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Take a breath. You're not alone.
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Counseling helps you sort through the noise with qualified professionals and online therapy makes it convenient. See if it's for you. Visit betterhelp.com randompodcast for 10% off your first month of online therapy and let life feel better. This is the Potter's House Podcast. We're here to keep you filled with the spirit and guided by the scriptures. And so my subject for today literally is let's go to work and I'm gonna unpack it and we're gonna talk about it. And we won't be able to talk about it all this week, so we're gonna continue on next week. But I'm so serious about this and I want to set the stage for this message with this video. Let me draw your attention to the screen for this short video. Stay standing. We'll read the script.
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A recent study suggests North Texans need a six figure salary in order to live.
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Let's break down the numbers. Travel and finance site upgraded points found a single adult needs just over $107,000 a year. Two adults need a combined salary near 138,000. Add a child, it goes to 184,000. Family of five needs about 265,000. Now, all of this is far above DFW's median personal income of 50. It is not cheap to live here, y'.
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All. Check this out. The crazy thing about that is that it's not just the dfw. It varies to certain percentage degrees, but it's all over the nation that it literally costs more to live than the median income. I want to draw your attention to a few passages of scripture. Let's first go to James, chapter two, and we'll start reading. In verse 14, it says, and I'm going to read three passages, it says, what? What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works, can faith save him? If a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, you have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. I want to draw your attention to Ephesians 2 and 10. It says, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Lastly, John chapter 9 and verse 4, Jesus is speaking, and he says, I must work the works of him who sent me. While it is day, the night is coming when no man can work. Let's go to work. Father, we thank you so much for your word. It is a lamp unto our feet. It is a light unto our path. In the beginning was your word, and your word was with you, and your word was you. God, we recognize that we don't live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of your mouth. Oh God, I thank you for the rich and radical love you have for your sons and daughters. God, those here present, those watching via livestream, those who will watch later. And I pray, God, that you would love your people through me, through the words that you give me to feed them. And speaking of those words, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. God, I thank you, you and claim and possess the spirit of wisdom and revelation and Insight and knowledge and prophecy and full use of heaven's resources to be a blessing to every man, woman, boy or girl under the sound of my voice in this moment. And God, I pray God, that there would be multiple levels of revelation and awakening, that everything that you've given us to use, that we would use them. I thank you, God, for the breakthroughs that will take place. I thank you literally for the radical shifts in circumstances, in futures and destinies and callings as a result of what we will unpack today. We love you and we thank you and we claim it done in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Please be seated. Greet somebody, say something very kind to your neighbor as you. You make your way down. Hallelujah. I am serious about my spiritual intake, my disciplines, as I know many of you are as well, because I am multifaceted. I read from a lot of different places in the scripture. As a businessman. I literally have a business Bible. And I read from the business Bible because I want to feed and satisfy that part of me. And I read from other places and other sources and books. But I also am really, as I am growing and evolving in my understanding of work and business, I have to balance that with a real close connection, like my wife talked about, of companionship with Jesus. Because if you get too into business and you make business your companion and you don't spend as much time with Jesus, you can be swept away not understanding what profit really is and what profit is about. Are you tracking with me? So I've been really digging into Jesus and just reading chapters upon chapters in the Gospel. And I have just this past week, I was moving in, in Matthew verses, chapters five through eight. And one of the things that I noticed right away, and of course that is the Sermon on the Mount. When Jesus has. His fame has grown now he takes his position and he begins to teach. And if you listen to what he is saying, he is saying things that are very counter. He says things like, blessed are those who mourn. And you and I would never really put those two things together. Blessing and mourning. We would never do that, right? You know, he would say things like, like, bless your enemy. We. We. That's not normal. You know, he would talk about all kind of things. He would say, you know, you heard it said, you know, this is what you think, but. But this is what it really is. You know, you say things like, no, you. You've heard that it was said that, you know, that, that if you, you sleep with a woman or you sleep with somebody that's not yours. That's adultery. He said, but I say unto you, even if you look. So he's challenging how we think. And a lot of times we are quick as believers to believe that our role is to challenge culture. And I'm not arguing with that. But Jesus came, and he did not simply challenge culture. He challenged religion, even the culture, religion, and sometimes the rigidity of religion, and sometimes how you can make a monument out of a moment. So he's challenging. He's confronting, and he is challenging everything. And help me to understand that the kingdom is a counter kingdom. In other words, if you and I are going to be productive in the kingdom, we have to be open to have. Watch this. Our ways of thinking challenged. So he challenged the way that we. We look at things. And what he's doing is he's not challenging to be cantankerous. He's not trying to be, you know, kind of like how people are right now. Some people just fight you just to fight you. I mean, it's almost like just. Just. I just want to argue with you. I don't have a good argument, but I want to draw you into a fight. And I don't know where that spirit came from. This is not what I'm talking about. What Jesus is challenging. Watch this. To bring us to original intention. Are you hearing me? Because we can. We can sway and stray so far of the original design that Jesus has to come and he has to disrupt us. And we think that there's something wrong with him when really we have just strayed from the design. Oh, you gotta let me teach today. It's good, right? So he challenged the way that we look at things. And when you think about revival, and everybody's talking about revival, and everybody's praying about revival, and that's wonderful. I think that we are in revival. But let me tell you something about revival. Revival is not God doing a new thing. That's not what revival is. Revival is God reorienting his people to an original thing. Did you catch that? It's not him doing a new thing. He's getting us back to the design. And it feels like a new thing because powerful things start happening and things we haven't seen in a long time. We start seeing miracles, signs, and wonders. We start seeing mass salvation and mass healing and mass breakthroughs and all sorts of things. And so it looks new, but it ain't new. It is a return to the original design. I'm thinking about the early 1900s and Azusa street and William Seymour, which Was many believe was traced back to the modern move of the move of modern Pentecostalism. Well, here's the thing. They were flocking in and it seemed like it was new, but it wasn't new. He was just tapping into the spirit of the book of Acts. And so William Seymour was a reformer. And Jesus, as I mentioned, he was a reformer. And when you are a reformer, life gets dangerous for you because of the reality of change aversion. When you are a reformer. Watch this. You're called to disrupt systems, not to disrupt systems for the sake of disrupting systems. But you have to understand that God has started, he created systems. And if we go beyond the systems that God created, when the truth comes, it's going to disrupt the system. But people watch this like darkness better than light. People would rap about a shit. People would rather not have the truth so that they can stay comfortable and will fight you and kill you like they did with the prophets, because they wanted to stay, even if they were blind, even if they were in error. Error was so comfortable. And so when you, when you really follow Jesus, it makes you a reformer and it brings you into dangerous territory. Can I be a little vulnerable and transparent with you today? We're going to unpack this today. I got to tell you about my wrestlings with this teaching that you're going to get today. My wrestlings with this teacher is that this teaching is that God has been speaking to me a lot for over a decade about the role of work in business. Watch this not as a side part of advancing the kingdom, but an extremely integral part of our assignment and our work in advancing the kingdom. Now we've talked about ministry and marketplace for decades, but we always put ministry and marketplace over in the corner. We have a ministry and marketplace ministry. What if the whole kingdom was a ministry and marketplace kingdom? Oh yeah, I'm about to get up in that. Thank you. We put it over here. We say that's, that's, that's a part of it. But what if it was more of a part of it than we think? And because we haven't leaned into it, we find ourselves in a situation. Watch this. Where you and I, who are covenanted sons of daughters with promises over our lives are struggling the same way people who don't have a covenant are. Stay with me. This integral part of advancing the kingdom in these times through work and business has been the loudest voice. It has been the loudest unction in my spirit for a long time. And I'll be honest with you, I'VE been wrestling with it because. Let me just be honest with you, there's a lot of tension between faith and works. There's a lot of tension between church and business. And to be honest with you, I was a little intimidated because I was concerned that you might misunderstand me or miscategorize me and say, oh, he won them prosperity gospel preachers. I'm just being vulnerable. So I've seen it worked. It lived the principles, seen it work, confirmed all over the place. But. But if I'm honest, I've been tiptoeing around with it a little bit because I was worried about what they might say. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but I got delivered. I got delivered from it. And I'm gonna tell you, there was. There were two things that delivered me from that trepidation. One of them is something that it says about Jesus. It says he made himself of no reputation. Now, one way to look at that means that he. Of course, he didn't. You know, he didn't. He made himself of no reputation. He didn't, you know, he. That. That's the context of that is him being in the form of God, thought or not, robbery to be equal. If God made himself no reputation. But. But that also means. Can be interpreted to mean that he didn't put his reputation before the assignment. Oh, you got to catch what I'm saying. You got to catch what I'm saying. If you're truly going to follow the Lord, then yes. Let me tell you something. I do vociferously guard my reputation. That's why I don't flow with some people. I don't hang with some people. You won't put me in no trick bag. You're not going to see me over here in the corner. You're not going to see me. No, no, I. You promise. Protected. Don't get me wrong. Now, I'm careful sometimes. I won't let you bring me into the room, even though it's a room that I want to go into, because sometimes it's about who brings you into the room and not you being in the room. So sometimes, Bishop, I will wait to go into the room because if you bring me in, then they're going to associate you with me, and that will begin to mess with my reputation. So say I got got. I want to introduce you to somebody. No, that's okay. The issue is not to somebody. This is you. Can I have a real conversation? So. So what I'm getting at is I do believe in ensuring that your Good is not evil spoken of to the best of your ability. But there will come sometimes and some moments where even though you have protected your reputation as much as you can, you cannot allow you trying to preserve what people say about you to keep you from doing what God has called you to do. Every once in a while you gotta say, you know what? Come what may, I've got to obey God. Are you tracking with me? But that's not the only reason. That's not the only reason I got delivered. I got a revelation about not making yourself a reputation, not being so over concerned with your reputation that you flow in disobedience. But the other reason, and this is important, is I realize that the time is at hand. So while I'm over here trying to navigate my feelings and trying to. Trying to be overly concerned about what you might think about me, time is ticking. Jesus was focused and he said, I must work while it's day, because nighttime comes when no man can work. And I got convicted and I got delivered because this is a right now word. And I am seeing the need of this revelation now more than ever. Can we walk and talk together just a little bit? And so I want to unpack some things that I recently discovered in Ephesians 2 and 10. I didn't even. I never saw this here. And maybe I'm just new. Maybe y' all been knowing all your life. I don't know. I'm, you know, hey, for me, I just saw it and it blessed me. So let's look at it real quick. We're going to unpack Ephesians chapter two and ten. And it's. Well, the scripture says, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. I see four things here, four, four, four elements and components to this verse. The first is design. The second is work. The third is the reality of predestination or preordination, I should say preordained. And then I also see a call to action in there, you know, and the call to action is ultimately where we should walk in them. So there's something. Paul is communicating something to us. He's communicating identity or design. He's telling us he's going to introduce work in a way that might be different than we thought. He's telling us that it was prepared beforehand. And then he says we should walk in them. So those are all those elements. But let me first talk about design. Because everything that God creates has a design. God is not a random creator. He is not a sporadic creator. Everything that he does is, creates. Every. All of it has a design. So right here we're going to understand a little bit more about our design than perhaps we consider. So let's get into it. So that word workmanship, where he says, for we are his workmanship, we're God's workmanship. That. When you break that down to the Greek, it is. At its root is the. The Greek word poio. And it means to make, to do, to produce, or to create. And so when you get it, when you break it down to its noun form, it literally means something that has been made or crafted. And what's interesting is that is also the root of our English words for poem and poetry. That's important. That's important. So, in essence, what we come to understand about what he's saying is that we are, you and I, are. Are God's poetic creation. We are not mass produced, but we are authored with intentionality, with. Watch this. Intentional rhythm. When we think about a poem, Intentional rhythm, beauty and meaning. Stay with me. This is important. So we are. We are literally God's poem, each and every one of us. And a poem. Watch this. When you think about a poem. Where are my songwriters? Anybody write songs in here? When you think about a poem, when you think about a song, somebody said, hey, about to sing. I love it. I love it. I'm gonna get to you in a minute. When you think about a poem, when you think about a song, it's not random language. Think about it. It's. First of all, it's intentional. That means that every word is placed in a song with purpose. Right? In our writing sessions, we could be hung up on one word for two hours because it has to be just right, right? So every word is placed with purpose. Stay with me. You can catch in a second. It is also rhythmic. You think about a song, it's rhythmic. It's not just words thrown together, but there's a rhythm to it. 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And these rhythms carry what? Timing, cadence, and flow. Look at how intricately designed you are. And I was thinking about you as it relates to this. And you. You are not a word. You are many words. I gotta say this right there. There are. Maybe I can just say it the way I wrote it and then we just unpack it. There are many divinely placed and divinely designed and divinely timed words that create the masterpiece of you. You are his poem. You are a sum total of thoughts and words. And when all of those thoughts and words have been played and fully expressed, then the masterpiece of you will be realized. This is why you cannot quit in the middle of your song, because some of you are ready to give up, not realizing that you are right at the bridge. There are some songs that don't go to another level until you hit the bridge. The song. Song is just okay, it's cool. But when you hit that bridge, something begins to happen. Something begins to shift. The song goes to another level. You cannot give up before you grow up because your song is still speaking. You haven't seen or heard every lyric. Your life is getting ready to speak, unlike ever before. And I'm just crazy enough to believe that the prophetic words that will come out today are going to activate you, going to shift some of you into the. The bridge of your song. So stick with it, because you're his poem. Hallelujah. And you haven't heard all of what he wrote. You haven't heard all of what he wrote yet. In the book Knowing, I have a chapter called the Unfolding of Knowing. Life unfolds. God knows what is unfolding. And as you walk in sync with him, you get better at knowing. But your life is still unfolding. Knowing is still unfolding in your life. I don't care how young you are. I don't care if you are 97 and a half. Your life is still unfolding. If you are breathing, that means that there's still some lyrics that have not been expressed yet. Are we together? And so I'm talking about design. I'm talking about how God made you. You're not an accident. You're God's artistry. Are you listening to me this morning? You're not an accident. Your artistry, every experience, every struggle that made you stronger, every scar is a line in his poem. There's nothing you faced that he didn't write. And if he wrote it, that means when it's all said and done, it's gonna be good, baby. Good. He's gonna use it all. He's gonna use it all. And if you are written by God, you are a success story unfolding. That's what you are. So that means that family, the kingdom and the spirit, and the plan of God. Success isn't our dream, it's our design. I was designed to succeed. Are you tracking? We got a lot of ground to cover. Stay with me. So that's design now. This is what got me. This is what got me. That word works. So it says that we are his workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in. And that word works. Let me tell you what I thought it meant. I thought it meant good deeds. I thought it meant what we did yesterday, feeding 2,500 people here at this campus yesterday, a thousand at our other campus in Fort Worth. And those are wonderful deeds. That's wonderful things. And so, because I hadn't studied that word in its original language, that's what I thought it meant. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works. But I was curious. I wanted to dig deeper into that word. And I was wrong. That's not about good deeds. Although if you understand that word, you will be able to do good deeds. But that ain't what that word means. Can we talk about it? It's the Greek word ergon and it means to toil as an effort. Watch this. Or an occupation. And the implication is it's an act, it's a deed, it's doing something. It's labor. But when you dig down in there, here are the ideas associated with that word business. And I'm not going to over spiritualize it. Not like business, like no business. Literally business. Look it up. Employment. That which one is occupied. That. Watch this. That which one undertakes to do Enterprise. Watch this. Any product, anything accomplished by hand, art, industry or mind. So when I look at that word, we're not talking about good deeds there. We're literally talking about enterprise. And it makes sense to me because when I look at God and I look at how he created and I look at how God formed things, I recognize that God is a businessman. If you think about what a businessman does and how he operates and how he functions. Watch this. He sows. And he expects to reap where he sowed. He sets up systems and structure. If you look at all of Genesis is an entrepreneur. He's setting up systems and structures. Watch this. So that once he sits down on the seventh day, he doesn't have to get back and work again. Because the systems and the structures. Scriptures create perpetual profit. And that's why. And we're created in God's image. And so what does he say to us? He says, be fruitful and multiply. Why? Because I designed you in my image. You are like me. You are supposed to perpetually be fruit. Being fruitful and multiply. You're wired for perpetual increase. Can I talk to you like this? Today I'm a challenge. Your thinking literally that word ergon is not about doing a good deed. Although we Should. It's about enterprise. It's about business. Literally a product. What I love about art is in there. Hello, somebody. Literature. Products of the mind. And now what do we see? We see thought leaders, people literally who are generating income. Because of their thoughts, because of their thinking. And we have. Watch this. In Christ. Premium thoughts. Stay with me. You're going to get it today. Just turn to somebody, say, let's get to work now. It's powerful. So we've got an understanding. Study it out. We've got an understanding of our design. We have an understanding that in that design we are created to work, to do business. You know what's interesting? I was looking at that article from the news that I showed you up top. And it said something that I disagree with. It said that you have to have a salary of 100,000, 107,000. I think the number was a salary. Watch this. That means that the mentality of working for someone. Is a prevailing thought. So much so that the news. There are a number of ways to provide for you and your family, but they're talking about a salary. Now, I'm not saying that a salary is bad at all. But I'm saying that if that's all you got going, there might be something that you're missing out on. Because I'm not convinced that we can put our trust in somebody else's business. Baby, it's time for you to bet on you feel the Holy Ghost. And the Bible says. The Bible says that it has been prepared for you beforehand. And all you got to do is walk in them. Prepared for you beforehand means that your work is preordained to succeed. Why would God design us for failure? Why would he design us for lack of. Why would he design us in his image for just enough, barely enough, and God forbid, not enough? Why would he do that, Aunt Jackie? He didn't. I'm gonna show you something else. Can I just take my time, talk a little bit? Let's go over to Deuteronomy, chapter 8 and verse 18. Bible says, and you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth. Watch this. That he might establish his covenant, his promise, which he swore to your fathers as it is this day. So in other words, God is saying, it is a just thing for me to endow you with a faculty, an inner agency and an ability. Watch this. And that word get is not a good translation. That word literally means to make, to do, or to produce wealth in you. And of course it is. You were Created in the image of God. And that word wealth is the Hebrew word chayel. And it means more than money. It literally means watch this. Men means or resources. Those are enterprise terms. Show me one business, one enterprise that doesn't involve people, men, whether that's the customer or the labor force. Right. Resources. Well, you got to have some money, right? And means ability, creativity, innovation. Those are enterprise terms. You track it with me right there. God says, I've given you Rebbe Shima. I've given you the ability to produce. The Hebrew word hasah. It means watch this. To make. Oh, this is a lot to make, to do, to work, to produce, to prepare, to accomplish. Watch this. And to yield. It's one of the most frequently used verb in the Hebrew Bible. Over 2600 times. ASA the word that's in there when it says I've given you the ability to hasa wealth over 2600 times in the Hebrew Bible. And it's an interesting word because it is both active and it is result oriented. God, I wish I had about five hours with you. Watch this. It is both active and it's also result oriented. You're going to see that it means to make or to do. And then it also means to yield. Isn't that like God? God is saying, I designed you as a system and the ability that I placed in you is not just a one off, but it's an ability that will produce and it will also yield. It's the same one, same word you like. Prove it. PT. I'll show you. If you go to Genesis chapter one in verse 17 or verse seven, I believe it is, it says thus God made the firmament. God made. That's the word Asa gotten made. He made the firmament. Right. And then later the same word is used. It says in verse Genesis 1:11 it says, Then God said, let the earth bring forth the herb that yields seed and the fruit tree that yields. There. That word again is yield. So it means to do and yield. Why? Because they're one and the same. It is the ability God has given you. The ability. Watch this. To be fruitful. But not just to be fruitful, but to multiply. So you've got something in you that is so divine and so dynamic that it won't just do. It will do and multiply if you do it. I wish I had about a thousand people that would really catch what God is trying to show you. And you can't multiply until you do. This is why Jesus is describing the unprofitable servant. He is mad because he went and he buried it. Why is he mad? Doesn't that seem like the right thing to do? No. If you understand that there's an element of multiplication in it, all you would have needed to have done as work it. The power wasn't in the man. The power was in the ability that he gave to the man. Just turn to somebody and say, you got something, you got something, you got something. Turn to somebody else and say, but you have to work it. You got to work it, you got to work it. So this reframes wealth not as a one time windfall. See? Oh gosh, let me say this and I want to say something that reframes wealth not as a one time windfall, but as an ecosystem of productivity. A divine capacity to keep producing. It means that God has given. You hear me clearly, people, a divine faculty. Watch this. To create systems of ongoing yield. That's why you can't be discouraged with temporary failure. If you're still alive, you still got ability. Sometimes failure is just to guide you from one thing that was a good thing to a God thing. Because God's got to have you where he needs you. You. There's a difference between failing and being a failure. Failing is a momentary circumstance. Failure is an identity. And the last time I checked, God didn't make no failures. You are his workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus for good works that were prepared beforehand. I hear this for somebody. Somebody got discouraged, somebody got disappointed. You put your eggs in a basket and the basket spilled over. But I hear God saying, I have given you Hassan. I've given you the ability to create wealth. And as long as you are still alive, as long as you still got your mind, as long as you have got what you got. I dare you to get back in the game because you were created to thrive. If that's your word, give God about 18 seconds of worship. Get back in it. Get back in it. The devil is a liar. Get back in it. Now. Get it. You created to be fruitful and to multiply. Hallelujah. Jesus's ministry was an enterprise. It was a kingdom enterprise. He had systems, he had structures, he had resources, he had a communication strategy. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? How do you think he was able to feed the multitudes? Look at what he did. He said, yeah, hey, y', all, sit down. In order. Sit down. Here. You go do this, you go do that. He's managing people, he's managing, managing resources and he's managing means. I must be about My father's business, we always over spiritualize it, but he used the term business. And the reason why I'm passionate, especially for us, is because I see our sons and daughters and our mothers and grandmothers perplexed, trying to figure out how they gonna get over. And they're looking to the left, and they're looking to the right. It ain't gonna happen by looking to the left. It ain't gonna happen by looking to the right. And I'm gonna be honest with you, it ain't gonna happen by looking, looking up. It's gonna happen by looking in recognizing that you've got the ability in you to create wealth. And when you put that seed in the ground, then you can look up, hey, because he's gonna rain on your labor. He's gonna rain on your efforts. He's gonna ra. Let's go to work. I feel the Holy Ghost in this place. Let's go to work. You got something in you. God didn't leave you without an anointing to build something to create. You've got an anointing to build. You've got an anointing to succeed. You've got an anointing to win. I realize that there might be some people that physically cannot work. I realize that there's some people. And you may not have the ability, for whatever reason, a disability, past your prime or whatever. I get that. I understand that. But here is the thing. The way it's wired, the way it's designed, first of all, you got something, but I'm not gonna talk about that for a second. But the way it's designed is those of us who can, you get enough for you and somebody else. I feel the Holy Ghost, what God wants to do in you is not just for you. It's for your mama, it's for your daddy, it's for your community, it's for the poor. You just do you. They're waiting on you. They're senior citizens in our community waiting on you to get to work. They paid their price. They labored, they ran their race. Bible talks about Peter. Jesus is having a conversation with Peter. And essentially he's saying, peter, one day you're gonna be old and somebody's gonna have to take care of you. Young people, it's your time. Get it, baby. Let's get it. Let's build something. And let's honor those who went ahead of. I'm about to go crazy in this place. It's not so that we can bling. It's so that we can Honor. My father passed away 11 years ago and I was hurt for obvious reasons. But one of the reasons why I was hurt was because I was trying to build him something. He wanted to move back to California. I was looking for a house for him right before he died. I had the real estate agent out and he dies unexpectedly. I was devastated because I had matured enough to know that. That my success is not for me. Hallelujah. And I cannot wait, sir. I cannot wait. I cannot wait to write a check that will make your head spin, sir. Not that you need it, but I cannot wait. And not just him. I wish I had somebody that really understood what I'm talking about up in here. Everything that we see happening is designed to get us activated. Scarcity is a motivator. You ain't going down. Something in you is getting activated. And there has never. I'm going to jump ahead because I'm continuing next week. I'm going to jump ahead to this close. There has never. The world that we live in today, right now, it is so dynamic. And I know it doesn't seem that way, but hear me clearly. The world that we're in right now, the one that we're navigating, although it doesn't seem this way, it actually favors the masses. It used to favor the big companies, the rich and the mighty and the powerful. And I know you see, I know what you see and I understand that. But I'm talking about the opportunities that technology. The opportunities are more flat than you think. And we can either stay stuck whining and crying about all that kind of stuff and let me tell you something, one thing nobody can take from you is Deuteronomy 8:18. You better catch it. Nobody can take your ability to produce wealth from you. So we going to have to, we going to have to kind of move on past that and not look at what we don't have, but what we do have, I'm telling you. And don't be afraid of technology. I was talking to someone the other day. I'm gonna land because we continue next week. I was talking to someone the other day and of course I'm in the music business. You know, we've got two music labels, you've heard some of our stuff, I got some other things going on. And the tart, the chart topping music right now, one was a gospel song, went to number one is an AI artist. Now here's the thing. Now they pouting. Now the people who didn't use it, they pouting mad. Well, that ain't Real. That ain't the Holy Ghost. Yeah, I got the Holy Ghost. Yeah, but it's chopping the tart. Just topping the charts. And you can whine and pout and cross your arms all you want to and say that ain't fair. That ain't fair. And that AI all artist is spreading in influence and economics. Had 738 streams in one week. So you can resist it. Oh, I'm not. I ain't no AI. You can do all that if you want to and miss your opportunity. I got a meeting with my teams this week. Hello? Somebody. See, we are afraid of things that we don't understand. Watch this.
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We are afraid of things that are disruptive. That's why they were afraid of Jesus. Here's what I'm saying. We're going to pray and I'm going land this plane. Got way more ground to cover. But. But we going to talk about this for a while. Because this is what I truly be. And you try it. You test it. Try it by the spirit. Try it in your life. I ain't sharing nothing that ain't in the word. This the world that we're living in right now. The technology that's out there, the tools that's out there, I've used. I've saved literally tens of thousands of dollars over the last six months in, I'll be honest with you, in legal fees. Because now I only bring the deal to my attorneys at the very last second. I have learned so much through the AI tools that I use where I used to pay $1,000 an hour to have a conversation and a phone call. And I'm getting the revelation in 10 seconds. I'm not saying don't use an attorney because AI can't. It can't be your attorney. But it can certainly cut down on some of those phone calls. So I only bring things to attorneys and consultants once I have exhausted you tracking with me. So what did I do? I just became more profitable by using the tool. There has never. I'm telling you the world right now that we're living in is demanding new ideas. And guess what? Again, we are the idea people. God gives us thoughts, is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things. It's demanding new leaders, it's demanding new literature, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new new everything. New applications for computers, new cures for diseases. Are you hearing me? There's a demand. And the early adopters, which should be us because the Bible says we're the heads and not the tell. If we adopt this early and we're not adopting some old new age, new wave. This the Bible. We were made for these times. Come on, stand with me.
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I came bearing good news. I can't see. The enemy doesn't want you to understand this. He'll have us shouting all day and crying all night because the money ain't meeting. He don't want you to have this. He don't want you to understand this. I got so much. I haven't even touched the scripture that I have for this. I just don't. I didn't even get to. James, family. I'm happy for us. I'm happy for us. I used to worry about us. And then God started speaking to me. Because God is going to show us. And I believe, honestly, it's what our bishop has been doing the past 20 years. We got the blueprint. This is a continuum for such a time as now. Oh, so much to tell you. God's been moving in the lives of women, which is amazing. But I'm going to tell you something. He's moving in the lives of men right now, too. We had to. We had to get things balanced because they was off balance. But there is a surge. Men hear me and women hear me too. There's a movement amongst men right now. We had to go through a little something, find ourselves, rediscover ourselves. We had, you know, toxic mess. We had. We had. We had a little funny way of thinking about things because we had some bad ideas about what it meant to be in leadership. And it was suppressive. And so God had to deal with that because he gave them both dominion. So that means if the man is the only one who has it and she's down, we only half strong. So he had to go ahead and disrupt that. Come on, somebody. He had to go ahead and disrupt that and get her up where she's supposed to be. And it may have looked off balance a little bit because all the attention and the focus and I get it. But there was some work that needed to be done. And so now what God is doing is okay. Now that we've figured that out. And as it relates to the men, I'm going to say this. We gonna pray as it relates to the men. God showed me that. He's raising us up and we're going to move. Watch this. Two dimensions of the Joseph anointing. There are two Josephs, two prominent Josephs in the Bible. I'll tell you who they were. It was the Joseph who was the husband of Mary. This Joseph was a facilitator. This Joseph created environments, right? Then there was another Joseph in scripture who was number two in Egypt, right? He had a grace and an anointing for wisdom and the managing of wealth. For the sake of impact. So what God is doing with men is that we're going to be healed from this. I got to put her down in order to be me. That's our. That healing is happening. And we're going to be facilitators, not just of women, but facilitators in general. And we're going to have that facilitating anointing, but also that anointing of wisdom and wealth, the building of wealth, divine insight, divine intelligence. I talk about in the book, knowing divine intelligence is better than artificial intelligence. Divine intelligence. And God's going to raise up men who have the wisdom, the wealth and the heart to facilitate. I want to do something real quick. I want every man to just step as close to this altar as you can. Every man. It's your moment. Showtime. Yeah, showtime. Come on. And ladies, sisters, cheer them on. Cheer more. Koteshiba morabo hashebe kitarambo shimanari brokoba ralama zamarabe Kitabaro kodambro kabba Shabbat. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I see you. I see you. I see you. I see you. I see you. Come on, let's shout like God's doing something in here. And you could just come. You can come while I'm talking. We've got things in store for you. We got things in store for you. We're serious about you. See, all we do is just get in the flow of what God's doing. When God says he's doing something, we do it. We've been praying for you. We've been strategizing for you. Had a meeting about you on Tuesday right here at the church. Equip you in part, connect you. Because you are worth it and you deserve it. Worth it and you deserve it. We're serious. We're serious about you. We're serious. And as a man, think is just the beginning of it. Edify is just the beginning of it. We're going to raise up kings. The Lord put it in my spirit. Ten thousand kings. Not kings, that's something you put on your Instagram, but kings, wisdom, power, authority, moving in your unction and your ability to produce wealth for you and your family, your community that my brother is coming. No, it's here. It's here. I want to pray for you, Father. We thank you so much for what we've experienced here, what we are experiencing here in your house. I thank you God. Long before there was a threat, there was a strategy, long before there was a circumstance, there was a solution. Hallelujah. Because we are your workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good work, good fruitful, profitable business. Which you prepared beforehand for us to walk in. I thank you for these men, I thank you for all that are here and I pray that you would bless them and multiply them and increase them. May they prosper and be in health as their soul prospers. Those who don't know you, I thank you God that they will. But right now I'm praying for them, these men. I thank you that your hand right now, your hand, Abba, Father, is on their lives. And they will know you first and foremost as Abba, as daddy. Yeah, yeah. We've got our fathers, I've got my father, but you are Abba and that's different. For where my father can't help, you are my help. So Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that they would be able to from the depths of their being cry out abba, Father, Daddy that they might perceive your love for them, that they are not forgotten, that they are not forsaken, that they are not cast away or cast aside. That they would know that they would hear a voice from heaven like, almost like Jesus when he came up out of the the water from the baptism. This is my beloved son of whom I am well pleased. Father, I pray it every word that you spoke here today would take root in their hearts, take root in their minds and that it would bear fruit, God, that nothing that you spoken, you ain't done talking. But nothing that you spoke will be taken from them. But that this would be a moment of activation, that something would come alive unlike ever before. And God, I pray that as we all begin to walk in them doors will begin to open and give them wisdom and discernment. God, as it pertains to what doors to walk in and what doors to not who to walk through the door with and who to not unusual supernatural wisdom and insight. Bless these men, they are part of your plan. Josephs facilitators and wealth builders that will shift this world right side up, I want everyone to repeat after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I feel it. Heavenly Father, thank you for your word. I receive it. Heavenly Father, thank you for Jesus, thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine, all of my weakness, all of my limitation, all of my shortcomings, you placed in his body, nailed it to the cross, and put it to death. And just as he was raised up free and victorious, because I'm in him, I'm raised up too. My past is behind me, my future is amazing. I am your poem. I am your poetic creation. I am a story, a great story, yet unfolding. Holy Spirit, fill me to the overflow. You promised that you would baptize me in your spirit and in fire I receive it right now. I renounce the enemy, I renounce the hidden works of darkness, and I give myself entirely and completely unto you. It's the least I can do. It's my reasonable service. Now God, have your way in me unlike ever before. For in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. You've been listening to the Potter's House podcast. If this episode encouraged your faith, walk it out with authority. Until next time, be blessed.
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