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hallelujah i’ll praise you and
everything
uh it’s time to eat anybody hungry
man doesn’t live off of bread alone but
by every word that proceeds out of the
mouth of god i’m excited to share
this word with you and i gotta tell you
i’ve got more
food
than i have plates
and so i want you to pray for me i
really want to i think this is probably
a series
that i want to begin but i also want to
be free in the spirit to do what god
wants to do as we prepare to step into
this new year
so i want you to pray in fact let’s pray
um
let me read the passage first
philippians chapter 3 and verse 20
and i’m reading this out of the king
james the old king james translation
and it says
for our conversation
is in heaven for our conversation is in
heaven
from whence also we look
for the savior
the lord jesus christ
let’s pray
father thank you so much for this
opportunity lord to eat
you said we don’t live by bread but we
live by the words that come out of your
mouth
god i thank you
for being called for being chosen lord
god there’s no greater
honor and privilege in life than to be
close to you
and so close in a way that i could
hear
your voice and feel your heartbeat
and then in fact relay that to
your beloved creation who you are
absolutely radically in love with
and so i thank you for that god and
and i thank you for the spirit of wisdom
and revelation and insight and prophecy
and knowledge and
in all
access to the gifts of the spirit god
that i might
prepare a meal
that meets your sons and daughters where
they are those
hear those
via stream those all over the world
and so god let’s do this
and may we all be richer
wiser
more enlightened more brighter
we might look more like you
as a result of these moments we spend
together
and i pray these things in jesus name
amen amen god bless you you may be
seated
hallelujah
um
this year i’m not going to
to prophesy
so much as i
am going to
really deal with what i believe we need
to do to survive in the moment that
we’re in
and i want to start this conversation
off with this thought and if you’re
taking notes i want you to write this
thought down
how you
thrive
in our new world is going to come down
to the quality of your conversations
say it again
how you thrive
in our new world
it’s going to come down
to the quality of your conversations now
i’ll tell you right now that’s a loaded
sentence it’s loaded first if you notice
that i didn’t refer to
a coming new world
i didn’t say that i i said how are you
going to thrive in our new world in our
new world i wasn’t talking about a
coming new world i was referencing the
new world that has already come
i’m not going to tell you that all of a
sudden
tonight at midnight and maybe midnight
wherever you are all of a sudden
something new is going to happen here is
the truth if you didn’t know this here
is the truth we are in the new
we’ve we’ve been in the new era and and
and so if we are
sitting around
waiting or even praying for things to
return to normal we’re not having the
right conversation
with god
and the right conversation
with ourselves
the title is this message is is higher
conversations
higher conversations
and i have a deep concern right now a
really deep concern
about the moment that we’re in and
believe it or not this concern is not
about
covet 19
it’s not about climate change right it’s
not about oppression or even violence
or injustice although dealing with those
things
are
extremely important
but that’s not
my greatest concern right now
my deep concern right now the deepest
concern that i currently have
has to do with the level of our
conversations as a society
because what i’ve learned
is that if you’re taking notes write
this down
your conversations
are the determinants
and the predictors
of your life and your future
it all comes down
to your conversations
your conversations
say so much about where you are
and where you’re headed
that it’s just it’s just a huge
huge thing that we all have to pay
attention to our conversations
everything
rises
and falls
by our conversations
oh hallelujah
our conversations with ourselves
our conversations with god
and our conversations
with others
and my concern is
that right now
we’re not having the right conversations
our conversations are surrounding
symptoms
not realizing that we are in fact the
cure
can i talk about conversations just for
a moment because this this has been
heavy on me i’ve been praying i’ve been
god what do you want me to talk what
like what what’s happening and i feel
like there’s a disconnect
between the moment that we’re in and the
conversations that we’re having in
culture and society right now
conversations is how things move
conversations are how things get done
when i was thinking about conversations
it dawned on me that the first humans
that were ever created
were established in victory and dominion
by their conversation with god
in the very garden
the son the daughter of god were
established by a conversation
god said this is you
this is the world this is what you have
the power to do
and they said yes sir amen
and they were established
and then i thought further about
conversations and then i thought about
they lost that victory
and they lost that dominion by a
conversation that they had with the
serpent
so conversations shift things it all
comes down
to what you’re talking about
can i take my time and and teach a
little bit today
then i thought about creation itself and
i thought about god and god even
produced creation through a conversation
god said let there be
and the spirit that was hovering over
the face of the waters produced what he
said
and then scripturally it says that all
things were created by jesus so so the
god so god was in the conversation with
the godhead to create the heavens and
the earth and everything that we have
come to know
and understand
everything
moves
by conversation
are you tracking with me and so
i’m concerned
because i don’t think that our
conversations
and the conversations that we typically
have the conversations that are
happening at the highest places of our
society i’m not convinced that those
conversations are at the level
of the state
and the stage
that our world is currently in
oh i wish i could teach preach this
thing the way i see it
i i don’t feel like we’re our
conversation is high enough
and i love what paul talks about in that
text he says he says our conversation
is in heaven and that word heaven is an
interesting word because it really is
not speaking to a place it can figure
figuratively refer to a place but we’re
talking about that word literally means
to rise or elevate it and so paul is
saying
in the midst of a time where he is
worried about what people are talking
about and who people are listening to he
is saying our conversation is elevated
oh god
because your conversations will not only
determine your attitude it will
determine your altitude i feel it
there’s some people that i can’t even
connect with because their conversation
is too low
i love you this is not a judgment but i
can’t make room for you in time for you
because your conversation which is is is
really
an indicator of who you are and what
you’re about and what’s important is too
low and i love you and god bless you i’m
praying for you but if your conversation
doesn’t elevate
then we can’t connect i feel the spirit
of god
can’t take my time
and so
and so i’m concerned that that
that’s why we’re having this
conversation this is a conversation i’m
like we’re having a conversation
that’s why this conversation is so
important
it’s because i’m concerned
that we’re not talking high enough
i’m concerned that we’re not thinking
high enough we have a symptom we’re
talking about symptoms we’re arguing
about symptoms
when god has created us to be the cure
oh god help me today
i love that we’re talking about climate
change
and i love that that that we’re trying
to reduce our carbon footprint and all
those things
but but all we’re doing at best is
slowing something down
that’s inevitable yes be a good steward
absolutely
yes drive electric if you can i got an
electric motorcycle hey
[Laughter]
that’s all wonderful
but that’s not a cure it is just slowing
down
the inevitable so we’re wrapped up in
symptoms
and if our conversation is simply
lamenting symptoms
and not trying to talk to god about god
god
you have called me
to not survive symptoms
but to be a cure
to everything that is wrong
see that’s a different conversation with
god
if it’s god just getting me through
you’re having your conversation with god
it’s too low
god what have you placed in me
hallelujah
that is not just patching up
issues
in culture
it’s the difference between charity and
philanthropy
charity
is just kind of serving and patching up
things and whatever right right charity
is giving the fish
philanthropy is teaching you how to fish
generationally
so when i understand this i have a
higher conversation with god i’m asking
god god who am i
oh god i feel it can’t take my time here
see your conversation with god will
determine who you become in god
what a is god just god getting me
through i get that we have moments give
me to understand that but that can’t be
your whole conversation with god because
if you recognize if you really
understand something god’s going to get
you through
that’s already settled there’s something
in matthew chapter 6 where he talks
about your heavenly father already knows
what you need in that crazy on the one
hand god says pray on the other hand he
says but i already know what you need
so is he contradicting himself no he’s
saying talk right to me
elevate
the conversation
i believe
that i am more than what i’m
experiencing
oh hallelujah i wish i had two or three
people who believe that god created you
to be more than what you are
experiencing and your life is about
reaching
every single day towards the more that
you are that you haven’t become yet and
as i mentioned earlier i believe that a
lot of things that that we went through
this year the past two years in the
season was trying to manifest the more
that we are so we can do what we’re
called to do are you tracking with me
[Applause]
what needs to change about your
conversation with god hey ludder there’s
something in there’s something in psalm
where god says psalm 2 and 8 i believe
and god says ask of me and i will give
you the nations for your inheritance
it’s crazy
in other words there’s some things that
god can’t give us because we’re not
asking him on the level of his ability
ask of me
and i’ll give you the nations i feel the
spirit i feel like god wants to stretch
some people in here right now i really
do i feel like god is trying to pull
something out of you because as romans 8
says all of creation
is eagerly waiting for the come on
the revealing
of you
but you’re talking about the symptoms
and you’re lamenting over the symptoms
not you but people you know you’re
you’re having meetings over the symptoms
you’re posting posting social media
posts about the symptoms and god is
saying you are the cure and so so i’m
concerned i’m concerned i got to get
back on track
i’m
concerned
that our best the best conversations in
our society are still symptom-based
conversations
now here’s what i know about symptoms
and here’s what i believe about symptoms
the symptoms
are designed to let us know
where we are in the divine timeline of
our world
oh god
not to be obsessed over
that’s probably something you can write
down the symptoms
are designed to let us know
the things what i mean by symptoms the
things that are going on in the world
that are cray-cray
this is not about a pandemic watch this
this is about kingdoms failing
god
this is this is about
everything that is not god made
but ultimately is man-made
taking watch this it’s natural course
to become nothing because at the end of
the day the only thing that is going to
last
is too spiritual for you
the only thing that’s going to last the
only thing that’s going to be
established
is what god spoke
it started with what god spoke
and it will end with what god spoke
i am
alpha and omega
i am the beginning
and i’m the end i’m the first and i’m
the last
nothing gets around god you remember
that song
too high to get over
y’all supposed to say yeah yeah
too low to get under come on yeah yeah
i’m stuck it now
he’s too high to get over
he’s too wide to get around
it started with god it will end with god
and everything that can be shaken
will be shaken
are you tracking with me so the symptoms
are proving
that everything that’s not god is
perishing
i love one of my favorite passages of
scripture
and it should be most people’s favorite
pastor says
john 3 16. is this for god so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son
that whosoever believes in him will not
perish but have everlasting life perish
in there is not a punishment
he’s not saying he see here’s what he’s
not saying for god so loved the world
that
if you don’t believe in him you’re going
to perish
i’m going to punish you with perishing
but if you believe in him you ever no
that’s not that’s not that’s not the
spirit of it at all he is just
acknowledging the fact that that is
perishing
that the the the there is a a pull
the the normal pull
towards society and even a human life
is down to perishing
right
and the moment that we start living we
start perishing
the moment that the baby is born she or
he is just as much alive or as just as
much living as they are dying because
they’re drawing near their death date
how crazy is that my little girl my
baby’s five years old
and she’s alive and she’s got life to
live but there’s a clock
and she’s moving towards something so in
john 3 16 when god says for god so loves
the world for god so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son
whoever believes in him will not perish
he’s talking about a disruption
of a natural phenomenon
not
the rescue of a punishment
are you tracking with me so the symptoms
are confirming
that heaven and earth will pass away
but not one jot one not one iota out of
what i said
and so
and so
these symptoms
are just confirming the truth about god
and we want listen we can’t pray a
pandemic away can i talk to you like
this for us it’s not encouraging maybe
i’ll get to encourage you in just a
moment
you can’t pray
a pandemic away
if the pandemic is there
to shake
us to authenticity
you can’t rebuke god
you know what i mean i’ll find you devil
in the neighborhood just go pandemic go
go go go go it’s still here
so then watch this my conversation about
it changes
i have to change listen all of us i’ll
try to pray it away
i bind that in jesus name then i
realized it
it wasn’t working
i got to switch up my conversation
any good worthwhile conversation
has a lot to do with inquiry
if you’re in a relationship come on you
can talk about conversation i mean i
guess i’ll just slide in a little
self-help
the most important part
in conversation if you want to have a
real quality conversation is not you
talking
it’s you listening and even more
important than you listening it is the
questions that you ask
oh i wish i could help two or three
people
it’s the questions that you ask
if you’re just talking and talking and
talking and talking and talking and
talking and talking that’s not that’s
not a conversation
i don’t even know what that is annoying
and conversations are powerful because
they are designed watched as a
conversation con that’s with a
conversation
is designed to bring two people together
to produce something that they could not
produce in their own places of opinion
oh god help me today
god needs us to
he needs us to ask him the right
question watch this so he can release
the right answer
there are things that god wants to say
to you that he can’t say to you until
you are postured in such a way by the
question you ask
are you tracking with me
so so so when the pandemic hit at first
i was trying to rebuke it all that kind
of stuff and then i realized two things
one it wasn’t going nowhere
and then two if i’m honest i started
getting better because of it
now i don’t say that to be insensitive
or anything like that but i just you got
to be honest like when i when i had that
surgery on my arm a few years ago i
hated it it was terrible oh it was just
the worst thing to be in the house
without the mobility of my dominant arm
in pain
out for six weeks
but if i was honest i became a better
dad
my priority shifted
so two things happened one it wasn’t
going anywhere and i noticed i started
becoming better and i’m honest and it
was ugly and it was fire there was a
fire and it was burning but but but it
was producing a better me
so my conversation changed
my conversation with god
i could talk a lot about conversations
and i think i i am but even i just run
this alongside because we’re still on
self-help right now
even your conversation with yourself
what part of your self-talk
needs to improve in 2022
what are you saying to you
what do you say to you when you take a
selfie the 99 times you take it before
you get the one that you like what did
you say to yourself
about yourself
you’re like you’re meddling now pastor
you’re meddling just keep it general you
don’t have to be in my living room
no no no no no no
we sometimes
are horrible to ourselves
i’m i’m guilty of it
you know
holiday come around
and i go down south you know what i mean
you know how we eat in the south come on
somebody
and i take a picture here’s the craziest
thing so i was watching we posted a
video of me preaching you know and it
was a powerful point that i was making
was powerful and all i could see
and i got mad at me
and that was another version of me and i
got mad at me
and i missed the entire message the
message didn’t mean anything because of
the conversation
that i was having with myself what
are we missing
because
the conversation that we’re having with
ourselves needs to improve we’re going
to talk more about that but i’m going
somewhere i’m more so i’m going to learn
playing i think that i think that’s why
this is a series because i believe that
that everything is going to rise in your
life
as your conversations with god with
yourself and with others wise i got to
move down this road over here
and so so these symptoms they’re
designed to let us know
where we are the divine timeline of
things and so the question is
what are these symptoms telling us and
as i mentioned before i think the
symptoms of the things that are taking
place today
are proven to us
that jesus wasn’t lying
when he says in matthew chapter 24 when
he talks about that they’re going to be
wars and rumors of war and pestilence
right
famine and all these sort of things and
he says that this is going to be
indicative
of
the end times
the last days and listen there’s so much
argument and debate over the last days
oh in the last days oh he’s not the last
days all he’s gonna say here let me just
settle all that for you right now right
they’re your last days
whether they are the last days
at the end of the day for all of us they
are our last days
you tracking with me we don’t get any
more days beyond the days that we have
so we are in our last days which means
that we have to do what we’re supposed
to do
that’s what all this is saying
all this stuff that’s happening wars
rumors of war man it’s right there
and my concern is i don’t know if we in
our
desire to inspire you have equipped you
really
for the times that we’re in
it’s one thing to preach about the end
times it’s another thing to be living in
the end times
oh it’s too deep for you
it’s so cool when you talk about it when
you preach about what paul said and all
them said and you know in the last days
you know the children gonna be
disobedient to parents you know this is
going to happen that’s going to happen
and all these other things that people
are going to be ungrateful and the love
of many is going to grow cold in other
words and nation will rise against a
nation what is that that’s called for
racism
nation against nation that’s genocide
that’s all these sort of things it’s all
happening right now
and i’m not convinced family
that we have really truly prepared you
because we’ve been so excited about
inspiring you
about the plans that god has for you and
they are good and all that is wonderful
but i want you to have inspiration and i
also want you to be a bad mamma jam in
the spirit
can i talk to you like that
i want you to be inspired i want you to
build your business i want you to build
your brand i want you to build your
company i want you to produce your music
i want you to start whatever company you
want to start i want you to rise to the
top of your street i want you to do all
that i want you to have family i want
you to have babies i want you to go and
travel the world and all that kind of
stuff but i want you while you’re doing
that to have an eye on what’s going on
to have a sensitivity to what’s taking
place i want you to be able to rebuke
the devil i want you to be able to lay
hands on the sick and somebody recover i
want you to be able to prophesy i want
you to have all of it
because you’re going to need it
i don’t want you to be prosperous
and not prophetic
[Applause]
i don’t want you to be rich and not
righteous
i don’t want you to be
to have peace but not power
and the beautiful thing about christ is
you can have it all
i don’t want you to be shaking see if i
give you peace and not power when the
trouble comes you’re not gonna know what
to do
you’re gonna turn away from the lord
because god if you were god and if you
were truly in my life this trouble
wouldn’t be in my life but i recognize
that i serve a god who knows how to make
trouble work together for your good are
you hearing the words that are coming
out of my mouth
i know i serve a god
who is a master with fire
he’s called the potter
and potters use fire
to produce in fact
it can’t be
what it’s supposed to be
until it goes through the fire
that’s why i’m talking to you like this
i want you to have it all
here i want you to be blessed
yeah i want you to fall in love
hey
you know me
yes
selfies with your boo
relationship goals hey i want you to
travel
yes all that
i want you to experience
fine dining and
romance and i want you to go to italy
because i just was there i want you to
go to venice and i want you to i want
you to be in the gondola staring at your
lover in the eyes and talking about how
much you love each other and why i want
you to have all of that
and some money too
but the truth is
i’d rather you be broke
[Applause]
if all that would keep you
from the things that we’re talking about
today
and my job
as your pastor
is to make certain
that you’re having the right
conversations
are you tracking with me
oh god i got to quit but there are a
couple things i want to run by you real
quick
the first is this
these symptoms are revealing to us the
stage that we’re in i told you this
stage we’re in we’re in the final
stretch of this thing called the world
climate change i believe in it i believe
in glo i believe in all that kind of
stuff but doesn’t mean i can stop it
can i reduce it can i slow it down maybe
and should i just be a good steward
because god gave me the earth absolutely
but i don’t think i can stop it
not my lifetime
i think it’s all a part of this thing
moving out the way
the bible says it
that all of creation is eagerly waiting
for the revealing
of the children of god and it says the
creation itself is going to be delivered
when we get delivered
that’s what i mean by us being the cure
not the symptom but it has to do with
who we become and who we become has to
do with the questions that we’re asking
and so these symptoms
are revealing to us the stage that we’re
in and the stage that we’re in
ought to drive our conversations
and so what should let me answer the
question what should
our conversations
in this season be
surrounding
what should we be talking to god about
what should we be talking ourselves
about and what should we be talking to
others about in this season four things
four things
that will bring us i believe into
the higher conversation
the first thing is faith
got to talk faith
we don’t want to talk faith but faith
right now is explaining what’s happening
in the world
it just is
jesus talked about it we’re in it
i’m blown away when i read stuff like
matthew 24 when i go back over into
daniel in the old testament and daniel
was talking about how knowledge is going
to increase
and he’s describing all these things
and then he talks about how how those
who who know their god will be wise
they’re going to shine dan you talked
about this jesus talked about this you
got to start having conversations around
faith you can’t be afraid of your faith
i’m not saying you got to beat people up
but faith is explaining faith is
answering some of the questions that
everything that’s happening in our world
is posing
and so our conversation should be about
faith
what about faith specifically i’m
talking about your relationship with god
i believe that god wants to take your
relationship to another level and you
can’t have relationship without
conversation
i really want you to begin to ask god
who am i
i really want you to begin to test your
limits
test the limits of who you are i feel
the spirit of god i want to pray and
break something down but i want you to
begin to test your limits because
oftentimes we are stuck beneath our
potential and beneath our identity and
you ought to always be pushing up
against who you think you are
oh god i feel right there you got to
always be pushing up against what you
think your capability is
you ought to always be your life and as
it relates to what you can accomplish
you ought to always be pushing up
against it because your potential is
always in front of where you are and
your relationship with god driven by
your conversations with god
i believe will be an important tool an
important discipline in staying in that
place where you’re pushing back i feel
that god’s getting ready to expand some
of you
increase some of you i can hear god
saying enlarge the place of your
dwelling spread out your tests something
is getting ready to happen it is your
time the back everything that’s
happening right now is the backdrop of
your becoming
i’m gonna say that again
everything that is happening right now
is the backdrop of your becoming that’s
why you can’t get depressed that’s why
you can’t get weary in your well doing
that’s why you got to keep fighting
that’s why you got to regulate the
conversation that you have with you
don’t let you say anything negative
about you and your life
fight it fight back against it find the
positive in it push back against it
because it doesn’t serve you
negative thinking doesn’t even unlock
the creative part of your brain
it puts you in the fight or flight
part of your brain
and the fight or flight part of your
brain is not the innovative and creative
part of your brain it is the primitive
part of your brain brain
so scientifically negativity doesn’t
give you the ability to expand
and i want you to pay attention to the
conversation that you have with yourself
and i want you to pay attention with the
communities
that you connect with because in those
communities
language is created
that’s why you go in some places
everybody talking the same way
in fact that word that was translated in
that text it says for our conversation
is in heaven the root word of that
hebrew word literally is community
because who you commune with will
determine your conversation and your
language so you have to watch that and
protect that only how things are you
tracking with me
faith
i’m talking about
where your conversations ought to be
faith to
stewardship
how
you manage and invest time
your time
your talents
your opportunities and your treasure
talk about it
one of the things that i’ve learned is
that things don’t just happen you got to
be strategic about stuff
you have to see yourself you have to see
your life as stewardship
so when you’re putting things on your
calendar
is this the best investment of my time
my talents my resources and my
opportunities you got to have a
stewardship mentality this is a series
we’ll continue on next week
three
what conversations you need to have
conversations about your impact
the impact of your life your faith your
stewardship your life’s impact this is a
a diligent quest
to maximize your potential
this is about stretching right i want to
have
the greatest impact that my life can
have
right so so so um so i’m stretching
i i’m collaborating
who am i supposed to link up with
because two is better than one
so oftentimes my potential the fullness
of my potential and the fullness of my
impact has to do with what’s in somebody
else
and i have to get over my trust issues
hello somebody because i have them i’ll
be honest with you i have to get over my
trust issues and i have to get
vulnerable
and i have to be willing to get naked a
little bit because one of the things
that i’ve learned about relationships is
the more naked you are the more naked
they’ll be
and y’all don’t take that and
do nothing
ungodly with it
let me just make it the more vulnerable
you are see we want vulnerability from
others but we won’t be vulnerable
and i’ve learned like if i only see you
giving 50 i’m only going to get 50
because i don’t know what’s behind the
other 50 that you’re withholding from me
and so to have the impact you have to
have collaboration and collaboration
necessitates vulnerability i’m talking
about stretching the impact has to do
with you stepping out when you’re called
to step out
right there’s some moves that i’m making
right now so that i can have a greater
impact because i need to have listen my
life has to hit
are you tracking with me you’re not just
here to live you’re here to hit
you only got one life to live you gotta
strike
you know what i mean you got to have a
killer instinct about your potential
right that’s that kairos moment when you
see a door you got a boom you got to hit
that door are you tracking with me where
are my hungry people at in god’s house
i’m not playing with my impact i’m not
here to hit all soft punch your back
stuff i’m trying to knock something out
watch this i’m trying to knock something
into the next generation
that’s how your punches ought to be
your punches ought to be so hard that it
shakes three generations after you where
are my legacy people
i’m trying to knock something out not
i’m trying to knock out the giant of my
grandchild
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it’s about my impact so i’m having high
level conversations about how i can have
the greatest impact with my life
jesus knocked it out of the park
he didn’t let anything stop him they
were trying to stop him and jesus like
don’t you know i must be about my
father’s business
and watch this and when his internal
conversation went down father would be
your will let this pass from me all of a
sudden he snapped out of it
and he kept going
even his conversation with himself and
his god got a little funny on the cross
remember my god my god why have you
forsaken me he started calling him god
and he had been calling him father his
whole ministry
and then in that moment of difficult he
called him god his conversation shifted
but before he got off that cross he went
right back to father father into your
hands i commit my spirit he shifted his
conversation
are you tracking with me
your impact
conversations around faith conversations
around stewardship conversations around
impact and conversations around legacy
and when i say legacy i’m talking about
building something
that will remain and continue to live
breathe
work
and expand
after you leave
these all the conversations
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that we need to be having
oh god i feel the spirit of god
if you’re watching via live stream right
now
you can get
the fullness of this message later
but i’m going to go a little further so
i love you god bless you tune in again
we’re going to keep it going tune in
tonight
we’re going to keep it going
and i’m going to finish this thought
i’m pretty much
done with this installment i think i
want to move forward talk more about
conversations in the series that we’ll
be doing
but my heart more than anything family
is to get us to be having the right
conversations
and not to let
community
pull us down into conversations you can
only produce at the level of your
conversation
that’s it
only iron sharpens iron
only iron sharpens iron
and so i want us to pay attention
to how we’re conversing with god
to how we’re conversing with ourselves
and how we’re conversing with others and
i want us to to pay attention to focus
on these four areas of conversation
your faith
your relationship with god dig deep get
it because everything nothing moves
outside of your relationship with god
revelation comes from god
strategy comes from god innovation comes
from god all those things come
from god
stewardship i recognize that watch this
i am a limited resource
you are a limited resource
there’s only one of you
and you’ve only got so much time so much
life so much ability so much opportunity
i’m limited which means that i have to
go into a stewardship
consciousness
i am an investor of the limited resource
that i am when you know that a resource
is limited what do you do you spend it
wisely
okay wait this could run out
okay so let me no you start saying no to
stuff in my book balance i cannot wait
for you to read it in april
one of my favorite chapters is called
the power of no
no is the most powerful word in your
vocabulary because it creates space
for the right yes
it creates space for divine yeses in
your lives are you tracking with me so i
need no you think you need yes no you
need no
because
i’m getting into the book
you ought to have a 90 to 10 percent
noted yes ratio in your life in other
words you ought to be saying no to 90 of
the things that come your way and only
yes to 10 of those things
because you are a specialized creation
you are not a smorgasbord you’re not a
free-for-all you’re not no you’re
special you’re specialized
and destiny people recognize the value
of their yes
and the only way to spin the value of
your yes
is to put that no out there
are you tracking with me
faith
stewardship your impact
and your legacy and you know what all of
that equals
purpose
your purpose is comprised of your faith
your stewardship
your impact and your legacy and if you
can check
those boxes off through your
conversation with god your conversation
with yourself in the conversation with
the people that you allow yourself to be
in conversation with
then you can say amen
to your own life
come on stand with me i want to pray for
you you received that word today
you got it you got something
taken to this new year
it’s all going to come down
to your conversations
be careful
i want you to be thinking about this is
homework
i want you to be thinking about
how you’re going to talk to god how are
you going to upgrade your conversations
with god how have you been talking to
god and what are the areas of growth in
your relationship with god in your
conversation with god test them out you
won’t offend god he said asking me and
i’ll give you the nations
how are you talking to yourself you talk
well to yourself
when you look in the mirror what do you
see
when you make a mistake
do you come down on yourself too
and how are you communing with others
are you allowing
the right people in
and are you posturing yourself in such a
way
that relationships can become
collaborations
that ultimately
will produce co-creations that you need
i sense that for some of you
some of you need you need somebody
to become you
i wish i could say that better
somebody has the key to you and them
and you say i don’t need nobody all i
need no yes you do
because sometimes god puts keys that
unlock you and others
and others
and that’s why you got to get past your
trust issues
and you got to get to vulnerability i
want to pray for you
father we thank you so much god for this
time together with your sons and
daughters we love you you’re so good and
god we are pursuing higher conversations
we realize lord that nothing has taken
you off guard
you’re just trying to get us to
to talk better
to commune better
to converse better to have higher
conversations and i pray
that through the things that you’ve said
and what you’re doing in the lives of
your sons and daughters god you would
elevate us
and we would talk right to you
to ourselves and to others i love you
i thank you for this message
i thank you god that it’s gonna do
what you sent it to do
i thank you for this coming year
hallelujah thank you for victory and
breakthrough i thank you for the fruit
even as a result of this time together
in the lives of your sons and daughters
we’re better we’ve been tried by the
fire
of god as we step into 2022
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we do so
with excitement
with enthusiasm
you taught us in 2020 and 2021 that the
year the fire might come and it might
get real hot
but it won’t consume us
that’s what you were telling moses when
you called him and the burning bush was
burning but it was not burning at the
same time
so god if that be the case
if the fire can’t burn us
then we’re gonna let it cause us to be
like rockets
and take off and become everything that
you’ve called us to be
so we thank you
we praise you for all that you’re gonna
do
in 2022
in jesus name
amen amen may the lord god bless you
may he keep you may he make his face to
shine upon you and be gracious towards
you may you have an awesome 20 22 happy
new year god bless you we love you we
thank god for your happy new year god
bless you
hallelujah
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