Dedication 2 Destiny - Bishop T.D. Jakes [January 5, 2020]

[Music] I'm going to be talking about dedication to destiny dedication to destiny and that that's it that kind of an odd subject because most people see destiny is something that God does and and it just happens arbitrarily and we have no investment or involvement into it we normally don't think of dedication and destiny in the same sense because we ascribe all the responsibility for our destiny to the Lord you know all things work together for the good of them to love the Lord what are the called according to his purpose leads us thinking that we don't have to do anything then all things just work together for our good it leaves us thinking it gives us the impression that God just makes it work whether we work or not it's just gonna work for our good if the Lord means for it to happen it's gonna happen but I'm gonna talk to you about dedication to destiny how dedicated are you to what you believe I'm gonna challenge some of your belief systems this morning I may be able to point some things out in your life that will help this year to be more effective help you to weigh the effectiveness of this year help you to weigh the effectiveness of the next 10 years of your life I started talking about the decade we stepped into a new decade how many are glad to be a part of this field decade now there are a few folks in this room that the enemy didn't even want you to be alive for this desk aid so you can't sit there and be cute and look all important sell yes I'm glad you know the enemy tries to kill you before you ever even got here and you need to really get up and celebrate and thank god you're just being here just being alive just being alive if you don't get that but sit there and look pretty you ought to just smile like the devil and say see I've made it I made it I made it to Twitter Twitter come on somebody who am I talking to this morning and because it is our custom you can remain standing we're gonna go to Genesis 39 20 through 23 for a few minutes and we're gonna use this scripture just as a leap off point I don't really so much want to exegete the text but I want to use the text as a canvas on which we convey and write ideas and share principles and concepts that will help us to better move into the purpose of the plan and the dictates of God because God has a plan for my life good god and I said God has a plan for my life it's the reason I wasn't is stillborn it's the reason I didn't die of crib death it's the reason I survived my childhood it's the reason that I survived Pro wrecks and accidents and injuries God has a plan for my life it's not that I'm so good it's not that I'm so perfect it's not that I'm so smart it's not that I'm so innovative it's just that God preserved me because he has a plan for my life and I'm gonna live out that plan so all you haters who don't want me to live out my plan get over it I'm gonna live out that plan all of you that have haters that don't want you to live out your plan tell him to get over and God has a plan for your life and you're headed somewhere you tell I'm fired up I had me read the scripture I'm already on fire shout hallelujah somebody and Joseph muster took him and put him into the prison a place where the Kings prisoners were bound and he was there in the prison but the Lord was with Joseph I like that I just wanna pause right there what an ox a mole on his his master put him in prison and God said if you going to jail I am 200k nobody do me like Jesus if he's going to the emergency room I'm going with you if he's going in trouble I'm a present help in the time of trouble tell Marty who thought you were in it by yourself you need to shout right now because God does like how strong but the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison come on and the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph II committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison and whatsoever they did there he was the doer of it can you say man the keeper of the prison looked not to anything that was under his hand because the Lord was with him and that which he did the Lord made it to prosper Oh I gotta put that back up her again I got to read that last good jerk again put that other oh that disciplines for that which he did that which he did not that which he thought about not that which he danced about but that which he did the Lord made it to prosper touch the neighbors say do something father God in the name of Jesus we stand in his house thank you for life we will not waste this breath we will not waste this life we will not waste this year we will not waste this week we will not waste this day somebody died short of today but you let me live to see another day I will not waste this day complaining about who doesn't like being my toe hurts and my finger hurts I'm alive I'm gonna work this day for your glory I'm gonna move some stuff today for your glory I'm gonna get it done in the name of Jesus now bless the word while it's being shared today in Jesus name I mean with the thuggery shout shout a man good you may be seated glory I want to test out your lungs make sure you got good lungs one more time shot a bird oh yeah you ready okay what I want to do is dig down deeper into what I started talking about during the New Year's Eve service we had at the church I want to dig down deeper into it I want to talk to you a little bit about decades dreams and decisions decades dreams and decisions now personally I am my life out in decades I said goes for where I want to be ten years from now and when I talked to people around me I sound kind of strange because I I talk like I'm older than I am cuz I'm thinking ten years away and they say you're too young to be thinking like that I said no no no no I'm not too young you're never too young to be thinking ten years away planning my life and decades has helped me to evaluate years how do you know that you're having a good year if it doesn't fit into a long term goal of where you're gonna be ten years from now how do you measure a good year just by survival just saw it just had it just came or do you measure it by things that are going to happen every year cuz I hear people saying you know 2019 was a bad year cuz they went through a lot of stuff where they were in the hospital or they went through this attack or that attack or so-and-so died or this one data that will die and they say it's a good or bad year based on conditions and circumstances that are going to happen every year there will be no magic years where your emotions are not tested where your mind is not tested where you won't have opposition or enemies there were every year you have life will be life but I determine whether it's a good year or a bad year by how much closer I'm coming to what God has in store for me how much progress I'm making toward the direction that God and I have charted out for my life not by inconvenience I'm used to inconvenience if you don't learn how to flourish under fire you will flourish at all if you are gonna keep waiting till the coast is clear before you make a move you might as well turn into a mummy you might as well be the Statue of Liberty because you're never going to move because the coast is never going to be clear it's never going to be totally conducive to what you're trying to get done in fact many many times the greater the opposition the closer you're getting to your goal anyone in here who's had a baby will tell you that labor pains get greater the closer you are to birth in your baby I want to tell you something that makes you to begin to recognize that dreams are fertilized in stinky places let everybody who ever grew a garden say man dreams are fertilized not in nice convenient places not when everything's going well it's in the stinky places it's in the rough places that dreams are fertilized so if you avoid the stinky places you're avoiding the very fertilization of the next move of God in your life are you hearing what I'm saying to you are you hearing me this morning but when we start talking about dreams a lot of times we don't get our dreams because we're not specific I want to be a better man what does that mean I want to have a great year this this this this way of generalizing your dream stops you from monitoring success I'm going to the next level where is that I want up up where and this year I'm gonna be a better person in what way see these types of things cause us to fail because they're not specific enough to hold us accountable I want to be a good wife I want to be a better wife I want to be a better husband what does that mean specifically in what area let's be more specific I'm going to spend more time at home I'm gonna budget my finances better let's tie it down to something that you can measure because if you don't tie in your dream down to something you can measure it is easily dismissed and with that dismissal comes the feeling of success so you're always saying stuff that never makes you feel successful not because you're not succeeding but because you don't have quantifiable goals how are you measuring your life the Bible says teach me the number of my days Oh God that I might know how frail I am teach me to appreciate every day how are you measuring your life are you hearing what I'm saying I'm gonna get to the good stuff in a minute this this also when you start talking about when you start talking about decades and you start talking about dreams you have to start talking about decisions because if you don't have goals how do you base your decisions who comes in and out of your life where do you spend your time who do you engage with what do you say yes to what do you say no to I have finally begin to learn not to swing at every ball that comes my way I mean I mean I'm not just talking about not swinging at bad things I mean not swinging a good things because it can be a good thing but if it's not connected to my destiny I need to reserve my swing Oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying I need to reserve my swing for what's coming next in my life some of you swinging everything I just want up I don't care what I gotta do I'm opening up a gas stations that don't work I'm open up a beauty parlor that open up a beauty primary open up a restaurant I just want up I just by any means necessary no no no you'll never get up like that you have to be specific about who you are and what you bring to the table and what you are called to do and be and you may have to pass up ten ideas to get to the thing that's in alignment with your destiny I want to swing at something that's in alignment I want to have friends that are in alignment with my destiny I'm getting to the age I can't just carry a lot of dead weight maybe when I was 20 I could afford to carry dead weight but now if it's not getting me closer to where I'm trying to go I'll help you if I can but I can't carry anybody right now I got just enough strength to get me with all y'all hero because some people don't want to walk I don't mind carrying you a little while because they can't walk but some people don't want to walk they use your compassion as their crutch I know you won't carry me so why should I walk I know you're gonna pay for it so why should I do it I know you're gonna get me out so why should I stand up I know you're gonna fix the problem so why should I be proactive you need to take any racers start erasing all of those people out of your life who are using you you are not helping them you are in abling them to be a failure by not releasing them to their destiny you need to give them a cup of tough love and say stand up on your own two feet you can do this [Music] [Applause] I'm preaching better than you shout everyday I have to make decisions and it's easy to make decisions between good and evil and and right and wrong they're apparent but it's tough to make the seasons between good and great between what you want to see me do versus what God has called me to do just because something is a just cause doesn't mean it's my cause I don't have enough me to take up everything that needs to be done you can't volunteer for everything and still be good at anything some of your spread so thin that you're not good at anything because you said yes to everything practices with me practice is with me practice is with me say no you did that good we're gonna do that again everybody say no oh yeah you know what no gives you focus no gives you discipline no gives you structure no gives your neighbor and opportunity to say yes to what you said no to see your no is somebody else's yes and if you stop trying to be everything then somebody else can be something but if you're trying to be everything you're standing in the way of somebody else who's trying to be something [Applause] I can't go everywhere I can't speak for everybody I can't be at every church I can't be at every event I know becomes somebody else's blessing so away with the spirit of guilt that the enemy wants to place on you because you can't say yes to everything somebody needs you to say no so that they can say yes somebody needs you to say I can't do it so that they can stand up and say I can your burden is somebody else's blessing so if you're gonna have a great year this year you gotta practice yeah you got to practice though so that when you say yes to something you have the power and the force to really be dedicated and fully committed to that thing why do you have to be dedicated because if you have a dream that it's easily achieved it it's not worthy of you if you have a dream that doesn't require discipline and focus your dream is far too small I didn't dream of brushing my teeth I'm just believing God that by His grace I would be able to brush my teeth no no no I just brushed my teeth and went on about I did brush with my brush but I did that all by myself I didn't have to go on a fast but I need a dream if you are a big dreamer holler at me now I want to talk to my big dreamers cuz big dreams take time I want you to stop being angry because you didn't get your dream this year because big dreams take time Malcolm Gladwell says that in order to be proficient at anything you have to protect the practices 10,000 hours in order to be effective at it 10,000 hours will make you an expert his book outlier he talks about 10,000 hours if you if you want to be an excellent pianist put 10,000 hours into it and you will be bad 10,000 hours incidentally is about ten years ten years is a decade what are you gonna do with this decade I know you used to be talking about what are you going to do with this year but what you're going to do with this year is determined about what are you going to do with this okay because the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord this year is the first step to the decade [Applause] so ten years from now how old will you be somebody said did [Applause] that might be true but imma let that surprise me I don't have to plan on that it can sneak up on me to be alright he can hit me in the back of the head but suppose I'm here suppose I win are you making decisions for the decade or for the moment I told some people that were getting ready to buy a house and their children were have you know maybe 11 12 13 14 somewhere up in there and I said don't buy the house based on the kids not at that age now I think with two years old it might be different but not it not at 14 because by time you get the house built and you get it furnished just the way you wanted to and all the rooms are made out just where you need to they will be leaving the house and you will be walking around talking about we don't need all this room you have bedrooms you don't go into collecting dust in places plates you don't use pans you don't bake here because you didn't have a plan for 10 years our unit had a plan for a moment that was passing while you were building the house oh I hit something right there what I want to talk to you is the dedication it takes to birth the thing that you're after and the reason I want to talk to you about it is I am alarmed that the people who give up so easily and I think they give up so easily because of Cracker Jack sermons coming from pulpits all over America that talk about spin around three times God's gonna give it to you and you think that if you spin around three times and it doesn't happen that God doesn't mean for you to have it but you can spread around till you pass out on the floor when you get to spinning God blesses what you do who am I talking to today it doesn't matter what age you are you need this message if you suddenly you don't want to build a house with three three floors now the young people don't understand why I say it there but everybody's got gray hair it's starting to get a revelation why putting the master bedroom on the third floor might not be a great idea for somebody 75 this might be a good time to sell the house and get a flat something that you can handle because you need to have a strategy or if you don't have a strategy your lack of strategy is going to give the enemy an opportunity to make your life harder than it had to be because you weren't thinking out for the future [Music] somebody said 10 years from now I'll be dead if I'm dead I won't have to worry about it but suppose I'm not suppose I'm still here what am i planning what am i doing what am i moving how am I getting ready for what's next in my life am i 30 years old planning for 40 am i 20 thinking about 30 or am I just living in the moment and they're shocked because my future is not anchored because I haven't been dedicated to my destiny it determines who I listened to it determines what books I read it determines who I put myself around it determines what committees I get on or off what boards I joined or don't join it determines who I hang out with because I want to be around people who are feeding where I'm going you know there's a community of people that we attach ourselves to because they are kin to where we left and we we connect with them because you're from West Virginia and I'm from West Virginia and oh my god you remember the Appalachian Mountains and I remember the Kenai River if you remember - and I was so wonderful because I am kin to you because you are connected to my history or you hung you hung out at the same clubs I did or you drank the same oh that's a whole new side of the church let me go over here I want to go over here and talk to the real people who understand that the human proclivity is to be more comfortable with people whose history aligns with yours but the divine opportunity is to connect with people whose destiny aligns with yours now when you connect with people who you have a destiny in common with don't expect to feel comfortable you're going to grow into comfort as you have shared experiences but initially you're going to feel like an outsider because the connection is for a date to come it isn't so important that you marry somebody that fits where you are that's not the hard part it's easy to figure out somebody who fits my present need but I need to find somebody who will grow with me and go with me and evolve with me and when I switch you switch and when we grow forward you fit the 50-year old me and the 60-year old me and the 70 year old me I'm not worried about you fitting the 20 year old me I'm pretty easy to fit in Twitty Melissa needs that 20 aren't even smart yet but I need somebody that has I come to the fullness of my intellectual capacity that you have the fluidity of thought and nimbleness of mind - you gotta flow with me you gotta rock with me you gotta roll with me if you ride on the motorcycle with me when I go this way you got to go this way yo y'all hear what I'm sayin for you because if you go ride with me don't make me fall over cuz you pull it this way when I'm traveling on this way the times in your life will tell you who you're riding with I need to see how you handle the terms [Applause] anybody can ride with me in the straightaway but when I give to the turning point and the pivotal place I need somebody who can roll with me who can slide with me oh come on talk to me somebody I don't need somebody who wants to get off the bike because I hit a bomb [Applause] my god I haven't even got to detect you but I'm saying something that you need to hear and this is why you need God in the choice because God can see the future and you can only see the moment I [Applause] don't need to hire somebody who's good for where I'm at right now I need somebody that's got the capacity then as I roll you can grow with me or I'll end up carrying dead weight and every time it's payday I'm rolling my eyes at you because you haven't evolved in 20 years and you're faithful to who I used to be [Applause] my god I want you to understand something that generally dedication starts in stewardship generally dedication starts in stewardship and that is to say well let me use this first luke 1612 says you must first be faithful to that which pertain us to another man in other words God lets you practice where you're gonna be until you put that back up their gear until you can be faithful and if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's who shall give you that which is your own see some of you are holding back on your dedication because you don't want to be dedicated to something that's not yours and so when you get there you're gonna give it your best shot when you get there no no if you don't give it your best shot now you won't get there it is giving it your best shot [Applause] you can't I told a friend of mine you can't preach good when the crowds big [Applause] you gotta preach good when it is not but five people there you were still giving it your best shot you because if you were faithful over a few things I will make you rule maybe you hear me some of you've been saving your best stuff for the big time no use your best stuff now so your best ever get better I feel like I'm talking to somebody I don't even know who it is [Applause] when I'm not in the pulpit preaching I'm writing and when I'm not writing I'm looking at scripts for films and and doing films and movies and we got some projects coming out on lifetime and anytime you're doing character development a character's life is not believable if it doesn't have an arc to it and arc somebody say an arc I'm not talking about the thing that Noah rode around in an art to it you can't have somebody whose life is just one thing straight you can't write a story that's just a straight line it's got to have a heart to it you can't preach a message that doesn't have an art to it you can't do a movie that doesn't have an art to it you can't be a person and not having art in your life the arc of life every good story has an arc it is never a straight line look at the arc of Joseph's life look at the arc of his life his life it's like it's like six flags reading about Joseph he's up he's down he's up again he's down he's in he's out it's good it's bad it's it's it's like a ride and a carnival look at your life if you tell your life story you wouldn't need tickets for Six Flags you've been up some time you been down some time you wanted to quit some time you wanted to die some time you wanted to fight some time you wanted to give up some time yeah good day you have bad days baby that's not the devil that's life you can't rebuke that you can't plead the blood over you can't bind the devil oh that is life [Applause] let me come down here and look at you we're good we're about to get somewhere now Joseph's life couldn't have been better it was going good he'd been thrown into a pit by his brothers had left to die they left him for dead but he survived and the Mennonites came and found him and and brought him out and sold him to Potiphar and he prospered in Potiphar's house he ran Potiphar's house now let me tell you the good thing about being a steward you don't have ownership but you have exposure so he didn't have powder first bills you see what I'm saying he didn't have powder for Thea Beals but he got to live in Potiphar's house he got to run Potiphar's business he got to practice his stuff at Potiphar's expense it was a dream job it was amazing he got all the kinks out he got to do it and he didn't good he did it so good that Potiphar put him in charge of everything in his house and Joseph was dedicated he was winning he was up he was getting it and then one day all hell broke loose who would ever thought that Miss Potiphar would have thought Joseph was killed which isn't a bad thing till she started lying on him [Applause] people will around you Drinan right in your face allows you the ones closest to you and one line and he loses his job his cushy amazing influential job where he got to meet people that he would have never met and do things that he would have never done he lost his job he was defeated and he went to jail now losing the job is bad but going to jail is hell fire me fire me please thank you fire me god bless I'm fired okay okay bye I'm fired I'm going to jail wait oh-ho that's a whole different thing we gotta have another meeting about that because I can find me another job but I ain't planning on waking up with to somebody named Bobo come on talk to me somebody [Applause] Joseph did everything right they still lost his job and his thrust into the Kings prison he was dedicated to Potiphar he was dedicated to a good thing now he's lost his good thing what happens when you lose your good thing oh I'm a preacher Lee yeah what happens what happens to your character when you lose your good thing were you just good because of your good thing we're your only dedicated because of the paycheck are you only gonna preach good putting the money's good when the crowds good when the people respond when you're in your element when the conditions are right are you only a good wife when he's a good man [Applause] Oh Lord I think I lost a whole novel Jesus they was with me real good right there are you only a good mother when the kids are good you don't need a good mother when the kids are good you need a good mother when the kid is bad and everybody's giving up on the kids but momma standing there fighting for him to come through I wish I had a witness in here many of us wouldn't be here if we didn't have good mothers with bad kids are you only gonna be a good husband when she's a good wife and now you have changed your character to match your condition I'm not surprised that Joseph was committed and effective and dedicated when he had his pushy job the knives in jail and now the test becomes how you like me now will you maintain who you are when it doesn't look like it's paying off [Applause] or have you gotten so bitter that you have changed you because of the season you're in because it is a season and it's gonna pass and don't allow a temporary circumstance to change you permanently where you become bitter rather than better this too shall pass this is a test if you can attend Joe praise me now anybody can praise him on their way up [Applause] but Joseph is now imprisoned and he's in the Kings prison I don't know how he got in the Kings prison because he wasn't working for the king but he's in the Kings prison and that's a dangerous prison to be in cuz the King made his own rules he just wake up one more and say you're gonna die and and we started reading the text with him being an inmate and made snow had no power you get up when I say you get up you go to bed when I say you go to bed you take a shower win and if I say you take a shower you eat when I say you eat what I give you and you don't eat at all inmates don't have no power at all and Joseph with it's dedicate itself is now in a situation where it looks like me and dedicated didn't pay and he has every excuse to change just like some of you who have unjustly gone through things that weren't even fair and you don't realize you're being tested to see if you can be dedicated when there is no opportunity I had to recognize when I moved up in life that people stopped seeing me as a person most of them see me as an opportunity I was dealing with them like I was a person they were dealing with me like I was an opportunity and I had to step over into their eyes and look back at me to understand that they don't see that I'm a person they see me as a chance a raffle ticket an opportunity a quick way up and so anybody can love you when they see an advantage Joseph God's land it's now in prison by the way this was not his dream when you remember those of you that know the story know that Joseph had a dream long time ago that his brothers were going to bow down before him there he was gonna rise to power there was no dream about bars slamming doors sleeping on concrete eating out of troughs have you ever ended up in something that was totally contradictory to everything you dream everything you drink and you find yourself in the complete opposite situation I feel like I'm talking to somebody I don't know who it is God told you you were gonna prosper you were going to be successful and your boss said you're fired just when you were starting to say somebody have you ever had your life contradict your prophecies [Applause] and that's when the devil rose up to do you exist where is God now da da da Dada Dada Dada yeah when the curtains open we see Joseph God's prints in a prison you could be a prince in a prison and how you respond to that prison determines whether you become French or not there were three things that God gave Joseph in the prison that that helped him through the prison number one the Bible says the Lord was with him the Lord was with him he gave him company in the prison he said if you're in it I'm in it with you I don't know who I'm teaching today but the Lord said I'm in it with you [Music] [Applause] you had to sell a car I'm in it with you you had to sell a house I'm in it with you he left you for another woman he said I didn't I'm still in the house with you I'm still gonna open doors for you I'm still gonna make ways for you I will not leave you by yourself she don't appreciate who you are as a man God says I do I am with you in the prison not just in church not just on Sunday morning not just when the praise team sayings not just when everybody's beating the drum not when people are happy and shoving God says I'm with you when it doesn't look profitable to be with you I am with you that's what separates me from some of the folks you call friends even when there is no opportunity oh gods you don't hear what I'm saying to you so you go ahead and praise him for your car and you praise him for your starts you praise them for your mutual fur I praise them for not leaving me thank you for being with me when all hell was breaking loose after scrab that you was with me [Applause] we're gonna practice that shake somebody by the hand say the Lord is with me the Lord is with me I may be sleeping on this floor but the Lord is with me I may be in some kind of trouble right now but the Lord is with me I may have a lump in my breast but the Lord is with you I may be down on my luck but the Lord is with me what comes what goes but the Lord is stable the Lord is with me I don't know who I'm talking to the Lord is with me he was with me in 2019 he's with me in 2020 he's gonna be with me in 2021 if you want to get with God get with me cuz the Lord is with me if you want to fight God fight me because the Lord is if you a me get into it he's on my side that's how I feel about it you got to know that you know that you know that you know I'm with you even when you don't feel me even when you don't like the condition even when you don't like the circumstance touch them I say the Lord is with me you want to get with God get with me cuz the Lord is with me yeah I know I'm in this prison but the Lord is with me yeah I know I'm sleeping on the couch but the Lord is with me yeah I know I'm going through a transition but the Lord is with me I know I don't look profitable but the Lord you pass that down now I've already preached if I don't say another word so number one the Lord is with it number two he showed him mercy mercy sure do look good when justice ain't just he showed him mercy he showed him mercy have mercy I don't understand how people who need mercy can be so merciless [Applause] he showed him mercy so the voice that keeps bringing up what I did wrong to say you belong in this prison you brought this on yourself you're not ain't good anyway you're just like your mama said you was you're just like your daddy all those voices that we have to fight with to all of those voices God showed him mercy can you receive mercy do you have the capacity to receive mercy or are you so angry at yourself over your mistakes that you resist mercy because you like cutting on yourself figuratively or literally God showed him mercy but he had to receive it can you receive the mercy of God the Bible said his mercies are new every morning I don't even have to use day old mercy he's got fresh mercy for my fresh stupid the understand he didn't run out of mercy because I keep being stupid his [Applause] his mercies are new every morning he showed him work that's why I beat everybody praising God because he showed me mercy and I only have a praise I don't mind raising my head I don't mind crapping my head cuz had God dealt with me according to my sins I would have been cut off but the Lord showed me I feel a song coming on I feel a shot I'm not even trying myself but I feel a shot because when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me my soul cries out [Applause] he showed me mercy he showed me mercy he showed me mercy he showed me mercy [Applause] [Music] half-hour somebody tell them I got to praise Him you might praise him but I got to prison you might not praise him but I got to praise Him I've been too crazy not to praise it happened too wrong not to praise it he sounded mercy [Applause] let's go deeper I got a hairy number three he gave him favor with the warden he gave him favor with the warden he gave him favor with the warden you might not believe this but God will make folks like you you you think it's just because you're so charismatic now God will make folks like you he gave him Famer with the warning 2020 I'm walking in divine favor [Music] 20:20 I'm just walking in divine favor I'm walking in divine favor I'm walking in divine favor I'm walking in divine faith anybody go walk with anybody go walk with me I'm walking in divine somebody's got a meeting to go to and you gotta meet with somebody in a high place and the Lord said don't worry about it when you walk in the door he's gonna give you a favor I don't know who that's for but you came here to get that one word from God that God has already ordered your steps and when you get there you're gonna walk into favor for our preaching too [Applause] can I give you some more let me give you some more I'm gonna give you some more my God my God my God that went out of me so strong I don't know who that's for I hope you receive it to the magnitude that I released it that was a prophetic utterance my God my God my god my god my god you walk in like you know they like you because God is going to give you favor [Applause] favor with the person to empower [Applause] and I talk to me anybody in here now now let me go a little bit deeper with this I'm almost where I want to be the thing that gets me about Joseph is that he was dedicated in a deficit I understood him being dedicated in Potiphar's house because he was on the up side but this boy is dedicated in prison he's running the prison the inmate is running the prison if you stop crying about being an inmate you'll see why you're in the situation you're in because God's gonna get some glory out of the situation that you're in God doesn't just reveal himself by changing situations sometimes God uses the situation to change you so what gets me about him and said he is dedicated in a deficit in prison he's still serving he's still leading he's still helping he's still giving and had he not been dedicated in a deficit he would have never reached his destiny had he gotten bitter or depressed or discouraged said I'm through last time I was dedicated it didn't work I'm not gonna do it anymore I'm not going out there like that I'm not going out like that I'm not gonna do it he would have died in prison but he was dedicated in a deficit can you be dedicated in a church that's not growing can you be dedicated to a job you think that's beneath you I know you say you're gonna get dedicated when you get the promotion though you're gonna be dedicated now that's how you're gonna get the promotion [Applause] I'm helping somebody I don't know who he is so dedication has to be an internal impulse and not an external reaction he must be dedicated because he's dedicated he is not dedicated because things are going good he has not allowed external circumstances to define internal character he's just dedicated he's a dedicated person he's been dedicated all his life when he's in he's all in when he's there he's really there when he's given he's really given when he's serving he's really serving regardless this is who he is don't let life change who you are [Music] you you gotta be consistent even when life is chaotic because now I see why God chose Joseph he could trust him he chose Joseph because he could trust him and Joseph ends up the Prince of Egypt because he's consistent can God trust you in prison no pain nobody there to say attaboy God blesses people he can trust can he trust you with power secret power see see see trusting you with money ain't no problem trusting you with power power is what produced Hitler [Music] power is a really dangerous thing I told you this before whenever I'm running around with powerful people I don't pay attention to how they treat me I watch how they treat the waitress the skycap the bellboy because how you treat them tells me how you would treat me if I ever got vulnerable watch it I'm telling you I'm telling you to tell you a whole lot how you manage power says something about you joseph has come from being in prison to run in the prison and what's amazing is his gift is still working he's in prison and he's still given so the butler and the Baker come to him with a dream now the butler's dream was real but the Bible says when the Baker saw what the bomber got he's a dream something too so I'm a little questionable about that dream that had me to dreams that said sometimes you know it kind of got nil about I'm not saying that you know he didn't dream it I just I never thought about who dreamed because they heard somebody else dream and I'm just saying and Joseph is in prison talking about how interpret your dream we know y'all got see this now we in jail we in jail you know jail jail bro when it white house wind jail and you want a word from the Lord in jail you want me to interpret you first of all you dreamin in jail you mean jail has not destroyed your dream [Applause] you you in prison and your biggest problem is getting somebody to interpret your dream and here Joseph is in prison with you and he is serving you in the prison because that's who Joseph is it's not just what Joseph does that's who he is see I'm talking about being not just doing don't let life change who you are some of you used to be loving you used to be giving you used to be caring but you've been through so much that it's starting to affect who you are if we were in business we would eat we would be talking about a brand and a brand is a promise a brand is a promise and it says what do we get when we get you and that's why I told you you determine who you are about who you are not it's your ability to say no that begins to give you a distinction who are you whether you're in Potiphar's house or in the prison or in the pit there ought to be some consistent that remains the same that I can count on about you what can I count on about you because that's all we got to deal with for this decade that's all we can deal with we cannot deal with who you are seasonally we cannot deal with who you are occasionally we cannot deal with who you act like you are or pretend to be while I'm looking we can only deal with that part of you that is you and that's good because that means you don't have to be me being me and something I can do I came to you Who am I or whoever I become and how do I get back to something that God can trust so that I can be dedicated so I could set up a trust you know when you get ready to put big money into places you put them in a trust you invest in a trust can God trust you enough to invest what about you can he trust nothing always something about all of us it can't be trusted come on don't you say that actually I was up two o'clock last night slipping into the kitchen [Music] [Applause] I don't know why went in the kitchen I was supposed to be going to the bathroom the bathroom is north the kitchen is south but there was this little bit of banana pudding that was left and my problem is when Dexter was home I could act like maybe he hated I mean what didn't that much I don't know why I had to have him it was enough to make me mad I was mad yes it is too late to make another one Harlem has had some area that we can't be trusted can we just be real I told myself I pop to myself real good I said we're not doing that you already had your cheat day you're cheap they turned into a cheat week okay so you got to live holy for about three weeks it's gonna be subway and Jesus subway Jesus subway Angie I talked about all while I'm going to get the banana pudding and I'm quoting scriptures and everything ain't none of them working [Applause] I'm the only one I'm the only one out here by you and then I told myself I said get you gonna do it anyway y+ about it you might well just enjoy it cuz you already know you're gonna get I don't need it feeling guilty why are you doing just be guilty later just it was a good one - man I'm telling you the Lord was in the banana pudding the Spirit of the Lord [Music] [Applause] I think was right it was grandma right it was so good I start singing slavery song [Applause] should will be to her I will way back in my ancestry [Applause] all of us have some area that we have not mastered I'm not preaching this to convict you I'm preaching this to challenge you what is it about you that is consistent that you're willing to be dedicated to because that's all we can use for destiny Joseph down in jail interpreting other people's dreams and he's done it for people and saying man this is what's gonna happen you're gonna get out in three days you're gonna get out and you're going back to the king and in three days to this other Joker you gonna be dead you faking you phony you don't know who you are you didn't dream that and you're trying to slip in on somebody else's anointed in three days you gonna be dead the bomber gets out and forgets Joseph but Joseph is still dedicated the bomber forgets him for two years I told you it's gonna take a decade it's gonna take a decade to anchor down everything that you're doing right now it's gonna take a a decade to get it where it's his family said it's solid and where you're fully respected on the next level or where you going expect it to take some time two years he spent forgotten by the people he helped but dr. King said true smashed down to the ground will rise again undaunted it may take a long time but if you just keep doing right if you'll just stand your ground and be dedicated if you keep going right you can overcome anything you can lose weight you can go back to college you can get your doctorate if you just keep God can only bless what you are consistent about dedication to destiny this is my opportunity to dedicate my way unto the Lord and say you know what I'm gonna stop being up and down and back and forth and flipping in and flipping out and I'm gonna be consistent even though my life is not even though this year will not be consistent even though my friends won't be consistent and my family won't be consistent my spouse won't be consistent even everything around me may not be consistent these are the areas that I vow I'm gonna hold to I will not drop this and they drop something else I say no I'm not no banana pudding buddy sighs we still working about that where that's where the mercy that's where the mercy backing on the part of mercy and the pudding and the mercy and the pudding and the mercy and go together lord have mercy but this right here this right here Jesus this right here we're gonna like this guy we're gonna look we gonna walk this out if I don't say but $10 a week we gonna walk this out and if I don't labor 200 if I don't leave it 200 pounds or 200 calories down a week we don't walk this out if I don't take that one class a year we're gonna walk this out this right here I'm gonna put this on lock I'm gonna put this a lot because if I put this a lot right now by the time I get to walking through this I'm gonna be exactly where I need to be shake your neighbor and say I'm after something amount to some I'm Ashley some time after some and I'm willing to lock down to get it I'm willing to be stable to get it I'm willing to dedicate myself to order I am not waiting on you to give me you ain't got to give me a thing I'm not gonna be chasing them behind you sniffing up behind you trying to get on your good side in the hood I ain't dancing none of it I'm gonna get this for myself and whatever it takes I'm gonna pay the price and I like oh nobody when I get it it's gonna be me and Jesus it won't be nothing about you it's gonna be me and the Lord tells me people sell him out to some God's not gonna give me 20 20 and may not be after some God's not gonna give me another year may not be after some God's not gonna give me another decade and we might be after something yeah I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do it when I'm in jail I'm gonna do it when I'm out of jail I'm gonna do it when things go right I'm gonna do it when things go wrong I'm gonna do this I'm gonna be consistent Lord you can count on me for this I will bless the Lord at all times his face or what what can he count on I learned a long time ago 50 percent of women is shored up for the fight the fight is half over when you show you will never win a fight you don't show up for I'm showing up for this I'm showing up for the fight Here I am ready for duty I'm hiding in the shadows for fear that I might fail I will face this head-on and let the chips fall where they may yes sir let the chips fall where they may I will show up verified you can count on them absorb every day I'm gonna make a little dent in it every day I'm gonna hit it every day I'm gonna shop it every day I'm a swing every day you can count on me to take action I will not waste another decade complaining about who didn't love me and who didn't raise me and who did invest in me [Applause] took them two years to get rid of the amnesia and all of a sudden a bundle failure I had a dream and nobody could interpret it and my mother said you know I know what you call it down there president what about uh Joseph yeah I was in the joint with him yeah he pretty good Lord he's pretty good heavy might be good in prison he would have never got to the palace it was what he did in prison that brought him to the palace suppose he would have cuffs the butler out and said forget you get out the best way you can I got my own problems right now but he was consistent and they came in not on this Jessa said the King has needed you he washed up got a line got his fade just right say I'm going to see the king i prophesy to you this day somebody is going to see the kid your eyes have not seen your ears have not heard neither have entered into your heart where God is about to take you he's about to take you into another dimension you're going to see the key touch your neighbor and say I'm going to see the king I'm going to see the king I'm going to see the king I'm going to see the key I'm going to see the king I'm going to see the king I'm going to see the key I'm going to see the king I'm going to see the king I'm going to see the key I'm not dressing for where I was I'm dressing for where I'm going I'm going to see the guy who was an inmate in one chapter becomes the head of the Treasury for the nation of Egypt that's why I don't believe in killing yourself because when you're killing yourself you killing yourself you ain't mention you killing yourself over your past but what you killing is not your past it's already happened you're killing your future 24 hours can turn your entire life around you can be on your way down and God can turn me home I wish I had a witness somewhere I was ahead one the Holy Ghost with me I was I had a fly my parents [Applause] so so now it comes down to your party why does God have you here today what do you need to be more dedicated to in order to win you know most people have never thrown their whole weight at anything ever most people have never put in the work for their dreams the 10,000 hours no no they wanted on credit they won't read what they're supposed to read work the way they're supposed to work do what they're supposed to do and they will blame God for their own trifling lazy inconsistent behavior that they were like like God didn't come through when the truth is you didn't come through and God has been waiting on you God has been waiting on you and he says as soon as he will I will as soon as she does I will so here's a question what is this about what is he talking to you about and only you can answer that what dream do you have that you have not fully been dedicated to that you've not thrown your full self at it consistently because God said if you do it consistently he'll bring it down he'll bring it down what is the thing that this is about church has got to be about more than a Sunday ritual I don't need another ritual I don't need another thing to do I don't need another place to go I don't need to get in my car and go anywhere else just to say I was there what is this about I go to the things that are gonna make my life better I go to things that are gonna strengthen me in some way I know the things that are gonna help me to advance I go to things that are gonna fit my destiny what is this about for you and do you have the courage to rededicate yourself because God says if you will he will if you will if if you will sure if you will he will if you will he will there's something to the folks my age and older there's some reason God left you in this world stop giving yourself a pass and telling yourself here through the devil is alive if Naomi would have been through Ruth would have never found her purpose stop using your age and the pass to be trifling stop it stop it stop it [Applause] 70 ain't no nowhere but over here every other community respect say hey I'm just 70 you get over here child I'm 70 I guess I'm supposed to die and you die cause you think you supposed to that you all cuz you think you old you have a destiny sir you have something to do Big Mama you got something to do young man I don't care who you are if you are under the sound of my voice God is talking to you stand to your feet when I talk about my beginnings now they sound terrible but when I was going through them they really wasn't that bad cuz I didn't have nothing to compare it to I didn't know I was forward because I hadn't seen rich so Paul was normal I didn't know what spaghetti sauce was I didn't even know that government cheese was government cheese I just knew that it never melted [Applause] I knew you can put the oven on 450 and it was staying there and smile at you I [Applause] bet you I still got some of that cheese in me somewhere at cheese [Music] I'm not even sure that was cheese I might have been concrete if I didn't minister to seven people with conviction I would have never gotten to you if I didn't go out on the road and preach and bring my honorarium in to pay my staff I wouldn't have 300 people on staff now if I had not fought for my brain if I had not stayed up all night for it cook for it and slay for it dug ditches had bled for it it would have never happened God doesn't give away stuff to you without you being dedicated to your destiny people that think it's easy are stupid you think you're gonna run up here and I'm gonna lay hands on you and you won't get what I sweated for what I labored for what I did died and bled for what I went to jail for was in the pit for survived alive for grows up again undaunted for came out of hell and high water for nobody's dreams happen without fight fight I mean fight I mean fight girl with all with all you got and you're wrong to quit when you haven't fought with all you guys look at Jesus he was so committed to his dream that he went to the cross forward shed his blood for it hung his head and died for more the two men was buried for it but early Sunday morning he rolls up to show I got what I was after good God Almighty join hands with somebody as I as we join hands today this is a do something message it's not enough to hear it if you don't do it if you accept the challenge join hands with somebody there's an area in your life that you're gonna have to throw your whole self at to get but if you throw your whole self at it it's going to come to pass you're gonna have to throw your energy your talent your gifts your resources your relationships your efforts are gonna have to be tireless to see that thing come to pass this will not come cheap but it will come it will come it will come squeeze that hand something is about to come into the life of that person that God wanted them to be here this Sunday morning [Music] next week when you come back I'm gonna build from this foundation I'm gonna tell you who you need around you I'm gonna tell you who you need around you God's gonna put a force field of people around you an intellectual fence around you people who are gifted enough to stand shoulder to shoulder and toe to toe around you you just give me the next four Sundays I'm gonna take you somewhere I will drop you so far off over into your destiny that hell is gonna break out in hives that demons have on triple that Satan is go get nervous when I get the dropping you over into your destiny The Devil's I will fight the same person he fought in 2019 you gonna be armed and dangerous for 2020 squeeze at hand that person is armed and dangerous father let the anointing of the Holy Ghost sweep through this road let it stir up gifts let it stir up talents let it stir up resources let it stir up focus and focus and focus and focus and focus and strengthen us to the point that we are dedicated to destiny I believe God that somebody in this room whose hands are joined and heart is open that I am feeding something yes I I am feeling something I am feeling something I am feeling something that you already spoke inside of them I am feeling something that you already put inside of it I am beating something that the enemy's been trying to kill and steal and destroy but I feed that destiny I feed that dream I've been that prophetic utterance over their life glory squeeze that hand the anointing that's moving all over this church the power of God is in this place you will never be the same again you will never be the same again you got stuff to do you got stuff to do the weather don't have to change the conditions don't have to change the circumstances don't have to change people don't have to understand you they don't have to like you their admission is not required you have to believe in what God put down inside of you out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water I pray that rivers would rise up with your belly would rise up in your spirit would rise up in you rivers of creativity rivers of thought rivers of ideas huh rivers of revelation rivers of contact rivers of influence they're coming up out of your belly right now out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water rivers of living water [Music] [Applause] Oh God Oh Oh God oh oh oh god oh god I see a chair somebody's getting ready to sit in a seat in a place of authority a door is being open a door is being open a way is being made this is for you this is your hour this is your time this is your season get ready Joseph getting ready Joseph getting ready Joseph get ready Joseph get ready Joseph Joseph Joseph Joseph Joseph get ready Joseph Joseph I call you out Joseph Joseph Joseph you also get ready Joseph nothing in your past looks like your pizza get ready Joseph get ready Joseph get ready get ready [Applause]

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Length: 94min 58sec (5698 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 05 2020