"The Hollywood Commandments" - DeVon Franklin

[Music] don't want you to do me a favor as we prepare for our speaker do me a favor and stand it is with great delight and great excitement and great expectation and great honor that I welcome my friend and my brother best-selling ofter mighty man of God my dude devon franklin come on somebody show some love [Applause] [Music] that's cool for me but like I say I didn't wake you up this morning I didn't start you on your way why don't you praise the one that woke you up no no the one that actually told your brain to tell your lungs to breathe the one that told your heart to pump blood why don't you give him brains why don't you give the God praise that when you were not looking out for you he was looking out for you who am I talking to right now anybody know that God anybody know the living King of Kings the Lord of lords anybody know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior please don't get quiet on me at the 9 a.m. please don't let your fatigue steal your praise oh come on now praise your God let him know how much you appreciate him let him know how much you thank him let him know how much you love him anybody in love with the Lord right now know anybody really love God right now don't you Mattie take your God praise your God did you just see the stitch it's all about the king of kings and the Lord of lords is all about the kingdom anybody about some kingdom business this morning anybody want to go higher in the Lord this morning if you came for entertainment there are exits behind you there are exits on the side if you pay for entertainment this is not the place the AMC opens at 11:00 a.m. but if you pay for God then you need to give your God some praise this morning I don't care about you being entertained I want to see your life change right now anybody need to change your life anybody need to change no who's desperate for change right now who needs something to shift in your life right now Who am I talking to who needs something to shift in your right now you've been going through it all week who am I talking to you've been going through it all week and it's a miracle you made it here today but I want you to know you have made it here because of His grace and His mercy it's because he loves you so much that he's allowed you and I to be here and Q often we get out of the fact that we are blessed no no I just want us to rest in this for a moment I'm gonna get right to the word but too often we're so frustrated with what we don't have we don't take time to appreciate what we do have which is life we are alive if you are alive if you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth then you have something to praise God for you may not be where you want to be you may not have what you want to have but thank God he blessed you in life today and I don't know about you but that is more than enough to give Him praise over thank you for waking me up thank you for allowing me to be here thank you for allowing me to see another day I I cannot I cannot allow us to come into the house of God and worship our frustration and and and worship our depression and worship our denial and worship what we want because what we don't realize is in this house there's transformation if you press in there's change if you press in but you gotta press through how you feel and get into the revelation of how blessed you are turn to your neighbors say you are blessed turn to your neighbors say no you really bless oh my goodness you may have your seat you may have your seat you may have your seat well this week God has told me you know really get into presenting the Hollywood Commandments now I know some of you you know you hear the word Hollywood commandment and you're like what Devon there's only 10 commandments what are the Hollywood Commandments well if you would just give me a minute I will walk you through it and you will understand what it is God has called us here to do and why he has given me this message called the Hollywood Commandments a spiritual guide to secular success I want to show you a clip before we get started yeah I don't know you know you'll probably be about as good as I was that's kind of the way it works you know and I was below average so you'll probably ultimately rank somewhere around there you know so really you'll excel at a lot of things just not this I don't want you out here shooting this ball around all day and night all right grrrrrr [Music] all right don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something not even me all right you got a dream you got to protect it people can't do something themselves they want to tell you you can do it you want something go get it period [Music] I had the honor the pleasure and privilege of working on the pursuit of happiness it was the first movie that I had a chance to work on as a studio executive at Columbia Pictures and what I love about this moment is here you have a father who was not good at something and because they had no experience with success in one area they were tempted to crush the dream of their son in the same area where they had no success and there was Jaden like many of us having a dream wanting those around us to to embed to to embrace the dream but sometimes because no one has had success in their life they may not be in a position to encourage us to get success in our life so so there was will playing Chris Gardner and instead of encouraging Jaden encouraging his son he said because I was never good at it you're never gonna be good at it anybody ever had someone close to you speak a word of negativity over your dream who am I talking to right now if we could just turn the monitor down just a little bit I'm getting a little feedback can we do that again who am I talking to right now anybody ever had somebody close to you speaking negative against your dream what I love about this scene and when we were shooting it what was so powerful is there's so much truth in it because there the father recognizes wait a minute I'm putting my issue on my son maybe my son even though he has my DNA is gonna be different and maybe he might be able to succeed at something I've never done so instead of crushing his dream let me reverse and understand the error of my ways and say you know what you got a dream you gotta go after it period 9 a.m. at the one o'clock 9 a.m. at 1 o'clock 9 a.m. at the what Church sorry y'all I get my 9:00 a.m. The Potter's House of what vers la here we go anybody have something that you need to go after right now who am I talking to anybody have something that you're going after that you have not yet obtained Who am I talking to anybody have something you know you have not got it yet but you are on your way anybody pursuing what God has put in your heart who am I talking to this morning oh you gotta go after it see some of you have gotten discouraged so you took your ball the ball of your dream like Jaden and started to back it up but God said it's time to take out your dream get back on the court of life because I'm getting ready to set you up to win now let's talk about winning because see I relate to Jaden I relate to to being a young kid who had a dream to do something that nobody in in my environment believed I could do nobody believed that I could come to Hollywood and find success nobody believed that I could be a Christian and still hold on to my faith nobody believed that I could cut a path that had never been cut in the industry why because they didn't see what God showed me but but here is the question I love that everybody raised their hand if there's something you're going after but here is the missing link it's one thing to get you excited about what you're going after it's another thing to teach you how to get it and this is where I feel we lack sorely we want to talk about here's what it is but then you see people who are successful who will not tell you how to get it how do I do it how do I hold on to my faith how do I pursue the ambition that's in my heart how do I become secular and what God has called me to do but still remain spiritual how do I have faith and favor and function how do i do faith and work how do I do it how do I do it I understand that I can do it because I know I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me but how do I do it anybody ever got stuck right there with the how do you do it how do you pursue your career how do you pursue your god-given ambition who am I talking to and it's this how it is this how that depresses us it is this how that frustrates us because we're looking for someone to give us instruction on how to take what learn on the weekend or in Bible study and translate it day to day I'm holy and I understand that but what do I do when I show up at work on Monday and God allows the enemy to take the form of the person I report to how do I remain holy even when I'm working for somebody that looks like the devil I'm talking to somebody right now how do I remain patient when I see everybody around me getting their breakthrough and I feel like I've been waiting not only for a year but for ten years I'm talking to somebody right now how do i navigate the ins and outs of a career that seems to reward those who have no faith and seems to put people down that have faith how do i navigate it who am I talking to right now and it is this how in wanting to understand and it is this how that produced so much pain in my life because there I was similar to two young Jade and young Christopher Gardner jr. having a dream wanting to play on the court of life but nobody would tell me how all they would say is you know you can't do you have to be afraid because Hollywood is a place that will take your faith and I said you mean to tell me that God's power stops at the gates of Hollywood last time I checked Hollywood is a man-made institution you mean to tell me that God has no power in Hollywood I said I don't understand I don't quite get how all the sudden God who is with us and we can do all things through Christ and strengthen us all the sudden we step foot in a place that has no dominion over heaven and all the sudden God no longer has dominion in this place maybe it's because God's people have not rightfully claimed what God has already given them authority to take and have been afraid of an industry that he can use to turn the whole world over to him some people they never go to church but they watch a movie some people may never live stream but they watch TV so how is it the industry that shapes culture and minds and hearts all around the world as believers we are supposed to have no part in it I don't understand it makes no sense but there I was like many of you having a dream I believe I'm called to do this but I have no understanding of how who's been there some of you who are there who's there right now so my AJ said been there like I'm here right now and as I begin to look for clues and tips and tools on how to go after the dream that God put in my heart because see when you read the word it said faith without works is dead okay that means faith plus works is alive so so so so here's the thing growing up in the church I got the faith part but the part that was shaky was the works part if you have faith and you don't have works you don't have the full combination for success if you have the works without the faith you don't have the full combination for success but when you combine faith with incredible works that you present yourself to be unstoppable I understood the faith part but somebody please help me with the work and this is why I wrote this book and and I can talk about this book all day long and it almost makes me cry because I see us as people of faith we got the faith part but when it comes to the works this is the part where to fish it because sometimes we don't want to put in the work we don't want to do the work and we don't know how to do the work so as a result we think our faith is insufficient but it's not true our faith is more than enough but we have to combine it with real strategy to understand how to occupy where God has called us to be no don't don't worry I got some scripture for you I got some scripture let's look at Daniel chapter one now you now y'all listen now and I usually give you a scripture too but I gotta walk you through this first chapter all right amen okay can y'all be hang with me for twenty verses come on now twenty verses can we do it alright watch this in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it so that means Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took over Jerusalem all right took it over and the Lord delivered the king of Judah into the king of Nebuchadnezzar's hand along with some of the articles of the temple verse number three then the king ordered ashpenaz chief of his court officials to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility young men without any physical defect handsome showing after two for every kind of learning well-informed quick to understand and qualify to serve in the king's palace he was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians the King assigned them a daily amount of food a daily amount of what and wine from the king's table they were to be trained for three years how long how long and after that they were to enter the King's service which service which service among these there were some from Judah so basically Israel has been conquered and Babylon has set up an internship program all right the King has said I'm gonna get some interns and whoever actually qualifies themselves during the internship program which will run three years at the end of the three years I will select the top interns to basically get the job all right so it says and these were some of the ones from Judah Daniel Hananiah Mishael Azariah and I'm just gonna refer to them now as their new names you'll see the chief official gave them new names Daniel the name Belshazzar Belshazzar Hananiah Shadrach - Misha Oh mate Misha and Azariah Abednego but Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine watch it they have the internship but there's a complication right what's the complication they can't eat the King's diet now what's interesting watch this it says he resolved himself with the Royal food and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way did he ask him to get out of the work did he ask him to take him off the job right what did he do he said I know the job required and I can do the job require but I cannot do it in the way you are requiring it mmm not excusing himself or the other Hebrew boys from the job but saying there's a different way in which we have to do it because of our faith now God had caused the official to show favor we're in verse 9 and sympathy to Daniel but the official told Daniel I am afraid of my lord the king who has assigned or food and drink why should he see you looking worse than the other young man your age the king would have my head because of you watch it they go to the one that God had actually given favor to said hey I'm gonna turn this particular supervisor in your favor but when they went to ask for permission from that supervisor if they could eat their own diet he said no because the king is gonna take my head I need you to know that people you work for they are concerned about their own self-preservation see see right now we're breaking down the codes for how to be successful in your work the people you work for are most concerned about keeping their job and they are gonna view you as an asset to keep their job or a liability to keep your job keep their job so they thought hey wait a minute if we're some reason if I give you the chance to eat your own diet and you look worse than everybody else I'm gonna be responsible so the supervisor said what No verse 11 interestingly enough Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah that's the Chad rack Meshach and Abednego please test your servant for 10 days give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food and treat your servants in accordance with what you see what I love about this is it's Daniel and the Hebrew boys when they are met with the first snow they don't get discouraged when they are met with somebody who does not see things the way that they see things they do not stop they go and they pursue another Avenue that would allow them to preserve their faith and still do the job I'm trying to break down some codes for where you are too often we get frustrated at the sign of resistance to what we've been called to do part of the works is understanding that resistance is evidence you are on the right path if nobody challenges you that you're not doing the right thing if you are not met with some conflict that means you don't have a good story stop getting frustrated over the no the no just helps you press in because I guarantee you if God has spoken yes over your life there's a yes buried in your pursuit but you can't let the first no hurt your feelings I don't know who I'm talking to right now but you got to get stronger in your faith you've been allowing unknow to get you down I love knows because knows just get me closer to the yes I know God has already spoken over my life Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego they went to the guard right above them and they framed their request give us ten days and if we can eat our diet for ten days at the end of ten days you get a chance to evaluate and you can do with us in accordance to what you see you have to take accountability and responsibility for your faith and your works can I say it Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego said listen if we don't meet the standard by the end of the ten days you can kill us that's what it meant when they said in accordance with what you see they took accountability and responsibility and somebody who has worked in Hollywood for 20 years I see a lack of us wanting to take accountability and responsibility for our decision-making yes I said it I'm sitting right next to you because I love you I gots to tell you the truth we have to start being accountable and responsible for the decisions we make I don't know if you realize but you can choose your way into your destiny I don't know if you realize you have the power to choose what God is getting ready to do in your life love as they took responsibility watch this watch this at the end of 10 days they look healthier and were better nourished than any of the young man who ate the Royal food verse 16 so the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and he gave them vegetables instead so he allowed them to do the job in accordance with their faith why because they prove themselves worthy with their work come on Lord Lord I got to stay on point look okay okay I got to give you a commercial break just real quick I'm gonna come back to our regular scheduled program how well was your work this week how early did you get up to pursue what God told you to do how much time was spent with Netflix and Hulu and vh1 and B et how much of your destiny preparation did Instagram and Facebook and snapchat and Twitter get this week how was your work this week cuz I can tell you once I began to monitor my social media time and everything I was doing that was wasting time not building time come on somebody it's time to reclaim your time come on somebody why because we have work to do Taj and Emma see I've got work to do I've got work to do watch it it says this he allowed them to eat according to their faith verse 17 and we're almost done with this chapter two these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning and Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kind at the end of the time three years 33 years set by the King to bring them in the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar the King verse 19 talked with them and he found none equal to Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah she had wrecked Meshach and Abednego so they entered the King's service they got the job I don't see the part where they compromise what they believe I don't see the part where they did less work and expected God to fill in the gap I don't see the part where they cried to God God why are you persecuting me no what I see is they stepped up to the plate own their faith and their work and as a result they got the job oh I'm talking to somebody right now you're looking for the job the job is already yours just put a little more work behind your faith and you're gonna see the thing you've been praying for delivered right to your doorstep you are closer than you think watch this it says that they enter the King's service verse 20 and we're done in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the King questioned them he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole King dumb what is the path to success it is a combination of spiritual and it is a combination of secular many of us God has put in the secular world but growing up in the church community I was taught to be afraid of the secular so how is it that I can't engage and transform that which I'm afraid of if I'm afraid of you I empower you instead of allowing my faith to trump my fear you get what I'm saying so too often we we cast fear over a secular environment and then what we say is beware beware if you go too far beware God may not be with you anybody ever heard that beware before many of us were raised in a beware mentality but here's what I know when I begin to ask people well how do you know I can't go to Hollywood and find success without compromising my faith how do you know that God has not made a way to do something that has never been done in the earth before how do you know don't we serve a God who specializes in doing new things don't we serve a God and specialy who specializes in creating new ways so how do you know how do you know that you aren't created to be more successful than you are I need you to know the reason why you are here at 9:00 a.m. is because God has already spoken success over your life and he does not want you to be afraid any longer the key to the pursuit is how you do it and what I began to realize was as I began to pursue this career in Hollywood my challenge was two things one making sure at every turn I was servicing what he wanted even at the expense of my own that is one of the hardest things to do am i right because we want what we want when we want it how we wanted who am I talking to right and that's where the majority of our frustration comes because we don't have what we want now mmm and this idea of what does it take to make it and how do I get it the second part of the frustration of pursuing what God called me to pursue was there was no handbook there's nobody I could turn to to help me understand how to navigate the ins and outs of an industry that was incredibly difficult so I said God why don't you show me how you can do my light in the life of others the same way you did with Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego when you go and you read subsequent chapters in Daniel guess what every time their faith is challenged they never abandon it they own it that's why the fire came right they got put in the fire because they would not bow down to the image when they heard the music oh Jesus Lord come on get me out of these commercial breaks Lord see here's the problem we are so conditioned to a beat we just love the beat and we just want to do what the beat says may I submit for your consideration that just because the beat is good doesn't mean it should be good to our ear because there are some things in the culture that want us to bow to their beat but I'm here to talk to somebody anybody got destiny on your breath anybody got destiny in your spirit anybody got power in your midst you have to say you know what I'm not gonna dance to that I'm not gonna bow to that let me tell you something I gotta get back to my message but God had just given me this commercial break I gotta be honest I didn't I didn't appreciate the mask off song I did not because I didn't understand wait I know the flute is cool I know the beat is great but you mean to tell me a top-ten record is talking about percocet and Molly and then we say oh that's hot no that is not hot those drugs will kill you just because it's on the top of the charts does not mean it should be at the top of your playlist this is the real mask off it's going to require sobriety in order to get to you yes tourney Oh si si I'm tired of coming in church and not telling the truth we got to tell the truth we cannot fit into our culture so much that we don't think about it man when I would hear that song and I would find myself moving I said no I gotta turn this out I don't want to listen to this I don't want to support this I'm sorry if they can be aggressive about their message I will be aggressive about God's message who am I talking to right now this is the real mascot Jesus Saves God is still on the throne and faith work it works if you work it that's the future of us living in the kingdom of God eternally when we do things the way he asked us to do around here that's the mask oh okay now back to already scheduled program hallelujah somebody oh [Applause] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm crazy I'm crazy cuz I love you so much I'm crazy because I've been in Hollywood for 20 years and I've seen so someone last night said um Devon how have you been able to to resist temptation in Hollywood you know I started as an intern which many of you know for Will Smith at 18 and I've been in Hollywood now for 21 years working my way up to be a producer now and having a deal with Fox and people say how you been able to keep your girl from being tempted I said well here's the difference many in this town are on the yellow brick road I've actually gotten to see the Wizard and I can tell you it's not what you think it is so and here you are tap-dancing yourself down a yellow brick road and trying to contort yourself cuz you want to meet the wizard the wizard does not exist you want the wizard but really it's God saying if you would not compromise me you will meet the king of kings and the Lord of lords stop trying to meet the person you think it's gonna put you on God is the only one that has power he's the only one so what you seen when you've seen the smoking mirrors and the flashing lights of this town you realize there is nothing to cover it in this town other than success that God has ordained because I've seen the people that so many of us want to get to know and God bless your heart let me tell you something it's all smoke and mirrors and so you mean to tell me I'm supposed to compromise what I believe just to be accepted by somebody who can help God fulfill the destiny which makes no sense so if God has already ordained success for my life how is it that I should compromise what I believe in order to achieve it it makes no sense but too often we begin to treat people with power as God themselves let me tell you something there's only one God there's only one Jesus there's only one faith I don't know who I'm talking to right now but if you would submit your life to Him we have to go we have to go I don't have all day anybody receiving this am i receiving this watch this watch it watch it so as I began to dissect my success in this business what I began to realize was God revealed that there were actual things that weren't just helping me but that would help anyone looking to be successful in any industry because I can't just tell you what you should do I've got to teach you how to do it now I submit my teaching to you humbly I don't speak to you from someone who's reached the mountaintop and telling you okay here's how you get up the mountain I'm trying to get up the mountain myself as my pastor said I'm one beggar telling another beggar how to find bread all right hey so so so I don't want you to take what I'm getting ready to say is somebody who's reached it looking down I'm someone who's in the pursuit like you but it can tell you here's what I know will work so can I show you the commandments these are the Hollywood commandment these are the Hollywood Commandments now some of you in the back may not be able to read it so I'll write I'm reading your hearing amen the first one this is the how this is the works combined with your faith the first one is your prayers alone are not enough Oh [Music] let me tell you something whenever I talk about this commandment I tell you people like what you mean Devon are you saying printers in work no of course prayer works I didn't say your prayers aren't enough I said your prayers alone aren't enough because here's what happens many times because we're afraid instead of getting up in doing and preparing for what we prayed for we don't actually get into the work because we're afraid and prayer becomes a mask for our fear watch this anything you pray for you must prepare for turn to neighbors say you must pray and prepare pray and prepare pray and prepare pray and prepare anything you are praying for I want you to get up and go prepare for it because then you show yourself an expectation to receive what you just pray now my wife is not here right now I think she'll be in one of the later services but I'm gonna tell you a little anecdote I hope she don't get mad at me baby you know I love you I want to help the people so I just got to tell the truth real quick cuz I know we got to go um she was asking God to take her to a new level in her career as an actress she wanted to be an action star she wanted more action role consideration so I would come home after work day after day and and there she would be on the couch and I would say baby um how was your workout today oh um well I didn't I didn't go you know I woke up late oh okay alright so this would repeat itself again and I said baby did you go workout well no not today and then the next day she would say you know I'm just not getting consideration for action roles I said baby back I gotta be honest with you if he would let me just tell you something that I'm really thinking so yeah I'm taking y'all way into our confidence all right this is shows you how much I love you alright I can get in trouble for this but if it can help you Lord give me grace and baby give me grace too alright alright okay watch this watch this so I said baby here's the thing you are asking God to do something that you are not preparing to receive I said any action star that I know lives an action star lifestyle they do not wait for the action roles to to present themselves they actually get themselves ready as the action star so when the role is presented they are ready to maximize it because there are some opportunities if you wait to get ready you will never get ready there's some opportunities you got to get ready for right now so when the opportunity hits you can manifest it and you can maximize it some of us are waiting for the opportunity as a sign that then it's time to get ready let me tell you something if you are waiting to get ready you will not be ready when it comes I am here to tell you right now so I said baby you got to start preparing for what you're praying for okay so the next day I come home and all senators her hair looks wet and sweat it out you know and she's in these you know old workout clothes like baby what you do she's like I wouldn't work out I said really she's like I said how was she think it was actually not bad so lo and behold the more I started coming home there she was you know getting in the gym get in the gym getting in the gym getting in the gym next thing you know I would call it during the day I'm like where she's like I'm in the gym I'm like you're in the what now mind you we've been married at that time for about four years I mean did you listen to Jimmy seen her says she saw the gym amen I'm telling the truth y'all just please listen if she get mad at me I just want to have a support group can y'all have one church 9:00 a.m. just if I'm trying to tell y'all the truth so watch this watch this so as she started doing it her her physicality began to change she began to walk into meetings and people would say what are you doing and she said what do you mean well you look different what is she's like well I'm I'm working out and I'm getting ready for an action role and they would say do you have it yet she said it's actually on its way to me I'm in the process of manifesting it oh oh I need a oh I need to talk to somebody you got to pray and prepare watch this and then MGM called and they had this action vehicle and they said you know what we've been holding on to this property it's one of the crown jewels in our town our library but we actually want to go ahead and develop this as an action vehicle for your wife with you and another producer want to produce it as a television series I need to talk to somebody you gotta pray and prepare you gotta get ready for what's getting ready to bid please don't allow your prayers to go unanswered because you haven't got enough to work for it oh my goodness your prayers alone are not enough we gotta keep going you are the talent you are the talent you are the talent you are the talent turn to never say you are the talent turn to your other neighbors say no you really are the talent one last thing turn to your neighbor and say I am the talent you know in Hollywood watch this in Hollywood either you are talent or you service town who am I talking to this is a town that is run by talent and let me tell you something I've been in situations where people really wanted to hurt my feelings because they would say oh are you you go to the event or so are you talent or or you not because you know if you're you're not talent you can't go to this door if you're not telling you can't walk this carpet know if you know the talent you got to go by on the back with everybody else I said well you may not know but I am the Challenger and you may not want me to walk on your stinky red hot man but let me tell you something I know who I serve I know who he's created me to be I was born with power because of him he said that he said his son Jesus so I may have life and have it more abundantly so you don't realize who you're talking to but yes I am the talent you don't even know I'm the star of my own movie you don't even know that Jesus is my co-star I'm talking to somebody right now you owe the talent you got to have a talent mentality you got to have a talent mentality that means you got to have confidence when you get up you got to have confidence when you go an opportunity you got to have confidence you gotta have a talent mentality even though you are talent you may still have to service town along the way that's fine but even as your serving talent never forget that you are talent have a talent mentality it'll change everything in your life we gotta go number three you have to carry a crown before you wear one everybody wants to throw everybody wants a crown but nobody wants to help somebody else carry theirs before you qualified to carry your own MA this commandment is about the value of service one of the things I learned about the works to come by with my faith is that it was not about moving fast in Hollywood it was not about moving fast in my career what I learned was that there is a value to patients and to service mm-hmm too often we don't know what to do when we get opportunity because we haven't spent enough time in service one of my first one of my first jobs while I was interning for the company the manager Will Smith there was a principal there if there was Benny Medina Benny Medina managed to Jennifer Lopez right at the time when I was interning I wanted more opportunity I wanted more experience and I asked his assistant hey can you hook me up with Benny and you know I love to learn from him the word came back yeah Benny wants you to learn from him he wants you to drive him I said really he said yeah he want you to drive him around are you cool with that I said absolutely why because Benny Medina was a king in Hollywood he still is so you mean to tell me I get one-on-one time with the King I get a chance to hear the phone conversations I get a chance to hear how deals are done I get a chance to hear how to deal with typical personalities so you mean to tell me I get a chance to spend time with the king let me tell you something I'm spending time with the King because God is preparing me to be a king you're spending time with kings and queens because God is preparing you to reign you are not just in proximity just to make you feel bad no God has given you proximity because he's preparing you for what you're getting ready to occupy I took that time I'm maximizing so now 20 years later as I'm finally getting into the place he promised me I know what to do with it because I spent 20 years helping other people carry their crown you are not above serving your way into your destiny you can always help somebody get their need met I got to go watch it command before you have to know the rules to play the game too often we don't know how to handle politics this is what this command is all about we let our attitude affect our altitude let me tell you something I had to learn this the hard way anytime I let my attitude impact my work I was the one that suffered because whether I like it or not there are politics there are people who have different needs why they have those needs I don't know are they crazy sure they can be but if God has called me there let me not work for them but let me work for him and as you begin to learn the rules of whatever industry you're in you will then be prepared to be more successful Daniel Shadrach Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego learn the rules of Babylon so they were able to play the game they understood what a win was a win was the ability to do the job without compromising their faith and they did it commandment number five your gut is hiding God this is about the value of listening to the Holy Spirit God is not always speaking to yell he speaks in a whisper there are certain things God will tell you or hide to do and we must do it before it's too late last year I've been in my deal at Fox for less than a year last year before my film miracles from heaven came out and I had a deal with Sony for those of you know I worked at Sony for about 10 years and then transitioned into a producing deal before miracles from heaven came out God said leave Sony I said Lord you tripping but watch it he said leave Sony leave Sony leave Sony leave Sony leave Sony do I listen to what I feel in my spirit or do I let my head talk me out of it cuz it made no sense I realized that God was hiding in my gut the Holy Spirit was speaking and I began the process to leave Sony before the movie came out it got to the point where I was able to get out of Sony but I had no deal and as I was trying to make a new deal the deal was falling apart and I said Lord you told me you'd never leave nor forsake me now and at the 11th hour Fox came in and gave me a deal that was everything I was asking for but watch this it's not why I tell the story every person I had to go to at Sony to get out of the deal by the time I closed the deal at Fox all of them had transitioned to other positions outside the company do you realize if you do not move on what God has called you to move on there may be people that are in position right now to bless you but you may miss it because you're afraid to step out on faith whatever God is calling you to do you must do it all right so we got to go rapid fire to these last five hallelujah you get what you negotiate not what you're worth that means you have to articulate your value and not assume that where you work is going to give you what you're worth you have to go and advocate for it you have to articulate for you got to say this is what I'm worth this is what I create and you can't be afraid to articulate that number seven you must master the walk of fame oh boy because when you become great at what God has called you to do there is going to come notoriety with that no matter what you do there's gonna become notoriety and I call that thing do you know what famous about who's gonna get the praise think about it think about it praise is a battle famous a battle for praise I want to submit for your consideration that we were created to give praise not receive it this is why Fame is so destructive so as we receive praise we have to know how to give it back to the one in which it comes from a man this commandment is all about how to handle Fame number eight y'all know this one we did this last week your difference is your destiny who claims that anybody been claiming your difference from last week a man a man a man number nine your amnesia is an asset a couple of months I was here talking about Back to the Future that's basically what this message is amnesia you got to forget oh did I mess up yesterday oh really I don't even remember that remember her coat did I do that then I I didn't know I did that come on cuz too often we stay listen if the milk has spilled clean it up and move on it's not worried about well yesterday I spilled some milk is it there anymore no it's gone please allow yourself to move on quickly we stay too much in our past and Lygia is about forgetting what didn't work and getting into the revelation of what's going to work and what God is preparing us to work the last one is your world is smaller than you think too often we think that there is a far difference between where we are and where God has called us to be it's not true it's not true the world is smaller than you think do you realize that right now while you're trying to network with somebody God is just saying I want you to become great at what you do because the people you're trying to network with if you just become great at what you do they're gonna want to network with you not the other way around and character matters because the world is so small your reputation matters are you someone who's trustworthy are you someone who follows through on your word are you someone who literally can be depended upon because your reputation is more valuable than money and when you're in an environment that is small word gets out are they to be trusted or not please don't miss calculate where we are and not operating character because your character is your currency when people know you're trusted and you are trusted and you're dependable they will put you in position that your resume says you don't qualify for the world is smaller than you thank you these are the Hollywood Commandments these are the 10 life-changing laws for success that God has given me to help you learn the how last part when you look at what God did with Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego and how he increased their ability to learn in knowledge and literature and gave Daniel the ability to decipher dreams such that when it came time to go before the king they were ready to excel beyond anybody else in their field how because they had the works and they had the faith if you have works great great works and you have great great strategy but your commitment to God is jinking your success will be shaky every time I've tried to lean in to secular success and lean out of spiritual success it has not worked God has said to Vaughn you have to remain more committed to me that you are even committed to your pursuit I need you to know that your commitment to God combined with strategy is what will make you unstoppable but if you're only looking for the strategy and you're not looking for the God of the strategy you will miss it so I don't know who I'm talking to this morning but is there anybody here that says you know what I know I have to get more committed to God in this season I know that I have to get closer to him than I ever had before I know that my commitment to God has not been as strong as my commitment to my career if you know that you've fallen in that category I want you to come down here right now right now right now you say I got to get stronger with the Lord I got to get committed to God I can't be so committed to my career that I miss my commitment to God I got to get stronger come on come on one church you can do better than that come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on why is this so important because the strategy I just laid out will not work if you first are committed to God there have been times where I would cry myself in and out of depression in my office as an executive at Sony why because I was wanting career success more than my commitment to God and God said to Vaughn you have to get back to me and I will fulfill the call over your life so as you have come down here I want you to know this commitment to God is what's gonna make you stronger it's what's gonna bring you more peace and it's gonna help alleviate some of the stress you've been under as it relates to what you're supposed to do I know you were created for greatness I know you were created for success and it begins staying committed to him your faith will prepare the way it will not stand in the way grab your neighbors hand grab your neighbors hand dear Heavenly Father I pray right now for every single soul that has come up here to commit for the first time and recommit for some to you dear God I am praying dear Lord that the bedrock of their success will be because they have a relationship with you and I am praying right now in the mighty name of Jesus that you would help your children know that it's okay that you've got them right where you want them to be let them not worry let them not be frustrated let them not be angry but let them have peace knowing that committing to you and doing the work will mean that their destiny is not going to be a maybe it'll become a definite we speak life over their dreams we speak a life over their life and we pray God right now that as they commit to you that they would stay consistent with you and as they stay consistent I prayed their Heavenly Father you would raise them up even higher than they ever thought possible I pray for their dreams I pray for their spirit I pray for their work and I pray above all that you would strengthen their faith so that they would know that you are the King of Kings the Lord of lords and you will do every single single thing you've already told us you would do in the mighty holy matchless name of Jesus and all God's children say amen amen [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Sun Sep 24 2017