1 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,760 Father, we just thank you and praise you tonight for those 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,480 that haven't shown up for attendance, we're thankful that 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,560 we're able to impart some things that'll be a blessing tonight 4 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:24,880 that we've worked on over the last month. 5 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,560 I thank you and praise You that as we continue in the months to 6 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,640 come, that everything that we have to say has a value to it, 7 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,800 something for us to consider to be able to get an understanding 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,160 of what is expected of us and how we can be involved in your 9 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:42,160 business, which is the only business. 10 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,920 So it will ever, ever last forever. 11 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:47,600 And we want to thank you and praise you for our part in it. 12 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,920 We give you praise for the word tonight and we thank you for it 13 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,400 in Jesus name, Amen. Tonight we're going to talk 14 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,480 about vision and I kind of titled this as a subtitle to 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,640 that. What are you looking at? 16 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,080 What are you looking at? OK, now I want to give you a 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,480 reminder tonight and if you can fill these in for me would be 18 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,960 great. We learned these when Apostle 19 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:14,760 Earl got to the point of Kingdom. 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,360 Most of you know my story in 2007. 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,560 It was a Black Friday. I was spending time with the 22 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,200 Lord. The Lord told me two things he 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,720 said. One, you're not Kingdom minded 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,000 enough. I thought, what does that mean? 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:34,480 OK, didn't tell me, OK. And so it wasn't until a year 26 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,000 later, that was 2007. It wasn't even year later, it 27 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,880 was a half a year later when we came down here and Pastor wanted 28 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,200 to be able to go to a conference. 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,280 And when we moved down here, I was supposed to go that 30 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,000 conference with him. We arrived at 2:00 in the 31 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,600 morning on a Tuesday. We were all wore out. 32 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,400 Pastor said I'm going to go to the conference. 33 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,200 He said you don't worry about it, I'll just let you know what 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,040 it was about. Great thought that what would 35 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,880 happen didn't happen, OK, because he was so changed from 36 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,760 that one conference in the arena of understanding the Kingdom 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,240 like he had never seen it before. 38 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,680 He decided this is the way that the Lord wanted the church to 39 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,800 go. So Paul Sorrell, you know, began 40 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,640 to teach us. He taught us for four weeks. 41 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:22,480 Were you here? It was 4 weeks call and it was 42 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,720 basically as talking about the unseen realm. 43 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,880 OK and I'll never forget he had me right as we got here. 44 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,440 Print a T-shirt and it was a black T-shirt with black ink and 45 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,080 it said, you know, let's see the unseen. 46 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,120 Now you could see it when the light shined on the shirt just 47 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,600 about right, but you had to really get up on it to figure it 48 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,520 out right. And I'll never forget that he 49 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,120 taught that that particular Sunday morning. 50 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,360 It was June the 7th, 2009. We got here in May. 51 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:55,600 So the Lord was getting ready to show me what he meant that 52 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,240 previous year on understanding the Kingdom. 53 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,880 The only thing that I had studied it out. 54 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,200 I, I thought, that's what you're supposed to do, that the Lord. 55 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,760 I want me to study it out. And I thought, OK, I'm going to 56 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,040 study it out. I had a opportunity to minister 57 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,200 back in Oklahoma two weeks in a row and I talked about the 58 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,320 Kingdom. I had no idea what I was talking 59 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:21,200 about still. And then when Pastor dropped the 60 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,400 Kingdom on us, the one thing that clicked with me is 61 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,120 understanding we're talking about a government. 62 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,920 Well, he had basically gone to see Miles Monroe. 63 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,600 Miles Monroe, one of his first books out, was Rediscovering the 64 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,520 Kingdom. All right, when Pastor got back, 65 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,640 he had bought the first three books that that Miles had 66 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,720 written. And he had and and I was going 67 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,760 into his office telling great service. 68 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,720 OK. And I saw those three books. 69 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,720 Well, I go to the other side of the desk and I'm looking in 70 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,160 books over kind of taking a mental snapshot of the covers. 71 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,720 I went and bought those books. You guys have probably heard the 72 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,280 story. All right. 73 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,760 And blew my mind. I mean, this is what we've been 74 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,680 waiting for. And this is before he, he 75 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,160 dropped the message on us. And so I'm, I'm, I'm thinking, 76 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,000 man, I'm getting what I missed out on. 77 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,760 And, and all of a sudden I'm telling Josh about it. 78 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,240 And Josh says, Oh yeah, pastor told us about that and he told 79 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,040 us not to read it. And I go, oh, that's weird. 80 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,360 OK, well, he never told me. So I just kept reading. 81 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,720 And then all of a sudden, 5 minutes later, I get a phone 82 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,080 call. I should have known you'd buy 83 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,720 them books. I said, yeah, man, they are 84 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,400 awesome. And he goes, how far are you in 85 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,600 the first one? I said about halfway. 86 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,760 And he said shut the books, I don't want you looking at the 87 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:46,400 books until I get done. I said, OK, put them on the 88 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,760 shelf. But I remember the third book, 89 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,080 the cover, because I looked at the covers pretty good before. 90 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,240 I just decided I'd wait, right? There's four things that Miles 91 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:57,920 said in there I want you to listen to, he said. 92 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,000 These are the greatest, OK? The greatest tragedy in life is 93 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,120 not death, but life without a purpose, OK? 94 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,520 The greatest challenge in life is knowing what to do. 95 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,400 I changed that a little bit, and I'll give you the word that I 96 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,200 added to it. OK, Miss, the greatest mistake 97 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,200 in life is being busy but not effective. 98 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,240 But the big, the biggest or the greatest failure in life is 99 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,600 being successful in the wrong assignment. 100 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,000 So tonight I have a question on each of those because when I got 101 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,080 to the tragedy all right, and he said a life without a purpose, 102 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,960 he said challenge. He said knowing what to do. 103 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,280 And I added the word next because sometimes we may be in 104 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:42,000 the middle of what to do, but what do we do next? 105 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:43,600 I always want to know, Lord, what is it? 106 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,840 What is it we need to do next? Because if we obey the first, 107 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,280 there will be a next, OK, all right. 108 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:52,760 Third thing was a mistake. The greatest mistake in life is 109 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,960 being busy and not effective and being a failure in in life is 110 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:58,800 being successful in the wrong assignment. 111 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,400 So the question that I have that we need to really purpose to get 112 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:08,560 in US tonight is who gives us the purpose, all right, what to 113 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,320 do or next? All right, giving us something 114 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,720 that will be effective and giving us something that is the 115 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,360 right assignment. That's that you, we have to ask 116 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,240 who gives us that? I'm going to tell you, and you 117 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,440 should already know, it's God. If we want to be a success in 118 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,680 life, we have to do what He wants us to do. 119 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:34,720 Now when we talk about vision, one of the things that I'm going 120 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,560 to give you, I'm going to give you several scripture tonight 121 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,320 and I'm going to read them all. OK, Psalms 127 verse 1 is where 122 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:47,400 I'm starting and this is what Psalms 127 verse one says, 123 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,560 except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build 124 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,880 it, except the Lord keep the city, the watchman awaketh, but 125 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,000 in vain. So the first thing that we have 126 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,560 to ask our ourselves is it when it comes to our vision, all 127 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,120 right, or comes to a vision, we need to understand who's 128 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,720 building what we got going on, whatever it is that we've got 129 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,600 going on. We want to know and identify who 130 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,640 it is. All right now concerning, you 131 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,840 know, life and provision. OK, I want to let you know what 132 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,600 we should be looking at. OK, if we're going to talk about 133 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,200 vision, we're going to talk about what should we be looking 134 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,560 at? And I want to remind you of 135 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,040 Matthew, chapter 6, verse 26 through 29. 136 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,800 Now remember, chapter 6 is in the middle of the Sermon on the 137 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,840 Mount, Chapter 5. Jesus went up to a mountain, sat 138 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:45,200 down, called his disciples to him and began to say, and he 139 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,920 goes starts a sermon. OK, he gets into chapter 6. 140 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,600 That's where we find at the beginning of chapter 6, how to 141 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,080 pray. We find out how to give alms. 142 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,920 We find out how to fast. We find these things out. 143 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,720 Then he goes into the realm of the way that we are supposed to 144 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,240 see provision. All right in verse 2026, he says 145 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,520 this. Behold the fowls of the year, 146 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,680 for they sow not, neither do they, nor do they gather into 147 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,000 barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 148 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,760 Are you not much better than they? 149 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,960 All right. The word behold in there is a 150 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,640 Hebrew word in Bleppo and in Bleppo. 151 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,760 I'm sorry, it's a Greek word in Bleppo. 152 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:33,640 Listen to the definitions. To look on, to observe fixedly, 153 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,960 all right, to look at with the mind. 154 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:41,799 So what is Jesus telling us here? 155 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,840 He said, listen, when it comes to provision, when it comes to 156 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,320 and we're going to equate this to business, OK, When it comes 157 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,200 to that, he's telling us what we need to fix our mind or what 158 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,600 should we be looking at? He said, behold the fowls of the 159 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,640 air. He said it isn't a casual 160 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:01,240 glance. Oh, oh, there's a bird over 161 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,480 there. He's saying, no, he wants you. 162 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,480 And the last one, it says that you, you see with your mind, in 163 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,440 other words, you think, you begin to ponder and think about 164 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,440 this bird. OK, Jesus said that. 165 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,800 He said you. I want you to look at this is 166 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,960 what you're supposed to be looking at when it comes to 167 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,480 understanding provision or increase. 168 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,040 He said, I want you to behold the fowls or the birds of the 169 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,320 air. Then in verse 27, he said, you 170 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,920 know which of you by taking thought can add 1 cubit unto his 171 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,040 stature. And he said, and why do you like 172 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,800 take a thought for Raymond? And he says the word consider 173 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,800 the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not neither 174 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:44,920 do they spin and and the word consider is is the Greek word 175 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,560 catamanthano. You don't need that. 176 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,360 Just just note that this listen to this. 177 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:53,680 It means to learn thoroughly examine carefully. 178 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:57,960 So when we ask the question, what are we supposed to be 179 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:02,160 looking at? I don't know about you, but I 180 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,760 want to start looking at what Jesus told us to look at in the 181 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,280 vision that He had for us. And he said, Yet I say unto you, 182 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,040 that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one 183 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,000 of these. Wherefore if God so clothed the 184 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,920 grass of the field, which is today is, and tomorrow's cast 185 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,200 into the oven, shall you not? How shall he not much more 186 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:25,720 clothe you? O you of little faith? 187 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,240 Therefore take no thought saying, What shall we eat, What 188 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,680 shall we drink? Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 189 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,680 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek? 190 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:37,120 For your heavenly Father knows you have need of all these 191 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:41,400 things. Then we get to verse 33, which 192 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,480 all of us should know. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God 193 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,320 and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto 194 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:49,240 you. He said, take therefore no 195 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,640 thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow shall take care of the 196 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,480 things of itself. And sufficient unto the day is 197 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,280 the evil or translated trouble thereof. 198 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:04,160 So sometimes we get caught up in what we're living instead of 199 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:10,400 taking time to look and see what it is that God wants us to see. 200 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:15,120 Sometimes our businesses, sometimes the the lack of 201 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:20,240 business or too much business or things like that can distract us 202 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,040 from what God's really wanting us to look at. 203 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,800 All right now, let me give you the purpose. 204 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,400 You know, the purpose that we want to talk about is this is 205 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,040 help business stewards understand the God-given vision 206 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,400 that should manifest in business, daily business 207 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,160 activity, right? We want to make sure that when 208 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,400 we're in business or we're doing something that we want to make 209 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,000 sure that God is, is the one giving us that vision and 210 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,880 showing us how to do it. Because he's, if he's giving you 211 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,160 a business, he lets you know in advance his vision of your 212 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,360 business that you're supposed to be involved in. 213 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,520 Now I was talking to Seth the other day and I said, Seth, if I 214 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,960 asked all the people here, now you got to imagine with me, you 215 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,240 got a lot of people here, OK? And, and The thing is, is that 216 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:07,120 I, I said, if we asked everybody in the crowd, how many of them 217 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,680 were told by God in their prayer time and their different things 218 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,520 that he wanted them to start the business they're in, How many do 219 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:20,680 you think would tell us that? And he said not very many, which 220 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,440 is true, OK. Most of us wind up in business 221 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,840 because we have an interest or we have a talent OR we have a 222 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,480 skill. And most of the time we think 223 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,480 about the fact that, you know, if we're working for somebody in 224 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,160 that skill, we see a lot of problems with them. 225 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,320 And we think I could do that better. 226 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,880 And that's usually the thought that happens before somebody 227 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,920 goes into business for themselves is that we could do 228 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,920 it better without knowing the cost, without knowing why we 229 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,760 charge so much. I had somebody years ago come to 230 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:52,200 me and they said we want to go into business because we can do 231 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,480 this cheaper than the other guy. And I said, OK, before you do 232 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:01,600 that, let's talk about overhead, Let's talk about, you know, cost 233 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,640 of materials. I mean, you're saying that you 234 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,600 can make this same product, but the fact that you don't have a 235 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:11,680 place to make it yet. OK, it's going to be interesting 236 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:15,200 for me to find out the rest of the story, OK? 237 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,840 So be cautious about the fact that you think you can beat 238 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,080 somebody in price because there may be a reason they have that 239 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,880 price, the salaries, the everything. 240 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,360 OK, So you got to be careful about that. 241 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,840 But when it comes down to that last statement that I just made 242 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,880 is that the Lord has told us and what and I said in there, He 243 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,440 said that if God has given you a business, he lets you know in 244 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,840 advance the vision of the business activity you're 245 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,840 involved in. Let's let's take a look at a few 246 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,520 things that God, what he sees about us in business. 247 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,640 OK, let's see what God sees. All right, Deuteronomy chapter 248 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,040 8. Now when he took the children of 249 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,960 Israel into the land of promise, he gave them a picture, He gave 250 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,480 them a vision of what it would look like in advance. 251 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,320 And if you start in verse 7, he said, for the Lord thy God 252 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,480 bringeth thee to a good land, a land of brooks and water, of 253 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,240 fountains and depths and springs out of the valleys and hills, 254 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,920 and the land of wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, 255 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,480 pomegranates, land of olive oil and honey. 256 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,400 A land wherein you will eat bread without scarceness. 257 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:23,760 He said you will not lack in anything in it. 258 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,880 A land whose stones are iron and out of whose heels you'll dig 259 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:28,840 brass. He said, when you have eaten and 260 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,440 are full, then you shall bless the Lord thy God for the good 261 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:37,480 land which he has given thee. He said, Now beware that you do 262 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,600 not forget the Lord your God, and not keeping his 263 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,120 commandments, his judgments, his statutes, which I command thee 264 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,760 this day, lest that when you have eaten in are full, you have 265 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,840 built goodly houses, and you dwell therein. 266 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,640 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and silver and 267 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,840 gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then 268 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,280 thine heart will be lifted up. And you forget the Lord your 269 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,560 God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt from the House 270 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,720 of bondage, who LED thee through with great and, and LED you 271 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,320 through that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery 272 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,880 serpent scortons and drought, where there was no water. 273 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,120 Who brought thee forth out of the water, out of the rock of 274 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,240 Flint? Who fed you in the wilderness 275 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,440 with manna, with the fathers, who knew not that he may humble 276 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:24,520 thee and and prove you to do the good at the latter end. 277 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,840 And he said, And you'll say in your heart, My power in my mind 278 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,320 hand has gotten me this wealth. That's a key scripture. 279 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,080 OK, he's warning them. Don't say that. 280 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,040 Don't say that my my heart say in your heart that the power in 281 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,040 the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. 282 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,240 Verse 18. He says because you will 283 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,440 remember the Lord your God, for it is he that has given you the 284 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,880 power to get well, then me, He may establish his covenant, 285 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,720 which he sworn to thy Father's that it is this day. 286 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,080 So God's telling us, listen, he's painting a picture, He's 287 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,080 showing a vision. When you get to the land that I 288 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:04,160 have prescribed for you, you know, I know people that have 289 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:09,040 not yet made it to their land. Why? 290 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:17,480 Because they're not holy WHOLLY the Lord their God. 291 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,280 They are not, They are not seeking Him and finding out what 292 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,480 he's about. And he lets him know. 293 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,640 He said, listen, all this stuff's coming, all right. 294 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,520 But he said be careful. Don't forget me when things get 295 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,040 good. Don't forget the things that 296 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,160 I've done to help you get this, He says, because it's me that 297 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,440 has given you the power to get wealth. 298 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:45,160 And basically if you translate that in the Hebrew, it means 299 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,560 I've given you the creativity or the ability to create wealth. 300 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,400 And he says and and he said that, but you got to find out 301 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,400 the reason, which is the last part of that verse. 302 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:02,040 He wants us to have all that we need plus more that he may 303 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:06,440 establish the covenant as it is and he said this day. 304 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:14,640 So his vision is not necessarily our vision if we're more 305 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,359 concerned about making a business or forming a business 306 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,240 for the things that we won't and the things that we do need 307 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,240 because all of a sudden, you know, got mortgages, you got 308 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,200 everything all right. But he tells us, I just read the 309 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:28,640 scripture. He said, don't take thought for 310 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,600 those things. What do I want you to do? 311 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:36,920 I want you to see how I provide the birds of the air what they 312 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,320 need, how I provide what the lilies in the design that they 313 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,120 are what they need. He said that's what I want you 314 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:47,720 focusing on, OK. I don't want you necessarily 315 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,680 focusing on, you know, the business standpoint of that's, 316 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,920 you know, it's us for no more. Some would say 6-6 and that's 317 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,960 it, right? OK, so he tells us that, but I 318 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,360 want to go back to the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy 'cause he 319 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:06,880 again paints the picture of the blessing that comes on our 320 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:08,880 lives, especially when we're in business. 321 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,400 Notice what he said and it'll come to pass in verse one that 322 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,480 and notice notice what he says. The condition is if you hearken 323 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,560 diligently to the voice of your Lord your God, Observe to do all 324 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,400 his commandments which I command you this day that the Lord thy 325 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,480 God will set thee high above all the nations of the earth and all 326 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,120 these blessings will come on you and overtake you if you will 327 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:30,960 hearken to the voice of the Lord your God. 328 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,360 Quick note the word hearken in there is the same word in the 329 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:37,840 Hebrew as obey. In other words, God doesn't have 330 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,840 a, a, you know, something he's making as a suggestion. 331 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,280 He's telling us what he wants us focused on. 332 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,160 And he says there, it'll come to that. 333 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,960 You will hearken or obey diligently my voice. 334 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,120 I think the problem with a lot of Christian business people is 335 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:55,600 they're not listening. I mean, he knows how to fix 336 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,280 everything, especially when you get he's done it for Melanie and 337 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:02,400 I numerous times. OK, Sometimes, you know, we 338 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:03,760 don't know what's going to happen. 339 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,520 How's it going to happen? All right, this last week we had 340 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,560 Pastor Marcy pray for people that need a financial miracle. 341 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,320 OK, I don't, I couldn't see exactly. 342 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,120 Everybody was in it. But here's the deal. 343 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:19,320 He, he's into that God's into financial miracles. 344 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,320 He didn't want you to have to live waiting on miracles. 345 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,640 OK, He has a better plan and a substance plan on showing you. 346 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,320 This is what we look at. This is what we need to do. 347 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,400 All right, so you continue on. He said all these blessings in 348 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,840 verse 2 will come on you and overtake you, and you'll hearken 349 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,080 to the voice of the Lord your God. 350 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,000 Now I want you to notice these next few verses. 351 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,440 What word it starts with. Blessed shall you be in the 352 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,080 city. Blessed shall you be in the 353 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:45,960 field. Blessed shall be the fruit of 354 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,680 your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your 355 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,480 cattle, the increase of kind and flocks of sheep. 356 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,520 Blessed shall your basket be your basket, and in your store 357 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,120 bless shall you be when you come in, Bless shall you be when you 358 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,600 go out. The Lord will cause thine 359 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,520 enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face. 360 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,520 They will come in one way, and will flee before you. 7 The Lord 361 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:10,360 shall command his blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and all 362 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,760 that you set your hand to do. He will bless thee in the land 363 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,320 that the Lord has given you. The Lord shall establish you as 364 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,400 a holy people to Himself as He has sworn into thee, if you'll 365 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,920 just keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in 366 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,880 His ways. And all the people of the earth 367 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,280 shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they 368 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,720 will be afraid of you. Here we go, verse 11. 369 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,280 And the Lord shall make you plenteous in goods, and fruit of 370 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,840 the body, fruit of the cattle, fruit of the ground, the land 371 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,600 which the Lord swear unto thy Father's to give you. 372 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,800 The Lord shall open you His good treasure. 373 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,080 The heaven will give you rain in its land, in your land and its 374 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,400 season. He will bless the work of your 375 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,960 hand. You'll lend to many nations. 376 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,160 You shall not borrow. The Lord will make you the head 377 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:52,920 and not the tail. You'll be above only and not 378 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,440 beneath, if you will hearken unto the commandments of the 379 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,520 Lord your God, which I command you this day to observe and do 380 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,800 them. He said, And you will not go 381 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,120 aside from any of the words which I have command thee this 382 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,880 day to the right hand, nor to the left to go after other gods 383 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,080 and serve them. I think it's interesting because 384 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,400 there's a little word you know stuck in there. 385 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:16,920 And, and I believe in verse 1 and in verse 13 where he says 386 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,000 that you'll hearken diligently to the Lord your God in verse 1 387 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:25,960 and observe. Observe is a word that means to 388 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,200 look at or fix your eyesight on. OK, so he says it again in 389 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,400 there. He said, if you'll hearken to 390 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,000 the Lord thy God, which I command you this day and observe 391 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,720 and do his word. OK, So sometimes I think that 392 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,760 when we talk about the vision, the vision of a company, the 393 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,520 things that you and I have talked about, OK, and and in 394 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,920 getting an understanding of the vision, I think the first thing 395 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,480 that we have to establish that there's a higher vision than 396 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,680 maybe what we've been trained or what we see when it comes to 397 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,840 handling in our own business. All right, because here's the 398 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,680 thing that you want to get a hold of in, in Proverbs chapter 399 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:06,600 10 verse 22, OK, it said the blessing of the Lord, it maketh 400 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:11,320 rich and adds no sorrow with it. The word sorrow comes from the 401 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,280 same root as the word sorrow in Genesis chapter 3. 402 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,680 When God has to put a curse on the man, he curses his 403 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,360 provision. He said the ground is now cursed 404 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,200 for your sake because of what you did. 405 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,160 It's your fault. The ground is cursed. 406 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,360 All right, he said. You will dig. 407 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,960 You will try to bring up crops, you'll try to do. 408 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,960 And he said your whole life will be nothing but sorrow in doing 409 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,720 that. The word sorrow there, and the 410 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,240 word sorrow here means to become worrisome. 411 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,040 In other words, you don't know how it's going to come now. 412 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,360 Most of us have been in that position. 413 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,640 Some of us might be in that position now that we don't know 414 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,440 how he's going to do it, but the guarantee we have is that he is 415 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,760 going to do it. And there's been there's been 416 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,600 things I've told you guys many, many stories of just, you know, 417 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,880 it's the but God moment. You've done everything you could 418 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,360 do. You can't do anything else in 419 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,760 the natural that you've been enlightened to. 420 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,440 And all of a sudden he begins to work. 421 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,120 I think he likes that because we are solely dependent on him 422 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,560 because he commands us to be so when he said do not take a 423 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,560 thought saying what are we going to eat, what are we going to 424 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:33,520 drink, what are we going to wear? 425 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,560 He said, listen, the Gentiles though that have no covenant 426 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,480 with me are going to worry about that. 427 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,960 But he said, not you, right? So again, it's it's it's getting 428 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,160 the eyes fixed on what God says is important, you know, to be 429 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,320 able to do that. Now, let's say that we never 430 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,000 consulted God. We never heard him. 431 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,560 You know what businesses start. Here's a verse, Proverbs 16 432 00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:04,040 three OK, we find ourself in business. 433 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,840 OK, we want to know what are we supposed to be looking at? 434 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,240 What are we looking at? All right, listen to what he 435 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:15,400 says in this verse 3 Commit your work unto the Lord, and thy 436 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:21,440 thoughts shall be established. All right, the word work there 437 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,000 is Mahase, Mahase. In the Hebrew. 438 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:31,840 It means an action, a work, a labor, a business, pursuit or 439 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,240 undertaking of an enterprise. That's what that word means in 440 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,880 the Hebrew. So he says in there, he said 441 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,160 commit your works under the Lord and I thought shall be 442 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,560 established. The word thought means a device, 443 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,720 a plan, a purpose. And the word established means 444 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,560 to be firm, stable or directed a right. 445 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,320 So when we're in business, there's got to be a direction 446 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,600 that we always talk about the vision. 447 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,600 What is the vision? What's the vision of the church? 448 00:24:58,600 --> 00:24:59,720 What's the vision of the company? 449 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,960 What's the and we'll talk about mission later. 450 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,000 But when we talk about that, I think it's interesting because 451 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:07,800 Pastor sends me a note the other day. 452 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,200 He's never sent me an Instagram ever. 453 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,520 We're calling him an apostle. Don't forget that. 454 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,680 You're supposed to correct me. Correct me, Melanie, you're 455 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,280 supposed to correct me. You're supposed to correct me. 456 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:22,960 All right, Apostle Roll sent me an Instagram, OK. 457 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,080 And it was a guy talking in there about vision. 458 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,200 I thought, oh, this is interesting. 459 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,640 I didn't know if you'd talked to him about what we were doing or 460 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,200 anything. And he said, he said this. 461 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:39,120 And man, it woke me up. He said the problem with being 462 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:46,760 in business is the fact that we don't understand what God's 463 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,640 building. And then this guy said he is not 464 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:55,360 going to build your business. But man, I, I've read all the 465 00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:57,760 scriptures tonight that let us know that he's going to make us 466 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,920 plenty of some goods and he's going to end the blessing and 467 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:04,000 all this stuff. And then he said, we cannot 468 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:10,360 forget what he's building. Matthew 16. 469 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,560 You remember he asked all the guys. 470 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,360 He says, who do you guys say that I am? 471 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,760 And they said, oh, you're Elijah or Jeremiah, one of the 472 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,240 prophets. See. 473 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,440 No, no, no, no. Who do you guys say that I am? 474 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,320 Peter stands up. Hey, I think you're the Christ, 475 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,720 the Son of the living God. He said, blessed are you Simon 476 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,520 Barjona, because flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, 477 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,680 but my Father, which is in heaven. 478 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,360 And then he began to say, you know, he said you are you are 479 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:43,040 upon this rock. I'm going to build my church. 480 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,960 So if God is interested in building anything, and we must 481 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,920 know that he is interested in building the church because what 482 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,320 did Jesus say? I don't do anything that my 483 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:00,440 Father does not do. So it seems like that the 484 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:05,160 passing of the baton to build the church is Jesus 485 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,320 responsibility. Here's the thing he said if 486 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,120 you're building a business outside of helping Jesus build 487 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:20,640 the church, it will not make it OK. 488 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:28,120 Whoa. OK, So when you think about you 489 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,160 think about that. It took me and I sent him a note 490 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,320 after I watched this video, I sent him a note and I said 491 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:39,040 that's why I retranslated Luke chapter 12, verse 21. 492 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,520 Now let me read you the parable, all right, because it has to do 493 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,600 about somebody in business. They decided that they were just 494 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,680 in business to see their increase, he said. 495 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,440 And one of the companies said, dear Master, speak to my brother 496 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,520 and this is 12 verse Luke 12 verse 13, and that he may divide 497 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,360 the inheritance with me. And Jesus said, man, who made me 498 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,400 a judge or a divider over you. He said unto them, take heed and 499 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,440 beware of covetousness. For a man's life does not 500 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,280 consist of the abundance of the things he possesses. 501 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,320 So Jesus telling us right now that our life is not to be 502 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:22,000 measured by how successful we are in the arena of money, in 503 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,920 the arena of marketing, in the arena. 504 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,200 He said, that doesn't count. Listen to this. 505 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,760 He spake A parable unto them and said, the ground of a certain 506 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:35,240 man brought forth plentifully. And he thought within himself, 507 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,800 saying, what shall I do? Because I have no room where to 508 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,880 bestow my fruits. And he said, this will I do, I 509 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,840 will pull down my barns, I'll build greater, and there, there 510 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:50,000 will I bestow all the fruit and my goods, and I will save my 511 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,560 soul. So you have much goods laid up 512 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,600 for many years. Take thine knees, eat, drink, 513 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,600 and be merry. But God said unto him, You're a 514 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,840 fool this night your soul shall be required of you, and whose 515 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,880 things will they be that you have provided? 516 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,440 But then he says in there he said, So is he that layeth up 517 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,280 treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. 518 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,760 Verse 21. I retranslated that after I dug 519 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:20,080 it out in the Greek, which reiterates what is God 520 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:25,720 interested in building and how is it that what we do helps us 521 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,480 get that building done. And I'm not even really talking 522 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:34,640 about a building building. Jesus said I will build my 523 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,120 church. He didn't say I'm going to build 524 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,000 another building. He's going to build and grow his 525 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,360 church. The reason I translated that he 526 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,000 said so is the man that lays up treasure for himself and is not, 527 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,760 and here's the translation, becoming rich for God. 528 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,280 That's the translation. If you look it up in the Greek, 529 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,080 you can you pull that out. God says I want you to become 530 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:04,080 rich for what I'm building, not what you can personally build 531 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,560 for you. This is the perfect parable for 532 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,920 that to let us know. So when we began, when we begin, 533 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,880 you know, casting a vision and that is in our hearts for the 534 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,280 business that God has given us, we need to realize that we are 535 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,600 stewards or caretakers of that. We should learn from the parable 536 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,280 above, There is no room for selfishness in the Kingdom. 537 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,360 There's no room for another plan in the Kingdom. 538 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,720 It's His plan. Jesus went with His plan, 539 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,880 encouraged us. Go with God's plan. 540 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,800 Change your mindset on why you want a business that is making a 541 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,840 lot of money. You're wanting it to be able to 542 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,000 what? Help God build the church. 543 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,080 Think about it. None of us are building anything 544 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,160 we're taking with us. There's only one thing we're 545 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:59,920 taking with us and that's the church and there will probably 546 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:02,600 be some in the church might be surprised that they didn't make 547 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,280 it because they didn't answer the simple question of lordship. 548 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,560 They like him as Savior, but they don't understand Lord. 549 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:17,000 OK, all right now when you know one of the the primary parts of 550 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,480 your vision for the Kingdom should be a simply based on one 551 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,600 word. Very simple. 552 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,840 Write this word down. It's the word service. 553 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,600 Jesus gave a vision of what being the greatest in the 554 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:35,680 Kingdom of God would look like. All right, Matthew chapter 20, 555 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:41,000 jot this one down verses 25 through 28. 556 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,800 When we talk about when we talk about our business, when we talk 557 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,640 about what we, what we're going to do in our business, what the 558 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,040 business, you know, most businesses are service 559 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,840 businesses now. We've all been to places where 560 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,960 people that worked for this service business didn't have a 561 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,960 clue. That's what kind of business it 562 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,280 was, OK, By the way they treated you, the way they talked to you, 563 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,760 the way they didn't take care of what your needs were when you 564 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,040 came in there. Mostly in restaurants, you see 565 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,960 it OK, but you can see it in, you know, a store you're going 566 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,960 shopping for clothes. They're over there, you know. 567 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,680 OK, well, thank you. I'll see if I can't find them. 568 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,960 All right, But look at what Jesus said. 569 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,720 He said He called to them and said, you know, that the 570 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,320 Princess of the Gentiles exercise dominion over those 571 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,880 that they are over. And he said, And they that they 572 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,440 are great, exercise that authority upon them. 573 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:45,960 He said, And it shall not be so among you, but whosoever will be 574 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,800 great among you, let him be your minister. 575 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,600 That word is the diaconos in the Greek, and it just means a 576 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,840 waiter. And whosoever will be chief 577 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,240 among you, And notice what he said, Whoever will be great 578 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,960 among you, let him be the minister. 579 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,920 But then he said, But whosoever will be chief among you, let him 580 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,200 be your servant. And the word servant there is 581 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,160 the Greek word dulos and it means slave. 582 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,240 And it usually the connotation is bond slave. 583 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,520 It is a slave by choice, not slave beat into submission. 584 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,480 OK, he said, even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered 585 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,920 unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many. 586 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,080 So Jesus saying the higher you go up, the lower you must 587 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,560 actually go. You want to be great in the 588 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,600 Kingdom, you need to be a waiter, you need to be somebody 589 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,720 servant. But if he says you want to be 590 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,400 the chief, you've got to become the slave. 591 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,400 And I don't think a lot of people understand that, you 592 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,720 know, when it comes to business. Why? 593 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,720 Because they're selfish. There's selfishness in there. 594 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,200 Why did you start the company? Well, we saw a need and we 595 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,320 wanted to meet that need. And you know what? 596 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,320 You can tell by the way they operate in that company. 597 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,600 Are they really meeting needs or are they really making just 598 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,040 money? That's all they want to make. 599 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,840 You know, I wrote an article years ago and, and what's funny, 600 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,000 I was digging through some little, you know, thumb drives 601 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,400 and I'm popping those thumb drives in the, in, in the 602 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:13,600 computer, just see what's on them. 603 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,000 And I found my entire collection of the articles that I'd written 604 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,159 for a business magazine and the very first one I ever wrote. 605 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,639 And you guys have heard the story where I want, I wanted to 606 00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:26,679 write, you know, business business articles. 607 00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:30,080 And there was a a magazine called Oklahoma Business Monthly 608 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:35,159 and I had a little questionnaire in there for entrepreneurs and I 609 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,080 thought that was pretty cool. So I just called them, you know, 610 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,120 main editor and phone number was in the front of the magazine. 611 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,960 I said, how do you get chosen for, you know, entrepreneur Q&A? 612 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,320 And they said, well, we send you an outline and you fill out all 613 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,760 the answers on the outline and, and we sent it to editorial 614 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,600 board and if they like it, we'll use it. 615 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,199 And I said, OK, that's easy to send it. 616 00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:57,160 I sent it back the the same day. They sent it to me in the 617 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,040 morning. I sent it back the same day. 618 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,560 And then they called me immediately and said we're going 619 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,320 to run yours in. It was a month or two down the 620 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,720 road. And I said, well before you send 621 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:08,000 your photographer, because they always had a picture of the the 622 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,200 people, I said let have them come by and visit with me before 623 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,040 they come to actually take the picture. 624 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,600 OK, well, we usually don't do that. 625 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,320 Just please do that. Would you just do that? 626 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,520 OK. And they did. 627 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,000 And basically what I wanted, I had a set made of everything 628 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,960 that I talked about in the article. 629 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,200 They, you know, ask how did you get started or who's your mentor 630 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,080 or whatever. And I had a picture of 631 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,880 everything that I discussed in there and, and everybody noticed 632 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:33,640 it. It was interesting. 633 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,560 Usually they just put a plan up by somebody, you know, or have 634 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,680 them sitting in a director's chair, whatever. 635 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,480 But everything that you talked about was in the photograph. 636 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,400 I said, I, I plan that. Well, I wanted to let the, the 637 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:49,520 magazine, the owner. And I said, I, I so, so thrilled 638 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,760 to be able to get this article. I said, I want to take you guys 639 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,840 to lunch and I thought I want to see if they are open to an idea 640 00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:00,960 of doing articles and having a local business guy do the 641 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,800 articles because they were based out of Tulsa. 642 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:08,760 And so I had my briefcase with me and they all came in and, and 643 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,440 the owner's name was Jim. Jim says he said, Randy, what do 644 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:12,520 you, what do you think of the magazine? 645 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,640 I said, I, I love it. I think it's a great magazine. 646 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,960 I mean, it's about local businesses and how people got 647 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,240 started and, and different. I said, you know, one thing 648 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:23,200 though, I think that would be really good for that magazine is 649 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,760 that you had some locals give different tips and things about, 650 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,640 you know, what, what they have experienced in business, stuff 651 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,720 like that and they go, well, that's a good idea. 652 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:35,360 Do you have you have you have a sample of anything like that? 653 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,920 As a matter of fact, I do opened up the briefcase, pulled out my 654 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,240 first article called Can I get some help over here? 655 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,120 That was the title of it. And, and, and I just found them 656 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,840 the other day because it was the mock up of what it was going to 657 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,840 look like in the magazine. And they had sent it to me every 658 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,480 month and I wrote for them for over a year. 659 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,480 And as a matter of fact, my book that that I wrote was all of 660 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,520 those articles trans into a book. 661 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,280 And so one of the things in there that I talked about was, 662 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,760 you know, we've all had the experience, you know, sitting at 663 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,320 a restaurant waiting for somebody to come over there, at 664 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,680 least greet ya. OK. 665 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,800 So, you know, or, you know, you you you've gone into a, you 666 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,840 know, a home improvement store and you're looking around and 667 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,280 you're looking for somebody in a colored vest that matches the 668 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,720 logo. And you can't find nobody, you 669 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:28,560 know, And so you just you just look at her and, you know, 670 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,920 around. And so I talked about the fact 671 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:36,400 of customer service has to equate to the word servant. 672 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,160 You have to be a servant, all right, And understand the role 673 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,320 of a servant. You're not here just to make a 674 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,840 buck. You're here to, you know, help 675 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,840 them grow their company. But that's by providing the 676 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,040 service that is going to be people that is very easy for 677 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:56,320 them to part with their money. OK, well, you know, when we take 678 00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,280 a look at we take a look at, at at what Jesus said, he said, 679 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,160 listen, you have got to have the servant mentality. 680 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,280 He he let him know when he washed their feet in John 13, he 681 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:08,640 said, do you all know what I've done? 682 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,120 And they said, you know, they yeah, yeah, yeah. 683 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,040 Think so. Yeah. 684 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,120 He goes, well, here's what you need to understand. 685 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,880 You need to do what I've done. In other words, look for the 686 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:23,320 opportunity to take care of people and the Lord can bless 687 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,360 that. All right now when we talk 688 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,480 about, you know, when we talk about vision and we go to, you 689 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:34,120 know, Matthew 16, I want you to jot down Matthew 16 because that 690 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,480 is the particular passage that I wrote to you about, you know, 691 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,920 the Kingdom of heaven and and telling him that, listen, I am 692 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,760 going to build my church. So when we talk about the 693 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,680 building of, you know, Jesus Church, we found out it's going 694 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,560 to take money like any other enterprise that you want to get 695 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,520 involved in. All right. 696 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,920 And I think it's interesting that, you know, pastor has the 697 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:03,880 longest offering time speech that we've experienced in a 698 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,280 while on Sunday morning. What was he talking about? 699 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:12,360 He was talking about again, the story of Jehoash was one of 700 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,040 them. Josiah was another one that they 701 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,320 wanted to raise money to do the temple, right. 702 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,680 The temple had fallen into disarray. 703 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,640 It needed some repairs, you know, some different things. 704 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,120 So he says in there, he said, you know, start collecting that 705 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,400 money, you know, from the Levites and the different 706 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,720 things, part of the money that the people are giving them for 707 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:33,560 the tithe and the offering and everything else. 708 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,080 And he said, and we're going to give this money to those that'll 709 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,600 fix everything. All right. 710 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,680 Well, it didn't happen, all right in the time frame that the 711 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,560 king thought. So he said, OK, enough of this 712 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,440 and he said the priest went and made a little box and carved a 713 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,040 hole in the top of it and had people put money in it when they 714 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,840 came. Finally the box got full and 715 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,400 they pulled all the money out, gave it to the exchanger. 716 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,800 So I was kind of curious where that first bits of money went. 717 00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,480 All right, But he was talking to us about, again, what is Jesus 718 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,520 building? Is he building our companies or 719 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,640 is he still building the church and asking us to come and join 720 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,200 him and that everything that we have to do? 721 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:19,040 Is going to be based upon our involvement in his vision and he 722 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,240 will give us vision. That's where it comes from. 723 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,720 That's why we read those four things at the very beginning. 724 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,240 You know that we don't want to have the greatest failure. 725 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:30,840 We don't want to have the greatest mistakes. 726 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,200 We don't want to have, you know, opportunities and not knowing 727 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,960 what to do. You know, when I hear people 728 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,680 say, well, the Lord told me to do this and it doesn't come to 729 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,640 pass. And I'm thinking, OK, Lord, are 730 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,560 we being patient? Is there something you need us 731 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,400 to know? Did we just jump out and do it? 732 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,640 Did you really say it or did I just see a need? 733 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,000 And, and you know, we ask questions a lot as far do you 734 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,720 have the ability to hear God? And I found that true because 735 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:04,160 when I was in Oklahoma and I was on staff, you know, people would 736 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,400 come in and they'd say, you know, you talk about hearing God 737 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,440 all the time. I've never heard him say 738 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,560 nothing, you know, and I'm trying to figure out that's 739 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,040 weirder than me saying I hear God. 740 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,400 But I know this, that until we become people of the Word, we 741 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,840 won't recognize his voice. We've got to know what the word 742 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,120 says. We've got to know what his will 743 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:28,600 is. We got to know what his vision 744 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,920 is, you know, and, and we were talking about the two main 745 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,240 passages, you know, in the Bible that talk about vision. 746 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,920 And he said, you know, write the vision, make it plain. 747 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,000 All right. And, and basically it was 748 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,840 talking about the vision that we get from God. 749 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,480 It's not our own vision. It's not what we come up 750 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:47,520 thinking. This is great. 751 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,960 This might be a good idea. What do you think of this? 752 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,120 It was the vision because he said that. 753 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,840 He said don't worry about it If it doesn't show up tomorrow. 754 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,760 He said, wait on it because it'll surely come to pass. 755 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,680 Well, that's not my vision. That's got to be his vision. 756 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,280 And then when he said without a vision, the people perish. 757 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:15,360 Both of those words, vision is is defined as the word 758 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,600 revelation. OK. 759 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,960 And in the word revelation means something that was previously 760 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,280 hidden, but now you can see it. See, I think sometimes in 761 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:32,800 business there are things hidden from our vision. 762 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,960 But if we spend time like he wants us to spend time, he has 763 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,880 the ability to move the curtain. You know, I love that that 764 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,000 picture that Apocalypto is the Greek word for revelation. 765 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,320 We get the word apocalypse from it. 766 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,920 That's what the book revelation, the revelation. 767 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,360 And it's not a revelation of John like some print. 768 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,560 It's the revelation of Jesus Christ. 769 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,120 But that word is apocalypsis and it means a drawing back of the 770 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,720 curtain. And they paints a picture that, 771 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:06,840 you know, if you're in your kitchen and you're doing dishes 772 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,640 and you got a window there, but it's got a curtain, it's got a 773 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,640 nice curtain or some mini blinds or something like that. 774 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:15,680 He said when you turn the mini blinds or you move the curtains, 775 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,720 you can see what's always been there out in the yard. 776 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,520 He said it's the same thing as we spend time with God, that 777 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:29,600 we're the vision we're looking for is his revelation of what 778 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,120 we're supposed to be doing. Because, you know, any business 779 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,640 we have landscaping, you know, robotics, you know, whatever it 780 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:44,800 is, chiropractic, all right, cleaning houses, real estate, 781 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:50,480 whatever it is. I'm pretty sure he knows about 782 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,720 it, more about it than the rest of us. 783 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,440 He knows the right way to do it. He knows the right ideas. 784 00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,840 I've had him speak to me and show me paths that I needed to 785 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,720 take where everybody else is, you know, trying to figure out 786 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,920 the marketing plan or what's a vision for marketing, What's a 787 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,440 vision? And I just just say, listen, it 788 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:12,120 ain't nobody knows more about this kind of company than the 789 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,120 father. I need to spend time with him. 790 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,560 And he has given me some of the ideas that may have made me 10s 791 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,000 of millions of dollars. And it's by listening. 792 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,880 The only time I get into problems is when I'm listening 793 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,920 to me and I'm losing 10s of millions of dollars. 794 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,000 All right. I don't want to be a loser of 795 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,320 millions. I want to be a investor of 796 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,080 millions and, and, and I'm I'm so convinced that, you know, 797 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,200 when I talk to people, when we visit one-on-one with people 798 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,880 and, and they're so focused on what they're not doing, the 799 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,960 money they're not making, the business is not there. 800 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,080 There's got to be an answer to that. 801 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,000 But the question is, what are you looking at? 802 00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,680 Are you looking at the things God told us to look at? 803 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,320 Because it's pretty clear all the scriptures I gave to you 804 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,640 tonight, if you'll focus and observe on what God says is 805 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,200 important to him. And you look at it because I've 806 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,200 said this for years and then a friend of mine puts it in one of 807 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,840 his books. I said, man, you stole that from 808 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,240 me. But we hadn't talked in a long 809 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:18,880 time. You know, as far as so he may 810 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,160 have got that on himself because I'm sure that, you know, God 811 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,040 doesn't have a stipulation on who he gives it to and they 812 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,800 never, nobody else gets it. But I've often said this. 813 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:32,400 I said God told me that if I'll take care of his business, he'll 814 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:37,600 take care of mine. But you know, my problem is I've 815 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:43,600 been worse at taking his care of his business then he has taken 816 00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,080 care of mine. Because every time I have a 817 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:50,080 need, you know, I just back up a second and I sit there and 818 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,040 listen and I want to know. Sometimes I say, Melanie, I 819 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:54,720 ain't going here because I'm staying here. 820 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,840 You know, I've got some things I want to get done, some things 821 00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,160 that I want to visit with the Lord. 822 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,320 That's why for me, everybody else is out shopping on Black 823 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,560 Fridays. I just kind of get alone in the 824 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,960 house on the Black Friday when everybody's gone, the grandkids 825 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,520 are gone, everybody's gone. And and I just say, you know, 826 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,920 Lord, what is it that you need me to know from that I didn't 827 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,400 get done this year? Anything that can get me on a 828 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,640 better path going into next year, you know, and finding that 829 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:22,440 out because that's all he all he wants is you. 830 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,120 He doesn't need how smart we are or how, you know, business savvy 831 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,680 we are. All he wants is us. 832 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,000 That's what he sent his son to die for us. 833 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,440 That's all that's going is US, you know, and The funny thing 834 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:43,360 about it is he thinks he's getting a good deal with us, you 835 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,200 know. So when we talk about that, and 836 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,080 I just want to encourage you, here's the bottom line about 837 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,040 vision is that if your vision and goals don't align with God's 838 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,840 vision for this church and what he's called you to help him 839 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,640 build the church, you will labor in vain. 840 00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,600 You'll be more than likely you'll more than likely 841 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,840 experience unnecessary struggles and challenges. 842 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,080 If your heart is to build the Kingdom and his church, your 843 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:08,320 business and your with your business and you listen to God 844 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,320 on how to do it, you will be successful. 845 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,920 Anybody say Amen, Amen. That's what we're going to do 846 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,680 Amen. All right, let me pray. 847 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,520 Father, we just thank and praise you for the opportunity just to 848 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:23,040 get a reminder a little bit of of what it is that you need from 849 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,040 us to be able to get the same eyesight that you have to 850 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:27,680 accomplish what you want in the earth. 851 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,840 Father, I pledge myself even as going through this lesson that I 852 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,560 pledge myself that in the mornings when I get up, I want 853 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,600 to know what is it that you need from me? 854 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,520 I want to know what you need me to be looking at, what you want 855 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:45,840 me to be focusing on and being able to translate at the proper 856 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,360 time of what you're giving me and what needs to come to you 857 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,080 and the building of your church. I know at the first of the year 858 00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,640 you told me when I asked what do I need to be investing in. 859 00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,280 You told me this year that I need to be investing in the 860 00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,800 maturity of the Saints. So Father, give me those 861 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,200 opportunities. Show me where we will get the 862 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:08,240 best amount of success from the money that we invest in that, 863 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:11,560 the time that we invest in that, the ideas that you give us to 864 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,520 invest in that. Father, we want to thank you in 865 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:18,400 advance because we know you are all about the church and so are 866 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,040 we and we want to thank you for it. 867 00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,200 In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. 868 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:07,680 The.