Because God has a plan for our lives, sometimes we think there’s no action required on our part to achieve His plan; however, our lives are full of decades, dreams and decisions that call us to destiny. It’s time to be specific about who we are and what we bring to the table; thus, there is an obligation of intentionality concerning our alignment. Sometimes our ‘No’ is more valuable than our ‘Yes,’ as our burden has the power to be someone else’s blessing. God is with us, and He will show us mercy; however, the benefit will come through our dedication to destiny.
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I’m going to be talking about dedication
to destiny dedication to destiny and
that that’s it that kind of an odd
subject because most people see destiny
is something that God does and and it
just happens arbitrarily and we have no
investment or involvement into it we
normally don’t think of dedication and
destiny in the same sense because we
ascribe all the responsibility for our
destiny to the Lord you know all things
work together for the good of them to
love the Lord what are the called
according to his purpose leads us
thinking that we don’t have to do
anything then all things just work
together for our good it leaves us
thinking it gives us the impression that
God just makes it work whether we work
or not it’s just gonna work for our good
if the Lord means for it to happen it’s
gonna happen but I’m gonna talk to you
about dedication to destiny how
dedicated are you to what you believe
I’m gonna challenge some of your belief
systems this morning I may be able to
point some things out in your life that
will help this year to be more effective
help you to weigh the effectiveness of
this year help you to weigh the
effectiveness of the next 10 years of
your life I started talking about the
decade we stepped into a new decade how
many are glad to be a part of this field
decade
now there are a few folks in this room
that the enemy didn’t even want you to
be alive for this desk aid so you can’t
sit there and be cute and look all
important sell yes I’m glad you know the
enemy tries to kill you before you ever
even got here and you need to really get
up and celebrate and thank god you’re
just being here just being alive just
being alive if you don’t get that but
sit there and look pretty you ought to
just smile like the devil and say see
I’ve made it I made it I made it to
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come on somebody who am I talking to
this morning and because it is our
custom you can remain standing we’re
gonna go to Genesis 39 20 through 23 for
a few minutes and we’re gonna use this
scripture just as a leap off point I
don’t really so much want to exegete the
text but I want to use the text as a
canvas on which we convey and write
ideas and share principles and concepts
that will help us to better move into
the purpose of the plan and the dictates
of God because God has a plan for my
life good god and I said God has a plan
for my life
it’s the reason I wasn’t is stillborn
it’s the reason I didn’t die of crib
death it’s the reason I survived my
childhood it’s the reason that I
survived Pro wrecks and accidents and
injuries God has a plan for my life it’s
not that I’m so good it’s not that I’m
so perfect it’s not that I’m so smart
it’s not that I’m so innovative
it’s just that God preserved me because
he has a plan for my life and I’m gonna
live out that plan
so all you haters who don’t want me to
live out my plan get over it I’m gonna
live out that plan all of you that have
haters that don’t want you to live out
your plan tell him to get over and God
has a plan for your life and you’re
headed somewhere you tell I’m fired up I
had me read the scripture I’m already on
fire shout hallelujah somebody and
Joseph muster took him and put him into
the prison a place where the Kings
prisoners were bound and he was there in
the prison but the Lord was with Joseph
I like that I just wanna pause right
there
what an ox a mole on his his master put
him in prison
and God said if you going to jail I am
200k nobody do me like Jesus if he’s
going to the emergency room I’m going
with you
if he’s going in trouble I’m a present
help in the time of trouble tell Marty
who thought you were in it by yourself
you need to shout right now because God
does like how strong but the Lord was
with Joseph and showed him mercy and
gave him favor in the sight of the
keeper of the prison come on and the
keeper of the prison committed to Joseph
II committed to Joseph’s hand all the
prisoners that were in the prison and
whatsoever they did there he was the
doer of it can you say man the keeper of
the prison looked not to anything that
was under his hand because the Lord was
with him and that which he did the Lord
made it to prosper Oh
I gotta put that back up her again I got
to read that last good jerk again put
that other
oh that disciplines for that which he
did that which he did not that which he
thought about not that which he danced
about but that which he did the Lord
made it to prosper touch the neighbors
say do something father God in the name
of Jesus we stand in his house thank you
for life we will not waste this breath
we will not waste this life we will not
waste this year we will not waste this
week we will not waste this day somebody
died short of today but you let me live
to see another day I will not waste this
day complaining about who doesn’t like
being my toe hurts and my finger hurts
I’m alive I’m gonna work this day for
your glory I’m gonna move some stuff
today for your glory I’m gonna get it
done in the name of Jesus now bless the
word while it’s being shared today in
Jesus name I mean with the thuggery
shout shout a man good you may be seated
glory I want to test out your lungs make
sure you got good lungs one more time
shot a bird oh yeah you ready okay what
I want to do is dig down deeper into
what I started talking about during the
New Year’s Eve service we had at the
church I want to dig down deeper into it
I want to talk to you a little bit about
decades dreams and decisions decades
dreams and decisions now personally I am
my life out in decades
I said goes for where I want to be ten
years from now and when I talked to
people around me I sound kind of strange
because I I talk like I’m older than I
am
cuz I’m thinking ten years away and they
say you’re too young to be thinking like
that I said no no no no I’m not too
young you’re never too young to be
thinking ten years away planning my life
and decades has helped me to evaluate
years how do you know that you’re having
a good year if it doesn’t fit into a
long term goal of where you’re gonna be
ten years from now how do you measure a
good year just by survival just saw it
just had it just came or do you measure
it by things that are going to happen
every year cuz I hear people saying you
know 2019 was a bad year cuz they went
through a lot of stuff where they were
in the hospital or they went through
this attack or that attack or so-and-so
died or this one data that will die and
they say it’s a good or bad year based
on conditions and circumstances that are
going to happen every year there will be
no magic years where your emotions are
not tested where your mind is not tested
where you won’t have opposition or
enemies
there were every year you have life will
be life but I determine whether it’s a
good year or a bad year by how much
closer I’m coming to what God has in
store for me how much progress I’m
making toward the direction that God and
I have charted out for my life not by
inconvenience I’m used to inconvenience
if you don’t learn how to flourish under
fire you will flourish at all
if you are gonna keep waiting till the
coast is clear before you make a move
you might as well turn into a mummy you
might as well be the Statue of Liberty
because you’re never going to move
because the coast is never going to be
clear it’s never going to be totally
conducive to what you’re trying to get
done in fact many many times the greater
the opposition the closer you’re getting
to your goal anyone in here who’s had a
baby will tell you that labor pains get
greater the closer you are to birth in
your baby I want to tell you something
that makes you to begin to recognize
that dreams are fertilized in stinky
places let everybody who ever grew a
garden say man dreams are fertilized not
in nice convenient places not when
everything’s going well it’s in the
stinky places it’s in the rough places
that dreams are fertilized so if you
avoid the stinky places you’re avoiding
the very fertilization of the next move
of God in your life are you hearing what
I’m saying to you are you hearing me
this morning but when we start talking
about dreams a lot of times we don’t get
our dreams because we’re not specific I
want to be a better man what does that
mean I want to have a great year this
this this this way of generalizing your
dream stops you from monitoring success
I’m going to the next level where is
that I want up up where
and this year I’m gonna be a better
person
in what way see these types of things
cause us to fail because they’re not
specific enough to hold us accountable I
want to be a good wife I want to be a
better wife I want to be a better
husband what does that mean specifically
in what area let’s be more specific I’m
going to spend more time at home I’m
gonna budget my finances better let’s
tie it down to something that you can
measure because if you don’t tie in your
dream down to something you can measure
it is easily dismissed and with that
dismissal comes the feeling of success
so you’re always saying stuff that never
makes you feel successful not because
you’re not succeeding but because you
don’t have quantifiable goals how are
you measuring your life
the Bible says teach me the number of my
days Oh God
that I might know how frail I am teach
me to appreciate every day how are you
measuring your life are you hearing what
I’m saying I’m gonna get to the good
stuff in a minute
this this also when you start talking
about when you start talking about
decades and you start talking about
dreams you have to start talking about
decisions because if you don’t have
goals how do you base your decisions who
comes in and out of your life where do
you spend your time who do you engage
with what do you say yes to what do you
say no to I have finally begin to learn
not to swing at every ball that comes my
way
I mean I mean I’m not just talking about
not swinging at bad things I mean not
swinging a good things because it can be
a good thing but if it’s not connected
to my destiny I need to reserve my swing
Oh y’all don’t hear what I’m saying I
need to reserve my swing for what’s
coming next in my life
some of you swinging everything I just
want up I don’t care what I gotta do I’m
opening up a gas stations that don’t
work I’m open up a beauty parlor that
open up a beauty primary open up a
restaurant
I just want up I just by any means
necessary no no no you’ll never get up
like that you have to be specific about
who you are and what you bring to the
table and what you are called to do and
be and you may have to pass up ten ideas
to get to the thing that’s in alignment
with your destiny I want to swing at
something that’s in alignment I want to
have friends that are in alignment with
my destiny I’m getting to the age I
can’t just carry a lot of dead weight
maybe when I was 20 I could afford to
carry dead weight but now if it’s not
getting me closer to where I’m trying to
go I’ll help you if I can but I can’t
carry anybody right now
I got just enough strength to get me
with all y’all hero because some people
don’t want to walk I don’t mind carrying
you a little while because they can’t
walk but some people don’t want to walk
they use your compassion as their crutch
I know you won’t carry me so why should
I walk I know you’re gonna pay for it so
why should I do it I know you’re gonna
get me out so why should I stand up I
know you’re gonna fix the problem so why
should I be proactive you need to take
any racers start erasing all of those
people out of your life who are using
you you are not helping them you are in
abling them to be a failure by not
releasing them to their destiny you need
to give them a cup of tough love and say
stand up on your own two feet you can do
this
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I’m preaching better than you shout
everyday I have to make decisions and
it’s easy to make decisions between good
and evil and and right and wrong they’re
apparent but it’s tough to make the
seasons between good and great between
what you want to see me do versus what
God has called me to do just because
something is a just cause doesn’t mean
it’s my cause I don’t have enough me to
take up everything that needs to be done
you can’t volunteer for everything and
still be good at anything some of your
spread so thin that you’re not good at
anything because you said yes to
everything practices with me practice is
with me practice is with me say no
you did that good we’re gonna do that
again everybody say no oh yeah you know
what no gives you focus no gives you
discipline no gives you structure no
gives your neighbor and opportunity to
say yes to what you said no to see your
no is somebody else’s yes and if you
stop trying to be everything then
somebody else can be something but if
you’re trying to be everything you’re
standing in the way of somebody else
who’s trying to be something
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I can’t go everywhere I can’t speak for
everybody I can’t be at every church I
can’t be at every event I know becomes
somebody else’s blessing so away with
the spirit of guilt that the enemy wants
to place on you because you can’t say
yes to everything somebody needs you to
say no so that they can say yes somebody
needs you to say I can’t do it so that
they can stand up and say I can your
burden is somebody else’s blessing so if
you’re gonna have a great year this year
you gotta practice yeah you got to
practice though so that when you say yes
to something you have the power and the
force to really be dedicated and fully
committed to that thing why do you have
to be dedicated because if you have a
dream that it’s easily achieved it it’s
not worthy of you
if you have a dream that doesn’t require
discipline and focus your dream is far
too small I didn’t dream of brushing my
teeth I’m just believing God that by His
grace I would be able to brush my teeth
no no no I just brushed my teeth and
went on about I did brush with my brush
but I did that all by myself I didn’t
have to go on a fast but I need a dream
if you are a big dreamer holler at me
now
I want to talk to my big dreamers cuz
big dreams take time I want you to stop
being angry because you didn’t get your
dream this year because big dreams take
time Malcolm Gladwell says that in order
to be proficient at anything you have to
protect the practices 10,000 hours in
order to be effective at it 10,000 hours
will make you an expert his book outlier
he talks about 10,000 hours if you if
you want to be an excellent pianist put
10,000 hours into it and you will be bad
10,000 hours incidentally is about ten
years ten years is a decade what are you
gonna do with this decade I know you
used to be talking about what are you
going to do with this year but what
you’re going to do with this year is
determined about what are you going to
do with this okay because the steps of a
good man are ordered by the Lord this
year is the first step to the decade
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so ten years from now how old will you
be
somebody said did
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that might be true but imma let that
surprise me
I don’t have to plan on that it can
sneak up on me to be alright he can hit
me in the back of the head but suppose
I’m here suppose I win are you making
decisions for the decade or for the
moment I told some people that were
getting ready to buy a house and their
children were have you know maybe 11 12
13 14 somewhere up in there and I said
don’t buy the house based on the kids
not at that age now I think with two
years old it might be different but not
it not at 14 because by time you get the
house built and you get it furnished
just the way you wanted to and all the
rooms are made out just where you need
to they will be leaving the house and
you will be walking around talking about
we don’t need all this room you have
bedrooms you don’t go into collecting
dust in places plates you don’t use pans
you don’t bake here because you didn’t
have a plan for 10 years our unit had a
plan for a moment that was passing while
you were building the house oh I hit
something right there
what I want to talk to you is the
dedication it takes to birth the thing
that you’re after and the reason I want
to talk to you about it is I am alarmed
that the people who give up so easily
and I think they give up so easily
because of Cracker Jack sermons coming
from pulpits all over America that talk
about spin around three times God’s
gonna give it to you and you think that
if you spin around three times and it
doesn’t happen that God doesn’t mean for
you to have it
but you can spread around till you pass
out on the floor when you get to
spinning God blesses what you do who am
I talking to today it doesn’t matter
what age you are you need this message
if you suddenly you don’t want to build
a house with three three floors
now the young people don’t understand
why I say it there but everybody’s got
gray hair it’s starting to get a
revelation why
putting the master bedroom on the third
floor might not be a great idea for
somebody 75 this might be a good time to
sell the house and get a flat something
that you can handle because you need to
have a strategy or if you don’t have a
strategy your lack of strategy is going
to give the enemy an opportunity to make
your life harder than it had to be
because you weren’t thinking out for the
future
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somebody said 10 years from now I’ll be
dead if I’m dead I won’t have to worry
about it but suppose I’m not suppose I’m
still here what am i planning what am i
doing what am i moving how am I getting
ready for what’s next in my life am i 30
years old planning for 40 am i 20
thinking about 30 or am I just living in
the moment and they’re shocked because
my future is not anchored because I
haven’t been dedicated to my destiny it
determines who I listened to it
determines what books I read it
determines who I put myself around it
determines what committees I get on or
off what boards I joined or don’t join
it determines who I hang out with
because I want to be around people who
are feeding where I’m going
you know there’s a community of people
that we attach ourselves to because they
are kin to where we left and we we
connect with them because you’re from
West Virginia and I’m from West Virginia
and oh my god you remember the
Appalachian Mountains and I remember the
Kenai River if you remember – and I was
so wonderful because I am kin to you
because you are connected to my history
or you hung you hung out at the same
clubs I did or you drank the same
oh that’s a whole new side of the church
let me go over here I want to go over
here and talk to the real people who
understand that the human proclivity is
to be more comfortable with people whose
history aligns with yours but the divine
opportunity is to connect with people
whose destiny aligns with yours now when
you connect with people who you have a
destiny in common with don’t expect to
feel comfortable you’re going to grow
into comfort as you have shared
experiences but initially you’re going
to feel like an outsider because the
connection is for a date to come it
isn’t so important that you marry
somebody that fits where you are
that’s not the hard part it’s easy to
figure out somebody who fits my present
need but I need to find somebody who
will grow with me and go with me and
evolve with me and when I switch you
switch and when we grow forward you fit
the 50-year old me and the 60-year old
me and the 70 year old me I’m not
worried about you fitting the 20 year
old me I’m pretty easy to fit in Twitty
Melissa needs that 20 aren’t even smart
yet but I need somebody that has I come
to the fullness of my intellectual
capacity that you have the fluidity of
thought and nimbleness of mind – you
gotta flow with me you gotta rock with
me you gotta roll with me if you ride on
the motorcycle with me when I go this
way you got to go this way yo y’all hear
what I’m sayin for you because if you go
ride with me don’t make me fall over cuz
you pull it this way when I’m traveling
on this way
the times in your life will tell you who
you’re riding with
I need to see how you handle the terms
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anybody can ride with me in the
straightaway but when I give to the
turning point and the pivotal place I
need somebody who can roll with me who
can slide with me oh come on talk to me
somebody I don’t need somebody who wants
to get off the bike because I hit a bomb
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my god I haven’t even got to detect you
but I’m saying something that you need
to hear and this is why you need God in
the choice because God can see the
future and you can only see the moment I
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don’t need to hire somebody who’s good
for where I’m at right now I need
somebody that’s got the capacity then as
I roll you can grow with me or I’ll end
up carrying dead weight and every time
it’s payday I’m rolling my eyes at you
because you haven’t evolved in 20 years
and you’re faithful to who I used to be
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my god I want you to understand
something that generally dedication
starts in stewardship generally
dedication starts in stewardship and
that is to say well let me use this
first luke 1612 says you must first be
faithful to that which pertain us to
another man in other words God lets you
practice where you’re gonna be until you
put that back up their gear until you
can be faithful and if you have not been
faithful in that which is another man’s
who shall give you that which is your
own see some of you are holding back on
your dedication because you don’t want
to be dedicated to something that’s not
yours and so when you get there you’re
gonna give it your best shot when you
get there no no if you don’t give it
your best shot now you won’t get there
it is giving it your best shot
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you can’t I told a friend of mine you
can’t preach good when the crowds big
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you gotta preach good when it is not but
five people there you were still giving
it your best shot you because if you
were faithful over a few things I will
make you rule
maybe you hear me some of you’ve been
saving your best stuff for the big time
no use your best stuff now so your best
ever get better I feel like I’m talking
to somebody I don’t even know who it is
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when I’m not in the pulpit preaching I’m
writing and when I’m not writing I’m
looking at scripts for films and and
doing films and movies and we got some
projects coming out on lifetime and
anytime you’re doing character
development a character’s life is not
believable if it doesn’t have an arc to
it and arc somebody say an arc I’m not
talking about the thing that Noah rode
around in an art to it you can’t have
somebody whose life is just one thing
straight you can’t write a story that’s
just a straight line it’s got to have a
heart to it you can’t preach a message
that doesn’t have an art to it
you can’t do a movie that doesn’t have
an art to it you can’t be a person and
not having art in your life the arc of
life every good story has an arc it is
never a straight line look at the arc of
Joseph’s life look at the arc of his
life his life it’s like it’s like six
flags reading about Joseph he’s up he’s
down he’s up again he’s down he’s in
he’s out it’s good it’s bad it’s it’s
it’s like a ride and a carnival look at
your life if you tell your life story
you wouldn’t need tickets for Six Flags
you’ve been up some time you been down
some time you wanted to quit some time
you wanted to die some time you wanted
to fight some time you wanted to give up
some time yeah
good day you have bad days baby that’s
not the devil that’s life
you can’t rebuke that you can’t plead
the blood over
you can’t bind the devil oh that is life
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let me come down here and look at you
we’re good we’re about to get somewhere
now Joseph’s life couldn’t have been
better it was going good he’d been
thrown into a pit by his brothers had
left to die they left him for dead but
he survived and the Mennonites came and
found him and and brought him out and
sold him to Potiphar and he prospered in
Potiphar’s house
he ran Potiphar’s house now let me tell
you the good thing about being a steward
you don’t have ownership but you have
exposure
so he didn’t have powder first bills you
see what I’m saying he didn’t have
powder for Thea Beals but he got to live
in Potiphar’s house he got to run
Potiphar’s business he got to practice
his stuff at Potiphar’s expense it was a
dream job it was amazing he got all the
kinks out he got to do it and he didn’t
good he did it so good that Potiphar put
him in charge of everything in his house
and Joseph was dedicated he was winning
he was up he was getting it and then one
day all hell broke loose who would ever
thought that Miss Potiphar would have
thought Joseph was killed which isn’t a
bad thing till she started lying on him
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people will around you
Drinan right in your face allows you the
ones closest to you and one line and he
loses his job his cushy amazing
influential job where he got to meet
people that he would have never met and
do things that he would have never done
he lost his job he was defeated and he
went to jail now losing the job is bad
but going to jail is hell fire me fire
me please thank you fire me
god bless I’m fired okay okay bye I’m
fired I’m going to jail wait oh-ho
that’s a whole different thing
we gotta have another meeting about that
because I can find me another job but I
ain’t planning on waking up with to
somebody named Bobo come on talk to me
somebody
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Joseph did everything right they still
lost his job and his thrust into the
Kings prison he was dedicated to
Potiphar he was dedicated to a good
thing now he’s lost his good thing what
happens when you lose your good thing oh
I’m a preacher Lee yeah what happens
what happens to your character when you
lose your good thing
were you just good because of your good
thing
we’re your only dedicated because of the
paycheck are you only gonna preach good
putting the money’s good when the crowds
good when the people respond when you’re
in your element when the conditions are
right are you only a good wife when he’s
a good man
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Oh Lord I think I lost a whole novel
Jesus they was with me real good right
there are you only a good mother when
the kids are good you don’t need a good
mother when the kids are good you need a
good mother when the kid is bad and
everybody’s giving up on the kids but
momma standing there fighting for him to
come through I wish I had a witness in
here many of us wouldn’t be here if we
didn’t have good mothers with bad kids
are you only gonna be a good husband
when she’s a good wife and now you have
changed your character to match your
condition I’m not surprised that Joseph
was committed and effective and
dedicated when he had his pushy job the
knives in jail and now the test becomes
how you like me now will you maintain
who you are when it doesn’t look like
it’s paying off
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or have you gotten so bitter that you
have changed you because of the season
you’re in because it is a season and
it’s gonna pass and don’t allow a
temporary circumstance to change you
permanently where you become bitter
rather than better this too shall pass
this is a test if you can attend Joe
praise me now
anybody can praise him on their way up
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but Joseph is now imprisoned and he’s in
the Kings prison I don’t know how he got
in the Kings prison because he wasn’t
working for the king but he’s in the
Kings prison and that’s a dangerous
prison to be in cuz the King made his
own rules he just wake up one more and
say you’re gonna die and and we started
reading the text with him being an
inmate and made snow had no power you
get up when I say you get up you go to
bed when I say you go to bed you take a
shower win and if I say you take a
shower you eat when I say you eat what I
give you and you don’t eat at all
inmates don’t have no power at all and
Joseph with it’s dedicate itself is now
in a situation where it looks like me
and dedicated didn’t pay and he has
every excuse to change just like some of
you who have unjustly gone through
things that weren’t even fair
and you don’t realize you’re being
tested to see if you can be dedicated
when there is no opportunity I had to
recognize when I moved up in life that
people stopped seeing me as a person
most of them see me as an opportunity I
was dealing with them like I was a
person they were dealing with me like I
was an opportunity and I had to step
over into their eyes and look back at me
to understand that they don’t see that
I’m a person they see me as a chance a
raffle ticket an opportunity a quick way
up and so anybody can love you when they
see an advantage
Joseph God’s land it’s now in prison by
the way this was not his dream when you
remember those of you that know the
story know that Joseph had a dream long
time ago that his brothers were going to
bow down before him there he was gonna
rise to power
there was no dream about bars slamming
doors sleeping on concrete eating out of
troughs
have you ever ended up in something that
was totally contradictory to everything
you dream everything you drink and you
find yourself in the complete opposite
situation I feel like I’m talking to
somebody I don’t know who it is God told
you you were gonna prosper you were
going to be successful and your boss
said you’re fired just when you were
starting to say somebody have you ever
had your life contradict your prophecies
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and that’s when the devil rose up to do
you exist where is God now da da da Dada
Dada Dada yeah when the curtains open we
see Joseph God’s prints in a prison you
could be a prince in a prison and how
you respond to that prison determines
whether you become French or not there
were three things that God gave Joseph
in the prison that that helped him
through the prison number one the Bible
says the Lord was with him the Lord was
with him he gave him company in the
prison he said if you’re in it I’m in it
with you I don’t know who I’m teaching
today but the Lord said I’m in it with
you
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you had to sell a car
I’m in it with you you had to sell a
house I’m in it with you he left you for
another woman he said I didn’t I’m still
in the house with you I’m still gonna
open doors for you I’m still gonna make
ways for you I will not leave you by
yourself she don’t appreciate who you
are as a man God says I do I am with you
in the prison not just in church not
just on Sunday morning not just when the
praise team sayings not just when
everybody’s beating the drum not when
people are happy and shoving
God says I’m with you when it doesn’t
look profitable to be with you I am with
you that’s what separates me from some
of the folks you call friends even when
there is no opportunity oh gods you
don’t hear what I’m saying to you so you
go ahead and praise him for your car and
you praise him for your starts you
praise them for your mutual fur I praise
them for not leaving me thank you for
being with me when all hell was breaking
loose after scrab that you was with me
[Applause]
we’re gonna practice that shake somebody
by the hand say the Lord is with me
the Lord is with me I may be sleeping on
this floor but the Lord is with me I may
be in some kind of trouble right now but
the Lord is with me I may have a lump in
my breast but the Lord is with you
I may be down on my luck but the Lord is
with me what comes what goes but the
Lord is stable the Lord is with me I
don’t know who I’m talking to the Lord
is with me he was with me in 2019 he’s
with me in 2020 he’s gonna be with me in
2021
if you want to get with God get with me
cuz the Lord is with me if you want to
fight God fight me because the Lord is
if you a me get into it he’s on my side
that’s how I feel about it you got to
know that you know that you know that
you know I’m with you even when you
don’t feel me even when you don’t like
the condition even when you don’t like
the circumstance
touch them I say the Lord is with me you
want to get with God get with me cuz the
Lord is with me yeah I know I’m in this
prison but the Lord is with me yeah I
know I’m sleeping on the couch but the
Lord is with me yeah I know I’m going
through a transition but the Lord is
with me I know I don’t look profitable
but the Lord you pass that down now I’ve
already preached if I don’t say another
word
so number one the Lord is with it number
two he showed him mercy mercy sure do
look good when justice ain’t just
he showed him mercy he showed him mercy
have mercy
I don’t understand how people who need
mercy can be so merciless
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he showed him mercy so the voice that
keeps bringing up what I did wrong to
say you belong in this prison you
brought this on yourself you’re not
ain’t good anyway you’re just like your
mama said you was you’re just like your
daddy
all those voices that we have to fight
with to all of those voices God showed
him mercy can you receive mercy do you
have the capacity to receive mercy or
are you so angry at yourself over your
mistakes that you resist mercy because
you like cutting on yourself
figuratively or literally God showed him
mercy but he had to receive it can you
receive the mercy of God the Bible said
his mercies are new every morning I
don’t even have to use day old mercy
he’s got fresh mercy for my fresh stupid
the understand he didn’t run out of
mercy because I keep being stupid his
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his mercies are new every morning he
showed him work that’s why I beat
everybody praising God because he showed
me mercy and I only have a praise I
don’t mind raising my head I don’t mind
crapping my head cuz had God dealt with
me according to my sins I would have
been cut off but the Lord showed me I
feel a song coming on I feel a shot I’m
not even trying myself but I feel a shot
because when I think of the goodness of
Jesus and all that he’s done for me my
soul cries out
[Applause]
he showed me mercy he showed me mercy he
showed me mercy he showed me mercy
[Applause]
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half-hour somebody tell them I got to
praise Him
you might praise him but I got to prison
you might not praise him but I got to
praise Him
I’ve been too crazy not to praise it
happened too wrong not to praise it he
sounded mercy
[Applause]
let’s go deeper I got a hairy number
three he gave him favor with the warden
he gave him favor with the warden he
gave him favor with the warden you might
not believe this but God will make folks
like you
you you think it’s just because you’re
so charismatic now God will make folks
like you
he gave him Famer with the warning 2020
I’m walking in divine favor
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20:20 I’m just walking in divine favor
I’m walking in divine favor I’m walking
in divine favor I’m walking in divine
faith anybody go walk with anybody go
walk with me I’m walking in divine
somebody’s got a meeting to go to and
you gotta meet with somebody in a high
place and the Lord said don’t worry
about it when you walk in the door he’s
gonna give you a favor I don’t know who
that’s for
but you came here to get that one word
from God that God has already ordered
your steps and when you get there you’re
gonna walk into favor
for our preaching too
[Applause]
can I give you some more let me give you
some more I’m gonna give you some more
my God my God my God that went out of me
so strong I don’t know who that’s for
I hope you receive it to the magnitude
that I released it that was a prophetic
utterance my God my God
my god
my god my god
you walk in like you know they like you
because God is going to give you favor
[Applause]
favor with the person to empower
[Applause]
and I talk to me anybody in here now now
let me go a little bit deeper with this
I’m almost where I want to be the thing
that gets me about Joseph is that he was
dedicated in a deficit
I understood him being dedicated in
Potiphar’s house because he was on the
up side but this boy is dedicated in
prison he’s running the prison the
inmate is running the prison if you stop
crying about being an inmate you’ll see
why you’re in the situation you’re in
because God’s gonna get some glory out
of the situation that you’re in God
doesn’t just reveal himself by changing
situations sometimes God uses the
situation to change you so what gets me
about him and said he is dedicated in a
deficit in prison he’s still serving
he’s still leading he’s still helping
he’s still giving and had he not been
dedicated in a deficit he would have
never reached his destiny had he gotten
bitter or depressed or discouraged said
I’m through last time I was dedicated it
didn’t work I’m not gonna do it anymore
I’m not going out there like that I’m
not going out like that I’m not gonna do
it he would have died in prison but he
was dedicated in a deficit can you be
dedicated in a church that’s not growing
can you be dedicated to a job you think
that’s beneath you I know you say you’re
gonna get dedicated when you get the
promotion though you’re gonna be
dedicated now that’s how you’re gonna
get the promotion
[Applause]
I’m helping somebody I don’t know who he
is
so dedication has to be an internal
impulse and not an external reaction he
must be dedicated because he’s dedicated
he is not dedicated because things are
going good he has not allowed external
circumstances to define internal
character he’s just dedicated he’s a
dedicated person he’s been dedicated all
his life when he’s in he’s all in when
he’s there he’s really there when he’s
given he’s really given when he’s
serving he’s really serving regardless
this is who he is don’t let life change
who you are
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you you gotta be consistent even when
life is chaotic because now I see why
God chose Joseph he could trust him he
chose Joseph because he could trust him
and Joseph ends up the Prince of Egypt
because he’s consistent can God trust
you in prison no pain nobody there to
say attaboy God blesses people he can
trust
can he trust you with power secret power
see see see trusting you with money
ain’t no problem trusting you with power
power is what produced Hitler
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power is a really dangerous thing I told
you this before whenever I’m running
around with powerful people I don’t pay
attention to how they treat me I watch
how they treat the waitress the skycap
the bellboy because how you treat them
tells me how you would treat me if I
ever got vulnerable watch it I’m telling
you I’m telling you to tell you a whole
lot how you manage power says something
about you joseph has come from being in
prison to run in the prison and what’s
amazing is his gift is still working
he’s in prison and he’s still given so
the butler and the Baker come to him
with a dream now the butler’s dream was
real but the Bible says when the Baker
saw what the bomber got he’s a dream
something too so I’m a little
questionable about that dream that had
me to dreams that said sometimes you
know it kind of got nil about I’m not
saying that you know he didn’t dream it
I just I never thought about who dreamed
because they heard somebody else dream
and I’m just saying and Joseph is in
prison talking about how interpret your
dream we know y’all got see this now we
in jail we in jail you know jail jail
bro
when it white house wind jail and you
want a word from the Lord in jail
you want me to interpret you first of
all you dreamin in jail
you mean jail has not destroyed your
dream
[Applause]
you you in prison and your biggest
problem is getting somebody to interpret
your dream and here Joseph is in prison
with you and he is serving you in the
prison because that’s who Joseph is it’s
not just what Joseph does that’s who he
is
see I’m talking about being not just
doing don’t let life change who you are
some of you used to be loving you used
to be giving you used to be caring but
you’ve been through so much that it’s
starting to affect who you are if we
were in business we would eat we would
be talking about a brand and a brand is
a promise a brand is a promise and it
says what do we get when we get you and
that’s why I told you you determine who
you are about who you are not it’s your
ability to say no that begins to give
you a distinction who are you whether
you’re in Potiphar’s house or in the
prison or in the pit there ought to be
some consistent that remains the same
that I can count on about you what can I
count on about you because that’s all we
got to deal with for this decade that’s
all we can deal with we cannot deal with
who you are seasonally we cannot deal
with who you are occasionally we cannot
deal with who you act like you are or
pretend to be while I’m looking
we can only deal with that part of you
that is you and that’s good because that
means you don’t have to be me being me
and something I can do I came to you Who
am I or whoever I become and how do I
get back to something that God can trust
so that I can be dedicated so I could
set up a trust you know when you get
ready to put big money into places you
put them in a trust you invest in a
trust can God trust you enough to invest
what about you can he trust nothing
always something about all of us it
can’t be trusted come on
don’t you say that actually I was up two
o’clock last night slipping into the
kitchen
[Music]
[Applause]
I don’t know why went in the kitchen I
was supposed to be going to the bathroom
the bathroom is north the kitchen is
south but there was this little bit of
banana pudding that was left and my
problem is when Dexter was home I could
act like maybe he hated I mean what
didn’t that much I don’t know why I had
to have him it was enough to make me mad
I was mad yes it is too late to make
another one
Harlem has had some area that we can’t
be trusted
can we just be real I told myself I pop
to myself real good I said we’re not
doing that you already had your cheat
day
you’re cheap they turned into a cheat
week
okay so you got to live holy for about
three weeks it’s gonna be subway and
Jesus subway Jesus
subway Angie I talked about all while
I’m going to get the banana pudding and
I’m quoting scriptures and everything
ain’t none of them working
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I’m the only one I’m the only one out
here by you and then I told myself I
said get you gonna do it anyway y+ about
it you might well just enjoy it cuz you
already know you’re gonna get I don’t
need it feeling guilty why are you doing
just be guilty later just it was a good
one – man I’m telling you the Lord was
in the banana pudding the Spirit of the
Lord
[Music]
[Applause]
I think was right it was grandma right
it was so good I start singing slavery
song
[Applause]
should will be to her I will way back in
my ancestry
[Applause]
all of us have some area that we have
not mastered
I’m not preaching this to convict you
I’m preaching this to challenge you what
is it about you that is consistent that
you’re willing to be dedicated to
because that’s all we can use for
destiny Joseph down in jail interpreting
other people’s dreams and he’s done it
for people and saying man this is what’s
gonna happen you’re gonna get out in
three days you’re gonna get out and
you’re going back to the king and in
three days to this other Joker you gonna
be dead you faking you phony
you don’t know who you are you didn’t
dream that and you’re trying to slip in
on somebody else’s anointed in three
days you gonna be dead the bomber gets
out and forgets Joseph but Joseph is
still dedicated the bomber forgets him
for two years
I told you it’s gonna take a decade it’s
gonna take a decade to anchor down
everything that you’re doing right now
it’s gonna take a a decade to get it
where it’s his family said it’s solid
and where you’re fully respected on the
next level or where you going expect it
to take some time two years he spent
forgotten by the people he helped but
dr. King said true smashed down to the
ground will rise again undaunted it may
take a long time but if you just keep
doing right if you’ll just stand your
ground and be dedicated if you keep
going right you can overcome anything
you can lose weight you can go back to
college you can get your doctorate if
you just keep God can only bless what
you are consistent about dedication to
destiny this is my opportunity to
dedicate my way unto the Lord and say
you know what I’m gonna stop being up
and down and back and forth and flipping
in and flipping out and I’m gonna be
consistent even though my life is not
even though this year will not be
consistent even though my friends won’t
be consistent and my family won’t be
consistent my spouse won’t be consistent
even everything around me may not be
consistent these are the areas that I
vow I’m gonna hold to I will not drop
this and they drop something else I say
no I’m not no banana pudding buddy sighs
we still working about that where that’s
where the mercy that’s where the mercy
backing on the part of mercy and the
pudding and the mercy and the pudding
and the mercy and go together lord have
mercy but this right here this right
here Jesus this right here
we’re gonna like this guy we’re gonna
look we gonna walk this out if I don’t
say but $10 a week we gonna walk this
out and if I don’t labor 200 if I don’t
leave it 200 pounds or 200 calories down
a week we don’t walk this out if I don’t
take that one class a year we’re gonna
walk this out this right here I’m gonna
put this on lock I’m gonna put this a
lot because if I put this a lot right
now by the time I get to walking through
this I’m gonna be exactly where I need
to be shake your neighbor and say I’m
after something
amount to some I’m Ashley some time
after some and I’m willing to lock down
to get it I’m willing to be stable to
get it I’m willing to dedicate myself to
order I am not waiting on you to give me
you ain’t got to give me a thing I’m not
gonna be chasing them behind you
sniffing up behind you trying to get on
your good side in the hood I ain’t
dancing none of it I’m gonna get this
for myself and whatever it takes I’m
gonna pay the price
and I like oh nobody when I get it it’s
gonna be me and Jesus it won’t be
nothing about you it’s gonna be me and
the Lord tells me people sell him out to
some
God’s not gonna give me 20 20 and may
not be after some God’s not gonna give
me another year may not be after some
God’s not gonna give me another decade
and we might be after something yeah I’m
gonna do this I’m gonna do this I’m
gonna do this I’m gonna do it when I’m
in jail I’m gonna do it when I’m out of
jail I’m gonna do it when things go
right I’m gonna do it when things go
wrong I’m gonna do this I’m gonna be
consistent Lord you can count on me for
this I will bless the Lord at all times
his face or what what can he count on I
learned a long time ago 50 percent of
women is shored up for the fight the
fight is half over when you show you
will never win a fight you don’t show up
for I’m showing up for this I’m showing
up for the fight Here I am ready for
duty I’m hiding in the shadows for fear
that I might fail
I will face this head-on and let the
chips fall where they may
yes sir let the chips fall where they
may
I will show up verified you can count on
them absorb every day I’m gonna make a
little dent in it every day I’m gonna
hit it every day I’m gonna shop it every
day I’m a swing every day you can count
on me to take action I will not waste
another decade complaining about who
didn’t love me and who didn’t raise me
and who did invest in me
[Applause]
took them two years to get rid of the
amnesia and all of a sudden a bundle
failure I had a dream and nobody could
interpret it and my mother said you know
I know what you call it down there
president what about uh Joseph yeah I
was in the joint with him yeah he pretty
good Lord he’s pretty good heavy might
be good in prison he would have never
got to the palace it was what he did in
prison that brought him to the palace
suppose he would have cuffs the butler
out and said forget you
get out the best way you can I got my
own problems right now but he was
consistent and they came in not on this
Jessa said the King has needed you he
washed up got a line got his fade just
right
say I’m going to see the king
i prophesy to you this day somebody is
going to see the kid your eyes have not
seen your ears have not heard neither
have entered into your heart where God
is about to take you he’s about to take
you into another dimension you’re going
to see the key touch your neighbor and
say I’m going to see the king
I’m going to see the king I’m going to
see the king
I’m going to see the key I’m going to
see the king I’m going to see the king
I’m going to see the key I’m going to
see the king I’m going to see the king
I’m going to see the key I’m not
dressing for where I was I’m dressing
for where I’m going I’m going to see the
guy who was an inmate in one chapter
becomes the head of the Treasury
for the nation of Egypt that’s why I
don’t believe in killing yourself
because when you’re killing yourself you
killing yourself you ain’t mention you
killing yourself over your past but what
you killing is not your past it’s
already happened you’re killing your
future 24 hours can turn your entire
life around you can be on your way down
and God can turn me home I wish I had a
witness somewhere I was ahead one the
Holy Ghost with me
I was I had a fly my parents
[Applause]
so so now it comes down to your party
why does God have you here today what do
you need to be more dedicated to in
order to win you know most people have
never thrown their whole weight at
anything ever most people have never put
in the work for their dreams the 10,000
hours no no they wanted on credit they
won’t read what they’re supposed to read
work the way they’re supposed to work do
what they’re supposed to do and they
will blame God for their own trifling
lazy inconsistent behavior that they
were like like God didn’t come through
when the truth is you didn’t come
through and God has been waiting on you
God has been waiting on you and he says
as soon as he will I will as soon as she
does I will so here’s a question what is
this about what is he talking to you
about and only you can answer that what
dream do you have that you have not
fully been dedicated to that you’ve not
thrown your full self at it consistently
because God said if you do it
consistently he’ll bring it down he’ll
bring it down what is the thing that
this is about church has got to be about
more than a Sunday ritual I don’t need
another ritual I don’t need another
thing to do I don’t need another place
to go I don’t need to get in my car and
go anywhere else just to say I was there
what is this about I go to the things
that are gonna make my life better
I go to things that are gonna strengthen
me in some way I know the things that
are gonna help me to advance
I go to things that are gonna fit my
destiny what is this about for you and
do you have the courage to rededicate
yourself because God says if you will he
will
if you will if if you will sure if you
will
he will if you will he will there’s
something to the folks my age and older
there’s some reason God left you in this
world stop giving yourself a pass and
telling yourself here through the devil
is alive if Naomi would have been
through Ruth would have never found her
purpose stop using your age and the pass
to be trifling stop it stop it stop it
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70 ain’t no nowhere but over here every
other community respect say hey I’m just
70 you get over here child I’m 70 I
guess I’m supposed to die and you die
cause you think you supposed to that
you all cuz you think you old you have a
destiny sir you have something to do Big
Mama you got something to do young man
I don’t care who you are if you are
under the sound of my voice God is
talking to you stand to your feet when I
talk about my beginnings now they sound
terrible but when I was going through
them they really wasn’t that bad cuz I
didn’t have nothing to compare it to I
didn’t know I was forward because I
hadn’t seen rich so Paul was normal I
didn’t know what spaghetti sauce was I
didn’t even know that government cheese
was government cheese I just knew that
it never melted
[Applause]
I knew you can put the oven on 450 and
it was staying there and smile at you I
[Applause]
bet you I still got some of that cheese
in me somewhere at cheese
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I’m not even sure that was cheese I
might have been concrete if I didn’t
minister to seven people with conviction
I would have never gotten to you if I
didn’t go out on the road and preach and
bring my honorarium in to pay my staff I
wouldn’t have 300 people on staff now if
I had not fought for my brain if I had
not stayed up all night for it cook for
it and slay for it dug ditches had bled
for it it would have never happened
God doesn’t give away stuff to you
without you being dedicated to your
destiny
people that think it’s easy are stupid
you think you’re gonna run up here and
I’m gonna lay hands on you and you won’t
get what I sweated for what I labored
for what I did died and bled for what I
went to jail for was in the pit for
survived alive for grows up again
undaunted for came out of hell and high
water for nobody’s dreams happen without
fight fight I mean fight I mean fight
girl with all with all you got and
you’re wrong to quit when you haven’t
fought with all you guys
look at Jesus he was so committed to his
dream that he went to the cross forward
shed his blood for it hung his head and
died for more the two men was buried for
it but early Sunday morning he rolls up
to show I got what I was after good God
Almighty join hands with somebody as I
as we join hands today this is a do
something message it’s not enough to
hear it if you don’t do it if you accept
the challenge join hands with somebody
there’s an area in your life that you’re
gonna have to throw your whole self at
to get but if you throw your whole self
at it it’s going to come to pass you’re
gonna have to throw your energy your
talent your gifts your resources your
relationships your efforts are gonna
have to be tireless to see that thing
come to pass this will not come cheap
but it will come it will come it will
come squeeze that hand something is
about to come into the life of that
person that God wanted them to be here
this Sunday morning
[Music]
next week when you come back I’m gonna
build from this foundation I’m gonna
tell you who you need around you
I’m gonna tell you who you need around
you God’s gonna put a force field of
people around you an intellectual fence
around you people who are gifted enough
to stand shoulder to shoulder and toe to
toe around you you just give me the next
four Sundays I’m gonna take you
somewhere I will drop you so far off
over into your destiny
that hell is gonna break out in hives
that demons have on triple that Satan is
go get nervous when I get the dropping
you over into your destiny
The Devil’s I will fight the same person
he fought in 2019 you gonna be armed and
dangerous for 2020 squeeze at hand
that person is armed and dangerous
father let the anointing of the Holy
Ghost sweep through this road let it
stir up gifts let it stir up talents let
it stir up resources let it stir up
focus and focus and focus and focus and
focus and strengthen us to the point
that we are dedicated to destiny I
believe God that somebody in this room
whose hands are joined and heart is open
that I am feeding something
yes I I am feeling something I am
feeling something I am feeling something
that you already spoke inside of them I
am feeling something that you already
put inside of it I am beating something
that the enemy’s been trying to kill and
steal and destroy but I feed that
destiny I feed that dream I’ve been that
prophetic utterance over their life
glory
squeeze that hand the anointing that’s
moving all over this church the power of
God is in this place you will never be
the same again
you will never be the same again you got
stuff to do
you got stuff to do the weather don’t
have to change the conditions don’t have
to change the circumstances don’t have
to change people don’t have to
understand you they don’t have to like
you their admission is not required you
have to believe in what God put down
inside of you out of your belly shall
flow rivers of living water
I pray that rivers would rise up with
your belly would rise up in your spirit
would rise up in you rivers of
creativity rivers of thought rivers of
ideas huh rivers of revelation rivers of
contact rivers of influence
they’re coming up out of your belly
right now out of your belly shall flow
rivers of living water rivers of living
water
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Oh God
Oh
Oh God
oh oh oh god oh god I see a chair
somebody’s getting ready to sit in a
seat in a place of authority a door is
being open a door is being open a way is
being made this is for you
this is your hour this is your time this
is your season
get ready Joseph getting ready Joseph
getting ready Joseph get ready Joseph
get ready Joseph Joseph Joseph Joseph
Joseph get ready Joseph Joseph I call
you out Joseph Joseph Joseph you also
get ready
Joseph nothing in your past looks like
your pizza get ready Joseph get ready
Joseph get ready get ready
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