I Finally See Why I'm Broke | Eric Thomas Sermon

hey man let's go to the word praise God um I this is for me this may not this I'm going to tell y'all what God told me amen prayerful you can get something from it amen so so the name of our message is uh I finally see why I'm broke praise God Amen Hallelujah praise God God showed me in the last couple weeks he was like you know there was a picture that we had up on the other day it was a picture with me Warren Buffett and probably about um 30 other white males I think it was one other black male Tony Knuckles was in the building and we probably had you know one or two guys that identified as something other than European I don't know what that was amen but uh we were all in the room and so I had a picture up it's a group of kids that came in from Texas and I was training and I was showing them the picture you know what was crazy was the day I was in that room you know I didn't really know why I was in the room right and I prayed for clarity and you know we serve a guy who's so good that he can't necessarily tell us everything he wants for us immediately it would overwhelm us praise God come on somebody amen if God just showed you how he was just gonna bless you you'd pass out it's just too much amen and so what God does is he does it in doses right so when I was with these gentlemen man you know God showed me a couple things but then later he showed me the reason why I had you in the room with billionaires because I want you to be one praise God Amen now it didn't make sense to me because I'm like okay God I ain't really into that like I'm from Detroit you know I'm saying like I'm from I'm from a normal working class like I don't necessarily need to be no billionaire and he was like oh no no no you do you do you do and I'm like God I'm trying to tell you like you know I'm saying I'm trying to tell you that I only need this much well I want to show y'all let's go to the next slide watch what God showed me in a thread and threads just came out watch what God showed me God says if God were to answer all your prayers would it change the world or just yours hey man come on somebody hey man and so God says no you don't need to be a billionaire for what you trying to do but the only thing you're looking at is for you and yours uh somebody missed what I said I wanna I wanna help somebody amen amen because some of you in the funk and some of you are not where you want to be in life and you don't even realize that the reason why you're not where you want to be is because you only thinking about you fruit that's why you're depressed right now that's why you like not where you supposed to be in life that's why you're not excited that's why there's a part of your life where you keep wondering like something's missing I I don't feel right things ain't going right what's missing is you only thinking about you and the part that's missing is when you start thinking about others I'm gonna say that one more time because I can tell some of y'all you still don't got it like you don't understand that the need the need to be on drugs or to need to be in relationships you ain't got no business in the need to be on alcohol like the need to be doing stuff you ain't got no business doing you're wondering like God why can't I feel this void because that boy wasn't meant to be filled for you by you if you would be looking out for others you wouldn't even be on that but you need to do this because the time that you smoking is the time you're supposed to be helping somebody but you wonder like what's going wrong what's going wrong is you are thinking about you and God does not have the capacity just for you to be thinking about you so much I'm gonna say one more time then if God were to answer all your prayers would it change the world or just yours hallelujah praise God amen amen so God showed me this and God said to me this week this is not for you this is me I just want to preach the sermon he gave to me to you hey man hallelujah amen and God said two things he said you lazy and you timid and I was like oh lazy I said like the lazy boy hit me first I'm like lazy I don't know if I know I'm timid but I ain't necessarily lazy say you lazy hey man so as you're listening in my sermon that God gave to me amen hopefully you can get something out of it hey man let's go to the next slide hope you can get some out of it so so there is a scripture in Proverbs 14 23 that said work brings profits praise God you know what's so crazy like this is why we can't be lazy and you know in a part of being lazy in a religion like is you start doing like this group stuff where everybody got to follow the same thing and so everybody following the same thing and people ain't thinking outside of the same so when I first joined the church and we was they was like I don't know how I read this and missed this because we were so religious and we were so focused on the the the dogma of the and the doctrine of the church that I wasn't even looking at scriptures practically like I was reading Proverbs more than I was reading any book and I'd never caught billionaire and now when I'm reading I see billionaire already in it God said you lazy watch this work brings profit look guys you can't make profits spiritual profit is money you can't make it more than what this is what the scripture is saying work brings profit so for those of you who got a job when you go to work they give you a certain amount of money God is saying that if you want to see profit you don't see profit through prayer okay I'm by myself now you don't you don't pray to get profit you work to get profits praise God I'm talking to somebody amen and I'm telling you God was like son when I say you lazy I'm not talking about industrial lazy I'm not talking about that you from the city you know how to work with your hands when I have a problem with is you lazy when it comes to your mind when you think about making money that's all you think about I need you to start billions not coming from this billions is coming from this why don't you have an app already if you're seeing how much money the world is making through an app why don't you have an app yet why because I'm lazy meaning what that I only like to do what I like to do praise God I say you lazy now you ain't lazy when it comes to what you do but you lazy when it comes to what I'm asking you to do like you like to do what you like to do but you don't want to do what I want you to do I mean I came to church yesterday it was boxes the boxes all in them you know the you know somebody put the boxes in the back praise God but my wife saw it and was like look if you can't close the and I'm like man that's already know what she owned like I'm already I feel her spirit I already know what she owes like you see those boxes I'm like you know I see those boxes I'm in the car with you you know I see the boxes right she's like well you know if the door if it ain't closed they can't pick up the trash and I was like I know but they come Thursday just being real it's Friday we can do it I said but I already knew like don't say that because it's going to be a long weekend amen and so I pray I prayed I said God with the same energy that I have for people I don't get tired when it comes to talking to people and praying with people and helping people but when it comes to manual labor I get a little tired whatever it is whatever Spirit it is that you get when I'm talking to people I need that Spirit right now because I'm gonna have to break I'm gonna take all the boxes out which is going to be tiring and then I gotta break all the boxes down and then I gotta put them in there right that's the problem for me anytime you have to do anytime I have to do something right that's a challenge for me I just like to throw stuff in I could tell by the way the amount of garbage in there that I was gonna have to properly Place each box so I could get it to come down oh somebody missed what I said God says when it comes to certain things son you're not lazy but when it comes to paperwork you lazy you don't like to do paperwork son that's why you all the IRS 500 Grand you could have gave that 500 Grand to another institution but because you lazy let me tell y'all something you can say what you want to say about Trump I I am so I'm like I I'm so clear now on if you pay 775 whatever it was 750 for taxes I'm like yup you ain't you weren't lazy that take work like do you understand to make the kind of money he make but to be able to do what he did to get his taxes that low that's work God said you hate doing paperwork son you love doing this kind of work and I'm not mad at you but these things you should have done these things you should not left undone I'm not saying it to you I'm saying it to me God said you lazy and if you would work in the way I would tell you to work you would bring what profits hey man you bring profits to the church son you bring prophets otherwise you'd bring profit but profit come from work it don't come from praying now there are things that come from praying but it's not profits you can't go to the gas station and pray over the gas tank Lord I pray right now for 30 gallons of gas that miraculously will come through this tank into my tank and it would somehow be on full when I leave Lord I pray these all all these things I ask in Jesus name amen let me tell you something if it don't work it don't have nothing to do with your spirit it don't have nothing to do with your faith you don't have lack of faith it just take money it take money to go into whatever apparatus they have it goes in and then you could get as much gas as you pay for come on I'm talking to somebody but watch what the Bible says but mere talk be EP brings five poverty why didn't they show me this when I was 17 18. why was we just focused on the second coming of Christ I'm not mad at the second coming of Christ but I joined the church when I was 16 years old that's almost 40 some years ago I'm still here I'm not there yet and guess what I've come to realize something about this this country the less money you have there's a different experience the more money you have it's a different experience I try to explain to people this don't this this don't you can't pray for the lights to come on talk to Tamisha there's a bill that comes with this I remember there was a time we were like I don't know Jamie give me the number but some kind of way our toilets was messed up and they was running we didn't even know they was running what was that bill like that water bill thousands I promise I called as the pastor we're in church we don't know what happened to the water we didn't know it was running in Jesus name there was like praise God then if you didn't know it was running and you are Christians then praise God is going to be seven Grand and you need to get somebody to go out there and fix it they never cut us a deal I don't even remember asking for a payment plan they just want to date seven thousand dollars to keep work brings profit mere talk brings poverty and God's like in some areas you're doing a lot of talking there's some areas you're working but there's some areas you're doing paperwork you're doing a lot of talking ideas like in front of the brain you're doing a lot of talk I'm telling y'all this text is so bad now I get aggravated when I hear grown people call me with ideas I just I I I I'm like hey please I'm about to hang up on you I cannot afford to hear another idea it ain't doing nothing for us now maybe in my 30s I could tolerate it for you once you hit 50 it's just the tolerance boy is gone I don't know what happened but with 50 is it's like I'm about to leave this earth I ain't got time to hear that let's go to the next one watch what the Bible says this thing is real y'all lazy people want much but get little it's in the Bible now we can talk about fasting later Pastor you've never put us on a fasting regimen don't worry about it I'm about to put you on a wealth or not praise God somebody said is this a make sure you don't put words in my mouth this is not a Prosperity message this is a wealth message it's not about Prosperity I don't know when the last time you've been to Whole Foods I went to Whole Foods it cost me 200 I had a bag and a half this ain't about Prosperity if you're gonna eat fruits nuts and Grains you're gonna pay for it this is a pro this is not Prosper This Is wealth gas I was in California it was seven dollars a gallon they didn't want to hear nothing about let's be very close I want to make this clear doing covert the gas was seven dollars and something cents in California a gallon they did not have a different pump for Christians oh you're a Christian oh it's four dollars in a gallon I ain't been to the grocery store yet where there's a Christian section oh you oh you want fruits nuts and Grains oh you're a Christian no we don't it's less for you it's the same you sit in or you say is all at too expensive listen to me very closely if we gonna tell our kids to stop eating fake food ain't nobody going to McDonald's because they want to is you can afford to pay for cheap whatever it is it ain't even food whatever it is cheap and that's not real meat it's not the french fries they already told us it was plastic but you telling people to get on the health message how when I'm only making so much money a month you telling kids don't don't eat Cheetos they I can afford Hot Cheetos and so here's what the Bible says lazy people want much but get little but to those who oh praise God he didn't just say work amen he said work hard will prosper this is a message of wealth when Didi got diagnosed with Ms I could not afford to have cheap insurance let me tell you when somebody counseled me and told me before she switched over to yours if she ever decides to quit her job you need to have insurance before because if you get it when she they not gonna give it to you so you got to pay them a year in advance before anything ever I was paying Blue Cross and Blue Shield before I even needed it for her and guess what happened when she quit her job and came over to mine Danny asked no questions they bought why we had the best of the best when because we had money we was able to get the best physician and I'm not God and I don't know nothing but I've got friends but I went to school with who had Ms and some of them have passed and did he still walking around it wealth page no fool yourself you go to court if you want to with an appointed court-appointed lawyer you can go with one if you want to and so you got a 20 chance of getting out pay for a good one and see what happened I'm just saying go in with Johnny Cochrane and see what happens you're not going to jail how somebody told me man you think Kobe going to jail absolutely not it's not impossible why he brings too much wealth to the Lakers it's not possible they got good lawyers I'm trying to tell you today that in heaven money means absolutely nothing but on Earth it means a whole lot and it's the people of God God has made a way for us to get it without having to compromise hmm God said yeah your speaking gonna bring a lot but it ain't gonna bring it all you lazy you just want to get on stage and talk I'm gonna need you to do some other stuff I've given you gifts not a gift you're gonna have to exercise all up and some of them are going to require paperwork and I know you don't like paperwork let's go to the next one this thing is so deep y'all it's right here in the Bible uh lazy people are soon poor quick not just for quick poor that's it right there soon poor I didn't make this stuff up it's in the word you acting like I recreated the word this is the word but I never saw this when I was in school they never showed me they just tell me Jesus Christ is coming and I believe he is but he may not come in my lifetime so I got a steward my lifetime like he ain't coming in my lifetime I didn't say he wasn't coming I have to assume that he's not coming in my lifetime and I gotta go get a GED and I got to get a 40 degree and I got to get a master's degree and I got to get a PhD I gotta occupy until he comes not sit here and wait let's go to the next one this thing is real this is real okay I want to make it practical so I want you to do your homework I want you to ask God for yourself how am I being lazy I'm not assuming that you are I'm just telling you what he told me and I want maybe just maybe somebody in the room there's an area where you are being lazy I want you to think about that I want you to write that down God where am I being lazy we doing a mastermind god let's open up Dora's first economically with the Mastermind and God said Son can you do me a favor I was like what's up he was like son I I know you got a sweet dope system but I'm gonna need you on these calls in the morning they're not you they don't have the energy that you have I'm gonna need you on these people pay for you to get them I need to get on I was like okay cool I'm gonna need you to get on the call son every day oh okay cool he's like you're being lazy no no no not that I didn't put a dope system together now I don't have some dope people but God was like no no no no they're not you I need you on in this season I need you on stop being lazy meaning what stop letting some of us our our brand of lazy is that we have other people doing stuff for us that is cool that they doing it but God wants us to be a part of it too because it's not being lazy all right stop being lazy with paperwork stop being lazy when it comes to the app stop being lazy son caller app developers you know who they are they know who you are they put something together put an app son if you had an app you got 2.2 million people following you on Instagram if you had 2.2 million people following you on an app and they was all paying a dollar that's 2.2 million a month times 12. stop being lazy I know you like to get on the microphone they just cut it on you fly in you go straight there you speak they give you a check you walk out I get it son that's a gift that I gave you but I also gave you a gift where you could call these developers son they've been watching your videos all day life they love you son they would help you develop it but you just don't hate you hate meeting son you lazy and I gave you a break on meetings for a couple years you just gonna milk it forever cut you a break on meeting so now you just never gonna meet again how are you being lazy as God what's your brand of lazy write that down for me what's your brand of lazy write that down right now like man guy I don't really like doing this man I'm telling y'all when I saw the boxes something moved over me and it wasn't the Holy Spirit I was discouraged just looking at them and God said what are you discouraged for son that's like your arms move your leg move like what are you doing son come on like I need you to get as excited about this as you are about that don't act like excitement done live inside of you it's just you just want to be excited about what you want to be excited about and if you're not excited about it you don't want to stop so here's the this is what God gave me right here Bible says in the the ant is commended for his industrious diligently working to gather food and prepare for future without anyone forcing it or supervising it amen you know the story in Proverbs I just want to make sure we I'm gonna go here before we go there the ant is commended in Proverbs consider the ant oh you Slugger Slugger I mean lazy amen I've seen it a million times I don't know why I didn't put it in context consider the hand right what would the end watch this so the industrial is probably got that I'm good on that diligently working and Gathering food I'm okay for that but preparing for the future without anyone forcing or supervising God said you lazy son that when somebody you see call you and tell you do something it's on if the professor tell you to do something you know man I'm so embarrassed for those of us who've gone to college do you understand like how many that's 120 hours 40 degree to uh I don't know what the mass is in probably 30 to 60. PhD is another 120 hours you got to go to class you got to do homework you got to turn it God said Son do you know when another man told you what to read and what to study and that he was going to give you a letter that you grinded but you've never done that for yourself it's the craziest thing somebody's like I'll give you a three five E 3.0 you can walk across the stage for 10 cents they set us up they know a lot of us want to be Affirmed so they make you pay millions to get a fine you just walk across the stage and they just say your name and you and your parents are there y'all go out to eat and everybody's like ah God was like son you got three degrees you let these people give you a schedule they told you what to study they told you when to study they told you what to bring into the class they gave you a rubric and told you what you need to do they gave you that for a grade and they gave you that to walk across the stage and you would never discipline yourself the way another man disciplined you I'm telling y'all I'm like Yo God I've been studying Spanish forever ain't learned he said wow cause good nobody forced you to do it you know by force if somebody if you were to pay somebody 50 Grand and it made you come to school Monday Wednesday Friday and they gave you a grade it made you stand up in front of people and do it you would have done it but for whatever reason when you study the ant you didn't get what I was trying to tell you at what point is it going to flip at what point does another human not have to force you or supervise you to make you do what you're supposed to be doing many of us in this room you you were killer but only when somebody tell you to do it you just can't get up on your own and go you know what I should probably be doing this somebody has to call you to do it now we putting the emphasis on God said consider the aunt that has no Commander no ruler watch this in contrast the sluggard or lazy person is warned about the dangers of excess sleep now I'm not into sleeping but watch this part in contrast it says the lazy person is warned about the dangers of excess sleep idle negligence or item idleness neglecting responsibilities the passage emphasizes that laziness can be led to poverty and scarcity look there are a lot of you in this room it's so crazy you're going to work every day and you don't know you're about to get fired like how do you not know you about to get fired how did you not know AI was going to replace you people call me all the time AI is the worst thing that ever happened I say yeah if you lazy it is hey I ain't about to take my spot you can't a I can't get on anybody get on stage you ain't about to smile and hug nobody like you you ain't about to I'm okay like you're not about to take my spot I'm okay but for some of us you mad you you mad but hey I like oh I could do that real quick I'm just gonna say this I had a young lady um coach a writing coach I'd never need her again and I love her but AI not just spot [Music] I want 12 chapters the 12 chapters I wanted to say so I'm saying if you in that business you have to find a way to do something that wasn't doing listen to me can I be honest I understand how we feel about AI somebody said it earlier this morning I get it I understand it but do you know AI was created because humans was being lazy you know how many people called off sick and a out there was like we need to create something that ain't gonna call up sick you know people call off sick in the morning just before your shift and they was like man we gotta you know how many people came to work and clocked out while they was there they clocked in you just wanted to check you ain't even do your work you're mad at AI but we created it with our laziness the supervisor couldn't count on us the company couldn't count on us they weren't making money so they wanted to create something that didn't get sick as much as we do I'm not even talking about real sick I'm talking about you ain't want to go to work sick that's sick watch this it can lead to poverty and scarcity highlighting the importance of being proactive hard-working and responsible the two that hit me proactive there's some stuff I did this year that God has blessed us economically and I'm able to do what I should have probably been doing for a long period of time but I I got to be honest and say it didn't even happen because I was being proactive it happened because we hadn't been doing what God had called me and out of a need out of necessity I picked my brain it was like God help me and then it came forth God said you could have been doing that but you just for whatever reason it's got to be fourth quarter uh two minutes left down by 12 and now you like let's go God was like where was this in the second quarter where was all of this in the first quarter why you gotta wait to the end I'm not talking to you I'm talking to myself God said Son we're in a world where economics is important and I have more money for you to get so that I can bless more people but you being lazy okay let's go here and then we go I was in the store and I just I'm a people person so I noticed this young lady was going through it whatever you know she had five dollars trying to do some stuff for her kids I was like man sit down have a meal listen to me very closely when I said sit down and have a meal I just remember a time in my life where I wasn't handling my business can I say this and I'm not saying this to y'all I'm just saying this to me I have no new gifts you know what I love about God and and what I love most about God is when I was born God already knew what I would just dumb stuff I would be on stuff not finishing school home like God knew all of that and he still gave me all these gifts here's what I mean by that we we serve a God that if he wanted to after you got baptized and you got serious then he could put all his gifts on you oh you miss what I just said we sir oh come on I'm just so excited maybe I'm by myself but we serve a God who couldn't hold on to all his good stuff for you until you got your life right and then once you got your life right he just started passing them out according to your responsibility level we serve a God that when I was born and I would I didn't even know God we wasn't even praying at the crib we wasn't necessarily going to church like that God still gave me all of this stuff and he never took it from me even though I wasn't praying and I wasn't going to church he gave it to me and let me start working on it and then as I got older boom and I start God's like my son I gave it to you you're gonna have to activate it though all these gifts that I have God gave them to me a long time ago and I'm so grateful that as I get older and more mature God Is Like Son use this one and use that one and use this one for me you did not get degrees for you you got them for me I'm doing certain things and so when we walk in I'm so grateful that I was at a point in my life where the character of God is growing because when I went to Waffle House the first time and nobody I told y'all it's a different speed in the south you grew up in the north and you go down south I'm not saying Hospitality ain't real Southern Hospitality is real but it's slow I walk in the restaurant I'm in there for about 15 and nobody sees me or say nothing to me I'm like ma'am she likes I see you hold on I was like well if you saw me before I said something to you why you never saw why did you say something to me and so I could tell she had a little attitude so I walked out but I knew I had to go back because Diddy said she wanted breakfast you know sometimes you get in your feelings but then you remember the principle did he was like I want breakfast I was like shoot you want breakfast at 10 59. ah Waffle House they got it 24 hours came back was like DD I can't I couldn't do it but if we're gonna eat we're just gonna have to go back and sit down we sat down as I saw the lady as we were leaving I'm so grateful that I'm finally in a in a halfway place where God wanted me to be where I was asked I didn't have to count the lady and her kids yeah I'm talking to myself right now I'm talking to myself right now I didn't have to count she got seven let me go get the menu okay it's like it's seven dollars a bit okay twenty dollars okay so they do okay they can't get them to drink I can pay for them to eat but they can't get a beverage I'm so grateful that I'm at a place where it's like it does not matter how many people there are how much money it is it doesn't matter I've finally done what God has asked me to do and we got it and then I was able to give her a name I said do me a favor like we gotta make it real the Good Samaritan is not a story in the Bible for us to go oh that's a beautiful story We ought to be in a position financially to do with the Good Samaritan did he said whatever he needs that just put it on my tab foreign okay let me say it like this way so y'all don't get confused that that's that it's not a Bible story it's real he said put it on my tab which means what he had enough money and they knew he had enough money to do it so did he say give him something to go make sure they got something to go listen to me very closely I gave her a name danita's name I said Anita whatever just take care of it for me but take care of it meaning don't take care of it and leave them in the state therein because that's not what God wants Saints when I went to Detroit seven Center Seventh Day Adventist Church Pastor Willis didn't leave me in the state that I was in the cantoners specifically said to me you cannot come stay with us to stay with us you only come to stay with us to go to school when school starts if you ain't in school you homeless again it wasn't a charity strike it was a developmental progression strike they're like you either go to Oakwood or you get out of here but you're not about to stay here and eat our food for the next year two three years like you're not about to be a dependent but you gonna go to school when I went to school and the rest is history they put me in a situation so Danita got her a home under the condition you here for a week you get a job by the second week not only does she have a place to stay with her kids they gave her food for a week but she's working at the Atlanta airport right now ain't nobody got to do nothing for because now she got to check on her own you're not hearing what I'm saying but but we can't activate it if we can't activate it next picture go I just want y'all to see the next picture we now have go to the one after this one because that one won't make sense the kids in the newspapers parents get to see it but but because of the economics that God has blessed us with now we got our own Foundation basketball team and they traveling all over the world y'all I'm just just save you a gift just for you I know you want to retire but you just don't get to decide that's what you want to do does that make sense let's go back to the world we're gonna get out of here let's go let's go back to the word amen praise God I just want you to ask the question God how am I being lazy how am I being lazy God I'm using this one Talent or this other Talent I'm using two I know I got more Lord show me how to use them God please watch this take the lesson from the ant you lazy bulge learn their ways and become wise though they have no Prince or governor I'm just being real some of us you not lazy if you waiting on like if somebody give you instructions you good but if they don't give you the instructions you lost the Bible specifically says the ant why am I saying the ant because the ant does not have to wait on anybody else to do with his fault it never said to Bumblebee it never said the lion Kingdom because they waiting he said the ant the ant is specifically in the Bible the ant is specifically being referred to in Proverbs the end why because the ant does not need another person to help it do what it's supposed to be doing the ant just wake up and go what am I supposed to be doing today I don't need no other Aunt to tell me oh come on somebody talk back to me I don't need another ant to tell me what I'm supposed to be doing I ain't got to sit here and call another ad hey ass what are we doing today is something inside the air that knows what it's supposed to be doing and it goes to do it I said to somebody the other day man will the church would be phenomenal if each one of us were to give would use our gift and we come back to the church with the gifts but the problem is many of us are coming to the church for for with needing something and it stress the church out when we should come with something and then go take it out to those that need it we gotta we got as many needy folks in the church as we do outside the church guess what I just said you miss what I said all all the church members should be economically why because it's because the word tells us how to do it he gave us gifts man I should have sent you all this picture I sent the picture I showed my wife this picture this morning I ain't never asked Diddy I ain't never done this before I showed Diddy a picture this morning I was like ah let's go I saw a picture of an event that I'm doing in Utah and it had garyvee it had in my let it had Dean gracioso it had but I'm talking about it had the top speakers in the world and I said Dede look what God did when you found me I was a high school dropout homeless sleeping in abandoned building I'm the number one motivational speaker in the world now I took the gift that God gave me and I did something with it some of you God gave you a gift you still waiting on God Disturbed up to get it's in the word Stir It Up some of us got the gift we like God when come on when you go sturge he said I put all the ingredients in I got the stir it too no I'm telling you I'm gonna say this again because I don't I don't I don't I don't do this a lot but this is necessary some time to do it I looked at the picture and I couldn't believe it myself and then I looked at where I was positioned I was like oh they got your boy up front they ain't got your boy small in the back why because they want some people to come because I'm on it I said God thank you for giving me the gift and then thank you for me finally realizing that it ain't gonna activate itself I gotta go to get the four year and I hate school I gotta get the Masters and I hate school I got to get the PHD and I hate school but I gotta activate the gift at all costs I can't lead a gift to God I'm talking I'm gonna say it slow I can't leave everything to God some stuff I got to do as a human all right all right we're gonna hurry up I'm sorry just give me a little bit more time take the take the Bible says take the lesson from the end you lazy bones just the Bible I didn't I'm not calling nobody back I'm just this is what the Bible says amen I don't believe God will cause us late I don't think God would have called me lazy this week or to offend me I think he called me lazy this week to stretch me God said you should be making way more money hey man listen to me very closely this property is worth 2.8 billion million this this property I keep saying that word I got you God yeah I got you it's just in me I'm sorry y'all I'm past Millions now I just billions is on my tongue I apologize this property is work we we we probably have over 400 million dollars of assets hmm we left a church and God said Son do this do this do that listen to me we ain't broke y'all and God spoke to me and said boy that money should have been remember that post I put up with the Latter-Day Saints they have over a hundred billion dollars in assets and I show it show how they put money into this and that and so we just did our first investment as a body and then trap called me was like e y'all need to do this I'm like got you trapped got you God says son take what I've given y'all and then take it to another level and then that money should be used you shouldn't be having a call on nobody but me foreign okay I'm gonna say it one more time praise God hallelujah amen though they have no Prince or Governor or ruler to make them work while we were preaching this in church why are we just doing the doctrine said 27 why we waiting on this this should have been 28 go to work don't be lazy every gift that God has given you activated not just for you for others it's okay that you can pay for your kids to go to school now it's time to pay for somebody else's it's okay for you to buy a house now I want to put you in a position to help other people and not buy them some so they could be reliant on you every month I love it CJ she told me a long time ago you can't fix money problems with money it takes a stream of income you gotta give somebody ten thousand a day you probably have to give it to them tomorrow too how you miss what I just said somebody asking you for money today the worst thing you do is just get money the best thing you can do is create a stream of income something that they can do where they can bring in money on their own regularly and how do I know we could do it because we could do all things through Christ to strengthen us watch what he says they labor hard all summer this is the end give me a couple minutes they labor hard all summer it didn't say all year and said all summer they're smart they're strategic God says you can do more with an app son look at how many people follow you you can do a more with an after than you can do on stage get off the stage I know you like the stage but that season is done you've gotten what you're supposed to get from That season now I need you to do the app I need you to do the app and I'm telling y'all I'm so hurt because I should have done the app when God told me to do the app why because we're in a season right now where they're on a strike and ain't nothing ain't no new content being produced right now and entertainment if I had my app and the content out now they'd be rushing to it why because there's nothing but reruns on TV it's a season God has opened up the windows of Heaven he's pouring out the window he opened up the window that Hollywood is on strike right now all of y'all is talking about all the bad stuff that's coming out of Hollywood guess what Hollywood ain't producing no more and soaring Christians I love it we dogging them out are they food feeding us garbage but we don't have no Garden I love it we talk about it are they feeding our kids garbage well we taking them to go get it we've got our own restaurants come on let somebody talk back to me today I'm not I'm not I'm gonna just be I'm be blamed God said you lazy if they got crazy food then why aren't y'all producing food if they got grocery stores why you dogging theirs out of you and hang your own cause you're not an ant the ant ain't tripping on with nobody else is doing it ain't getting up doing what the to do I just believe it's enough talent in this place I just believe it's enough good people in this place I just believe we ain't got to wait on other people to get what they labor hard all summer they gather food for the winter but you lazy ball I wonder who this is this God I know it's from the Bible who are we talking to but you Aaron Thomas lazy bone how long will you sleep not physically how long you gonna sleep on the internet how long you gonna let Instagram be your platform how long you gonna let Facebook be your platform you lazy because all you gotta do is put your content up on there and boom and watch 300 000 or 400 000. you sleep son when you gonna get your own well that must that's going to take a little bit more work than uploading and I must be honest I don't even know the last time I uploaded a video lazy no no I got threads we got over 200 000 people on threads God got on me the other day about it I saw somebody post my stuff on thread and God was like son you got 200 000 people on thread you don't even know what the you don't wouldn't even know how to get on through you don't even know where to find your own stuff oh you lazy I'm not telling you to do it but at least know it you that lazy that somebody created and you don't even know where to go like I wouldn't even know how to go to threads when will you wake up he said to me let's go to the last one oh yeah little little extra sleep a little Slumber a little folding of the hands to rest and boom then poverty pouts on you like a bandit suddenly quick soon I'm just saying like our bank accounts are direct reflection of how we've been working not praying your prayers is dope made like if it has something to do with your prayer you might be a billionaire but it doesn't you can't pray money into your God but God has given you gifts that you can work and not just the ones you want to work God says the non-prof do y'all know how much money goes back to the government every year in non-profit money Millions upon Millions if not billions why because people don't fill out the paperwork but you know what's crazy when it came to the PPP loan people peel out paperwork that ain't even supposed to be fulfilled lazy because they didn't find a hustle lazy it's listen to me that's what I'm trying to tell you it's I want you to understand what I'm trying to tell you the reason why people fill out the PPP is because somebody said it's money in the PPP it's more money and not profit than it is in the PPP but because we lazy we waiting for somebody to tell us where the hookup is it's more money and non-profit than it is in PPP in the in the non-profit is yours it belongs to you you ain't even got to get in trouble for it somebody looked that up for me real quick and go on your town how much money is going back every year to the government because we don't use it in a non-profit profit sector somebody looked that up for me where I finished God beating me down scarcity will attack you like an armed robber just screaming out when you get it for us we'll see how much money is going back every year because we lazy and we don't want to fill out the and we don't want to but we want to find the sources and everybody want to pounce on the same source we see one source of income we are PPP we're gonna go while Trump is like all right 7.75 for taxes I'm like what 75 what did he pay like 75 dollars or 70 750 something crazy I'm like what uh oh I'm sorry what's the number that go back 1.49 6 to 10 billion go back unclaimed every year and we PPP why because somebody told us that and we too lazy to do some research they it's six to ten Bill going back and non-profit this program you can I'm just saying let's stop being lazy all right here go to homework let's get out of here all right I finally see why I'm broke all right I see not God I've been lazy so number one let's make it practical ask God how am I being lazy mine's just paperwork if you don't supervise me I have a hard time when I just gotta come up with it on my own and I don't have two or three other people to uh you know to get energy off of right unsupervised right how you being lazy come on this is it I promise no more how are you being lazy how you being lazy number two good and what areas am I being lazy right non-profit sector I'm being lazy even in this even even in the space of having an app being lazy consultant and being lazy I know where I'm being lazy I ain't crazy I know where I'm being lazy number three God how do you want me to correct how you want me to correct it I want you to ask God that now or when you leave how do you want me to correct this five I need to correct this I'm being lazy how do you want me to correct this God told me I want you to spend a half hour a day son on looking what's available [Music] if the app I want you meeting with the app person I got myself my son moose we weekly meet Nikki's doing some stuff to show him the format God's like let's go son because as soon as you put the app out on be able to bless y'all I can't bless y'all without I can't ever you're sending all your traffic to because they were diligent enough to put a vehicle together and you just keep using a vehicle huh how do you want me to correct it father I want you I want you on these calls with your Mastermind I want you to call I want individual calls I want to make sure they're good I want you on can I be honest God's like bruh you can't you got some phenomenal people on what they pay for you to be on you got to be on too they doing they part you got to do your part lazy oh Lord I just whether I know they sweet they dope they got it he like they do but they ain't got your parts like you can't do they part you can't they can't do your part go do your part I'm like but if I did I'm work okay stop working out from six to six thirty six to seven stop working out work out early work out afterwards but I want to be in there who cares what you want to be who cares what you want to do this is what I need you to do how do you want me to correct you I want y'all to ask God how do you want me to correct it nah how do you want me to correct them or her or they or she how do you want me correct how do you want me to correct me father [Music] show those pictures again I want to show those pictures again super excited yup I want to show can we show those pics I see the one young lady right here yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm excited I'm excited I'm not excited about helping her I'm excited that she helping herself now I'm excited she got a job now she can wake up like she don't gotta call us and rely on us no more that's not the goal I'm not Wells Fargo I'm not a bank now she go and I'm telling you if you at the airport in Atlanta there's some room for growth and I look forward to seeing I now her babies get to see Mama go get dressed in her Delta outfit and go to work now they get to see oh this is what we need to be doing hey man and I don't know if y'all noticed the picture because it's kind of you can see a little bit more on here but I'm grateful for Danita more grateful for her sister that got the non-profit boy going and God look how clean the house look y'all real look how clean I want to come home this is like some DD stuff my basement don't look like this you know I said like my spot where did he let me have it don't even look like they were today because I had to clean it yesterday but my junk like they coming in something clean and beautiful and now she get to pay her own rent next month are you hearing what I'm saying let's go to the next one let's go to the next one we I'm out look at the pit look at the oh okay you can't Jamie is there a way because some kind of way is so big you can't see that this is on the front of a of a cover of her paper it says more men and recruit Spring Showcase standouts so this kid apparently because he got an opportunity with us he's going to these tournaments now these his kid is considered to be a standout right now his mama can say he only Daddy can say his church family his school he's on the front cover of this particular basketball come on y'all we got work to do we got work to do y'all and it doesn't start with prosperity because that's money it starts with wealth and wealth is the total package [Music] and so you're in the room right now you're watching right now and you're like yup God yep I'm I'm I am you've given me gifts and I'm using some of them but I'm not using all of them [Music] and it's time for me to use more of my gifts and more of my talent not just for me and mine but for you and yours if that's you when you're ready to make that commitment to either take your like just to be more at like you're standing right now God I want to be more ant-like I don't want to be real this person didn't do it so I'm not doing it they show up so I'm not showing up no this person did they part hey man we have BBS it was fire everybody did they Park and then there were parts that each one of us individually had to play amen praise God and because each individual played their part Hallelujah we were able to have a phenomenal event is that all right come on is that all right amen and you know what I'ma be honest I went to Camille afterwards it was like Camille I ain't trying to be funny I know you got a life and you got a schedule but I don't think Vacation Bible School should just be like why we gotta wait until the summer to do it all right we need to be doing this regularly like once a quarter like what are we doing that we can't invite people to I'm looking at all these parents here sending their kids to camps why we don't have a camp why are we sending everybody why we send our kids to camps why are we creating a camp lazy it's easy to send them and take them than it is to [Music] so you're making a commitment God I don't want to be lazy no more amen I don't want to be lazy anymore if I do me a favor can we move this right here I'm gonna ask a couple Giants you know you're a giant in Christ you know you have gifts you've been doing stuff you ain't got no business doing relationships drinking smoking I don't know what you own Idol you you just haven't been on what God would have you to be on but you know you are a leader for Christ I'm just going to ask you to come forward and just say God I'm done playing I'm done playing I'm done wasting time and as a leader You Can Count On Me from now on to be an aunt and get busy amen where are you come on where are you my leaders my leaders stop playing I'm ready God I know I know I could be doing more I know I could be doing more I'm a leader I could be doing more and I'm ready to be like the aunt I ain't waiting on no institution to call me and tell me to come come on can y'all scoot over there's more people coming I don't know what's happening on the right here hallelujah praise God you're a leader we're about to pray you're a leader it's like come on I gotta it's time for me to do more I'm gonna wake up every day and like to ask God praise God I ain't waiting on nobody God gave me the gifts so I'm gonna go back to the person that gave me the gifts and say what you want me to do today and then we're gonna make it happen amen amen we also gonna pray for us a pop-up shop praise God August 24th we're going to Sexton high school it's about to be big we bout to love on some folks and guess what some of those folks are gonna come back here because they're gonna go whoa God blessing y'all like that whoa I need to get some of them blessings and we're going to be ready for him praise God some of you standing right here are going to be waiting for them with your arms stretch wide I'm from Lansing I grew up in Lance I went to school in Lansing I want to be a blessed in the land since you ready oh I came to Lansing and got blessed coming to Lansing and now I want to be a blessing to last and so August 24th father we come now and just say thank you for your patience thank you for even sharing with me and with us that we lazy thank you thank you for leaving the word in Proverbs thank you for the story of the ant and we ready now Lord we ready we ready to be proactive we ready to prepare We Ready Lord there's a garden waiting on us to do there's a store waiting on us to build come on come on there's an industry waiting on us to create there are individuals waiting on us to help them to get to the next level they've been at one level for too long Lord and we are going to help them because we've been on we was on a level too long and we're going to show them how you changed us forgive us for our sins and our shortcomings Lord May the day be a phenomenal beginning May today be a day we can look back at and say man I remember I went up there and I told God I'm ready to take it to the next level I'm ready to just stop making money I'm ready to stop just making money to pay my bills I'm ready to start making purpose I'm ready to step in my calling I'm ready to do what you call me to do father I don't want to just make pay bills no more I don't want to just make ends meet no more I don't want to just be settled no more Lord I'm ready to do your will and do your work I'm not judging nobody else no more I'm not criticizing no more I'm about to start producing I'm not about to talk about what the grocery stores ain't doing what the food industry ain't doing I'm not doing that no more I'm about to create I see a gap I'm about to allow you to help me to fill that Gap so Lord we thank you at a place of change Lord there's so many churches Lord and you show favor on us thank you Father you blessed us Lord thank you Father and now we're ready to return the blessing Lord we're ready to deposit in our well done thou good and faithful servant accounts we wanna we wanna we wanna pour into that account Lord we're giving our a landlord his money we're giving a mortgage company they money now we want to start depositing into the Well done thy good and faithful servant account we want to wake up every day and go God we want to put some in your account we want to say thank you to you we want to give back to you we want to make sure today that you can look at us and say man you you okay okay you looking out for me you looking out for mine you looking out for you you looking out for thank you and so if you can't count on no other human be concerned about what's concerning to you Lord you can count on us forgive us for our sins and our shortcomings bless us father have mercy upon us and may others be blessed because of our existence every gift that we have we will no longer hold on to it we about to give it back in Jesus name amen amen amen praise God thank you so much for joining us this week for those who've expressed an interest in supporting our ministry please use our cash app dollar sign a place of change apoc for your donations and tithes if you prefer more traditional options please visit our website at 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Published: Sun Jul 16 2023