1 00:00:01,315 --> 00:00:04,604 The wealth and it wisdom podcast with Darren. 2 00:00:06,336 --> 00:00:07,952 The podcast that focuses 3 00:00:08,263 --> 00:00:09,636 helping leaders and entrepreneurs 4 00:00:10,328 --> 00:00:12,972 take their life and business to new levels 5 00:00:13,186 --> 00:00:16,696 by strengthening their faith, family, finance and and 6 00:00:16,696 --> 00:00:17,173 fitness. 7 00:00:17,968 --> 00:00:21,252 Veteran an entrepreneur and business coach, Darren shares 8 00:00:21,388 --> 00:00:24,464 insights and expertise to help emerging and experience 9 00:00:24,664 --> 00:00:25,725 leaders alike 10 00:00:26,105 --> 00:00:29,945 acquire something more valuable than riches, the acquisition 11 00:00:29,945 --> 00:00:31,065 of real wealth. 12 00:00:32,038 --> 00:00:34,743 This podcast is for the everyday champion who 13 00:00:34,743 --> 00:00:36,732 refuses to be common average, 14 00:00:37,368 --> 00:00:40,164 stop or stagnant. But is called to live 15 00:00:40,164 --> 00:00:42,704 a life of wealth and wisdom. Are you 16 00:00:42,704 --> 00:00:46,594 ready for increase? Here's your host, the ambassador 17 00:00:46,594 --> 00:00:47,387 of increase, 18 00:00:48,117 --> 00:00:49,069 Darren V. 19 00:00:50,418 --> 00:00:52,584 There's so many things that are happening 20 00:00:53,274 --> 00:00:54,464 in our role right now. 21 00:00:56,152 --> 00:00:57,828 So many things happening in our world that 22 00:00:57,828 --> 00:00:59,025 we have no control over. 23 00:00:59,903 --> 00:01:00,403 And 24 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,169 as a as a king as a priest 25 00:01:04,468 --> 00:01:07,026 as a leader as an influencer at some 26 00:01:07,026 --> 00:01:07,345 level, 27 00:01:08,144 --> 00:01:11,261 we must be mentally prepared. We must be 28 00:01:11,261 --> 00:01:12,220 mentally tough, 29 00:01:12,794 --> 00:01:14,868 you know, a lot of times, people are, 30 00:01:15,825 --> 00:01:17,819 they're in the game. And basically, they'll be 31 00:01:17,819 --> 00:01:19,175 lot alive, you have no choice out Indian 32 00:01:19,175 --> 00:01:21,089 game. People are checking out, You know, when 33 00:01:21,089 --> 00:01:22,659 a person says, they don't wanna live in 34 00:01:22,779 --> 00:01:25,558 more is because they've lost is lost hope. 35 00:01:26,114 --> 00:01:26,614 And, 36 00:01:26,987 --> 00:01:29,449 you know, the bible says hope deferred makes 37 00:01:29,449 --> 00:01:30,243 the heart weak. 38 00:01:30,958 --> 00:01:31,275 And 39 00:01:33,356 --> 00:01:35,503 basically, but when a dream comes to pass. 40 00:01:35,662 --> 00:01:37,332 Oh, my god. I guess it's life giving. 41 00:01:37,729 --> 00:01:40,274 And so, basically, I wanna talk today just 42 00:01:40,274 --> 00:01:41,410 a little bit about 43 00:01:41,879 --> 00:01:44,447 not being hopeless, but having the right mindset 44 00:01:45,379 --> 00:01:45,697 to, 45 00:01:46,413 --> 00:01:47,209 moving forward, 46 00:01:47,686 --> 00:01:50,232 and that's the statement by itself moving forward, 47 00:01:50,724 --> 00:01:52,473 you know, moving forward means that I'm not 48 00:01:52,473 --> 00:01:53,109 gonna stay here. 49 00:01:54,223 --> 00:01:56,608 My present status is not what I dreamed 50 00:01:56,608 --> 00:01:58,119 or what I believed and what I was 51 00:01:58,119 --> 00:02:01,471 born for. But moving forward means that listen. 52 00:02:01,630 --> 00:02:03,691 I'm in this game. I'm in the arena. 53 00:02:04,087 --> 00:02:06,069 I may not be where I want to 54 00:02:06,069 --> 00:02:08,264 be. I may not be where I that 55 00:02:08,384 --> 00:02:09,816 plan to be. I thought I'd be for 56 00:02:09,816 --> 00:02:11,805 the loan than I was now. But, hey, 57 00:02:12,044 --> 00:02:13,954 I'm here. I'm alive. I'm breathing. 58 00:02:14,431 --> 00:02:15,864 And so for that reason, 59 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:17,789 I'm a fight. 60 00:02:18,509 --> 00:02:20,430 I'm a push. I'm a press. 61 00:02:20,989 --> 00:02:22,590 And because I'm a fight. I'm a push. 62 00:02:22,830 --> 00:02:25,250 I'm a press. Whenever I can't 63 00:02:25,629 --> 00:02:28,598 walk I'll crawl fight and whatever I can 64 00:02:28,598 --> 00:02:28,917 crawl, 65 00:02:30,111 --> 00:02:32,581 I will I will think. And when I 66 00:02:32,581 --> 00:02:35,130 can't think I will know you. I I 67 00:02:35,130 --> 00:02:37,138 don't have teeth. I know you. If mint 68 00:02:37,138 --> 00:02:38,894 mentality it, I'm not just in the game, 69 00:02:39,213 --> 00:02:40,490 but I'm in it to win it. 70 00:02:41,289 --> 00:02:44,902 And we have this treasure, this this guarantee. 71 00:02:45,773 --> 00:02:48,560 In earth vessel in our physical bodies, which 72 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,233 is Christ in us, which is the hope. 73 00:02:50,392 --> 00:02:52,224 That's the hope right there. Christ in us, 74 00:02:52,304 --> 00:02:54,349 the hope glory. David puts it like this 75 00:02:54,548 --> 00:02:55,580 psalm 23. He says, 76 00:02:56,532 --> 00:02:57,881 he says it like this. He says, 77 00:02:59,071 --> 00:03:01,214 Y though or even though I walk through 78 00:03:01,214 --> 00:03:03,769 the valley or through the See a ball 79 00:03:03,769 --> 00:03:05,912 a low place. We have to take words 80 00:03:05,912 --> 00:03:07,817 for their literal meaning, even though I walk 81 00:03:07,817 --> 00:03:09,722 through the ballot. First of all, he didn't 82 00:03:09,722 --> 00:03:11,309 say I'm pitching a tent on building a 83 00:03:11,309 --> 00:03:13,077 house in a ballot. And what I mean, 84 00:03:13,157 --> 00:03:15,312 but in a lot of us, we build 85 00:03:15,312 --> 00:03:18,584 tents. We we dwell on the situation, and 86 00:03:18,584 --> 00:03:20,500 that gets us into a place of depression. 87 00:03:21,310 --> 00:03:21,810 Discourage 88 00:03:22,185 --> 00:03:24,731 because of a simple distraction. So even though 89 00:03:24,810 --> 00:03:26,981 I walk, even though I'm going through this 90 00:03:27,117 --> 00:03:29,548 valid tough time. This temporary 91 00:03:30,167 --> 00:03:30,327 situation. 92 00:03:31,366 --> 00:03:33,204 I I will fear no. So you see 93 00:03:33,284 --> 00:03:34,802 I will. You gotta thinking about I will. 94 00:03:35,282 --> 00:03:36,960 I, first of all is a personal thing. 95 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,202 This And this means that you have to 96 00:03:39,202 --> 00:03:41,663 make decision I god. Even though I'm going 97 00:03:41,663 --> 00:03:43,807 through this temporary situation this test this trial, 98 00:03:43,966 --> 00:03:46,745 this unusual, this inconvenience discomfort, 99 00:03:47,239 --> 00:03:49,816 this this this distraction all this 100 00:03:50,355 --> 00:03:52,193 this person I'm having deal with on the 101 00:03:52,193 --> 00:03:54,370 job in the life and the marriage, whatever 102 00:03:54,510 --> 00:03:56,919 the child, even though I'm gonna walk through 103 00:03:56,919 --> 00:03:59,313 even though I'm walking through this challenge, is 104 00:03:59,313 --> 00:03:59,791 temporary. 105 00:04:00,988 --> 00:04:03,339 This valley this low place. This 106 00:04:04,277 --> 00:04:06,354 disappointment in someone or yourself. 107 00:04:07,633 --> 00:04:09,710 There's a resolution says, I, 108 00:04:10,283 --> 00:04:11,794 I means I've have come to a place 109 00:04:11,794 --> 00:04:13,703 that I made a decision. What does I 110 00:04:13,703 --> 00:04:15,770 mean? I mean it's a personal thing. It's 111 00:04:15,770 --> 00:04:16,589 a personal 112 00:04:17,122 --> 00:04:17,997 personal choice. 113 00:04:18,569 --> 00:04:20,642 And see when we make that decision, it 114 00:04:20,642 --> 00:04:22,315 means to cut away all the options. 115 00:04:23,591 --> 00:04:26,062 The root word of decision decision, which means 116 00:04:26,062 --> 00:04:28,305 to cut away. Cut away what? All options. 117 00:04:28,861 --> 00:04:31,326 And so literally when we say focus, we're 118 00:04:31,326 --> 00:04:33,711 saying you're gonna cut away all other options 119 00:04:33,711 --> 00:04:34,984 and focus on that 1 thing. 120 00:04:35,938 --> 00:04:38,257 And so even though I'm walking through this 121 00:04:38,257 --> 00:04:39,790 value of a shadow 122 00:04:40,322 --> 00:04:40,958 of death, 123 00:04:41,991 --> 00:04:44,771 I will feel... I will. I decide I 124 00:04:44,771 --> 00:04:47,264 think... Cr. Not God, I, God gave me 125 00:04:47,264 --> 00:04:49,185 the capacity to make a decision, I gotta 126 00:04:49,185 --> 00:04:51,425 make that decision. And when you make the 127 00:04:51,425 --> 00:04:53,904 decision, the way we'll present itself. God shows 128 00:04:53,904 --> 00:04:54,064 up. 129 00:04:54,718 --> 00:04:58,216 He... He's reinforcement. He's back up. See you 130 00:04:58,216 --> 00:05:00,919 decide to raise the sale, that will cause 131 00:05:00,919 --> 00:05:01,555 the wind to blow. 132 00:05:03,239 --> 00:05:04,510 But you gotta raise the sale. You got 133 00:05:04,510 --> 00:05:06,338 me, I'm gonna I will live and not 134 00:05:06,338 --> 00:05:09,516 die. I'm coming through. Listen if anybody's gonna 135 00:05:09,516 --> 00:05:10,708 come through. I'm coming through. 136 00:05:11,438 --> 00:05:13,742 And, you know, the word will and shell 137 00:05:13,742 --> 00:05:15,411 are the 2 most positive words in the 138 00:05:15,570 --> 00:05:17,716 English language. I will. I shall. 139 00:05:18,351 --> 00:05:19,623 I shall not be moved. 140 00:05:20,513 --> 00:05:22,027 And this is the mentality we have to 141 00:05:22,027 --> 00:05:25,054 have as as as kings and and leaders 142 00:05:25,054 --> 00:05:27,045 in this in in this time. We are 143 00:05:27,045 --> 00:05:28,893 in time of great great transition. 144 00:05:29,531 --> 00:05:31,284 And know, some of the transition is not 145 00:05:31,284 --> 00:05:33,516 comfortable. It's not convenient. It's it... It's not 146 00:05:33,516 --> 00:05:34,791 even good. It's not even righteous us. 147 00:05:35,441 --> 00:05:37,186 You know, I was just reading something they. 148 00:05:37,345 --> 00:05:40,280 Now they've... I think they they've established theirs 149 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:41,628 their 6 genders. 150 00:05:42,025 --> 00:05:44,109 Come on. God me it. 2 genders. 151 00:05:46,186 --> 00:05:48,664 Anytime the enemy wants to attack a thing, 152 00:05:49,063 --> 00:05:51,381 he'll bring confusion, he'll cause you to question. 153 00:05:51,940 --> 00:05:53,786 And when you quest in the basics, the 154 00:05:53,786 --> 00:05:55,928 core, the truth, this is how you bring 155 00:05:55,928 --> 00:05:57,435 a society all world down. 156 00:05:58,784 --> 00:06:01,139 You know? And so the the... So in 157 00:06:01,497 --> 00:06:03,486 we're in transition as a world. 158 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:07,384 And it because what does transition mean? Transition 159 00:06:07,384 --> 00:06:08,154 means that 160 00:06:08,670 --> 00:06:11,130 there are times where you're not gonna be 161 00:06:11,130 --> 00:06:13,432 comfortable. It's gonna be inconvenient, but you gotta 162 00:06:13,432 --> 00:06:15,654 know that, listen, I'm taking... It's just like 163 00:06:15,654 --> 00:06:17,258 you fly on the plane. If you flown 164 00:06:17,258 --> 00:06:18,533 the plant, You know that there's a thing 165 00:06:18,533 --> 00:06:19,250 called turbulence. 166 00:06:19,967 --> 00:06:21,482 But it's okay. We're gonna... This plane is 167 00:06:21,482 --> 00:06:23,713 gonna last. We're gonna land this puppy at 168 00:06:23,713 --> 00:06:26,272 our destination because we bought our ticket, 169 00:06:27,146 --> 00:06:28,496 which is G has paid the price, 170 00:06:29,290 --> 00:06:30,798 we we we got on that plane, 171 00:06:31,354 --> 00:06:33,260 even though we knew nothing about flying a 172 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:33,578 plane, 173 00:06:34,308 --> 00:06:36,618 agreed, we agreed. We came into a compliance, 174 00:06:36,857 --> 00:06:37,835 power of agreement 175 00:06:38,609 --> 00:06:40,441 that we we agreed that we're gonna sit 176 00:06:40,441 --> 00:06:43,483 down, put our seatbelt on so shut up, 177 00:06:43,643 --> 00:06:45,238 be quiet and at the pilot do his 178 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:45,478 thing. 179 00:06:46,675 --> 00:06:48,430 And so a lot of times when you 180 00:06:48,430 --> 00:06:51,234 have someone who's not compliant, are not an 181 00:06:51,234 --> 00:06:53,403 agreement. It handles the whole 182 00:06:54,254 --> 00:06:57,354 the whole flight because we have a disgruntled 183 00:06:57,354 --> 00:06:59,046 1. We have 1 that's out of agreement 184 00:06:59,182 --> 00:07:01,194 and sort of spouses until we all come 185 00:07:01,194 --> 00:07:03,115 together in the unity of the faith. 186 00:07:04,154 --> 00:07:05,835 And talks about the power green. What does 187 00:07:05,835 --> 00:07:08,074 agreement mean? Agreement means that you need someone 188 00:07:08,074 --> 00:07:10,330 to walk with doing his this transitional period, 189 00:07:11,129 --> 00:07:12,970 stop trying to be... No 1 becomes great 190 00:07:12,970 --> 00:07:13,689 by themselves. 191 00:07:14,490 --> 00:07:16,569 And so when we come together, when we 192 00:07:16,569 --> 00:07:19,139 work together when we strategize together I'm telling 193 00:07:19,139 --> 00:07:20,969 you the things that are coming upon this 194 00:07:20,969 --> 00:07:23,515 land you know, that are already here, you're 195 00:07:23,515 --> 00:07:25,107 gonna have to work together with somebody. 196 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:28,879 You know? And and, you know, I used 197 00:07:28,879 --> 00:07:30,960 to tell my children, my older children. I 198 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:31,520 would say, listen, 199 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,127 watch how you treat the small man, people 200 00:07:35,127 --> 00:07:36,400 we would consider to be small. 201 00:07:37,195 --> 00:07:37,991 And guess what? 202 00:07:38,945 --> 00:07:39,900 Everybody's a small man. 203 00:07:40,775 --> 00:07:40,829 Oh 204 00:07:42,063 --> 00:07:43,495 watch how you treat the small my, man. 205 00:07:43,654 --> 00:07:45,485 And everybody's a small man. And so that 206 00:07:45,485 --> 00:07:47,792 means there's no big eyes little use. This 207 00:07:47,792 --> 00:07:50,427 is what's the challenges of this world and 208 00:07:50,427 --> 00:07:52,568 these... The the times we're living in, it's 209 00:07:52,568 --> 00:07:55,345 gonna require us to communicate to work together. 210 00:07:56,155 --> 00:07:57,188 To pray together. 211 00:07:58,380 --> 00:08:00,447 So I would encourage you the see to 212 00:08:00,447 --> 00:08:02,298 to to be aware that the season 213 00:08:02,672 --> 00:08:06,102 transition brings challenges dinner distractions, delays, 214 00:08:06,578 --> 00:08:09,195 ultimately get you to be denied, but really 215 00:08:09,195 --> 00:08:10,940 not even get to me denied, but ultimately 216 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:13,892 be destroyed to destroy you. Ba says the 217 00:08:13,892 --> 00:08:15,879 interview doesn't come to kill. It comes to 218 00:08:15,879 --> 00:08:18,922 kill to steal could destroy it. And so 219 00:08:19,534 --> 00:08:22,416 David saint even though I walk through the 220 00:08:22,416 --> 00:08:25,467 valley, I'm coming through. This is a temporary 221 00:08:25,684 --> 00:08:27,996 situation. It's like a... It is... I I 222 00:08:27,996 --> 00:08:29,922 picture like a tunnel. You in the tunnel, 223 00:08:30,081 --> 00:08:31,195 it's... It may be dark, 224 00:08:31,832 --> 00:08:32,947 but there's a light at the end of 225 00:08:32,947 --> 00:08:35,198 that tunnel. And in the tunnel, there's no 226 00:08:35,733 --> 00:08:37,580 there's no catholic phase where you can stop 227 00:08:37,580 --> 00:08:38,536 in the middle of a tunnel and say, 228 00:08:38,775 --> 00:08:40,527 I'm gonna take a coffee break. Nope. It's 229 00:08:40,527 --> 00:08:42,518 forward March baby. We gonna do this thing. 230 00:08:42,917 --> 00:08:45,226 Do it. I'm coming through. And so forward 231 00:08:45,386 --> 00:08:47,394 March inside the tunnel. You can't go back 232 00:08:47,394 --> 00:08:49,149 because you got people behind you and it's 233 00:08:49,149 --> 00:08:51,223 not but darkness, but and you... And so 234 00:08:51,223 --> 00:08:52,898 for some of you, you come too far. 235 00:08:53,695 --> 00:08:55,664 You've come to... You have too much invested 236 00:08:56,103 --> 00:08:57,559 you know, it said that 237 00:08:58,254 --> 00:09:00,166 and 1 of the branches the military, A 238 00:09:00,166 --> 00:09:02,238 man is only destroyed by broken focus. 239 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:05,759 A man is only destroyed by broken focus. 240 00:09:06,556 --> 00:09:09,585 And so focus means to to fix your 241 00:09:09,585 --> 00:09:12,174 eyes to set your face set your mindset 242 00:09:12,634 --> 00:09:14,475 that I shall not be moved. 243 00:09:15,195 --> 00:09:16,394 I will serve the lord, 244 00:09:17,035 --> 00:09:19,294 you know, And so it's the mindset. 245 00:09:20,168 --> 00:09:21,307 You know, your mindset 246 00:09:21,686 --> 00:09:23,524 determines your your results, 247 00:09:24,163 --> 00:09:26,653 your mindset is, you know, if if business 248 00:09:26,653 --> 00:09:28,802 in the, your mindset determines your mind, do 249 00:09:28,802 --> 00:09:31,270 you realize that some people may may come... 250 00:09:31,508 --> 00:09:33,020 Make... Let's see if a job that pays 251 00:09:33,020 --> 00:09:35,105 your million dollars a year. It's but your 252 00:09:35,105 --> 00:09:38,129 mindset is your default setting. Some ways somehow, 253 00:09:38,368 --> 00:09:40,118 you're gonna... That money is gonna leave you, 254 00:09:40,357 --> 00:09:43,006 whether you misuse it, abuse it, whatever 255 00:09:43,541 --> 00:09:46,286 because you you can... Your mindset is your 256 00:09:46,743 --> 00:09:47,243 predetermined 257 00:09:47,619 --> 00:09:48,119 level 258 00:09:48,575 --> 00:09:49,075 of 259 00:09:49,452 --> 00:09:49,611 function. 260 00:09:50,647 --> 00:09:52,255 Is why up, people that win the lottery. 261 00:09:52,414 --> 00:09:53,847 And they say, in the average 2 years, 262 00:09:54,006 --> 00:09:56,474 they'll they're broke again. You cannot rise above 263 00:09:56,474 --> 00:09:58,862 the level of your mindset. You can't rise 264 00:09:58,862 --> 00:10:00,394 above the let of of your m... You 265 00:10:00,394 --> 00:10:01,375 can't produce 266 00:10:01,754 --> 00:10:04,154 beyond the image you have of yourself. Some 267 00:10:04,154 --> 00:10:06,715 people don't feel worthy. Some people don't feel 268 00:10:06,715 --> 00:10:08,794 qualified. Some whatever, whatever or whatever. 269 00:10:09,289 --> 00:10:11,199 Your mindset So I'm saying in this is 270 00:10:11,199 --> 00:10:13,986 a transition, you know, when you're walking through, 271 00:10:14,702 --> 00:10:17,304 when, you know, is essentially important that, with 272 00:10:17,744 --> 00:10:20,381 you set a mindset that I pay, listen. 273 00:10:20,861 --> 00:10:24,297 I'm mentally tough mentally red. Listen. We like 274 00:10:24,297 --> 00:10:25,357 mental tough 275 00:10:25,896 --> 00:10:27,909 in this world right now. Because we've gotten... 276 00:10:28,148 --> 00:10:31,664 We become creatures of of comfort, comfort creatures. 277 00:10:32,223 --> 00:10:34,001 Oh my god. They remote broken 278 00:10:34,955 --> 00:10:36,075 you need be reading a book. 279 00:10:37,355 --> 00:10:37,754 You know, 280 00:10:38,554 --> 00:10:40,394 oh my god. Who's gonna wash the car. 281 00:10:40,715 --> 00:10:42,634 You know, Look, I'm not trying to discredit 282 00:10:42,634 --> 00:10:44,884 anyone's situation, but You know, I I think 283 00:10:44,884 --> 00:10:47,453 there's a lot to be said about how 284 00:10:48,305 --> 00:10:51,011 years ago the the the inconvenience that are 285 00:10:51,011 --> 00:10:53,000 available to us now we're not available then. 286 00:10:53,254 --> 00:10:55,335 But it made us stronger on wiser. It 287 00:10:55,335 --> 00:10:57,095 made us do something that they can't regulate 288 00:10:57,095 --> 00:10:59,014 guys. It made us do something called think. 289 00:11:01,095 --> 00:11:01,815 When you think, 290 00:11:03,024 --> 00:11:05,166 You're putting your mind to work. You're looking... 291 00:11:05,325 --> 00:11:08,498 You're preparing and practicing and observing and considering 292 00:11:08,498 --> 00:11:09,291 other options. 293 00:11:10,815 --> 00:11:13,054 And so a lot of times, we're raising 294 00:11:13,054 --> 00:11:15,054 children that don't know how to think. We 295 00:11:15,054 --> 00:11:17,134 have adults that just don't think. And this 296 00:11:17,134 --> 00:11:18,674 a why I love the game of chess 297 00:11:18,975 --> 00:11:22,734 and because it teaches you in to consider 298 00:11:22,734 --> 00:11:25,042 other options. It teaches you to move 3 299 00:11:25,042 --> 00:11:25,997 to 5 moves ahead. 300 00:11:26,793 --> 00:11:28,702 And to me, that chess is just like 301 00:11:28,702 --> 00:11:30,785 my life. Hey. When I'm making a mistake, 302 00:11:31,023 --> 00:11:32,692 it's just the it's just a move. I 303 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:34,680 got an opportunity to correct it. And so 304 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:36,985 many times on that chess board, it seems 305 00:11:36,985 --> 00:11:38,600 like you're in a bad place, and you 306 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,360 are. You you're in check. 307 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:41,980 But 308 00:11:42,759 --> 00:11:44,852 until I hear check me, big, I'm coming 309 00:11:44,852 --> 00:11:46,679 for you. This is the mentality that you 310 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:47,155 must have. 311 00:11:48,108 --> 00:11:49,458 And then you have christ with you. 312 00:11:50,491 --> 00:11:51,921 In so many times I love on that 313 00:11:51,921 --> 00:11:53,846 board that I'm gonna bet that situation, but 314 00:11:53,846 --> 00:11:55,761 when I look at that situation from another 315 00:11:55,761 --> 00:11:58,153 angle, and I make 1 move, 1 adjustment. 316 00:11:58,632 --> 00:12:00,706 Oh, now it's check me for... To from 317 00:12:00,706 --> 00:12:01,344 my benefit. 318 00:12:01,822 --> 00:12:02,562 And so 319 00:12:02,874 --> 00:12:04,888 does. I'm literally saying to you today 320 00:12:05,662 --> 00:12:07,654 that but, you know, I'm gonna I'm a 321 00:12:07,654 --> 00:12:09,167 act like a drill sergeant for a second. 322 00:12:09,406 --> 00:12:10,760 You know what the situation you're in right 323 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,765 now. I know it's bad. But you know 324 00:12:12,765 --> 00:12:14,352 what? You're not the first person, and you 325 00:12:14,352 --> 00:12:16,495 surely won't be the last. Get yourself together. 326 00:12:16,972 --> 00:12:18,559 The bible says like this good of the 327 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:20,067 launch of your mind. Get your mind right. 328 00:12:20,226 --> 00:12:20,940 Basically saying. 329 00:12:21,513 --> 00:12:23,346 Because there's a hope. You have a choice. 330 00:12:23,506 --> 00:12:25,419 You have a future. You have an option 331 00:12:25,578 --> 00:12:26,694 I suggest you take it. 332 00:12:28,448 --> 00:12:30,378 This this is that moment where you said, 333 00:12:30,618 --> 00:12:33,095 okay, I'm doing what I gotta do. You 334 00:12:33,095 --> 00:12:35,971 know, nobody really cares until you win. 335 00:12:36,690 --> 00:12:39,024 I that sounds tough. But this is mental 336 00:12:39,024 --> 00:12:39,425 tough. 337 00:12:39,985 --> 00:12:43,345 Nobody really cares until you win. Like, today 338 00:12:43,345 --> 00:12:46,396 is the 20 fifth. Well, my tomorrow... My 339 00:12:46,396 --> 00:12:48,311 birthday, I'm guessing the date, But the days 340 00:12:48,311 --> 00:12:49,508 is the 20 fifth at the time of 341 00:12:49,508 --> 00:12:50,067 this recording. 342 00:12:50,945 --> 00:12:52,940 Do you utilize tomorrow is the 20 sixth? 343 00:12:53,274 --> 00:12:55,035 Which is the first day of the Olympics 344 00:12:55,035 --> 00:12:55,835 in in Paris, 345 00:12:56,634 --> 00:12:59,915 in 20 24 Olympics. And so tomorrow, we 346 00:12:59,915 --> 00:13:01,615 will be able to observe 347 00:13:02,168 --> 00:13:05,023 elites who've taken years and years and years 348 00:13:05,023 --> 00:13:06,848 of training in preparation, 349 00:13:07,562 --> 00:13:11,393 years of self denial, discipline, mental tough for 350 00:13:11,393 --> 00:13:13,950 just a few moments of glory and victory. 351 00:13:15,628 --> 00:13:17,546 Training years for a race that takes only 352 00:13:17,546 --> 00:13:18,918 seconds. Come on man. 353 00:13:19,716 --> 00:13:21,310 It's like you have to... It's gotta be 354 00:13:21,310 --> 00:13:22,904 a passion. It's gotta be a call. What 355 00:13:22,904 --> 00:13:24,738 is the thing that you're so passionate about 356 00:13:24,738 --> 00:13:26,092 you're willing to sacrifice for? 357 00:13:26,890 --> 00:13:29,284 Man you know, people may pretend to love 358 00:13:29,284 --> 00:13:31,187 you, but they can't pretend to show up. 359 00:13:31,663 --> 00:13:33,725 I'm gonna say that again. See when I 360 00:13:33,725 --> 00:13:34,597 see when you show up, 361 00:13:35,566 --> 00:13:37,157 Mean to show up on these calls, these 362 00:13:37,157 --> 00:13:37,475 lies. 363 00:13:38,111 --> 00:13:40,100 You you you saying there's something me that's 364 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:43,379 worth me getting myself. Up early to listen. 365 00:13:43,857 --> 00:13:45,291 That's why we do these calls early. 366 00:13:47,363 --> 00:13:49,490 Nothing against people who wake up late, but 367 00:13:49,609 --> 00:13:51,045 you know, this is of there's... It's over 368 00:13:51,045 --> 00:13:52,822 and over in the bible, It talks about 369 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,513 the how the winner the leader rises early. 370 00:13:57,203 --> 00:13:59,517 You know? And so what am I saying? 371 00:14:00,395 --> 00:14:01,751 We all have a choice. We all have 372 00:14:01,751 --> 00:14:04,360 your options. You you're you're not so special 373 00:14:04,479 --> 00:14:06,307 that you only only person with your set 374 00:14:06,307 --> 00:14:08,135 of particular set of problems and challenges. 375 00:14:08,771 --> 00:14:10,440 Technically I don't even use the word problems 376 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:11,711 because problem means that there's no... 377 00:14:12,523 --> 00:14:13,959 Solution. Jesus is the answer. 378 00:14:14,996 --> 00:14:16,431 And if you want me, I don't wanna 379 00:14:16,431 --> 00:14:18,186 sound clear cliche, but let's break that down. 380 00:14:18,425 --> 00:14:20,579 When I say Jesus is the answer, the 381 00:14:20,579 --> 00:14:22,983 the love that god of to his gift 382 00:14:22,983 --> 00:14:24,277 of this gift of 383 00:14:24,651 --> 00:14:26,955 salvation Jesus christ. The love. Love is the 384 00:14:26,955 --> 00:14:28,623 antidote, to cure all for everything. 385 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:31,337 I people are not angry they lack love. 386 00:14:32,844 --> 00:14:34,058 People people... Whatever 387 00:14:34,590 --> 00:14:36,018 every flaw, every sin, 388 00:14:36,589 --> 00:14:39,527 is a result of lack of love. Or 389 00:14:39,527 --> 00:14:41,853 even if you know the love god is 390 00:14:41,988 --> 00:14:43,417 recognition or acceptance of his love at a 391 00:14:43,417 --> 00:14:45,495 deep... Different level you know, some of us 392 00:14:45,495 --> 00:14:47,159 we accept that, but we go so far. 393 00:14:48,743 --> 00:14:50,962 You know? So we're talking about walking through 394 00:14:50,962 --> 00:14:52,961 the challenge, because even though I walk through 395 00:14:52,961 --> 00:14:55,026 the valley of the shadow of death, you 396 00:14:55,026 --> 00:14:56,933 gotta think about it. Come on, man. I 397 00:14:57,092 --> 00:14:58,125 I skipped the worry y'all, 398 00:14:59,014 --> 00:15:00,451 David said in Psalm 23, 399 00:15:01,089 --> 00:15:03,085 even though a y do I walk to 400 00:15:03,085 --> 00:15:05,320 the valley, a dark place a low place 401 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:06,996 in between the 2 piece. I used to 402 00:15:06,996 --> 00:15:08,366 be on top. Now I'm down. 403 00:15:08,923 --> 00:15:09,879 Man, come on. 404 00:15:10,436 --> 00:15:12,927 I'm not used to being down, or sometimes 405 00:15:12,984 --> 00:15:14,259 I'm in the valley. I just... Got what 406 00:15:14,338 --> 00:15:16,170 I'm I'm always been there. I don't know. 407 00:15:16,344 --> 00:15:18,014 A different. Right? Even though I I'm walk 408 00:15:18,014 --> 00:15:19,526 through the valley of the shadow. 409 00:15:20,082 --> 00:15:21,912 Now that word right there is deep because 410 00:15:21,912 --> 00:15:23,994 the shadow means we so you can't... You 411 00:15:23,994 --> 00:15:25,422 shouldn't be afraid of a shadow or a 412 00:15:25,422 --> 00:15:28,518 dark place, a shadow not reflection with... So 413 00:15:28,518 --> 00:15:29,470 in the water point there to be a 414 00:15:29,470 --> 00:15:30,794 shadow that must be light. So 415 00:15:32,425 --> 00:15:34,096 It you can't have a shadow without a 416 00:15:34,096 --> 00:15:36,323 light. What does that mean? That means in 417 00:15:36,323 --> 00:15:37,357 your darkest place. 418 00:15:37,928 --> 00:15:41,103 There is a see you're in between the 419 00:15:41,103 --> 00:15:42,690 light of God is in you... It's before 420 00:15:42,690 --> 00:15:44,912 you. The glory is God before you, and 421 00:15:44,912 --> 00:15:46,261 the glory God is behind you. 422 00:15:46,913 --> 00:15:48,904 And because the light is behind you it's 423 00:15:48,904 --> 00:15:50,736 casting a shadow in front of you. So 424 00:15:50,736 --> 00:15:52,352 why would you be afraid of a shadow 425 00:15:52,967 --> 00:15:55,436 because the issue... It's... The it is proof 426 00:15:55,436 --> 00:15:57,127 that there's light of God, the glory got 427 00:15:57,127 --> 00:15:57,765 is behind you. 428 00:15:58,644 --> 00:16:00,400 Even though I walk through the valley a 429 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,475 dark place of a shadow of something that 430 00:16:02,475 --> 00:16:05,524 looks bad, I'm gonna feel why. Because you 431 00:16:05,524 --> 00:16:06,003 are with me. 432 00:16:07,202 --> 00:16:08,959 You have to come to a place of... 433 00:16:10,717 --> 00:16:12,235 You have to come to a place where... 434 00:16:13,206 --> 00:16:13,681 Awareness, 435 00:16:14,633 --> 00:16:17,036 not just not just to be consciously 436 00:16:17,409 --> 00:16:19,391 aware that God is with you. That's the 437 00:16:19,391 --> 00:16:20,105 game changer. 438 00:16:21,151 --> 00:16:23,295 He's basically saying listen, dude, man love. I'm 439 00:16:23,295 --> 00:16:25,122 going to a bad time, like, a a 440 00:16:25,122 --> 00:16:27,027 whole lot other people, but I'm not gonna 441 00:16:27,027 --> 00:16:29,186 trip. I'm not gonna be upset. I'm not 442 00:16:29,186 --> 00:16:31,009 gonna kill myself. I'm not gonna check out. 443 00:16:31,167 --> 00:16:32,515 I'm not gonna clock out. I'm not gonna 444 00:16:32,515 --> 00:16:34,973 give up because I'm consciously aware of 1 445 00:16:34,973 --> 00:16:37,687 thing. That's the game chain. To God is 446 00:16:37,687 --> 00:16:38,085 with me. 447 00:16:39,597 --> 00:16:41,028 Man, when you know God is with you, 448 00:16:41,267 --> 00:16:41,983 you know, it is... 449 00:16:42,699 --> 00:16:44,149 When you go to a tough place. You 450 00:16:44,149 --> 00:16:45,746 go to court. You go to the hospital. 451 00:16:46,066 --> 00:16:48,622 Those life altering places, you know, you go 452 00:16:48,622 --> 00:16:49,900 to the hospital, you may not come back. 453 00:16:50,140 --> 00:16:51,829 You go to court you may be sentenced 454 00:16:51,829 --> 00:16:52,706 whatever. Right? 455 00:16:53,502 --> 00:16:55,096 You go to to the boss's room and 456 00:16:55,096 --> 00:16:56,849 call in the office. Right? When you go 457 00:16:56,849 --> 00:16:59,080 to is really confident know that you're not 458 00:16:59,080 --> 00:16:59,717 by yourself. 459 00:17:00,688 --> 00:17:02,282 You take someone with you to the hospital, 460 00:17:02,441 --> 00:17:04,115 someone with choose a court situation. 461 00:17:04,911 --> 00:17:07,142 And when we've... When you have to walk 462 00:17:07,142 --> 00:17:10,272 alone, it's a since it... It's it's just 463 00:17:10,424 --> 00:17:12,262 It's additional support when you when you're not 464 00:17:12,262 --> 00:17:14,580 by yourself. And so David saying, listen. Even 465 00:17:14,580 --> 00:17:15,699 though I walk through the barrel of the 466 00:17:15,699 --> 00:17:18,336 shadow death. Look dude, I'm not gonna fear 467 00:17:18,336 --> 00:17:18,815 any evil. 468 00:17:19,710 --> 00:17:21,549 Because you are with me. And then he 469 00:17:21,549 --> 00:17:23,390 breaks it down. You're rod and your staff. 470 00:17:23,789 --> 00:17:25,730 That's basically the word and your spirit 471 00:17:26,843 --> 00:17:28,275 You need the word, but you need the 472 00:17:28,275 --> 00:17:30,980 spirit. Many of us, we study the word 473 00:17:30,980 --> 00:17:33,048 of god. Read the word of god, but 474 00:17:33,048 --> 00:17:35,535 we don't... Have a relationship with your spirit. 475 00:17:36,413 --> 00:17:37,849 That's where most people are that coming to 476 00:17:37,849 --> 00:17:39,924 the kingdom. They read the word. They listen 477 00:17:39,924 --> 00:17:41,200 to the word. They pray the word, 478 00:17:41,854 --> 00:17:43,449 they don't have a relationship with his spirit 479 00:17:43,449 --> 00:17:45,124 that I ride them that staff that word 480 00:17:45,124 --> 00:17:46,001 in my spirit. 481 00:17:47,756 --> 00:17:49,692 You you your staff represents 482 00:17:50,308 --> 00:17:52,077 individuals, just like in a job or business, 483 00:17:52,474 --> 00:17:53,906 you know, his staff is workers. 484 00:17:54,463 --> 00:17:55,440 It's it's personnel, 485 00:17:56,292 --> 00:17:58,575 that word that spirit that rod and thy 486 00:17:58,773 --> 00:18:00,997 staff, they come me. Your staff or people 487 00:18:00,997 --> 00:18:03,777 that comfort you. Well, guys wants to be 488 00:18:03,777 --> 00:18:06,080 your staff to comfort you while you're going 489 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:06,739 through this 490 00:18:07,208 --> 00:18:10,235 fly fired police or is temporary situation in 491 00:18:10,235 --> 00:18:13,262 your life. That rod. The rod is for 492 00:18:13,262 --> 00:18:15,580 correction. The word Rex and Got, but that 493 00:18:15,580 --> 00:18:17,088 staff? Oh, they come from me. 494 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:20,205 See their rod with that Shepard would use 495 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:21,054 if there was 496 00:18:21,609 --> 00:18:23,536 you know, Wolf for an attacker that would 497 00:18:23,536 --> 00:18:26,489 use and then also to guy. Right? The 498 00:18:26,489 --> 00:18:27,766 sheep. But the staff, 499 00:18:29,043 --> 00:18:30,021 that was for him 500 00:18:30,414 --> 00:18:31,446 Oh, that a preached, man. 501 00:18:32,319 --> 00:18:34,463 The rod is for the enemy and for 502 00:18:34,463 --> 00:18:34,701 correction, 503 00:18:35,495 --> 00:18:37,638 what the staff is for you. And so 504 00:18:37,638 --> 00:18:39,718 many of you you have the word... But 505 00:18:39,718 --> 00:18:42,024 it seems like your relationship was so stiff 506 00:18:42,024 --> 00:18:46,397 so hard, so insensitive, why? Because guess what? 507 00:18:47,193 --> 00:18:49,260 You don't have a relationship with the staff. 508 00:18:50,551 --> 00:18:52,328 You don't have relationship with people 509 00:18:52,705 --> 00:18:53,424 beyond yourself? 510 00:18:54,301 --> 00:18:55,817 Because I start off this off by saying 511 00:18:55,817 --> 00:18:57,746 in the season of transition and you're gonna 512 00:18:57,746 --> 00:18:59,419 need people. You're gonna need personnel, you're gonna 513 00:18:59,419 --> 00:18:59,977 need staff. 514 00:19:00,614 --> 00:19:02,048 You know, even in a world in a 515 00:19:02,048 --> 00:19:04,772 business world, you staff your weakness, and whatever 516 00:19:04,772 --> 00:19:06,286 you we, you need to get help there. 517 00:19:06,445 --> 00:19:08,277 You get a replacement there. You know, 518 00:19:09,074 --> 00:19:10,906 you know, I do so many things, but 519 00:19:10,986 --> 00:19:13,071 I give credit. I have a staff that 520 00:19:13,071 --> 00:19:14,505 does so many things for me. They make 521 00:19:14,505 --> 00:19:15,142 me look good. 522 00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:18,566 I rather I'm not staffed they comfort you. 523 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:19,974 The 524 00:19:20,649 --> 00:19:22,076 even though I walk to the bow the 525 00:19:22,076 --> 00:19:23,742 shadow that I will fear no evil for 526 00:19:23,742 --> 00:19:25,249 that ra, my step they caught me. 527 00:19:27,074 --> 00:19:27,891 And so 528 00:19:28,358 --> 00:19:30,923 I just want to just share that word 529 00:19:31,297 --> 00:19:32,909 of encouragement because 530 00:19:33,759 --> 00:19:34,791 things are tough, 531 00:19:35,347 --> 00:19:37,650 and they may get tougher, but that's all. 532 00:19:37,904 --> 00:19:38,143 Right. 533 00:19:39,978 --> 00:19:42,291 I'm, I'm decided I decree that I'm coming 534 00:19:42,291 --> 00:19:44,923 through. If anybody... If anybody gonna be coming 535 00:19:44,923 --> 00:19:46,359 through, it's gonna be me. And you have 536 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:47,635 to say that within yourself. 537 00:19:48,449 --> 00:19:51,005 You have to say that within yourself. See 538 00:19:51,005 --> 00:19:53,002 this conversation you have to have with yourself. 539 00:19:53,642 --> 00:19:54,680 I told myself. 540 00:19:55,494 --> 00:19:56,695 I said within myself. 541 00:19:57,975 --> 00:19:59,494 So guys, I'm a stop right now. I 542 00:19:59,494 --> 00:20:02,219 hope something saying is is has charged you 543 00:20:02,219 --> 00:20:05,414 has inspired you corrected you, maybe kicked you 544 00:20:05,414 --> 00:20:07,411 off to get you to a better place.