We must keep a malleable mind as life’s journey takes us down paths we cannot always predict. As leaders, the pressures of the uncertainties take a toll on our lives. These stressors can drive us to become emotionally charged decision-makers and cause us to ask, “Is the Lord among us or not?” As you lead, are you prepared to increase yourself to teach people who don’t like you? Give up your addiction to affluence and you’ll get influence.

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i want you to open your heart and open

your bibles as we go to exodus chapter

17 verse 1 through 7.

we’re going to stand for the reading of

god’s word

even if you can’t read

just stand and look important

yeah

fake it till you make it

hallelujah

the whole israel community set out

from the desert of sin

traveling from place to place pay

attention to that traveling

from place to place

traveling from place

to place

as the lord commanded

god put them on the road

they camped at refereed

but there was no water

for the people to drink

so they crawled with moses

and said give us water to drink

moses replied why do you call with me

why do you put the lord to the test

but the people were thirsty for water

and they grumbled against moses

they said why did you bring us up out of

egypt to make us

and our children and livestock die

of dust

then moses cried out to god

find him how to do with these people

lord

it’s been a few times

i see it in myself dear jesus

they are almost ready to stone me

listen to what bothered him about what

they did they’re almost ready

to stone me

the lord answered moses go out in front

of the people take with you some of the

elders of israel and take in your hand

the staff which you struck the nile and

gold

i will stand there before you by the

rocket horeb

strike the rock

and water will come out of it for the

people to drink

so moses did in the sight of the elders

of israel

in front of his leadership and he called

the place massa and maribel because the

israelites quarreled and because they

tested the lord saying

is the lord amongst us

or not

this morning i want to talk from the

subject road rage

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look at your name and say do you have

road rage

spirit of god we invite you now

come real

close

engage us empower us enlighten us

inform us

transform us

illuminate your will and plan and

purpose for our lives prophesy to us

give us the kind of tenacity that is

necessary to surge upward and onward

into our destiny

for you have caused us to travel

from place to place

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and what is clear to us

is that we can stay here no

longer change is imminent

change is necessary

i refuse to be the same person in 2022

that i was in 2021.

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i refused to face the same problem and

the same predicament that i had

travel is imminent set me on the road

and give me the courage to move from

place to place for the steps of a good

man

are ordered by the lord and you delight

in my way

lead me in a plain path because of my

enemies i need to see clearly what you

would have me to do

give me that transitory mentality that’s

necessary not to fall so in love with

what is that i can’t catch what’s coming

have your way

in jesus name

somebody shout amen

you may be seated

yeah let’s go to work

so i basically want to uh just talk to

you this morning i want to take you to

starbucks and get you a la day

and sit down and have a conversation

i want to use this text as a canvas on

which you and i

can paint an illustration that is

relevant to you

the purpose is not so much to exegete

the text alone

but to use the tests not only

historically

but metaphorically

so that you can better understand what

is happening in your life in this season

the text starts out on a very irritating

tone it is frustrating

the people are frustrated

because their norms have been shattered

and anytime your norm is shattered

you bear an emotional toll whether you

express it or not

nobody has attacked them at this point

no enemy has besieged them at this point

but the pressure of the uncertainty

of going from place to place

takes its own toll

you want to know how am i going to make

it and where am i going to stay and what

am i going to eat and what am i going to

drink what am i going to do if you’re

like me you’re the kind of person that

likes to have some answers before you

make movements

but occasionally god will cause you to

move without answers and give you

answers as you go

and it is very difficult to deal with

people who are frustrated to lead people

who are frustrated it is quite difficult

and moses

became exasperated with them they were

exasperated with him he was exasperated

with them and he cries out to god what

am i gonna do with these people

these people are getting on my nerves

often he and god would argue whose

people they were

the lord told them they’re your people

moses said no no they’re your people

yeah he had the kind of conversation and

ability to interact with god that

perhaps somebody else would have got

killed for

but moses was a leader

he was a leader

title or not

he was a leader

there is a distinction between titles

and leadership

there’s nothing worse than calling

somebody by a title and them not be the

leader that matches up with the title

now to be sure to be a leader is a

difficult thing

because the

expectations rest on you

and the expectations rest on you whether

it was your fault or not

they expect you to fix things that are

unfixable

change things that are beyond your grasp

moses is wrestling with a problem that

he did not create

and he could not create and he could not

uh fix but they charged him as if it was

his fault

so you cannot be sensitive and be a

leader

you have to be tough enough to

understand that you don’t respond to

every accusation and allegation because

sometimes the question has more to do

with the questioner than it does you

you’re the one that’s frustrated

you’re the one that’s at the end of your

room and they’re complaining about being

thirsty

and i thought to myself if there was no

water

than one moses thirsty too

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but we often forget that our leaders are

also one of us

and we expect them to be superhuman as

if they have no need

but in reality if there was no water to

drink

then moses’s mouth was dry too

and often the challenge with being a

leader is that you are exempted and

opted out of the opportunity to be human

moses is one of my heroes

not because he was the perfect leader

but he was a powerful leader

he was a relentless leader he had found

the thing he was born to do

and he didn’t find it at first it takes

a while to find the thing you were born

to do

most of the time you end up doing the

things you have to do

not really recognizing the thing you

were born to do

and then when you find the thing that

you’re born to do you have to figure out

how you’re going to do it

because there are lots of ways to do it

here’s the first indication of a leader

you must be willing to be unorthodox

there’s nothing worse than putting a

person into leadership who is more

worried about fitting in

than they are standing out

unorthodox really in his origin means to

be out of the ordinary

not the previously accepted ideology

not mimicking the methods of the people

who are surrounding you

all of our great leaders throughout

history were always

unorthodox

rule breakers

if you expect to be written about

you got to be willing to break some

rules

if you’re more concerned about fitting

in then just be the status quo but

nobody writes about people who followed

the status quo

when martin luther tapped the 96 thesis

on the door of the church as history

proclaims that he did

if he did that he he was willing to be

unorthodox and was ridiculed and was

criticized and they tried to kill him

because he wouldn’t act like one of them

martin luther wasn’t on orthodox leader

martin luther king jr

was an

orthodox leader

he didn’t quite fit in with malcolm

he didn’t quite fit in with the

pampers he didn’t quite fit in with the

generation before him

his method of courage like the panthers

coupled with peace like a christian

made him an oddity

are you willing to be odd

are you willing to be different nobody

follows people who follow trends

a great leader creates trends

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stands out does things differently

moses in my estimation is one of the

greatest leaders of the old testament

he follows after the patriarchs abraham

isaac and jacob

but he is a great great leader so much

that god protected him all of his life

not that he didn’t have peril not that

he didn’t have a rough childhood not

that he wasn’t denied the right to grow

up in a normal israelite family all of

that was taken from him

but all of that has something to do with

how god shaped him

he grew up where he was a misfit

he couldn’t quite fit in as an israelite

or hebrew

because he was raised like an egyptian

and he talked like an egyptian

and he was educated like an egyptian

and he understood the protocol of an

egyptian

he had never woken up a day in his adult

life

living in a slave quarter

and yet he is called to lead people that

he’s kin to

but he’s not

their kind

he couldn’t stay with the people that he

was

their kind because he wasn’t their kin

and so

one of the proclivities of being a

leader is to have the ability to adapt

and become comfortable with being

controversial

it isn’t just that he is the

pastorpreneur

of the era though he was

moses is the leader of the old testament

church

the very first inkling of an

understanding of the church comes

through the ecclesia of the called out

ones they were called out of slavery to

establish not only the old testament

church of which he is the shepherd of

the sheep leading them he is also

the the the head of state when it comes

to organizing a nation

of people

that were once slaves

and they have cried out to god for their

freedom and moses has come to deliver

them from the oppression of pharaoh

but he was delivering people that didn’t

always like him

and if you have too much of a need to be

liked

you can’t be a great leader

because you’re too much of a pleaser

i’m just giving you some guidelines

if if it becomes more important to you

to be liked than it is to lead you’re

probably not a leader you just have a

title and you’re in a tough position

because something you do is going to

frustrate somebody no matter which

decision you make

can i go deeper

now the metrics of leadership is

movement

you can’t be say you’re a leader if you

don’t have any metrics to prove you are

moving things

so don’t go by the title

and don’t just go by the preaching

how much difference are you making and

how do you quantify the distance between

with you and without you

and if without you looks just like with

you then you’re not a leader you’re a

placeholder

are you hearing what i’m saying

so we want to have some measurements

what what are the measurements that you

measure whether you’re a leader not well

this is not for me i’m not a leader

everybody in this room is a leader in

one way or another

they have a degree of leadership

responsibility because leadership at its

core means influence

and if you have any influence if it’s

just over your children if it’s just

over your sister if it’s just over your

mama if it’s just over yourself you have

the responsibility to adapt to as much

as possible to an understanding of

seeing yourself as a leader if not you

have to sit and wait on somebody to

follow

are you hearing what i’m saying

leadership is what the bible calls what

the bible calls

favor

yeah because if leadership is influenced

influence is favor

it’s not a title it’s not a stage it’s

not visibility it may increase your

affluence but more stage time doesn’t

equate to influence there’s a difference

between affluence and influence

the stage gives you affluence but it

doesn’t necessarily mean you have

influence sometimes the people who are

not on the stage have more influence

than the people who stand on the stage

and often hire the people on the stage

and yet we have a tendency to desire the

light

so we’d rather be in the light than on

the building

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we would rather be in the light than on

the building

because whoever owns the building

doesn’t get seen but they have the

influence to make the decision about who

stands on the stage

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are you hearing what i’m saying

the actor gains affluence can’t go

anywhere can’t go in the grocery store

people taking pictures of them

everywhere but the studio has influence

are you hearing what i’m saying

there are many many singers that became

very very famous and died very very

broke

and they had affluence and they had fan

clubs and they had fan page and they had

to deal with tabloids but they ended up

with little of nothing to show for what

they had

and they had very little to show for

what they had because they had affluence

does not equate to influence we are not

trained to look for influence

we are trained to look for affluence so

we prosper in areas that give us

affluence we want to be preachers we

want to be football players we want to

be basketball stars we want to be

hip-hop artists we want stage we don’t

want to own the label we don’t want to

own the company we don’t want to own the

studio we don’t want to own

so what we have modeled in front of us

is affluence at a time that the world is

looking for somebody with influence

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affluence shines on the stage

influence shines in the boardroom

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are you hearing what i’m saying to you

and i feel like god is getting ready to

shift some of you into places of

influence

and your influence is getting ready to

increase

and you have been

disappointed with life because you never

got affluence but the lord told me to

tell you i didn’t give you affluence

because i’m getting ready to give you

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oh i’m talking to somebody

so when i’m talking to leaders i’m

talking to you you don’t even know it

yet because the world has not recognized

you as a leader they’ve recognized you

to a degree as a person with talent but

they don’t see you as a leader and it’s

because you’re getting affluence but you

haven’t gotten influence and influence

is getting ready to break forth in your

life like you’ve never seen it before as

soon as you let go of your addiction to

affluence

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nothing worse to hiring somebody into an

influential position and all they want

is affluence

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nothing worse than having a pastor who

is a leader and all he wants to do is

preach

pastoring is much bigger than preaching

it is leading

it is looking at the metrics and seeing

how much distance have you covered and

it’s not just quantity it’s quality it’s

not always about having a bigger church

it’s about having a better church

we have fallen in love with bigger and

not better

but the metrics that we might be

measured by might not be numerical

metrics it might be the depth to which

you have influenced the lives of the

people that hurt you

but you don’t want that because you

don’t get credit for being a great

pastor you get credit for having a big

church

and america in particularly is in love

with our fluence

we

stand for hours to take pictures of

people on the red carpet who have

affluence and the people who who sign

the contract for the people that are on

the red carpet walk right past you and

you pay them no attention because we do

not glorify leadership we glorify light

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but the reason i thought it was

important normally i would just teach

something like this at a leadership

conference and i do have some things

that i’m going to teach that but i’m

going to give you a little precursor

today in case you don’t make it or in

case you do come you’ll come with your

head on straight

the bible said in luke 2 52 and jesus

increased

in wisdom

and stature

and favor

with god and man

favor with man is influence

favor with god is influence to have

favor with god means i can speak up and

say things to god and things will change

and what is powerful about luke 2 52 is

that jesus increased if jesus increased

that means that i can increase

i can start out with no influence and

end up with all kinds of influence my

influence can increase and one of the

ways to know that your influence is

increasing is by the level of your

attack

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some people have not earned the right to

be severely attacked or greatly attacked

because they don’t have great enough

influence when the enemy sees that

you’re about to get greater influence he

sends on greater demons to attack your

life to assassinate the destiny that is

over your life

hallelujah the devil doesn’t know it but

he’s warning you of what is about to

come by the level of attack that

precedes the next move that’s coming in

your life who am i talking to today

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so i want to talk to you about this in

three dimensions

i want to talk to you about leading

i want to talk to you about learning

and i want to talk to you about legacy

you have to understand

that if you’re going to lead you have to

learn

you can’t become inflexible and stop

learning and get so busy in your leading

that you stop learning moses was a

leader that god had selected to do great

things not only spiritually

not only spiritually but governmentally

moses wants to be a multifaceted leader

right then a multifaceted leader you can

be a leader and be

multifaceted

don’t let people pigeonhole you and

limit you to how they understand you

rather than living your life to the

fullness of your uniqueness and be

willing to evolve and learn and be a

multi-faceted leader

he has up unto his auspices the

responsibility of establishing their

worship

but he also has to establish their

government their protocol their rules so

in the pentatonic you will see

god giving the ten commandments you will

see god giving the ordinances

and you will see god giving the

ceremonies the ceremonies inhabit the

worship

the ordinance inhabits the government

how you judge one another how you handle

each other’s run-ins and obstacles and

adversities

the ten commandments was to israel what

the constitution is to the country you

have to have one set of principles you

can’t have five different principles in

the same organization

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bringing whatever you have influence

over to a common set of basic ideals

that defines you and sets you apart is

important and it’s not just good enough

for you to know it the people up under

you have to know it and then you have a

criteria to pick out who goes with you

because if you can’t align with my

vision then you can’t stay on my team

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you have to see how your life’s vision

fits into my vision in order for you to

be a good fit up under the wings of my

umbrella because if you don’t you have

your own agenda and when you come into

my atmosphere with your agenda you turn

my vision into division and when we find

division we have to let’s go

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you cannot counsel out division

when you have two different visions one

of us has got to go

lot had to separate from abraham

it’s only when you can find a way to fit

your vision up under my vision and let

me say it in a biblical way how can two

walk together

save they agree

now the fact that jesus increased in

wisdom and stature and favor with god

and with man say that with me jesus

increased in wisdom and stature and

favor with god and with man lets me know

that i need influence with god because

favor is influence and i need influence

with man

and if the enemy can’t take away my

influence with god he will attack my

influence with man

i can be anointed have influence with

god and destroy my reputation and lose

influence with men and still be as

anointed as i ever was with god but be

totally ineffective with men because i

have lost my influence with men though i

maintain my influence with god i will

always be god’s man

but i might not be

his man that he can use because i am

still having influence with god but i

have damaged my influence with man note

to self protect your influence with man

at all costs because if you lose your

influence with man you limit

your ability to be effective though you

still have influence with god

i’m not saying you can’t survive it

i’m i’m saying you’re going to suffer

from it

i’m saying you’re going to have loss

from it

i’m saying that influence with men is

fickle

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and it’s hard enough to keep when you’ve

done your best

because there’s always some snake

crawling around trying to bite and

destroy your influence with man

you don’t want to help the snake bite

you

can i go deeper with his scene

they had one body of principles and

ideas that all of them had to learn and

moses understood when he established the

ten commandments the judgments and the

ordinances i meant to say it that way

the ten commandments the judgment and

the ordinance are the three divisions

that establish them and set them apart

from the egypt the egyptians and the

hittites and the jebusites it wasn’t

their look it wasn’t their clothing it

was their principles

we worked too much on our appearance and

too little on our principles

we worked too much on our image and too

little on our realities

so we spent all of our money looking

successful

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oh y’all ain’t gonna help me

rather than being successful

if you were what you looked like you

wouldn’t you would be able to sleep at

night but we have a tendency to spend

the money that god gave us to take us to

the next level on our image

and not on our reality

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so the first thing we do when a door is

open to us is try to look the part

and we spend all of our resources on

trying to look the part rather than to

be the part

it’s one thing to look like a president

and it’s another thing to be one

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do you want to have the look

or do you want to have the being

now the look will fool people for a

while for man looks on the outer

appearance but the look will never fool

god because god looks on the heart and

at the end of the day what’s in the

heart will trump what’s on the body

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you can’t fake knowledge

you either know it or you don’t

you can’t fake knowledge you either got

it or you don’t i could dress like a

doctor i could wear the clothing of a

doctor i could wear the shoes of a

doctor but when you put me in the

operating room you’re going to readily

find out i’m not a doctor even though i

might know some terms that make me sound

like a doctor i’ve got to be more than a

look when i got a scalpel in my hand

the church has accepted a lot of people

who look like leaders

who know a few things that they saw on

instagram like leaders and they’ve got a

few slogans and no context to put it in

context to go along with the slogans and

they they string together sayings that

they got off of twitter into sermons and

when they run out of cliches they start

talking about people because they are

trying to produce something that they

are not

and you cannot produce what you are not

i can teach what i know but i can only

produce what i

am if i learn mandarin i can teach

mandarin but that doesn’t make me

chinese

so i can teach mandarin but when i have

a baby the baby is not going to come out

chinese because i can only produce what

i am

you will only go as far as you are

you cannot produce what’s not in you

stop trying to be other people because

it’s not in your inventory to do what

they do you must be authentic you must

be yourself even at the risk of being

unorthodox you have to be who god made

you

you have to do it the way god gave you

to do it you have to speak it the way

god gave you to speak it you have to be

an original

authenticity

is imperative for great leadership

i can learn like from you but i can

never be you

so the only thing i want from a mentor

is to learn principles and concepts but

when once i learn the principles and the

concepts i can’t be my teacher

i can only be myself

uniformed ideas create justice you can’t

have one set of principles for your

friends and another set of principles

for your foes you can’t have one set of

principles for this group in your office

and another set of principles for

another group in your office uniformity

creates justice justice must be blind it

can’t blink because you’re a woman he

can’t blink because you’re cute he can’t

blink because you’re fine fine might get

you a date but it won’t get you a job it

can’t blink because you’re nice looking

it’s got to be fair and equitable and

even across the board so being nice can

only take you so far sooner or later

you’re going to have to go from

personality to performance

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have you ever seen somebody trying to

fake you out with nice

and they thought if you liked them well

enough that you would always call them

if i call you to cut the grass i don’t

care how nice you are if you can’t cut

the grass i’m going to call somebody

else nice

personality does not trump performance

but it will hinder it

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it’s not that personality is not

important but if all you got is

personality

you know it’s not going to do me any

good i don’t want to go to a doctor and

all i’m able to say about him is he’s so

nice

he don’t know nothing but he’s so nice

he cut out my lungs but he’s so nice

i want him to be nice

but i want him to be knowledgeable

are you hearing what i’m saying

and i want to be treated with fairty

fairness now what is happening here

is moses is leading people with motion

sickness

he is leading people with motion

sickness i don’t have much motion

sickness but my wife has a lot of motion

sickness

she can ride in a car most of the time

but maybe not in the back seat she

doesn’t do well on a boat so a cruise is

a challenge because motion makes her

sick it’s called motion sickness and if

she doesn’t take some medicine she can’t

take a boat ride because of motion

sickness and most of us are leading

people who have motion sickness

moses is leading people who haven’t

moved for 430 years

and now he’s got them living on the road

and the very fact that they have motion

sickness makes them difficult to move

and moses is a leader and the only

metric of leadership is movement if he

doesn’t move he’s not a leader but if he

moves them they’re going to have motion

sickness because they have not moved for

430 years they have spiritual atrophy

most churches have spiritual atrophy

atrophy is when you haven’t moved

something in so long it ceases to move

without pain

most churches have spiritual atrophy no

we’ve always done it like that you

always sing the song before you read the

prayer deacon wilson always takes up the

offering that’s atrophy anytime people

start talking about always

and they worship normalcy more than they

worship movement it becomes difficult to

lead them because they’re uncomfortable

with change and moses has the dubious

task of trying to move people who have

spent 430 years being motionless

so the bible says

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that they were moved by god from place

to place

and anytime god has you moving from

place to place you’re leading through

uncertainty you don’t know what’s going

to happen next reading their journey is

like reading a good movie one moment

they’re fighting avalanche at referendum

and the next moment they can’t find any

water the next chapter you turn over

into the snakes are coming out and

biting them and the next chapter you

turn into god has covered them with a

cloud of fire to keep them warm at night

and the moment you get used to the cloud

of fire he is turned into a pillar of

smoke by day and then you turn past the

next chapter and they come to a face

filled with palm trees and fresh water

and you walk on a little further and

they come to a dry place and every time

they kept moving they kept blaming moses

because they had motion sickness they

had moved for 430 years some of you

listening at me right now have not

changed in 20 or 30 years and now this

pandemic is driving you crazy because

it’s forcing you to have to move and

you’re uncomfortable because you have

spiritual atrophy and you keep waiting

for god to make it like it was and

success for you is for god to take you

back to what you’re used to but i came

to tell you that god has closed up the

red sea and you can’t go back to what it

was you must adapt to what it is what it

is what it is what it is what it is you

gotta you gotta adapt to what it is not

what it was not what it will be you got

to adapt to what it is what it is

am i talking to somebody today

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see that most of us are trying to manage

people

you got wives trying to manage husbands

you got husbands trying to manage wives

you’ve got parents trying to manage

children you got people trying to manage

life most of us are trying to manage

people you’re upset with people because

they won’t be managed they won’t do what

you tell them to do they won’t go where

you tell them to go god does not call

you to manage people he calls you to

lead people

once god calls you to lead people he

will call you to manage procedures

i was talking to a lady patricia heyroyd

and she almost knocked me out of my

chair with this point you manage

procedures you lead people

[Applause]

we don’t spend enough time managing

procedures

we as preachers are so busy making

sermons

we don’t want to be bothered with

procedures

and long after the sermon is over the

church has to live with the procedures

and now the pandemic has come to

preachers who spend all their time

studying for the sermon

and they get the sermon so that they can

move people and they’re not used to

managing procedures that means that

you’ve got to be willing to tweak your

procedures that means you’ve got to be a

person who stops saying this is just how

i do it this is just how i am this is

just the way it is you cannot fall in

love with the procedure the procedure’s

got to be willing to change so that the

results can increase who am i talking to

the procedures have got to be willing to

change so that the results can increase

that’s why you take your car for a

tune-up so that you can adjust the

procedures to increase the performance

you have no more performance than you

have willingness to adjust the procedure

in other words if you always do what

you’ve always done you will always be

where you’ve always been not because you

didn’t have a vision not because you

didn’t want to go forward but because

you refused to change the procedures if

you don’t change the procedures you

can’t have the promotion

[Music]

[Applause]

and i came to tell somebody you’ve been

working hard on the wrong stuff

you’re trying to manage people and

people will always break out

from people who manage them

that’s why they’re in the wilderness in

the first place is because they are

tired of being managed by pharaoh they

have broken away from the bondage of

having to live my life by your rules

you may be my wife but this is my life i

may be your husband but this is your

life you can’t

manage my life with your opinions

[Applause]

what has to happen is we lead people we

manage procedures because people will

always leave

managers

people will eventually break away from

people who manage them

because to manage me is to dominate me

like i am an inanimate object and i

don’t have an opinion

you can lead me but you can’t manage me

we need to spend more time managing the

procedures

measuring

the results

and leading the people

so i’m trying to bring people

into a procedure

that has metrics

of performance

i got to go i got to go i can’t stay on

that

people change in uncertainty

you don’t know who you got until you get

them in an uncertain environment you

don’t know what you got to deal with as

long as we was dating as long as we was

hanging out as long as you had time to

get your hair done as long as you had

time to get your nails done as long as

you had time to schedule me into your

schedule that’s one thing but people

when you start putting them in

situations of uncertainty they change

and all of a sudden you get to see who

they really are because if i take you

away from your familiar i get to find

out who you are

[Applause]

can i go deeper

this is why i want you to be at the

leadership conference this is why you

need to be there whether you’re a pastor

or not or an entrepreneur or not is

because god is getting ready to increase

your favor

with god

and with man

god is getting ready to increase

your influence

with god and with man

everybody in here who has been sensing

that god is getting ready to increase

you and maybe you’ve been a little

scared of it and maybe you’ve been a

little shy of it but there’s been

something speaking in your ear and

sometimes at the wrong season in your

life to you that god is getting ready to

increase your influence jump up and give

god a praise right now

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

i’m just teaching today i’m not worried

about making you shout but i want you to

understand something increase means

uncertainty

increase means going into the unfamiliar

increase means being prepared to lead

people who don’t like you

[Applause]

you got to be prepared to lead people

who don’t like you and the problem with

you is that you want to be liked

and you want to be liked even if you

have to stop leading

and then you wonder why you’re not going

anywhere it’s because you change the

goal

from leadership to lockership

until you are willing to be

controversial and be disliked and lead

people that are murmuring and

complaining you will never be able to

lead people

if you use their reaction as the

thermometer to your progress as if

something is wrong because they’re

murmuring you will stop growing because

if you read the text these people were

always murmuring they were always had

road rage every time he moved them they

was complaining about something that’s

what got them bit wednesday night by the

snakes they were murmuring and

complaining and god sent the snakes out

now when they’re not complaining about

the snakes now they’re complaining about

the water there’s no water out here

people will always complain

when you take them out of their comfort

zone

because being stretched is uncomfortable

being stretched is painful

being stretched activates muscles and

cells and nerves and tendencies that

have been dormant being stretched it’s

the strategy of where we are right now

clearly clearly clearly god is

stretching all of us

[Applause]

he is stretching us

he is stretching us he has got us out of

our comfort zone we are all bickering

with each other we are all angry with

each other we are getting on each

other’s nerves because we are being

stretched

nobody is totally sure what’s going to

happen next not the experts not the news

commentators not the haters not the

spectators not the preachers not the

pastors nobody knows for sure what’s

going to happen next because god is

stretching us

and taking us from place to place

and we are on the road and some of us

have got a lot of rage but the time has

come

for you to release your rage and get

back on the road and do what god called

you to do

with your mouth closed because if you

don’t shut your mouth you’re going to

delay your journey

and die in the wilderness when you could

have been in the promised land because

you can’t stop murmuring and complaining

and crying out to god

lord make it like it was

i hate to tell you this it will never be

like it was your marriage won’t be like

it was your children won’t be like it

was you won’t be like it was your church

won’t be like it was your nation won’t

be like it was nothing stays like it is

except death

[Applause]

if you want to stay young die young

[Music]

[Applause]

the only way to forever be 21 is died

21.

let it be your last birthday

death will stop the birthdays

death will stop the birthdays but if

you’re going to live you’re going to

change

you can go screaming you can go crawling

you can go complaining you can be

dragged into it you can sit back and

watch it happen and not do nothing about

it but you must be prepared if you’re a

leader for change agile on your feet

mobile in your thinking not in love with

your own procedures

[Applause]

the problem with many in my generation

is that they are in love with their own

procedures so they refuse to do church

in new and creative ways and they refuse

to adapt to technology and now we’re in

a situation where sometimes technology

is the only way we can communicate and

you refuse to learn it because you

thought you could opt out of it but you

can’t opt out of change when change

comes you got to go back to school you

got to go back to school this is a

learning season it’s not just a leading

season it’s a learning season and moses

as gifted as he was as anointed as he

was as ordained as he was

still had to learn

sit down sit down i’m just talking to

you

is this good

is this helping anybody

he had to learn that people changed in

uncertainty

he had to learn that the people who left

willingly with him

soon turned against him

they turned against him before he got to

the red sea

it’s an interesting fact that many of

the people who voted for president trump

also voted for president obama

check it out

google it

the ratio of people who voted for trump

is in many cases similar to the same

people who voted for obama which means

they didn’t vote for either one they

voted for change

it changed by any means necessary

and you can say whatever you want to

about it one way or the other if you are

in a struggling state if you’re in a

struggling atmosphere if you’re in a

struggling economy it doesn’t matter

what the stock market is if you don’t

have no money in it

[Applause]

oh the stock market is doing good what

does that have to do with me having

beans in the refrigerator

[Applause]

people vote according to what they see

in their

environment and they will change from

baptist to methodist from methodist and

non-denominational

they will change from democrat to

republican even the candidates will

change they will change their position

they will change what they say because

in uncertainty people change

now to him whom much is given much is

required

and some of you are intimidated because

god is putting you in a situation that

is too big for you but just because it’s

too big for you doesn’t mean it’s not

that it that it’s not yours to do

[Applause]

can i go deeper

i want to talk to all the people who

sense that god is about to give you

increase

i want to talk to you for a minute

about weight distribution

i want you to understand that moses had

to learn several things

number one when when moses committed the

murder in egypt and he had to flee to

jethro’s house

he started learning leadership with

sheep

when god called moses through the

burning bush moses was leading sheep

that was his job

that was his first job

he had always lived in the palace

he has gone from being a prince in the

palace to a shepherd with sheep

because god will give you your destiny

in seed form early

whatever you have become right now you

were in some ways that when you were a

child

there’s something that happened to you

something that motivated you something

that stirred you something you were

running from or something you were

running to whether you used it rightly

or wrongly if you are a leader now

you’ve always been a leader if you’re an

influencer now you’ve always been an

influencer you might have been a drug

dealer influencer you might have been a

pimp influencer you might have been a

bad boy influencer but you have always

influenced people and god is trying to

take that gift and take it from his

perversion to its conversion so that he

can convert it into something he can use

there is not one person in this room

that god cannot use there is something

in your history something in your story

something in your agony something in

your pain that has prepared you for

something bigger than yourself the

question is do you have the flexibility

to transfer from leading sheep to

leading people

let me go a little bit deeper i wish i

had more time when god meets peter peter

is down by the boat mending his nets

jesus asked peter can i borrow your boat

peter said go ahead i’m not using it he

pushed out a little bit from land and

peter’s boat or his business became

god’s platform

is your business god’s platform

i’m not gonna bother that so peter

pushed out a little bit from land

jesus is standing on peter’s business

as a platform to do his preaching

and peter is a fisher of fish

and jesus says to him watch this because

here’s my point he says follow me

and i will make you fishers of men

in other words you got the skill set

from fishing for fish i’m gonna transfer

it and now make you fishers of man

whatever you are going to be is hidden

in the details of your history

you’ve got to learn though

because practice is not like recital

so he practiced on sheep

and then god let him practice his

miracles in the desert

when the burning bush came kind of go a

little bit deeper i’m having a good time

i like to teach leadership when the

burning bush came god said we need to

practice

you need to practice for what’s next

before you get there

you need to practice so here’s here’s

how we’re going to practice stick your

hand in your bosom he stuck his hand in

his muscle it came out white as snow god

said stick it in again it came back out

it was healed he said

let go of your stick and it turned into

a snake he said grab the snake by the

tail that took a lot of courage he

grabbed the snake by the tail it turned

into a stick again he said pour out

water he poured out water and it turned

to blood and god said okay we’re done

with rehearsal let’s go and perform

let’s go to pharaoh’s house and we’re

going to do these tricks on the road

we’re taking these tricks on the road

write that down we’re taking these

tricks on the road the things you

learned in private god’s going to use in

the open we’re taking these tricks on

the road you were never wasting your

time even when you were shoveling

sheepdog even when you were taking care

of sheep it was on the job training for

what god is about to do in your life

everything you’ve been through every

night you cried every night you felt

denied every day you felt overlooked

every day you felt like it wasn’t ever

going to happen was all rehearsal now we

get ready to play the game let the band

play let the music start let the dancers

dance bring the cheerleaders out the

game is about to begin go down there and

tell pharaoh that god said let my people

go excuse me i got a question who shall

i say sent me i’m too big to be defined

i’m too big to be locked up in a

definition just tell him i am that i am

because i am so ambidextrous i’ll be

bred when you’re hungry i’ll be water

when you’re thirsty i’ll be away when

there is no way i’ll be a clown above

you by night i’ll be a pillar of fire

when you’re cold whatever you need me to

be i can become whatever you need me to

be i’m flexible and if you’re gonna be

like me you gotta be flexible you gotta

be able to be more than one thing i

break the cage that locked you down to

one dimension that’s kept you back in

the sheepfold that’s kept you handling

sheep when you were called to lead

nations

[Music]

my god i feel like i’m talking to

somebody i don’t know who it is

but whoever it is wave your hand at me

type on the lion make some noise holler

at you boy let me hear from you give me

a clap sign

give me a signal

let me know i’m talking to you if i’m

getting you ready for what’s next in

your life if i’m getting you ready for

what’s next in your life holla and i

can’t hear y’all

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

sit down i’m going a little bit deeper

can i go

you all ready go with me

so they got road rage

because they’re out of their comfort

zone they got road rage because they’re

being stretched they got road rage

because they have to use their lesser

used muscles

pastor tubman i listen to one trainer

talk about how some of these guys can be

all buff and be built and

be muscular and be muscle bound and have

big muscles and can’t handle small

weights

because just because you got big muscles

right here don’t mean you got big

muscles right here the muscle you work

on is the muscle that builds so you can

look good and get in a fight and get

your tail whip because you worked out on

the wrong muscles some of you have been

working real hard on the wrong muscle

set you become real good at doing

something that is unfruitful and you’ve

got to be willing to change i oh god i

decree and declare there will be massive

change in your life you will not waste

another year building up a muscle group

you don’t need god is getting ready to

put you in areas that’s going to stretch

the weaknesses in you that they may

become stronger

[Music]

so moses went from leadership to

learning

he went from leadership to learning

and when he gets to jethro’s house he

learns by handling sheep which is

practice for handling people when he

gets to the burning bush he learns how

to do his miracles in the privacy before

god before he does it in front of his

enemies

because if it doesn’t work in the glory

it ain’t gonna work in your life

[Music]

can i go deeper with this

now he’s leading the people but he’s

leading them like their sheep

the sheep have one shepherd

and a stranger’s voice they will not

follow

so moses is leading the children of

israel and all roads lead to him all

decisions come to him all

responsibilities come to him and jethro

comes down to visit him and when jethro

comes down to visit him the bible says

that jethro just sat back and watched

him all day long this is one generation

watching another generation he watched

him all day long and moses did nothing

all day but hear the grievances of the

people who had road rage

she took my this she’s using my tent he

stole my wife they went off with my kid

this one took my dog this one took my

cat and at the end of the day moses was

exhausted

moses was exhausted

and when he when his father-in-law

looked at him and he said you’re not

doing it right

the journey is too great for you to do

with the procedure you have in place

you got a sheet procedure

in a national opportunity

and i love education i believe in

education i think education is real

important but if there is one weakness

in education one of it is is that

education doesn’t prepare you

for protocol and application

so you have the facts to get the job but

you don’t know how to talk in the office

so the moment you get angry in the

office you go back to your hood girl

routine i i tell you what because

[Music]

[Applause]

you got a master’s degree but behind the

master’s degree

you still boo-boo

and if they wake up boo boo it’s gonna

be hell up in this office

i’m not going to hr i’m not found a

grievance i’m going to kick this chair

back and you and me you want some of

this

and now you get disqualified for

something you’ve been training six years

for you’ve got the education to do it

but not the discipline to function in it

y’all ain’t gonna talk to me but i know

i’m talking good i know i’m talking good

i could call some names of people that i

know that are qualified but got

disqualified because they have road rage

and anytime they get on the road the

rage comes out

[Applause]

am i talking to anybody

and then god says to him

you can’t be a one-man band like you

were with the sheep

cause these are people they’re gonna

have all kind of problems they can talk

the anything that can talk is gonna give

you some trouble

that’s why a dog is a man’s best friend

i don’t care what you say to me a dog i

don’t know if it’s true about women but

a dog is a man’s best friend cause a dog

will lick you like you and never say

nothing

everybody else got a mouth gonna talk

[Applause]

if you want a friend you can trust

get a dog

everybody else is suspect

[Applause]

right that’s all i want you to be able

to say well

[Applause]

and be happy to see me when i come home

jump up on my chest and try to lick me

in the face that’s all that’s all i’ll

feed you and walk you and take you to

the vet we got a deal

[Applause]

never seen a dog betray its owner

they’re not judgmental

they’re not self-righteous

they don’t break covenant

they don’t tell lies

i love them

everybody else i watch with one eye

squid

because people change in uncertainty

so then god says to him something i’m

gonna make a quick illustration uh uh is

don nearby

i want don to come i want frank to come

i want hattie to come right quick and

just stand right up on stage here for a

minute

oh yeah since the sudden

she’s not sister hill anymore

got to keep up with this and honey you

come and stand and y’all stand in front

of me straight across facing the people

now yeah just straight across like

hattie’s doing

just stand right there

now my wife runs the women’s department

frank is my ceo over the polish house

don is executive director of security

and safety here at departed house

hattie hill is the president of td

jake’s foundation

i didn’t bet you let me pet you

everybody

i pat it

everybody i pat it

i put paint on

every one of these people

is worried

about something that i would have to

worry about if they didn’t

so what i’m teaching you is that as the

vision gets bigger

you need weight distribution

weight distribution

is worry alignment

that means i gave her something to worry

about i gave him something to worry

about i gave him something to worry

about i gave her something to worry

about all of it would be my worry but

now they share the worry who is sharing

your worry

[Applause]

or do you keep on taking on more and

more and more and got less

weight distribution

so all of a sudden

he’s worried

about what i don’t have to be worried

about

and if he ain’t worried about

it i’m worried about him

okay

i got in a stab meeting and flipped

completely out and i said i’m angry

because you are not

because if you would have been angry i

wouldn’t have got to be angry you’d have

fixed it before it got to me

so this

though it looks like

uh

titles

and position and power it’s really

weight distribution

because the journey is too great

and the meetings are too many

and the demands are too massive

for me to be all of them

[Music]

now there are more that i can call up

here this is just an example

who

is sharing the weight

who is sharing the weight if you don’t

get weight distribution

you are going to burn up

not because it wasn’t yours

but because you have not learned

how to let go and distribute weight

and you know why you don’t distribute

weight

because you got control issues

and as long as you got control issues

you got growth limitations

this is why you need to be at the

leadership conference because the

concepts that i’m teaching here are many

of the concepts that i’m going to

elaborate on there i’m telling you just

because you don’t have the money for it

just because you don’t have the time for

it and just because you feel overwhelmed

doesn’t mean that god didn’t give it to

you

god gave it to you but you’ve got to

build weight distribution

before you can have land acquisition

that’s okay

you can’t take over new territories by

yourself

can i go just a tiny bit deeper

i don’t have to meet with anybody they

meet with

i just have to meet with them

yes sir

if i meet with them come on come here

oscar is oscar here

he went out he went out where’d he go

[Applause]

that’s a problem

anytime i can’t get weight distribution

i can’t get alignment i got all of them

standing

in alignment

none of them

duplicate

each other’s roles

every one of them must stay in their

lane or it doesn’t work

watch this

moses took the weight that was on him

and distributed it out to 70 million

yes sir it took 70 men

to handle his vision

but it was still his vision

i’m trying to show you how to increase

yes

you got to increase by multiplying

yourself

and create diversity

and still not compromise unity

i cannot have

these four which really it’s about 15 or

more on my executive leadership team i

cannot have these four

fighting like children

i can’t have them disagreeing yeah i

want them to disagree

i want them to debate

i want her to fight for the foundation

like there ain’t nothing else that

matters and i want him to turn to her

and tell her wait a minute yeah

the potter’s house has something in this

too yes

and then i want him to say you can raise

all the resources you need but if we all

get shot in here

it’s going to be a problem and then i

want her to say you don’t have no women

on the program

[Applause]

everybody has an area of rule

equal but divided

it i want you to get this let me let me

show it to you two ways

when jesus cast the demons out of the

legion yeah

all the demons that was in this one man

went into a herd of pigs

it took a herd of pigs to handle the

demons that were on one man

it took 70 elders

before moses got relief

[Music]

good people are my vacation

baby baby

this is hawaii

there’s no need in sending me to hawaii

if all i get to do is worry in a new

place

[Applause]

the more you lift the weight

the more i get relief

thank you very much just an illustration

so moses learned that

we all know you married to her you have

to come over here

and use my message today then

he said that i’mma claim my own woman

give god a praise for brother and sister

son

so write this down who’s on my team

and how much weight do they carry

cause a lot of people on your team are

creating weight

not relieving weight i gotta go i gotta

go i gotta stop i gotta i gotta move

from learning because i gotta touch on

legacy so so i talked about leadership

and talked about learning i talked about

let me talk just a minute about legacy

i sat down with dr the late dr casey

price first time i’d ever set out to

talk to him i went out to interview him

yeah

and

there were two things that were big

takeaways for me from sitting down to

talk to him

he said to me he said everybody says

they call to preach and i say preach

what

he said because preach is too broad of a

category to build a calling around

he says my assignment was to preach

faith

and i was faithful

to my assignment

god called me to teach faith to his

people

so he had a clear sense

of who he was

okay and when i got to talk to him what

fascinated me about him though we are

completely different in a lot of ways

uh what fascinated me about him that

caused him to stomp his foot and the

whole world shook you can’t go to a part

of the world and say frederick casey

price and nobody knows who you’re

talking about

like him or not that has nothing to do

with it what i’m telling you he boom and

the world show

[Music]

if you want to be a world shaker you got

to talk to world shakers

he said i had a keen sense of what i was

called to do do you have a keen sense of

what you were called to do

[Applause]

then i said to him is there anything

that you did that if you had to do over

again you wouldn’t do it

he said i wouldn’t i wouldn’t have built

the dome

he said

god permitted me to build it but he

never directed me to build it

is

is there a difference yes there is a big

difference between god

permitting you to do something

and directing you to do it

are you doing it because you’re

permitted to do it or you’re called to

do it

let me go a little further

things i have learned this is not fred

this is me

i have learned that provision follows

vision

doesn’t follow need

it doesn’t follow hunger

it doesn’t follow emotions

provision

follows

vision

do you not know if you got enough vision

you can walk in the bank

with a seven year plan

and get millions of dollars

on some you ain’t even done yet

[Music]

if the vision is strong enough

the provision will overtake you

do y’all hear what i’m saying if your

vision is strong enough billionaires

will invest into it they will not invest

into it because you want money i had

seven billionaires sitting at the table

don’t mean nothing

they won’t invest in it because you want

it

if you lay out a vision in a construct

that they can receive

then they will invest

according to your

vision write it make it plain

let him that read it that run thereby

you have to have a clear vision for my

money i can’t give my money to something

that don’t have no eyes

i can’t invest in a blind man

i can only invest in somebody who sees

something that i agree with

who y’all got quiet

people not gonna give you money because

i knew i needed cause i just had another

baby you had that baby

i ain’t got nothing to do with you

having that baby

that don’t have nothing to do with why i

should pay you more because you had sex

and i had a baby

i wouldn’t there

your need does not constitute

my supply

y’all don’t want to hear this

because you want people to feel sorry

for you and relieve your suffering

that’s not how the world works

people invest for return

and if you don’t have a vision beyond

what you want

that doesn’t include what i want

why should i put money into what you

want

you don’t do

that you know

that you only loaned money to your

cousin freddy twice

he never paid you back at all

so when his number comes up on the

ringtone

you act like you got your phone plugged

up

because cousin freddie has taught you

that he is a poor investment so don’t be

looking at me all funny while i’m trying

to tell you people don’t invest in

blindness

second thing i’ve learned

the only people that leave you

are those who don’t share

your vision

everybody who left me couldn’t stay

and everyone who stayed

couldn’t leave

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if people can leave you

let them

paul said they came out from us

because they were not of us

for had they been of us

no doubt they would have continued with

us

sometimes people leaving you as a favor

y’all ain’t gonna talk to me

sometimes people leaving you is a

blessing and you cry and you hurt and

you have emotion but go ahead when you

get through crying you’re gonna be

better

because if you can make it without me

surely

i have an obligation to show you

i can make it with you okay i’m okay too

you feel good without me i got to feel

good without you all i got to do and let

you mentor me

because if you can make it without me i

can make it without you i’m not going to

be the only one walking around crying

and running in the walls while you’re

going out to the club

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i’m gonna get my jenny craig on

hey

hey

yeah yeah i’m getting like jenny gregor

get myself together

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god does not want you weeping around the

tomb of who left

while you neglect who stayed

need to reward people

for loyalty

but what happens to us is we are so

grieved about who left

that we are not taken care of who

stayed and the victory becomes changing

the mind of somebody who didn’t have

your mind in the first place

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final point and i’m almost done

you can’t get there

if you don’t pivot

you can’t get there

if you don’t pivot i don’t know why i’m

teaching this to you

this is the stuff we do at leadership

conference

i don’t know why i’m teaching you can’t

get there if you don’t pivot now i’m

gonna wrap this up cause i talked about

the rage of the people

okay

i talked about what leadership is

i talked about what learning is

i want to talk about what legacy is

because this is the one place where

moses blows it

this is the one place where moses blows

it

the first time god said smite the rock

he hit the rock

and the water came out and god was

pleased because he obeyed

by the second time the people’s road

rage

had gotten so bad

that moses got mad

every other time the people railed

against him he prayed

and he was okay

but they triggered his old demon he had

always had an anger problem

remember when he saw the hebrew and the

egyptian fighting and moses looked out

the window and got mad and went out

there and had never been a warrior and

murdered the egyptian

him having anger is what caused him to

go to the desert in the first place but

all the while he was suppressing his

rage all the while they had road rage he

was suppressing his rage have you ever

had somebody honk their horn and cuss at

you and you suppress your rage because

it wasn’t that you couldn’t think of

nothing to say back but you was just

saved that day

y’all ain’t gonna be real with me where

are my real people at make some noise

you saved on tuesday and you just went

on and said bless him jesus

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glory to god hallelujah

cause you had your prayer light that

morning and you was ready for and you

were but if they caught you on thursday

and that that i climbed out of my car

stood up through the rooftop went

berserk

on this guy

and then thought

you can’t do this you’re a preacher

i climbed back down in the car

looked around to see if any of y’all was

around i had flipped out

i don’t even know what i said

but he’s saying something to me that

made me forget

40-something years of ministry

and i forgot i was bishop he was talking

to thomas and thomas flipped out on him

i stood up in my sports car with the

hood off of it standing up talking about

you want some of this

and i looked around i didn’t see none of

y’all at ease right now in the car and

said praise the lord

don’t make me go off in here don’t make

me flip out of here i forgot who i was i

forgot my name i forgot my address i

forgot my calling i couldn’t think of my

social security number i flipped out on

him i said 12 things before i came to

myself and said oh departure’s house

i looked around i was so glad i didn’t

see none of y’all and i hope none of

y’all saw me and i ain’t saying nothing

about what i said because i can’t be

sure what i said i flipped the core i

flipped down

i had a moment of temporary and saturday

he called me out my name

and i wanted to tell him i can talk too

the rage is contagious

the race that has been on them has now

gotten to him

it has triggered what he has been

suppressing and now when they rev up

against him and they start talking to

him and saying we’re thirsty

i know he wanted to say so and i

you think i don’t have a mouth

if you ain’t drinking that i ain’t

either

you think i’m not human this is my

problem do i make water

so god says to him watch this closely

this is my clothes god said to him

speak to the rock that they may drink

but moses listened to them

and made a decision in rage

note to all leaders

never decide why you’re mad

he made a decision in range and the

bible says

that he smote the rock twice

and when he smoked the rock the water

still flow

in spite of you don’t hear that did you

hear what i just said

the water still flowed in spite of his

disobedience

just because your water’s flowing

doesn’t mean you’re living right

moses did it all wrong and the water

still flowed

but as they were drinking

because of his road rage

combined with their outrage god said to

him

you will not see the promised land

because you disobeyed me

i’m gonna tell you why and i’ll leave my

teaching with this

the reason

that god

told him to smite the rock the first

time

is because the rock in the old testament

is a type of christ

who was smitten

for our transgressions

and bruised for our iniquities and the

chastisement of his peace was upon him

and by his stripes we were healed but he

was only supposed to be smitten once

when god told him that when he told god

they need water he said don’t hit it

again

cause you’re gonna break the type

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speak to the rock

because once the rock has been smitten

once whenever you need water

he will never have to go through

what he went through the first time

because one smite did it all

whenever you need healing

whenever you need

deliverance whenever you need a

breakthrough

you’ll never have to go through this

again

no man took his life

he laid it down

and if he laid it down

he will pick it back up again

and now he ever liveth

to make intercession for us he’ll never

have to go back to the cross again and

when moses hit the rock twice he didn’t

know it but he lied on jesus

he act like once was not enough

and god wanted us to know

i got it all done with the first blow

so that all of your needs can be

supplied

according to his riches in glory but

because moses got road rage

he broke the shadow

and lost his ticket

to the promised land

so he led them to a place

that he never got to go himself

because he never got rid of his rage

what are you angry about

how can you let your anger forfeit your

prophecy

your anger is about to terminate

god’s plan for your life

i plan for you to go to the promised

land but if you don’t get a grip on your

anger you’re going to lose your calling

who am i talking to

every time you get mad

every time you get angry

you get yourself in trouble

the last time

you got hot

you blew up

and delayed your prophecy

by 40 years

and you spent 40 years

in a wilderness you didn’t have to go

through

because you lost your temper

and took matters into your own hand i

thought you learned

by your 40-year imprisonment

not to make a decision

in the heat of your anger

and here you go again

and because you did it again

not only did you mess up my shadow

you shorten your destiny

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so god took moses up into the

mountaintop

never to be seen again

and guess what

all the people who had been murmuring

against him

started

crying

and they cried

30 days

for the man they didn’t appreciate

when they had him

they cried 30 days

when they lost him

the praises of people

are fickle

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today they say hosanna

tomorrow they say crucify

and if you live

to please him

you will die frustrated moses

you know what’s killing you dude

it’s not that you’re not on the road

is nothing wrong with your car

is that you have road rage

and you’ve never gotten rid of it i

understand why you got it

you didn’t grow up in your mama’s house

you grew up with strangers

god only knows what happened to you in

pharaoh’s house

and you are still angry

and that anger has polluted your

marriages

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your jobs

your interactions with your own children

because you have rage

that rage

murdered

a man

that i had a plan for

that rage

delayed your destiny 40 years

you could have spoke to pharaoh from in

inside his house

i had to take you out of it and bring

you back to it 40 years later because

you are an angry man

and you’re angry about things that won’t

change

i know how important it was to you

for the children of israel to love you

because then you would have a people

and i know how you have never had

a people

you were too egyptian to fit in with

them

and to hebrew to be one of us

and because you are a leader you have

always been a misfit

and i know it has caused you pain to be

unorthodox

but that’s who i call to be leaders

is misfits

great leaders are always weird

if they would have fit they would have

fit

they found themselves by not fitting

god called them to him and he never let

them fit in

if you would have been comfortable with

the slaves you would have thought like

them if you would have thought like them

you couldn’t lead them

if you would have been comfortable with

egypt you would have forfeited your

destiny i meant for you to be thrown out

of everything you were thrown out of so

that as they threw you out you would

find you out

and the very thing

that makes you dysfunctional

is the same thing

that makes you functional

your misalignment with men

is what made you eligible to be in

alignment with me

and other prophets have i spoke to

through dreams and visions but of my

servant moses will i speak face to face

when you lost them you got me

i was their replacement

i was your father i was your mother i

was your best friend i played with you i

trained you i watched over you i looked

out for you i exposed you to different

cultures and different kinds i educated

you i gave you the opportunity the

reason you can write in the egyptian

language is because i expose you to

things you would have never gotten in

your mama’s house why do you keep

weeping for that which i’ve rejected

you’ve been an angry man all of your

life and everything you lost your temper

took it from you

and this is not gender specific

there are as many angry women as there

are angry men

and you cannot enjoy today because

you’re still angry about yesterday and i

am calling it road rage road rage is any

rage that is triggered by the journey

if you have something that triggers you

on your journey you have road rage and

if you don’t deal with your road rage

you’re gonna cancel out your

opportunities

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road rage

will make you climb out of a car

and not thinking run back and snatch

somebody through a window not thinking

whether they have a gun or not road

range makes you make dumb decisions

how many decisions have you made

out of road rage

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sometimes you’re angry with people who

aren’t even here anymore

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three things

leading

learning

and legacy

moses messed up his legacy

in a moment of rage

he forfeited the destination

i went to mount nebo and stood on top of

it he was so close to the province land

i mean you can see it clearly from the

top of mount nebo

you can see the greenery the desert is

over here and the greenery is over here

the shepherds were grazing in the field

when i was here i could see the

shepherds grazing in the field i could

see the work going on and the vineyards

that were going on all around the jordan

on one side it’s all sand and on the

other side it’s all life and from mount

libo you can see for miles

moses got to see it

but he never got to be it

because he had

road rage i speak to every one of you

that are watching me all over the world

that rage undealt with is going to kill

you

it will not kill the person you’re mad

at

it will kill you

you drank the poison

and now you’re waiting on them to die

until you release that rage

you will forfeit your opportunity

from having the favor influence

leadership

that god has allocated for you your eyes

have not seen your ears have not heard

neither have it into your heart what god

has for you if you will let go

of that road

rage

moses story

ends less than what it should have been

his feet should have walked into the

promised land

but his anger

knocked it out

stand to your feet everyone

the message that lies before you is road

rage

you can be entertained by it you can be

educated by it or you can be changed by

it

i pick change

question number one

strip down

take your church face off

take your titles and all your degrees

and throw them in the trash

what are you angry about

and what are you going to do

about the anger satan planet to steal

your legacy

from you

you blame people

you give yourself permission to be crazy

you blame everybody for everything that

went wrong

until you take responsibility there will

be no change

road rage

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before you wreck

god wants to deliver you

from suppressed

rage

do i have anger absolutely

do i carry it absolutely not

i will let you have it

in real time speed

cause i can’t sleep angry

i can’t think angry

i can’t be creative angry

if i’m wrong you’re gonna get a chance

to tell me i’m wrong but i will confront

you because i will not suppress what i’m

feeling

lest i pollute

where i’m going

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