1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,600 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:06,960 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:12,960 Now enjoy this message. We're thinking praise you that 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,360 you do allow us once a month to come together. 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,320 I believe that in Jesus name that we will continue to produce 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,120 some things that are going to have people want to come and in 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:26,760 here the different levels in the different areas that we are 8 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,400 wanting to participate in your economic system and that we 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,320 begin to see the fruit and others will want to know about 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,720 that fruit. Be curious and that we can share 11 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,680 with them regardless of where they are in their careers or 12 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,560 their businesses or whatever it is that they're doing. 13 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,360 I just appraise you in thinking that in Jesus name, your word 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,080 has something for all of us and we want a desire to get to know 15 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,560 your word and we thank you in advance for the outcome this 16 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,080 evening in Jesus name, Amen. All right, tonight I'm going to 17 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,840 talk to you about purpose. OK, I, I still think that the, 18 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,200 the, the word purpose, we hear it from the pulpit a lot. 19 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,880 I've had to take a look at myself numerous occasions over 20 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,760 the years. On reestablishing, you know, 21 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,840 purpose and and the whole thing now I've got written down listen 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,600 to this at AFC, we talk a lot about purpose, yet we still have 23 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,120 many in our. Church that struggle with 24 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,920 finding the reason they're on the planet. 25 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,840 They said, I want to start tonight by talking to you about 26 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,160 personally about the, the purpose and then we'll wrap up 27 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,760 and apply the things to our business. 28 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,480 OK, so we're going to talk about us personally, you know, tonight 29 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,280 and, and, and I want you to remember that, you know, there's 30 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,600 several scriptures in there that let us know that no matter where 31 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,400 we are right now, no matter how we got there, all right, that 32 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,560 God had a plan for us. OK, you can jot down Jeremiah 33 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,000 15. You may already know this, it 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,200 said. But before I formed you in the 35 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,600 belly, I knew you, and and before you came forth out of the 36 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,760 womb, I sanctified you and ordained you as a prophet unto 37 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,560 the nations. OK, Now the Bible tells us that 38 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,000 God is no respecter of persons, All right? 39 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,440 So if there's want something that you find in a promise or 40 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,960 something to one person in the Bible, know this now. 41 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,280 Not all of us in in context of call to be prophets. 42 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,080 I mean, that's obvious, right? OK. 43 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,640 But I can, I can guarantee you this that he formed me in the 44 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:29,160 belly, OK, before I came out of my mama's womb. 45 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,240 All right? I know that he set me apart for 46 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,080 something and that my job is to find out what that something. 47 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,520 Is OK. Now the next scripture you've 48 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,720 heard before is Psalms 139. Verses 13 and 14 and he said, 49 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,880 For you have possessed my reigns, you have covered me in 50 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,600 my mother's womb. I will praise you, for I am 51 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,240 fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works and 52 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,200 that and that my soul knoweth. It right. 53 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,720 Well, so he's telling us and I think it's interesting because I 54 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,600 looked up the word reigns in there. 55 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,520 You know that he possesses the reigns and really it's funny 56 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,560 because it is the word for kidneys. 57 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,120 OK, But you think about the kidneys as far as in it, they 58 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,240 are in the innermost part of your body, OK? 59 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,160 And and we've all heard it that if the kidneys ain't functioning 60 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,600 right, we ain't functioning right, OK. 61 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,560 I mean, I've had my own battles, OK, with, you know, kidneys 62 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,400 being off and and all that medical science has to help you 63 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,680 and get your strength back and get everything back. 64 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,720 But it it's it. Tell me now. 65 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,200 And who possesses them? It says you possessed OK, the 66 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:44,240 the most intricate parts of me. You possessed them OK, one by 67 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,640 right of creation. But because he loved us and made 68 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,240 us free moral agents, we can go do our own thing. 69 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,760 But he's letting us know. Listen, I he said you are 70 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,080 fearfully and wonderfully made every one of us. 71 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,480 There's a plan. There's no such thing as uh oh 72 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,080 in God's Kingdom. All right, even that you know, 73 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:04,960 people that said, well, I wasn't expected. 74 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,400 You know, my parents didn't expect that doesn't matter 75 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,720 because the reason that you're here and you are spirit being on 76 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,720 the planet is because God had a plan regardless of how you got 77 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,040 here, OK? I think one of the greatest, the 78 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,560 greatest examples of getting that understanding, it was a 79 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,320 minister named James Robinson. OK, James Robinson was a a, a 80 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:33,200 humongous evangelist. His mother was raped and and and 81 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,040 she decided she's going to keep the baby. 82 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,160 How rare is that? OK. 83 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,200 And he became one of the most powerful voices of God even in 84 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,880 that situation. So he was fearfully and 85 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,640 wonderfully planned out in the Kingdom, not necessarily we in 86 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:50,840 the world. OK. 87 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,760 So I think it's interesting. So one of the ways that I want 88 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,080 to begin is to get a little clarity on our purpose, is to 89 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,040 start identifying a thing. Because when we talk to people 90 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,040 about purpose, you know, and they wonder what is my purpose? 91 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,520 What is my purpose? And unfortunately, you know, we 92 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,880 go to we go to schools, you know, public education, people 93 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,200 are trying to get you into a mold of not so much purpose. 94 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,960 But you know what, what do you want to do? 95 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,320 Because I remember I took an aptitude test in high school and 96 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,640 they said after all of the testing and all the results come 97 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,120 back, we think you would be a great check this out for a 98 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:38,280 stranger. I said what I said, there is 99 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:43,560 nothing about the outside and especially the woods that get me 100 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:44,560 excited. Nothing. 101 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,600 So I don't even know where you get these tests and thinking, 102 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,600 you know, and I finally get to meet a forest Ranger, you know, 103 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,320 and Gunter, I mean, he's a, he's a forest Ranger man. 104 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,360 And and and I look at him and I said, well, I'm about foot too 105 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:05,000 short and a little bit too narrow because apparently I 106 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,280 picture they all look like you, you know, and he loves it. 107 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:11,200 And I'm thinking, man, I don't even like getting out in the 108 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,480 yard. And yet, you know, you're going 109 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,440 to put me on in a tower up in some woods someplate. 110 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,320 No, And I'm thinking, you know what, what what is the deal? 111 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,320 So immediately I cast that aside. 112 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,720 All right, but let me give you some questions. 113 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,800 There's three questions that not only we need to train us, we 114 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,520 need to train our kids. We need to train our grandkids, 115 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,560 all right, that they need to start asking all right about 116 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,920 and, and this is to help identify the gifts and the 117 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,640 talent that you have been so wonderfully made with, All 118 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,600 right. And so the first one very simply 119 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:56,120 is this, what tasks or projects come easier to you than most 120 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:00,720 other people? What tasks or projects come 121 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,080 easier for you than most other people? 122 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,280 And you sit down and think, what is it that I like to do? 123 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:11,920 What is it that I can do that it comes easy for me, but yet other 124 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,920 people either struggle or they're not interested. 125 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:20,520 OK, that's your first question. The second question is what may 126 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:25,880 feel like work to others, but is pleasurable to me and even 127 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,960 sometimes fun. OK, what is it that feels like 128 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:35,760 work to others but is pleasurable to you or even fun? 129 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,600 Everybody else thinks it's a drudgery. 130 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,320 Everybody else thinks it's, you know, a work, a task or 131 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,080 something, but you just like it. All right, And here's your third 132 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,440 one. What can you do that leaves you 133 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:57,320 wondering what is it that you do that leaves people wondering why 134 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,280 most people aren't good at it? OK, let me see if I read it 135 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,200 again. What can you do that leaves it 136 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,520 leaves you wondering why most people aren't good at it? 137 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,520 OK, so in other words, there's something that you're doing and 138 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,080 it comes so easy to you and you wonder other people. 139 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,800 Golly, can't you figure this out? 140 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,720 You don't like doing this. This is easy because we all have 141 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,080 those little things. I mean, you know, one of mine 142 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,320 now because I train myself is bookkeeping. 143 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,680 I like it. I mean, I, you know, I've become 144 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,360 very proficient at it and, and I'm looking at everybody else 145 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,880 trying to get them in QuickBooks, you know, get them 146 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,600 in some kind of accounting. Program for their lives and 147 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,640 their businesses. And, and, and they give me 148 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,840 9,000,000 reasons why they don't do it, why they don't like it, 149 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,160 why, you know, and I'm thinking, man, that's, that's weird. 150 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,480 I didn't like it. I didn't even understand it. 151 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,040 But you know, I had some desperate situations come up and 152 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,720 now I like it. I mean, you know, it, it paints 153 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,600 a picture for me to get an understanding. 154 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,360 I until I understood that, you know, the simple things like 155 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,720 accounting paint the picture of where you are financially, OK, 156 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:12,520 and how much strength I got out of that, of not being ignorant, 157 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,080 but in the know, you know, it made a world of difference in my 158 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,600 life. All right. 159 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,760 And and we're going to talk more about that here in a minute 160 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,200 because there's some things that I think that we can do all 161 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,440 right. And so, you know, if you can't 162 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,480 answer those particular questions in your own self, you 163 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:33,200 know, you might need to do what I've done before is ask friends 164 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:34,960 questions. What do you think I'm good at? 165 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,880 What is it when you think of me? What is when you think of me? 166 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,520 What do you think comes easy to me? 167 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,440 What do you think that you know you have? 168 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:44,840 Is there ever been anything said? 169 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,760 I wish I could do that like I do that. 170 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:49,880 OK. Is there anything? 171 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,440 Ask questions, ask, you know, friends, business people, you 172 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,480 know, whoever you have relationships with. 173 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:58,560 If you can't figure it out, you know on your own that somebody 174 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:00,680 might be able to tell you. All right now. 175 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,880 And once we start, once we start identifying the gifts that that 176 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,040 we have, it may take some time. But here, here's another person 177 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,240 that you really need to check in with, if not first, is the Lord, 178 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,160 OK? He knows why he made you. 179 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:22,080 He knows what he gave you gifts and talents in and he knows what 180 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,120 you would be good at. I mean, all my entire life, all 181 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,520 I ever wanted to be from elementary on was an artist. 182 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,080 That's all I ever wanted to be was an artist. 183 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,960 I didn't care. I didn't even know that the 184 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,320 desire to have an artist, you could make money or you could 185 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,320 lose money being an artist. OK, You know, you have you heard 186 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,440 the term starving artist? That's because most of them are 187 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:46,880 all right. They they just they love to 188 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,880 paint. Now I the thing was, is that as 189 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,440 I grew older and I met more and more artists that are, you know, 190 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,520 bent toward the arts, the weirder they got in my eyes that 191 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,240 I didn't really want to hang around them. 192 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,240 I mean, I had great aspirations, man. 193 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,000 When I when I was in junior high, one of the most depressing 194 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,160 times in my life was 7th grade. I had put out an elective. 195 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,720 I want to take art. Well, guess what? 196 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,680 Art was full. I couldn't get in. 197 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:15,680 I went, I went to the Molly Grubs. 198 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,800 All right, No kidding. I mean, it was terrible. 199 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,360 And and so I found another, I found another little passion 200 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:27,000 which allowed me to get that creative flair inside of me. 201 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,960 And it was wood shop and metal shop and I, I got to take those 202 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,680 and fell in love with those because of all the cool things 203 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:36,960 that we could make and, and, and the teachers. 204 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:42,520 But then they changed my border of my school in in 8th grade and 205 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:43,920 I had to go to a whole new school. 206 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,520 But guess what? I got to take heart. 207 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,240 I'll never forget Gary Gory. That was his name, man Gory. 208 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:57,960 Gary Gory love the class. 9th grade, he lets all of us know 209 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,320 you all are going to East Central High School next year. 210 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:03,360 You want to get in with a teacher named Linda Wilson and 211 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:08,400 she is a screen printer and she teaches screen printing one. 212 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,160 OK, I don't even know if it had a number on it because it went 213 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,040 until my senior year. They decided to do screen 214 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,760 printing too. But I took commercial art my 215 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,840 junior year. I'm ready to go. 216 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,240 I get through third year, I'm going to college. 217 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,720 I'm going to Linda Wilson's college, Tulsa University, to 218 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,080 get a commercial art degree. That was the plan. 219 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,080 I get there. They freaked me out. 220 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:36,360 I mean, talk about weird. They had a load of it, that the 221 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,480 art, the art people there, they were trying to get me to go to 222 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,720 art education. I don't want to teach it. 223 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,960 I just want to draw it. And this is no computers. 224 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,600 There's no such thing as computers then. 225 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,520 OK, 1979, we didn't know what a computer was. 226 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,440 I mean, they were big as a room. Yeah, you know that. 227 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,880 And and I thought, you know, but they wanted us to teach, and 228 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:59,560 they kept putting the pressure on for teach. 229 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:02,400 And I tell the young, I tell the young people I did a what do 230 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:03,480 they call it? Chat and chew. 231 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,640 Have you heard of that chat and chew where you talk to the 232 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:07,920 students while they're eating? Like, that's a great idea. 233 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,800 I'm thinking, man, I want to try some, you know, and you can't do 234 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:12,160 it. You're. 235 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,000 You're supposed to be chatting while they're chewing. 236 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,400 And and I looked over at Abby and Coco and I said, should I 237 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,720 tell them the story of Bob? And they go, oh, yes, please 238 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,960 tell that story of Bob. Bob was in my class in college. 239 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:33,120 Now, Bob was old, older than us. I mean, there was most of us 240 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,080 were right out of high school. And he he was kind of old. 241 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:37,720 And I'm thinking, how did he get in here? 242 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,280 I didn't understand that it didn't matter how old you were, 243 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,280 you could go to college. I mean, I had a guy in one of my 244 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:44,760 classes. It's called rhetoric and 245 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,280 writing, and that's where you wrote papers and stories and 246 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,840 like that. And I couldn't compete to the 247 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,000 guy next to me because he was Indiana Jones. 248 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:55,160 He'd been everywhere, done everything. 249 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,280 And his papers were phenomenal. They were like novels. 250 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,600 And I said, how do we compete with that? 251 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:03,280 I mean, I ain't even done nothing. 252 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,280 I'm 17. Give me a break. 253 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,840 And so it was so funny. So here's Bob, you know, Bob 254 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,360 comes to class and this is where I learned how different school 255 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,360 is in college. He come to class with overalls. 256 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:20,280 No. Shirt. 257 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:29,360 Long greasy hair. A backpack before backpacks were 258 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:34,960 a thing, and a flute in it. No shoes. 259 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,520 He comes in every morning before the teacher gets there, pulls 260 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,560 out his flute, I think they call it a recorder, OK. 261 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:51,080 And he starts some kind of funky Indian type blowings every 262 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,160 morning. Well, one day the teacher said, 263 00:14:54,160 --> 00:15:00,240 listen, you know, we want you to bring Ziploc bags full of 264 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,680 different colors of dirt. Bring some cardboard boxes, a 265 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,480 bottle of Elmer's glue, some paper sacks. 266 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,720 I mean, not paper, but plastic bags. 267 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,880 Bring them Monday. OK, what? 268 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,840 In the world. So we're sitting there and he 269 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,400 goes, OK, first thing we're going to make is what we want to 270 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:24,320 call a dirt sculpture. Get you a piece of cardboard, 9 271 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,760 inch by 9 inch. You're going to coat it 272 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,920 completely with Elmer's glue and you're going to take those 273 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,000 different colors of dirt and you're going to start making a 274 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,880 sculpture and it's going to stick on there and you're going 275 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,160 to have a sculpture when you're done. 276 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,200 And man, I'm starting to think now, how much was this class? 277 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,640 How much did I pay to come? So anyway, we're all going, 278 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:50,640 right? Bob is over there. 279 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,560 And Bob being older, think probably a little more than us. 280 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,960 He goes to the bathroom and gets a little bowl of water and a 281 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:04,440 stack of the old brownish Gray paper towels and sets him there. 282 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,640 And he begins to go to work. So he is, he's taking the dirt 283 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,600 and he's making a little, you know, little mountain, little 284 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,120 different stuff like that. And then he dips his fingers in 285 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,400 the water and he gets a paper towel and he wipes it and wads 286 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,160 it up and throws a paper towel upside. 287 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,720 And he's going. Well, you know, we get about 30 288 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,600 minutes into this and the, the, the professor comes over and 289 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,720 says, everybody, everybody, stop what you're doing. 290 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,280 Come over here, said I want you everybody gather around Bob, 291 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:34,760 gather around Bob. So we're going. 292 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:41,520 Bob has the coolest looking topographical map on a 9 by 9 293 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,800 piece of cardboard with a little volcano and a Little River and 294 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,320 some and some, you know, different little mountains and 295 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,240 stuff like that, which I thought that's cool. 296 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,480 And he goes, this is not what I'm looking for. 297 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:06,119 He goes over to the pile of paper towels and goes, this is 298 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:11,760 what I'm looking for. I said what? 299 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,480 I'm looking at my friends what? And he says he's thinking too 300 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,520 hard on this sculpture. You need to create a sculpture 301 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,800 that is spontaneous. I want you to be spontaneous 302 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:24,440 just like this pile of paper towels. 303 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,000 He didn't think about how to throw them in there and how to 304 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,800 stack them and stuff. He just threw them over there 305 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,000 and. That is the piece of art that 306 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:38,360 we've got. OK, I almost blew a gasket, but 307 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:40,640 we had two more. We have two more sculptures to 308 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:48,440 do, one out of ripped cardboard glued to a square and plastic 309 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,760 bags shredded and glued to a square. 310 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,560 All right, I made it through that class. 311 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,320 I made it through that semester and then all of a sudden I said 312 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,920 I'm out of here and I'm dropped out of college because of them 313 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,440 people. I mean, they were the weirdest 314 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,320 bunch, the weirdest bunch. And it didn't end with. 315 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,840 That one because I had another episode with Bob once, 316 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:16,680 one-on-one. OK, he had like a 1963 GMC 317 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,760 pickup. I'm failing in art history. 318 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:25,000 Like F test F test F. Went to the Dean of Arts and 319 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,840 Sciences, said I needed withdrawal pass. 320 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,000 The instructor won't give it. He said you go back over there 321 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,200 and tell him. I told him to do it. 322 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,160 OK, no problem. So I get over there and and, 323 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,800 and, and before that happened, I'm making an F and all we're 324 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,840 doing is watching slides on a in a dark room and I'm watching 700 325 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,440 slides per. Test and I have to recall seven 326 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,760 of them. What is the chances of that 327 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:52,000 happening? I I always studied the wrong 7, 328 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,360 always FFF. And he goes, you know what you 329 00:18:57,360 --> 00:18:58,960 need to do. I don't think you're trying. 330 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,600 OK, He goes, he goes, you need to study with Bob. 331 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,280 Are you kidding me? Bob is getting this, but he's 332 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,280 old Miami. He ought to be able to figure 333 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:12,840 something out. He's probably around when half 334 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,600 that stuff was created in in Rome and Athens, Greece and and 335 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,120 all that stuff and and they go, no, you need to study with him. 336 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,680 I said Bob, he said. I said. 337 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,440 The professor said I need to study with you. 338 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,920 You've got some kind of system or something that might help me. 339 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:30,600 OK, He goes. OK, man, you meet me tomorrow at 340 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,560 my truck. The truck's in the parking lot. 341 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,480 It's running. It's cold outside and it's a 19 342 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,640 in the in the a place on it that doesn't have a cave in place 343 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,760 dent it paint's falling off of it. 344 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,840 I get up and I open the door and it smells like an old. 345 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,680 Pickup truck, nasty seeds, the whole bit. 346 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,480 I'm, I pop up in there, I got my book. 347 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,960 And he goes, OK, and he starts, you know, he starts talking and 348 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,000 telling me, you know, if you'll do this and this and, you know, 349 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,440 remember this and all this stuff. 350 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,440 All of a sudden he reaches under the seat and pulls out a milk 351 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,960 carton. And in the milk carton I just 352 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,560 happened to glance at it, trying to get it like what's going on. 353 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:21,120 And in it was something about inch and a half deep dark brown. 354 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:25,960 And something a little lighter brown on the top that was 355 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,280 swishing around a little bit. And he pops the top off of that 356 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,840 and starts drinking it. And he goes, you want to drink? 357 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:39,160 I said, I'm good. I said, what is that, Bob? 358 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,240 And he goes, oh man. He said every morning I, you 359 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,880 know, go to the Creek and I fill up this jug with Creek water. 360 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,880 I said, have you ever thought of getting the dirt out first 361 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,960 because it was an inch and a half of dirt in the bottom of 362 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,880 it. I can't even imagine what it 363 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,480 tastes like. But he was another reason. 364 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:05,560 It was kind of like strike one Bob, strike two Bob. 365 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,960 All right. I didn't wait for strike three. 366 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,360 I just went ahead and and and moved out. 367 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,480 OK. I left everything when I left 368 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,280 college. I let all my art supplies and 369 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,160 all my high dollar stuff in the locker. 370 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,120 Lock on the lock gone left, all right. 371 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,160 But I didn't lose that desire to be an artist. 372 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,120 I just thought it's going to have to come another way. 373 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:35,200 And fortunately what happened was I got a job OK working in a 374 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:36,560 screen printing. Firm. 375 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,160 So I already had I already had it and all of a sudden I start 376 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,720 growing and developing in the love for screen printing. 377 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,960 Now this is the weirdest thing in school. 378 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,600 It was in an art form, like oil painting. 379 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,640 You had to make up something in your mind and then you had to 380 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,920 get it into a screen printable format. 381 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,280 And, and, and this is what we did. 382 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,960 But then I met a guy one day in school, he was a senior when I 383 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:05,120 was a junior and he said, I said, man, you got the nicest 384 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:10,200 car of anybody in this school. It was like a 6667 Mustang. 385 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,760 Completely redone, but he had the giant mags on the back, you 386 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,040 know, like racing tires on the back in the whole bed. 387 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,440 And I said, how'd you get that car? 388 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,040 He said, well, me and my dad have a business together. 389 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,840 And I said, what kind of business? 390 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,120 He goes screen printing business. 391 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,120 I said what? And he said, you know, he said 392 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:31,320 it's a screen printing business and we print football jerseys. 393 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,000 I didn't know you could print football jerseys with screen 394 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,680 printing and I didn't know it'd make money. 395 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,120 Had no idea. So, you know, I just listened to 396 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:42,640 him talk about it and stuff like that. 397 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,680 And I thought, well, maybe there's some places in town and 398 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,880 got several of my first jobs where screen printing places, 399 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,520 printing shirts and different things, you know, like we do 400 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,280 today. All right, well, here was the 401 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,680 thing that, you know, in in seeking the Lord and then being 402 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,360 evolved into, Hey, I love the arts and Lord, how can I, how 403 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:04,520 can I use that for you? I mean, I don't even get it. 404 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,040 Well, you know, when I started my own business in 83, there 405 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,680 were, you know, I had a great vision of being able to do 406 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:16,320 Christian radio stations. OK, bumper stickers for those 407 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,760 radio stations. What the radio station did was 408 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,600 sold advertising on the back. And then that would pay for the 409 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,880 stickers and then they could get their stickers on all the cars 410 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,400 in, you know, in the surrounding areas of the radio station. 411 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,000 And I, I did that. I marketed for that. 412 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,800 I did that. But then they got to plan the 413 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,200 nickel and dime deal on me. And they said, you know how, how 414 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,520 many 20,000 stickers, how much you're going to cost? 415 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,080 And and I'd tell them seven and a half cents, OK per sticker. 416 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,000 OK. And they said, OK, we'll get APO 417 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,480 over to you in a little bit. Well, the next call that I got 418 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,000 was, hey, we found somebody to do it for seven. 419 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,680 Can you do it for 6 1/2? I didn't know this was an 420 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,200 auction. OK, But then another phone call, 421 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,920 it'd be down to a nickel. So I really wasn't making that 422 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,760 much money. I was doing a lot of stickers 423 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,680 and working a little hard. But then it wasn't until one day 424 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,800 a guy came in with a safety sign. 425 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,920 They said caution do not. Use water hose. 426 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,160 I had no idea what that is about his metal sign. 427 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,440 He said, can you make this? I don't want it on metal, I want 428 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,880 it on sticker. I said, yeah, man, I make it. 429 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,160 I go, how many? Me, Just a couple of dozen right 430 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,760 now. Well, I found out he worked for 431 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,520 an oil company and that oil companies need those kind of 432 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,200 signs and different things, man. Immediately I found the niche 433 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:39,320 that has made me literally millions of dollars and it's 434 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,760 still in Business Today. And then, you know, I asked it, 435 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,000 OK, but is that, is that my my total purpose? 436 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,200 Because I have been involved in different organizations, 437 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,000 Oilfield Oilfield, Christian Oilfields Association, where 438 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,800 I've been able to go and I flew down to Houston and spoke for 439 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,680 them at one of their conferences and the different things. 440 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,200 So everybody knew that, you know, I was a believer. 441 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,920 But you know, when we, we, we take a look at, you know, those 442 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,760 gifts and those talents and we asked the Lord, how do you want 443 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,440 to use this? How is it that I can make a 444 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,600 difference in the people I come in contact with? 445 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,480 For me, most of it was just to ask the Lord that when I meet 446 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,400 with someone, start a conversation, Lord, start the 447 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,360 conversation. And I've had that done so many 448 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:26,040 times where people just ask out of the way. 449 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,520 What do you think's going on in the news? 450 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,200 You know, I heard something about, you know, this might be 451 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,040 in the Bible and they don't know me from nothing and then they 452 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,280 get to know me and I'm all about the Bible. 453 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,400 I want to talk to Him about the Bible. 454 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,760 So when we think about the purpose and the things that 455 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,280 God's got in, it got us into the question that we have to ask is 456 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,400 what is his purpose for me being in this? 457 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,080 How am I going to expand the Kingdom of God? 458 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:57,440 Just one person at a time if necessary to be able to do it 459 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,720 now. Two elements that we all face. 460 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:09,160 OK, that will help us understand where we need to get into the 461 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,040 place God wants. Us OK in our purpose, they're 462 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,080 just two simple things. It's all the things we can 463 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,840 control and all the things we can't. 464 00:26:25,150 --> 00:26:28,150 And this is the this is the part because there are some things 465 00:26:28,150 --> 00:26:31,480 and I've taught this, you know, to you guys for years when we 466 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,880 talk about the tithe. OK, what was the purpose of the 467 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,120 tithe? The purpose of the tithe, Yes, 468 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:39,680 to take care of the fivefold ministry. 469 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,600 In our day, it was take care of the Levitical tribe. 470 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,600 But when he said in there I will control the things you can't if 471 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,000 you'll just do what I've asked. You to do so there is a control. 472 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 We can control the tithe. We bring the tithe. 473 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,360 And then there's things that happened in our spiritual life, 474 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:59,840 in our business life, that sometimes we can't control, like 475 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:04,600 an unhappy customer. OK, you know, those of you who 476 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,040 read my book, I have a chapter in there called Diffusing the 477 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,640 Disgusted. OK, I learned how to do that. 478 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,440 All right, because the Bible's true. 479 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,520 It said a soft. Answer turneth away wrath. 480 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,920 OK, if you want to get in a shouting match with them, you 481 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,920 might not get the experience that you're hoping for. 482 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,240 But when we find out that you know the things we control. 483 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,520 But let me give you one thing that I know that every one of us 484 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:38,840 in here can control, and that is the subject of learning. 485 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,080 If we're done learning, we're done. 486 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,920 OK, now one of the biggest. One of the the biggest and most 487 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:56,920 fun that I've ever had in teaching in FCU is the demand 488 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:03,560 that it is placed on me to recreate a few things to get it 489 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:10,920 in line with the new the new. Outlines of FCU All right, you 490 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,680 all know, most of you've been, you know, have taught at one 491 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,600 time or another or you sat through the class. 492 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,480 Obviously most of you are graduates and that we've gone 493 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,360 for, you know, we go for seven weeks and it changed a little 494 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:25,680 bit when Chancellor Brian came on and it was a, you know, 8 495 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,440 weeks and then but it's always been 7-8 weeks, 7-8 weeks, so 496 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,800 whatever. OK. 497 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:38,200 Now some subjects are 16 weeks, OK. 498 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,680 And I just happened to get one of. 499 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,760 Those on a subject I've never taught before. 500 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:55,640 OK so I thought first thing I thought, can't y'all pick 501 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,080 something that I've already done? 502 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,160 I mean I wrote curriculum for most of it, I said. 503 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:07,680 But I haven't on this one. I said, So what in the world? 504 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,240 And then, you know, you hear the Holy Spirit say, are you done 505 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,480 learning? I go, OK, forgive me. 506 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,120 And I get to work, all right? And I'm already up to seven out 507 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,960 of the 16. I'm doing great. 508 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,200 I'm ahead of schedule. I mean, and I'm learning so much 509 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:32,160 from the discipline that I'm excited every day that I have to 510 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,520 spend when I spend time with it every day to continue learning 511 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,520 things that I already knew. But now I'm putting it in a 512 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:45,880 format that is going to be easier for everybody else to. 513 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,960 Remember, and to remember the thoughts and the things that we 514 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,600 are. I mean, one of the easiest thing 515 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,880 I'm teaching on confession right now. 516 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:54,720 I've never had to teach on it before. 517 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,360 Teaching on confession, all right, And I'm getting into 518 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,800 Hebrews 11. And Hebrews 11, there's a verse 519 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,320 in there that we. Still have guest ministers up 520 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,960 here quoting. I don't recall Apostle Earl 521 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,040 reading that scripture lately with it, but the verse 3 says 522 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,160 that we. Understand that the world's were 523 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:22,280 framed by the word of God, OK? And we've had ministers come up 524 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,800 and say God made everything. He made the universe, He made 525 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,680 the stars a planet. That is not the word world's the 526 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,920 world. The word for worlds in that 527 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:36,520 scripture is the Greek word ion AION, and it means generations. 528 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,520 It means periods of time. So what is the context? 529 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,800 We understand that the men he's getting and women he's getting 530 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:51,360 ready to list their lives, their generations were framed by the 531 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,360 word of God. And So what I'm doing is I'm 532 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:59,040 taking everybody that he mentions in the Hall of Faith 533 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,480 and we are going back to the Old Testament to see what God said 534 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,800 and the fact that because they came into agreement with what he 535 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,720 said in their confession, they got to see the promise or the 536 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,840 reward he promised them. All right, So when we take 537 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,880 about, we talk about, you know, learning. 538 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,120 Let me give you another example two years ago. 539 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,680 Me and Titus went on a business adventure. 540 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,480 I thought, you know him and I had spent some time together and 541 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,880 I wanted to create a little something, wanted to teach him 542 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,120 about business, teach him about money, teach him about working 543 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,120 with his hands. So most of you know the outcome 544 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,240 of that was big old bears, wooden stuff. 545 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,480 Okay, and so when him and I, we got together, it kind of 546 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,160 reminded me of high school, junior high, that I told you he 547 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,120 had wood shop. I even took wood and metal shop 548 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:56,040 in 7th, I mean in 8th and 9th grade along with my art classes. 549 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,480 Took that and then my 9th grade year became assistant to the 550 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,640 teacher in the metal and wood shop. 551 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,880 So I I. Had a love for that because of 552 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,200 the creativity that you can have all right now. 553 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,840 The thing is, is that. When it comes down. 554 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:17,120 To four steps they're just four steps real simple that I took OK 555 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,440 and and every one of us in business wanted to start a 556 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,000 business looking for another quote as they're calling 557 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,280 nowadays. Side hustle. 558 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,200 All right, something that can make money there, there there's 559 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,120 so much available to do it. First thing I went to YouTube, 560 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,160 OK and I began to search for these guys. 561 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,440 All right, that we're teaching how to make things that people 562 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,400 may want to buy. I mean, I didn't want to make 563 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,160 things that me and Caleb I mean me and Titus could just have 564 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,680 around the house. All right now look what we made 565 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,240 look what we I wanted to show him listen, there are things out 566 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,920 there we can make and that people be willing to pay money 567 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,720 for all right so I get a hold of these guys. 568 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,440 I got a hold of one guy. His name was Matthew Peach and 569 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,920 he goes he goes the incredible value of smalls. 570 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,680 That's what he talks about, Smallwood projects that are 571 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,920 very, very profitable. And so we watched a couple of 572 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,120 those videos and we started making one of the things that we 573 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,400 saw him make, but I changed it a little bit because I didn't like 574 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,720 the way his looked. Was the Squirrel Theaters. 575 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,320 OK? It's a picnic table, miniature 576 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,000 picnic table. So Titus and I started making 577 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,480 it. I started training him. 578 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,440 OK, I'm going to cut the parts. You don't get to use the saw 579 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,840 yet, OK. I mean, I can only imagine, but 580 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,400 you know, I said, so I'm going to do it and then I'm going to 581 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,240 build you a jig and you're going to put all these things 582 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:36,560 together. And he does. 583 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,000 It's hilarious. All right, all right. 584 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:43,440 I mean, you know, some of these guys on YouTube, they're telling 585 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,440 us we can make $10,000 a month. Just selling wood stuff through 586 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,720 Etsy and eBay and all these different and we've not done any 587 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,840 of that. All right, because I just don't 588 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,480 have the time for it. But if you want to learn 589 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,560 something about what it is that you have a passion for and 590 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,800 whether you can make money, YouTube, you can find it. 591 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,880 OK. You can even Google it. 592 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,080 But YouTube was really good because I like people doing 593 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,640 stuff and I can follow. Along right. 594 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,679 All right, here's the next one. We practiced. 595 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,760 OK. I mean, the question is what are 596 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:18,360 we doing to and you know, better ourselves to learn, we practice. 597 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,040 And by making prototypes, you know, this is just an 598 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:23,880 illustration, all right? You know, practice, practice. 599 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,040 The main thing that we did was created prototypes, several 600 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,560 different squirrel tables. We've done different birdhouses. 601 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:30,719 We put them in the market. To see how they sell. 602 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:35,480 Some of them are still there, so it's obvious that wasn't a good 603 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,120 idea. All right. 604 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,760 But you know, the the thing that you know, that we found out that 605 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,960 we can even incorporate being this wooden stuff. 606 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,920 There's people out there already that have made cool wooden stuff 607 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,760 and that we can buy those wooden stuff, mark them up. 608 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,280 So I showed him the process of that. 609 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,000 If you went by that Christmas time, you saw all these wooden 610 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,000 Christmas ornaments, OK, You know, that was something that we 611 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,320 found that you could buy in bulk and make a pretty good profit. 612 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,160 So that's how I learned. It said this made of wood. 613 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,200 Eventually we could probably make these, but I don't have 614 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,360 time. All right, neither do you. 615 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,760 And I said, so we're going to buy the finished product and 616 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,320 we're going to do what we call a markup. 617 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,000 And that's how a lot of things are sold in America, OK. 618 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,640 So, you know, we were able. To do that, another thing that 619 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,600 we did, the third thing, OK, the second thing was just practice, 620 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,400 you know, try things out. You know, try to figure out, is 621 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,440 there something new that I can add to what I'm doing? 622 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,760 All right, You've done a gazillion of that with the 623 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,480 landscaping. I mean, you know, we've gone 624 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,800 from, you know, yes, we can cut your grass to yeah, we can do 625 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,000 pavers. OK, We can get you. 626 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:46,200 Rock, we can get you stacks this tall of of shredded wood. 627 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,000 We call it mulch. OK, You know, so there's 628 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,960 different things. You sometimes got to listen to 629 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,960 the customer. Which is, and, and they can tell 630 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,720 you what it is that they're looking for. 631 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,720 And, and, and, and what we need to see is, you know, when are we 632 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:03,600 listening, all right? Or do we just have an idea? 633 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,760 Because I can tell you that most of the people that I've dealt 634 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,360 with in the business sector, especially startups, are people 635 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,080 that had a good idea of something they liked and they 636 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,960 didn't try it out. They just went into business, 637 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,320 said, well, you know, this is some people don't really care 638 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,480 what you like. And they sure not going to trade 639 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:23,920 their money. For what you like. 640 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,680 You've got to get a knowledge on what you know. 641 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,560 Again, going back to the beginning when we talked about 642 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:29,400 what's your. Passion. 643 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,280 What is it you like? Is there anybody making money in 644 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,560 it now? OK, is there anything that we 645 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,000 can do? Because one I can't stand is is, 646 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,440 you know, people coming up and say I hate my job, then quit. 647 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,880 Well, I can't quit. I know why you can't quit. 648 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,560 All right, yo, everybody all right, we need to work on that. 649 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,720 But you know, I just, I could not even imagine. 650 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,840 I have never been in a place where I worked for someone 651 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,280 before I started my own company, that I worked for somebody, that 652 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,840 I hated it. I just, I just don't know what 653 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,840 that would feel like to submit myself 8 hours a day trading my 654 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,680 life for money on somebody I didn't like or something that I 655 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,640 was doing that I didn't like. I mean, Can you imagine? 656 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,360 I mean. You know, come Jesus, quickly 657 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,960 Get Me Out, You know, so, so we need to, we need to see that 658 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,080 Now, one thing that another thing that we did #3 was we 659 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,160 began to read together. I subscribed to a couple of 660 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:34,680 Woodcraft magazines and I loved it because, you know, one, we 661 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,720 were able to see different projects that people done. 662 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:40,880 Most of these projects, they spelled them out for you, gave 663 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,360 you dimensions and how many nails you got to have and the 664 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,320 whole bit. But then it also gave you. 665 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,680 Ads. For the latest greatest stuff 666 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:52,240 that you could put in your shop, which we loved it, you know, and 667 00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:54,960 so we're looking. So when you take a look at, when 668 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:59,000 you take a look at, at, at just different steps in the, in the 669 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,520 business and understanding, Hey, I, you know, once you find out 670 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,320 your purpose, Lord, this is what you want me to do, then Start 671 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,320 learning, Start learning everything you can about it. 672 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,120 I mean, you know, the, the thing about the, the mall is 673 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,680 interesting because we got people that say, man, I just 674 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,080 love to do this or I love to do that and they're going to try a 675 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,280 business at it. And then and the challenge that 676 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,360 I have some time is what happens if the business, you didn't do 677 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,000 enough research and it's not making the money you need to and 678 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,560 you got to quit. You know, I hate that. 679 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,640 And you know, I hate it when that happens. 680 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,560 All right. But here's the fourth thing, all 681 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,760 right? You can make a decision to 682 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:38,120 either master what it is you're doing or not master, OK? 683 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,960 You can become the best there is. 684 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,080 I thought it was funny. One time we were printing 685 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,360 T-shirts for, I think it was East Coast Camp, and I had Josh, 686 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:53,320 Todd and Chase helping. OK, now the only one I really 687 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,960 trust. Josh was around it but never 688 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:56,840 liked it. OK, screen printing. 689 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,360 He just hated it and he hated having to work for me for a 690 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,080 time. OK, just hated it. 691 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:07,720 Quit OK, or I'll fire you. OK, and and but Chase had 692 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:10,200 experienced screen printing because when he moved to 693 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:14,040 Valdosta, he took a job with a screen printer, so he knew how 694 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,520 to do it. So I I was totally comfortable 695 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:18,800 with him. So we set up a four man system 696 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,800 and something went wrong and I said hang on a second, let me 697 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,240 fix it. And Josh looked at me. 698 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:26,960 First time he's ever said this. He goes, that's why you're the 699 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,520 master. I said, you got that right. 700 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,840 I mean, I've been doing this for 40 years. 701 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,120 OK, Most of y'all ain't over 40 yet. 702 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,200 I love you. All right, and and The thing is, 703 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,600 is that if you do something for 40 years and you can't figure it 704 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,680 out, we should have changed a long time ago, all right, But 705 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,960 you think about it. I mean, the longer you do 706 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,720 something, you can master it. But here's the day. 707 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:55,440 You don't have to be, you don't have to master it if you don't 708 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,880 want to, you know, just figure out what it is. 709 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,200 Now here's the thing that that I learned and I want you to, I 710 00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:05,600 want you to jot this down, you know, because I call it and and 711 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,000 I learned to call it micro skills, OK? 712 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,960 In your purpose there's and you and you make up your mind. 713 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,240 You know what it is that you figured out the Lord wants you 714 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,200 to do by answering several questions. 715 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,560 Lord, what have you created me for? 716 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,280 Lord, let me know, he said. Man, what? 717 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:23,680 Have I? You always wanted to be since 718 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:24,640 you were a kid, I said. I've. 719 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,760 Always wanted to be an artist, so I'm going to help you 720 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,280 understand how you can progress in art, All right? 721 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,720 And that's why I absolutely, to this day, still love screen 722 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:38,520 printing. And I'm 60 and I still love it. 723 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,040 I still like it. I like teaching it now probably 724 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,560 more than I actually like pulling a squeegee, all right. 725 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,120 But The thing is, is that I can still print circles around 726 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,680 anybody that is a whole lot younger than me. 727 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,040 And they're going to have to work real hard, all right, to 728 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,640 figure out how they going to beat me. 729 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,440 But I want them to right. OK, So, you know, understanding 730 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,000 the development in what I call micro skills, we can we can 731 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,480 build our business. Now let's and let's talk about 732 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,640 that. He said here, here's the thing 733 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,880 that most of you all know. We have a real estate company. 734 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,920 Melanie is the boss. You understand, I am her love 735 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,160 slave. OK, I love her. 736 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,640 I mean, you know, we get up in the morning thanking God that we 737 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:26,000 get to work together. I mean, she, I'm not kidding, 738 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,000 she goes, I'm so glad I get to work with you. 739 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,920 You know, we come into the office at the the mall and we, 740 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,680 we go have breakfast together. We do everything together. 741 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,720 I said, that's that's what I'm talking about. 742 00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,120 All right, but let's, let's let's take a look at that, that, 743 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,720 you know, when we started the company, you know, we, we wanted 744 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:47,320 to go in, we learned the skills, you know, from school. 745 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,000 We got the we got the licenses and everything through the state 746 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,400 and the different things. But let's see if we can identify 747 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,680 a few micro skills that might help us see we don't have to 748 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,680 become mastery, but there are some things that we're going to 749 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,400 have to learn, you know, that can probably make us better. 750 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:09,040 In ourselves and if we're dealing with any competition, 751 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,400 unfortunately we have to deal with competition. 752 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,520 All right, but here, how about this? 753 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,200 How about the ability? Here's a micro skill, 754 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:20,400 communicate and listen better. How many of us can do that in 755 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,680 anything we're doing all right? Communicate and and and listen 756 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,960 better. I mean, most of the time I see a 757 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,440 challenge, a problem that arises, something that has to be 758 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,640 solved, a fire that needs to be put out. 759 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,880 I usually will attribute it to a communication problem. 760 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:44,120 OK, so we, you know, we need to be able to not only to effective 761 00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,320 communicate, effectively communicate, but we need to 762 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,120 learn to listen. OK, that's a skill. 763 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,520 All right. It may not be the biggest deal, 764 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,040 but it's a skill nonetheless. How about this one? 765 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,840 Number two, I've got negotiate more effectively. 766 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,240 You know, somebody, you know, shoots out, hey, this is what 767 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:05,560 I'm going to do and, and, or this is what I want. 768 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,720 I mean, you know, we need to find out how we can be better 769 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:12,200 negotiators, All right? Because, you know, the Lord 770 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,560 don't want you being ripped off. The Lord don't want you to be a 771 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,960 doormat. He doesn't want people wiping 772 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,600 their feet on you. OK? 773 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,560 You're you. You have a value. 774 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,920 And our value should be higher than any other value. 775 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:29,320 OK, All right #3 listen to this increase our knowledge of 776 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,880 related business. Now remember we're talking about 777 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,160 Melanie, right? So. 778 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,400 What would what? Different businesses would help 779 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,920 us become better in real estate. Here's one How about 780 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,000 understanding mortgage companies? 781 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,920 How about inspection companies? How about us learning and being 782 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,960 more attentive to the code of ethics? 783 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:53,440 All right, contract reading and, and, and contract reading and 784 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,040 writing, writing contracts, reading contracts. 785 00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,480 Those are skills, micro skills that we can learn to make us 786 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,320 better at what we're doing. OK. 787 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:09,240 I mean, and, and here's the thing, most licensed people have 788 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:11,960 to do what we call continuing education. 789 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,200 We ought to do continuing education whether we're forced 790 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,760 to or not. We have to have so many hours a 791 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:22,920 year that we in, in our term, 2 year term, we have to have so 792 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:24,600 many hours of continuing education. 793 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:30,080 It is required. And yet you know, most of us 794 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,040 that you know, I don't have that requirement. 795 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,440 Don't learn nothing. We just think we're OK, we're 796 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,480 sitting back and and we're thinking it's all right. 797 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,000 OK, so, you know, increasing knowledge. 798 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,480 How about this better researching, man, we have no 799 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:49,160 excuse today with the Internet. I mean, it should be able. 800 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,480 It can produce everything we ever need. 801 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,520 Now, here's the thing I caution you on and and we did it in 802 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,480 school, you know, for FCU, you know, is be cautious how you use 803 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,440 ChatGPT. All right. 804 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,520 I didn't want to use it. OK, Because Melanie found 805 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:09,040 something on the Internet that was very, very interesting. 806 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,480 OK, Somebody began, A believer began to ask them questions 807 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,840 about GPT and told them I want a one word answer. 808 00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,680 Yes, no. And if you want to answer a 809 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:25,440 certain way but your programmer won't let you answer the word 810 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:30,400 Apple, OK, I don't know. Was that on Instagram? 811 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:37,240 OK, it was mind blowing. You saw it because it was 812 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:39,200 talking about are you influenced? 813 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,240 He said, you know, are you a spirit? 814 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,680 And he said no. He said are you influenced by 815 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,880 something else besides the technological whatever? 816 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:52,480 And they said yes, and, and it was the spirit realm and the 817 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,480 wickedness of the spirit realm. And he, but there were certain 818 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:59,000 things that he asked and he had to answer Apple, he was amazing. 819 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,720 I don't know if we can make that available or whatever. 820 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,680 Send it to him. He'll figure out how to get it 821 00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,840 to everybody in the world. OK, but it was interesting and I 822 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,160 just. Had I just had? 823 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,640 Some kind of something check in my spirit about it because you 824 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,040 know, you see all the different things on, you know how they're 825 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,000 creating. They had they had one that I I 826 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,960 saw and these guys were teaching a inclusion doctrine. 827 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:25,600 OK, three different guys saying the exact same words. 828 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:30,560 Come to find out it was all AI and they and they were given 829 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,080 scripture and stuff and showing that, you know, that that all 830 00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,560 man sins has already been taken care of and that, you know, you 831 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,640 do not have to make a decision when you die, you're 832 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,480 automatically going to go. And it was three different guys, 833 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,880 three different backgrounds, three different settings a whole 834 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,760 bit saying the exact same verbiage. 835 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,640 And then they said this is AI. That's why I believe that in in 836 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:57,800 in Matthew chapter 24. OK and 25 Jesus said they asked 837 00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,040 him. He said, OK, when are these 838 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,720 things going to happen? When's going to be the end of 839 00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:01,960 the world? When's going to be the sign of 840 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,240 your coming? And the very first answer, Jesus 841 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:07,720 said, is see that you are not deceived. 842 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:17,680 OK, now I did, I, I, I thought, OK, I, I want to see if ChatGPT 843 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,520 can make me a coloring sheet. I don't want one. 844 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:22,480 Devil's on it. All right? 845 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:27,200 I want a teddy bear in a wood shop and they made me the 846 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,280 cutest. Going to hand it out at the next 847 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:35,280 showing of a teddy bear in a wood shop with goggles on and 848 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,560 everything and I thought this is cool. 849 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,040 All right, but then they're they're telling us, you know, 850 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,880 and, and and and somewhere encouraged me. 851 00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,440 I said, man, I've got. Man, I've got to go and and I've 852 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:54,840 got to convert this curriculum to, you know, 1816 weeks and 853 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,560 say. Just put it in ChatGPT. 854 00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,080 And tell them you need 16 lessons out of that and it'll do 855 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,600 it for you. I said OK, that's spooky. 856 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,080 And that just eliminated the anointing on your life. 857 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,600 I said I will not do that ever. I will never do that. 858 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,720 And I said, I'm going to create everything that I always have 859 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,720 with my ear to heaven, not my eye to the computer. 860 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:23,720 OK, All right, so here we go. You know, as far as here's a 861 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:26,480 good one, you'll like this network more effectively. 862 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,000 Now, in the months ahead, we're going to be maybe changing some 863 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,800 formats of the meeting, especially going into 26, 864 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,320 provided the Lord don't come back this month. 865 00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:41,240 All right, and, and we're going to talk about networking and 866 00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:43,160 we're going to bring up some illustrations and we're going to 867 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,160 show some things that that can make us better networks. 868 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,400 OK, How about this one? Everybody, all of us. 869 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:53,560 Listen, all of us need this one when we come to church, remember 870 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,400 names better. OK, now here's the trick. 871 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,960 I got a cell phone in my pocket. Does anybody carry their cell 872 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,600 phone in here? You know it. 873 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,920 There's a little icon in there called Notes. 874 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:18,360 OK, When I pull it up, it brings up the day's date, right? 875 00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,320 It may not show on there, but it'll let you know. 876 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,400 If I meet somebody new, I put their first and last names on 877 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,560 that and I just kind of rehearse it. 878 00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,440 Face, name, face name. One of the things that Melanie 879 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,680 learned long time ago was if you meet somebody and you're 880 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,720 talking, use their name at least five times and you won't forget 881 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:40,040 it now. Believe it or not, it works 882 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,440 'cause I'll sit there. Well, you know, Francis, what do 883 00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,920 you think about this? Oh, Francis, that's a good idea. 884 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,960 Oh, you know, and you just keep saying it. 885 00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,040 Next time you see them. Now let me tell you something. 886 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,040 It freaks them out. Because we had a couple in here 887 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,320 and they're coming now regular every Sunday. 888 00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,600 And I got to I, I remember their name. 889 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:08,760 And is it Mary, Mary Jane? Mary Jane and Chris, Laura Jane. 890 00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,840 So I didn't remember it tonight. OK. 891 00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,640 But if I see your face, I'll know it anyway. 892 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,320 So I call. I saw him out in the hall after 893 00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,120 we'd met because they were sitting back over here and I 894 00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:20,440 said, hey Chris, how you doing? It's. 895 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,600 Good to see you. He just looked at me. 896 00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,720 He goes. And what was your name? 897 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:27,360 You know, they always ask that that. 898 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:29,920 Oh, I'm so sorry. I forgot your name, you know, 899 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,200 and and basically, I I I jot it down. 900 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,200 That's how I got to know Megan and Gunner. 901 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,200 You know, I met them, put their name in my phone. 902 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,400 Next time I saw him, I go. Looking through my phone, I got 903 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,960 Megan Gunner, Megan Gunner, you know, and, and it just, it's 904 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:45,800 amazing. And I learned this in Oklahoma 905 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,360 because I had a young woman that had came troubled young woman 906 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,800 had come to visit her aunt. She came to church and her name 907 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,520 was Sherri. And I remembered it because that 908 00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,800 was my mama's name, right? Six months later, she comes back 909 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,880 for a visit. And I looked, I said, Sherri, 910 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,440 how are you doing? And she just busted into tears, 911 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,520 started crying. And she goes. 912 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,920 I can't believe you remembered my name, You know? 913 00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,280 I mean, there's something about your name. 914 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,000 It's very, very. Important. 915 00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,560 I mean, it's, it's, it's probably one of the most 916 00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:23,600 personal things you have that identifies you against all the 917 00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,880 rest of the world. And if we just remember more 918 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,400 names, you know, All right. And then here's the last one 919 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,320 I've got #7 perfect number, right? 920 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,320 How about manage and time better? 921 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,280 Those are little micro skills that, you know, that we can add 922 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,560 to our lives, our businesses, You know, that that I think that 923 00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:51,160 the Lord would be, you know, pleased with if we can make 924 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,480 those work. Now here's one thing that I 925 00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,960 believe that God wants all of us to be OK, regardless of what 926 00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,640 you're called to do, is he wants us to be problem solvers. 927 00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:12,280 And one of the things that that we know that servants, I mean 928 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,680 problem solver should be as servants, they ought to be able 929 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:16,320 to fix. It. 930 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,960 Fix things, help them fix one of my favorite scriptures, 931 00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,720 Philippians chapter 2 verses 5 through 8. 932 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:24,840 You all have heard this scripture before. 933 00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,680 It said let this mind be in you that was all in also in Christ 934 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,080 Jesus. Other translations say let this 935 00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,800 attitude be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. 936 00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,560 So Jesus had an attitude his was good. 937 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:41,400 However, I'm sure all right, but in verse 6 he said who being in 938 00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,960 the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, 939 00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,320 but he made himself of no reputation. 940 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,440 That means He emptied himself completely out of all His glory 941 00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,120 to come down here and be a man, because it said He took upon him 942 00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:58,680 the form of a servant. OK, He said, and he was made in 943 00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,360 the likeness of men, and being fashioned as a man, he humbled 944 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,120 himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the 945 00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,920 cross. See, we had a problem and Jesus 946 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:14,880 was that problem solver, right? He came to solve the problem for 947 00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,040 us. And how did he do it? 948 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,360 He did it by becoming a servant. All right. 949 00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,880 The Greek word for servant there is the word dulos. 950 00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,440 It means a slave by choice. OK. 951 00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:25,960 It wasn't a slave because of a whip. 952 00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,280 It wasn't a slave because we put you, you know, in a situation 953 00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,760 where, you know, you became a slave. 954 00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:37,440 This was biblical slavery in that a man at during the year of 955 00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,480 Jubilee, if you had a servant in your home, you were to let them 956 00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:43,600 go. OK, every seven years you'd let 957 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,720 him go. But there's a servant that said 958 00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:52,080 because he loves his master, he said I ain't never leaving. 959 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,280 And they had a ritual for that. They would put a hole in the air 960 00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:00,240 and put a ring in it. So everybody know he's a bond 961 00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:03,360 servant. He is a servant to this man by 962 00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,280 choice. That's what Jesus did. 963 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,440 He became a servant by choice to his Father and solved our 964 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:14,040 problem. OK, now we're first called to 965 00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:19,360 serve the body of Christ. That is part of our main main 966 00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:24,160 call purpose in life is that we we go to a local church and we 967 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,200 want to solve problems there, He said. 968 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,840 Here's a few thoughts that I've jotted down. 969 00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:33,280 You know that we want to put to work for us when wanting to be 970 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,960 your be a problem solver, let's say, or, or you want to take 971 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,600 your skills to the next level. Here's the thing, employee, if 972 00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:44,000 you're an employee, all right, this is what I encourage people. 973 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:49,560 Let your boss know that you want to become more of an asset, OK? 974 00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,400 And ask them if there's anything, any suggestions on 975 00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:57,040 anything that they you could do that would help you grow and 976 00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,120 make your more yourself more valuable. 977 00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,800 See, that's the key. Most people go to work waiting 978 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:07,520 for a raise that they may not deserve. 979 00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,640 I had one person, they worked for me 30 days, wanted to know 980 00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,560 when they were getting raised and I said, well, let's go back 981 00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,600 to the interview, OK, we're in the interview. 982 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,680 I said I have this position open. 983 00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:22,240 This is what I pay per hour. Are you interested yes or no? 984 00:55:22,240 --> 00:55:23,720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 985 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,760 OK, 30 days later you come in and you say you want to know 986 00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,560 when you're getting a raise. Let you let me know. 987 00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:34,560 Let me let you know about me. I don't pay people and give them 988 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,400 raises because they've been around here a while. 989 00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,760 I give people raises based upon what they're going to do above 990 00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,840 what I've hired them to do. So I said, what do you got? 991 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:46,360 She didn't understand what I said. 992 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,680 OK, all right. One thing I learned years ago 993 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:55,080 was a little phrase called doing more than paid for. 994 00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:01,000 That's how you get a raise. You sow the seed for it in the 995 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,000 Kingdom of God. We need to make sure as people 996 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,560 that are in the Kingdom and we're working for the other guy, 997 00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:10,200 we ought to produce more than we're being paid for. 998 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:12,560 All right? Because that gives you through 999 00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:17,160 the seed time and harvest law gives you a right to expect a 1000 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,080 raise, right? What did I say in the beginning? 1001 00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:24,320 You can't control your boss's checkbook, but God can influence 1002 00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:29,280 him to write you a check. OK, All right, So when we do 1003 00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,760 that, when we're self-employed, OK, or we're business owners, 1004 00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:36,000 what we want to know is we want to talk to our top customers and 1005 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,840 clients and ask them what problems they're dealing with 1006 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,400 that you could help. I love the fact that one of the 1007 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:45,720 things that I always did was put myself in an advisory position 1008 00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,320 for a company non paid. I'm free. 1009 00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,920 You got a question, You got something that you're needing? 1010 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,960 Ask me. I will help you solve that 1011 00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:59,440 problem at no charge. It has made me millions of 1012 00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:00,880 dollars. How did I do that? 1013 00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,920 I had one. You guys, if you read my book, 1014 00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,000 there was a particular company and I wanted their business and 1015 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,240 I had to wait eight years to get it. 1016 00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,880 OK And I'm sitting there in a meeting and one of the guys 1017 00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:15,280 starts mentioning, he said, man, we put and you guys have seen 1018 00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,200 these products. It's called auto crane. 1019 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,200 It's a utility crane on the back of a utility truck. 1020 00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,480 They're all over town here. Well, their headquarters is in 1021 00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:27,440 Tulsa, OK and I wanted their business because everything they 1022 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,240 make has a decal on it. And I wanted to make all the 1023 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,040 decals that go on one of them Crane. 1024 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:36,280 And so, you know, basically what I did was I told him, I said, 1025 00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,720 listen, I have the ability to do something. 1026 00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:40,960 Maybe your, you know, previous people didn't. 1027 00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,560 And if you're looking for bid change, but I, I, I know what 1028 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:48,720 you guys are doing is that you've got a bin full of decals 1029 00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,600 on a big wall. Every morning. 1030 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,240 The person that's going to mark all your cranes goes out there 1031 00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,120 and pulls out this many, this many, this many. 1032 00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:56,920 I said I've got an idea if you're interested. 1033 00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,680 What if I gave you a kit with all the decals for that 1034 00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:03,080 particular model already bagged up and all you had to do is pick 1035 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:04,840 the bags up and go do your cranes? 1036 00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,680 What? You can do that. 1037 00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,880 I said simple, right? Well, even in that they had a 1038 00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,800 little, they had, they had a little sticker on the side of 1039 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,840 the crane, but they had to drill in the crane and put a needle 1040 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,400 that when the crane lifted up, it let him know what angle it 1041 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:23,960 was. And he said, we don't like 1042 00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:28,080 drilling into the cranes because it kind of it kind of basically 1043 00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,120 weakens the structure. We'd like to have something. 1044 00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:32,240 I'm thinking dude. You got a. 1045 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,880 Full manufacturing plan here and you're telling me that you can't 1046 00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:37,440 do it? The next meeting I had with him, 1047 00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:41,680 I had one of those deals in my hand and an engineer that was 1048 00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,480 fussing about the whole thing played with it the whole time we 1049 00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:48,080 were talking. And as you can't imagine how 1050 00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:52,320 many thousands of those over the years that I've sold them and 1051 00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:56,760 they even went to competitors of mine until I found out about it 1052 00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,160 and said, listen, that's proprietary. 1053 00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,640 I created that. I said, I don't want you giving 1054 00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,160 it to anybody else to get a bid loan. 1055 00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,080 I said, oh, you're going to hear some from somebody. 1056 00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:11,760 And they said, OK, all right, But the thing was that the Lord 1057 00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,480 gave me the idea of how to do it and I did it and had it done in 1058 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,880 a week and ready to go. And we started production 1059 00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,160 immediately. All right. 1060 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:23,560 So I want to be AI, want to be a advisor to them on what they may 1061 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,200 need. But I know that if I solve a 1062 00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,120 problem, it's going to pay handsomely, OK, after it. 1063 00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:32,360 The last thing is stay at home parents, all right, Listen to 1064 00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:36,120 this brainstorm with your spouse about possibilities of income 1065 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,640 generation ideas that can be implemented while caring for the 1066 00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,920 home. You know, I there's so many 1067 00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,520 things on the Internet that you can find to make an income that 1068 00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,760 only requires a few hours a week out of you. 1069 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:52,280 It's amazing. If you need it, you need a list. 1070 00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:56,600 I'll get you a list, but there's so many of them out there that 1071 00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,160 we, you know, we can find that. But again, when we talk about, 1072 01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,760 you know, people that have come to us and they say, man, I just 1073 01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,560 don't know my purpose, man. We got to start talking to him 1074 01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:09,200 and go, what is it, those three things initially that I gave you 1075 01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,800 to start evaluating yourself? Why does God have me here? 1076 01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:14,920 What is it that I could do easier than everybody else? 1077 01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:18,040 Well, it comes better than anybody else, you know, what is 1078 01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,360 it that you know, I can do? And I love it and everybody else 1079 01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:21,560 hates it. I mean. 1080 01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,440 That's a good a pretty. Good indicator of, you know, 1081 01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:29,080 what the Lord could have you doing and that if you'll, if 1082 01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:30,880 you'll, if you'll take time. And that's the thing. 1083 01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,760 We're just everybody's so running around, you know, trying 1084 01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,080 to figure just sit down a minute. 1085 01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:39,000 Can you just sit down a minute and start talking to the Lord? 1086 01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:42,320 I mean, if he created you and know what you're about, I would 1087 01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:47,160 be setting up a meeting and sit down and be quiet and listen to 1088 01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,440 everything that he had to say to my heart and give me ideas and 1089 01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,360 different things. I mean, most of the ideas, you 1090 01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,480 know, people say, I can't believe you figured that out. 1091 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,680 I said I didn't. I said, you know, I was just 1092 01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,400 listening. The Lord has showed has showed 1093 01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,400 me so many things of solving problems. 1094 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,040 It's been amazing, you know, in my quote career. 1095 01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:09,120 All right, But again, it's just getting with him because the. 1096 01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:10,800 The Holy Spirit is the best teacher. 1097 01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,040 And when we learn, we want the best teacher, don't we? 1098 01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:16,000 He's the best. Amen. 1099 01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:06,600 The.