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Foreign. Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from One in la. If you haven't been the One, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to one the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end. I want to draw your attention. I'm going to anchor us in two passages of scripture today. The first is in one of my favorite passages of Scripture, Deuteronomy 8:18. And then the second passage is Ephesians 2:10. Deuteronomy 8:18 literally is the name of one of my companies. My investment company is 818 Investments. That's how transformative that passage of scripture has been on my life and in my understanding. I gotta tell you right now, I wish that someone would have taught me what I'm going to share today. Many years ago. I'm grateful for where I am and God is a God of restoration. But I just wish I would have seen this 10, 15 years ago. But the beautiful thing is I see it now. Come on, somebody. And, and, and I'm telling you, there's no loss in God, only alignment. When you get into alignment, he will restore the years that the locusts have eaten. God is the God of restoration. I don't know why I'm saying that to somebody, really. I got a path to take. But somebody needs to know that because the enemy is such a liar and he try to make you feel like you're past your prime or past your time or you missed it. But here is the thing. If you're still breathing, that means that the bets are still on. Come on somebody, the bets are still on. Deuteronomy 8:18. It says, and you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant with which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Let's jump over to Ephesians 2:10. It says, for we are his workmanship. God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Let's pray together. Father, thank you, God, for the honor and the privilege of carrying your word. Your word is a lamp into our feet. It is a light into our path, God, everything that you will do, you will do. In fact, you've already done by and through your word, God. First of all, I pray that the words of my mouth and the meditation in my heart are acceptable in your sight. God, I thank you for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and insight and knowledge and prophecy and full access to heaven's resources to bring the rich treasures, the mysteries of your word to your sons and daughters, that it might act to you what you've placed in them that they would not lack anything, that they would not come short of anything that you have designed them to do, to be, to become. I thank you for their impact in this earth. It is so much bigger than they think. But I thank you, God, that some light bulbs are going to go off today, some clicks are going to happen, God, and there's going to be a greater degree of alignment which will produce a greater expression of who they are, which will bring a greater glory to you, which will be a blessing to the earth. So we love you, we claim victory, enlightenment, empowerment and activation as a result of your word. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Please be seated. I'm going to be honest with you. I have more message than I have minutes. And it's a little tricky because at the Potter's house we have in Dallas, we have one service and so we don't have services that, you know, are backed up against each other. So I can get like real long winded at the Potter's house. And it's not a big deal. Here I have to truncate everything and it's kind of hard to do. So if you pray for me, we'll get it all in. So the world is groaning. The world is growing. And I'm carrying, and I referenced it earlier today when we were talking about how I feel about some of the things that are taking place I carry within myself. Of late, I've been carrying two feelings and I've been carrying the feeling of grief about the chaos and the suffering that I'm seeing, that I'm witnessing and experiencing the things that I'm seeing in the world. And yet that's not the only thing I feel. I'm also carrying a feeling of extreme optimism about what I believe that God is doing on the backdrop of. Of some of those things that grieve me. And I recognize that my grief is really a groan. It's a groan, and it's a groan in concert with the groan of all creation. Anybody been feeling. You've been feeling like a groan, a grief. It's just been kind of real bizarre thing that's been happening in you. Am I the only one, really? Am I the only one that cares? Gosh. But it's the same groan that Romans 8 describes. And I want to show you that real quick. Can I teach today? We're going to teach and really get. Because we got to get this today. But Romans 8. I'm going to read Romans 8, 18 and 19, and then 22 through 23. And Paul's writing, he says, for I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. And then he says, for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God, the revealing of the children of God. So there he's essentially, he's having a conversation in the context of suffering, but he's in this place where he's acknowledging suffering, but he is also in the future. And so he realizes that, yes, I have to go through some things, yes, the earth is going through some things, but I have already seen the future and I have weighed it. That word reckon literally is an accounting term. When he says, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revenged, he's saying, I've done the math. And even though these sufferings are real, it's not even worthy to be compared to the outcome that the sufferings will produce. That's powerful. And it's also perspective. And so, and then if we jump down to verse 22, he says, for we know that the whole creation groans. We're part of the creation, right? So the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs. That's important because what you're feeling are birth pangs. You're pregnant, and you're pregnant with yourself. I wish I could preach that a little better. You're pregnant with a version of you that can only be birthed in the backdrop that we're experiencing right now. You hearing me? You're pregnant with you. So these are birth pangs. So the earth is experiencing birth pangs. You are experiencing birth pangs. If you are uncomfortable, it's because you're supposed to be, because there's another you coming. And this you that's coming could not come forth without going through the birth canal of suffering, the birth canal of discomfort, the birth canal of awkwardness, the birth canal of confusion, the birth canal of irritation, the birth canal of frustration, the birth canal sometimes of anger. Come on. It's all a part of God's divine strategy. Are you tracking? We have to recognize that God is brilliant. Like nothing catches God off guard. Some of the things that would make us gasp. God doesn't gasp. God is strategic. He is a God who sees the end in the beginning, right? And so God allows the beginning in the middle. Because God is an end focused God because he knows that when he gets you to the expected end, you will thank him for the middle. Anybody ever been there? You thought when you were in the middle of that thing, you said, oh, my God, this is the worst thing that could have ever happened to me. But when God got finished and that thing really, truly began to unfold and you saw what God had in mind. The enemy told you what he had in mind, but you saw what God had in mind in the process of time. And you said, oh, my God, I couldn't have gotten there unless I had gone through that. That's where some of you are headed. We got a lot to unpack. Stay with you. You got your pen and your paper. You got your phone and everything. Don't open it up and be on Instagram. Don't do that. I can see in the spirit. I'll call you out. Take your phone, have security take your phone. God is brilliant. There is nothing that happens that he does not not only allow, but have a solution for. This is the God that we serve. Jesus was called in Scripture, in Revelation, Jesus was called the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Isn't that crazy? Because the whole purpose of Jesus coming and ultimately becoming the Lamb of God and being slain was to redeem a world. Watch this. That he that had not even been created when he was formed. Somebody's gonna give me about him being formed when he was slain. The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, before the foundation. So before. Watch this. The world that would need to be redeemed was created there. Was Jesus. Isn't that crazy? That means that every problem, personal, societal, every single one, there not only is there a solution for it, there was a solution for it. So the problem. Watch this. Had to be qualified to come. Are you tracking with me? And the qualification for the problem coming was God having a solution before it came. And if we Would get that we could walk out what God has worked out. We tracking. Okay, okay. So God is a beforehand God. He is not a reactive God. He's not even a responsive God. He is a beforehand God. That's why when he created everything and he set it in motion, the scripture says on the seventh day, he did what he rested. And there's nothing that says that he got back up and started working again. I wish I had about two hours with you. He sat down because he had created. And we're going to learn in just a second. But when God creates, it's not a one off. He creates with perpetuity installed in what he creates. Are you tracking with me? In other words, it says, and the seed was in itself. It didn't even need more seed. Everything that he created had seed in it. So when it came forth, it brought forth seed, that seed fell on the ground and it continued to. Are you checking with me? So there's an argument about, you know, God's going to make a way. Is it God's going to make a way or he already made a way, and I'm going to walk out the way when it manifests on my timeline. This is very, very, very, very important to understand as you navigate and as you live your life. Are you tracking with me? So I want to translate these times for you really quickly because I don't know what your translation of what's going on is right now. Some people might think, man, the earth is going down, you know, things are going to hell in the hand basket, you know, however, whatever. I don't know how some might be thinking, oh, it's the most amazing time. I don't know where you are, but let me translate for you where we are in the world right now. Let me translate the times that we are in. No matter what it looks like to you from your vantage point here is what is going on. God is placing a demand on his investment. I'm gonna unpack it. He's making. God is. He is like a business. He is a businessman. He's a businessman. That's why you study the parable of the talents in Matthew, chapter 25. It's a good study. Just, you know, you'll find this beautiful. Read your whole Bible. You get the whole thing. But it's in Matthew 25. And in the parable of the talents, you have a master giving talents, which was actually an amount of money. I know. We try to spiritualize it and make it a gift. It's not a gift. He gave him some Money. Talent was an amount of money. And he gives it to them. To the one. He gives one talent to another. He gives two talents to the third person. He gives five talents. He goes away and he comes back. And he doesn't come back expecting them to give him what he gave them. He comes back expecting them to multiply it. Because what he gave to them was more than what it was. I wish I had about 1700 people that would catch. What? I'm just saying, he's a businessman. He doesn't just throw things around. He has an investment. You are his investment. We're going to look at it in the text in just a second. He has an investment in you. And so God right now is placing a demand on his investment. Are you tracking? And he is allowing the stage to be set that will force us into our divine design. Oh, I want to take my time to have fun. Right? Right, God. See, he's putting us in that birth canal. Because there comes a time when God needs and requires the investment that he placed in you to yield. Are you hearing me? How do I know? Prove it. Biblically. Okay, parable of the talents. The man comes back after a period of time looking. April. Looking for his investment. The guy who had the five talents worked them. He understood that he was a child of God. If God is a businessman, so should we be? Okay, Dad, I get it, Papa. I'm creating your image and your likeness. That means that I need to, you know, seed time. I need to. So I'm an investor, too. So he takes those five without God telling him anything to do. Inherent. There was an ability to take those five and multiply them. And he comes back and he takes the five, and he gives him 10, Chris. He gives him 10. He's like, whoa, well done, my good and faithful servant. You were faithful over little. I'm gonna make you a ruler over much. Well done, homie. Goes to the guy with the two talents. What did you do with my investment? Oh, don't you worry about nothing. I worked my two, and I got four here. Boom. Well done, my good and faithful servant. He gets to the guy with the one talent, and the one talent says, see? I'm smart. See, I knew, you know, he took his and he buried it and he hid it and he gave it back to him. Okay, if I invest in something and I get back what I gave, I'm angry because I could have taken it and put it somewhere else and made some money with it. So if you tell me I'm going to yield 10%, 12% and all this kind of stuff. And I come back at the proper time, and you told me. And I come back and you give me what I gave. You tricked me because you probably took what I had worked, or you made money and didn't give it back to me. That got a little personal. The master gets mad. He's like, watch this. He calls him wicked and lazy. So the point that I'm making. I digress. The point that I'm making is that the Lord. Cg, we're in a time right now where he is setting the stage to reap the investment of you. Everybody in here is his investment. How do I know? Let's go to the word. Ephesians 2:10. It says, for we are. I cannot wait to unpack this. I wish I had, like, two weeks with y', all, but I'm be on vacation next week. So you. It says, for we are. God says. The scripture says, for we are. His. God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. I'm leaning into something now which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. I see four things in there. I see design, I see work. I see that which is preordained. And I see a call to action. Let's unpack that real quick. Let's talk about design really quickly. So workmanship is an interesting word. The Greek word that was translated workmanship is the Greek word poima, and that is translated workmanship in most English Bibles. And the root word poie means to make, to do, to produce, to create. Stay with me. And the noun form of that word means something that has been made or created or crafted. And it's the root word of our English word poem or poetry. Right? So this workmanship is obviously to make, to do, to create, to produce. But it is where we get our word, our English word poem or poetry from. So when it says that we are his workmanship, you can also say, we are God's poetic creation. Stay with me. So that means that we are not mass produced, but rather we are authored with intentional rhythm. Think about a poem, think about a song. Right? We're authored with intentional rhythm, beauty and meaning. So it's not like he just mass produced all of us, and we're the same. No, no, no, no, no. Each of us is a poem. And so let's talk about a poem. So a poem isn't just random language, right? A poem is intentional. Every word in a poem is placed there with prayer. Where are my songwriters at? Y' all know what I'm talking about. You don't just. When you're in the process of writing a song, you're not just up there talking. Every word. You can be two hours over one word, one thought, one idea, right? It's. It's very, very intentional. And not only is it intentional, it is rhythmic. Come on. It carries timing, cadence and flow. So that's who you are. You. You literally are God's poem. And every experience, every strength, even every scar is a line in his poem. That's the level of intentionality that God exhibited, expressed when he made you. You a poem. You're not random. Watch this. You are a system. You have a design. And so. And it's a beautiful design, right? You are beautifully and uniquely. Watch this. Coded by God. Coded unlike anybody else. A divine code. You are a system divined by God. Stay with me. Which means that success isn't our dream. It's our design. Stay with me. We're going somewhere. I promise you. We think that success is optional. It's not supposed to be optional. Why would God create you to be a failure? Why would a perfect, successful God, a brilliant masterpiece God, A God who knows the end from the beginning, who knows everything. Why would he produce. Watch this. In his own image? To be created in his image automatically negates the notion that you were created to be a failure. No, no, no, no, no. You were created to win. You are his poem. You are his system. Created. What does the text say? It says created. We're going to dig into it now. Created in Christ Jesus, for we are his workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus for good works. We see the design for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Now I want us to look at that works word too. So we get divine design. We get. We are his masterpiece. We get that we are his coded thing. We're not random. We're intentional. Everything matters. Can I go practical real quick? I'll come back. Everything in your life matters. Who you are connected with matters. Where you live matters. What you say matters. How you eat matters. There is nothing about you that was not factored into the divine code. So anything in your life that is random is lawless. If God created us with that much intentionality, and he did, then how, as children of God, is it wise for us to move randomly? You ought to have a vision statement for your life. How can you know what to choose if you haven't defined it by vision? How can you even know that it's a blessing if you haven't defined what God Told you belong to you. So we spend time in randomness. Random relationships, random business deals, random jobs, random stuff. And we're wasting time in randomness because there's nothing about our creation that was random. Nothing down to the color of your eyes. All right, so I told you, I see four things. One thing I see is design. Oh, I'm doing good on time. This works thing got to me, too, because when it says created for good works, I thought, oh, we're gonna just do good things. We're gonna do like we did yesterday. We're created for good works. We're gonna go down and we're gonna feed, and we're gonna be a blessing. And that's wonderful. But that's not what that word means. It's the Greek word ergon. And it literally means. It doesn't mean this good deed that you do. It literally means work. Let's look at it, because I dug into that word. Watch this. It means business, employment. Here are some of the ideas that are associated with that word. Occupation. The one who undertakes. And do you know that the word entrepreneur literally means one who undertakes. Look it up. Look at the root of that. It means one who undertakes. And that word, works is enterprise. The idea of a product is in there. This is fascinating. I'll send you my notes if you want them. Anything that is accomplished by hand, art, industry or mind. So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What you saying, PT what you say, PT I'm saying that when the scripture says that you were created in Christ Jesus before the world began, you are his workmanships created for good works. That means that there are specific functions, industries and enterprises designed to your life. And what is interesting is it says that. It says works and not work because you're more than one thing. Oh, I feel this thing up in the view you about to get it because I'm just now turning the corner. You are more than one thing. And sometimes you go, and I'm not talking about being random, but sometimes, as you're led by the spirit of God, as he begins to reveal design to you, you're led from thing to thing. Listen, a polymath or a multi hyphenate, we make that like. That's like something that is abnormal, when the reality of it is what is abnormal is specialization. Y' all not ready for this. You're not ready. You're not ready. You're not ready. Most of the great people that we know, they were polymaths. They did multiple things. Multiple things. Lawyers and preachers, entrepreneurs and doctors, there's more to you than you think. And what you have to do is. And I'm kind of getting ahead of myself, but let's just go for what you have to do is you have to be agile enough to be whatever the Spirit calls you to be in a moment so that you can have the provision and the impact assigned to your life. Now, let me just cut to the chase a little bit here. I want to be honest with you. I think, you know, people are upset about the economy and all these layoffs. And I understand, and I'm not being insensitive. I get all that. And they're mad because of the benefits, and they're mad because of the shutdown and all this other kind of fair. But I'm telling you, what I hear the Lord saying is God is trying to speak squeeze you so you won't be depending upon anything and you'll begin to access the ingenuity that's on the inside of you. Because you are the type of person, I believe, that when your back is against the wall and when the options begin to run low, something that is on the inside of you begins to stand up and you become who God created you to be. Oh, I need to unpack that a little bit. What the enemy means for evil, God means for good. There are some people and they have relied on things for too long. And as long as you had that in place, your entrepreneurial spirit couldn't activate. But God is getting ready to raise up millionaires, multi millionaires and billionaires who wouldn't have been able to get there if people were giving them things. This whole thing is a setup. It's a setup. Let's just cut to the chase. There's nothing in the Bible that says that people were supposed to rely on the government. Not one verse. Not even a verse you can twist. How deep do you want to go into this? The government is not a business. And if it is not a business, it can't yield, it can't grow, it can't increase, it cannot expand. Are you hearing me? The government's not a business. So why would God put your provision in something that is not in the design of sowing and reaping and multiplication? That's crazy. Again, I'm not being insensitive because I talked about. That's part of somebody's strategy. I get that, but God's got a better strategy. It's called, I've given you the power and the ability to create wealth. I gave it to you that I might establish My covenant, my promise, the government will promise you all day long and snatch it away from you. But if I promise you something, if I promise you provision, if I promise you prosperity, if I promise you a blessing, if I promise you a breakthrough, you better believe that it's gonna come to pass. And it will bless you, your children and your children's children. I wish I had about 50 people who would give God a shout in faith, up in this. God is up to something. I see single moms opening businesses, what the enemy means for evil, and we'll look. Give me my handout back. I get it. I understand it's in a tough spot. But you got to understand, some things suppress our ingenuity. Some things suppress our entrepreneurial spirit. Apostle suppresses what God has given to us. So God, and we think it's the devil and we're rebuking the devil. This is the devil. No, it ain't the devil. The devil doesn't have that much power. He doesn't have that much power. It is God saying, I need you to think differently. I need you to get back to the design created for. For enterprise. For enterprise. Oh, I feel the holy. I'm gonna pray for some people today, too. Oh, I can't. I want to let the spirit do his thing. I got. I wanna. I'm gonna pray for some people today. Something's gonna fall on you. Something's gonna fall on you, and something's gonna be activated in your spirit. And the entrepreneur in you is gonna rise up and God's gonna give you witty ideas and he's gonna give you the faith and the resources and the connections. Oh, God. Okay, I got to steward this, right? I got to steward this moment. I got to steward this moment. I got to steward this moment. Cuz I got. I got more notes than I have minutes. I. I got to steward this. I got to steward this. I got to steward this. I got to steward this. I. When I looked at that word created for good works, I saw everybody's craft in here. Art, things made with hands, enterprise businesses. Watch this. It also talked about producing things of the mind. Some of you are going to be thought leaders and you're going to be compensated for your brain. It's all in there. This is transparently the reason why I started called leaders is because I recognize that God, the same way God showed me that he was going to be doing things in women. Fifteen years ago, way before I met my wife, he started Sharon, Lizzie, y' all were there the year of the Woman. I saw God Doing something with women. And then you saw crazy stuff and it's just amazing things. And the enemy is trying to attack that right now. But it's too late. It's too late. The woman fooled around and found out who she was. It was too late. So, so, so. But in the same manner, I also saw that God was going to be doing great things through the vehicle of business. And for a long time, the church had such a poverty mentality about it. Keep it 100 misinterpreting scriptures like, it's hard for a rich man to make it into heaven. He has to go. It's easy for a camel to go through the eye of a needle for a rich man when almost everybody in the Bible that God used was rich. Now I get it. If you trust in your riches, that's a problem. Because that's idolatry. The Bible doesn't say money is the root of all evil. It says the love of money. And that word is phileo. It's the Greek word for love, phileo, which means that money is your friend. You talk to your money. The precious depression. So I understand how we got there, but it was a mistake. And so we shied away from money and or enterprises that would make us wealthy. And then when the wealthy would come into our churches, then they would feel guilty for their wealth. No, no, no, no. We got to reframe some things. And God told me. And that's why I started called leaders. Because I wanted people to understand that you may not be called to preach as a pastor, you may not be called to lead worship, but you may be called in the entrepreneurial space. I knew that. And now look at this. Now we are living in a country and a time in a world where the economics are in question. Watch this. And it wouldn't mean nothing if God's people were rich, not rich for themselves. Notice I said God's people were rich. Because when God's people are rich, there is a stewardship, dynamic and aspect and a generosity that would take. You see what I'm saying? So you thought that all you needed to do was be spiritual. And God did not say, I created you to be spiritual. You are spirit. That's easy. I created you to work. I created you to work. Deuteronomy 8:18. I've given you the ability. It's so powerful. I've given you the ability to create. Well, it says get wealth, but get. That's not a good translation because when you look at the Hebrew word, it's the Hebrew word asa. It doesn't mean get. It means to produce. And it also means to yield. It's very interesting. The first time we see that word is in Genesis, you know, and it's in the past tense, and it says, and God made the firmament. That's the first time we see that Hebrew word asa. And then later on it says, and. And the earth yields same word. So the word asa means to create, to make, to do, but it also means to yield. Now that makes perfect sense when we talk about how God creates. Because remember I told you, he doesn't create something to just be a thing. He creates something with the dynamic of multiplication in it so that it continues to produce and to multiply. That ties into. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. Let me define something really quickly. I got a few minutes here. I'm not even gonna be able to. I gotta figure out how to get the rest of this to you. Let me define. You know, here is one of the biggest, biggest, biggest errors and problematic errors in Christendom. You've heard this. The wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. Okay, that's in the scripture. But most of us take it out of context. Here is what we think. We think that that means that if we are spiritual, we are righteous, we're doing the right things. Then all of a sudden, God's going to take the billions from those who are not righteous and direct deposit those resources into your account. Wrong. Here is the context of that verse. That verse says, a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous. So in there we see a juxtaposition between the righteous and the sinner. So if the righteous is the one who works in such a way that he leaves an inheritance for his children's children, if that is the righteous, then conversely, who is the wicked? The one who doesn't. And the wealth that was assigned to his life. Remember, we all were created in Christ Jesus, who for good, works, for good Ergon, for good business, for good entrepreneurism is stored up for the one. Watch this. Who is righteous in the fact that they are perceiving their stewardship properly, working in such a way that you leave an inheritance for your children. So in other words, the sinner in the text is not the rich person. The sinner is the person who will not labor in such a way that it leaves an inheritance. So there is a portion. Hear me, goodness. I got to land this plane and pray for some people. There is a portion assigned to you that if you work it, if you work, will not only be enough for you, it will be enough for your children's children. Maybe that's what it means when he says, I'll open up the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing you won't have room enough to receive. In other words, it will be so abundant, it won't fit in your life. It will overflow and your grandchildren will be eating off of it. If you. So we're busy clapping. That's fine. Do that. That's wonderful. I do it. I enjoy that. But for about 15 minutes, because I'm trying to figure out what my next Ergon is, what my next enterprise is. God, what have you placed in me? I don't want to miss what is assigned to me because I don't recognize that I was divinely designed. So if this. We're almost done. If this is my divine design, if this is my birthright, if God has given me this divine faculty to create systems of ongoing abundance, then the question is, why doesn't everyone succeed? If it was built into the design, and it was, trust me. You see, some people don't even know God. They're just working to design. They've tapped into the design. They've tapped into the principle. See, you don't have to love Jesus to tap into the principles. You're like, what do you mean? You look around, but you can tap into the divine design. You can be an atheist and tap into the divine design. Take the design now, you may not. You're not going to the end is not going to be wonderful until you, you know, get that part figured out. But they're tapping into the design because watch this. The design is wired into them. Man, I wish I had about three more hours with you. So if this is the design, then how come everyone is not succeeding? If we were designed to thrive, which is the title of this, Designed to thrive. If we were designed to thrive, then how come everyone doesn't thrive? That's a fair question. I'll tell you right now. It's because of the human glitch. The human glitch in tech. A glitch doesn't mean that the blueprint is broken. It means that there is a problem with the execution. There's some sort of breakdown in execution, whether it's user area error. User error, sorry. Some sort of interference, some external, you know, variable. But it has nothing to do with the actual design. It's something outside of that. Are you tracking with me? So we We. I'm almost there. We have blocks. I call them personal constraints. In my second book, Wholeness, I talked about overcoming these things that hidden. We have these personal constraints that keep us from being whole. And by the way, God's definition of wholeness, particularly as a Hebrew word, shalom. And yes, it means peace, but it means so much more. It means nothing broken or missing. And if we are in a world that necessitates the material, then if your money is broken, isn't that funny? Being broke is called broke. I had never even considered that because that's not even a financial term, broke. But maybe it's a kingdom term. Because if you don't have resources, that means something is broken, something is wrong. You understand what I'm saying? Wholeness, shalom means nothing is broken. Nothing. Everything. Spiritually, emotionally, relationally and economically. All of these things you need to navigate this life. You can be a spiritual giant and an emotional midget. That is possible. You can shando raboto shatta all day long and get mad if someone doesn't call you back and pout like a child. Or you can have all those things and don't understand financial principles or work. I felt a toe or two there. I just. They gonna run me out of here. I wish Dr. Niti would come back. I'm trying to get you together, right? So. So. So the human glitch. We have to deal with the human glitch. And the beautiful thing is that's why Jesus came. The human glitch is this thing called sin. Sin is not an act, it's a condition. Are you hearing me? There's a Greek word for sin and it literally means to miss the mark. What mark? What mark? The mark is a goal. What's the goal? What's the mark? The mark is that we were created in the image and the likeness of God. Which means that we are supposed to be like God. Not broken, but whole. So Jesus comes and the Bible says that God made him who had no sin, had no limitation to be sin. Limitation so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Are you tracking with me? So he came to deal with the glitch so that the design can function the way it's supposed to function. So. So I got a land and I'm just going to run through these things. I want to give you seven things that have to do with us. What we must overcome to overcome the human glitch. I'm going to run through these. Maybe at the 11 o', clock, 11:30, when I have more time. I'll unpack them. Here is what we must overcome to overcome the human glitch so that we can be aligned with God's divine design to thrive. Anybody want to thrive for real? Like, I don't want church to just be, you know, just a cute little place I go, and then I go out there and my life is all broken. No, that's not that. Something's wrong. That means the church is just a high. I just come in here and then I'm good, too. Next Sunday, I'm good. Now I'm good. See, I need my wife. She would pull me back. But no church is supposed to activate me. It's supposed to transform me. So the evidence of having a good experience in church is what happens when I leave. The efficacy of church is proven by the moment I walk out the doors. So let me give you these seven things. I'm going to run through them real quickly. I don't have time to do them. The first thing we have to overcome is ignorance. Hence the teaching. Romans 12 talks about being transformed by the renewing of our mind. That renewing, that word, the Greek word that was translated renewing, has to do with a renovation. When you think about a renovation, you're not building from scratch. What are you doing? You're tearing some stuff down. That's why the scripture talks about it. In Second Corinthians 10 verses 10. Second Corinthians 10, verses 3 to 6. It says, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Strongholds are literally fortified arguments in your mind. Right. And so I'm not ignorant by default. I'm ignorant because there's some arguments that are in my head that are keeping me from being everything that God has created me to be. So I have to overcome. I have to overcome ignorance, and I overcome ignorance by the truth. Right. Knowing the truth. The Bible doesn't say that the truth will set you free. It says, know the truth and the truth will set you free. I have to know the truth. I have to understand. And so I need to get into the Word because the principles that will help me to align with the design are there. I have to overcome ignorance. I'm going to run through these. That's number one. Number two, I must overcome limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs and limiting beliefs oftentimes are shaped by the environment that you were shaped in. That's why when God deals with someone, he oftentimes causes you to get out of your environment. In fact, Raise your hand if you are in LA and this is not your original environment. When a person is destined for greatness, God has to move them out of their environments. Because even if those environments are wonderful, they still might have limitations in them. And you have to come to a place where it is with God all things are possible, because your environment. I think that this is why I preached in Dallas last week about the nomadic life. You got to listen to that. But it's one of those things. I think that's why God always moves you. Because oftentimes you cannot go beyond the collective consciousness of the environment, the community, or the culture that you're in. So once you've gotten every good thing that you're supposed to get from that culture, and sometimes it wasn't good stuff, but once you've gotten, you know, the best, then God has to move you into new circles, into new spaces to expand your capacity, because you are unlimited. The Bible says that he's able to do exceedingly abundant, abundantly, far above what you can ask for or imagine. Which means that if you can think, it, the biggest thing that you can think is just the beginning of what God can do. So you have to continue to get into new environments and greater environments to expand you, because there's more to you than you think. And the moment that you think you have figured you out, you are just at the door because there's a new version of you and successive versions of you have successive outcomes of you. Are you tracking with me? You're bigger than what you think. So I have to overcome limiting beliefs. And oftentimes, mind mastery is everything. You have to master your mind. Because here is the thing, man. God will come and he will tell you that this is so. That this is your portion that you're called to do this. You're called to own, you know, multiple enterprises. You're called to own a lot of real estate. Or you're called to start this particular company. And this company in five years is going to be, you know, worth $3 billion or whatever it is. And sometimes there's something, again, the glitch in our mind that says nope. And you won't say it. You won't say it with your mouth. You just say it with the lack of movement. You'll say it with inertia. You'll say it with inaction, right? You won't say you don't believe it, but God is saying it's over there. You'd be like, for real. So we have to get to a place where the Mind works for us, not the other way around mind, you work for me. So God gives me a word. And the moment that the mind comes and tries to tell me that I can't, I start rebuking that thing. That's what the Bible says. We have. We have the ability to cast the down every argument. Cuz God give you a word, let's be honest. And your mind start arguing with the word. Can we keep it 100? You talk yourself out of what God is trying to talk you into. Your mind be like, nope, can't happen. You're too old, it's too late, you ain't got enough money. God doesn't work with what you don't have. He works with what you do have. If you work the little. Are we tracking? All right, I gotta go, I gotta go. So we gotta overcome ignorance. We gotta overcome limiting beliefs. We have to overcome fear. Fear will get you. What did that wicked servant say who took the one talent and buried? He says, I was afraid. I was afraid. I was afraid, right? So how do I deal with fear? I deal with fear by leaning into the consciousness of God's love. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. So if I'm afraid, that means that I'm missing God. If I'm afraid, somehow I took my eyes off of God and started looking at the thing and started meditating on all of the negative outcomes and the negative possibilities instead of meditating on what God said. And why do we always go to the negative? Make me rich in my consciousness of your love, God. If I am fearing, I just took my eyes off you. We got to get through this. That's fear number four. Three. Fear number four. Laziness. Sometimes it ain't even all that deep, just lazy. There's this passage of scripture that scared me. It's in proverbs. I gave it to the team. What's that proverb scripture I gave. Did I put it up there real quick? About laziest number four. It's in proverbs. Where is it at? Put it up there. I sent it to you earlier. I'm keep talking to you. Put it up there. Because you don't put it there. It is. Okay, so look at this. And it's a few verses, but look at this. It says, how long will you slumber, oh sluggard. When will you arise from your sleep? Now it gets worse. It says, a little sleep, a little slumber. Look, just a little sleep. We call this procrastination. And procrastinator is just a cute fancy word for lazy. Just a little sleep. Alarm clock goes off and just a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. It gets worse. So shall your poverty. Come on you like a prowler and your need like a. An armed man. I gotta tell you a quick story. I was young and fresh in corporate America and had a job where I could work from home. And one day I decided that I was gonna sleep in. And, you know, but I had, you know, the discipline and practice of reading the word. So I literally was laying on my bed resting and my arms across my chest like little folding of the hands. And that word came to me that day. I got. So I jumped up out of that bed, put my suit on. So you gotta have some scriptures that scare and I don't. Let me tell you something right now, poverty scares me. Look, I'll go through whatever I gotta go through. I'll do what I gotta do and all that kind of stuff. But God, if I ain't gotta be broke, I don't want that portion. And according to the Bible, I don't have to have that portion. If I work. I'm anointed to win. He gave me the ability to create wealth. I really need to get to this prayer. I'm going to read these off. I'll expound next time. Number five is immobility. You're not agile enough, right? You want what God has for you on your terms in the city that you want, in the industry that you want, in the field that you want. You got to remember, Jesus is the one that told them where to put the net down. They were putting the net where they thought they put the net down. You know the story. When they're in a boat and fishing and everything, they put the net down where they wanted to put the net down. And they toyed all night and got nothing. So they thought, watch this. That maybe there's something wrong with my gift, maybe there's something wrong with my ability. No, sometimes it has nothing to do with your ability or even your opportunity. It's your lack of what business people call adaptability. You got eq, we know iq, we know eq. Aq. Adaptability quotient. Some people will only hire you if the tests that they run on you determine that you are flexible. Because in order to be great, you have to be mobile. You have to Be. Are you tracking with me? Stop trying to force God to fit into the parameters of your comfort. Number six, Disobedience or delayed obedience. Man, I wish I had more time with you. Delayed obedience. The Bible says, be a doer of the word. And number seven. I'll unpack that more next service. Number seven is inconsistency. This is everything because some of us are good for a minute, but we're inconsistent. Right? And I'll tell you right now, consistency is everything because consistency is the evidence of maturity, and it is the rhythm of mastery. We gotta go. Come on, stand up, because I want to pray with you real quick. If you ain't got to leave, don't leave, man. See, I told you I can't. Dallas. I would have still been going. I'd have another 45 minutes in Dallas. Phew. It's not lost on me that there might be some under the sound of my voice that don't know Christ. And if you don't, he's here. You felt him. He's in this place. We got staff. We got pastors here. So such a blessing to see Pastor Apostle Stephanie. And I know she's ready to receive, but I'm sure she'll serve. She can't help her. She's my spiritual daughter. She will serve. But we've got leaders who will pray for you, cj. I mean, we're here, so I'm going to close out. But if you haven't accepted the Lord, then we're here to walk you through that process. And it's simply about opening up to the encounter that you felt, Lord, touching your heart and you sensing and believing that you need to take that step. But this particular prayer that I want to pray, I want to pray, I want to leave something. I don't get to come here much. And I'll tell you right now, God is doing something with me as it relates to my calling. You know, I've been in business. I was in business before I was in pastoring. And I do believe with all of my heart that the time is now for us to. To see the kingdom through the lens of business. And sometimes you think, I'm not a business person. I'm a creative. I'm art. You know what? Let me tell you what happens to an artist that's not a business person. Broke. Broke. And you put everything over to be. I'm not saying it's not good to have a team. You should have a team. We have teams. Get all that. But I'm saying you have to start Thinking if it says seed, time and harvest is how as long as the earth remains, that's gonna be the case. You have to start thinking like a business person. And you have to realize that there are things that are in you that God has anointed you to do, to produce, to create that's assigned to you. And if you don't do it for a number of reasons. I just gave seven. But if you don't do it for a number of reasons and you're going to miss your portion and you're not going to be able to be a blessing. In a time where I believe that God is putting the church in a position to to be the solutions movement in the earth, this is an opportunity. Don't get mad at the government. Step up. Be the kingdom. Be the kingdom. Be the kingdom. Not begging the government to consider me. Think about me. When God gave me the ability to create, create wealth that he might establish. I'm not begging you. Forget you. Oh, bless you. Please feed me. No, you gave me the ability to feed myself. And thank you for giving me the opportunity to release my ingenuity. The ideas that are getting ready to come out of this time, the businesses, the unity, oh, man, it's about to be amazing. So I want to pray for some people if you're called, this resonated with you, particularly a business person or you feel called to. Maybe you never looked at yourself that way, but something really struck you. I want to pray for you. I won't have you come down if that's you. Just cup your hands like you're getting ready to receive something. Father, I was obedient to you and spoke the word in the context of the time that I had that you gave me. And I thank you, God, that your word will not return unto you void. I thank you, God, that this word that was spoken is going to take root and bear fruit in the hearts and the minds of your sons and daughters. God. Lord, we break off. Lord, any notion, any idea that is limited is limiting any limitations. God, Jesus, you came to break that Hallelujah. And who the sun sets free, free is free indeed. You came that we might have life and have life more abundantly. So, Father, even as you have shown me, you've done it for me. God, I can't give what I do not have. But such as I have and I have this I give unto these your sons and daughters. Thank you, God. I just want you to pete after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I feel it. I thank you for your Word, I receive it. I thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine, all of my limitations, all of my shortcomings, all of my weakness, all of my negative thinking, all of my hurt you placed in his body, nailed it to the cross and put it to death. And as he was raised up free and victorious, as I'm in him, I'm raised up too. I've got a seat in the kingdom. I've got a place in the heavenlies. And I have victory now. God, I'm created in you before the world began for good works. You've anointed me and endowed me to have influence, to have impact. You've given me the ability to create wealth and to experience yield that you might establish your own covenant with me. I receive that. And anything in me that would war against my ability to move forward and produce the riches human, economic and otherwise assigned to my life, strip it away that I might walk. Boldness in my kingdom authority in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades and I'm so glad that you, you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can just look up the call T H E C A L L E D with myself, Terry Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.