Committed

coming up on the Potters touch it's wrong for you to think that you're gonna give an offering and God's gonna bless some business you ain't committed to bless of marriage you ain't committed to bless you in school and you won't study bless you as a saint of God if you won't walk like a saint of God who do you think God is somebody playing in Vegas God has not hittin a slot machine God is a guaranteed definite I am demonic God hello everybody I'm so glad to have the opportunity to be blessed to be in your home and to be a part of your life and to talk to you this very practically the day out of the Word of God I believe it's going to bless you in a significant way we all want changes we want changes we want changes over here and over there in some area of our lives we want God to do something but without commitment nothing really happens so today we're going to talk about commitment buckle your seat belts you're in for a ride commitment Levi means to be joined to be connected to be focused to be committed that is something we don't see anymore oh we have the ceremonies we still have weddings the people don't get married anymore I mean even the people in the wedding the bride and the groom we throw rice at them we give them a certificate but they don't get married they move in together they get the tax deduction but they're not married they're not joined together because the first a little way in the first little storm the first little problem the first of the week that's the first little test they are out of there they have no route they have no connectivity they are not joined they are not committed they don't have it and their character to withstand anything they are only there for convenience and when they don't see the convenience of the connection they forsake the responsibility and walk away from their commitment we seldom see real church members people I've seen people come if everybody who joined this church came one Sunday it would kill us they come down here they sashay down here they walk over there they get all of this stuff they go through the little orientation shake the hand and some of them people you never see them again we go through the actions of commitment but we're not really committed we're not really connected we're not really joined because we have no understanding check this of our responsibility to any relationship right this time you cannot have relationship without reciprocity you cannot have true relationship without reciprocity you cannot get into a relationship to get and not give and I want you to ask yourself do you give as good as you get add up what you're getting and wait against what you're giving and then you will know whether you're really joined to anything yeah people who come to work they take a job they're not committed to the job they want to check they want to check where everybody wants some money baby I'm gonna say to get everybody wants some money baby but I'm just here for the check that's why it's not going to work for you you don't understand the reciprocity anybody wants some money but if you're not willing to give at least as good as you get it will not last and that's why you can't stay anywhere or work for anybody because you'll never have me like you may have had Reuben you might have had Simeon but you've never been joined to anything so you had you collect anniversaries you've got a lot of birthdays you've got some plaques on the wall but you've never been the person that you could be because there could be is locked up behind commitment and until you're committed you'll never get the good bit I'm glad the choir son you're happy I don't have to worry about preaching you're happy you know what I thought to myself I thought I would hate to live and die and never know what would happen if I ever committed myself to anything some people have never thrown their whole self at nothing not at school not at work not at Barry's not a church oh my god you had one foot in and one foot out of every dream all in your life and you've never seen what you could be if you ever really connected and doing everything that's what's gonna make your deaf so sad that's what's gonna make it so sad is that you never leave first you you never fully engaged you never fully studied you never fully invested anybody you want to get something that you are not willing to give you have never been joined you just wore the dress got the plaque they threw the rice you joined the church you took the job but you've never seen what you could be if you through your whole self at your dream you go to this church but you're not joined if you don't have reciprocity you're not joined if you're not really bought into it if you don't really feel like it's my truck or I come here cuz I get a word reciprocity what do you give back for what you get without reciprocity no relationship will ever reach its apex because you're not fully invested in anything you do so you catch some crumbs that fall from the master's table but you don't get the children's bread you get the puppy-dog blessing that comes from being in the right place at the right time because you are not joined into the connectivity that produces a real blessing of God in your life and you are getting older and you're running out of time and running out of excuses and running out of people to blame wonder what what is happening school if you've been committed wonder what would have happened in you're married if you've been committed wonder what would have happened in your charge if you to really throw your whole self you've always been casual and never been committed and some of the most casual people are talented people because talented people will lay on their talents and use their talent as a camouflage to cover up their lack of commitment and because you're talented enough to be able to float by on broken pieces you will fool and indiscriminate eye into thinking that you are committed you're not committed you just talented you'll never know what you could have been if you would have really committed yourself you'll just talented enough to get over and you fake them out and you've been at 30 or 60 fold when you were created to be a hundred fold first I just think it would be terrible I can't be committed to everything I can't join everything I can't be married to a thousand women I can't work a thousand jobs I can't join five churches because I take my commitment too seriously to spread it around loosely your life is a false advertisement full-color big glossy ad promising product you don't carry in your inventory you'd be shocked how many people sitting out there who can really sing but they're unwilling to make the commitment to make the rehearsals and do what it takes to be up front and so they sit there on their talent and they won't do for god what they are asking God to do for them and they wonder why they're proud about Anson tell three people say commitment commitment commitment you take a half committed man and a half committed trifling woman and put them together and they'll have some have committed trifling kids and the whole house will be half committed because children will be what they see stop fussing at your kids their reflection of you your whole life is the facade the whole thing in the faith the whole thing in the front your whole life is a camouflage see and now you're getting older and you'll never get to see what you could have been because of cost of getting this shared is a commitment that you never been willing to pay you're trying to get somebody to fall in love with the you that you've never discovered yourself you come to the altar and you raise your hand and you say Lord I give myself to you but you don't you walk down here and join the church if you say now I'm a member of the church but you're not you marry somebody to say you can count on me I'll be there through the think of it there for better for worse for richer and poor in sickness and there you didn't mean it half studied half worked half labored and then wonder why I thought I'd be further than I am a days let me tell you why you were not further it is not the devil it is not witches it is not demons and it's sure God ain't haters you are not any further than where you are right now because you have never thrown your whole self at anything in your life and you think greatness goes on sale but true quality never goes on sale greatness cross what in cross oh my god help me in here today I feel something about to take over this way somebody in this church is ready to receive this word you're ready to get your breakthrough my god I feel a miracle coming in this place today I wish I had a hundred people that would give God a praise before him I swear I'm gonna bless you ain't no chance ain't no doubt ain't no joke about it if I told you I was gonna bless you I will open up the windows still to come on the palace touch I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they have suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and tests and if you have a dream and you commit to it for a harness starts for your gift of any size you will receive this stirring message these are they on CD from the series seats of greatness and when your gift is $65 or more you'll receive Bishop series seeds of greatness on four DVDs however when your gift of $120 or more will also include seeds for good soil encouraging words from bishops heart to yours as well as bishops timeless book 64 lessons for a life without limits plant the seeds of God's Word today and your harvest will be on its way the first commitment is to God you're sucking commitment it's the family the second commitment is to family and it's a very important commitment it's a very important commitment you better be committed or you ain't gonna make it if you can only love me when you like me we ain't gonna make it go sooner or later I'm gonna your last nerve they say how you like me now it's to your family crazy as they are if you're not committed you're not gonna make it even the ones with the personalities you don't like you have to be committed through the storm and the rain and the heartache and the pain and the disappointment you have to believe in the we and the us and not the me and the you or you're not gonna make it it's a commitment it's not a feeling you got to come home with you in love and you got to come home when you not in love or you're not gonna make it and stay there till the love comes back it's a commitment y'all don't want to hear real truth you want to hear fairytale Hollywood shake and bake stuff but in reality it's a commitment you're my son in my house you're my son when you took the money you're my son in the whole pen you're my son in the whorehouse you're my son on the road back home it's a comeback and if you're not gonna be committed you don't need no kids commitment to God number two commitment to family number three commitment to your church I've never seen anything like this generation today they don't commit to anything at all you're lucky if you see them again after they Joey and if you do see them is only gonna be on Sundays and don't talk too long because they got to go forget Sunday night Wednesday nights out of the question we'll hear about the revival next Sunday we sacrifice nothing for our church we will serve nowhere and yet is Bishop reaching yes is this your preacher because all about what I can get and nothing about what I could give and if I think I'm not gonna get what I expect to get I won't even show up because I have a Jimmy mentality I'd never came to give oh I lost y'all over there I lost the whole house on that because you consider with great contemplation where you can go to be fed that's good but where is the reciprocity what do you give for all that you got any relationship that does not have reciprocity will not last if I'm always the one given and always the one sacrificing always the one pushing myself over the limit to be there for you and I don't see that in return eventually my patience will wither my hope will die and I will give up any relationship that has no real reciprocity will die strong people will keep givin to you a long time eventually when they don't see it coming back in similar capacity they will eventually become convinced that the investment does not warrant a return I tell you before you lose again if you don't learn the gears like you learn to get every area that there is not reciprocity it will die but I had time I take you all through the ecological system it's not just biblical its ecological its science its everything anything that takes more than it gives will eventually destroy the soil I will show you how God commanded the farmer to let the ground rest because you have to put something back in something that you're taking something out of see somebody has never taught you how to give they teach you how to take are you demanding more of your God or of your family or of your church then you give because any area that you expect more than you invest you will live in a perpetual state of disappointment you've committed to God I'm until you committed to your family we're gonna get through this that should be the language you approach your family with we will get through this we may have to bunk up we may have to move in together we may have to put our backs up against each other we may have to both get part-time jobs we may have to come out sideways but we will get through this when you get me you get help if I walk in the room and up came in the room I'm gonna add something to you I'm gonna add something to you I'm gonna add something to you I will not take something from you unless I add something to you I will be an asset and not a liability if I stay in your house you will miss me when I leave I'm gonna add something to you I'm not going to take some trouble if I join your church you will feel the impact that something has been added to you the only number that doesn't add to the sum total of the equation is a zero what do people get when they get you if you can describe it define it and deliver on it you'll never be without everybody wants an ass that liabilities get left behind number four commitment to your dream you cannot get people to believe in your dream until you believe in it's yourself stop asking people to invest in things where you have no investment stop asking people to deliver something to you where you're not willing to go to the wire for yourself nobody's gonna put into your dream before you put in you have to invest in what you dream for hallelujah to God a golf club is just a golf club you can pay five hundred and five thousand dollars for it's just a golf club until you put it into the hands of Tiger Woods when you put it into the hand of the Tiger Woods the value shoots up is the same set of clubs all you had it was commitment when you a get it in the hands of somebody who is committed to a dream who's been working when they was five and swing it when they were six and swing it when they were nine and swing it when they were 12 oh yes you're gonna get a great return because there is a great investment do you have anything that you're dreaming that you're willing to be committed to enough to see it happen or are you throwing pennies in the wishing well of life wanting to receive on credit something that you're not willing to pay for you must be committed to your dream Oh hallelujah I'm scared to talk about it because I believe it's so bad you ought to see my toes are dancing in my shoes glory to God I don't have no hair on my head but my hair on my chin is jerking over this right now I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they have suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and tests and if you have a dream and you commit to it it will come to pass know the vision Terry wait for him he's not just the beginning he's also lead gets God started him yeah well fred is committed to your dream yes committed to your dream anybody can dream it but you'll never see it until you're willing to be committed to it I was telling somebody the other day when I didn't have anything church didn't have any members I'd get off work working at carbide and drive up the road and work on the church til I had to turn around and go back to work we worked when we didn't have food we worked when we didn't have lights I was putting my whole Shack in the offering all of it trying to keep it going when I finally got some staff I went on the road preaching and whatever I made on the road preaching I brought it home to make the payroll of the staff and sometimes I got them paid and couldn't pay me commitments look like a fool didn't have any clothes suits was falling off me line and wore out my clothes couldn't send him to the cleaners had to wash my suit in the washing machine they laughed at me look like old raggedy country preacher I had holes in my shoes I couldn't hmm I couldn't kneel down and pray because if I knelt down to pray they would see holes in my shoes they laughed at me they said that boys lost his mind he'll never be nothing he stutters he's got a list ready speech he'll never be a preacher I don't you never never never bring down somebody who is committed because somebody who has really been committed has been down before they ever got up yeah you can scare me off with trouble I started in trouble I grew up with dirt up under my finger there I'm used to folk not liking me I'll fight for my haha gotta stop this is a big subject if many people struggle with it they need well they have sincere hearts they promise so much more than they're able to deliver because they don't understand commitment what if you through your whole self into the vision that God has given you rather than just hit man and pet it what would you achieve you cannot conquer what you're not willing to commit to take that word with it today and may God bless you and strengthen you that's my prayer for you before we leave get your hands on this book destiny it's for people who are going somewhere it is for people who are trying to master commitment who feel that they are drawn of God into a purpose that you can't quite figure out so the book is destiny step into your purpose you can do it and need to do it right now I pray God I bless you I'll be waiting on the Instagram Twitter Facebook to hear your comments as we read together destiny step into your purpose god bless you take care I'm sorry Brian we're gonna have to let you go we had to make staff changes listen Festus destiny awaits you will you take the first step destiny is written to connect what's in you with the purpose that awaits you the first action step requires faith daughter destiny today everywhere books are sold there is more 10 committed people work from a thousand spectators 10 committed people Jesus didn't pick but 12 and turn the world upside down with 12 people who were committed wonder what would happen in your life in your church in your finances in your marriage if you were committed

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Published: Wed Sep 16 2015