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Now enjoy this message. Well, you know, I was, you know,
praying today on whether I should move into some veins
concerning in times, and but the Lord just directed me back, he
said. No, you're going to do a
leadership lesson. You're going to do one on
confident leaders because at the end of the day, there's many to
talk about and I I will ask the Lord and we just did it.
We dealt with some current event, but it's more important
that I don't follow the scene realm because I had an idea
about ministering on Sunday in October and because of the
month. And the Lord said, no, you'll
save that till 2024 because again, he will not let me just
technical use just natural things all the time to be at
just because it's in people's minds.
So it's really more important that we do follow what God says,
because what you see happening in the world is a leadership
crisis. I'm going to say that again.
It's a leadership crisis. And our nation will not emerge
as a leader if we do not train true leadership because our
nation is not doing that. Our universities are not doing
it. Our corporations are not doing
it. I mean the corruption across the
board in the United States is. Huge is huge.
You know, it's the church's responsibility to really raise
up leaders, and we do not have the caliber of humanity in our
nation because church is just an afterthought, even among
believers. I mean, you just look at the
turn of the century of the United States, you understand
before that, right around the Industrial Revolution, OK.
I mean the majority of people had a moral compass and was
going to church. Then we get into some conflicts.
I'm not saying the whole United States will say that's just not
true. We understand that.
But there was a a national morality because of how
important church was in our culture.
And after, you know, the Second World War of a lot of fathers,
you know, died in that conflict. And there were some challenges
that were associated with that, not only the ones who died but
the ones who came back. And I know that it started to
really deal with the home a lot. And then eventually, you know,
we start breaking down the home. And then all of a sudden, you
know, the church itself begins to take a back seat to decision
making and prosperity to the point that here we are now we
started replacing the church with.
You know, a lot of universities, and a lot of universities quit
the idea of following God. They started taking on the
separation of church and state more and more.
And the next thing you know, we're taking truths that can
build leaders that no longer are even being communicated anymore.
And that's why there's such a leadership vacuum in our nation
and across the world. So, you know, we need to do a
better job at coming back because they don't take a lot of
us. We'll say that again, God can
turn all kinds of things around with a remnant.
And make no mistake about it, there is a remnant in the earth.
As far as the globe is concerned.
The United States and a few other nations would be the
remnant that still, you know, says they are, you know.
A nation that does freely worship Jesus Christ as Lord.
OK, there are very few nations that are that open concerning
that their people can worship Jesus Christ as Lord freely.
That's a minority of nations. OK then then then there's a
remnant with inside that, because not all Christians are
being earthly good. And it's not because they're
spiritually minded. You know what?
You're so heavenly minded. You know earthly good.
Well, I I agree with that statement.
When all you're thinking about is going to heaven, you're
definitely no earthly good. But you definitely should be
heavenly minded and the more heavenly minded in the context
of what is heaven saying, so I can impact earth?
Well then you are going to be something for the earth and so.
You know, we have to continue to say what's God saying and how
can we enact this on the earth? And we have to continue to die
to self. All right, that's good.
I was talking with our staff the other day and we were talking
about this statement that we're going to stop saying here.
When I or when we say it, you're going to know what it means,
which is balance is the key to life.
And so many you hear balanced, you think a couple scales right?
They're balanced, right? And I, one of my youngest staff
member, says there is no such thing as a yin and Yang in the
Kingdom. And then another one of my staff
says, well, when it comes to the Kingdom it says Paul or John.
The batter said at the clearest I must and he must.
Well, increases more weight. So when God begins to increase,
so if you want to have a balanced life, we need to lose
you and only have Him. Because when you only have him,
then every area of your life will actually become balanced.
But the minute you try to categorize, well, I got my
church life, I got my my family life, I got my kids life, I got
my job life. And we got to keep these
balanced. You know, like I put this much
time here. Not all of you off balance
anyway, because you put 40 or 50 hours in your job and you're
only putting a couple hours here to church.
You've never been balanced there.
Then if it was about time, which is what people say, right?
Well, pastor, you know I can't come to church.
Because, you know, I got to got to be with my family, got to got
to balance my Well, you're unbalanced because you're not
seeking the low with all your heart.
So if balance is the key to life, then it's all, God know
you and you're going to be extremely balanced because
you'll never do anything wrong. Because you'll always be doing
what? God, because he's life.
The minute you keep yourself in the equation, you're hindering.
Your balance. Hallelujah.
And so, you know, if we're going to have confident and strong
leaders, then the leadership of the church has to say all him,
none of me. Because it's kind of crazy to
think that God would never would not let a husband be good to his
wife. That's like Ludacris.
That a wife would not be good to their husband if they sold out
to God. Amen.
I mean, it's just ludicrous that they couldn't be great parents
if they selled out to God. Amen.
Hallelujah. We need some leaders, man, at
the end of the day, but leadership can only be found in
knowing him. Again, obviously you know we
wrote a book called Lead Follower.
And again, you can't even be a lead follower if you're not
following in the first. And if you're not following the
word, then you can't even aspire to real leadership.
Now you can accomplish worldly leadership, but that's
worthless. I mean, it just gets you the
world. It doesn't get you the Kingdom.
Amen. I mean, honestly, our nation
right now should be in prayer, but we're just doing life.
Hebrews 1035 says this. Therefore, do not throw away
your confidence, which has great.
Reward confidence means full of conviction.
The state of being convinced to believe something is true and
the Bible is the only thing that is true.
Everything else is not true. It may be factual, it may be
facts. That is the fact it is that way.
But it may not be. Truth okay?
Confidence means the quality or state of being certain.
Or we could use another word called boldness.
Boldness. And we need boldness.
Now I will say this that you have to understand to be a
confident leader. To the ones that are insecure,
they will always call you arrogant.
Every insecure person, which means they lack confidence, will
call a confident leader arrogant.
They will actually call them prideful when the reality is
it's the insecure that's prideful, because they will not
become what God has made them. And when you are what God's made
you, then you don't care about what anybody.
You're not intimidated by anybody else's gift or how they
function because you can only be the best you.
That's all you can be. You know, there's no
competition, really, among us because I can't be you.
You can't be me. And you're not supposed to be
me. I'm not supposed to be you.
I'm just wanting to be the best me.
I want to be the Earl that the book's written about of Earl.
I don't want to be your book. Now I get your pages.
If you don't do anything. But at the end of the day, just
be the best you. And confidence comes in because
you know God and you know His Word.
Now again, I say that because a lot.
Well, I know God. Well, all the world knows God,
but that doesn't mean they have a relationship with God, nor
know His word, nor apply His word.
And those things are different. So all confident leaders
understand the value of never losing hope.
Never losing hope. I don't care how bad the
situation is, a confident leader will find hope.
Let me just say this way they have to because hope itself is
confident expectation. So the minute you lose hope
about something, well, guess what you you can't confident
lead confidently. Lead in that area anymore?
All right, so without hope, there's no way a leader can be
or become confident. So I'm going to give you some
points that are essential for possessing confidence.
And this is for everybody in the room.
This is not a biblic. This is not church stuff in the
sense that this only happens in church.
This happens at your work, This happens in your home as a father
or mother. This happens in your place of
employment, whether your employee or whether your manager
or you have some other type of authority there.
It functions here. This happens in society.
You know, in every sector of society these principles work.
And let me tell you, God needs you to apply these principles
because he's looking for the children of God.
The Bible says He, He himself looks through the earth looking
who he can find himself strong in.
He's looking for faith in us. He's looking for someone that
won't back down, someone who will believe him at his word,
even when it looks like his word won't work.
Because ultimately when he brings his word to pass through
their faith, then God himself is glorified and the chances of
more people repenting becomes possible.
So the essentials for possessing confidence, the first thing is
you must know and act on the will of God.
You must know and act on the will of God if you do not know
the will of God. Then your action will have no
confidence. Even if you're doing it, it will
have the voice of uncertainty. Well, I don't know.
We're just going to try. That's not confidence.
Because at the end of the day, could it work out?
Yes. But again, who wants to go
through life? Not sure, because the Bible is
about surety. I said it's about surety.
The word of God is about surety. And again, when we read our
history book, The Word, do you understand?
These aren't, like things that happen in a church service.
It's in church service stuff. I mean, when Jacob has been
robbed of his wages 10 times and the Lord's like, all right, son,
you're done. I want you to get your family
and come back home. But before you go, I need to
reward you for your faithfulness.
So I am going to give you an idea on how to reproduce the
strongest sheep some manufacturing in agriculture.
This was not a church service. This was not getting filled of
the Holy Ghost and falling on his face.
This was not running around the pasture 7 times.
This was an idea that came from the Lord.
On how to breed the sheep. So what does he do?
He goes to his fatherinlaw and he says, listen, the Lord wants
me to return home, so I'm going to go, OK And he was like
begging. He said, no, no, I'm not.
He said, Well, he said, well, this is what I want to do, You
know, obviously there's some livestock that's mine and yours.
What we'll do is this, just give me these type of sheep.
You'll have these type of sheep. And that way you'll know and
I'll know which one's mine. And he's like.
And when Laban looked at that, he saw all the white ones.
There were very few spotted and speckled ones.
And he was thinking to himself, this is a good deal, sure,
because he done robbed him right?
Anyway, well then all of a sudden he starts reproducing.
Next thing you know, all the white sheep are becoming weak.
And all the spotted ones. Speckled and spotted or yet
stronger and and it's was that happen chance.
Was that just luck on the part of this particular breeding
season? No, it was intentional.
It was a plan from God that Jacob was so confident that he
was like this. Just let me breed sheep.
I'm going to keep yours. I'll breathe my own and at the
end of the day we'll split at the end of the season.
And all of a sudden, the brothers began to, you know, the
sons of Layman's like, we're losing our flock, Jacob's
getting the strongest ones. And again now he's like, they're
not going to steal my stuff anymore.
God just gained my wage. So, like, we're out of here.
And they left. But he had a business idea.
Joseph, that is not a church service idea.
It's not a church service idea. Jacob was so confident about his
that he could tell him to do it, and he acted on it because he
had the noble of God, how to get stronger sheep.
And he got it. That was all by faith.
He practiced what he was told Joseph himself when he was
called up to the king out of prison, right?
And he gives him the dream. He gets a download by God of the
interpretation. He was confident enough to say
What he didn't do is say, well, I could be wrong.
I'm really not. I mean, I I have an idea what it
could be. Could be, you know, or how about
the false humility? Oh, I'm nothing.
And I'm not even sure if what I'm going to say is right.
No, he was confident. He's like what I'm about to tell
you. God himself has given me the
answer. I got the answer from God.
I'm telling you right now, and I'm going to give you the
answer. I'm going to shoot straight with
you. And what I loved about him is he
was so confident in another dream before Pharaoh's, and that
was his own dream, that he would rise to power and that his
family would bow down to him, that he did not negotiate with
Pharaoh for his release. Prior to interpreting it, not
only does he interpret the dream accurately, he gives him the
economic plan to escape the famine as a king, and then says.
That's the guy you need to find, because Farrah Coulda says we'll
take your advice, put the prisoner back in jail.
Because Hebrews are loathsome to Egyptians.
Joseph never changed that in the administrative of Pharaoh that
they always thought that Hebrews were loathsome.
I mean, his own servants wouldn't eat with him and he is
the Prince of Egypt. Okay.
So this is a serious thing we're talking about.
We're talking about confidence. And I'm just, you know, with the
wealth of the wickeds laid up for the righteous.
And the reality is, is where is the righteous?
I mean, we're treating righteousness like I asked.
You to come into my heart and save me so when I die go to
heaven. That's all righteousness is.
When the wealth of the wicked laid up for the righteous is the
righteous hearing from heaven, being a confident leader on what
they need to do to enact the Kingdom of God somewhere.
And it will cause things to shift in their everyday life.
So you got to know and act on the will of God first.
John 514 and 15 says it this way.
This is the confidence which we have before him, that if we ask
anything according to his will, he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us, and whatever we ask, we know
that we have, we have the request which we have asked from
him, we know we have it. I said we know we have it.
So this is the confidence, the assurance, this is the boldness
that we have before him, that if we're asking anything, Courtney
his will, which means he told us what his will is.
We've heard that now we're telling him back what his will
is now, you said. Now you said, and when we say
that, we're saying you said it. You're the king.
You're the one who made that law.
You're the one who said that this would come to pass.
You're the one that said it would be this way.
You're the one that said it would come out according to your
word. And I'm only doing what your
word says. And there's confidence there.
Many people aren't healed because they're not confident
that they'll be healed, although they know he can heal.
There's a difference. Same thing with prosperity, Same
thing with joy. Same thing with the restored
marriage. Same thing with restoration of
kids or relations. Same thing with promotions.
There's a lot of times we don't have the fortitude to stay
confident about it in order to see it come to pass.
Because if we're going to lead, we're going to have to hear the
voice of God, know his will, and then act on that thing.
Hallelujah. Ephesians 312 says this, in whom
we have boldness and access with confidence by faith, by the
faith of him. So again, we have this
confidence the minute we know the will of God and we know what
to do, we're going to step out and do this thing.
Because again, whatever he's asking, then he will back it.
He'll back it. He'll perform it.
But his performance is through you.
I said it's through you. Can he perform just at your
word? Yes.
But he also cannot perform at your obedience to touch
somebody. But it requires you to touch,
you know. Again, you're somewhere.
The Lord says go lay hands on them.
I want to heal them. You know his will now be a
confident leader. Go act on the deal.
Well, but what if they don't get it?
See, you're not confident. You're not confident what you
just heard. You're not confident that
actually heals through the land on the hands.
You're questioning your doubt. Your insecurities are kicking
in. Well, you're not healing anybody
anyway. You're just acting on the known
will of God, right? But a lot of times.
Well, Lord, just heal them. I just pray you don't heal them
like you do it. You get all the glory.
I'm go get it all, son. You just touch them.
I mean, I can get all the glory with you touching them.
Amen. Because sometimes that's how God
does it. Because he needs you to touch,
Because he needs more than just a healing to occur.
He needs a conversation to occur where your name is known and
they know they can come back and talk to you because God has
worked through. You in their life.
But if they only know you exist. Are you hearing me?
So this is important for us to have confidence, we must know
and act on the will of God. The second thing is this.
Maintain righteousness. Say, maintain righteousness.
Do you know how much money people spend to go to leadership
conferences, Ma Mama? I mean, you know, technically
you're not getting it for free because I paid a price to know
this. I'm just giving it, and then you
don't technically get it. If you don't receive it, you can
be in the room freely but freely miss it.
Hallelujah. But the world is paying to hear
the world's way of getting ahead.
And the church is paying to get that leadership too.
But they don't want to hear their own gods.
Don't despise it, I said. Don't despise it.
So we essentially for possession, confidence.
One you have to know and act on the will of God #2.
You have to maintain righteousness first.
John 321. First, John 321.
Beloved if our hearts, if our heart.
Does not condemn us. We have what confidence before
God? We'll say that again, Beloved.
Now who's beloved? Who's the beloved?
These are believers. This is not the lost.
If our heart does not what? Condemn, Condemn.
There's a lot of chatter that gets around between 2 words,
conviction and condemnation. Yet here John first John, which
is the apostle John who's known as the love apostle.
I mean this is doctor Love talking, and doctor love says
you can have something condemn you.
When you talk about conviction, we talk about condemn and I'll
preach on that later. It says, beloved, if our heart
does not condemn us, we have confidence before God, which
tells us if we're not living right, we can have a sense of
condemnation among and us. Now the Holy Spirit didn't bring
that. We brought it upon ourselves
because we're not living righteously.
Which means you can walk into a church where the majority of
people are living righteous, the fellowships righteous, the
singing's righteous, the message is righteous and you're feeling
horrible. And then leave and say that
church made me feel condemned. No, your heart did that.
The church gave you the ability to be free because only you can
get your heart right. Because if your heart condemns
you, you're not going to have confidence.
I mean it's look what's beloved. If our heart condemns us, not
you see that if is a conditional statement, then so the condition
is that our heart doesn't condemn us.
And if that condition is met by a believer, then they'll have
confidence. Where?
Toward God. So what's the other implication?
If your heart does condemn you, then what's the what will take
place Then? You'll have no confidence toward
God. You won't.
You're not going to be confident at all.
And again, it's your fix. This is what's so awesome.
It's so awesome. Because guess what?
You get to fix your heart. You don't have to have somebody
forgive you to get your heart fixed.
You don't have to have somebody to come to you and say, I'm
sorry I wronged you to get your heart fixed.
You get your heart fixed on your own.
You can get your own heart fixed.
You don't have to have all the bad things that ever happened in
life. All the mistreatments, all the
offenses, all the stuff that came your way to wait around to
get your heart fixed. You can fix your own heart.
Through your own, you know, confession, belief, release, all
that. Now, I'm not saying they
shouldn't come, It shouldn't take place.
It would help in the realm of healing to a degree per se.
But as far as you get in your heart, right, you control that.
Because if somebody else could control it, then God could not
be just. And if someone else could
control it, don't you think God would?
So you do. You do.
And how do you know if your heart condemns you?
Well, what situation are you in that all of a sudden something
happens with you? I mean, you could be great, you
know, about 100 people, but one other person walk in the room
and there's a problem. Well, that's your heart.
Condemning, saying something ain't right between you and
them. You need to get that fixed now.
It could be you personally just need to get a fix.
You just need to let it go. It could be that you need to go
to them because he may have said didn't I tell you to go to them?
And you hadn't done it because you just wanted it to go away.
But it's the requirement because the King's called it now and now
you got to do what the king said if you want to give him freedom.
Because freedom comes because you do what the king says.
Not because you put it under a rug.
Because a condemned heart becomes a hard heart and you
lack confidence. Are you hearing me?
And again, we're not talking arrogance.
Oh, I'm. No, you ain't good.
You're not good. You're not good because you have
a problem with that person. That's the problem.
You got to fix that because you're commanded, not suggested.
To love the Brethren. All right, Hebrews 416.
Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of
grace, so that we may receive mercy and and find grace to help
in the time of need. Now I'm doing some progression
here intentionally. The first scripture lets us know
if a heart. Does not condemn us.
We're going to have confidence towards God.
So if our heart condemns us, then we're never going to His
throne because you are to go to His throne.
How? Let us draw near with what?
To the throne of grace. So if you don't have confidence
in confidence because of your heart issue, you can't come to
the throne, which means you're not going to receive mercy and
find grace to help you. Now you can say you're coming to
God, but you're not really coming to God because your
heart's not in it. You really want God to do
something? Many of us come to God like the
Lord, like we're Lord. You need to do something about
that. Then I'm here to serve you and
you alone. Like that's what G is supposed
to say. When G is like, well man, you
need to check your heart because the grace that's surrounding
this throne right here cannot come out to you.
I mean, I got some grace for your situation, but I need you
to get your heart right because confident leaders have to
maintain righteousness. Righteousness in your spirit.
Yes, Christ did that. Him and him alone.
Your spirit man has been made righteous, but your soul realm
whole. Another ball game and your soul
realm can cloud up your spirit realm.
You have to have fruits of righteousness.
You have to practice righteousness.
That's your responsibility. So if you're not maintaining
righteousness, if you're not allowing what the Holy Spirit
clearly would say to your righteous spirit on how to have
no any situation, if you're not doing it that way, then you're
not maintaining righteous because you're not reflecting
the righteousness you actually carry.
You're letting your unrenewed mind hinder.
Your righteousness being fruits being shown, the fruits of
righteousness being displayed. Are you hearing me?
OK, so if our heart's not right, then we're not going to have to
confor towards God, and we can only go to the throne of grace
with confidence. So we got to get that right.
Now let's have that first John 28, first John 228, first John
228 verse John 228. And now little children abide in
him, that when he appears we may have confidence and not be
ashamed before him at his coming.
Now I do not have time to break this scripture down, but this is
a problematic scripture, Very problematic.
We have to what now, little children?
What once we do, abide? Why didn't he just say now,
little children, you're in him. Yes, Hallelujah.
We abide in him. That's a conscious choice every
day, every day to keep our heart right so we maintain confidence.
That way when we get in any situation, we can confidently go
before the throwing of grace. We receive mercy.
Mercy is like, how in the world we going to overcome this deal
right here and give me grace to do it?
And we do. That way we're always
maintaining this righteous that when he comes, we're not going
there. No shame about us because we
abide in the vine. The fruit is manifesting when
pruning season comes. Cut it off and let me bear more
fruit the next one, because I'm gonna abide in the vine.
I abide in you. I do what you say I I yield.
Where you say yield, I forgive. Or you say forgive.
I jump. Where you say jump, I I run.
Where you say run, I sing. Where you say sing.
I raise my hand. Where you say raise my hands.
I mean I do it. I had this salt actually when I
was. Worshipping, because I was
freely worshipping my hands, you know, and I just had a picture
of someone standing in front of me, you know, and and I thought,
you know, I wonder if I went around and just started standing
in front of everybody, could they just worship?
I could probably identify how quick you're in the room.
Well, let's just raise our hands together and some be like.
And I find that you're in the room.
I find your rebellion because you don't want to be told what
to do. I'm telling you, as your pastor,
I know more about you than you think.
Actually, I actually know your buttons.
I know what I could say that would get you in the flesh like
that. Because if it's there, it can be
tapped. But when you're dead, it can't
be because others I know. I don't know if I could find it.
The only way I'd find it is because they let themselves get
somewhere and I hadn't seen them there in a very long time.
Everybody can go to the flesh, I understand that.
But some are living in it and you could just come push that
button and boom. Ask yourself the question right
now. Is there something that someone
could do that I'd be like? And if there is, you need a
repent because somebody say something about your kids and
you get mad because if they can, you need a repent.
I said you need a repent. Now, I'm not saying that you're
not going to defend your kids, you know?
But at the end of the day, for you to get fleshy over it and
what if your kids are actually doing that?
You got to be mature enough to say, yeah, I'm praying for them.
Because let me tell you, you're not the only one who gets to
know their junk. Because when they're messing up,
everybody knows their junk. All right?
Just say am in anyway. I say this because this is an
issue now. It's very simple.
This is extremely simple that you just get your heart right.
It's not hard. It is easier to get your heart
right than to not get your heart right.
It's easier. I mean, we've.
Warped this deal like it's so hard if I.
No, He put his spirit in us, George.
He made your spirit just like him.
George, there's no excuse for you.
Ever to be fleshly. It's easier for you to be
spiritual. It's just easier.
Absolutely. No, I'm not saying George is
that. I just called his name out when
everybody like, what's wrong with George?
I'm not saying anything's wrong with George.
I just know George and he could handle me saying that.
Plus, he's an usher. And if you're an usher, I'm
going to call your name out. You're you're usually closer.
You know, I talk enough about my wife as it is.
We try not to use her as an example.
Please don't talk about me. I won't talk about you.
So again now little children are by to me that when he appears
you may have confidence and not ashamed because again I, I, I'm,
I'm concerned. There is a lot of people that
think that if Jesus literally showed up, they'd be like.
Whoo. I'm telling you things that
aren't right. You won't run, you'll hide.
And with perfection and glory and pure holiness gets in your
presence. I'm telling you.
And we all going to bow, period. That's just going to happen.
Ain't nobody going up and say, bro, that ain't happening.
You're not doing it. Jesus is not your homeboy.
He's your king. I said he's your king, all
right. Now if he tells you this is your
secret handshake and he gives it to you, then you go right ahead.
But don't you go in there. Lead.
Yo, bro, What's up? I've been waiting on you.
No, no, it's it's not going to look like that.
It's not going to look like that.
No #3 me wind these down. Essentials for possessing
confidence. Number one, no one act on the
will of God #2 maintain righteousness.
Y'all doing all right. You know, I mean, I can preach,
but I can also teach when I need to.
And at the end of the day, we need some leaders out there #3.
Develop endurance. You got to develop endurance.
James 1-2 and four, you can't be a confident leader until you
develop some endurance. James 1234 says consider it all
joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials knowing
that the testing of your faith produces endurance, and let
endurance and let endurance have its perfect results so that you
may be perfect. Now that doesn't mean
perfection. That means mature.
And God expects us to mature that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in in nothing. So again, tests that come
against what God says as a confident leader.
When you know God's will and you're standing and acting on
it, and you're maintaining your righteous, your heart's right.
You're judging every situation, every count, every encounter,
everything. That said, you know I got to
make sure my heart's right in this deal so I can confidently
go before the throne of God because I'm not going to be
ashamed when he shows up. And when these conflicts come,
I'm going to stand on this thing, period.
And it's going to be this way. There is no Plan B to what I
know he has said and what he is saying, because I'm always
listening. I'm just listening and I will do
what he says. Period.
Then it develops an endurance in you that brings about maturity
that you're like wow. And let me tell you, God doesn't
have problem with it looking like chaos around you because
you'll look like peace in the middle of it.
And then he'll show out, show up, and all the ones that were
the naysayers and came, cannot. Deny that you have what you
said. Are you hearing me?
Cannot deny it. At the end of the day, and
honestly, I think there's some things we need to talk about a
little bit more so that when they come to pass, you'll
remember they were said. I mean, we already know as far
as Anchor Faith Church as a church body, we've been saying
for years we would buy them all. Well, has it happened?
And there's plenty that didn't know, didn't think, didn't stay
long enough to. But are we in it?
Are we doing it? And we didn't have to have 5000
to accomplish the task. We just needed to have a word
from God, have the endurance, keep our hearts pure and move
forward. Period.
That's all you got to do. That's all you got to do and
you'll have situations in your life where people won't think
that you'll do or whatever. And if you're really with God,
then you're going to rise to the occasion because when you
declared it before it came to pass.
So what I love about getting around Pastor Roddy and Pastor
Kenneth every time we talked, he said, Remember back in 2015 when
we danced in your Because they always go back.
We were dancing this thing in long before it ever came to pass
because that's faith talking. And you got to have those
moments. You got to be a declare.
Those things. Amen.
Just like when Bishop Garraway was here and he said, you know,
prophesied over me that my voice, my name, would be in the
halls of power in the governor's mansion.
I had a meeting with the pastor. Anila, you here?
Stand up, please. Pastor Angie, we stand up.
We went and met with this pastor.
We had lunch with him. He's up in Jacksonville and he
wanted to meet with us. Well, met with Anila first or at
the county and then heard what, you know, she was doing because
he's blown away that 25, She's 25 and she comes to the county
Commission meetings and just like why is she here?
And then when she said, well, I do this for my pastor because we
want to stay informed now they're blown away that she does
and she has a full time job that she runs a business plus works
with us at the school and used to go to college and do that as
well, right. Are you still doing you're doing
college now, Actually, yes. She's working on her Master
right now. She does all this, you say,
well, how does she have time? It's called management.
That's what it's called anyway. So she sets the meeting up.
We meet with this individual and the individual says, well, I was
wanting to meet with you because I just want you to know.
Pastor Earl, I was in Tallahassee when I heard your
name. They were talking about what you
were doing. Well, now the prophecy of Bishop
is coming to pass. Is that what he said?
You can be seated now.
This ain't me. This is our assignment because
the other if we read the Bible, especially in the days we are
people in government, should be preached to talking to the ones
who hear from heaven. Now you can be a born again
believer in hear from heaven all by yourself.
I get that. But that doesn't mean that the
sector of society called his church should not have influence
or have conversation with those that are in government.
Because we are the ultimate government.
We're the Kingdom of God and our mountains outgrow in everybody.
Amen. Then my wife from another lady
that came during our Rayma meeting.
She was from now. Bishop Garraway's from Trinidad,
Tobago. She's from Zambia and she told
my. She says your husband is about
to be thrust into government and that his voice is going to be
heard and they're going to listen to it.
Wow, What's that mean? Now I'm telling you that.
So when it happens. Because when it happens, because
you know what? God wants the world to know his
position. He wants to know.
In fact, the advisor to our governor today literally
introduced Anila because she went to another conference, the
head of DCF, and said there's no organization doing more in their
community than Anchor Faith Church.
And he is in the whole state of Florida now.
You understand when he says that that's because we do West.
Augustine we do Dining with Dignity, we do.
Osceola, we do. Philagler College we do.
We do not. I do, We do.
We've all bought into this culture because we're
cultivating confidence as leaders to lead in our community
by doing the exploits of God. Amen.
And we're crossing cultural lines, economic lines, social
lines. Because the Kingdom does that.
Hallelujah, man. You would want to be a part of
this, not sit on the sideline. Luke Chapter 21, verse 12 says
this. By your endurance, you will gain
your lives. I'm telling you right now, you
might as well buckle in for endurance because endurance
never ends, Paul said. Demos has left me.
Well, Demis used to run with him.
Demis saw the exploits, saw the power of God, saw the move of
God. The Demis has left me because
he's fallen to the cares of the world.
So you're not guaranteed you'll stay unless you choose to abide
and endure. So I'll go back to Pastor Darryl
Huffman's comment, and I love it, he said.
When I got born again, I got born again for life.
I'm just going to serve him forever.
This wasn't when I'm going to serve him till the first offense
to the first, you know, disappointment till the 1st.
You know, God didn't do what I told asked him to do because I
was ignorant that he wasn't going to do it that way anyway.
But I'm blaming him now. Are you hearing me?
Endurance. Endurance will gain your lives.
And the last one, number four. Essential for possessing
confidence, know and act on the will of God #1 #2 maintain
rights. This number three develop in
Durst #4 glorify the Lord. You got to glorify the Lord.
Romans 420 says this. Yet with respect to the promise
of God, he did not waver an unbelief, but grew strong in
faith, giving glory to God and being fully assured that what
God had promised, he was able also to.
Perform. Are you hearing me?
This is what I love about. I'll give you an example of all
three of these. And then it goes to #4.
And his name's David. His name's David.
David knew and acted on the will of God.
He maintained his righteousness. Okay, he was a man after God's
own heart. He developed endurance out in
the shepherd field, developed endurance.
So when he walked out to feed his brothers at war and heard
what the Goliath said, he knew the word, he knew the known will
of God. He obviously had the anointing,
and that anointing kicked in. And he says who is this
uncircumcised Philistine? But notice when he went down to
the Philistine, did he go down arrogantly?
No, he did not. But he sure to have went down
with confidence. He told the king confidently.
King saw, He said, listen, I've killed the lion and the bear.
This, this Philistine is going to be no different.
That's not arrogance talking, that's confidence.
Because I know and will act on the will of God.
The will of God is. No uncircumcised nation can come
against God's nation. I mean, he is talking.
He is blaspheming. God is not going to put up with
that stuff. Because that's what the
anointing would do to your life. And you're saying, not only we
have the anointing in us, we have God in us and the anointing
upon us. David just had the anointing
upon him. And if the anointing upon him
called him to say, my gosh, man, it can't be this way, then how
come we ain't talking like that? If you are truly anointed by the
Spirit of God, who is this to have that kind of confidence
against the things of the world? So when he gets down there, he
wasn't a cocky little shepherd boy.
He's like, you come with me with a sword and a spear, but I'm
come to you in the name of the Lord that's glorifying God.
I am going to cut your head off, kill you and everybody behind
you. That was the arrogant.
No, that was confidence talking. Because glorify.
He gave God the glory. You come with me with a spear
and a sword, but I'm coming to you in the name of the Lord.
That's why I'm down here. I know you don't think nothing
about my size. I understand what you just
called me, but that don't move me.
Because you don't move me because I've heard from the
king. And I'm gonna cut your head off,
bro. And that's speaking faith,
because he don't even have a sword, so he's already
eyeballing the other one. He's looking at the enemy's
weapons, saying I'm fixing to use that against you and you
don't even know it. He He literally tells God, I'm
going to take the sword in your own.
Hand and cut your head off, because God will take what the
devil has meant for bad and turn it for good for those who love
him and are called according to his purpose, that no weapon
formed against the church will prosper.
The hill calls what the enemy set up for you that they will it
become a snare to them. And all through our history.
But we see where what the enemy set up to destroy God uses it
back on the enemy to destroy them.
All they did was a confident leader who knows and acts on the
will of God, who maintain their righteousness, who will develop
endurance and will give God the glory.
Hallelujah. And Daniel 1132.
The latter part of this verse is this, but the people who know
their God will display strength and take action.
The new King James says, do great exploits.
God did not put you in the earth in this season and this time and
all that's going on globally for you to sit back passively and
wait to go to heaven. Know what he did is he put you
in the earth so that you could take the lead in any sector
society you're in and show the exploits of God.
Hallelujah to do that so we don't undermine anything.
I don't undermine the Treasure Harbor preschool.
Why does God want us to have a business?
Why can't I just preach? Why?
Because I need to raise up a generation of kids that I can
put a seed in. Because if they don't go on to
Washington, I've at least invested in those first years.
The word of the king. I've given the king something to
go back to. But if they go on to Washington,
oh, watch out now. So no parents know this.
We're only driving the flesh out and pulling the spirit in.
We're trying to raise up confident leaders.
Yeah, because the generation today, they got to watch video
games and TikTok. I mean our next generation
leaders watch TikTok hours. Ours.
No. This generation coming up, if we
don't do something and the majority are going to prove it,
we're going to fall right into the hands of the Antichrist.
So what they're going to do, But we're against the grain because
we're not of this world. I said we're not out of this
world. We're not out of this world.
And so we're raising people up to not be of this world.
Hallelujah. So don't go to work tomorrow and
say, well, that's just my job. No, no, it's not your job.
It's your assignment to be an ambassador and the rise to the
layer to the level of massive influence.
You may never get promoted, but it doesn't mean that they won't
know that you're the leader. Because this is not about your
promotion in the world standpoint.
It's about your leadership when it comes to things of the
Kingdom. And they'll recognize, and
you'll get persecuted for it, and they'll hate you for it, and
they'll cuss about you and they'll stab you in the.
But that's all right, because if God can get the wage back to
Layman, he'll get it back to you.
Good measure. Press down, shake it together
and run it over. I mean, what problem do you
have? You don't even have a problem
because you're the child of the king.
Stand up, say I am. I'm going to do offerings, so
please don't freak out. Say I am a child of God and I
will be a confident. Leader in my generation.
I will know God act on his will. Maintain righteousness, develop
endurance, and glorify God with my life.
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