"Reclaiming My Time" - DeVon Franklin

[Music] awesome pleasure and privilege to be at the one house now the Potter's House at the one The Potter's House had one la amen getting a title right Potter's House in one la amen hallelujah hallelujah god bless PT and First Lady Sarah who are the pastors of this great great ministry and as God continues to expand their territory now when when God asked me through PT to speak today I always go before him and say God what is it that you want me to talk about where are your people and what do they need I never assumed to know what your need is before I speak I go before God and say what is the need what do you want me to talk about so that whatever you caused me to say would be entirely relevant to their lives and so when God delivered to me the word for today I said no God that's not it that's not it no I said that ain't it mmm anybody hear that who can hear that what is it [Music] today God told me to talk about time time time time and many of us know the sound of this this is the alarm that we set every morning and if we're really being honest the first time it rings we do not answer come on come on eleven o'clock don't play with me am i right am i right there are two options on how to deal with an alarm when it goes off you can either stop it or you can snooze it when you stop it it means you're getting ready to get up and you acknowledge that now is the time to maximize your time for the day but some of us hit the snooze button because we need a little bit more time to get ready to maximize the time well god bless your heart might I submit for your consideration that there was something you were called to do in the earth and God keeps sending an alarm in your spirit and you can't rest until you do it let me tell you something today God called you here because it's time to stop hitting the snooze on whatever he called you to do today is the day he wants you to answer the alarm but but as I was talking to God and saying God what is it about time he used a viral message that went viral because of the truth to help me understand what he wanted us to talk about today I want to show you this clip [Music] is there some reason why I did not get a response to the letter that I said May 23rd maybe they don't want to take my time I also have appreciated the opportunity reclaiming my time of all times I was gonna answer that straight to mr. chairman I thought when you read the rules you acknowledge that I shouldn't be interrupted and that I would have reclaiming my time what he failed to tell you was when you're on my time I can reclaim it I say he left that out so I'm reclaiming my time please will you respond to the question of why I did not get a response me and my colleagues to the may 23rd letter I want you to go like this I want you to just reach up and say I'm reclaiming my time today I'm reclaiming my time go ahead and pull your time back pull your time back see what was happening that was a House Financial Services Committee meeting right where we're magazine representative magazine waters has sent a letter asking about a response to Trump's finances in Russia and there you had the Treasury Secretary when being asked a direct question wanting to eat up the time in pleasantries by design was deflecting the time so there would not be time left to give an adequate and accurate answer and representative waters seeing what was happening she went ahead and resorted to the rules and said I'm reclaiming my time that means the time that you are trying to waste you cannot waste because I'm taking it from you and I'm taking it back to where it belongs I am talking to some body right now you know what I can do this go ahead and say hey man can some of you already caught the message you can go ahead and go home you amen CC chief she understood the rules that the time was in her control money to talk to somebody right now your time is in your control you don't believe me look at the seasons chapter 5 verse 15 and 16 Paul says this be very careful then how you live not as unwise but as wise making the most of every opportunity and there are some translations that say making the most of your time because the days are evil so let me submit for your consideration that when we were born we both were given two things talent and time talent and time talent and time turn to your neighbor on your right and say you got some talent turn to neighbor on the left but say do you have the time oh I want to talk to somebody right now because see one of these two things is a limited resource the other is an unlimited resource your talent is unlimited I need you to know this that what you have within you what God put within you is unlimited all right that the people you think see here's the thing some of you think that people are stolen things from you and kept opportunities from you let me tell you something that God has more than what they tried to take from you because there's more talent in you than they even realized they think they stole one idea but you got a million more they think they took what was from you but God said what I put in you can create again so don't worry about not having enough talent you got that but the limited resource is the time mmm I wish I could tell you you had more time than you do this is why God wanted me to come here today and and hopefully inspire and motivate you to reclaim your time reclaim that which is yours to begin with at the end of your life at the end of my life God is going to ask me what did you do with the time that I gave you representative waters said I want to be a good steward over my time because I realize my time is valuable I need an answer to my question so I'm not going to let somebody does the detour me distract me from getting what I know I'm supposed to get with my time so instead of giving it to you I'm taking it back and when I take it back I preserve the essence for what it was created Matthew chapter 25 the next verse I want to talk to you from Matthew chapter 25 verse 14 says this again it will be like a man going on a journey this is a response to the disciples asking Jesus what will it be like when you come what will be like when you return and Jesus uses a parable to answer the question again it will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted his property to them to one he gave five talents of money to another two talents and to another one talent each according to their ability then he went on his journey interesting interesting so we were dropped off in this earth given talent and time but no instruction mm-hmm I want to talk to somebody right now just because you didn't get the literal instruction doesn't mean you aren't accountable for your time and your talent oh I talked to so many people that want to know well what am I supposed to do with my time and how do I maximize my talent I can tell you how deeply you are into your talent based upon how you tell me how you spend your time mmm there was a great preacher Oh watch come on eleven o'clock I got to get to this message a man a man a man a man I want to stay focused hallelujah watch this there was a great preacher that said time is the currency of the earth time is the currency of the earth and if we take that idea to be true it means every day we have as much wealth as anyone else why because we have the same amount of time hmm so what is the difference between the person you aspire to be like and URI right now my TV is not that they have more talent but maybe they are better at managing their time in the Bible there are two types of time there is Chronos and there is Kairos now I don't mean to get you know a deep on you right I just I want to but I want you to understand the difference of what we're talking about Chronos is the time you tell on your watch it's like minutes it's hours it stays you can actually tell me what time it is it's 1157 Kairos is an appointed time basically called a due season where you were created to optimize your position in the earth during a Kairos time many of you are asking when is your breakthrough coming might I submit to your consideration that before the foundation of the earth already written in the script of your life was the time when you are gonna have the maximum impact in the earth but in order to have your time it goes back to how you manage your time in order to get the Kairos you must manage the Chronos oh I'm taking y'all to Bible School for a minute it's cool it's cool I'm gonna come sit next you watch this watch this so often can't even get through my message because there's something I know I have not done and God in His grace and His mercy keeps sending an alarm in our spirit saying my son and my daughter I need you to be obedient I need you to get it right in this season I need you to stop procrastinating in this season and so the alarm keeps going off and some of us because we're not ready we say I'll answer that I'll answer it tomorrow do you realize that procrastination it's like playing Russian roulette with your destiny you think you have more time than you do so you go ahead and delay what's supposed to be done today to a time that may never materialize and then we wonder why we're not happy because we're not productive in doing what he called us to do I don't know who I'm talking to right now but God said it is time to reclaim your time we all have the same amount of time in the day now how much time do we have in this life I don't know I don't know I don't know how much time you have left I don't know how much time I got left but guess what I don't worry about what I don't know I worry about what I do know he woke me up this morning he started me on this way and if he woke me up that means he financed my gift for today so I'd better get busy turns here never say you better get busy you better get busy you better get busy time is in my opinion time is more valuable than money why because if I lose money I can get it back amen somebody anybody lost some money before anybody had some money taken from you before yeah [Applause] but even though money has gotten taken from you how many were able to earn some money back it's much harder to earn time bang there was a time when I had somebody working for me and they stole fifteen thousand dollars from me yeah you heard it fifteen thousand dollars and you know truth be told I didn't even get up that's I didn't get that upset I let him go when I kept moving on do you know why because my response time and if I allowed myself to wallow in bitterness anger frustration resentment then I would have given them more valuable which was time in addition to the money they stole I said it's already bad enough you got my money but I ain't gonna give you my time so go ahead and god bless you but let me tell you something what you stole God is gonna return to me not just a hundred two hundred three hundred foot do you realize God has brought me deals that have more than replaced the fifteen thousand dollars let me tell you something let them take your money but don't let somebody take your time you got to reclaim your time time is more valuable than money you heard that old adage time equals money no no no Tigers were viable the money because time is harder to create and once we've lost time it's hard to make up for lost time you get what I'm saying so so I want us to come to an understanding of the value of time every hour we've been given in a day is valuable filled with wealth filled with blessings filled with resources so if we understand that time is valuable right everyone agree time is valuable by show of hands who believes that if we can acknowledge that it's so valuable why is it so hard to manage our time why why what's so interesting about the text is the master gave three servants talent according to their ability and then he left with no instruction and did not tell them when was the time he was going to return he didn't tell them the Chronos so they had something and they had to figure out did he just give us this just to squander it and hold on to it no because we know our master we know God he said that that he sent Jesus so that we might have life and have it more abundantly so if I'm supposed to have an abundant life that Minds that must means faith without works is dead that means faith with works equals life that means I'm supposed to do something with what I've got but in order to maximize my talent I've got to manage my time one of the reasons why I feel like we don't a handle or manage our time right is because of procrastination we calculate that we have more time than we do oh boy I'm gonna come sit right next to you right now yes yes eleven o'clock I'm sitting right next to you right now okay see see what happens is is you know we say in January I'm getting back in the gym New Year's resolution we go and buy the 24-hour Fitness membership Planet Fitness membership right or we go get in a SoulCycle class right we buy a couple classes who am I talking to some of y'all get got class pass some of y'all do the matrix like me all right you go ahead and sign up and I'm ready but then all of the sudden we're in August and your membership ain't seeing you since you signed up for who am I talking to and here's but here's a problem here's a problem here's a problem we want to know why our talent isn't at a higher level if if LeBron James or Steph Curry said I want to have an NBA Finals level talent but did not put an NBA Finals level practice there were it would not show up on the court when it was ready they'd have to practice in the offseason like it's the real season you want to get your talent at a level where you've arrived but if you don't practice at a level in which you have a ride your talent may never manifest at the level of your time management might consider remount I submit for your consideration that you got to take your talent and say god how am i managing my time why am i procrastinating what you want me to do today for a time in the future that may never manifest procrastination robs us of our time and I say us because I'm right there with you do you realize one of the things that takes the most of our time that manifests procrastination you know this is Carl it's called a phone how much time do we spend procrastinating on the phone we have become and I talked about this in Bible study earlier this week we have become a generation of scrollers we want to know why our talent isn't where God wants it to be it's because we spend so much time in unproductive activities which are called procrastination I wake up and I scroll anybody there come on now I'm on the way to the bathroom and I scroll I'm in the bathroom and I scroll who am I talking to right now some of you were upstairs who's in the bathroom and you just checking Twitter like somebody that's gonna deliver a tweet to you that you needed to know yours let me check in snapchat hey at one church father's house right come on how often do we scroll we're in the car it's not the stoplight and we scroll and god bless your heart some of you are driving and you scroll would you please not text and drive please look out for our well-being if you concern for your well-being who am I talking to right now it's not that we don't have enough time but we allow distractions to detour us we allow distractions to eat up our time we go to bed and we scroll come on but let me ask you something if I were to do a audit of the time management during the week that you would submit to me how much time is actually spent working on your talent harnessing the very thing you were created to do let me tell you something there were times when I literally would find myself distracted and detoured from my talent because I was watching too much TV oh man security may be young I just want to go ahead and call to uber right now because I'm about to get in somebody's business right now um here's the thing I'm a producer you know my daytime job as a producer I make movies I make television so I'm in the entertainment business but when you look up entertainment the definition of an entertainment is an escape an escape from reality so people leave where they are into the world of the characters and as a result they feel better about themselves living in a fictitious world so they don't have to focus on the problems in their current reality if you want to understand where your time is going then you have to look at how much time you're devoting to entertainment I need to talk to somebody right now so much of our prep time okay I'm talking to him I just got to tell you what I want to tell you and what God is telling me to tell you and y'all gonna love me if you can't let me it's okay but I need you to know that entertainment might be stealing your preparation time it's annoying isn't it every time we get going every time you start to find a rhythm but it's not where you're supposed to be every time you start to feel good and saying you know I don't need to live in the fullness of my calling anyway it was too disappointing you know what I know when I came to LA for but it's been too hard so maybe that's never going to happen let me go in another direction god loves you so much he said no no no my daughter no my son you must do what I've called you to do and I'm going to keep annoying you and I'm gonna keep waking you up and I'm gonna keep agitating you until you do it why because I know what I put in you and I know what the world needs and I need you to be obedient to it right now but some of you keep hitting the snooze you're not ready yet you're not ready we lose our time in entertainment some of us know more about what's going on with cardi B don't play with me one Church some of us know what's going on with Stevie J and joseline and what's the difference with hazely and what's going on with Love & Hip Hop New York a Hollywood what's he ready to happen in Miami then we do know what's going on in our own lives man submit for your consideration you might need to tell stranger things you won't have to stay a strain to think because right now tonight I cannot watch I'm sorry you might need to tell the hand mates hell on Hulu you want to stay at Handmaid's Tale I gotta focus tonight on what God called me to do who am I talking to right now sometimes you got to turn on Spotify turn off Apple music I don't know who I'm talking to but we got a monitor entertainment because sometimes it's an escape away from doing what God called us to do he gave us each talent but it's the time required to manage the talent that the enemy is attacking this is why it's so hard to manage our time day-to-day because the enemy says listen I'm not gonna really be able to take your talent from you because that's what God gave you I can't really attack that but if I attack your time your talent may never manifest come on let's be honest how hard is it every day to manage our time seriously how many of you ever had this cycle before where you're like okay alright okay tonight I'm gonna go to bed early so I can get up early tomorrow so I can hit the gym I can do my prayers like it was Scripture and then I'll be ready for work who's been there and then all of a sudden that night the program got good to us we said you know what let me just finish or we binge-watch he said let just watch one more next thing you know we were little tired the alarm went off in the morning instead of getting up we hit snooze and by the time we got out we were rushing and everything we wanted to do during that day now went out the window because we were playing catch-up all day many of us have been playing catch-up all year the three servants were given talent but they didn't know how much time they had we all have been given the talent but we don't know how much time we have but I can tell you if you woke up this day that means you have enough time to do what he's called you to do what he's called me to do so procrastination has to be put on notice I am no longer going to allow procrastination to steal my time I'm reclaiming my time from procrastination today how many know right now there's some things you need to do that you've been procrastinating come on let me all got to raise two hands and both your feet because you've been procrastinating that much come on I am too I'm raising them too is a me versus you this is us together here's what I realize about time what else makes it hard to keep our time people the people we hang around the people that are in our phone let me tell you there are some people when I see them call you know where I say listen cuz I know here's what happened there's some people that call and I know that the moment I say hey what's up 45 minutes is gone am i right hours gone come on come on eleven o'clock who who am I talking to right now gone but here's what happens we start to feel guilty well if I just send them to voicemail I'll feel badly you know cuz they would have called me and then I didn't answer their call and then I gotta call him back later so instead of not wanting to feel bad and reclaiming our time we answer the call because we don't want to feel bad and here we are uh-huh oh yeah oh yeah no I'm listening yeah of course I'm girl come on do in an hour is gone and now they get off the phone energized and we got off the phone Draenor I'm claiming my time god bless voicemail amen you got to go to voicemail cuz I'm not ready to handle your call right now no I'm not I got things to do and your call unfortunately it's not one of them god bless you call somebody else waste their time but I am reclaiming my time right now you all should see my voicemail let me tell you something I got voicemails that have not been answered I say Lord when it's time for me to get back to them I'll get back to them if they really need me they know they're gonna have to find me they can find me on Twitter they can find me in my office but right now I gotta say focus right because if I spend too much time talking on the phone with conversations that never lead anywhere I will have squandered valuable time that I may never get back I'm talking to somebody right now you don't have to answer every phone call you don't have to answer every text message there are some text messages I get and I just say you know what if I respond to this right now it's gonna take me out of my Higher Self and put me right into my lower self so lord I ain't going to answer and then and then we get we get worried well what if they run into me and say did you get my text yeah I got I got it I'm still working on my response amen god bless you manage your time manage your time manage your time oh I'm gonna claim in my time because here's what I have found here's what I found we will spin in our returning text messages to do what we spend more time with these emojis come on you know HiFi pray you know sad face crying our tol FAL would you know lol all these things I'm sorry I'm tired I can't emoji you know I'm sorry I gotta focus on this gift because there's something in me that's got to come out there's some place I'm trying to be I gotta manage my time I will schedule some time to take you back but right now is not the time you got to reclaim your time right now the phone is one of the greatest distractions of our time one of the other reasons why we lose our time we don't plan well if we what does everybody say if we play if we fail to plan right then our plan will fail when it God has called you to do something when he's called me to do something we got to write it down some of you when you get out of here when you get home before you turn on the TV get out your phone or your laptop and write down your plan do an audit of your 24 hours where are the hours being misspent and that is the area to attack first what are the area in your life what's the area you want to go higher in it could be your gifting it could be on your job it could be in your calling whatever the area that you're saying God I want more in we have to begin to plan in order to harness the more right now I'm preaching to you this is one of my gifts so I have to take time to use the gift in order for it to manifest if I only focus on producing films and television and I ignore this gift of speaking I will not fulfill my purpose in the earth so I have to allocate time I have to plan time the same way I have to plan time when you plan time you're gonna see your your productivity increase speaking of productivity one of the reasons why we don't manage our time well is we confuse busyness with being productive there are two different things I can be busy but not productive busyness says hey yeah what'd you do today well yeah you know I woke up and I went to Target and you know and I dropped off the dry cleaning and you know I changed the cat litter and I took the dogs for a walk and and I returned this email and I returned that email and you know I got home and I made dinner and I watch this and okay well that's cool but did you get any further in your purpose today productivity equals progress there was a story that came out about Warren Buffett that said that he Warren Buffett one of the richest men in the world one of the greatest investors that is the financial market has ever known and it says that in his calendar he may only have one or two meetings a day this dog all day do you hear it it's annoying isn't it it's disruptive isn't it but it just might save your life because some of you keep hearing this some of you keep hearing this alarm in your spirit and you keep saying tomorrow I'll do it some of you keep hearing this alarm and your spirit that it's time to go further in your destiny time to go further in your calling time to go further in your Appling time to go further in your obedience and you keep saying not now but tomorrow but let me tell you that when you begin to say tomorrow instead of today then what are you going to feel today doing if today is not good enough to do what God has told us to do what are we gonna fill it with is there anything that we can fill today with when it doesn't align with God's obedience for our life think about it when we say okay today I'm supposed to be obedient and moving forward in my talent and my gifting and my calling but I hit the snooze until tomorrow what happens with today it becomes less productive it becomes less rewarding it becomes less peaceful because we know in our spirit we didn't maximize what we were given I'm talking to somebody right now and as a result we say tomorrow imma get up and do it and next thing you know tomorrow is next year and next thing you know next year is next five years and some of us there are things God told us to do 10 years ago we have not done yet God wants me to tell you it's time to reclaim the time when you go back to Warren Buffett he leaves time in his calendar why because he said that some of his best ideas come when he's not busy he will hear what stocks to invest in he will be able to come up with new ideas when there is time in his schedule to just think busyness sometimes gets us out of thinking there are times when I've been so busy and I look up not at the end of a day but at the end of a quarter and realize I have not moved further towards my goal at all because I've just been busy so what has caused me to do is say you know what I'm no longer gonna value busyness I'm gonna value productivity so what is productivity look like productivity means that I can't say yes to everything that comes my way god bless your heart you like to hurt some people's feelings it's okay all right we can just because it's a good thing that they want you to do doesn't mean it's a good thing that you should do or that I should do amen am i right how many people come the enemy will work through good people to bring us good things it doesn't mean that we're supposed to do them you get what I'm saying we have to stay focused on what God called us to do because sometimes a good thing doesn't make it a god thing and a good thing can just be a distraction on assignment I'm talking to somebody right now when we're productive we're focused do you know where you're going do you know what talent manifestation looks like in your life when you think about your life and maximizing your gift can you see what it looks like who can see it who has trouble seeing it we are one big support group for those that have trouble seeing it would you do me a favor would you please stand God sent you here today because he wants to clear your spiritual vision he wants me to let you know that what he put in you he didn't put it anybody else and you have spent time hours looking in the mirror and asking the person that looks back at you do I have what it takes and there have been times when you doubt it every day you get up and sometimes you doubt who you really are and what you really have and as a result of doubting it it becomes it becomes hard to see anything further than what's in front of your hand because every time you've tried to reach for more it feels like you've never grasped it God sent you here today because he wants you to know what he put in you is good it's good your talent is good it's good and he wants me to let you know stop beating yourself up because what happens is you beat yourself up so badly that it's hard for you to heal and embrace your gift because you're so wounded by how you talk to yourself how you put yourself down he wants me to let you know you're incredible do you realize how much talent you have no no no do you have more talent than your fingernail right then other people in your field have and they went to school doing what you're doing right now I need you to know that you have the talent you have the talent you have the talent you have the talent you have the talent put your hand right here right here on your chest say I've got the talent no no oh now I've got the talent I've got to tell him now that you have owned what is in you you got to stop letting the enemy tell you otherwise because the enemy wants to get in your head the enemy is trying to take your time he's good by getting your hair saying you ain't got it you're never gonna make it it's not gonna happen I need you to know if he gave you the talent he has every intent to see that talent maximized in this earth before his coming I need to tell you that so if you have the talent I want you to say I have the talent I've just got to work on my time because when I don't feel good about myself I don't handle my time well am i right last thing God wants me to tell you he said listen if you only knew how close you really are if you if you only knew if you only knew if you only know you do you think you're at a standstill you think you're at a stop God said no no you're closer you're this close you're this close you're this close he said this is why I need you to get your time in order because you're this close when you look back in the mirror and the person that looks back at you I want you to say I got this I got this high-five your neighbors say I got this I got this I got this you may have your seat I got this I got this I got this I got this you may be sitting down and you didn't stand high-five your neighbors say I got this I got this I got this I got it because here's what I know in order to reclaim your time there's a few things you have to do one you got to turn deadlines because here's what happens a deadline inherent in a deadline is death fear so many of us when we put a deadline on something it doesn't motivate us it creates more fear and anxiety so in order to reclaim your time you got to change the deadlines into life lines I'm talking to somebody right now so so I no longer put a deadline on something I put a lifeline because when I complete it in that time it gives me more life because it pushes me further into my destiny it pushes me further into my calling so we gotta flip deadlines into lifelines who am I talking to who's gonna do that no more deadlines lifelines I don't want nothing dead I'm not speaking nothing dead all right the other thing when it comes to reclaiming our time we have to look at who were giving our time to come on Lord keep me focused Lord keep me focused see some of us hmm we got to really go through our phones and we really got to evaluate who are we hanging with hmm okay I got to come closer to you who are you dating mm-hmm is who you're dating aligned with where he wants to take you he meaning God you meaning you and is the person you're dating taking you closer to God or further away from God are they helping you benefit in your time or are they distracting your time there were people Oh am I gonna see I'm gonna give you all some of our business before I got married when I was dating there were some women they were incredibly attractive but as God says man looks on the outward appearance but the Lord looks on the heart and just because a man or a woman is attractive on the outside it doesn't mean the quality of their time is attractive on the inside there are some people you like looking good with but they aren't good for you why because every time you hang with them you feel less than who you really are your self-esteem goes down you gotta look at who you're giving your time to you might need a check right now say you know what I love you you're great but I'm gonna claim in my time because you're not for me you might be a good thing but you're not a god thing hashtag I'm gonna claim in my time don't call me don't text me don't don't try to DM me no we're done why cuz I'm tired of giving you my time and I have nothing to show for it you've got to start looking at who are you giving your time to there are some friends you give your time to and you have nothing to show for it God keep me on point but see here's the thing some of us there are some friends that we hang out with we love to party with they love to party with us but every time we hang out with them the only thing we have to show for it is a hangover oh yes no see cuz here's the thing we want the full favor on our life but we don't want the full discipline and the process the discipline says I can't go out and hang with you like that why because I have something God has called me to do and I'm tired of the distractions I'm tired of the detours so in order to reclaim our time we have to look at who we're giving our time to just because they've been a friend for 10 years doesn't mean they have been anointed to be a friend for the next 10 years you got to catch that reclaim your time reclaim your time there are some family members God bless your heart I love you see this this doesn't stop until you answer this is God this is Jesus with you and with me he says I stand at the door and I knock some of you who have not accepted Jesus as your Savior the reason why you're here is because of this he's knocking on your spirit and you keep wondering can you be successful and commit your life to Him and he says absolutely that's why I created you because there is really no success without me he wants you to know the moment you commit your life you're gonna see your life go to a whole nother level I'm not telling you what I've read I'm telling you what I'm living amen how many more times you gonna have to hear to the alarm in your spirit before you answer and if you don't answer today when will you answer how many more times you have to be annoyed by this sound to say you know what today I'm gonna do what God called me to do I'm gonna manage my time I'm gonna stop procrastinating I'm gonna be obedient to everything he called me to do no matter and here's the thing we get so caught up on how's it gonna work out to serve the master gave the servant talents and then he left did he give instruction did he say when he was returning so what was the responsibility of those that receive the talent they had to go to work they had to start working in why are you so worried about how just start working it no I'm serious just start working it whatever you got just start working it and see and see here's the thing here's the thing here's the thing some of us have been in position where we had to take a job that we didn't like who am I talking to somebody's in the job right now amen somebody and and and part of the temptation when we're on a job we do not like is to give the excuse that I'm in a job that doesn't give me enough time to work on my talent I want you to flip it okay well I'm gonna show you how to flip it this job that I may not like is financing is underwriting is paying for the opportunity for me to use my gift what does that mean it means I may be in a job I don't like but I'm getting a paycheck that keeps gas in my tank that keeps a roof over my head so as long as I have shelter I have something to eat and I have a vehicle or a means of transportation could be uber it could be the bus right I actually now have the ingredients to begin to use my gift because he's too often we think I need a lot of money to use my gift no you don't you need time the time you have if you just sit down and say okay I want to be a writer alright well stop saying I want to be in sit down and write right god bless your heart right well I don't know how to write yes you do if you just sit down and start writing you're gonna see God begin to align some things pull some things out of you who am I talking to who am I talking to just start doing it start doing it let me tell you something God did not give me the ability to sing I wish he did I wish he did I mean I've listened man I tear up somebody's gospel song come on now but he didn't but God you bless your heart and he gave me the ability to sing and that was one of my gifts you know where I'm gonna start singing I'm singing right there in that shower I'm gonna get all them notes right and then once I get out the shower I'm say you know what let me join the pray scene let me start singing why because I do need to start using my gift see too often we worry about how her gifts gonna look and and what's it going to feel like and what are they gonna say who cares what they're gonna say just start using it start using it start using it use your time to build up your talent and put your talent to work the three servants didn't know how much time they had to work what they were given but they immediately went to work at least two of them did the text tells us that the one that had five immediately went to work with the five and as a result got five more the one with the two went to work with the two and a result got two more this is why I said earlier that your talent is an unlimited supply because the more you use it the bigger gets the more you use what you were created to do the bigger you become you know one of the people that I that is one of my close buddies and I and it's and I hang around him and sometimes when I hang around might get frustrated I'm be honest with you because it's like you ever hang around somebody that is operating so clearly in their gift that on one level they motivate you on other hand they frustrate you cuz you're like why can't I God why why anybody been there could be honest one of my good friends is Tyler Perry say what's up Tyler but sometimes you say what's up to Tyler and every time I hear round am I getting motivated and frustrated at the same time because I'm like wait a minute man how are you able to operate in the power of your talent so clearly that you received the wor the reward that was ordained for it and he says it's because I manage my time he said the way I shoot my films the way I shoot my my television shows I am very proficient about my time and anyone on my set that waste of my time will not be on my set very long because I know that my time is valuable so when I look at that I say okay God let me not worry about what I got but let me just take whatever you given me and put it to work because if I put it to work you're gonna give me a return when you look at Tyler Perry he's gotten a return I would argue he's probably earned more dollars per minute of anyone working in Hollywood why because he learned how to maximize his time in order to build up his talent I need to talk to somebody right now you don't need more talent you just got to manage your time I got to manage my time it's all about looking at the servants they manage their time 5 put the 5 to work got 5 more to put the 2 to work got 2 more but the 1 instead of putting it to work begin to get so afraid they buried it fear works against our time sometimes we we are so busy that we try to become busy to mask our fear that we're really afraid that we're never going to make it we're really afraid that it's never going to happen so as a result we get real busy so we've never had to think about that with the fact that we're afraid but God sent me here to tell you you don't have to be afraid any longer what he put in you is good he's already giving you a Kairos time in the earth where this whole thing is supposed to manifest you may not even realize that he's preparing your audience right now there are some people right now he's turning their heart towards you so that when your gift it's its maximum opportunity the people designed to receive it will be in a position to receive it I don't know who I'm talking to right now but you have to understand right now in your future God is preparing people to receive what he put in you this is why you have to go to work if you have buried your talent go ahead and pick that thing up dust it off because you still have enough time here's what I know about God's time he if he woke us up today that means he says I forgive you for any time you've squandered get up get back in line and go use what I gave you oh that can send somebody free right now butas had some guilt over time that you squandered stand up right now if you've had a little bit of guilt we've had some frustration you you felt badly right God wants me to tell you if he woke you up today he has redeemed your time he wants you to know that he woke you up today he sent you to this service to reclaim your time you know reclaim means take it back I'm taking my time back from my guilt I'm taking my time back from my frustration I'm taking my time back from my anxiety I'm taking my time back from my anger who am I talking to right now anybody taking that time back and let me tell you something when you take your time back and you and I put to work what we've been given look at what happens the master comes back and he says to the one with the five and the two because you were faithful over a few things understand that what he's given you he's giving it to you based upon your capacity now to handle it but understand once you put it to work there's more that's on the way there's more that's on the way the one with the five and the two got much more than ten and four you get what I'm saying because once the master saw what they did he said you've been faithful over a few things now I want you to be ruler over many things come and share your masters happiness when we are productive with the reward is peace and happiness anybody need more peace in your life right now anybody need more joy in your life right now it all starts with how we manage the 24 hours before we close as you are standing is there anybody here today that wants to accept Jesus as your personal Savior you've heard the alarm go off in your spirit and today you want to make the decision to go all the way again this whole parable is an analogy to answer the question what will it be like when Jesus returns Jesus is the master we are the servants he will be looking for a return on everything he gave us what better way to prepare ourselves for our future our eternal future than to commit to live with him today is there anybody here we don't have a lot of time in this service so if you know God has called you I don't want you to delay I want you to come down here right now if you know he's called you if you feel the Holy Spirit moving come on down come on down come on down god bless your heart god bless you god bless you god bless you my brother god bless you my brother oh god bless you my brother come on god bless you god bless you my sister god bless you come on shoot god bless you god bless you come on up come on up come on up come on up come on up we don't have a lot of time come on up come on up you know you got to commit your life to Jesus you know you got to align with the gift-giver the waymaker the miracle worker the light in the darkness come on come on you may be in the back you may be on the sides come on make room there's plenty of room at this altar you say today I got to make my commitment I'm telling you from the moment I accepted Jesus as my savior my gifting went up my time management improved because I align my key with the creator and walking in steps that he has already ordained creates more peace more power more prosperity I promise you is there anybody else before we close you know you got to be down here you may be on the sides you may be in the back you may be in the back but you know you got to accept him today today today today today come on down come on down we don't have a lot more time god bless you my sister god bless you my sister god bless you come on god bless you my sister god bless you my sister come on come on come on god bless you my brother come on come on god bless you my sister come on come on come on making the commitment today today god bless you come on god bless you whole families are coming come on one church come on watch her celebrate what God is doing god bless you my brothers god bless you god bless you as you come from the back come down more room make room make room plenty of room for you plenty of room god bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you God bless you god bless you god bless you [Music] is there anybody else is there anyone else that wants to reclaim the time with your savior today and you say you know what brother Devon I hear what you're saying the Holy Spirit spoke to me I need to accept Jesus today as my Savior I want you to come down come down is there anyone else ten-nine ray Church 8 [Music] seven is there another six five you feel the alarm going off in your spirit don't hit snooze right now god bless you my sister god bless you god bless you God bless you God bless you for you hear the alarm going on and you're worried can you make the change it's not by your power it's by his power working in you all things are created new when we commit our lives to him three god bless you my sister god bless you god bless you my sister god bless you too [Applause] god bless you my sister I don't want to have to close but I'm gonna have to if you know you need to be down here just run on down come on come on just run down here right now run down here right now god bless my brother run down here right now one before I get to zero I need you to be down here right now if you know God is calling you if you know he's calling you come on hey man hey man hey man god bless you my brothers god bless you my sisters god bless you my sister yes zero Hey reclaiming the time the enemy got no victory over you we are getting your time back brothers given your give back he's giving you your fight back yes amen hallelujah amen hallelujah amen if you have come up today I want you to hold each other's hand hold your neighbors hand hold your neighbors hand hold your neighbors hand hold your neighbors hand hold your neighbors hand I need you to know if you have come up do you realize the magnitude of what you have done you have fundamentally shifted victory in your life because before you came your past was getting in your head telling you that you were not worthy of your present or your future but you heard God speak to you and you said I am gonna push through my depression I'm gonna push through my anxiety I'm gonna push through my guilt and I'm gonna come down and make a decision I need you to know the decision you have made put you on a trajectory where you better watch out peace is coming your way joy is coming your way I need to talk to you right now and I need you to understand how amazing and how powerful you are this is why you've been fought so much it's because the enemy knows what he has in you what God put in you so the enemy has been on assignment to try to detour you and distract you but today you regain your focus and your father in heaven is proud dear Heavenly Father I pray right now in the mighty name of Jesus that you would be with every single soul that has come down here today I pray dear Lord as they align their lives with you and accept Jesus as their Savior that they would walk in steps of power steps and purpose of purpose and I'm praying right now that as they reclaim the time I'm praying their Lord you would give them every hour back that the enemy tried to take I pray right now that they would not worry about if there's enough time left if you have them here today there's enough time for them to do what you call them to do so I'm praying their God as you restore their spirit today that they would leave this place full whole and peaceful knowing that they are right where you need them to be and your heavenly Father I want to pray that you would just prepare them there are some blessings that are getting ready to knock them upside the head prepare them Lord to receive every good and perfect gift that you send down to all your children that love you prepare them Lord to receive the blessing that is on the way and the greatest blessing they're gone is to be ready when you send your son Jesus to come and my prayer is that everyone here that we would live in such a way that we will be ready so when Jesus shows up we know exactly where we're going if this is your prayer and you receive this prayer in the mighty holy matchless name of Jesus I want you to say Amen give your God a hand praise give them a hand praise [Music] you [Music]

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Published: Sun Aug 27 2017