1 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,640 You have your Bibles turn over to Mark chapter 8. 2 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,920 I'm so excited to preach today, Man, this is good. 3 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,240 You know, I had to go see my mom today and it's so when I go see 4 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,560 my mom, it takes a little time to me to get there and get back. 5 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,360 So I get additional prayer time as a result of that. 6 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:36,520 And I came home and began to study and my wife got there a 7 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,880 little bit later and she's like, what are you? 8 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,560 I said nothing, but you know, you wait on the Lord. 9 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,320 Now you can. I am a preach by inspiration. 10 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,240 Sometimes the Lord allow me to have series. 11 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:50,720 I mean things that I know I'm going to do. 12 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,000 Then some days it's like it's your people or what do you want 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,080 to do? And so you know, but man, when 14 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,880 you hear the voice of God, things can hit. 15 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:03,400 And all of a sudden he took me to something I had said earlier, 16 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,400 I think even Sunday probably. And the Lord said, I want you to 17 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,120 go there. And so I started looking and 18 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,200 woo, it just opened up and here we go. 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,560 And so we're going to minister on follow tonight. 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:16,680 Amen. We're going to talk about 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,360 Kingdom destiny. Do you have a destiny in the 22 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,160 Kingdom? Come on, do you have a destiny 23 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,160 in the Kingdom? Because I'm telling you, if you 24 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,440 understood the Kingdom of God, you'd be so jacked, excited. 25 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,560 It's amazing, all right. But in Mark chapter 8, verses 34 26 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:36,280 to 36, Jesus says this and he summoned the crowd with his 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:41,560 disciples and said to them, if any win, if anyone wishes to 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:49,680 come after me, he must what? Deny himself, take up his cross 29 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,800 and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his 30 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,400 life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for 31 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,640 my sake and the Gospels, that's the good news. 32 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,160 We'll save it. Verse 36. 33 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:10,720 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit 34 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,440 his soul? Well, you understand I was going 35 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,760 to start with this verse and I had finished the message. 36 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,640 Then all of a sudden, as I was leaving, the Lord said follow. 37 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:22,120 And I thought, yeah, that's good. 38 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,200 So I went back and I found it in the Matthew account. 39 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,200 And I thought, this sounds very familiar to Mark. 40 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,760 Let me jump back over because I'm using Mark. 41 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,680 And I realized, wow, this is the couple of verses above of how I 42 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,080 was going to start the message of what does it profit a man to 43 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,480 gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 44 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:44,520 Another translation says it this way. 45 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,280 In verse 36 it says, but it is worth nothing for you to have 46 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,200 the whole world if you yourself are lost. 47 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,400 You know and the majority of churches know the vernacular of 48 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,360 the lost. In fact, the lost is very 49 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:11,240 important to and has become the center of the attention of the 50 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,120 church. Should we be concerned about the 51 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,400 lost? Yes, however, the church is not 52 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,720 about the lost. The church is about the king. 53 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:30,760 Are you hearing me? And the couple previous verses 54 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:37,080 says if you want to come after me, you're going to have to deny 55 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,960 yourself. These these are the words of 56 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:45,960 Jesus. So if we are calling ourselves 57 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:52,320 believers and followers of Christ, what precedes him saying 58 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,920 follow me? If you want to come after me, 59 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:03,360 you must deny yourself. So first is a denial of self. 60 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:12,680 Second, take up your cross. Now you're following. 61 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,519 So you cannot call yourself a follower if you're not doing the 62 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:22,280 first two. Now, I don't say this is what 63 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,680 the Bible says. And you understand if we don't 64 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,600 watch out because it goes on to say he who tries to save his 65 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,520 life will lose it. And he who loses his life for my 66 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:35,920 sake will save it because what does it gain? 67 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,520 A person prophet of purpose if they gain the whole world but 68 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:45,600 they themselves are lost, which means then nowhere here in 69 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:51,400 scripture did God is God's call of salvation or for the lost to 70 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:56,400 be saved to where they can still have relationship and passion 71 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,480 for the world and be a true follower of Jesus. 72 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,920 To be a follower of Jesus you have to deny self. 73 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,160 That's why Paul said I don't live anymore. 74 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:14,560 I've been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live right? 75 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:20,280 But as I live in this flesh, I live according to Christ. 76 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:22,640 I'm following him. I've been crucified because no 77 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,800 longer I who live, but the life that I live now in the flesh. 78 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,760 I live by faith, meaning I'm by faith means I am listening to 79 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:35,160 every word of the one I call Lord, who is supreme in 80 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:42,120 authority, and I follow that word and my opinion, my desires, 81 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:46,880 my own thinking, what I want to do in my life is dead to me 82 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,920 because the cross I carry is the purpose of my existence. 83 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:58,200 Hallelujah. And so he says, if you try to go 84 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,000 after just the world, you yourself will be lost. 85 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,600 We use this term lost in the word lost. 86 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:09,000 Well, what does it mean? What did the lost lose 'cause we 87 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,560 called them lost? Well, if you're found, you're no 88 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,760 longer lost, right? So when we say, well, I lost, 89 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:17,840 what are we? We're in reference to something 90 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:22,040 we had at one time. Are you hearing me? 91 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,200 So if I said I lost my keys, then I know keys are the object 92 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,560 that I no longer have. So once I see my keys are there 93 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,160 in my possession, now they are found. 94 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:41,280 You notice we don't call ourselves the found, yet we 95 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:45,960 reference the world as the lost. Well, again, what did the lost 96 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,840 lose? Well, it brings me back to some 97 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:53,400 statements that some of you, it's going to be very familiar 98 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,680 when I make these statements for others. 99 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,280 You've not heard these before, but the greatest tragedy in life 100 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,520 is life without purpose. The greatest challenge in life 101 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,880 is knowing what to do. The greatest mistake in life is 102 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:17,000 being busy but not effective, and the greatest failure in life 103 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,640 is being successful in the wrong assignment. 104 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,000 If we are going to live up to the Kingdom, destiny, because 105 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,880 it's not a destination, it's sonship. 106 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:41,680 Adam did not lose heaven because Adam was not created in heaven. 107 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,840 Now I'll just stop right here. I'm not saying we will not go to 108 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:52,240 heaven, but I'm also not going to say we're going to live in 109 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,200 heaven forever because the Bible doesn't say that. 110 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,160 The Bible says the Lord's coming to the earth. 111 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,960 They'll be a new heaven and new earth and hit the new Jerusalem 112 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,000 will come down out of heaven to the earth and we will live with 113 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,600 God to be on planet earth. Now that doesn't mean God cannot 114 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,640 assign you to go up to the 3rd heaven for whatever purpose. 115 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,520 I'm not saying that he can't do things in the time of eternity. 116 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,040 What we call eternity after everything's done that you want 117 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,440 would not have access to all of his creation based upon what he 118 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,280 says. What I am saying is that when we 119 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:31,600 call people lost, Adam did not fall from heaven, he fell from 120 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,760 dominion. And Genesis 126 as we know, if 121 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,880 you've been here long enough, then God said let us make man in 122 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,360 our image according to our likeness, and let them rule over 123 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,760 the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the the 124 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,200 cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that 125 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,760 creeps on the earth. So God made both male and female 126 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:55,520 to have dominion on the earth. When man disobeyed God, what he 127 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:02,600 lost was his dominion relationship with the Lord. 128 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,360 He's cut off from God. His nature now is not like God. 129 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,000 God's nature is by all right rules. 130 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:18,520 He rules, He reigns, He's sovereign, He is of. 131 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,400 He has the authority of His word. 132 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,360 And what's so amazing about God? God watches over his word to 133 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:30,240 perform it. So again, is it true Jesus came 134 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,000 to save you? Yes. 135 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,760 The question is why? Was it for you? 136 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:39,920 Or was it to make sure God's word comes to pass? 137 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:46,280 And it's for the latter. Jesus comes because God says, I 138 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,880 said, let's make man in our image. 139 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,280 Adam now who holds that dominion has given it over to the devil. 140 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,120 But I have to fulfill my word, so I'm going to have a pathway 141 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:06,040 back so that man can be, as I always intended them to be, like 142 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:12,480 me, Hallelujah. Because what they've lost is 143 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,080 their nature to be like me with. And that assignment of that 144 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:22,200 nature is to rule and reign on the earth, Hallelujah. 145 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:29,520 And so the lost, lost dominion, you don't just gain relationship 146 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,520 with Jesus, you gain your purpose. 147 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,520 This is why he says you must deny yourself. 148 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,640 Take up your cross. Cross is not relationship 149 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:47,320 crossed his assignment because Jesus came to the earth as a 150 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,880 man. Because God gave dominion to a 151 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,040 man, so it required man to get that dominion back. 152 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,840 And as a result of that, his assignment was to be the Savior 153 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,320 of the world, that he is to be the Lamb that would be slain. 154 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,520 Come on, y'all with me tonight. And as a result of that, He was 155 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,680 in obedient to God's word because it's the pathway by 156 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:18,560 which man can fulfill the word of God concerning himself. 157 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:21,800 Doctor Miles Monroe said this for years. 158 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,320 He said if you do not know the purpose of a thing, abuses are 159 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,280 inevitable. And so he would use a 160 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:35,560 refrigerator as a example. I don't really see this ever 161 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:38,160 happening anymore. But back in the day when people 162 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,360 would take their refrigers, refrigerators out and put them 163 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,000 by the side of the road in order for them to be, you know, 164 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:50,080 disposed of, they would take the door off because it and at A at 165 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,640 a particular time, children would climb in them. 166 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,320 The door would get shut and they would suffocate. 167 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,680 He said a refrigerator was never designed to be a coffin. 168 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:08,360 However, if a child sees sees it as a place to hide, abuses are 169 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,360 inevitable. We see this in relationships. 170 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,000 We see this in all other all kinds of things. 171 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,480 Because when you don't know why you're here, when you don't 172 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:19,880 understand your Kingdom, destiny abuses are inevitable. 173 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:25,400 And so again, you know, the goal of God was not so that man would 174 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:30,920 be saved to go to heaven, although man being saved can go 175 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,800 to heaven. Because God said if we're 176 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 through Paul to be absent from the body will be present with 177 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,760 the Lord and he is presently in heaven. 178 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,520 Now you understand, in the old dispensation, in the old 179 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,640 covenant, when people separated from their bodies, they did not 180 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:52,280 go to heaven. They went to the grave, they 181 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,560 went to paradise, they went to Abraham's bosom. 182 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,320 But when Jesus died and went to the grave, he led captivity, 183 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,880 captive, busted paradise wide open, which means in our 184 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,200 dispensation, when we're absent from the body, we'll be present 185 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,040 with the Lord. And he is presently seated at 186 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:12,680 the right hand of Father in heaven. 187 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,520 But is He coming back? I said, is he coming back? 188 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:21,560 Glory to God, He's coming back. So if we are going to know who 189 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:27,200 we are and if we are going to follow effectively the word of 190 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:33,280 the Lord, then we need to get in our destiny and then allow God 191 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,120 to tell us who we are. And what's amazing about this is 192 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:42,640 found in Psalms 139 verse 13. Look at this, it says this, and 193 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:43,800 we're going to go through verse 18. 194 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,880 He says for you, for my inward parts. 195 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:53,520 You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to you, for I 196 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,640 am fearfully and wonderfully made. 197 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:01,440 Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well. 198 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,560 He said my frame was hidden from you when I was made in secret 199 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,120 and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. 200 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,800 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance, and in your book, 201 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:19,480 whose book, His book, your book were written the days that were 202 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:26,160 ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. 203 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,080 Isn't that amazing? He said. 204 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,680 How precious also are your thoughts to me. 205 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,240 Oh God, how vast is the sum of them? 206 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:44,440 He said if I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. 207 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,720 And man, we live on the coast, we go to the beach and there's a 208 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,480 lot of sand out there. And which tells me if you ever 209 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,520 feel bad about yourself or people been talking about you, 210 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,880 go to the beach, look at the sand and say God's thinking 211 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,360 about me more than this. His thoughts toward me are 212 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,200 greater than all that I'm looking at right now. 213 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,520 You don't have time for a pity party when God's thoughts 214 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:09,240 concerning you outnumber the sand. 215 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,600 Which tells me if you're going through something and feeling 216 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,920 bad about yourself, you need to go talk to your author, your 217 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:23,360 Creator, and pick up a sand and say, what's this thought right 218 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:31,440 here about me that you have? And what's this one and this one 219 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:36,480 and this one and this one and this one and this one and this 220 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:43,120 one and this one and this one. I will not let the devil tell me 221 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,120 who I am. I won't let the world tell me 222 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,640 who I am because my father, before I even came out of my 223 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,400 mama's womb, had so many thoughts concerning me. 224 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,800 That the sands, it outnumbers the sands on the shore. 225 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:06,240 Oh my gosh, isn't this amazing that you have a destiny and all 226 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:10,040 you have to do to unlock those is follow? 227 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,920 That's all you have to do. It's not about discovering 228 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,720 yourself in heaven. God's thoughts about you were 229 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,000 already in existence prior to coming to earth through the womb 230 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:30,760 and He wants you to discover who you are and when you who were 231 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,720 lost or what you had lost is now reassigned to you through your 232 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,040 new birth experience and you becoming a child of God. 233 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:43,040 It is very important for us to be constantly seeking the Lord 234 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,360 and following Him. Said, what do you want me to do? 235 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,280 How do you want me to do it, and what are we doing? 236 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:51,320 Because you know me, The sum of your thoughts about me and what 237 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,240 I'm supposed to do, it outnumbers the sand. 238 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,360 This is why that prophetic utterances. 239 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,880 You've got to expand yourself. I mean, if you see yourself as 240 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,800 well, I can only go to the beach and go get you a dump load of 241 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,079 dirt and figure out all that God's trying to say. 242 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,319 You know he's not trying to withhold this information. 243 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,240 He wants you to discover yourself because his thoughts 244 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,880 towards you are amazing and powerful. 245 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:26,480 We hold on to thoughts that He never gave us from a nature that 246 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:31,480 He never designed for us. And He does not want us to hold 247 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:37,160 on to that old nature or its old feelings, nor does He want us to 248 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:42,400 stroke it, comfort it, you know, get around others who will help 249 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,720 you feel it and identify with your feelings. 250 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,880 No, He wants you to rise up to the sum of his thoughts 251 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,160 concerning you. He's like, man, if you only knew 252 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,640 half the thing that I have destined for you, if you only 253 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:02,520 believe my God, will you be like, come on, what's next? 254 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,840 And people would be in awe of your life because they're like, 255 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,880 how does this happen? You're like, man, My, I don't 256 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,720 want to say it, but I almost think the Father in heaven loves 257 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,480 me the most, right? Because when you start 258 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,400 discovering, you're like, I want to be around you more. 259 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,000 I want to know. I want to know. 260 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,320 God forbid I try to do something on my own. 261 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,280 Why would I try to go a road on my own? 262 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:34,520 Why would I try to be known in planet Earth as the wealthiest 263 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:40,520 person and most influential, yet suffer eternal damnation and 264 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:45,320 never find out who I really was? Because when you know God, 265 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,560 you're not even limited to planet Earth anymore. 266 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,640 You're not limited to this time frame. 267 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:57,040 You're not limited to the measly little lifespan of which one 268 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,800 particular billionaire is working so hard to try to keep 269 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,080 his body so healthy and do such routine because he's wanting 270 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:08,240 really mortality or immortality. But it's not going to happen. 271 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,600 There's only one way You must be born again. 272 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:18,400 You have to follow. And following is not about 273 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:24,040 control. It's about finding you God's. 274 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:27,160 God's not in a power trip. You're going to do what I say. 275 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,840 That's not God. God's like, bro, if you only 276 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,920 knew who you were and the things I have for you. 277 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:39,480 If you only knew how I want to release you and be so excited 278 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,400 that you're my child and be pleased with you. 279 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,920 Just if you could just tap into my thoughts about you and go in 280 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,920 the directions that I want you to go, it'd be amazing. 281 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,640 Be amazing. It's not control. 282 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,360 It's a releasing of you. And I'm like, show me who I am. 283 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,240 Give me your thoughts, whatever they may be. 284 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,400 I want to follow you. It goes on to say this in 285 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,840 Proverbs 16 verse 9. It says this, the mind of man 286 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:13,600 plans his way, but the Lord. Directs his steps and you, as 287 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,440 you know, I said this, you know, a man has paths and I like this. 288 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:23,080 He has plans. So as a man, you know, and, and 289 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,360 when I'm talking to the Lord, I'm like Lord, because I know 290 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:33,440 you love me. I know you want to to want to be 291 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:38,120 seen through me. You want me to expand your 292 00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:41,320 Kingdom. You have a purpose for my life. 293 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,520 I'm not here by accident. I'm not a mistake. 294 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,160 You knew me before I was in my mother's womb. 295 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,240 And it doesn't matter what conditions took place to get me 296 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,520 there. Are you hearing me? 297 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:59,520 And so, you know, if I'm on assignment and I'm to do a work 298 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:05,720 for you, well, we could do this, but also we could do this. 299 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,000 And I'm willing to do this because at the end of the day, 300 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,080 whichever is my pathway or by burden to bear, when I say burn 301 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:18,480 my car, my cross, my purpose, let's discuss. 302 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,560 And then when you begin to have all these plans out, the Lord 303 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:29,880 says, take that one, go down there, start, start walking this 304 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,040 way. Because I have found that 305 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,800 sometimes I'll speak a plan based upon an end, and then I'll 306 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,680 say, well, maybe we'll go here, which is a plan based upon an 307 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,280 end. And that end is different than 308 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,840 the other plan. And this end is different than 309 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,760 all the other plans. But got to say, start here. 310 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,120 And you get on it. You're like, oh, well, we're 311 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:54,520 going, so this must be the end. Only to find out midway I jump 312 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,560 over to this plan, 'cause that was never the object, that in 313 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,640 order to get to the third end, I had to take all paths, just at 314 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:11,400 different intersections, because the steps are directed by God. 315 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:17,000 Hallelujah, I said, Hallelujah. Or you may come to the end of 1 316 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,560 and realize that it connects to the ends of the others, that 317 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:26,960 this one way got it all and it's for His glory. 318 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,960 It's for Him being magnified in the earth, and you are part of 319 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,920 the process to expand His Kingdom. 320 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,680 My goodness that you're able to look back on your life and say, 321 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,840 but God, when people say, how in the world did you do that? 322 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:47,640 And they'll have to associate these words, but God, right. 323 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:54,200 Proverbs 1921 says many plans are in a man's heart, many 324 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,800 plans. So I, you know, I tell Apostle 325 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,720 Marshall, I said, now listen, I'm, I'm just going to be 326 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,480 talking. I'm talking, I'm not saying thus 327 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,200 saith the Lord, although when I'm speaking I may be saying 328 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,960 thus saith the Lord. What I don't know is which is 329 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,920 thus saith the Lord. And this is not a lack of prayer 330 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:17,240 because sometimes people, they won't even get started to try to 331 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,840 determine their destiny. Well, I'm going to go pray and 332 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,920 I'm just going to stay there until I hear God. 333 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,920 Remember there was an old adage back in the day where it says 334 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,960 steering a car is easier when it's moving. 335 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,920 It's easier to move a car, you know, steer a car when it's 336 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,680 moving. And I lived in the day before 337 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,880 power steering. In fact, my high school vehicle 338 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,160 was a 79 GMC. It was a a pickup truck with 339 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,320 A2250 straight 6IN it. I mean, there was enough room 340 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,160 that you could turn the engine on and get over the engine. 341 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,120 They could shut the hood and you could drive down the road 342 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,720 underneath the hood. So much room. 343 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,800 It was amazing. You could work on it very easy 344 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:08,560 and it was a three speed on the column, OK, but it had no power 345 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,960 steering. So man, when you got somewhere 346 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,000 you're like, I mean, you're like wanting to come off that clutch. 347 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,840 Just get it rolling a little so I can get a little bit of help. 348 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,840 See, you young people have no idea. 349 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,080 They're like, what's he talking about? 350 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,160 Steering is so easy. You have no idea. 351 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,520 They don't even know what 3 speed on the column is. 352 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,600 You're right. That is, you don't even know 353 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,800 what manuals are anymore. Really. 354 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,160 You don't even know what a standard shift vehicle is 355 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,680 anymore because everything's automatic. 356 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:41,800 Shall I explain that is you change gears as if you pull, 357 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,080 which they don't have this anymore. 358 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,000 I know they used to have the automatic on the column where 359 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,520 you went pull back and it would drop down to the R to the, you 360 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,800 know what I'm saying, Mick, right. 361 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,040 But we would go first gear, second gear, third gear. 362 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,880 If you want to reverse, you had to pull it this way and put it 363 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,680 all the way up, right? That's three speed on the 364 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,280 column. Heaven's like, I don't even know 365 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,440 what he's talking about right now. 366 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,680 That's OK, Go get some tea at Coastal Nutrition and maybe 367 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,120 she'll be able to explain it tomorrow. 368 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,160 So, but many plans are in man's heart. 369 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,520 So wives, I'm just saying this to our husbands. 370 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,640 When your wives are talking, a lot of times us talking is the 371 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:29,920 purpose so that we can get to hearing the council. 372 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,440 So you would never want to look at someone and say, well, they 373 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,800 said they do this, this or this, You know what? 374 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,440 And they just went through all of it. 375 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,600 They didn't really know. How do you know it's God? 376 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,440 Because along the way God kicked in with a voice. 377 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,480 It's not a lack of prayer. And many people are not moving 378 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,880 in their destiny because they're waiting to hear in the Lord's 379 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,840 light. Let's talk the plans. 380 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,520 What, what do you have? What what's what's coming up in 381 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,040 you because it's a relationship. This is what's so amazing about 382 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,800 God. He's again not controlling. 383 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,000 He's releasing you. He's like, let's talk about 384 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:12,560 this, OK, Well, as I've read you where we could do this, you 385 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,080 know, I could see us doing this. And again, those thoughts he's 386 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,880 giving you and he's like, that's my thought. 387 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:25,480 Do that, do that. As you know, I told you when it 388 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:30,200 comes when it came to a purchase in the mall, you know when it 389 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,240 came to rubber meets the road money is going to them. 390 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:39,200 I'm like, I sense I, I, I'm definitely eager. 391 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:46,320 I know God is totally able, but at the end of the day, I still 392 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,920 do not sense that I have had that. 393 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,000 Thus saith the Lord in my spirit. 394 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,880 And it was when I drove to put our camper somewhere because we 395 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,640 were going to be camping after service. 396 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:03,480 And as I was driving, praying, as I've told you on A1A and pass 397 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,280 by some $1,000,000 homes. And the Lord directed me to 398 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,560 those homes and says, son, what do you see? 399 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,440 I said, man, those are $1,000,000 houses. 400 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,480 He said, what do you notice about this particular 1? 401 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,080 And I said, well, it's got, you know, hurricane shutters on it. 402 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,240 I would suspect it's a snowbird's home. 403 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,560 And he goes, you are correct, he says if a person can have a 404 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,720 house worth over millions of dollars as their second home, 405 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 don't you think I can get them all? 406 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:43,280 And that was my path. That's the way I don't have to 407 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,600 come off now. Are you hearing me? 408 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,240 So at the end of the day, now I have the counsel of the Lord, 409 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,560 which is his will, and it's going to stand. 410 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,760 And we've talked about Lord, this property here. 411 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,440 In fact, I know some people in our community right now that 412 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,160 started with me and no longer with me, but our little sideways 413 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,560 because they think that because I pursued a piece of property 414 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,600 and did not get it, that I didn't hear the voice of God. 415 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:19,560 However, it was a plan because what I did hear God say at the 416 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,720 beginning, do not buy 5 acres. What you're going to do will be 417 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,160 bigger. So for some reason 25 was always 418 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:34,720 the minimum in my mind and I went after 50 acres when we had 419 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,280 less than 100 people. But when we pursued it, which 420 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,600 back then, and this is laughable now, that 50 acres was only 421 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,320 $1,000,000, We negotiated down to 900,000. 422 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,160 It's like that's chump change. However, when we went through 423 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:57,760 the process, of the 50 acres, only 8 acres were buildable. 424 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,640 You want me to tell you where this property's at? 425 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:08,800 It's where the Tringali barn is. That was the property, but they 426 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,200 had a man made lake, could have closed that in. 427 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,280 It was about 15 acres, but you have to bury a bunch of concrete 428 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,240 in it to do so because it was a pit, a dirt pit. 429 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,320 But because they had encroached and wetlands, they were going to 430 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:28,320 make certain land unbuildable. You weren't even going to be 431 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,960 able to mitigate it to be able to build on it. 432 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,720 It would have been non buildable land which gave us 8 acres and 433 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,640 it was separated. And I'm like, that's not what 434 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,880 God wants. So in essence, I didn't get his 435 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,840 counsel. However, here we are now, 25 1/2 436 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,880 acres later, bet the ball you would think those individuals 437 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,120 would be like, well, they didn't get that, but look what the Lord 438 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,600 did do for him, right? Hallelujah. 439 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,600 And let me ask you this, have you ever started down a path and 440 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:09,360 thought it was God only to find out it's not and you want people 441 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,160 to forgive when you did that? Well, you know, I thought I 442 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,480 should take this job, but I was wrong. 443 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,040 I thought it was a Lord, but it was and I can't. 444 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,680 And you're like, well, we forgive you. 445 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,880 Come on. Amen. 446 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,160 I said, Amen. Don't let someone else's passion 447 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,480 to follow a path and even if they don't get it right, hinder 448 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,920 you from following the voice of God Amen. 449 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,320 Proverbs 521 says it this way for the ways of a man are before 450 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,640 the eyes of the Lord and he watches all his paths. 451 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,600 Now this scripture here is is in context to the the the last 452 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,520 scripture is that there's many plans in a man's heart yet the 453 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,160 counsel of the Lord stand will stand, which means here's all my 454 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,640 past Lord and the Lord says it's this one. 455 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,160 So now we know the way, which brings us to this verse, we for 456 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,160 the ways of man. Now the ways to go down this 457 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,000 path are before the Lord. And what that's telling us is 458 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,160 that God now watches all his paths, meaning he'll make sure 459 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:14,080 this way he has taken you on will stay smooth, will be 460 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,120 straight, it will be able to be completed. 461 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,640 It will come to its end. It will remove every obstacle 462 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:28,200 because again, when God sends you on a path, it does not mean 463 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:36,360 it's void of trials and tribulations, nor I guarantee 464 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:42,080 you, the path God ordains will have ambushes from the enemy to 465 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,920 try to get you to thwart or abandoned that pathway. 466 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,320 And many believers, if they don't watch out, they're like, 467 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,960 oh, I can't go, so I'm going to go this way instead. 468 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,560 And the Lord says, reroute. You are off your course. 469 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,400 Get back on that. Yeah, but there's this mountain. 470 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,240 Well, I told you to speak to him anyway. 471 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,920 Amen. I mean, I would love to tell you 472 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,880 that the minute you know, the plan of God, which path, how 473 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,440 you're going to proceed forward, that all of a sudden someone 474 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,360 would show up with a check, that much money, all the people to 475 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,400 jump on board with you, and that you don't have to do anything. 476 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:23,160 It just comes like, you know, a genie in a bottle. 477 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,720 It's not that, no, the Lord, it's a relationship. 478 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,520 It's the Lord let you know. Look, you know there's a God of 479 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,840 this world and he's really upset when you're doing my will and 480 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,120 trying to take our the territory that's rightfully yours in the 481 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,200 1st place. Just stay the course 'cause my 482 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,920 counsel will prevail. You know his counsel concerning 483 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,000 you is going to prevail. What God says about you will 484 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,040 prevail. You just have to stay on the 485 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:53,880 path period. Stay on it, don't abandoned it 486 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,000 because this is about your destiny. 487 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,200 This is about who you are as a person. 488 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,320 Psalms 3723 says this. The steps of a man are 489 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,600 established by the Lord and he delights in his ways. 490 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,040 So all these scriptures are letting us know that the the 491 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:19,800 minute I said Jesus, I call you Lord of my life, we're basically 492 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,840 saying I'm here to follow you. Well, you're only here to follow 493 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,120 because you denied yourself. It's no longer me. 494 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,520 It's no longer my will. It's no longer what I want to 495 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,040 do. It's not, hey, can we negotiate 496 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,920 this relationship? Because this stuff that I'm 497 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,160 doing right now, you see what I'm getting out of this deal. 498 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,120 Now I say that because you understand that all that first 499 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,680 scripture comes into the scripture. 500 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:52,320 What? What does it profit a man to 501 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,920 gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul? 502 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:02,240 So there are many people that are being successful in the 503 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,720 wrong assignment, but yet are still empty on the inside. 504 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:14,000 And the success is doing some things to curb the hurt, but it 505 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,719 never gets rid of it. Then you hear about Jesus and 506 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,440 all of a sudden it starts touching that place that the 507 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,600 success and the things surrounded with success does not 508 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,560 touch. And so you're drawn to it and he 509 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,920 reveals himself and you're like, man, this is the answer you have 510 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,080 revealed to me. Jesus is the way. 511 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,400 However, in order to have the relationship and be a follower 512 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:46,639 of Him, you cannot negotiate yet successful will come in. 513 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,000 Are the things that you are good at or what you've enjoyed that 514 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,880 is still tied to your flesh that you don't see currently is 515 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,920 destroying your life in the long run. 516 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,080 Because what does it say about Moses? 517 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:08,400 Moses chose to be with his people and suffer, then be 518 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,400 called the son of Pharaoh's daughter and enjoy the passing 519 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:20,040 pleasures of sin for its season. Yet people will be confronted 520 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,720 with their sin. They're disconnect from God, 521 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,280 recognize they need to be connected and then they'll want 522 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,960 to come and say, let's talk about our relationship before I 523 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,960 say Jesus, I'm, I make you Lord. I'm really, I want you as my 524 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,600 savior. I just want you to save me from 525 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,720 all my wrongdoing. But all that I'm doing, I kind 526 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,640 of want to bring this in. I mean, it's not that bad. 527 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,400 I want to be able to do this. I want to be able to do that. 528 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,160 You know, surely you understand that these things that I'm doing 529 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:50,800 for people are good. No, He wants you to get Paul's 530 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,920 revelation. Paul's revelation. 531 00:35:53,040 --> 00:36:00,860 Everything I did before Christ was done, everything. 532 00:36:04,060 --> 00:36:07,940 Nothing was good. And he was actually doing good 533 00:36:07,940 --> 00:36:12,300 works according to the law. But when he was confronted with 534 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:17,020 Christ, he says it's a mess, all of it. 535 00:36:18,060 --> 00:36:19,100 I don't want any of it. I'm. 536 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:24,980 Who I am. I just want my destiny and Jesus 537 00:36:24,980 --> 00:36:25,940 said well. Come on, follow me. 538 00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:31,300 And you can discover it. Let me tell you. 539 00:36:32,620 --> 00:36:34,540 You do not. Want to stand before the Lord? 540 00:36:34,540 --> 00:36:38,260 One day and him reveal to you all you could have been. 541 00:36:45,980 --> 00:36:49,980 That one thought. Motivates my life. 542 00:36:52,340 --> 00:36:56,340 Motivates it. Because I'm not standing before 543 00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:58,980 Apostle Marcy. I'm not standing before 544 00:36:58,980 --> 00:37:01,180 Thaddeus. I'm not standing before Brian. 545 00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:02,460 I'm not going to stand before Karen. 546 00:37:02,460 --> 00:37:05,660 Not going to happen. I'm going to stand before. 547 00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:08,500 Jesus. And Jesus has a book that he 548 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:11,220 wrote about me before I even came out of my mom's womb. 549 00:37:11,220 --> 00:37:13,260 And he's going to say, let me show you what I ordained for 550 00:37:13,260 --> 00:37:14,700 you. Let's see if what you did 551 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:18,900 matches it. We can go page by page. 552 00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:28,380 Did you accomplish it? Because I was here to order your 553 00:37:28,380 --> 00:37:32,940 steps. It's not a problem, in fact. 554 00:37:32,940 --> 00:37:36,620 I'm jacked, excited about it. I was so pumped about it. 555 00:37:36,820 --> 00:37:39,420 I mean, I couldn't wait to reveal myself to you. 556 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:41,500 I couldn't wait to bring you into the family. 557 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,300 I couldn't wait for you to discover all that I had for you 558 00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:48,460 and the dominion that I had for you and the rulership I had and 559 00:37:48,460 --> 00:37:50,140 all the things that I wanted you to conquer. 560 00:37:50,260 --> 00:37:53,100 And the way the world was didn't matter to me because I raised 561 00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:54,780 you up above it. I pulled you up. 562 00:37:54,780 --> 00:37:56,700 I seated you in heavenly places with me. 563 00:37:56,820 --> 00:37:59,620 I called you to be able to speak the same things that I speak. 564 00:37:59,740 --> 00:38:01,980 Speak in My name was authorized by my name. 565 00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:04,020 I redeemed you from the law of sin and death. 566 00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:06,740 I healed your body. I removed your sickness and 567 00:38:06,740 --> 00:38:09,300 disease. I mean, I, I, I renew your mind. 568 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:11,940 I mean, I made you brand new. And then I had to glorify body 569 00:38:11,940 --> 00:38:13,500 weight when the whole assignment's done. 570 00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:16,300 But in the process, you still could accomplish some amazing 571 00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:23,810 things. But when we sell the. 572 00:38:23,810 --> 00:38:26,330 Bible, where are you going to go when you die? 573 00:38:26,850 --> 00:38:30,290 Ask Jesus into your heart, because that's all that matters. 574 00:38:30,650 --> 00:38:32,490 That does not line up with Scripture. 575 00:38:34,220 --> 00:38:38,420 Because the Father is longing. To say, man, you didn't even 576 00:38:38,420 --> 00:38:41,460 have your first breath out of the womb and I've got this great 577 00:38:41,460 --> 00:38:43,580 plan for your life. It's amazing. 578 00:38:43,660 --> 00:38:47,860 It is the greatest adventure of your life and anything that you 579 00:38:47,860 --> 00:38:52,980 do outside it sells it short and there's no gain to you. 580 00:38:53,580 --> 00:39:01,620 In fact, you're at a loss. Some of the greatest names you 581 00:39:01,620 --> 00:39:05,620 know today you'll never see again, except until the Great 582 00:39:05,620 --> 00:39:08,780 White Throne Judgment and they're Emmys. 583 00:39:09,660 --> 00:39:14,340 They're Nobel Peace Prizes will matter nothing. 584 00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:17,660 And they would. Gladly trade them all. 585 00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:21,340 In throw them away, get rid of them because the most. 586 00:39:21,340 --> 00:39:23,660 Crazy thing will. Happen is when he pulls out the 587 00:39:23,660 --> 00:39:25,740 books. I don't know that the Lord would 588 00:39:25,740 --> 00:39:29,540 do this, but could you imagine if he pulled it out? 589 00:39:30,780 --> 00:39:34,660 Said Well, I'm going to read to. You what I. 590 00:39:34,660 --> 00:39:42,140 Had planned for you. And this happens in heaven, 591 00:39:45,140 --> 00:39:50,700 which is already tough because those who die without Jesus are 592 00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:54,380 in the grave in torment, and then he pulls them out, brings 593 00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:59,820 them to heaven to see the glory of God and come before his 594 00:39:59,820 --> 00:40:02,500 throne there. He doesn't take his. 595 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:03,980 Court to. The grave. 596 00:40:06,860 --> 00:40:08,500 Come on now. No, I mean this. 597 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:11,420 Happens in our judicial system. The judge don't walk down into 598 00:40:11,420 --> 00:40:17,420 the cell, set up a table. He pulls them out, brings them 599 00:40:17,420 --> 00:40:19,260 into. His courtroom air conditioned 600 00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:22,020 vacuum look nice. The judge comes in with all his 601 00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:26,140 regalia. You stand up, oh, that has got 602 00:40:26,140 --> 00:40:29,300 nothing when the King of Kings comes and takes the stand, bro, 603 00:40:29,980 --> 00:40:33,980 it's got nothing when the Father sits on that throne. 604 00:40:34,420 --> 00:40:38,180 And now you've been pulled up out of the grave and you've been 605 00:40:38,180 --> 00:40:40,420 brought up into the courts of heaven. 606 00:40:41,260 --> 00:40:45,780 And could it be that the Father with tears in his eyes saying 607 00:40:46,260 --> 00:40:49,900 this is what was ordained for you and begins to call out your 608 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:54,540 name and read your life before you ever left your mom's womb. 609 00:40:54,980 --> 00:40:58,860 Then he gives you all the accounts of every time he came 610 00:40:58,860 --> 00:41:03,180 by your life and began to reveal himself to you and you knew he 611 00:41:03,180 --> 00:41:06,740 was there, but you chose this life and rejected him. 612 00:41:06,740 --> 00:41:16,980 It's. Going to be a tough day, you 613 00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:18,060 say? Well, we see that. 614 00:41:19,100 --> 00:41:24,060 Could be could very well the judgment seats. 615 00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:26,980 Going to be personal. Great White Throne judgments 616 00:41:26,980 --> 00:41:33,380 probably going to be public. Because God will let all the 617 00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:37,300 righteous. Know there's nothing ever done 618 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:39,820 that I would not hold account to. 619 00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:44,260 Nothing. No one got away with anything. 620 00:41:46,260 --> 00:41:53,940 No one, all right, I know. It's heavy stuff, but it's 621 00:41:53,940 --> 00:41:56,140 powerful stuff when you're light. 622 00:41:56,140 --> 00:42:00,260 Well, praise God, I'm going to find out my destiny, right? 623 00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:01,660 Because. Again, how does God? 624 00:42:01,660 --> 00:42:03,980 Think towards you. The sum of his thoughts are 625 00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:06,620 amazing. And there's more than the sand. 626 00:42:08,020 --> 00:42:10,620 It's amazing. And if he would be willing to 627 00:42:10,620 --> 00:42:13,540 reveal that to us who are born of God, He's willing to reveal 628 00:42:13,540 --> 00:42:19,020 that to all mankind. So now that you're born again. 629 00:42:19,140 --> 00:42:22,300 Don't settle. Pursue. 630 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:25,900 God to find. Every thought he has for you 631 00:42:27,540 --> 00:42:28,660 don't. Settle. 632 00:42:29,220 --> 00:42:32,500 For what I know, He thinks about me to save me, and that's all. 633 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:35,100 No, find out about Him wanting to empower you. 634 00:42:35,180 --> 00:42:36,860 Find out about Him wanting to heal you. 635 00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:40,580 Find out about Him seeing you healed whole, completely healed. 636 00:42:40,660 --> 00:42:43,380 Walking in divine healing, walking in divine prosperity, 637 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:46,860 walking in the fullness of God, walking in great maturity, 638 00:42:47,060 --> 00:42:49,980 walking through trials and tribulations, walking through 639 00:42:49,980 --> 00:42:51,500 the valley of the shadow of death. 640 00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:55,740 Yet fear, you fear nothing. You go through it, walking in 641 00:42:55,740 --> 00:42:58,900 places where He holds the mouths of lions. 642 00:43:00,220 --> 00:43:04,420 See yourself this way that he sees you as a champion more than 643 00:43:04,420 --> 00:43:09,580 a conqueror. Visualize these sums of. 644 00:43:09,580 --> 00:43:12,540 You because he doesn't look you like you just should be excited 645 00:43:12,540 --> 00:43:15,300 that I let you in the house. That's not his thoughts 646 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:18,340 concerning you. His thoughts concerning. 647 00:43:18,340 --> 00:43:19,780 You is let us. Make men our aims. 648 00:43:19,780 --> 00:43:21,780 Let him have dominion. Let him rule. 649 00:43:21,780 --> 00:43:30,860 Let him reign like I do. OK, Proverbs. 2020. 4 says it 650 00:43:30,860 --> 00:43:33,220 this way. Man's steps are ordained by the 651 00:43:33,220 --> 00:43:37,460 Lord. He is personally. 652 00:43:37,460 --> 00:43:40,700 Interested in you? Never let the thought come to 653 00:43:40,700 --> 00:43:42,300 your mind. God doesn't care about me. 654 00:43:42,420 --> 00:43:44,340 Does God even see me? That is a lie. 655 00:43:46,860 --> 00:43:48,660 Wake up and say now, Lord, I know you. 656 00:43:48,660 --> 00:43:51,060 Were thinking about me before I woke up because you weren't 657 00:43:51,060 --> 00:43:54,540 sleeping and you already have. Ordained my life. 658 00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:58,340 In today's steps, help me to. Recognize I want to. 659 00:43:58,340 --> 00:44:01,580 Have an ear to hear exactly what I'm supposed to do. 660 00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:05,340 Because I have found through the course of. 661 00:44:05,340 --> 00:44:09,260 My walk with God that some of the things that I thought were 662 00:44:09,260 --> 00:44:12,700 actually not a whole big deal because it seemed pretty natural 663 00:44:12,860 --> 00:44:21,220 were huge markers of Revelation speaking to my life and put me 664 00:44:21,220 --> 00:44:28,340 on a course somewhere huge. Some of the most. 665 00:44:28,460 --> 00:44:33,020 Spectacular we would could call them accounts that I've had with 666 00:44:33,020 --> 00:44:37,100 the Lord were there only so that it would remind me when the 667 00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:42,860 trial came. Don't abandoned, don't quit, 668 00:44:42,860 --> 00:44:47,780 don't give up, don't stop because. 669 00:44:47,780 --> 00:44:53,180 You know you're called. Now, why do we say this? 670 00:44:53,180 --> 00:44:56,500 Proverbs 3. Five and seven, it says trust in 671 00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:57,620 the Lord. How do you do this? 672 00:44:57,620 --> 00:44:59,420 How do you allow God to direct your steps? 673 00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:02,780 Trust. God's never failed you. 674 00:45:03,460 --> 00:45:04,900 He'll never leave you nor forsake you. 675 00:45:05,540 --> 00:45:07,460 He'll always do His word concerning you. 676 00:45:07,460 --> 00:45:11,460 Always. No weapon formed against you 677 00:45:11,460 --> 00:45:12,220 can. Prosper. 678 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:15,580 If God be for you, who could be against you? 679 00:45:16,580 --> 00:45:20,780 He is trustworthy. So you are to trust in the Lord 680 00:45:21,420 --> 00:45:26,620 with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding, 681 00:45:26,620 --> 00:45:30,900 which means you're going to have a path, a plan, a way to do. 682 00:45:30,980 --> 00:45:34,220 You're going to become naturally trained in some aspects. 683 00:45:34,340 --> 00:45:36,780 And he said now don't lean on that. 684 00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:40,620 Trust in me. He's not saying he won't use 685 00:45:40,620 --> 00:45:42,980 your understanding. He said don't lean on it. 686 00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:46,900 Don't lean on it to where you would violate what God is saying 687 00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:50,380 to do, because you're. Like no, I can't do that. 688 00:45:50,380 --> 00:45:52,100 This. Is the way to do it because you 689 00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:55,180 naturally are figuring it out. I cannot tell you how many 690 00:45:55,180 --> 00:45:58,620 pastors and Pastor John George can testify to this, how many 691 00:45:58,620 --> 00:46:02,700 are crippled in their vision because all they see is their 692 00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:06,580 checkbook and they're like. We can't do it. 693 00:46:06,580 --> 00:46:11,420 We cannot afford it. And they lean on the. 694 00:46:11,420 --> 00:46:15,860 Understanding of what they see in the natural financially to 695 00:46:15,860 --> 00:46:23,420 determine what they do, but not in this house because when I 696 00:46:23,420 --> 00:46:26,620 hear from God and then I go to Pastor Mike or Chief Financial, 697 00:46:26,620 --> 00:46:28,620 I said, hey, I'm thinking about this. 698 00:46:28,620 --> 00:46:29,860 And he said, well, this is in the count. 699 00:46:29,860 --> 00:46:35,620 Then we both laugh. Right, we laugh. 700 00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:41,780 Well, haha. Definitely not doing it that 701 00:46:41,780 --> 00:46:44,540 way. But it doesn't change what I've 702 00:46:44,540 --> 00:46:48,180 heard, so I don't. Lean on the account. 703 00:46:48,660 --> 00:46:53,380 I say, OK, Lord, I trust you because then when I do that in 704 00:46:53,380 --> 00:46:58,780 all my ways, I acknowledge him and he then what makes my path 705 00:46:58,780 --> 00:47:01,740 straight? He shows me what's currently 706 00:47:01,740 --> 00:47:04,660 crooked or around a bin that I can't see. 707 00:47:04,660 --> 00:47:07,780 He straightens it out so I can see how to do it and I may not 708 00:47:07,820 --> 00:47:10,220 ever have to touch the bank account. 709 00:47:10,220 --> 00:47:13,660 Ever come on you with. Me, but I'm moving. 710 00:47:13,660 --> 00:47:15,580 Towards it, as if it's already done. 711 00:47:16,260 --> 00:47:19,140 I'm already making steps. I'm talking about it, I'm doing 712 00:47:19,140 --> 00:47:20,900 it. I'm like, we're going to do 713 00:47:20,900 --> 00:47:23,940 this, we're going to do that, we're going to do this and we do 714 00:47:23,940 --> 00:47:25,820 it. Say Amen. 715 00:47:26,780 --> 00:47:28,300 Then it goes on to say. Fear the. 716 00:47:28,300 --> 00:47:33,140 Lord and turn away from evil. Do not be wise in your own eyes. 717 00:47:33,340 --> 00:47:36,020 Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. 718 00:47:36,540 --> 00:47:39,660 Are you hearing what I'm saying? So again, God saying, look, 719 00:47:39,660 --> 00:47:42,220 don't be wise in your own eyes. Don't think that you can 720 00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:45,020 accumulate so much natural knowledge that it's no longer. 721 00:47:45,020 --> 00:47:47,700 You don't have to bother God. I remember when I was working in 722 00:47:47,700 --> 00:47:51,460 Atlanta, GA years ago and all of a sudden, you know, conversation 723 00:47:51,460 --> 00:47:53,940 came up about God and someone said, well, you know, God gave 724 00:47:53,940 --> 00:47:56,700 you a brain meaning, you know, if you just use your brain then 725 00:47:56,700 --> 00:47:58,980 you don't have to bother God with these things. 726 00:48:00,620 --> 00:48:02,460 I'm. I am not a bother. 727 00:48:02,460 --> 00:48:06,980 To God, because the sum of his thoughts towards me, he's like, 728 00:48:07,380 --> 00:48:09,180 son, I just wish you would come and hang out. 729 00:48:09,180 --> 00:48:11,940 Did I remember I've told you this once before that one time 730 00:48:11,940 --> 00:48:14,060 the Lord in prayer time really corrected me. 731 00:48:14,260 --> 00:48:18,140 He said, Son, if you spend as much time with your wife as you 732 00:48:18,140 --> 00:48:20,260 do with me, you would not be married very long. 733 00:48:24,420 --> 00:48:25,860 Because I wasn't spending time with him. 734 00:48:26,140 --> 00:48:28,340 I would go to church, but I had no thoughts about him. 735 00:48:28,580 --> 00:48:31,900 I went in the Bible. I was letting a preacher preach 736 00:48:31,900 --> 00:48:35,580 to me only when I showed up. But I'm going to heaven when I 737 00:48:35,580 --> 00:48:38,860 die. I'm a good guy. 738 00:48:40,020 --> 00:48:45,860 I'm being nice to people. I was saved, but I had no 739 00:48:45,860 --> 00:48:49,780 relationship because I didn't spend time, he said. 740 00:48:49,780 --> 00:48:53,260 If you spend that kind of time with your wife, she'd leave. 741 00:48:53,260 --> 00:49:04,060 You say lot. So I had to change because he's 742 00:49:04,060 --> 00:49:09,980 like, you understand, honestly, he's at the foot of your bed the 743 00:49:09,980 --> 00:49:11,180 minute you. Open your eyes. 744 00:49:11,180 --> 00:49:12,940 He's like. Oh, oh, here we go. 745 00:49:13,460 --> 00:49:15,500 Another day, man. I got some things to say. 746 00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:16,940 Let's talk. Let me just talk to you. 747 00:49:16,940 --> 00:49:22,300 But if you just like, go on. I'm trying to paint a picture so 748 00:49:22,300 --> 00:49:23,060 tomorrow. Morning. 749 00:49:23,340 --> 00:49:26,180 You'll you'll visualize that when you get up and going, the 750 00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:27,420 Lord's like, hey, hey, hey, wait. 751 00:49:27,460 --> 00:49:29,820 Where you going? To the bathroom, You know, let's 752 00:49:29,820 --> 00:49:31,660 talk, you know, can we talk as you're going? 753 00:49:31,660 --> 00:49:33,340 I'll stand right here while you're fixing your makeup. 754 00:49:33,340 --> 00:49:34,620 Come on, we can have a conversation. 755 00:49:35,860 --> 00:49:37,660 But if you're just thinking. About what you're going to do. 756 00:49:37,660 --> 00:49:39,580 And not about him and not acknowledging him and not 757 00:49:39,580 --> 00:49:41,420 acknowledging the breath that he's giving in your breath and 758 00:49:41,420 --> 00:49:43,460 giving him some kind of praise or anything. 759 00:49:43,460 --> 00:49:45,100 Not spending time in the word, not having any. 760 00:49:45,420 --> 00:49:47,500 How's he going to give you the direction? 761 00:49:49,580 --> 00:49:51,180 So just say, OK, today I'm still. 762 00:49:51,180 --> 00:49:55,220 Looking at this and I'm talking, you know, well, we got meetings 763 00:49:55,220 --> 00:49:57,180 today and we talked about our meetings and that sounds 764 00:49:57,180 --> 00:49:59,500 natural, but the reality is all the while we're listening. 765 00:49:59,500 --> 00:50:02,660 What if God says don't do that meeting and there's something 766 00:50:02,660 --> 00:50:06,740 like I'm canceling that I'm. Canceling that, we're not doing 767 00:50:06,740 --> 00:50:09,100 that. Because he's talking to me. 768 00:50:09,540 --> 00:50:10,940 There's another direction, another step. 769 00:50:10,940 --> 00:50:13,900 I need to do this instead. Well, you know, you just Rob. 770 00:50:13,900 --> 00:50:14,460 You shouldn't. Can't. 771 00:50:14,740 --> 00:50:16,180 I know. But I am. 772 00:50:16,380 --> 00:50:18,020 Because I should be doing something else. 773 00:50:18,220 --> 00:50:19,180 Come on. Are you hearing me? 774 00:50:19,500 --> 00:50:21,980 So Proverbs 16 three. We're winding down now, says 775 00:50:21,980 --> 00:50:24,620 this. Commit your works to the Lord 776 00:50:25,340 --> 00:50:27,940 and your plans will be established. 777 00:50:28,580 --> 00:50:31,780 Do you want to be successful? Then just commit your works to 778 00:50:31,780 --> 00:50:36,220 the Lord. Again your life. 779 00:50:36,580 --> 00:50:42,220 Church is not a part of your life, it's your life and 780 00:50:42,220 --> 00:50:45,980 everything you're doing out is to be brought in. 781 00:50:49,900 --> 00:50:56,420 Because it is to glorify God. It's to expand his Kingdom, so 782 00:50:56,420 --> 00:50:58,060 commit. Your works to the Lord. 783 00:50:58,620 --> 00:51:00,940 And your plans will be established. 784 00:51:01,580 --> 00:51:06,580 Hallelujah, Amen. Isaiah 3021 says this. 785 00:51:06,580 --> 00:51:08,940 Your ears will hear a word behind you. 786 00:51:09,820 --> 00:51:14,620 This is the way walk in it whenever you turn to the left or 787 00:51:14,620 --> 00:51:18,540 to the right in that how encouraging is that that God is 788 00:51:18,540 --> 00:51:23,940 so if we follow. I mean, God just wants us to 789 00:51:23,940 --> 00:51:26,260 follow He's. Made a plea follow me but in 790 00:51:26,260 --> 00:51:29,660 order to do it deny yourself take up your calls start 791 00:51:29,660 --> 00:51:35,740 pursuing your destiny pursue it then you're following because 792 00:51:35,740 --> 00:51:39,380 again, God did not create you by accident. 793 00:51:39,860 --> 00:51:42,540 He did not create you without a purpose. 794 00:51:42,540 --> 00:51:48,020 And I'm going to be honest with you because so many are of the 795 00:51:48,020 --> 00:51:53,140 list we read at the beginning, they're living a tragic life 796 00:51:53,940 --> 00:51:55,460 because they don't know their purpose. 797 00:51:56,860 --> 00:51:59,780 Their life is so challenged because they never know what to 798 00:51:59,780 --> 00:52:01,980 do. They make. 799 00:52:01,980 --> 00:52:03,260 Tons of mistakes because they're. 800 00:52:03,260 --> 00:52:08,420 Busy, but nothing seems to be effective and then. 801 00:52:08,420 --> 00:52:12,420 Others are just. Failures have everything the 802 00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:16,260 world could offer, but they're empty. 803 00:52:20,620 --> 00:52:25,940 And I know believers. That are successful in the wrong 804 00:52:25,940 --> 00:52:36,580 assignment the man when you pursue God. 805 00:52:37,180 --> 00:52:44,660 He's right there to speak, to whisper, to talk, to say walk 806 00:52:44,660 --> 00:52:49,260 here, go there. And you're not going to 807 00:52:49,260 --> 00:52:53,620 understand it. In fact, he's not obligated to 808 00:52:53,620 --> 00:52:57,340 let you understand it, but he does want you to believe. 809 00:53:01,700 --> 00:53:06,300 He wants you to believe. Hallelujah, I said, He wants you 810 00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:12,260 to believe, and man, when you believe, it'll come out in the 811 00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:14,580 end. My Mama, it's amazing. 812 00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:18,580 Isaiah 4817 says this. Thus says the Lord, your 813 00:53:18,580 --> 00:53:20,380 Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 814 00:53:20,620 --> 00:53:23,660 I am the Lord your God who teaches you to. 815 00:53:24,980 --> 00:53:28,300 What's that word? I'm going for a. 816 00:53:28,460 --> 00:53:32,300 Full circle now. What'd he say? 817 00:53:33,060 --> 00:53:35,780 He. Said, If you want to come after 818 00:53:35,780 --> 00:53:40,300 me, deny yourself, take it to cross and follow me. 819 00:53:41,020 --> 00:53:42,700 For a man tries to save his life, he loses it. 820 00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:44,380 But if he tries to lose his life, he'll save it. 821 00:53:45,140 --> 00:53:49,300 What good is a man if he gains? What profit is there for a man 822 00:53:49,300 --> 00:53:55,220 who gains the whole world but loses his soul yet thus? 823 00:53:55,220 --> 00:53:58,460 Says the Lord your. Redeemer, the Holy One of 824 00:53:58,460 --> 00:54:05,420 Israel, I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, Who 825 00:54:05,420 --> 00:54:07,060 leads. You in the way. 826 00:54:07,820 --> 00:54:11,580 You should go which means. The greatest gain? 827 00:54:11,580 --> 00:54:19,340 You can ever have on the earth is to be a follower of the path 828 00:54:19,340 --> 00:54:22,420 God has placed you on in the destiny. 829 00:54:22,420 --> 00:54:25,660 He's called you and he's not withholding that. 830 00:54:28,020 --> 00:54:31,140 So in this place today it. Could be that you're like, man, 831 00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:33,380 I'm challenged, what am I supposed to do? 832 00:54:34,780 --> 00:54:39,140 Good question. Good news, though, he wants to 833 00:54:39,140 --> 00:54:44,420 tell you and he says seek. What's he say? 834 00:54:44,420 --> 00:54:46,860 Seek first. Why the Kingdom? 835 00:54:46,860 --> 00:54:49,780 Because you're part of it. You have an assignment to it. 836 00:54:49,940 --> 00:54:53,500 You're not a mistake. And when you seek and say father 837 00:54:54,180 --> 00:54:57,140 in the name of Jesus by the leading of the Spirit of God 838 00:54:57,140 --> 00:54:59,380 because I'm a child of God. So I'm led by the Spirit. 839 00:54:59,940 --> 00:55:03,180 Show me who I am what I'm supposed to do Listen, not 840 00:55:03,180 --> 00:55:06,700 everyone's called to the ministry are going to function 841 00:55:06,700 --> 00:55:09,500 in ministry gifts. Many are called into the world 842 00:55:09,500 --> 00:55:12,780 in different sectors of society, but yet your steps are being 843 00:55:12,780 --> 00:55:17,580 ordered of the Lord and in. Your. 844 00:55:18,020 --> 00:55:22,180 Profession. It could be very much that God 845 00:55:22,180 --> 00:55:24,900 wants you to be within the profession that you're in, but 846 00:55:24,900 --> 00:55:28,380 He wants to give you creative ideas that changes the field. 847 00:55:31,420 --> 00:55:33,220 That gives you access to certain. 848 00:55:33,220 --> 00:55:38,060 Things so that you can show the Kingdom you can bring. 849 00:55:38,060 --> 00:55:41,820 People to the Lord. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 850 00:55:41,820 --> 00:55:46,100 This is amazing stuff that God has for us because he really 851 00:55:46,100 --> 00:55:49,220 just wants us to proffer prosper, profit, which means 852 00:55:49,580 --> 00:55:52,780 he's going to give you help along the way in everything 853 00:55:52,780 --> 00:55:55,620 you're assigned to do and cause it to come to pass. 854 00:55:56,740 --> 00:55:59,380 You cannot fail. I said you cannot fail. 855 00:56:00,020 --> 00:56:03,380 Your only failure is not following Hallelujah. 856 00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:07,620 So let's follow. Let's truly follow God, God's 857 00:56:07,620 --> 00:56:12,620 way, how he ordained it, what he said, Lord, I, I the only skin I 858 00:56:12,620 --> 00:56:18,420 have in the game is I died. And now here we go and I'm going 859 00:56:18,420 --> 00:56:21,700 after you because when I stand before you one day, I want you 860 00:56:21,700 --> 00:56:23,340 to be able to say let me read you your book. 861 00:56:23,340 --> 00:56:26,940 And I'm like, I did that. I did that. 862 00:56:26,940 --> 00:56:31,100 He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know, I know If this. 863 00:56:31,580 --> 00:56:34,380 These. Pages are like, like it's been 864 00:56:34,380 --> 00:56:37,420 copied. Well, I knew what I wrote, and I 865 00:56:37,420 --> 00:56:39,340 had my spirit tell you, and you followed it. 866 00:56:43,940 --> 00:56:46,820 If you get a print of ours, the. Forest, cows, grows and 867 00:56:46,820 --> 00:56:49,780 constellation. Guess what, if you give a second 868 00:56:49,780 --> 00:56:54,540 edition, they're the same. One's not different, they're the 869 00:56:54,540 --> 00:56:57,780 same. And God by His Spirit can tell 870 00:56:57,780 --> 00:57:01,820 you everything's written in that book about your life before you 871 00:57:01,820 --> 00:57:06,020 ever came, so that it actually comes to pass with your free 872 00:57:06,020 --> 00:57:09,820 will, accepting His path and plan for your life.