The Potter's House Podcast: Sunday Message - “Let’s Go To Work”

Date: November 23, 2025
Speaker: The Potter’s House (primary teaching pastor, referred to as “C” below)

Episode Overview

This episode centers on the theme “Let’s Go To Work”, exploring the deep connection between faith, work, business, and one’s divine design. The message challenges conventional boundaries between church and marketplace, reframes the biblical call to productivity, and motivates listeners to activate the God-given capacity to create, build, and prosper—not just for themselves, but for the wider community.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: Financial Pressures and Faith (02:23)

• Contemporary Context: The episode opens with a news clip (02:23) highlighting the high cost of living in North Texas, where many are struggling financially.
• The pastor frames these challenges as a call to examine not only how we survive but how we thrive as people of faith.

2. Faith and Works: Rediscovering the Biblical Mandate (03:00–07:00)

• Scriptural Foundation:
  • James 2:14–18: “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
  • Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
  • John 9:4: “I must work the works of him who sent me…”
• Takeaway: It's not enough to have faith without action—the original design of believers is active and participatory.

“Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead… Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” — C [03:40]

3. The Kingdom is a Counter-Kingdom (07:30–12:20)

• Jesus didn’t just challenge cultural norms; he challenged religious rigidity. Revival is not about God doing a new thing but restoring the original design.
• “The kingdom is a counter kingdom. If you and I are going to be productive in the kingdom, we must be open to have our ways of thinking challenged.” — C [09:00]
• The pastor describes the discomfort and “danger” reformers face, recalling Jesus and reformers like William Seymour of Azusa Street revival.

4. Wrestling Faith and Business (12:30–16:40)

• The speaker shares personal tension about discussing wealth and business in church settings, fearing mischaracterization as a “prosperity gospel preacher.”
• “I was concerned that you might misunderstand me...say, oh, he’s one of them prosperity gospel preachers. I’m just being vulnerable.” — C [15:30]
• “You cannot allow 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…come what may, I’ve got to obey God.” — C [16:20]

5. Breaking Down Ephesians 2:10—Design, Work, Predestination, Action (17:30–26:00)

A. Design:

• Workmanship (Greek: poiō): Not mass-produced but artfully created—like a poem, with rhythm, beauty, and meaning.

  “You are his poem. You are a sum total of thoughts and words. Every struggle, every scar is a line in his poem. There’s nothing you faced that he didn’t write.” — C [23:30]

B. Work:

• Works (Greek: ergon): Not just “good deeds,” but encompassing toil, occupation, enterprise—business, employment, art, products of the mind.

  “That word erm…ergon… is not about doing a good deed. Although we should. It’s about enterprise. It’s about business. Literally a product.” — C [27:50]

C. Predestination:

• The call to fruitful work was prepared beforehand—preordained as part of our spiritual DNA.

D. Action:

• “Walk in them”—activate what’s been prepared in advance.

6. Enterprise Spirituality: The Divine Blueprint (36:00–42:00)

• God is presented as the original businessman—sowing, expecting return, setting up systems for perpetual profit, and calling us to do the same.
• Reference to Deuteronomy 8:18: “He gives you power to get wealth…to establish his covenant.”

  “God has given you a divine faculty to create systems of ongoing yield.” — C [41:20]

7. Wealth as an Ongoing Ecosystem, Not a Windfall (42:30–44:30)

• Wealth is reframed: “not as a one-time windfall, but as an ecosystem of productivity—a divine capacity to keep producing.”
• Failure is differentiated from being a “failure”—the latter is not in God’s design.

  “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.” — C [43:50]

8. The Impact Mindset: For You and For Others (44:30-47:30)

• Blessing and productivity are not for self-indulgence but so you can provide for others (“it’s for your mama, your daddy, your community!”).

9. Embracing Opportunity in a New Era (47:40–52:00)

• Despite apparent inequality, technology and new tools are creating unprecedented opportunities for anyone to create and prosper.
• AI in Music Example:

  “One was a gospel song, went to number one—it's an AI artist…So you can resist it, say ‘that ain’t fair’…but that AI artist is spreading in influence and economics.” — C [49:00]

  • Urging the congregation not to fear disruption or technology, but to be early adopters and idea people.

10. Call to Activation & Blessing Men in the Church (54:30–65:00)

• A Special Appeal to Men:

  • Recognition of a new movement among men toward “Joseph anointing”—facilitators and wealth builders.
  • Women have been elevated, now men must be healed “from thinking you have to put her down to be you,” and step into a dual calling: facilitation and wisdom in wealth.

  “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.” — C [60:15]

• Activation Prayer:

  • All men invited to the altar for a blessing that they move into their ordained work and become facilitators and prosperity-bringers for their families and communities.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-------|---------| | 03:40 | “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead… Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” | C | | 09:00 | “The kingdom is a counter kingdom. …We must be open to have our ways of thinking challenged.” | C | | 16:20 | “You cannot allow trying to preserve what people say about you to keep you from doing what God has called you to do. …Come what may, I’ve got to obey God.” | C | | 23:30 | “You are his poem. You are a sum total of thoughts and words. Every struggle, every scar is a line in his poem. There’s nothing you faced that he didn’t write.” | C | | 27:50 | “That word ergon… is not about doing a good deed… It’s about enterprise. It’s about business. Literally a product.” | C | | 41:20 | “God has given you a divine faculty to create systems of ongoing yield.” | C | | 43:50 | “Failing is a momentary circumstance. Failure is an identity. And the last time I checked, God didn’t make no failures.” | C | | 49:00 | “One [song] was a gospel song, went to number one—it's an AI artist…You can resist it… but that AI artist is spreading in influence and economics.” | C | | 60:15 | “Ten thousand kings…not kings that’s something you put on your Instagram, but kings—wisdom, power, authority, moving in your unction.” | C |

Important Segment Timestamps

• Opening Scripture & Context: 02:57–07:00
• Challenging Religious & Cultural Assumptions: 07:00–13:00
• Personal Struggle with Faith/Business Message: 12:30–16:40
• Unpacking Ephesians 2:10 (Identity & Work): 17:30–26:00
• Defining Divine Work & Wealth: 36:00–44:30
• The Call to Marketplace Ministry: 44:30–47:30
• Tech and New Opportunities (AI example): 47:40–52:00
• Special Blessing for Men/Community Activation: 54:30–65:00

Summary for Listeners

This message is a rallying cry to recognize your God-given design as a “poetic creation” equipped for fruitful, ongoing enterprise. The episode reframes “work” as central to spiritual calling—spanning business, the arts, and any productive pursuit. With careful biblical exposition, the speaker dispels the false divide between faith and marketplace, urging the congregation, especially men, to step boldly into their unique callings, harness technology and divine wisdom, and build not just for self, but for families and communities.

Listeners are encouraged not to be immobilized by fear of disruption or the opinions of others—but to activate their “anointing to build, to succeed and to win.” The world needs new ideas, new leaders, and the people of God are equipped to provide them.

Key takeaway:
You are God’s artwork, designed for flourishing enterprise; let go of fear, step out in faith, activate your gifts, and “let’s go to work.”