You have your Bibles turn over to Mark chapter 8.
I'm so excited to preach today, Man, this is good.
You know, I had to go see my mom today and it's so when I go see
my mom, it takes a little time to me to get there and get back.
So I get additional prayer time as a result of that.
And I came home and began to study and my wife got there a
little bit later and she's like, what are you?
I said nothing, but you know, you wait on the Lord.
Now you can. I am a preach by inspiration.
Sometimes the Lord allow me to have series.
I mean things that I know I'm going to do.
Then some days it's like it's your people or what do you want
to do? And so you know, but man, when
you hear the voice of God, things can hit.
And all of a sudden he took me to something I had said earlier,
I think even Sunday probably. And the Lord said, I want you to
go there. And so I started looking and
woo, it just opened up and here we go.
And so we're going to minister on follow tonight.
Amen. We're going to talk about
Kingdom destiny. Do you have a destiny in the
Kingdom? Come on, do you have a destiny
in the Kingdom? Because I'm telling you, if you
understood the Kingdom of God, you'd be so jacked, excited.
It's amazing, all right. But in Mark chapter 8, verses 34
to 36, Jesus says this and he summoned the crowd with his
disciples and said to them, if any win, if anyone wishes to
come after me, he must what? Deny himself, take up his cross
and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his
life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for
my sake and the Gospels, that's the good news.
We'll save it. Verse 36.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit
his soul? Well, you understand I was going
to start with this verse and I had finished the message.
Then all of a sudden, as I was leaving, the Lord said follow.
And I thought, yeah, that's good.
So I went back and I found it in the Matthew account.
And I thought, this sounds very familiar to Mark.
Let me jump back over because I'm using Mark.
And I realized, wow, this is the couple of verses above of how I
was going to start the message of what does it profit a man to
gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Another translation says it this way.
In verse 36 it says, but it is worth nothing for you to have
the whole world if you yourself are lost.
You know and the majority of churches know the vernacular of
the lost. In fact, the lost is very
important to and has become the center of the attention of the
church. Should we be concerned about the
lost? Yes, however, the church is not
about the lost. The church is about the king.
Are you hearing me? And the couple previous verses
says if you want to come after me, you're going to have to deny
yourself. These these are the words of
Jesus. So if we are calling ourselves
believers and followers of Christ, what precedes him saying
follow me? If you want to come after me,
you must deny yourself. So first is a denial of self.
Second, take up your cross. Now you're following.
So you cannot call yourself a follower if you're not doing the
first two. Now, I don't say this is what
the Bible says. And you understand if we don't
watch out because it goes on to say he who tries to save his
life will lose it. And he who loses his life for my
sake will save it because what does it gain?
A person prophet of purpose if they gain the whole world but
they themselves are lost, which means then nowhere here in
scripture did God is God's call of salvation or for the lost to
be saved to where they can still have relationship and passion
for the world and be a true follower of Jesus.
To be a follower of Jesus you have to deny self.
That's why Paul said I don't live anymore.
I've been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live right?
But as I live in this flesh, I live according to Christ.
I'm following him. I've been crucified because no
longer I who live, but the life that I live now in the flesh.
I live by faith, meaning I'm by faith means I am listening to
every word of the one I call Lord, who is supreme in
authority, and I follow that word and my opinion, my desires,
my own thinking, what I want to do in my life is dead to me
because the cross I carry is the purpose of my existence.
Hallelujah. And so he says, if you try to go
after just the world, you yourself will be lost.
We use this term lost in the word lost.
Well, what does it mean? What did the lost lose 'cause we
called them lost? Well, if you're found, you're no
longer lost, right? So when we say, well, I lost,
what are we? We're in reference to something
we had at one time. Are you hearing me?
So if I said I lost my keys, then I know keys are the object
that I no longer have. So once I see my keys are there
in my possession, now they are found.
You notice we don't call ourselves the found, yet we
reference the world as the lost. Well, again, what did the lost
lose? Well, it brings me back to some
statements that some of you, it's going to be very familiar
when I make these statements for others.
You've not heard these before, but the greatest tragedy in life
is life without purpose. The greatest challenge in life
is knowing what to do. The greatest mistake in life is
being busy but not effective, and the greatest failure in life
is being successful in the wrong assignment.
If we are going to live up to the Kingdom, destiny, because
it's not a destination, it's sonship.
Adam did not lose heaven because Adam was not created in heaven.
Now I'll just stop right here. I'm not saying we will not go to
heaven, but I'm also not going to say we're going to live in
heaven forever because the Bible doesn't say that.
The Bible says the Lord's coming to the earth.
They'll be a new heaven and new earth and hit the new Jerusalem
will come down out of heaven to the earth and we will live with
God to be on planet earth. Now that doesn't mean God cannot
assign you to go up to the 3rd heaven for whatever purpose.
I'm not saying that he can't do things in the time of eternity.
What we call eternity after everything's done that you want
would not have access to all of his creation based upon what he
says. What I am saying is that when we
call people lost, Adam did not fall from heaven, he fell from
dominion. And Genesis 126 as we know, if
you've been here long enough, then God said let us make man in
our image according to our likeness, and let them rule over
the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the the
cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth. So God made both male and female
to have dominion on the earth. When man disobeyed God, what he
lost was his dominion relationship with the Lord.
He's cut off from God. His nature now is not like God.
God's nature is by all right rules.
He rules, He reigns, He's sovereign, He is of.
He has the authority of His word.
And what's so amazing about God? God watches over his word to
perform it. So again, is it true Jesus came
to save you? Yes.
The question is why? Was it for you?
Or was it to make sure God's word comes to pass?
And it's for the latter. Jesus comes because God says, I
said, let's make man in our image.
Adam now who holds that dominion has given it over to the devil.
But I have to fulfill my word, so I'm going to have a pathway
back so that man can be, as I always intended them to be, like
me, Hallelujah. Because what they've lost is
their nature to be like me with. And that assignment of that
nature is to rule and reign on the earth, Hallelujah.
And so the lost, lost dominion, you don't just gain relationship
with Jesus, you gain your purpose.
This is why he says you must deny yourself.
Take up your cross. Cross is not relationship
crossed his assignment because Jesus came to the earth as a
man. Because God gave dominion to a
man, so it required man to get that dominion back.
And as a result of that, his assignment was to be the Savior
of the world, that he is to be the Lamb that would be slain.
Come on, y'all with me tonight. And as a result of that, He was
in obedient to God's word because it's the pathway by
which man can fulfill the word of God concerning himself.
Doctor Miles Monroe said this for years.
He said if you do not know the purpose of a thing, abuses are
inevitable. And so he would use a
refrigerator as a example. I don't really see this ever
happening anymore. But back in the day when people
would take their refrigers, refrigerators out and put them
by the side of the road in order for them to be, you know,
disposed of, they would take the door off because it and at A at
a particular time, children would climb in them.
The door would get shut and they would suffocate.
He said a refrigerator was never designed to be a coffin.
However, if a child sees sees it as a place to hide, abuses are
inevitable. We see this in relationships.
We see this in all other all kinds of things.
Because when you don't know why you're here, when you don't
understand your Kingdom, destiny abuses are inevitable.
And so again, you know, the goal of God was not so that man would
be saved to go to heaven, although man being saved can go
to heaven. Because God said if we're
through Paul to be absent from the body will be present with
the Lord and he is presently in heaven.
Now you understand, in the old dispensation, in the old
covenant, when people separated from their bodies, they did not
go to heaven. They went to the grave, they
went to paradise, they went to Abraham's bosom.
But when Jesus died and went to the grave, he led captivity,
captive, busted paradise wide open, which means in our
dispensation, when we're absent from the body, we'll be present
with the Lord. And he is presently seated at
the right hand of Father in heaven.
But is He coming back? I said, is he coming back?
Glory to God, He's coming back. So if we are going to know who
we are and if we are going to follow effectively the word of
the Lord, then we need to get in our destiny and then allow God
to tell us who we are. And what's amazing about this is
found in Psalms 139 verse 13. Look at this, it says this, and
we're going to go through verse 18.
He says for you, for my inward parts.
You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to you, for I
am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well.
He said my frame was hidden from you when I was made in secret
and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance, and in your book,
whose book, His book, your book were written the days that were
ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.
Isn't that amazing? He said.
How precious also are your thoughts to me.
Oh God, how vast is the sum of them?
He said if I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
And man, we live on the coast, we go to the beach and there's a
lot of sand out there. And which tells me if you ever
feel bad about yourself or people been talking about you,
go to the beach, look at the sand and say God's thinking
about me more than this. His thoughts toward me are
greater than all that I'm looking at right now.
You don't have time for a pity party when God's thoughts
concerning you outnumber the sand.
Which tells me if you're going through something and feeling
bad about yourself, you need to go talk to your author, your
Creator, and pick up a sand and say, what's this thought right
here about me that you have? And what's this one and this one
and this one and this one and this one and this one and this
one and this one and this one. I will not let the devil tell me
who I am. I won't let the world tell me
who I am because my father, before I even came out of my
mama's womb, had so many thoughts concerning me.
That the sands, it outnumbers the sands on the shore.
Oh my gosh, isn't this amazing that you have a destiny and all
you have to do to unlock those is follow?
That's all you have to do. It's not about discovering
yourself in heaven. God's thoughts about you were
already in existence prior to coming to earth through the womb
and He wants you to discover who you are and when you who were
lost or what you had lost is now reassigned to you through your
new birth experience and you becoming a child of God.
It is very important for us to be constantly seeking the Lord
and following Him. Said, what do you want me to do?
How do you want me to do it, and what are we doing?
Because you know me, The sum of your thoughts about me and what
I'm supposed to do, it outnumbers the sand.
This is why that prophetic utterances.
You've got to expand yourself. I mean, if you see yourself as
well, I can only go to the beach and go get you a dump load of
dirt and figure out all that God's trying to say.
You know he's not trying to withhold this information.
He wants you to discover yourself because his thoughts
towards you are amazing and powerful.
We hold on to thoughts that He never gave us from a nature that
He never designed for us. And He does not want us to hold
on to that old nature or its old feelings, nor does He want us to
stroke it, comfort it, you know, get around others who will help
you feel it and identify with your feelings.
No, He wants you to rise up to the sum of his thoughts
concerning you. He's like, man, if you only knew
half the thing that I have destined for you, if you only
believe my God, will you be like, come on, what's next?
And people would be in awe of your life because they're like,
how does this happen? You're like, man, My, I don't
want to say it, but I almost think the Father in heaven loves
me the most, right? Because when you start
discovering, you're like, I want to be around you more.
I want to know. I want to know.
God forbid I try to do something on my own.
Why would I try to go a road on my own?
Why would I try to be known in planet Earth as the wealthiest
person and most influential, yet suffer eternal damnation and
never find out who I really was? Because when you know God,
you're not even limited to planet Earth anymore.
You're not limited to this time frame.
You're not limited to the measly little lifespan of which one
particular billionaire is working so hard to try to keep
his body so healthy and do such routine because he's wanting
really mortality or immortality. But it's not going to happen.
There's only one way You must be born again.
You have to follow. And following is not about
control. It's about finding you God's.
God's not in a power trip. You're going to do what I say.
That's not God. God's like, bro, if you only
knew who you were and the things I have for you.
If you only knew how I want to release you and be so excited
that you're my child and be pleased with you.
Just if you could just tap into my thoughts about you and go in
the directions that I want you to go, it'd be amazing.
Be amazing. It's not control.
It's a releasing of you. And I'm like, show me who I am.
Give me your thoughts, whatever they may be.
I want to follow you. It goes on to say this in
Proverbs 16 verse 9. It says this, the mind of man
plans his way, but the Lord. Directs his steps and you, as
you know, I said this, you know, a man has paths and I like this.
He has plans. So as a man, you know, and, and
when I'm talking to the Lord, I'm like Lord, because I know
you love me. I know you want to to want to be
seen through me. You want me to expand your
Kingdom. You have a purpose for my life.
I'm not here by accident. I'm not a mistake.
You knew me before I was in my mother's womb.
And it doesn't matter what conditions took place to get me
there. Are you hearing me?
And so, you know, if I'm on assignment and I'm to do a work
for you, well, we could do this, but also we could do this.
And I'm willing to do this because at the end of the day,
whichever is my pathway or by burden to bear, when I say burn
my car, my cross, my purpose, let's discuss.
And then when you begin to have all these plans out, the Lord
says, take that one, go down there, start, start walking this
way. Because I have found that
sometimes I'll speak a plan based upon an end, and then I'll
say, well, maybe we'll go here, which is a plan based upon an
end. And that end is different than
the other plan. And this end is different than
all the other plans. But got to say, start here.
And you get on it. You're like, oh, well, we're
going, so this must be the end. Only to find out midway I jump
over to this plan, 'cause that was never the object, that in
order to get to the third end, I had to take all paths, just at
different intersections, because the steps are directed by God.
Hallelujah, I said, Hallelujah. Or you may come to the end of 1
and realize that it connects to the ends of the others, that
this one way got it all and it's for His glory.
It's for Him being magnified in the earth, and you are part of
the process to expand His Kingdom.
My goodness that you're able to look back on your life and say,
but God, when people say, how in the world did you do that?
And they'll have to associate these words, but God, right.
Proverbs 1921 says many plans are in a man's heart, many
plans. So I, you know, I tell Apostle
Marshall, I said, now listen, I'm, I'm just going to be
talking. I'm talking, I'm not saying thus
saith the Lord, although when I'm speaking I may be saying
thus saith the Lord. What I don't know is which is
thus saith the Lord. And this is not a lack of prayer
because sometimes people, they won't even get started to try to
determine their destiny. Well, I'm going to go pray and
I'm just going to stay there until I hear God.
Remember there was an old adage back in the day where it says
steering a car is easier when it's moving.
It's easier to move a car, you know, steer a car when it's
moving. And I lived in the day before
power steering. In fact, my high school vehicle
was a 79 GMC. It was a a pickup truck with
A2250 straight 6IN it. I mean, there was enough room
that you could turn the engine on and get over the engine.
They could shut the hood and you could drive down the road
underneath the hood. So much room.
It was amazing. You could work on it very easy
and it was a three speed on the column, OK, but it had no power
steering. So man, when you got somewhere
you're like, I mean, you're like wanting to come off that clutch.
Just get it rolling a little so I can get a little bit of help.
See, you young people have no idea.
They're like, what's he talking about?
Steering is so easy. You have no idea.
They don't even know what 3 speed on the column is.
You're right. That is, you don't even know
what manuals are anymore. Really.
You don't even know what a standard shift vehicle is
anymore because everything's automatic.
Shall I explain that is you change gears as if you pull,
which they don't have this anymore.
I know they used to have the automatic on the column where
you went pull back and it would drop down to the R to the, you
know what I'm saying, Mick, right.
But we would go first gear, second gear, third gear.
If you want to reverse, you had to pull it this way and put it
all the way up, right? That's three speed on the
column. Heaven's like, I don't even know
what he's talking about right now.
That's OK, Go get some tea at Coastal Nutrition and maybe
she'll be able to explain it tomorrow.
So, but many plans are in man's heart.
So wives, I'm just saying this to our husbands.
When your wives are talking, a lot of times us talking is the
purpose so that we can get to hearing the council.
So you would never want to look at someone and say, well, they
said they do this, this or this, You know what?
And they just went through all of it.
They didn't really know. How do you know it's God?
Because along the way God kicked in with a voice.
It's not a lack of prayer. And many people are not moving
in their destiny because they're waiting to hear in the Lord's
light. Let's talk the plans.
What, what do you have? What what's what's coming up in
you because it's a relationship. This is what's so amazing about
God. He's again not controlling.
He's releasing you. He's like, let's talk about
this, OK, Well, as I've read you where we could do this, you
know, I could see us doing this. And again, those thoughts he's
giving you and he's like, that's my thought.
Do that, do that. As you know, I told you when it
comes when it came to a purchase in the mall, you know when it
came to rubber meets the road money is going to them.
I'm like, I sense I, I, I'm definitely eager.
I know God is totally able, but at the end of the day, I still
do not sense that I have had that.
Thus saith the Lord in my spirit.
And it was when I drove to put our camper somewhere because we
were going to be camping after service.
And as I was driving, praying, as I've told you on A1A and pass
by some $1,000,000 homes. And the Lord directed me to
those homes and says, son, what do you see?
I said, man, those are $1,000,000 houses.
He said, what do you notice about this particular 1?
And I said, well, it's got, you know, hurricane shutters on it.
I would suspect it's a snowbird's home.
And he goes, you are correct, he says if a person can have a
house worth over millions of dollars as their second home,
don't you think I can get them all?
And that was my path. That's the way I don't have to
come off now. Are you hearing me?
So at the end of the day, now I have the counsel of the Lord,
which is his will, and it's going to stand.
And we've talked about Lord, this property here.
In fact, I know some people in our community right now that
started with me and no longer with me, but our little sideways
because they think that because I pursued a piece of property
and did not get it, that I didn't hear the voice of God.
However, it was a plan because what I did hear God say at the
beginning, do not buy 5 acres. What you're going to do will be
bigger. So for some reason 25 was always
the minimum in my mind and I went after 50 acres when we had
less than 100 people. But when we pursued it, which
back then, and this is laughable now, that 50 acres was only
$1,000,000, We negotiated down to 900,000.
It's like that's chump change. However, when we went through
the process, of the 50 acres, only 8 acres were buildable.
You want me to tell you where this property's at?
It's where the Tringali barn is. That was the property, but they
had a man made lake, could have closed that in.
It was about 15 acres, but you have to bury a bunch of concrete
in it to do so because it was a pit, a dirt pit.
But because they had encroached and wetlands, they were going to
make certain land unbuildable. You weren't even going to be
able to mitigate it to be able to build on it.
It would have been non buildable land which gave us 8 acres and
it was separated. And I'm like, that's not what
God wants. So in essence, I didn't get his
counsel. However, here we are now, 25 1/2
acres later, bet the ball you would think those individuals
would be like, well, they didn't get that, but look what the Lord
did do for him, right? Hallelujah.
And let me ask you this, have you ever started down a path and
thought it was God only to find out it's not and you want people
to forgive when you did that? Well, you know, I thought I
should take this job, but I was wrong.
I thought it was a Lord, but it was and I can't.
And you're like, well, we forgive you.
Come on. Amen.
I said, Amen. Don't let someone else's passion
to follow a path and even if they don't get it right, hinder
you from following the voice of God Amen.
Proverbs 521 says it this way for the ways of a man are before
the eyes of the Lord and he watches all his paths.
Now this scripture here is is in context to the the the last
scripture is that there's many plans in a man's heart yet the
counsel of the Lord stand will stand, which means here's all my
past Lord and the Lord says it's this one.
So now we know the way, which brings us to this verse, we for
the ways of man. Now the ways to go down this
path are before the Lord. And what that's telling us is
that God now watches all his paths, meaning he'll make sure
this way he has taken you on will stay smooth, will be
straight, it will be able to be completed.
It will come to its end. It will remove every obstacle
because again, when God sends you on a path, it does not mean
it's void of trials and tribulations, nor I guarantee
you, the path God ordains will have ambushes from the enemy to
try to get you to thwart or abandoned that pathway.
And many believers, if they don't watch out, they're like,
oh, I can't go, so I'm going to go this way instead.
And the Lord says, reroute. You are off your course.
Get back on that. Yeah, but there's this mountain.
Well, I told you to speak to him anyway.
Amen. I mean, I would love to tell you
that the minute you know, the plan of God, which path, how
you're going to proceed forward, that all of a sudden someone
would show up with a check, that much money, all the people to
jump on board with you, and that you don't have to do anything.
It just comes like, you know, a genie in a bottle.
It's not that, no, the Lord, it's a relationship.
It's the Lord let you know. Look, you know there's a God of
this world and he's really upset when you're doing my will and
trying to take our the territory that's rightfully yours in the
1st place. Just stay the course 'cause my
counsel will prevail. You know his counsel concerning
you is going to prevail. What God says about you will
prevail. You just have to stay on the
path period. Stay on it, don't abandoned it
because this is about your destiny.
This is about who you are as a person.
Psalms 3723 says this. The steps of a man are
established by the Lord and he delights in his ways.
So all these scriptures are letting us know that the the
minute I said Jesus, I call you Lord of my life, we're basically
saying I'm here to follow you. Well, you're only here to follow
because you denied yourself. It's no longer me.
It's no longer my will. It's no longer what I want to
do. It's not, hey, can we negotiate
this relationship? Because this stuff that I'm
doing right now, you see what I'm getting out of this deal.
Now I say that because you understand that all that first
scripture comes into the scripture.
What? What does it profit a man to
gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?
So there are many people that are being successful in the
wrong assignment, but yet are still empty on the inside.
And the success is doing some things to curb the hurt, but it
never gets rid of it. Then you hear about Jesus and
all of a sudden it starts touching that place that the
success and the things surrounded with success does not
touch. And so you're drawn to it and he
reveals himself and you're like, man, this is the answer you have
revealed to me. Jesus is the way.
However, in order to have the relationship and be a follower
of Him, you cannot negotiate yet successful will come in.
Are the things that you are good at or what you've enjoyed that
is still tied to your flesh that you don't see currently is
destroying your life in the long run.
Because what does it say about Moses?
Moses chose to be with his people and suffer, then be
called the son of Pharaoh's daughter and enjoy the passing
pleasures of sin for its season. Yet people will be confronted
with their sin. They're disconnect from God,
recognize they need to be connected and then they'll want
to come and say, let's talk about our relationship before I
say Jesus, I'm, I make you Lord. I'm really, I want you as my
savior. I just want you to save me from
all my wrongdoing. But all that I'm doing, I kind
of want to bring this in. I mean, it's not that bad.
I want to be able to do this. I want to be able to do that.
You know, surely you understand that these things that I'm doing
for people are good. No, He wants you to get Paul's
revelation. Paul's revelation.
Everything I did before Christ was done, everything.
Nothing was good. And he was actually doing good
works according to the law. But when he was confronted with
Christ, he says it's a mess, all of it.
I don't want any of it. I'm.
Who I am. I just want my destiny and Jesus
said well. Come on, follow me.
And you can discover it. Let me tell you.
You do not. Want to stand before the Lord?
One day and him reveal to you all you could have been.
That one thought. Motivates my life.
Motivates it. Because I'm not standing before
Apostle Marcy. I'm not standing before
Thaddeus. I'm not standing before Brian.
I'm not going to stand before Karen.
Not going to happen. I'm going to stand before.
Jesus. And Jesus has a book that he
wrote about me before I even came out of my mom's womb.
And he's going to say, let me show you what I ordained for
you. Let's see if what you did
matches it. We can go page by page.
Did you accomplish it? Because I was here to order your
steps. It's not a problem, in fact.
I'm jacked, excited about it. I was so pumped about it.
I mean, I couldn't wait to reveal myself to you.
I couldn't wait to bring you into the family.
I couldn't wait for you to discover all that I had for you
and the dominion that I had for you and the rulership I had and
all the things that I wanted you to conquer.
And the way the world was didn't matter to me because I raised
you up above it. I pulled you up.
I seated you in heavenly places with me.
I called you to be able to speak the same things that I speak.
Speak in My name was authorized by my name.
I redeemed you from the law of sin and death.
I healed your body. I removed your sickness and
disease. I mean, I, I, I renew your mind.
I mean, I made you brand new. And then I had to glorify body
weight when the whole assignment's done.
But in the process, you still could accomplish some amazing
things. But when we sell the.
Bible, where are you going to go when you die?
Ask Jesus into your heart, because that's all that matters.
That does not line up with Scripture.
Because the Father is longing. To say, man, you didn't even
have your first breath out of the womb and I've got this great
plan for your life. It's amazing.
It is the greatest adventure of your life and anything that you
do outside it sells it short and there's no gain to you.
In fact, you're at a loss. Some of the greatest names you
know today you'll never see again, except until the Great
White Throne Judgment and they're Emmys.
They're Nobel Peace Prizes will matter nothing.
And they would. Gladly trade them all.
In throw them away, get rid of them because the most.
Crazy thing will. Happen is when he pulls out the
books. I don't know that the Lord would
do this, but could you imagine if he pulled it out?
Said Well, I'm going to read to. You what I.
Had planned for you. And this happens in heaven,
which is already tough because those who die without Jesus are
in the grave in torment, and then he pulls them out, brings
them to heaven to see the glory of God and come before his
throne there. He doesn't take his.
Court to. The grave.
Come on now. No, I mean this.
Happens in our judicial system. The judge don't walk down into
the cell, set up a table. He pulls them out, brings them
into. His courtroom air conditioned
vacuum look nice. The judge comes in with all his
regalia. You stand up, oh, that has got
nothing when the King of Kings comes and takes the stand, bro,
it's got nothing when the Father sits on that throne.
And now you've been pulled up out of the grave and you've been
brought up into the courts of heaven.
And could it be that the Father with tears in his eyes saying
this is what was ordained for you and begins to call out your
name and read your life before you ever left your mom's womb.
Then he gives you all the accounts of every time he came
by your life and began to reveal himself to you and you knew he
was there, but you chose this life and rejected him.
It's. Going to be a tough day, you
say? Well, we see that.
Could be could very well the judgment seats.
Going to be personal. Great White Throne judgments
probably going to be public. Because God will let all the
righteous. Know there's nothing ever done
that I would not hold account to.
Nothing. No one got away with anything.
No one, all right, I know. It's heavy stuff, but it's
powerful stuff when you're light.
Well, praise God, I'm going to find out my destiny, right?
Because. Again, how does God?
Think towards you. The sum of his thoughts are
amazing. And there's more than the sand.
It's amazing. And if he would be willing to
reveal that to us who are born of God, He's willing to reveal
that to all mankind. So now that you're born again.
Don't settle. Pursue.
God to find. Every thought he has for you
don't. Settle.
For what I know, He thinks about me to save me, and that's all.
No, find out about Him wanting to empower you.
Find out about Him wanting to heal you.
Find out about Him seeing you healed whole, completely healed.
Walking in divine healing, walking in divine prosperity,
walking in the fullness of God, walking in great maturity,
walking through trials and tribulations, walking through
the valley of the shadow of death.
Yet fear, you fear nothing. You go through it, walking in
places where He holds the mouths of lions.
See yourself this way that he sees you as a champion more than
a conqueror. Visualize these sums of.
You because he doesn't look you like you just should be excited
that I let you in the house. That's not his thoughts
concerning you. His thoughts concerning.
You is let us. Make men our aims.
Let him have dominion. Let him rule.
Let him reign like I do. OK, Proverbs. 2020. 4 says it
this way. Man's steps are ordained by the
Lord. He is personally.
Interested in you? Never let the thought come to
your mind. God doesn't care about me.
Does God even see me? That is a lie.
Wake up and say now, Lord, I know you.
Were thinking about me before I woke up because you weren't
sleeping and you already have. Ordained my life.
In today's steps, help me to. Recognize I want to.
Have an ear to hear exactly what I'm supposed to do.
Because I have found through the course of.
My walk with God that some of the things that I thought were
actually not a whole big deal because it seemed pretty natural
were huge markers of Revelation speaking to my life and put me
on a course somewhere huge. Some of the most.
Spectacular we would could call them accounts that I've had with
the Lord were there only so that it would remind me when the
trial came. Don't abandoned, don't quit,
don't give up, don't stop because.
You know you're called. Now, why do we say this?
Proverbs 3. Five and seven, it says trust in
the Lord. How do you do this?
How do you allow God to direct your steps?
Trust. God's never failed you.
He'll never leave you nor forsake you.
He'll always do His word concerning you.
Always. No weapon formed against you
can. Prosper.
If God be for you, who could be against you?
He is trustworthy. So you are to trust in the Lord
with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding,
which means you're going to have a path, a plan, a way to do.
You're going to become naturally trained in some aspects.
And he said now don't lean on that.
Trust in me. He's not saying he won't use
your understanding. He said don't lean on it.
Don't lean on it to where you would violate what God is saying
to do, because you're. Like no, I can't do that.
This. Is the way to do it because you
naturally are figuring it out. I cannot tell you how many
pastors and Pastor John George can testify to this, how many
are crippled in their vision because all they see is their
checkbook and they're like. We can't do it.
We cannot afford it. And they lean on the.
Understanding of what they see in the natural financially to
determine what they do, but not in this house because when I
hear from God and then I go to Pastor Mike or Chief Financial,
I said, hey, I'm thinking about this.
And he said, well, this is in the count.
Then we both laugh. Right, we laugh.
Well, haha. Definitely not doing it that
way. But it doesn't change what I've
heard, so I don't. Lean on the account.
I say, OK, Lord, I trust you because then when I do that in
all my ways, I acknowledge him and he then what makes my path
straight? He shows me what's currently
crooked or around a bin that I can't see.
He straightens it out so I can see how to do it and I may not
ever have to touch the bank account.
Ever come on you with. Me, but I'm moving.
Towards it, as if it's already done.
I'm already making steps. I'm talking about it, I'm doing
it. I'm like, we're going to do
this, we're going to do that, we're going to do this and we do
it. Say Amen.
Then it goes on to say. Fear the.
Lord and turn away from evil. Do not be wise in your own eyes.
Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So again, God saying, look,
don't be wise in your own eyes. Don't think that you can
accumulate so much natural knowledge that it's no longer.
You don't have to bother God. I remember when I was working in
Atlanta, GA years ago and all of a sudden, you know, conversation
came up about God and someone said, well, you know, God gave
you a brain meaning, you know, if you just use your brain then
you don't have to bother God with these things.
I'm. I am not a bother.
To God, because the sum of his thoughts towards me, he's like,
son, I just wish you would come and hang out.
Did I remember I've told you this once before that one time
the Lord in prayer time really corrected me.
He said, Son, if you spend as much time with your wife as you
do with me, you would not be married very long.
Because I wasn't spending time with him.
I would go to church, but I had no thoughts about him.
I went in the Bible. I was letting a preacher preach
to me only when I showed up. But I'm going to heaven when I
die. I'm a good guy.
I'm being nice to people. I was saved, but I had no
relationship because I didn't spend time, he said.
If you spend that kind of time with your wife, she'd leave.
You say lot. So I had to change because he's
like, you understand, honestly, he's at the foot of your bed the
minute you. Open your eyes.
He's like. Oh, oh, here we go.
Another day, man. I got some things to say.
Let's talk. Let me just talk to you.
But if you just like, go on. I'm trying to paint a picture so
tomorrow. Morning.
You'll you'll visualize that when you get up and going, the
Lord's like, hey, hey, hey, wait.
Where you going? To the bathroom, You know, let's
talk, you know, can we talk as you're going?
I'll stand right here while you're fixing your makeup.
Come on, we can have a conversation.
But if you're just thinking. About what you're going to do.
And not about him and not acknowledging him and not
acknowledging the breath that he's giving in your breath and
giving him some kind of praise or anything.
Not spending time in the word, not having any.
How's he going to give you the direction?
So just say, OK, today I'm still.
Looking at this and I'm talking, you know, well, we got meetings
today and we talked about our meetings and that sounds
natural, but the reality is all the while we're listening.
What if God says don't do that meeting and there's something
like I'm canceling that I'm. Canceling that, we're not doing
that. Because he's talking to me.
There's another direction, another step.
I need to do this instead. Well, you know, you just Rob.
You shouldn't. Can't.
I know. But I am.
Because I should be doing something else.
Come on. Are you hearing me?
So Proverbs 16 three. We're winding down now, says
this. Commit your works to the Lord
and your plans will be established.
Do you want to be successful? Then just commit your works to
the Lord. Again your life.
Church is not a part of your life, it's your life and
everything you're doing out is to be brought in.
Because it is to glorify God. It's to expand his Kingdom, so
commit. Your works to the Lord.
And your plans will be established.
Hallelujah, Amen. Isaiah 3021 says this.
Your ears will hear a word behind you.
This is the way walk in it whenever you turn to the left or
to the right in that how encouraging is that that God is
so if we follow. I mean, God just wants us to
follow He's. Made a plea follow me but in
order to do it deny yourself take up your calls start
pursuing your destiny pursue it then you're following because
again, God did not create you by accident.
He did not create you without a purpose.
And I'm going to be honest with you because so many are of the
list we read at the beginning, they're living a tragic life
because they don't know their purpose.
Their life is so challenged because they never know what to
do. They make.
Tons of mistakes because they're.
Busy, but nothing seems to be effective and then.
Others are just. Failures have everything the
world could offer, but they're empty.
And I know believers. That are successful in the wrong
assignment the man when you pursue God.
He's right there to speak, to whisper, to talk, to say walk
here, go there. And you're not going to
understand it. In fact, he's not obligated to
let you understand it, but he does want you to believe.
He wants you to believe. Hallelujah, I said, He wants you
to believe, and man, when you believe, it'll come out in the
end. My Mama, it's amazing.
Isaiah 4817 says this. Thus says the Lord, your
Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
I am the Lord your God who teaches you to.
What's that word? I'm going for a.
Full circle now. What'd he say?
He. Said, If you want to come after
me, deny yourself, take it to cross and follow me.
For a man tries to save his life, he loses it.
But if he tries to lose his life, he'll save it.
What good is a man if he gains? What profit is there for a man
who gains the whole world but loses his soul yet thus?
Says the Lord your. Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel, I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, Who
leads. You in the way.
You should go which means. The greatest gain?
You can ever have on the earth is to be a follower of the path
God has placed you on in the destiny.
He's called you and he's not withholding that.
So in this place today it. Could be that you're like, man,
I'm challenged, what am I supposed to do?
Good question. Good news, though, he wants to
tell you and he says seek. What's he say?
Seek first. Why the Kingdom?
Because you're part of it. You have an assignment to it.
You're not a mistake. And when you seek and say father
in the name of Jesus by the leading of the Spirit of God
because I'm a child of God. So I'm led by the Spirit.
Show me who I am what I'm supposed to do Listen, not
everyone's called to the ministry are going to function
in ministry gifts. Many are called into the world
in different sectors of society, but yet your steps are being
ordered of the Lord and in. Your.
Profession. It could be very much that God
wants you to be within the profession that you're in, but
He wants to give you creative ideas that changes the field.
That gives you access to certain.
Things so that you can show the Kingdom you can bring.
People to the Lord. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
This is amazing stuff that God has for us because he really
just wants us to proffer prosper, profit, which means
he's going to give you help along the way in everything
you're assigned to do and cause it to come to pass.
You cannot fail. I said you cannot fail.
Your only failure is not following Hallelujah.
So let's follow. Let's truly follow God, God's
way, how he ordained it, what he said, Lord, I, I the only skin I
have in the game is I died. And now here we go and I'm going
after you because when I stand before you one day, I want you
to be able to say let me read you your book.
And I'm like, I did that. I did that.
He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know, I know If this.
These. Pages are like, like it's been
copied. Well, I knew what I wrote, and I
had my spirit tell you, and you followed it.
If you get a print of ours, the. Forest, cows, grows and
constellation. Guess what, if you give a second
edition, they're the same. One's not different, they're the
same. And God by His Spirit can tell
you everything's written in that book about your life before you
ever came, so that it actually comes to pass with your free
will, accepting His path and plan for your life.