Destiny from the Perspective of Focus

coming up on the potter's touch what are you going to do with greatness you're asking for more and you haven't mastered less the bible said if you are faithful over a few things then i will make you ruler over many and you're trying to be ruler over many and you haven't been faithful over few you're so busy reaching out to your future that you are neglecting what you have been given right now greetings in the name of jesus christ our king i'm so glad to have the opportunity to share the word of the lord with you and particularly this word destiny from the perspective of focus you can't pursue real destiny until you focus i'm seeing so many people they're doing this and they're doing that and they're doing a little bit of this and a little bit and they end up with a whole lot of nothing don't be distracted master the task before you you need to focus on the things that you feel are central to your calling what is in front of you right now give us this day our daily bread i'm going into this word i pray that it goes into your heart because this destiny thing is important it is not how long you live it is how well you live if you live a long time and you never do anything with the time you live what good is it it's about destiny take a look at this you're going to be blessed i want to go to jeremiah jeremiah says and i love this scripture if thou has run with the footmen and they have worried thee then how canst thou contend with the horses jeremiah 12 5 if thou has run with the footmen you run it with other guys and they wore you out then why would you jump up and get yourself in a horse race i won't break it down so you get it if you are tired from running with short-legged humans sign up in a horse race because you don't have the strength to play on that level when you say to god i'm sick of this i can't handle this you're saying i can't handle promotion because if the footmen wore you out i don't care how much you admire horses ain't no need in you signing up to get into a horse race until you master the footman race you don't get into the horse race and here's the problem we got people who want promotion without process oh my god i feel like running all over this church they want promotion without process because the reason they want promotion is because they have no self-esteem so they need crowd esteem to feel good about themselves and they think that if they get promoted high enough then people will like them and then maybe they'll like themselves you got it backwards you gotta lock yourself first are you following what i'm saying and then you're going to be excellent at what you're going to do and then you'll find greatness when you have maximized smallness if you're weary with smallness and you're tired all the time and you can't focus what are you going to do with greatness you're asking for more and you haven't mastered less the bible said if you are faithful over a few things then i will make you ruler over many and you're trying to be ruler over many and you haven't been faithful over few you're so barely reaching out to your future that you are neglecting what you have been given right now oh god oh god oh god i just felt somebody's toes up under my foot right now you are so busy trying to progress that you are neglecting where you are that's not how you progress you master where you are and then you get promoted to where you're going you don't neglect where you are trying to reach out to where you're going because if you're sloppy yesterday you're going to be sloppy today and you're going to be sloppy forever more if you learn how to do great things in a small place you're going to do great things in a larger place and you're going to be great over here why come y'all not running all over the church right now dancing falling out and hitting your head the reason you're not getting the promotion is because you won't make the practice you cannot play the super bowl if you don't make the practice you cannot get the prize for winning the olympics if you don't make the practice if you don't see god's glory in rehearsal you won't see god's glory in recital now the recital is that wonderful big sexy amazing thing where everybody claps when you perform and rehearsal is that private boring painful thing where you struggle to get it together and there's nobody there to clap at all can you play without clapping this is the problem to all of you that are building and believing and really have a purpose and you really feel the pull of destiny you need to be patient with the process and not enthrall with the promise you want the accruments of success and that's what's killing you you compromise the rehearsal time and bought the tuxedo for the recital now you look like something that you're not somebody say wrong focus could it be possible that your life is stagnated because you have an attention deficit you didn't give the attention to it that it takes to win it that doesn't mean that you aren't called to it it means that you are starving your destiny of the attention that it needs for you to progress jesus was fully committed he picked people who were committed everybody jesus called the ministry was working he didn't pick nobody who was laid off needed a job he interrupted people who were working at something and said if you follow me i'm going to take you to the next dimension how many are ready go to the next dimension you see the next dimension isn't foreign from this dimension it's an escalation of a process that was already in motion peter you've been casting your nets out here and catching fish you have been teaching other fishermen how to catch fish i'm getting ready to make you fishers of men the results will be different the effort will be different but the process is still the same you're still going to be teaching other people you're still going to be throwing out your net you're still going to be bringing in the drought but instead of catching fish you're going to catch souls your future is in some way kin to your past oh y'all aren't going to talk to me today everything you are going to be you already are in another form you are the acorn of an oak tree acorn doesn't look anything like an oak tree it doesn't remotely look like it would ever have branches and leaves and be productive it's just a nut acorn is a nut but everything that an oak tree is is in the acorn even though it hadn't shaped out yet so everything that the acorn will ever be is already in that nut and everything that you will ever be is already in you right now and the best people to be around are people who see it in you even though you don't look like a tree yet i'm looking for somebody who sees a tree in my nut all of that was in me all the time while you were stepping over me and stepping around me and stepping past me all that you see coming out of me now was in me when you said i look like a nut somebody haul a destiny destiny will bring the tree out of you destiny will bring the tree out of your nut what's in your nut listen at this it's not just that people step over you when you're in that acorn stage sometimes you step over you because you're so busy trying to compete with the trees that you haven't gone through the process of the acorn give it some time give it some water give it some sun give it some focus and you'll reap a harvest and you'll go through a process all of a sudden you got look at that all of that's coming up out of the nut it's not what it's going to be but it's not what it used to be until you can clap for the seedling you will never see the tree until you can appreciate the process you will never get to the prophet some of you have a life you have a business you have a company you have a family you have an identity that is in seedling form you're not the nut you used to be but you're not the tree you're gonna be but until you learn how to appreciate where you are in the process you won't get the power to evolve to your ultimate destiny you're so busy starving the sapling trying to get to the tree that you cancel out the potential of being a tree because you don't feed where you are you're in love with tomorrow but you're neglecting today and when god sees you neglecting today he will not give you tomorrow until you are faithful over the few you cannot be ruler over the many so you need to take your eye off of the tree and water what you got now oh god water what you got right now because if you give attention to the responsibilities that you have been given you will be promoted to the next level still to come on the potter's touch it's in you it's in you it's in you it's in you go ahead and rehearse go ahead and play your scales go ahead and work on your level go ahead and master where you are and after a while without you even trying to do it where you started will turn into where you're going that's what destiny is pulling you into if you understand what i'm teaching give god 30 seconds of a recital praise are you carrying weights and crosses that had nothing to do with you are you being victimized by you remove the obstacles in your path with destiny steps somebody's about to take flight clear the runway start the engine buckle your seat belts because god is teaching me how to flow into my destiny for your gift of any size you will receive bishop's timely message destiny flocks together on cd from the series destiny steps and when your gift is 65 or more you'll receive bishop's six message series destiny steps on dvd go ahead and master where you are and after a while without you even trying to do it where you started will turn into where you're going that's what destiny is pulling you into however for your gift of 110 or more we'll also include our helpful be still clipboard and notepad it's time to be the you god meant you to be your destiny is already in you what that thing house so what started as an acorn went to a sapling went to an oak tree and then once it reaches the oak tree it has to figure out how do i fit in the forest now that i'm standing up how do i fit in the forest with other people who have gone through the same process and evolved you can't sit with somebody who's invested 30 years in and be respected as the equal when you got three so don't try to bombard the conversation because even though they smile politely and not they think you're stupid because your mouth is telling me that it is talking about something it is professing something that it is not possessing there are some things only experience can teach you and until you pay your dues don't run with horses when you're tired from walking with men am i helping anybody i want to go a little deeper now i want to talk about how what inspires us and what we're attracted to we we have this this aspiration if it were amusing to be a concert pianist to be masterful to be amazing and to be a maestro as it were to because we went to the recital and we heard this amazing person do a phenomenal job of playing music and and they mastered the keyboard with eloquence and and depth and integrity and they were so awesome at it that we we saw them and we were inspired and we wanted to be like them because there is nothing like a great instrument in the hand of a great artist a great instrument in the hand of a great artist produces great music it does matter who's playing it it miners who's swinging the golf course clubs it matters who's running the corporation and we are attracted to people who are masterful at what they do in the center stage we have a piano a baby grand piano glistening shining and bright but it cannot play itself it is an opportunity if the right person doesn't touch it it will never reach its potential the piano has existed so long that it will only give itself fully over to somebody who has invested enough time and effort in it and they know how to get the most out of the same keyboard 88 keys on the keyboard but it's the fingers that pluck it that control what it can produce so you go out and you buy you a piano and in your mind you think i'm gonna work on this and in a couple of months i'm gonna do that too but when you get your piano and you get everything in place and you sit down at it and you get ready to play you said i quit that doesn't sound like what i had in mind nobody clapped when i played it they don't like me you mean you really expected to get the reaction of the maestro at a recital when your life is in a rehearsal stage see you're trying to get a reaction that you haven't earned yet and if you're not careful you will do this for a while and say that doesn't work for me and now you got the clarinet and you're trying to blow it and then if you don't get a quick reaction from that you put that down and say that's not giving it to me and now you got a drum and you're beating on the drum and you can't master that look at how many things you started and stopped underestimating how much rehearsal you had to do and not recognizing that let me come up here not recognizing potential versus product this is what the bible meant when he said despise not the day of small beginnings because if you are faithful to that after a while you'll get this if you stop playing scales you'll miss the opportunity to discover the sapling the growth play me something else just just play me i'm i'm i'm evolving from where i started see they're both playing the same instrument and they're both playing the same thing but they're playing it on different levels touch somebody and tell them you're next am i talking to somebody are you hearing god talking to you are you understanding that paul says i have learned whatever state i'm in play me something i've learned whatever state i'm in there with to be content because if i can survive where i am right now i know that this is in me it does not yet appear what we shall be but if you keep on working on what you are what you shall be is going to manifest in your life touch three people and tell them it's in you it's in you it's in you it's in you it's in you it's in you it's in you go ahead and rehearse go ahead and play your scales go ahead and work on your level go ahead and master where you are and after a while without you even trying to do it where you started will turn into where you're going that's what destiny is pulling you into if you understand what i'm teaching give god 30 seconds of a recital praise from the rehearsal to the recital once you have mastered it whether the recital is business marriage kingdom building book writing script writing accounting firms real estate development wife husband family whatever your recital is once you have maximized it you get to sit with the masters and then you begin to grapple with this how do i take what i have developed and make it fit into the orchestra of god's divine purpose because even if you are a maestro but you can't fit with other people and you can't work with anybody and you can't get along with anybody you'll never be in the orchestra because you can't figure out how you fit now jamar's task is to fit in with the orchestra your task is to take what you have developed and fit in with others without being jealous without being intimidated without being insecure you can't shine a true master only shines when the light is on him he has the grace and confidence in what he does to allow other people to shine and figure out how do i fit in this 21st century with the fast changing world how do i fit in with other people who put in just as much to be good at what they do whether you are at the rehearsal stage the recital stage or the orchestration stage somewhere in your life you are in one of those three stages and you will only finish when you focus on what god has given you i've got to stop there but this is so powerful it's so provocative i've written a book about it it's not just a sermon this whole thing of destiny jesus completed his assignment in 33 years it is not how long you live it is how well you live and whether you have done the thing you were put here to do until until you've done that i don't care what you built what you bought what you drive whose name is on your shoes on your hat none of that matters if you didn't do what your name was put in the earth to do and to do it in his name where he gets the glory you are only effective when you are authentic stay focused you will only finish when you master what god has given you i'm excited i'm delighted i'm fired up things are going to be good hey before i close why don't you come on down to dallas hang out with me a few days at mega fest have some fun have some fire have some food have some faith building it's all going on at mega fast i'm looking for you gotta make gotta make a way if you make a move gotta make a way i see you there i want to make sure that when you leave here that you leave here on a whole nother level you don't have to live in the dark feeling like you never know what to do god will lead you and guide you and direct you he's not some addendum he's not just i'm jesus do you know how strong his name is i just need you to reach up in the heavenly and grab big i need you to release it over your life you want to just reach back and dig in and see what god did in your life sin it'll give you a clue about where you're going now every day you wake up and you're adding to the kingdom you're subtracting from hell and that's why the devil can't stand you i know that there's a force on the planet much higher than the facts and it's called the truth of the word of god the anointing is coming on your life to change your season anoint me running past where you are trying to snatch where you're going will make you a failure every time every step every step that you take has been ordered by the lord god does not order elevators with god you must take the steps the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 12 2015