Father, we do thank you for the opportunity just once a month to
come together and and take a look at some things as we're
getting ready to, you know, wrap up another year, which seems
gone by quickly. But we want to make sure that,
you know, we're bringing the value that you want to add to
our time together through the things that we talked about.
I'm excited about tonight's topic and how we're going to,
you know, define that for each of us and and spend some time
there. So we just want to praise you in
advance for the outcome of what we'll be visiting about.
And we thank you and praise you for the opportunity again to get
together. And we thank you in Jesus name,
Amen. Amen.
Well, I want to remind you that tonight we're going to be
talking about 2-2 words. And I've got it titled vision
plus mission equals the road map to your destiny.
OK, Vision plus mission, is that your road map to destiny?
And I want to start with jot down Psalms 127 Psalms 127 one
first scripture. All right, and I I thought it
was interesting. Anybody know it by heart?
Anybody know that one by heart? Psalms 127 It said except the
Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
And so when we talk about, you know, vision, you know, I want
us to make sure we know where we're getting our vision from
and not just something that we're coming up with with our
own head. OK?
Because we've had enough teaching here at Anchor Faith to
let us know that we were all born with a purpose and that God
does have something each of us that he wants to accomplish, not
in the not only in the natural realm, but in the spiritual
realm, OK. And changing the lives of
people. But when we talk about the word
vision and, and in the words vision and mission are really
big buzzwords in, in business and sometimes a little bit
higher up than maybe your personal owned business.
A lot of corporations want to have a vision and there's
reasons that they have it. But I want to break down those 2
words tonight, if we can, that when we talk about vision, the
first question I always ask is what does the word vision mean?
Jot that down. What does vision mean?
Because when we talk about vision, there's a lot of
different definitions that we can.
I've got three or four of them down here.
You know, the first one is the act or the power of using your
eyes or the word sight. OK, what is vision?
It is, it is sight and it and it deals with the two eyes God gave
us all right to be able to see. OK.
The second definition that I've got is an act or a power of
anticipating that which will or come to be or a prophetic
vision. OK.
It's not so much we've heard about visions in the Bible that
different ministers had, you know, different prophets,
different ones would have visions.
They would see things. We've heard, you know, Apostle
Earl, when he talked about the vision that he had when he was
driving his little truck and he and he said the windshield went
away and he saw a vision of him standing before people.
OK. It didn't actually, it wasn't
really stopping the car and looking out at that.
It was, it was a vision, but it was seen with something
different than the natural eyes. OK, so that's another
definition. 1/3 definition is an experience which a person, a
thing, or an event appears vividly to the mind, although
may not actually be present, often under the influence of a
divine agency, like a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision.
We see that all through the Bible, OK, that the heavenly
messer came and, and began to talk to people and began to put
an impression in their mind, just like your eyesight does.
And when they visited, if you think about it, you know, if
you'll remember in Judges, I believe 6, it talks about
Gideon. And you know, Gideon is, they
said the Midianites are all over the place and he's, you know,
hidden down in a winepress winnowing wheat because they
were stealing everything that they had.
And an Angel appeared to him and called him a mighty man of
valor. OK, so the vision he was trying
to put into Gideon was the one of what he could be and one he's
destined to be and not necessarily is at this moment.
OK, All right. And then the last one that I
have is something seen or otherwise perceived during a
such the experience, like the vision revealed its message.
OK. So in other words, when he told
him, hey, you're great, a great man of valor, mighty man of
valor, you know, he had to receive that message and he had
to began to begin to take and see himself in that vision, even
though it was it hadn't come to pass.
There's nothing tangible out there to, to to do it, which we
find when we talk about vision, There needs to be an
understanding that there is the vision that we see, but there's
also a vision that can be seen in the spirit, in our spirit
man, where we want things to go. I think it's interesting because
we talk in some of the classes that I teach on death and
getting an understanding of the definition of the word death,
that the word death means separation.
All right. When God told Adam, don't eat of
the fruit of the tree on in the middle of the garden, the day
you eat it, you will surely die. We have no record that they even
understood what that word meant. It wasn't like, you know, he, he
sat down and sat him down and explained to him, when you die,
this is what happens. We have no record of that.
We just let him know, don't eat the fruit.
The day you eat it, you will surely die.
Well, we know he ate the fruit, but the first death that we
thought should happen was that he would die physically, but he
didn't. So there was another death that
he was talking about because he lived to be, according to
Genesis 5, five, 930 years old. After that time, to me, that's
when time started, when we wanted to look at a clock in a
day and a year and a month and and years after that.
That was after the fall. There was no time, I don't
believe before the fall. It was just we use in eternity
and here we go. So we had an interruption.
But The thing is, is understanding that he was
talking about a spiritual death, not a physical death.
Physical death did come eventually, 930 years later for
him, all right. But when we talk about, you
know, the vision now from the above definitions, I think that
we need to realize the majority of the visions in our lives
probably should not just come from our intellect, OK, or the
five physical senses, because we get a lot of teaching on faith
to let us know there's something that can be seen beyond what we
can see with our natural eyes. OK, One of the greatest
definitions I'd heard and and I'd heard, I heard one of the
minister say this and kind of got me, OK.
He said, you know, the opposite of faith is not fear.
The opposite of faith is sight. Cause what does Hebrews 11/1
say? Hebrews 11/1 said that is the
substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not
seen. So it is something all right.
And, and, and as we were going through some classes just
recently, I, I let them know you can take the word faith and
replace it with quote the word of God.
So every place that you see the word faith, if you'll just
replace it with the word of God. The word of God has the ability
to not only let you see a vision of what is possible, but can't
bring that vision to pass. All right, 'cause that's the
goal. I mean, and the goal is once you
have a vision of something from the word and, and in the, in the
Greek it is apocalyptus, which means a revealing or removing of
the curtain so that you can actually see it.
But you, you didn't know it was out there until they removed the
curtain. That's what revelation is.
That is the word for revelation. OK, so when we see that it said,
you know, for us as believers, the vision needs to come, and
this is the key, write this down, is that when we talk about
vision, OK, for our families, for our life, for our business,
that vision really needs to come from God.
That's why I started with that verse.
You know, except the Lord build a house, they labor in vain that
build it. OK?
So the plans and the visions of what this thing will look like
needs to come from the Lord and you need to spend enough time
with the Lord to make sure that you've got the accurate,
accurate picture. Now we talk a lot about vision
here, OK, that the vision of our church and, and most of y'all
should have it memorized. All right, because I want to
break it down and, and, and take a look at that.
You know, every vision that you have for your business or your
family, it can it should be able to paint a picture of what it
could look like. OK, does that make sense?
Is that if you have a vision of, you know, your your kids obeying
you have a vision of, you know, your marriage flourishing.
If you have a vision of the fact that, hey, that your business is
is is moving along the road of prosperity.
All right, as we have defined so many time is having help on the
road. If you're seeing your you, you
can see and visualize those things.
All right. When you go to the Lord, you
know he's, he wants to put it into reality for you.
He wants to bring it into the context of being able to contact
it with your 5 physical senses. I mean, if you think about it,
we're not just have visions and and stuff, imagination and stuff
in our head not to see it come to pass in our lives.
That's never a biblical principle.
OK, so let's take a look at the the church.
All right, I'm going to ask some questions.
All right, and about this because we're going to talk.
The first one is what what is the first first vision of our
church starts with an I Yeah. Ignite the city.
OK, here's here's question number one.
We need to think about what does igniting the city look like?
What picture of this element can we paint?
Because here's the deal. If you've got a vision and you
can't articulate the vision in something that people will be
able to form a picture of, you're going to be in trouble.
Because if you, if you remember, I think I did a teaching on
communication and I gave you the definition of the communication
was basically the first part of it was the ability to paint
pictures in the mind that brings clarity to what we're discussing
and will give us a desired result.
If we're at work and we're just, you know, talking to people and
whatever and the end product that comes down the line is not
what the vision painted. We're in trouble.
So we want to know what is it that we can paint in a picture
of what igniting the city? See it say I the third one, I
said, how do we know if we're accomplishing it?
I mean, you may have, you may have a, you may have a great
vision of what you're doing. But the, the fact of the matter
is in order to prove that we have a vision for what we're
doing, there has got to be a manifestation of something that
brings credence to what you saw. It's just like a word of
prophecy. It's like a word of knowledge.
You know, I've had people come up and give me some of the
strangest stuff, you know, and I knew right out of the gate that
that's just an emotion talking. But you know, there's been
people that have have given me a word or the Lord had a word for
you, or I got called out of the service to get a word and it was
right on, you know, I was sharing.
I guess it was maybe with you, you know, when in back in 80?
No, it was 80 back in 2008, OK, it was our four year anniversary
and we flew down here. Melanie and I did.
We hadn't, you know, I, you know, Lord started dealing with
me on some stuff and, and I didn't tell her about it.
I didn't tell Pastor David in Oklahoma about it.
But the Lord started talking to me about moving down here and I
thought he was talking to somebody else because I was not
paying attention. All right?
I just kind of like looking around.
Who could he be talking to you? I'm not, that's not me, you
know, about moving down here. Well, when, you know, he kept on
me about it and I still didn't say anything.
And we go to this meeting and we're over at 312.
And, and, and Kevin and Annie Durant were the guest speakers
at that time. And they had a word for Pastor
Earl. And that's rare.
I mean, how many guest speakers that we had that they called,
you know, we've had a few. But, you know, it's not like
every time they come, they have a word for him.
And so anyway, he gets up and starts, you know, speaking in
tongues over Pastor Earl and he's, and he lays his hands,
well, his wife Annie, and they're all Raymograds.
And Annie starts interpreting. And that's where we get the
prophecy that Pastor reads often about, you know, it's going to
it's going to take you don't have 20 years to build it was
one of them. And he said, you'll think see
things springing up and the word exponential was in there and all
the different things. Well, I was and I'm watching
him. I'm on the front row.
He said, Randy, you and Melanie are sitting on the front row.
I said, OK, and so he's down at the other end.
I'm at one end. He's at the other end and he's
on his knees and getting prayed for and just falls over.
And, and my thought was get him, Holy Ghost, get him.
That's what I was saying to myself.
And I was watching him, you know, because Amanda, you know,
I don't know, with all that was going on, he'd start levitating
or something. I, I was, you know, like, wow.
And, and, and so I would, I would, he yelled at him, you
know, the minister yelled at him and said everything I've said
double and he said double. And he comes walking, you know,
he's walking back and forth and I'm watching, I'm watching him
like a hawk. He's laid out there and I'm
wondering, oh man, you know, this is quite the word.
And I just turned up to see, you know, what was going on and and
Kevin's standing right in front of me and he says, as he said,
it's about time, isn't it? Whap And just slapped me right
in the bald head. And he began to prophecy.
Well, his wife comes up and she goes first thing out of her
mouth. It's time to move.
Oh my gosh. You know, and, and I'd already
created the vision of what moving it looked like, and it
wasn't a pleasant vision, OK. It's like, I got this business
in Oklahoma. I've got this house that isn't
that old, you know, it's a big house.
And, you know, we got to sell that, you know, what's going to
happen to the inlaws, You know, the whole bit.
I mean, all that presentation was going through my mind like,
you know, and it was so funny. After the service, they were
trying to interpret the interpretation for me.
And I already knew. I already knew what what was
coming down. I said, Oh my gosh, you know,
And Melanie goes that was an interesting.
That was an interesting, yeah, yeah, it was interesting, you
know, and I knew, you know, I knew.
So, you know, being able to, you know, take a look and said, how
do we know we're accomplishing this?
OK. You know, she says it's time to
move. And then that's really when I
submitted to, OK, I've got to follow your leading because
there are way too many things that I'm going to be involved in
here now that I'm not real comfortable with, OK.
And it took us a year and one month to move down here.
And, and I was frustrated all 12 months because I thought, how
come it hadn't happened? How come it hadn't happened?
This was a vision. Lord, you had somebody get up
there, slap me in the head and tell me about it.
I said, just what are we going to do?
You know? And and but it was so funny
because we were having dinner one night with a couple and I
just I, I was sitting there telling them.
They said, well, tell us, tell us the story of, you know, how
you do. The Lord wanted you to come down
there. And I was telling the story and
all of a sudden I started crying and Melanie was going, what's
the matter? I go.
And this is after we'd moved down here, OK?
They wanted to hear the story. I said, May, we got down here
the first week of May. Do you remember that?
I said it seemed like everything that has ever happened to us
substantially to this point has been in the month of May Josh
moved down here in April to be here May 1st in 2006, you know,
to start what he had for the Lord, for him.
And then I said we struggled to get here.
Pastor keeps asking, what's the deal, man?
I said, well, one, our house hadn't sold and we moved down
here without the house being sold and didn't sell for another
five years. So, you know, I didn't envision
that. OK, you're thinking, oh, it's
all going to be no, no, no, no. There.
Sometimes when you're doing the will of God, there comes things
that you, you know, attack the vision and you got to be real
careful. All right, let's talk about
what's the next one. Starts with an I impact the
nation. Let's ask some questions.
How about the same ones? What does impact in the nation
look like? I mean, we're talking about
vision. What does it look like?
How about what picture of this element can we paint?
All right. And said, how do we know we're
accomplishing it? Don't worry, I won't leave you
hanging. We do have answers to these
questions. OK, what's the next one?
Number three is the world influence the world?
All right, What does influence in the world look like?
What picture of this element can we print or paint or print?
Hey, how do we know we're accomplishing it?
See with every vision, those three questions.
Any vision, your vision, My vision, business vision.
OK, we need to ask those three questions.
You know, what does the vision of this company look like?
What does you know, what picture can we paint to give you an
idea? This is how we do it.
All right, Because, you know, most people, they'll start a
business, company ministry without being able to paint the
full picture of what their journey should actually look
like. Here's a here's a here's a
point. There are a few common reasons
why people want to start their own business organization.
I got 5 here. Let's see if you can get any of
them. Why do people want to start
their own business or their organization?
Give me, give me something to make more money.
Let me see what number that was. That's number four #4 give me
one Gina. Hello.
Let's see, where did I have that number 5?
Yeah, mine says this. It says just simply a tired of
working for the other guy. They want to be their own boss.
OK, give me another one. Yeah.
Yeah, we we could do that one. I have one down here.
Huh. Time management.
I don't know. That would be unless your job is
taking you out of what you want to really do.
OK, but here, how about this one?
They don't like their current employment.
They hate their job, which blows my mind because I can't even
imagine working at a place that I didn't like, because what does
that tell you? If you're working at a place
that you didn't like, what are you there for?
Just the money. That's it.
The paycheck, that's it. All right, So I don't want to be
that miserable for the money. I mean, you know, you're paying
me to be miserable. Doesn't make sense to me.
OK, here's number 2. They they don't like their
bosses. They're superior.
Yeah. All right.
Don't like, don't like, don't not out loud.
OK, the bosses are free. You just don't like not, not
much less the company, but those that you're working with, even
even Co workers is another one. All right, how about this one?
They don't like the products they are selling and they think
they can make them better. Now, I can't tell you how many
people I've talked to about that.
You know, they said we found out how much it cost to make the
product and we think we can make it and we can make it better and
for less money and charge less money.
Have a seat. We sit down.
I said, OK. I said let me talk to you about
the cost of producing something because in your mind, all you're
thinking is the cost of the products.
You're not thinking about the phone bill, you're not thinking
about the electric bill. You're not thinking about are
you going to do this all on your own?
Because that product is not a one man show.
All right, So you are, you know, you're, you're trying to create
a vision where you can do something different.
But you know, with the taxes, with everything involved, there
may be a reason that they came up with that price point.
And just because you think you can do it, you know, cheaper and
better may not be the truth. It's a myth.
So you want to make sure that you're not, you know, you're not
part of that because we're going to talk about myths here in a
second. All right, how about this one?
Let's see. They want to do it better.
They want to do it cheaper, and they're just tired of working
for the other guy. Any, any other ones?
Those were my 5, huh? You said that Miss Dorothy said
something there, there there is something that you like doing
and you may have figured out how to make money on it.
OK. Which a lot of people do.
They get a trade and they become very good at it and they can
turn that into a money making opportunity.
All right. And depending on a skill, you
know, very few people that I've, you know, ever seen that have
come up with a product. I came up, I told the kids the
other day, I said, I don't know if you guys have ever seen this.
They have a dog, OK. And now that rubber gloves have
been invented, you can pick up dog stuff, you know, with the
rubber glove and put it in the trash.
But before rubber gloves were invented, I invented something
in junior high called the pooper scooper.
And they go, you did. I said yeah, and didn't do
nothing with it, but I made one in metal shop.
This is around 19, probably 7234.
And I had, you know, created this thing.
It had two little shovels on the on the on the front and it
looked like a not like a pair of scissors.
It had another layer. So it was kind of like an
accordion, but it was made out of steel.
I formed it in the forge. I bend it, I made it, I attached
everything. And when my dad said you need to
get out there and get that stuff picked up, I went out there with
that thing and it was a breeze. Well, you know, there's 19,000
versions of that now. I mean, now someone, we got a
little broom, you know, that is attached to the, you know, for
the, for, for, for that. And I said never did anything
with it. But what, you know, I had a
buddy, he, he one time he said, listen, he said, I am tired of
leaving Coke in the fridge and it, you know, losing its fizz.
I said, well, that man, that's, that's kind of like life, right?
I mean, that's just what happened.
And so he started doing testing in his garage, trying to find
out why these caps won't hold on to it enough to the fist.
So he made a little screw on cap with a pump, pumped air into it,
let it sit for two weeks and came back and he said it was
perfect. The the Coke tasted exactly the
same. And I said that makes sense
because what is the physics coming out?
So it's leaking out somewhere, but what you've done is
pressurized it so it can't come out.
He says I ought to do something with that.
Well, he waited long enough. Somebody did, but it wasn't him.
And you see it, you know, it was hanging on the hanging on the
the shelf at next to the register at Walmart, right?
And I thought, man, that's crazy.
Well, now they figured it out that if you take and screw a lid
on it that has a wide stand, you can flip your bottle upside down
and it can't escape out of the top because it it doesn't have a
loose lid. You know, I've seen one of
those. So you know, when you, you think
about the products and what it's got, you got a vision of it.
You create this thing, you make a prototype, the different
things. But the question is, what do you
do next to to see something like happen?
Now, I had AI had another friend and he came up with an idea.
Has anybody been snowskin Ever been snowskin?
OK, you got snowskin and and you have poles, right?
If you're over 2 foot tall, OK, the kids, none of my kids used
poles. Man, it was amazing.
I just thought you don't have a pole.
I don't need a pole. What do you need a pole for?
I said, because my rear end is further from the ground than you
are tall. And I said, I don't want to
fall. And he said, but at the bottom
of everyone is called a basket and everybody stands in line at
the at the, you know, getting on the lift and they and they're
just sitting there poking the hole.
This guy came up with a logo at the bottom and started out with
college football. So his first one was Colorado
University. And when you stamped it in the
ground, it was a logo of Colorado.
And he had one for Budweiser and he had one for Coca-Cola.
And he had one. And, and this is just as digital
printers were coming out, 3D printers.
And he had these made. And then he found an investor
and the investor took off with him.
And, you know, they began to put them in all the ski shops in
Colorado and all the different places they could say.
And so he knew what to do. And I've always been impressed
with him. He comes up with some of the
craziest stuff. Come up with a golf tee on a
swivel. So it would show you how you're
swinging. If it if it broke, you know, it,
it, it hit, it showed you were swinging this way.
If it, if it went straight, it showed you were swinging right.
And if it's, you know, it was amazing.
And he had them made out of plastic and you know, you put
them down there. So there are going to be people
that will come up with a small vision and then figure out how
to turn that into, you know, finances for them.
But for most of us, we had a skill that we liked.
I did, I had screen printing. I knew you could make money on
screen printing and learn that early on.
And not only did I go work for a screen printer, but then the
time came and I didn't have a problem with my boss, the first
one that taught me everything, but I had this problem with the
second one and I didn't want to compete with him anyway.
I wanted to go back to what I'd learned from the other guy.
And I had such a good relationship with him after I
left him that he employed me to come and do some things in his
shop for him and gave me jobs to do at my shop.
So you know when, when you take a look at that and you know your
vision. Now this is interesting because
I want to give you 3 myths that people use to start these
organizations. And, and here's what they sound
like. See if like this, all right, it
says I can do my, I can be my own boss and not have someone
always telling me what to do. OK, we kind of mentioned that.
That's a myth. OK, here's the next one.
I can make my own hours and now I have the freedom, freedom to
do what I want to do. Here's another myth.
Everybody will want what I'm selling.
OK, so let's look at reality. OK, can we get a vision for
reality? You ready?
Here's visual reality number one.
Depending on what type of business you envision yourself
in, you will more likely have dozens of new bosses.
Not only that will tell you what they want, when they want it.
And if they're not satisfied by your response to their wants,
you may not get paid. Everybody shout.
I mean, you know, that's I had I visited with a young man just
not too long ago. He said I just don't like
working for the other guy. I don't like somebody looking
over my shoulder and tell me what to do.
I'll go. Really.
He goes. Yeah.
I think I'm going to start my own business.
Oh, really? OK, So you're having a hard time
with one boss. OK, let's take a look at about
1/2 a dozen bosses and that you know, you're, you're charging
more than what they're probably going to have to pay at dinner.
All right? And you're going to, you're
going to deal with that. I said you're not going to make
it. I just told him that flat out.
I said you're not going to make it.
I said your motivation's all wrong, man.
You can't do it because you don't like somebody bossing over
you. Until you submit to the other
guy, God cannot promote you. I mean, he will not give you
your own business first. All right, right, Because you,
you know, you, you, you won't last, all right.
But if you think about it, it's a if they're not satisfied with
what they've done. I've got, you know, several
friends that you know, have experienced the fact that you
know, they didn't like what you did and they aren't going to pay
you for it. And then you might have to go to
court to collect, but that's going to cost you more money out
of the money you should have made anyway.
So you got to be real careful on how you know, it's an art in
itself dealing with people under that.
Now let's talk about visual reality #2 all right.
In most cases, business startups may be many excited
entrepreneurs miscalculate the time it'll take to accomplish
what they have envisioned in their business, he said.
Especially when you are the person that turns the key to
open the door, close the business every day, take care of
the accounting, the bank runs, business account reconciliation.
Everybody loves that, right? Don't y'all love reconciling
your checkbooks? No, you don't.
I know how people are, all right?
Bill paying, sales appointments, marketing, special events, trade
shows, etcetera. They're only 24 hours in a day.
The only question is how many hours in this day will it take
to get these things done? You know, I heard a guy say one
time he said, listen, man, I got it made.
I only work half days. And I thought, wow, that's
awesome. He said, I get to determine
which 12 hours that's going to be.
Because, you know, everybody thinks, Oh yeah, man, I ain't
kind of not when you're doing everything.
I mean, they're you're going to find all those things that I
just mentioned there, you know, are things that that just they
take time. They take time.
All right, now here's visual
reality #3 what was what was the the myth #3 was what everybody's
going to want what I'm selling. OK, so here's my one word
answer. No, not everyone is going to
want your product or service. Your main job moving toward is
moving forward is letting those that actually do want to buy
your service or what you have to offer.
All right, how can they get it? That's your job.
How can they? How can they get it?
It says when you hear the words. Wow, I didn't even know you were
here. Remember, it's not their fault.
It's yours. I mean, that that was the
biggest struggle that I had, and hearing it just drove me nuts.
Wow, we didn't even know you guys were here.
We didn't even know you guys existed.
We didn't. And it ain't their fault.
I mean, you know, it's mine. I didn't, I didn't get the right
channels or the right people that I was wanting to to get in
touch with. So, you know, and here's what I
found out. Not everybody wants my stuff.
And I thought, yeah, surely, no, it's not true.
All right, now let's talk about the next question that I that I
want to discuss is how do we know the vision is being
accomplished? So I've wrote down, wrote,
wrote, I've wrote down here, written down here.
The next part of fulfilling the vision is deciding what missions
you will employ that will lead you in the right direction.
So when we talk about vision, it's what we can see, whether
it's there or not, OK, but what we desire to see.
But we have to understand that we're going to have to go on a
mission to be able to bring that to pass, All right?
So the question you have to ask yourself is what mission?
All right, what missions will we employ that will head us in the
right direction? Vision is what we, what you are
seeing can be accomplished. Vision is what you can see, what
you can see being accomplished. But mission is what you are
doing to see it accomplished. That's a paraphrase, all right.
But let's go back to anchor faith vision.
All right? What missions can we implement
to bring the vision into reality?
I've got 3 for each one. Just like I had three questions.
OK. Ignite the city.
What are some things that we can do?
And what are we doing to ignite the city?
You guys hear them every week? What is it?
What are we doing? Huh.
No. How are we going to that ain't
going to ignite the city. Right?
That's going to let them know. Yeah, we're here.
But how about this one? W Augustine, is that what you
said? I didn't hear you say it.
I didn't. I was concentrating.
W Augustine is exactly right. Did you hear it?
Did you hear him say that? OK.
OK, So I know I'm not I'm not the only one that's not paying
attention. But quit talking like a girl and
get you need to tell me what it is.
All right. OK.
You know, W Augustine, how do we know that?
That we're, you know, remember instead, how do we know we're
accomplishing the vision? We go to West Augustine as a
mission, but when we have people show up in the church, we're we
know we're accomplishing it, right?
So we're we're seeing that vision come to pass.
All right. Did you have any more?
How about this one? Town hall meetings with local
government. OK, Are we igniting?
Are we igniting the city? Yeah.
When we have those officials come and they get up here and
they tell what we're doing and then, you know, we hear things.
I'll tell you, one of the funnest ones is that the last
one we had, guy gets up and he says something and I go, you're
the one. And I went down and thanked him
because what has happened? And I don't know if you know
this, but the state and these were these were state people,
these weren't local people, OK. And I probably probably probably
should have used this illustration for the next one,
but but they have eliminated sales tax on commercial property
rentals. OK.
So you saved that much money. And the guy up here talking, he
said we met and we said, you know, that just seems like we're
taxing the small business person to death.
I, you didn't hear me say it, but inside I'm saying you're
right, you are. Because I mean, you think about
it when he gets up into the thousands, you know, And then,
and so it was it eventually it started when Melanie and I took
over the mall, it was 6 1/2 percent, 6%, OK, half a percent
went to the county, the surtax, OK.
Then we got a drop to 4% for for a year.
The last time they dropped it was 2.5%.
And we just got the letter. Effective October 1st, 2025.
They've repealed that there is no more taxes related to
commercial property rental. That's substantial for some
people, you know, but you know, just to take, you know, part and
have that kind of knowledge, we can ignite the city.
You know, we can let them know, Hey, it's tax free zone now, you
know, come, you know, come and and and rent something from us,
Right, All right, here's the third one I got.
How about feeding first responder and the homeless?
How do you ignite the city? We got the homeless.
We got, you know, we fed the police officers, we fed the
firefighters, we fed and how do we impact?
You know, that's how we, I mean, that's how we ignite the city,
all right. And we can tell when it comes to
pass and we've got people making comments.
Hey, this is this is the anchor Faith bunch.
Hey, they did this. They did this the the working
that we have with Flagler, you know, yeah, on the basketball
and, and we go into games and cheering for them 'cause it
doesn't look like a lot of their students are, you know, but you
think about that's how we impact.
OK, let's talk about the next one.
I mean, how we ignite, how do we impact the nation?
OK, give me something there. What are we doing to impact the
nation? Well, that that would be in, you
know, in the United States. Yes.
And that is going to be a focus, you know, building other
churches. We have the orphanage.
That's the influence. And I have that.
I would categorize that under the influence of the world.
How about this one? Participate in East Coast camp.
OK, We send our youth to a camp that is not in our city and they
are going to the nation, another part of the nation and they're
being they're being influenced. I mean, what is the second one?
Impact, impact, OK, impacting their lives, all right.
And those that they bring with them.
That's always been the kind of fun is that I never see.
And you know, and as a kid growing up when we were going to
church camp, you know, I've never seen any kids, But all of
a sudden the grandparents that went to our church would always
get them kids in there, you know, and you're trying to, you
know, impact their lives, you know, with the gospel and the
different things like that. And to see and, and we had we
had results. I mean, we could see it.
How about this, how the ministry teams assist other ministries in
in in training, OK, as far as such as pastors talked about it
or Apostle Earl has talked about it so many times that you know,
he's forming groups, OK. And you know, when it comes to
doing a jail ministry, guess who he's sending Habla Espanol.
All right, we got a bilingual right here.
He can do it all right, But that's what he's talking about.
That's how you impact the different.
How do you how do you start that?
Whatever ministries that we have, you know, we're looking
at, you know, Lord, what can you know, what can we do and who can
send us to impact the nation? How about how about provide a
nationwide university? Can we make any impact?
I think we will with the plans that we have and the students
that we have that are in the country, but they're taking
things online and we're redoing that online.
I think that our reach for impacting them is going to be
very, very strong. OK, here's the third one.
Influence the world. OK, give me something else.
You, you gave me. We're going to start, you know,
we're starting churches in other parts of the world.
You know, we have one in India, obviously.
What's another one? Give me another one.
How can we? How can we, what mission do we
have to get in on to show that we're going to be influencing
the world? What is it?
Set financial support. How about I have the same
supporting dozens of missionaries?
That's what we're doing right now.
We have an impact in all those nations, you know, and we're
influencing all those nations. Would you?
Yeah, yeah, no doubt. All right.
And and, and, and and because it's online, it'll it'll be
worldwide. There's no doubt.
OK. And and I said influence the
world is exactly what you said I had down here starting anchor
faith churches in other countries, OK.
And we've got Nicaragua and that's what you said, is that So
how about this print books and other languages?
I mean, if we're printing them in other languages, what are we
going to do? How can we?
How can we do that? So let's talk about a second.
I'm on implementing strategies in our own business because I'm
going to wrap it up and then we've got an announcement that
we're going to make. All right, as far as let me give
you mine. Let me give you what US safety
sign in decal. I just I went down the vision
and and we worked on this years ago and and as far as you know,
because, you know, vision and mission basically were, you
know, buzzwords years ago. And I think they're coming back
because a lot of churches are using them.
But the vision for my company at USA design and Decal.
Here's here's what our desire and vision that we could
envision. It said that to be a top
manufacturer or and supplier of workplace safety communications
by manufacturing reminders that will get employees home safely
at the end of the day. OK, So my goal was not.
So just say my goal in my vision is to get everybody in the world
to buy my signs. All right?
Problem is, is that I'm late in the game.
OK, I showed up late. They were manufacturers of
safety signs and safety communications before I ever
showed up. All right?
So, But when I took a look at, you know, the top manufacturer
supply to supply workplace safety communications by
manufacturing reminders, and those signs are reminders, They
don't stop you from doing anything.
They're to remind you don't do this or you'll be stupid.
OK? I have a lot of humorous signs,
all right, such as danger. It's Monday.
Talk to me at your own risk. You probably need one of those
for that office. All right, now here's a mission.
This is how we were going to pull it off.
All right. That's that's what we wanted to
do. We want to be known in the
industry. I had one of my sales ladies one
day and went to a trade show and she said, do you know how close
you are to that? Amongst the, the industry that
we were supplying to was oil and gas industry.
I want to be #1 that they came to.
She goes, you are so close right now.
The problem you have in that industry is it has ups and downs
like nothing you've ever seen. OK.
So it ain't like everybody you know in the world is going to
buy a safety sign for their house.
All right? These are specific signs geared
for these particular industries. But my mission was this is to
position ourselves in the oil and gas industry as a leader, a
leading provider of safety communication by providing signs
and decals that assist our customers comply with OSHA
safety standards and turn and in turn protects their employees
from injury. So that's what we communicated
through them. The reason that we want you to
you know, you to purchase from us is that we have an
understanding of what you're trying to protect.
I understand that it could go deeper into liability.
All right, you, you want to the signs keep the liability lower.
If you had a sign there, you know, and and I was involved in
many, many particular groups of the International Drilling
Association that, you know, we got called into meetings in
Oklahoma when somebody lost their life on a rig.
And we were all part of that. And you know, when they're
telling you that, you know, 23 year old boy, you know, didn't
pay attention to the instructions that were posted.
And he got on a man riding lift up to the top of the rig and
didn't secure in. And when he pushed off to go to
the other side, he came off. And that's sad to go to the
meetings. I mean, you know, it's like, and
and you know, so the question was, and it changes the industry
because they'll say, you know, Randy, could you make a sign
that says this? Absolutely.
I mean, we always were creating the signs for them, you know, to
be able to communicate better, communicate better.
You just have you have one fatality and it changes your
whole world. All right.
And so I think that it, it's interesting that when we're in
the business and we see what we want to do, sometimes we we need
to and that's what I want to form in, in the alliance here is
to be able to take a look at it. What are you doing in marketing
and would you be interested anything from outside sources?
OK, I'm not a chiropractor. I like chiropractors.
So, OK, they can help thee for sure.
But you know, when it comes to the, there is the business of
chiropractic. It's not just I, I know how I
know how to adjust here or manipulate here.
There's the business side of it. OK, you got to pay bills.
You got to, you know, you have to have your insurance for
liability. You have to have, you know, all
the, all the different things that the equipment, you know
what it costs if it's released or owned or whatever the case
may be. So every business has the
business side of what's being able.
One of the funnest times I ever have, Dad was going with Pastor
David Derrama and he said, I said, what am I going for?
He said, you're going to speak to the third year pastors about
what? I mean, haven't they learned
everything? They're third year man.
And he goes, no, you're going to tell them and, and, and, and
tell them about understanding the business of ministry, you
know, And so I had a four point, you know, presentation and it
was before I knew anything about PowerPoint.
I made a sign and I've done it here.
I pulled a sign out of there and set it on an easel.
All right. And it tells you the point.
And then if you didn't get the point, I'll flip the sign over
and it gives you another point. It's just never ending.
It's awesome. OK, so we'd go.
And the funniest thing I did it, I did it two years and same, you
know, as far as the same presentation.
And every time they would applaud.
And you never hear applause in a school, OK, like, here's your,
you know, revelation of the day. And, you know, the bell rings
and you leave and they would all just applaud.
And I get in the truck with him and I said, listen, what is all
the applause about? He said, Randy, they have never
heard anything like that, not in this school.
And I said that's sad because how many of them are going to
get out there and not know how to run their ministry business
side and get discouraged. But you know what?
It just isn't in the ministry. We got people starting
businesses that get into financial problems or business
problems and they have nowhere to go, right.
So you know, when we, when we talk about, you know, learning
that is getting somebody from the outside.
I did it myself. I, I just was confused on what I
needed to do to market. And I had AI had a friend that
worked for an oil and gas company.
He worked for a drilling company really.
And he was their marketing strategist.
Well, he started a little something on the side and I
said, hey, just come down here and tell me how much it's going
to cost me to have you do an analysis of my whole company and
tell me what the best marketing is going to be for me.
You know, is it mail out? Is it, you know, do a newsletter
every month? What is it?
So he comes back and he said, I've looked at everything.
And he said, your number one way to market is going to be trade
shows. All the people you want to see
will be there. And so that just got me clicking
on. OK, so when I do a giveaway, do
I want to do an ink pen to be next to all the other ink pens
they received? Do I want to give a staple
remover to all the other staple removers that they're going to
receive? Do I want to get, you know, do I
want to give them a coaster with all the coasters that they and
and what we came up with was the phone funny OSHA series and and
I designed safety signs that were, I thought pretty funny.
I just gave you one. It's Monday.
I had one that said this restroom is a confined space
area. You may need protection,
breathing protection. You know, I have pictures with a
gas mask on a guy. All right, this is the restroom.
And they loved them. They would come whether they
needed us or not. They go.
Are you guys one of the ones with the funny stickers?
Yeah, I have a pack and we did series of them and they'd come
and they'd come specifically for that 'cause I knew what, they're
not going to throw them away, you know, and they're not going
to say, huh, that's another PIN or whatever.
They're going to put them around the office had our name, phone
number, e-mail, everything at the bottom.
So they didn't have to hang on to a business card and figure
out where that's at. They just go look at one of the
signs they put on their file cabinet or whatever the case may
be. So when you talk about that,
how, how do you fulfill that mission?
What ideas can you come up with that fulfill the mission that
you know basically is going to be the the legs to your vision.
You want to do that? So I'm going to have Seth come
up and, and tell us one of the, the visions and a mission that
we're going to have and that we're going to, we're going to
start, you know, implementing I, I say sooner, better.
OK, I know we could wait till the 1st year, but I don't think
that's going to be necessary. So have a minute.
All right. Yeah, I'm sorry.
So the biggest thing, you know, these, the biggest thing we miss
sometimes is the implementation of everything we're learning,
everything we're talking about, everything we discuss here.
And I'm really hoping too that we can continue to grow the
group here. So I'm going to hand out a, a
sheet for all of you to fill out and hand back to me tomorrow.
It's a company profile. It's really kind of a real
brief, just kind of some questions to get you thinking
about your company. And then from that, I want you
to schedule a one to one with Randy and I.
So we're going to sit down, we're going to go over this.
Yep, right. It's a one to two.
It's just a mean to go over where's your business at?
What are some questions you have in your business?
And from there we can help with strategy.
We can help with ideal customers.
I mean, there's so many things that can come out of that
conversation really to help navigate these things in
business. We don't want to just have these
conversations and then just leave you to your own devices.
We want to help you actually grow.
That's the whole point of the alliance, right?
We're here together to work together so that we can grow
together. I want to give you 4 scriptures
that really line up with that, that we need to make sure we
keep in front of us. And this is very important.
This is something in this last year that has really hit home
with me that we just need to keep in front of us.
Proverbs 1/5. A wise man will hear an increase
in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise
counsel. Proverbs 15.
Proverbs 11/14. Where there is no guidance, the
people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Proverbs 1522. Without consultation plans are
frustrated, but with many counselors they succeed.
And then Proverbs 24/6 For by wise guidance we will wage, you
will wage war and an abundance of counsellors.
There's victory too often in business as entrepreneurs, we
get in this mentality that we're by ourselves.
We have to do this, we have to figure this or that out.
When a lot of us have gone through things, we know people
or we have dealt with situations that honestly, we could get
through things a lot faster and a lot easier.
So again, it's an alliance. We're here as a network.
We work together and how much more in the body of Christ where
we're joint and fitted together to go wage war on the
marketplace. So that's where I really believe
we're going to build this alliance a lot better.
We're going to continue to grow and there's things coming that
we're going to keep rolling out. But this is something that needs
to happen I think soon later. So I'm going to hand this out,
fill it out, please get it back to me tomorrow and let's
schedule a meeting. My emails on the bottom.
So if you could save that before you hand it back to me, e-mail
me and we can get that scheduled.
All right, that's it, That's all I got.
All right. What you just said, that's
great. The thing about every one of the
scriptures that he had is out of Proverbs.
And one thing that I've taught for years is you, you break down
what a proverb is. OK, when you talk about pro,
PRO, most of the time you go to a list.
And even in business, pros and cons.
So pros or what? Yeah, positive things.
OK, good things, Absolutely. So, you know, you're, you're
weighing out decisions, things like that.
So you let your pro pros or cons and you want to have more pros
obviously than cons, right. OK.
But think about the word verbs. What is verb action?
So you put the two together and you have positive actions, OK,
So that's what we learn from Proverbs is the positive actions
that will get us the results that he tells us that he told
us, he said multiple in in King James, multiple multitude,
multitude of counselors. There is safety, OK, who don't
want safety, right. So, you know, take a look, take
a look at that. Do fill it out, let us know, you
know, whatever on there and then let's get together and and talk
about that. I want to grow it to the point
and we're going into 2026. There's some other things that
we're going to implement. We've already, you know, kind of
dropped, dropped some thoughts in Pastor's mind and he was very
positive because, you know, we were given a vision when we
first started this back in O 8, OK?
We haven't seen all the vision that we want, you know, taking
place all right in that. But one of the ones that we saw
is what Seth was discussing is the one-on-one.
I've been more successful in this ministry getting one-on-one
with people because I can give you something like what we
talked about tonight that might hit everybody, OK.
But the needs you have in your business are different from each
other. And so we want to take that
one-on-one to hear what you've got.
There may be a book that we have read that says, and we have read
a lot of books. OK, there may be a book
somewhere that we have read that could answer that question for
you. And all you have to do is
diligent. We'll be glad to, you know,
we'll make the recommendation. We'll follow up with you on
how's it going? What chapter are you on?
You know what? What is it that that you need to
know to get you to the next level?
I want us to begin. Pastor Marcy and Apostle Marcy
said it. She made a comment the other day
and a prophecy and said you need to think bigger than you are and
you need to get ready for expansion.
OK, Now expansion is relative to everybody.
You'll know when you need to hire more people.
We want to get you to that place to recognize that, you know,
finding out what it is that you're able to do.
What can we do to work with the customers You had to get new
customers, you know those different things.
So that's all that that we're wanting to do in that networking
part. But then, you know, we've got
some ideas on networking and what we want to do to make it
where more people know what you're doing other than taking a
chance them going by the board out there and looking to see the
one of many business cards. And that business card doesn't
tell us what you do. It might tell us what you are OK
and what realm you're in. But, you know, we want people to
know, hey, we've got people in the church to do these different
things. All right, let's have a word of
prayer. We'll be dismissed.
Thank you guys for coming tonight.
Father, we thank you and praise you that as we get into the next
weeks and and and months, as we close out this year and getting
into some things for next year, we're grateful that you can take
us on this journey together and that we can build each other up,
help each other, counsel each other, pray for each other and
their and their businesses. Hear what your goals, hear what
your vision, hear what your mission is.
And that we can be in agreement because you promised us in your
word that if any 2 on earth agree concerning anything that
they ask, Father, you said that that what they've asked is it'll
be done. So we just needed a couple more
people to agree with us maybe and have some ideas on how we
can implement things in the natural that you give us to be
able to accomplish all that you have.
And we want to give you praise and Thanksgiving for the things
that we do learn and that we will put them to practice,
Father God. And we won't just be hearers,
but we'll be doers. And we thank you for it in Jesus
name, Amen.