Personal Growth Series - Fall21 - Week 1

and after those three months they began to pay several payments in one and they paid off by july 15 of 2021. so they've already paid the whole thing off yes oh wow did y'all hear that completely paid off in six eight months with over twenty thousand dollar profit that's amazing so the exciting piece is though she's not done you went on to the next round right tell us about that so again someone approached my dad wanting to know if he knew anyone that would be interested in buying five acres in romance so my dad asked him how much he was asking for it and he said twelve thousand dollars so my dad was like absolutely i know lauren would love to do it so that weekend we went and looked at the property and told him we wanted to buy it it's all wooded right now and we're working on getting it cleared at least in the front to like appeal to somebody and we closed on it july 2nd that's so exciting that's awesome well sister middleton thank you so much here we have a now 17 year old student she deserves it we thank you for that and we're excited and look forward to hearing round two so as soon as you close on the next one we've got you scheduled for another round here so thank you sister milton we appreciate you coming and sharing that all right and before we go any further i do want to give a big shout out to brother jeff hoffer and holy ghost radio they faithfully stream this live every week around the globe we have people who literally listen in around the world every week they're listening in right now so brother hoffer we thank you we appreciate you we love you and we can't wait to see you back here soon so now as you saw in the mail out we had a young lady who has sold her first track we also had someone else who after brother adam's classes last semester decided it was about time to just get through his thick skull to get out there and do it himself and that is myself i had never sold land i've interviewed and been a part of these classes for years actually i was sitting right next to brother pomeroy in those classes with brother haney 20 plus years ago or however long that was so i've been a part this whole time but just never have done it well after the classes last time i thought you know what these pieces are starting to come together the fog's finally lifting i think i get it and decided to go out there and and try to find something so i'd spend about two weeks just searching and i was looking for anything from five acres to 20 to i'd always heard the sweet spot was about 40 just for a beginner and was looking and trying to figure out what to do and get and stumbled on a listing sister liz will you put that first photo up stumbled on a listing out in a little town called willisville arkansas i had never even heard of willisville definitely never been there but i do want to thank the good folks of fac pastor jeremy moats this is right in their backyard and they have kept this gym just covered up for me this whole time but when i i saw that i went and checked it out my wife and i walked around it and they were asking it was actually 107 acres they were asking 145 000 for it and uh go on to the next slide sister liz just to give you an idea of the layout of this you're looking at uh of 107 acres you've got about 40 acres wooded on the e on the west side you've got about 60 acres on the right side and what appealed to me about this track and i don't have a clue what i'm doing don't think i'm standing up here just because i'm holding the mic i i'm just an expert in this my knees were knocking i didn't have any idea but there were some key things i had learned from brother adams and brother eccles and brother haney and every land guy here that's been so kind and generous with their time there were some big things it had electricity running down this county road you'll see county road eight running straight down the middle of that had electricity down the road um and so they're asking i think it was 14.50 an acre i i low-balled of course and they ended up settling on a hundred and thirty thousand dollars to purchase 107 acres so that came out to be right out twelve hundred dollars an acre now on this there are a couple things that i wasn't too certain about that i didn't know you can't see it from here but you will in just a moment there's a big gas valve right here in the dead center of the property that's big it's loud makes a lot of noise and i was scared that would be a huge deterrent but after speaking to a bunch of our folks and talking to them they they said man a lot of times people don't worry about that just try it so i did and then uh i put an offer for 130 got it accepted in the middle of financing it i was trying to figure out what we were going to do with the water because the uh the real estate agent told me that there's no water in that area you'd have to dig a well now a well the price of that can vary drastically depending on how deep they have to go how what what material they have to bust through it can be pretty expensive so i was trying to factor that in but at 1200 an acre i kind of had a little bit of leeway there so it wouldn't be terrible but the lord worked a miracle for me i was next door on the north side talking to the next door neighbor about just the area and asking them questions and i noticed they had a fire hydrant in their front yard and i didn't think you could have a fire hydrant on a well so i started asking around and come to find out i gotta hold the mayor of willisville i didn't know a town of 150 people would have a mayor but they do uh and i told him right where i was and asked him about that and he said son that road has a six inch water pipe going straight down the road his exact words were you'll have more water than you'll ever need and it's a 600 hook up right there so the lord they're blessed as you see here the east side was clear-cut probably two or three years ago and i was a little nervous that would be ugly when we got there but going to the next slide as you can see on this next photo it is over the last couple of years it's grown up it's green it's grass looked pretty so i wasn't terribly worried about that the one thing that did concern me you saw the gas valve the other thing was because it had been clear-cut there were piles and i wanted to show you all kind of the ugly stuff there's the pretty side there's the ugly side you got to kind of take it all together go on to the next photo oh this is a video that you can see half of but on that video you'll see just some of this right here oh there we go this just showed you it had just rained and i've learned that if you ever want to go see land go right after it rains but you can see there's just every so often there are these giant piles of timber that had been cut and burned and just kind of remnants going to the next photo and you can see a little better so this is what i saw every so often and that just made me nervous kind of made me uneasy but i was i was told by some of our wiser and more experienced folks that people who buy land they don't mind this they enjoy the project the getting out there and cleaning and kind of rolling up their sleeves and putting that sweat equity into it so we went ahead and moved forward and going to the next one next picture this shows you that gas valve this thing was big and it's ugly and when you're right there it's actually kind of loud but once again we just said it for the price you know the money is made on the buy in a deal and so we said let's just go ahead and move forward that was going to touch on two tracks all right so go on to the next picture so this shows you how we split it up uh i have 107 acres the smallest track was tracked one at 3.3 acres my biggest was tracked 11 at almost 14 acres so it's anywhere from three to fourteen going all the way up and i was nervous on the 14 acre that that'd be the last to sell but it ended up being uh people bought eight nine ten and eleven together as forty acres so my total cost on this was a hundred and thirty thousand dollars for the loan uh i had five thousand dollars fifty five hundred dollars in the survey so total cost on the whole project was 155 000 and just y'all know i'm not going to be hypocritical here i can't tell them to put their finances and you know put their details out and may not do the same so i'm just trying to be transparent and so when we went to selling this we listed it on facebook marketplace i had signs out and i had facebook marketplace and i was asking 12 it's a thousand dollars down and a 200 documentation fee and these are some of the details that you're going to learn throughout this course and this is what's so exciting what you're hearing today is just kind of a taste test a little snippet of what's to come you're going to get all the details this is just kind of some high level overview but we're asking roughly 1200 down and you know i'm 135 thousand dollars out here my knees are knocking i don't have a clue what i'm doing i've got land two hours away and i'm burning up the roads back and forth weekly trying to get this thing sold so i finally listed it two days after peak i think it was two days after peak so the end of july and the lord blessed me to sell my first track the next week so that just it was actually track seven down there on the bottom so that helped me feel a little bit better but uh go on to the next picture talking about the listing on facebook i actually took a photo from google earth took a screenshot and then just my apple photos app drew out the the lot i put the track number or the track details and just listed that with a bunch of details on the land go on to the next photo it'll show you another example and this is it and this is what people saw and we had folks coming in from texarkana which was an hour away i had several several people from texas come in we had a couple from las vegas nevada who flew in uh and bought bought five tracks and so just seeing this right here let's see here where are we now going to the next photo i want you to kind of see what what it looks like and these are details that you're going to get so this is just kind of like i said some high level overview all i did was put a sign out on the survey stick that the surveyor left on this side you see my phone number it's got a track to the left and a track to the right and it's got details right there on the other side of the corner you'll have the exact same track showing it shows the folks the width and because it surveyed if they get out there and walk around they would they would see the full the full track so that's the that's the signs from the road now this is what's exciting and this is where i really want you guys to to zoom in and see this go on to the next picture i hope you can i hope it makes sense okay perfect this is my i'm a spreadsheet guy so this is my homegrown spreadsheet this shows you a couple of the tracks and so i sold my first one the first week of august it was track seven but i want you to get an idea and let's let's crunch some numbers here this one particular one is track three track three the acreage on this is six point seven acres my cost on six point seven acres twelve hundred dollars is a hair over eight thousand dollars okay the i had this listed at 35 000 and i didn't know where to list these things so i just went high knowing you can always go down and thankfully i did so i had this listed asking price at thirty five thousand dollars well i got a call from someone who said hey we like this we want it we've already been out there we're ready to buy they said what's the price of the loan if we finance this thing out over the course of 20 years and i told them i think it was going to be 305 a month they said well what's what would the payment be if we put 10 thousand dollars down and i said well let me find out you know i was quickly crunching the numbers at that point payment came out to be 179.95 we i did a 20-year note at 9 interest so they put 10 000 down on this one tract remember my cost on this was 8 000 so we got 10 000 down and for the next 20 years they're saying they're going to pay almost 180 a month so on an 8 000 cost we're going to bring in over 53 000 on this one tract now the great news is i sold my first one within a week the lord blessed us we sold our very last track saturday so i'm completely sold out on this so so god is good um but what's exciting is we saw the formula we've seen it for years we've seen men and ladies go out here doing this for many years now uh i finally decided to take the dive and die and you see some of the snippets here of how the lord has blessed blessed me with it but the most exciting piece is for the next 12 weeks we're going to be deep diving exactly what to do and how to do this so now we've got somebody coming up who has done it many times over he's no stranger brother tim adams when you come on up we want to welcome brother adams and have him come now as we as we've just talked about it's never fun showing this stuff but you see the point and you really start to get it when you see those numbers like that and we're always thankful brother adams is so willing and able to come so brother adams we thank you for that but um we've got you to come talk about for those who are not familiar with this at all you don't have a clue what we're talking about you may be listening in on holy ghost radio and you're trying to figure out what on earth those arkansans are talking about this is what we call the land of business so brother adams can you take a moment and just kind of tell us what we mean when we talk about the land business thank you thank you brother herndon and i'm glad for tonight and i want to say before we get in any further lauren middleton is an inspiration incredible [Applause] and um and then brother matt hearing him these last few minutes i want to be like matt herndon when i grow up and uh what a success story and god has certainly been good and i know there's so many other success stories here tonight [Music] so the land business has been a passion of mine and it's been really kind of a hobby uh used to do it full-time now i do it just just uh uh just as a stress reliever and uh piddle with it a little bit but the land business is to me the best business in the world that a person could get involved in and it's as simple as this i have people all over they ask me about it they hear just little tidbits and they expect to hear about large subdivisions with quarter acre lots building million dollar homes and they they have this big mental image in their mind but when you start telling them that we buy land out in the country out in the boondocks down gravel roads where people put house trailers put bulls up to the front yard and and uh you know it's hard for some people to wrap their brain around it but it it really is true there is an incredible opportunity spray splitting it down into smaller acreage oftentimes three four five sometimes ten acre tracks sometimes even smaller than three acres and uh and then selling it but the money is not made in just selling it if i'm selling a 25 000 piece of property that i paid 10 000 for [Music] i would much rather sell it owner finance than someone bring you cash money because you will make a whole lot more money than just 25 000 when you calculate the interest and so the money is made in the owner financing and there are there's tax benefits associated with it um and then above beyond that if you're charging eight or nine or ten percent interest some of you that's done in this room you charge a lot more and ten percent interest and uh and so over a twenty or 30 year period it creates an incredible residual income that can help get you out of the rat race of life and i think all of us know what the rat race means that's the eight to five daily grind clocking in clocking out scrambling the payload water bill and light bill and scrambling to save up enough money to go on a meager vacation every year getting out of the rat race means you're building up enough residual income to where i can pay all your monthly expenses and you can really ask a lot [Music] [Music] so this business we call it the land business has been in our church for over 45 years uh can you kind of take us back let's go back in the history of stephen got started and how it was introduced to fpc yeah and i i don't know that i'm the best one for this uh some such as brother echols different ones could probably answer this i actually sister and she's actually going to be up here soon so we'll get the full history from her as well she uh uh reading the book and just hearing stories and i don't know all my facts correct here but i think holmes first introduced idea to brother dean martin and just in passing and talking i said i think something like this would work and so brother martin uh grabbed a whole idea um if i'm not mistaken he was in the upholstery business and uh with that but he went and bought his first farm he subdivided it marked it up a little and he sold it he owner financed it and then he did another one and then another one and the story has been told many times that he uh martin was not [Music] create his own competition that's willing to do that but knew that if within the kingdom of god it's not really competition because we're not in competition with one another we're all on the same team we all have the same purpose we all have the same mission and brother martin felt like there was room for everybody to be in the land business in the little rock metro area and um and so anyway he was he was uh i've heard the stories how he would grab young men they'd walk up the aisle at church and he'd grab them and he'd and most of the time they didn't have two nickels to rub together and they were like a deer caught in headlights and uh but you know what he would do he would buy land and then he would discount the land and sell it to them own or finance it to them and they in return go only finance it to everyone else and he would tell them hey if it doesn't work out then just give the land back and i'll resell it and so he created a zero risk scenario and uh by doing it this way he and then just with his everyday counsel for many people um he introduced this concept to a lot of different men here in this local church and from that an entire business model was birthed into the culture of this church and uh of course i'm not the pastor here but i would venture to say it changed the entire dna of the church and it began to cultivate a culture of entrepreneurship here in the church and and so so much of that can be accredited uh back to brother dean martin i was talking to brother herman about this earlier today that there's throughout history there's been a lot of um a lot of men and women who were pioneers uh for various reasons you know some people are known they become famous for uh revision some people become famous for what they actually do their actions and others are known for their ideas and these are people that we would call trailblazers they're pioneers and they walk into uncharted territory and uh they take the world by storm and they change the world that they live in we think about people like christopher columbus because he came to america and we think about daniel boone blazing that trail through kentucky and with him just uh just a short time after doing that over 200 000 people followed in after him we think about in modern times people steve jobs and change the computing world and we think about jeff bezos the way he changed the way that we shop and the story can go on and on um but i believe that a more of a modern day although he's went on to be with the lord now one of our modern day heroes and pioneers in the apostolic movement is brother dean martin and brother dean martin has done and then continued to do through his legacy what many other people have not been able to do and most when really for people to really see the impact of great people and really realize the weight of that it doesn't usually happen until after they're gone and history begins to tell the story and brother dean martin i was talking about holmes today on the phone and and bishop told me that dean martin's love and passion for kingdom of god um inspired so many people and and he wasn't focused on other churches he wasn't focused on on any other church except first pentecostal church but i'm going to tell you history is telling the story that by extension of the dean martin through the very capable and enormous leadership of bishop holmes has impacted uh churches all across america and churches all over the world and he has certainly left a legacy and uh i i didn't have the uh privilege of meeting brother martin i've talked to sister fadine and uh i've talked to many of the other men through the years and i've just heard the stories and i know that it has impacted my life personally and uh very very much and then there's of course there's others uh brother danny luther for the norman clifton brother eccles although echols told me something one time that um i still don't have the nerve to do but he told me one time sometimes he makes an offer and if they accept his first offer he wants to back out because that means he didn't offer low enough and uh there's there's so much wisdom to be gleaned from uh these men and women who have have went before us and and accomplished all of this so brother adams we've got people listening in uh like we said on holy ghost radio we've got our own live stream with people tapping in there from around the nation and people hear this and they hear what's going on in north little rock and they may say that's them that's arkansas that's that's the boondocks those people are walking around with no shoes and hillbillies uh that's not me and kentucky wisconsin wyoming that's not me in my local community but you're actually a great example because you've sold land in multiple states correct and he's for those listening he's shaking his head uh so he's actually sold in multiple states and is really learning the process of how to do this without having your boots on the ground every day and every week and meeting every customer face to face so let's pull back for a second and ask the question why this land business why why this church why the pentecostal church why now why is this the time to take advantage well for me as a pastor i can answer that question and i think every one of us in this building are mature enough saints of god that we can will easily agree with this for one reason the kingdom of god the kingdom of god if we will focus on the kingdom of god everything that we would want in life will come to fruition um god will give us the desires of our heart bible says it will seek first the kingdom and his righteousness and uh the kingdom of god is number where i'm coming one and i'm not just talking about a meager offering okay uh and this is not a play for many but i'm going to tell you the principle here is when we commit to god that my business is not my business but my this business is god's business and i'm just an employee of god's business and that means that if god blesses my business he's blessing himself because i'm just a funnel through which the blessings of god can flow i think about genesis chapter 12 verse number two that god tells abraham that i'm going to bless you so we see god doing it and then he tells abraham you will be a blessing so i'm going to bless you so that you can be a blessing and and then i don't think it's coincidence if you flip the page and just one chapter later to the exact verse genesis 13 and 2 you see that abraham the bible says he's very rich he's very rich and so the first thing that we've got to embrace is that god does not want me to be poor god does not want me to struggle and i know how it is i've been preaching long enough to know when you say stuff like that behind the paper it gets tight it gets tight because in reality and i've been there we have all struggled but i'm going to tell you something that and there's seasons of life full of that i understand it takes time to build on all this and it takes time to develop and it takes time it just it takes you've got to get some years under your belt but i'm telling you if we will do the will of god and we will work hard and we'll keep the kingdom of god number one i don't care if it's in the real estate business or i don't care if it's in the uh whatever it may be god will bless that he will bless that and so it is his will for for god to bless us and if we'll keep his kingdom first in return as we begin to give it to god amen it creates this ebb and flow with god amen if you can ever have that ebb and flow with the lord and he's on your side he's now flooded against you and when you don't give to the kingdom he starts fighting against you in fact the bible uses strong language and now i catch up to three but he'll push you with a curse i don't want to talk about that part i like to talk about what he says i will bless you and i will open up the windows of heaven and i will pour out blessings upon you that you don't even have room enough to receive but let me tell you something that scripture tells us very much that we can either have god for us or we can have god against us and if we can just get god for us and we can begin to create this ebb and flow god if you give it to me i'm gonna give back to you if you give it to me i'm going to give back to you and when we begin to create this cycle of blessings it opens up a whole new world and uh i i know a man just recently but committed to god that god if you bless my business i'm gonna give six figures to the church he didn't have probably two pennies to rub together when he made that commitment but can i tell you within a couple months he gave six figures to the church from zero dollars to six figures and i don't believe i don't believe for one moment that is coincidence but there's something about it when we really commit to god when god will open that up and there's a whole lot i could say and i don't want to chase a bunch of rabbit trails here tonight but i believe it very much so that the land business the real estate business has been a vehicle and it will continue to be an incredible vehicle uh for the propagation of the gospel i remember the church right now in a foreign country that is about to be pioneered in large part because of the income and the sacrificial giving from the land business i know of churches that have been built here in america and paid for from the finances of people in the land business and when we can look around and see not just the real estate business but having this culture of entrepreneurship and then the culture of sacrificial giving that god has blessed uh each of you with what can be done when we all get on the same page and walk in the window have revival let's see the kingdom of god grow let's make our focus the church let's make our focus and guess what in the middle of all that you're going to have bigger houses and nicer cars and nicer clothes and god's foreign thank you for opening our eyes you're so good at articulating and teaching and sharing we've actually got him he has agreed to come back several more sessions this semester he did drive all the way from north mississippi hey we've actually got some folks from the calhoun's church came from texarkana glad to have you here so we've got we've got a lot going on and next week our session will actually be diving into what to look for when we say land what do we mean by that what are we looking for what are some checklists that's going to be next week our goal for this class by the end of this semester when december rolls around is that somebody takes this land business off of your bucket list and puts it on your to-do list and from there you you move and you grow and you take that dive just like you've seen these men and you'll hear many more of them so god bless you we've got church tomorrow night and at eight o'clock we've got pastor coming to teach the theology one uh one class oh y'all have a good night

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Published: Mon Sep 13 2021