But you know, this is a new season, and I really felt that, that when we started planning this, that we were to do it at the top of the year because it was going to be a hard press, not just for you but for us. And the Lord showed me that this entire conference was going to be just a picture of the woman with the issue of blood. Who said, if I could just touch him. She had to get up out of her pain, and she had to get up out of her comfortability to press, to touch him. And the Bible says she was made whole. There's times that I've been sitting on my couch or in my bed and crying out to God, and I'm like, touch me, Lord. You know how we do. Lord, do this for me. I'm in my shower, I'm going down the And he does. But there are other times that my life has been radically revolutionized when I had to get up and press to touch him. And I just believe that every person in this room had some type of press. It was in your finances, it was in your health, it was uncomfortable, it was out of your comfort zone, it was in your marriage, it might have been with your kids, you had to get off work, you're worried about money. All of those things. But I promise you, when you press to touch him, he never doesn't turn around and touch you. That is what this is about. And I am so thankful, I'm so thankful that you took the risk and that you stepped out in faith to touch him. I'm nothing special, nothing at all. I don't even have a cemetery degree— I mean, a seminary degree. I just have an early childhood education degree and a music degree, but he's changed me and revolutionized my life. And I know that I carry something, and I just want to give it. I just want to give it to everybody that I know everywhere I go. And I know that God's going to do something special. So Lord, I'm asking you tonight to use me, speak through me. Help me to spur them on to become everything that you have destined and predestined them to already be. And when we leave this place, we will be confident and sure of who we are in Christ, and we won't let any devil in hell talk us out of it, or no human mouth placed on us No weapon formed against us will prosper, and we will press through to get what we came for in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. So why am I here? Why are you here? Why are we here? Why were you born in 1965 and '69? And I'm a '69. My birthday's next week. I'll be 57. 57. Yes, I am in the menopause. I'm sweating down my drawers right now. My bra will need to be wrung out when I leave this place. Just being real honest with you. Just being very honest. It's hot up here. We need an AC unit on ASAP. But why are we— I mean, why are we here? Why were you born where you were born, by who you were born by, and placed in whatever situation that you are in? And everybody struggles with that. Why? Because that's the meaning of life, right? That's the meaning of life. Why am I here? What am I here to do? And that is why we struggle. The whole reason the enemy attacks you is to get you distracted from what you already know so that you will not become who you are already destined to be, right? It's to get you to veer off the path. And none of you were a mistake. None of you were a mistake. We are sent here specifically to do something valuable and on purpose. You were sent from heaven to earth to do something valuable and on purpose. That means God had something that needed to be done in the earth that made you and your life necessary. Do you— I mean, do you understand that? That God had something valuable and necessary that He needed to do in the earth, and He had to do whatever it took to get you you here. Everything has a purpose. This microphone has a purpose, right? It's to amplify my voice. The pew that you're sitting on has a purpose. This jacket has a purpose, and it's working. It's working. And it— to me, it was to cover up cellulite. But right now it's heating me like a heater, and I can't take it off because you'll see the cellulite. The button on my jacket, it has a purpose. It has a purpose, right? Colors even have a purpose. Certain insects can only see certain colors and recognize certain colors, and that's why that they are fed by that certain plant. Colors are not even random. And I want to give you 5 questions tonight that you got to answer to make sure that you're operating out of your purpose. Okay? The poorest person to the wealthiest person has to answer these 5 questions. These questions create industry. They create fashion. They create entertainment. Without these answers, you have abuse. If you don't know the answer to these questions, you will abuse your purpose. You will abuse your life. If I don't know the purpose of this microphone and I think it is the pew, I will abuse the purpose for this microphone. If I don't understand the purpose of that monitor right there, I will abuse it. I will think it's made for something else. It looks like a great bocce thing to me, right? If it were flipped over, I would abuse it. Abuse, corruption, porn, drug addiction, alcoholism, homelessness, poverty, still all results in a lack of purpose. A lack of purpose. So number 1, who am I? Who am I? Number 2, where am I from? Some say a monkey. Some say a Big Bang. Why am I here? Is it just to go to a job I hate, getting paid way less than I'm worth, and die miserable with regrets? Why am I here? What can I do? What are my abilities? What did God naturally put in me? What comes easy for me? What do I naturally do? What are my abilities? And where am I going? These questions will haunt you or they'll thrust you. And the greatest tragedy in life is to live a life without purpose. is to live a life without purpose. To live 50, 60, 80 years with no purpose. That would be the most depressing life. That's why people kill themselves. That's why people divorce. That's why people have affairs. That's why people abuse drugs because they do not know their— their purpose. All of us want to succeed. Amen? Or do y'all want to be miserable failures? Everybody in this room wants to be successful. And it's okay to say that. Say, "I want to succeed." I want to succeed. I want to be great. I want to be a great wife. I want to be a great mother. I want to be great at what I do. I want to make money. How many of y'all want to make money? It's okay to say that. Raise your hand. The rest of y'all are lying. Y'all all want to make money. Why? Because you want to eat. You want to go to Myrtle Beach. You want to go to the island. You want to go on vacation. Every one of us want to be successful. We want to have a great life. We want to make money. But let me tell you something, success is predictable. I'm going to tell you, you better write it down. Success is predictable. Success is not an experiment. It's not guesswork. It is very, very predictable. So is failure. Failure is very, very predictable. So number 1, you can plan to succeed. Look at your neighbor and say, "You can plan to be better. You can plan to succeed." You don't just wake up one day and say, "Oh my God, I just lost 50 pounds. How did that happen? I've just been eating the same. I hadn't been going to the gym." No, you plan to lose 50 pounds. You gotta push the plate back. You gotta do something different. To lose weight. You plan to succeed. I am successful in my financial planning career— I do that on the side— because I planned it. I worked for it. I set appointments. I study. I go to trainings. But if I said that I was gonna be a success in my business and I did none of that, I would not succeed. Success is predictable. Say it out loud. Say, "Success is predictable." And God is committed to your success. Okay, this is where we get real freaky in church sometimes. We think that God don't want us to succeed, that, you know, He wants us to be, you know, Pentecostals, penny-costals, only have a few pennies in our pocket. How can you bless anybody else if you don't have anything yourself? How can you feed the hungry and clothe the naked? That is what he told us to do. How can you take care of the widows and the orphans if you can't take care of yourself? Okay, so you plan for it. Success is predictable, and God is committed to our success. Why? Why? Because he created you for purpose, for a reason, and his greatest pleasure is to watch what he made work. Whoo! Can't you imagine just sitting back up and you God and you on your throne and you seeing his kids just, mm, All about it, just working every bit of it. Can you imagine what He feels like when we sit back and we are just mealy-mouthed and we blame everybody and we stay stuck in patterns and we never get up and do what we were created to do? God is committed to your success. Success is very important to every manufacturer. That its product succeeds. Companies, they test their products. You got that, didn't you? Companies test their products that they make. They test them. They make sure they work. They spend time and money to make sure that the product works right before you go purchase it. And say you got an iPhone. It's been through many, many, many, many, many, many tests before you purchase it. And when you open the box, there is a little book in there and it's called a manual. It's a manual. Instructions for how you use it. And there's a manual that comes with every product. And before opening it and operating it, it'll say, "Please read this completely." And you know you don't. But everything that you purchase has one of those in it. I mean, my jacket's got one of those in it. Wash with cold water. Do not dry on high heat. Turn inside out before you wash, right? Which tells me that we don't know the mind of the manufacturer for the product. What it tells me is you don't know what you're capable of. Until you read the manual. You don't know what you're capable of. You don't know what all is in you until you know the manual. And a manual is a book of promises and laws. It says this product will perform like this. Don't do this. 'But do this with it,' right? 'Don't put it in water, iPhone, okay? It will malfunction.' But are you ready for the good part? The last page of that manual is a warranty or a guarantee. My God, it says, 'This will perform as designed if used correctly. My God, my God, it's only made for this purpose. You can't use your iPhone and iron your clothes. It don't work. It wasn't made for that. My God. But if it malfunctions, if it is dropped into the water, and you know we do that, but that's what good thick thighs are for when you're sitting on the toilet. If it does malfunction, if it breaks, do not attempt to fix it yourself. Woo! My God, my God! send it back to the manufacturer. And we will make it right. We will make it right. Oh my God, I'm about to run all over this room. Whoo! I got cold chills all in my head. He already knew you were going to be broken and that you needed a Savior. He knew you were going to try to iron when it wasn't made to iron. He knew you were going to try to pop-lock and drop it out in the club and God just wanted to use you on the stage to worship. He knew, He knew, He knew, He knew. And He paid the price to fix my brokenness. He's already paid the price to fix your brokenness. He said, "Send it back to the manufacturer. Don't try to fix it yourself." See, the manufacturer will defend, they will protect, they will replace, and they will restore. Not for your sake, but for their name's sake. They spent a lot of money on this product. And they said, "I will defend it. I will make it right. Not because you're that good. Because I'm that good. For my name's sake. For my name's sake." Whoo! His reputation is at stake. That's how much He wants you to succeed. God is for you. For His name's sake. Success is necessary for His name's sake. You are a product, and the first thing that the manufacturer does is, is place an image on its product. Every one of you look at your iPhone. You got a what on there? That's their image. And on us, and on you, and on me, He says, "Let us make man. Let us make man in our image." See, you are created just like Him. Just like him. And you got to get that in your spirit tonight, that you are created in his image, from God, like God, from God, like God. And his desire for you is that you succeed and prosper and be in health and triumph over every situation that comes your way. not for your namesake, but for his namesake. Look at your neighbor and say, "This ain't even about you. This is about him getting glory." See, that's why if he put that desire in you to be a teacher, then you already have the ability to be a teacher. If he put that desire in you to be a lawyer or to pay off your debts, or to open a business, or to be the lender and not the borrower, or to go back to school, or to launch a ministry. He's already put that desire in you. So whatever He put in you to do, He will do it for His name's sake. Somebody needs to lift their hands right here and say, Lord, thank you that I'm healed for your name's sake. Lord, thank you that I'm healed for your name's sake. Lord, thank you that my prodigal children are coming home for your name's sake. Lord, thank you that my marriage will glorify you for your name's sake. Thank you that my business will prosper, not for me, but for your name's sake. Thank you that I have a destiny and it's good for your name's sake. Thank you, Lord, that I am the head and not the tail for your name's sake. Thank you, Lord, that I am above and not beneath for your name's sake. For your name's sake. Whoo! Whoo! See, one of the reasons some of us don't see it come to pass in our lives is because we want it for our name's sake. We want it for us. But you were sent from heaven to earth for a purpose only known in the mind of the manufacturer. That's why we got to quit asking our kids, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" What did He send you here on earth to accomplish for His name's sake? But tonight our mind said is about to shift for His name's sake because it's in Him that we live and we move and we have our being. God, I want what You want. I don't want to live and move without You, Lord. I've done that before. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, went to rehab and therapy. Oh, krrrp. Your success is good for God. Look at your neighbor and say, "God's waiting on your life to bring glory to his name." Oh, hallelujah. God's waiting on your life to bring glory to his name. See, that's why the enemy designed life to keep you silent and to shut you down and to keep you weak and from to keep you from being everything that He's called you and created you to be. God created birds to fly. He created fish to swim. He did not create fish to fly. There are some that fly a little bit, but they go back in the water, right? He created— listen, and if birds stopped flying, we would all be like, Hmm. Something's wrong. Something's wrong. Why are they on the ground? They're supposed to be in the air. God's reputation is on the line. And God is very wise. He built into everything laws that guarantee It's success. Joshua. That's why God told Joshua, "If you take my laws, memorize my laws, you will have good—" what? "Success." Oh, really? Prove it to me. Prove it. And I have to wear my glasses. Joshua 1, after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun— Moses ate Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all the people get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates, and all the Hittite country to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. I like, I like this promise. And I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous. Now, He's given him all this good news, all these things He's going to give him, but He then tells him, "Be strong and courageous." So that tells me you're going to have some trouble. Okay, be strong and courageous because you will lead these people into inherit the land I swore to the ancestors to give them. Says it again, verse 7, be strong and very— you got to get yourself together. Look at your neighbor and say, you got to get yourself together. Stop wimping out. Be strong and very courageous. Listen, talking about the manual. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever wherever you go. It don't matter where you planted your business. If you obey the laws and the precepts of God, he said you will be successful wherever you go. Okay, got to get my glasses back. 'Wherever you go, keep this book of the law always on your lips.' Not complaining, not what you're going through, not that man you live with picking lint out of his belly button, scratching his old feet. Not that wayward kid not the problems at work, not the lack of money in your bank account. He said, keep this book of the law on your lips. Meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything that's written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you— third time— be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever wherever you go. And when you discover the laws of God, you don't have to pray about the laws. Oh my goodness, are y'all hearing me in this place tonight? When you know the laws, you don't have to pray about it. When you know what God says about your health, you don't have to I say, "God, would you please heal me? God, would you please get me out of debt?" No, you got to get you out of debt. When you know the laws about money, you don't have to pray about it. You have to obey it. My God. You don't have to pray about if you're going down the interstate and it says speed limit is 65. I don't pray about it. I just obey it and I'm blessed. I'm blessed with not making contributions to the state of Texas or South Carolina or California or Nebraska or Georgia or whoever else. The law of gravity. I don't have to pray about that. I don't have to pray if I'm standing up there in the balcony and I'm like, "Oh Jesus, I just feel like there's a supernatural anointing." on my life tonight to fly. Oh God, help me do it for your name's sake. No, because that is not a part of the law. We asking God to do things that would make him break his own word. I don't have to pray about the things that I know the law says for me. When the manufacturer made your car, your Ford, your Chevy, your Tesla, your Mercedes, or whatever it is that you drive, they explained to you how you make it go. Right? Okay, you don't have to pray about what to put in it. Because it was made for certain things. I don't have to pray and say, "Lord, should I put gas in my Tesla today? Should I? Could I?" I don't have to pray about that. It's already established by the manufacturer. It's the law of this particular item that was made. Now if you decide one day, "I think I want to put Pepsi in my gas tank because that's what I want to do today," and the car malfunctions— listen, here's the thing. In other words, you don't bring your laws, your way of doing life to God, then tell him to bless you regardless. You can shamalama ding dong till midnight and it's not going to change the law. No, we submit to the law, to the Word of God, to our manual, to the laws of the manufacturer for my life, and that guarantees my success. Whew, I'm sweating up in this church. Listen, laws were not given to restrict you. They were given for your success. Some of y'all need to stop looking at the Bible that way, cockeyed and sideways like, "Well, God's just trying to keep this from me." No, God's trying to do it for you. Now the law says, "Don't fornicate." But God, I'm 36. I'm 48. It don't even have to explain why not to fornicate. It's just the law because it's for your benefit. It's for your success. Okay? The law says forgive and you will be forgiven. Well, I deserve to be mad. They did me wrong. Nope, that's not what the law says. That's why your life's doing this. That's why your body's unhealthy. The Bible says when you have unforgiveness in your heart, you got it's so bitter it will dry up your bones. The law says to give. See, we want to keep it to ourself. The law for our life from our manufacturer says to give. Then it will be given to you, pressed down, shaken together, running over. Shall men— people— I like it when people come up and hand me $100. I don't know about you, I just keep giving. I paid for people to come to this conference. I bought plane tickets for people. I paid for hotel rooms. I'm a giver. I'm a radical giver, and I will never apologize to you if you have a menial little poverty mindset and you ain't got nothing. I'm a giver. I'm a radical giver, and my life has shifted and changed because of the laws of of God over my life. I'm successful. I made more money last year than I've ever made in my life in my financial services business. I mean, I won a car, y'all, and I was not the highest producer. I was— I'm like, how did I win? They making millions. I didn't make— how did I win? I'm a giver. I'm a giver. I obey the laws. and I'm blessed. We always want somebody to do something for us, but the law says the greatest will be the servant. The manufacturer of the iron says don't operate near The manual don't explain why, but if you're dumb enough to test it, well— In 2013, I went through the most radical transformation of my life. And one of the first things that the Lord required of me, one of the One of the first things, assignments He asked me to do was to go through the entire Bible and write down the laws of God. Why? Because I'd found myself at 43 years old so far off track from original purpose, on the brink of losing my marriage, my children, my ministry. Sin had taken me farther than I ever expected to go and cost me more than I ever thought I had to pay. Clearly, I did not know what my purpose was. And the first assignment, I didn't understand it at first. I did not understand why He said, "Go through the Word and write down my laws." And as I did it I said, "Oh my God, these laws are for me. These laws are for my protection. These laws are for my benefit. These laws keep me in track. These laws keep me protected." I didn't love the law before, but I love it now. When I find something in here that says, "Don't do that," I'm like, "Oh God, I know what that means." The journey was to know the laws of God and to love the laws and to live according to the law. And since then, y'all, I have striven to read, to meditate, to obey, and my life has been on a trajectory of success. My life's never been better. I've never been happier. I've never been more fulfilled. I've never been more successful. I've never been more wealthy. I've never been wiser. I've never been more in love with my husband. At 57, been married 30— almost 36 years. It can be done, but you got to know what the manufacturer says in the manual over your life, and you can't veer left or to write. You've got to be strong, and you've got to be courageous, and you cannot fear what man says about you, and you've got to be willing to obey what he tells you to do. Number 2, success is a result of decisions. Wherever you are right now, is where you decided to be. Bottom line, wherever you are today, you decided to be here. It's not your parents' fault. It's not your janky husband's fault. It's not your ex-husband's fault. Yeah, they may have dealt you a bad hand, but you chose to stay depressed. You chose to be a victim. You chose bitterness. You chose unforgiveness. You chose to stay stuck in the abuse. And you love the new word triggered. Well, that just triggered me. That triggered me. You know what that really means? That means that that was exposing a part that's unhealed. If you admit that triggered you, that means you got something on the inside that you need to deal with that you hadn't brought to the foot of the cross yet, that you hadn't put under the blood yet. Number 3, failure is a result of decisions. Success is a result of decisions. Failure is a result of decision. Everybody becomes what they decide to be. It's the bottom line. If you don't hate your cellulite enough, Correctamundo? If you don't hate it enough, you'll live with it. And until you hate it enough, then you will decide to do something about it. We know what causes it, and we love it. I love french fries more than I love y'all. I could eat them 3 times a day. I do. I love them. And it is a discipline for me to push them back and not order it. Something goes off in my brain when I see those golden arches and I know all the studies I know what it causes. It causes the C-word. They store them in formaldehyde and they're so good. Failure is a result of decisions. When I decided decided to start the Inner Circle, to start doing spiritual mentorship and life coaching, I couldn't sleep late anymore. And second thing I love is my sleep. First is french fries, second is my sleep. Please don't, don't poke the bear. Ron knows he's got a window from 10 AM to 10 PM. And after that, it's no-go. Because I love my sleep. But when I decided to do this, I couldn't sleep late anymore. I could not not study the Word. Why? Because when I decided to do this, how could I have any credibility to coach people who don't know the Word and who are slothful? How can I try to raise somebody up to a level that I'm not willing to go myself? Come on, y'all. So my vision— listen, write it down— my vision determines my discipline. If I don't want to be 36-24-36, that ain't in my vision board, I just keep eating my french fries, right? But if that is my vision, to be in great health, not to be sick, not to have to take medicines and high blood pressure and cholesterol and Metformin and all these if my vision is health, I've got to know the laws of it, and my disciplines, my disciplines give boundaries for my life. If you don't know your purpose and your calling, you will not have boundaries in your life. A flowing river, a flowing, moving river has banks and boundaries, right? But a stagnant, stinky, swampy area, it stays still. It doesn't move and shift and grow, and it's not life-giving because it doesn't have boundaries. And anyone who distracts you from your destiny is your enemy. My God, I have had to delete so many friends and contacts in my cell phone and said no to lunches that were not fruitful or productive in my life, who brought me down low and didn't spur me higher. People who do not who don't know this are not my friend. I might smile at you and hug you, but we're not going to vacation together. We're not going to lunch. I'll help you. Shout, "Decisions determine success." God's plan and will for your life is already finished. It's already finished. It's finished in heaven. It's finished in eternity. He's just waiting on you to keep the laws. You say, "I'm just waiting on God to open the doors." He's just waiting on you to keep the law. Whoo! The laws of God are for your success. Stop resisting them and embrace embrace them for your success. Stop resisting. Embrace them. Right, Jazlyn? Right, Gina? Right? The Word says, "Remember this. Fix it in your mind and do not forget it." Fix it in your mind and do not forget it. Isaiah 46:9-10 says, I am God, there is none like me. He bragging on himself. He said, I am God, boom shakalaka, and there is none like me. I am God, I always set the end from the beginning. And I have made known from ancient times what is to come, and my purpose, it will stand. Take that. Your end is established. My success, your success is established. Then I back up and begin before I commence. "Y'all, that's mind-boggling." I know that's not how you really say it, but it's from a movie. So— and here's the thing, if you see God start something in your life, that is evidence that it's already finished. If you see God starting to bring your miracle marriage around, you better do a praise dance because it's already finished. Because he don't start till he's finished. If you see your A1C coming down, you better give God a praise right now because it's already finished. Tell your neighbor, I'm already here. I'm already here. So God's got a good plan for my life. and I will love the laws of God, and I will walk it out. Say, hey! Now walk it out. Sing! Bless your heart. Walk it out. Look at everybody and say, walk it out. You're going to become what you decide to be. You gonna become what you decide to be. Fix it in your mind. I love to watch my granddaughter Aria. We've got 5 grandkids and we got one on the way. One's coming in March. But Aria, Chanlin's little girl, is a little diva. I have no idea I don't know where she got that. I have no idea how she already knew about Chanel at 5. We built a house in Greenville and moved in about a year and a half ago. And one day we saw her. So this was, you know, she was about 7, 6 and a half, 7. And she was standing at our back door looking outside at the pool. And she was going like this. She said— we saw her from behind. She said, "One day all of this will be mine." I said, "Do what?" She did. She said it. She said, "One day all of this will be mine." And then she walked into my closet And I have a jewelry cabinet and I heard her in there and she was going through and this is what this little turd asked me. She said, "So Gigi, is this how it works? Like when you die, do we like get all of this?" And I said, "Well, sorta." I said, "You know, I have to really put it— there's a thing called a will and we have to put your name on it." And she said, "Oh, oh, oh, this is mine and this is mine. Oh, I'll give Remy this and then I'll keep this and then Remy can have this." She's a dreamer. She's a dreamer. She loves to make believe and pretend and Remy, even Jordan's daughter, can Play for hours pretending with Barbie and Ken and their little dress-ups and their houses and all their things for hours and hours and hours. They're real-life princesses. Okay? But God has already put eternity in their heart. Those dreams to them They're real. She really believes one day all of this will be hers. That's why child dreaming comes easy. Believing you can be and do anything comes easy as a child because life hadn't happened to you yet. Life hadn't hit you yet when you're 6 and 7. But that's, but that's the enemy's plan in real time, to distract you from one day all of 'all of this.' One day all of this will be mine. When you're on the mountaintop, you in faith believing, 'One day all of this— I'm supposed to have what this says.' And then the bankruptcy, then the divorce, then the doctor's report, Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." My God, let me break that down for you real quick. "For I know," that word in the original Greek is "yada." Yada. And it is an intimate word for a sexual relationship. It's the same Hebrew word "ginosko" and "yada" that Adam knew Eve and conceived Seth. So think about that in that Scripture. For I am so intimately acquainted with you. I know every single thing about you, and I know that I got good, good plans for you to prosper you, to not harm you, to give you a hope and to give you a future. God is in love with your life. He's in love with the plans that he has for you. His plans for you are to prosper you, to be good to you, to give you a hope and a future. Plans to prosper you, that means to aid you, to help you. You, not to harm you. How many of you know that God does not have one bad day planned for you? God does not have one bad day. See, this is how you can trust God— when doors are open and when doors are closed. On good days and on bad days. When you got money in the bank, shorty, what you think? Or when you can't rub two nickels together. This is how you can trust him. See, you got to look at your life the way God looks at your life. It's not just today, it's not just this season, but it's from the end to the beginning. From the "A," the day you were born, to "Z," the day you go on to glory. But it's that "L-M-N-O-P." It's that middle stuff. We start out as dreamers. We start out believing and in faith and Fairy tales. He's going to come riding the white horse, remember? Now he don't even take you on a date. Then life happens. But that's the enemy's plan. That's why he does it. But we don't have to be confused and tormented and bail on God. We've got to stay firmly planted in what we know, Jeremiah 29:11, that he's got good plans for you. James 1:9 says, "A double-minded man is," what? "Unstable in all his ways and ought not think that he should get anything from God." That's why our life doesn't do like this. Our life does this. It's because we're shaky. We're unstable. One minute we're on fire, and the next minute we're drinking. One minute we're shouting and praising God, then the next minute we're depressed and going to get Zoloft. We forgot our benefit package. We forgot what the manual said about our life. An unstable man should not think he would get anything from God. "Pastor Hope, I don't know if I'm going to come out of this. I don't know if God will ever bring my Boaz." "I just keep getting broke-ass and ugly-ass and drunk-ass. God must not want me well. I got the sugar." 'Cause you won't quit eating the sugar. No, we're unstable, and our life doesn't go anywhere. We are heirs, the Bible says, and joint heirs with God. Any realtors in here? Got any realtors? Anybody know anything about real estate? Heir is a real estate term. My kids and Aria, one day all this really will be theirs. Why? Because they're my heirs. Means they are going to get everything I got. And if I'm an heir to Jesus, it means because it's Jesus', then I'm in line to get it too. Then it's mine. Somebody needs to declare over your life, "Whatever's coming to Jesus is coming to me. Whatever Jesus has got, I got." Whatever is coming to Jesus is coming to me. That's what the book of the law says, right? Somebody needs to declare power over your life, and authority over your life, and joy over your life, and peace over your life, and wealth, and victory, and the anointing, and healing, and the ability. Say, "It's all mine. It's all mine because I'm an heir. I'm a joint heir." Jeremiah 1:5-8 says, "Before you were formed I knew you." That's the same word, "knew." Before you were even formed, before your momma and daddy ever had a roll in the hay or shared a straw, He knew you. He was intimately acquainted with you. You are a product of God. Not man. Whoo! Not your mama or your daddy, not a one-night stand, not an accident, not a missed birth control pill, none of that. Listen, you were made by God on purpose to do something great in the earth. God has no limitations, and we're made in His likeness. The only limits are what we believe that we cannot do. Do you know how much God wants to prosper you and give you this amazing life? Psalm 68:19 says that God is daily looking for ways to load you up with benefits. Serving God is better than any 401(k), savings account, stock, crypto, 401(k), Roth account, insurance, mutual fund. Listen, He said, "I'm looking for ways to bless you and load you up with benefits if you will love the law." Whew! Psalm 139 says, "You are fearfully and wonderfully made." Ephesians 2 says, "You are the workmanship of Mmm. That just makes me think he got in his barn somewhere and he was like, "Mmm, I'm going to make her like this." Philippians 1:6 says, "You are established." Established till the end. And what he started in your life, he will finish. Look at your neighbor and say, "God's not done with you yet." Say, "God's not done with you yet." Say, "It's not over till you win. It's not over till you're successful. It's not over till you're victorious." Look at your neighbor and say, "Come on, I'm going to get you in faith with me tonight. Come on, shake them. Shake them. Shake them. Shake them. Shake them. Shake them." Say, "It's not over until it's good." Woo! Ah! So we've got to stop letting these battles that God promised you would come stop you from going through. The Bible says, "When you walk through the fire, it will not consume you. When you pass through the river, it will not overtake you. My God. Listen, but you got to go through it. You got to be strong. You got to be courageous. You cannot fear. You got to know what God says about you. If he started it in you, it's already done. You just got to keep your eyes on Jesus, the author, the manufacturer. and the finisher of your faith. Don't get distracted by what you see, by what you feel, by what you hear, and what's done to you and said over you and what you went through. All that is the enemy's plan to keep you locked out of this great beautiful life of purpose that you've been called to. Not today, Satan. Not today in my life. Not today. I'm already on top of the hill. I'm going down on the other side, right? Statistically, I don't have as much left statistically as I've had to live. I'm going to press. I'm going to pursue. I'm going to recover all. I'm going to press. I'm going to pursue, and I'm going to recover I'm going to shake myself today out of this low-level thinking and feeling and believing that I will live my life according— I'm going to live my life according to the manual and what it says that I can do, what I can have, what I can be, so that I can maximize my outcome. We get so caught up, y'all, in how we got here and who our parents were. Or if you didn't have a dad, or if you came from the wrong side of town. We let that keep us in low-level thinking. Listen, listen to this. Scientists say— are you ready for this health lesson? Scientists say that for one child to be conceived is only 3 to 5% chance in any unprotected sex act. Only 3 to 5%. There are on average 40 to 300 million sperm released in one sex act. Million! With only a few thousand reaching the uterus, because you know we get up and run to the bathroom. And only— right? So, err, back up. So, only a few thousand reaching the uterus. Millions to a few thousand, and only a few hundred reaching the fallopian tube, and only one sperm fertilizes the egg. Look at your neighbor and say, "I told you I was one in a million." Say, "You're looking at one in a million, baby." I was destined and purposed in the mind of God. You are not an accident. You are not an accident. God saw millions of sperm racing toward the egg and he said, "That one." I choose that one. I choose that one. I choose that one. I have an announcement to make. You're not going to be a winner. You're already a winner. Come on, somebody needs to give God a praise break right now. You are the one in a million. Woo! You got to stop feeling bad about yourself and start talking like a winner. You got to live like a winner. You got to get that in your spirit tonight, that God is for me and God is not against me. God has good plans for me. Psalm 138 says, I saw you. You think God didn't choose that one sperm? He said, I saw you. Conceived in your mother's womb, God was watching, making sure that you outswam the rest. He said, I was watching you when you were conceived in your mother's womb. He said, and I am anxiously awaiting for you to become who you already are. I'm chosen. You're chosen. You're on your way to a destination that cannot fail. That's why he saved me, because he was thinking about himself. He's got to protect his reputation, y'all. He's got to make sure what he made works. Here we are, wandered off course. He made a way for me to get back home, to get back on track, to get going with the original intent. He said, "If it's broken," He said, "don't try to fix it yourself." He said, "Come back to the manufacturer, the one who made you and the one who knows what your purpose and your plan is." Online, you need to get up wherever you are and decree and declare the promises of God over your life tonight. You got to go to your mirror tonight and remind yourself who you are. You are not what they said about you, and you are not what was done to you. You were chosen. God was watching you, and he said, "I picked that one." You are an heir to the kingdom. And the promises of God are yes and amen over your life tonight. Oh, you cannot leave here tonight not knowing who you are in Christ and not knowing that you were chosen before the foundation of the world, that your success is predictable, that your failure is unpredictable. Nobody's going to do it but you. It's time to know and to love the laws. Listen, do you know how they test a counterfeit $100 bill? It's— listen, it's not that they know the fake ones. They know the real ones so good that a fake don't never fake them. You got to know who you are, and nothing can keep you off course. It don't matter what happens to your life, you know what the Word of God says over you. It don't matter how many divorces you've gone through, you know you're the head and not the tail. You know that you were formed and made and knew, and God was intimately acquainted with you, and there is a purpose and a plan for your life. Where's the team? Where's the worship team? Come up here. Oh, Jesus. I just see prophetically the scales coming off some of your eyes tonight. You've been told so long that you were nothing and that you were like your dad or you were like your mom, or, well, our family deals with blah blah blah blah blah, and in our family we don't ever have any winners. In our family we don't ever have any millionaires. In our family we're always sick. In our family we got tons of heart problems. That's not what the manual said. You've been believing, believing a lie, so you're living a lie. Whatever you believe to be true is the, is the reality you will walk in. And you got to know and love the laws of God so much that you meditate on them day and night, and they don't depart from your mouth. that you can't be fooled by a counterfeit, that you can't be fooled by a lie of the enemy. This whole conference is about royalty and DNA and queens, and the Holy Spirit said they will never walk in their royal purpose until they know who they are in me. You've got to be fully convinced that God does not have one bad day planned for you. Have we had bad days? Yeah, but most of them are our own trouble, right? It's because we chose— we thought we could change the law and jump when we weren't supposed to jump. It's when we thought we could change the law to go the certain speed we wanted to go, and it always got us messed up, right? It's always our choices because success is predictable. Failure is predictable. He said, you keep this in your heart, you meditate on it day and night. He said, and you will be successful in all you do.