We must keep a malleable mind as life’s journey takes us down paths we cannot always predict. As leaders, the pressures of the uncertainties take a toll on our lives. These stressors can drive us to become emotionally charged decision-makers and cause us to ask, “Is the Lord among us or not?” As you lead, are you prepared to increase yourself to teach people who don’t like you? Give up your addiction to affluence and you’ll get influence.
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i want you to open your heart and open
your bibles as we go to exodus chapter
17 verse 1 through 7.
we’re going to stand for the reading of
god’s word
even if you can’t read
just stand and look important
yeah
fake it till you make it
hallelujah
the whole israel community set out
from the desert of sin
traveling from place to place pay
attention to that traveling
from place to place
traveling from place
to place
as the lord commanded
god put them on the road
they camped at refereed
but there was no water
for the people to drink
so they crawled with moses
and said give us water to drink
moses replied why do you call with me
why do you put the lord to the test
but the people were thirsty for water
and they grumbled against moses
they said why did you bring us up out of
egypt to make us
and our children and livestock die
of dust
then moses cried out to god
find him how to do with these people
lord
it’s been a few times
i see it in myself dear jesus
they are almost ready to stone me
listen to what bothered him about what
they did they’re almost ready
to stone me
the lord answered moses go out in front
of the people take with you some of the
elders of israel and take in your hand
the staff which you struck the nile and
gold
i will stand there before you by the
rocket horeb
strike the rock
and water will come out of it for the
people to drink
so moses did in the sight of the elders
of israel
in front of his leadership and he called
the place massa and maribel because the
israelites quarreled and because they
tested the lord saying
is the lord amongst us
or not
this morning i want to talk from the
subject road rage
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look at your name and say do you have
road rage
spirit of god we invite you now
come real
close
engage us empower us enlighten us
inform us
transform us
illuminate your will and plan and
purpose for our lives prophesy to us
give us the kind of tenacity that is
necessary to surge upward and onward
into our destiny
for you have caused us to travel
from place to place
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and what is clear to us
is that we can stay here no
longer change is imminent
change is necessary
i refuse to be the same person in 2022
that i was in 2021.
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i refused to face the same problem and
the same predicament that i had
travel is imminent set me on the road
and give me the courage to move from
place to place for the steps of a good
man
are ordered by the lord and you delight
in my way
lead me in a plain path because of my
enemies i need to see clearly what you
would have me to do
give me that transitory mentality that’s
necessary not to fall so in love with
what is that i can’t catch what’s coming
have your way
in jesus name
somebody shout amen
you may be seated
yeah let’s go to work
so i basically want to uh just talk to
you this morning i want to take you to
starbucks and get you a la day
and sit down and have a conversation
i want to use this text as a canvas on
which you and i
can paint an illustration that is
relevant to you
the purpose is not so much to exegete
the text alone
but to use the tests not only
historically
but metaphorically
so that you can better understand what
is happening in your life in this season
the text starts out on a very irritating
tone it is frustrating
the people are frustrated
because their norms have been shattered
and anytime your norm is shattered
you bear an emotional toll whether you
express it or not
nobody has attacked them at this point
no enemy has besieged them at this point
but the pressure of the uncertainty
of going from place to place
takes its own toll
you want to know how am i going to make
it and where am i going to stay and what
am i going to eat and what am i going to
drink what am i going to do if you’re
like me you’re the kind of person that
likes to have some answers before you
make movements
but occasionally god will cause you to
move without answers and give you
answers as you go
and it is very difficult to deal with
people who are frustrated to lead people
who are frustrated it is quite difficult
and moses
became exasperated with them they were
exasperated with him he was exasperated
with them and he cries out to god what
am i gonna do with these people
these people are getting on my nerves
often he and god would argue whose
people they were
the lord told them they’re your people
moses said no no they’re your people
yeah he had the kind of conversation and
ability to interact with god that
perhaps somebody else would have got
killed for
but moses was a leader
he was a leader
title or not
he was a leader
there is a distinction between titles
and leadership
there’s nothing worse than calling
somebody by a title and them not be the
leader that matches up with the title
now to be sure to be a leader is a
difficult thing
because the
expectations rest on you
and the expectations rest on you whether
it was your fault or not
they expect you to fix things that are
unfixable
change things that are beyond your grasp
moses is wrestling with a problem that
he did not create
and he could not create and he could not
uh fix but they charged him as if it was
his fault
so you cannot be sensitive and be a
leader
you have to be tough enough to
understand that you don’t respond to
every accusation and allegation because
sometimes the question has more to do
with the questioner than it does you
you’re the one that’s frustrated
you’re the one that’s at the end of your
room and they’re complaining about being
thirsty
and i thought to myself if there was no
water
than one moses thirsty too
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but we often forget that our leaders are
also one of us
and we expect them to be superhuman as
if they have no need
but in reality if there was no water to
drink
then moses’s mouth was dry too
and often the challenge with being a
leader is that you are exempted and
opted out of the opportunity to be human
moses is one of my heroes
not because he was the perfect leader
but he was a powerful leader
he was a relentless leader he had found
the thing he was born to do
and he didn’t find it at first it takes
a while to find the thing you were born
to do
most of the time you end up doing the
things you have to do
not really recognizing the thing you
were born to do
and then when you find the thing that
you’re born to do you have to figure out
how you’re going to do it
because there are lots of ways to do it
here’s the first indication of a leader
you must be willing to be unorthodox
there’s nothing worse than putting a
person into leadership who is more
worried about fitting in
than they are standing out
unorthodox really in his origin means to
be out of the ordinary
not the previously accepted ideology
not mimicking the methods of the people
who are surrounding you
all of our great leaders throughout
history were always
unorthodox
rule breakers
if you expect to be written about
you got to be willing to break some
rules
if you’re more concerned about fitting
in then just be the status quo but
nobody writes about people who followed
the status quo
when martin luther tapped the 96 thesis
on the door of the church as history
proclaims that he did
if he did that he he was willing to be
unorthodox and was ridiculed and was
criticized and they tried to kill him
because he wouldn’t act like one of them
martin luther wasn’t on orthodox leader
martin luther king jr
was an
orthodox leader
he didn’t quite fit in with malcolm
he didn’t quite fit in with the
pampers he didn’t quite fit in with the
generation before him
his method of courage like the panthers
coupled with peace like a christian
made him an oddity
are you willing to be odd
are you willing to be different nobody
follows people who follow trends
a great leader creates trends
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stands out does things differently
moses in my estimation is one of the
greatest leaders of the old testament
he follows after the patriarchs abraham
isaac and jacob
but he is a great great leader so much
that god protected him all of his life
not that he didn’t have peril not that
he didn’t have a rough childhood not
that he wasn’t denied the right to grow
up in a normal israelite family all of
that was taken from him
but all of that has something to do with
how god shaped him
he grew up where he was a misfit
he couldn’t quite fit in as an israelite
or hebrew
because he was raised like an egyptian
and he talked like an egyptian
and he was educated like an egyptian
and he understood the protocol of an
egyptian
he had never woken up a day in his adult
life
living in a slave quarter
and yet he is called to lead people that
he’s kin to
but he’s not
their kind
he couldn’t stay with the people that he
was
their kind because he wasn’t their kin
and so
one of the proclivities of being a
leader is to have the ability to adapt
and become comfortable with being
controversial
it isn’t just that he is the
pastorpreneur
of the era though he was
moses is the leader of the old testament
church
the very first inkling of an
understanding of the church comes
through the ecclesia of the called out
ones they were called out of slavery to
establish not only the old testament
church of which he is the shepherd of
the sheep leading them he is also
the the the head of state when it comes
to organizing a nation
of people
that were once slaves
and they have cried out to god for their
freedom and moses has come to deliver
them from the oppression of pharaoh
but he was delivering people that didn’t
always like him
and if you have too much of a need to be
liked
you can’t be a great leader
because you’re too much of a pleaser
i’m just giving you some guidelines
if if it becomes more important to you
to be liked than it is to lead you’re
probably not a leader you just have a
title and you’re in a tough position
because something you do is going to
frustrate somebody no matter which
decision you make
can i go deeper
now the metrics of leadership is
movement
you can’t be say you’re a leader if you
don’t have any metrics to prove you are
moving things
so don’t go by the title
and don’t just go by the preaching
how much difference are you making and
how do you quantify the distance between
with you and without you
and if without you looks just like with
you then you’re not a leader you’re a
placeholder
are you hearing what i’m saying
so we want to have some measurements
what what are the measurements that you
measure whether you’re a leader not well
this is not for me i’m not a leader
everybody in this room is a leader in
one way or another
they have a degree of leadership
responsibility because leadership at its
core means influence
and if you have any influence if it’s
just over your children if it’s just
over your sister if it’s just over your
mama if it’s just over yourself you have
the responsibility to adapt to as much
as possible to an understanding of
seeing yourself as a leader if not you
have to sit and wait on somebody to
follow
are you hearing what i’m saying
leadership is what the bible calls what
the bible calls
favor
yeah because if leadership is influenced
influence is favor
it’s not a title it’s not a stage it’s
not visibility it may increase your
affluence but more stage time doesn’t
equate to influence there’s a difference
between affluence and influence
the stage gives you affluence but it
doesn’t necessarily mean you have
influence sometimes the people who are
not on the stage have more influence
than the people who stand on the stage
and often hire the people on the stage
and yet we have a tendency to desire the
light
so we’d rather be in the light than on
the building
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we would rather be in the light than on
the building
because whoever owns the building
doesn’t get seen but they have the
influence to make the decision about who
stands on the stage
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are you hearing what i’m saying
the actor gains affluence can’t go
anywhere can’t go in the grocery store
people taking pictures of them
everywhere but the studio has influence
are you hearing what i’m saying
there are many many singers that became
very very famous and died very very
broke
and they had affluence and they had fan
clubs and they had fan page and they had
to deal with tabloids but they ended up
with little of nothing to show for what
they had
and they had very little to show for
what they had because they had affluence
does not equate to influence we are not
trained to look for influence
we are trained to look for affluence so
we prosper in areas that give us
affluence we want to be preachers we
want to be football players we want to
be basketball stars we want to be
hip-hop artists we want stage we don’t
want to own the label we don’t want to
own the company we don’t want to own the
studio we don’t want to own
so what we have modeled in front of us
is affluence at a time that the world is
looking for somebody with influence
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affluence shines on the stage
influence shines in the boardroom
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are you hearing what i’m saying to you
and i feel like god is getting ready to
shift some of you into places of
influence
and your influence is getting ready to
increase
and you have been
disappointed with life because you never
got affluence but the lord told me to
tell you i didn’t give you affluence
because i’m getting ready to give you
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oh i’m talking to somebody
so when i’m talking to leaders i’m
talking to you you don’t even know it
yet because the world has not recognized
you as a leader they’ve recognized you
to a degree as a person with talent but
they don’t see you as a leader and it’s
because you’re getting affluence but you
haven’t gotten influence and influence
is getting ready to break forth in your
life like you’ve never seen it before as
soon as you let go of your addiction to
affluence
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nothing worse to hiring somebody into an
influential position and all they want
is affluence
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nothing worse than having a pastor who
is a leader and all he wants to do is
preach
pastoring is much bigger than preaching
it is leading
it is looking at the metrics and seeing
how much distance have you covered and
it’s not just quantity it’s quality it’s
not always about having a bigger church
it’s about having a better church
we have fallen in love with bigger and
not better
but the metrics that we might be
measured by might not be numerical
metrics it might be the depth to which
you have influenced the lives of the
people that hurt you
but you don’t want that because you
don’t get credit for being a great
pastor you get credit for having a big
church
and america in particularly is in love
with our fluence
we
stand for hours to take pictures of
people on the red carpet who have
affluence and the people who who sign
the contract for the people that are on
the red carpet walk right past you and
you pay them no attention because we do
not glorify leadership we glorify light
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but the reason i thought it was
important normally i would just teach
something like this at a leadership
conference and i do have some things
that i’m going to teach that but i’m
going to give you a little precursor
today in case you don’t make it or in
case you do come you’ll come with your
head on straight
the bible said in luke 2 52 and jesus
increased
in wisdom
and stature
and favor
with god and man
favor with man is influence
favor with god is influence to have
favor with god means i can speak up and
say things to god and things will change
and what is powerful about luke 2 52 is
that jesus increased if jesus increased
that means that i can increase
i can start out with no influence and
end up with all kinds of influence my
influence can increase and one of the
ways to know that your influence is
increasing is by the level of your
attack
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some people have not earned the right to
be severely attacked or greatly attacked
because they don’t have great enough
influence when the enemy sees that
you’re about to get greater influence he
sends on greater demons to attack your
life to assassinate the destiny that is
over your life
hallelujah the devil doesn’t know it but
he’s warning you of what is about to
come by the level of attack that
precedes the next move that’s coming in
your life who am i talking to today
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so i want to talk to you about this in
three dimensions
i want to talk to you about leading
i want to talk to you about learning
and i want to talk to you about legacy
you have to understand
that if you’re going to lead you have to
learn
you can’t become inflexible and stop
learning and get so busy in your leading
that you stop learning moses was a
leader that god had selected to do great
things not only spiritually
not only spiritually but governmentally
moses wants to be a multifaceted leader
right then a multifaceted leader you can
be a leader and be
multifaceted
don’t let people pigeonhole you and
limit you to how they understand you
rather than living your life to the
fullness of your uniqueness and be
willing to evolve and learn and be a
multi-faceted leader
he has up unto his auspices the
responsibility of establishing their
worship
but he also has to establish their
government their protocol their rules so
in the pentatonic you will see
god giving the ten commandments you will
see god giving the ordinances
and you will see god giving the
ceremonies the ceremonies inhabit the
worship
the ordinance inhabits the government
how you judge one another how you handle
each other’s run-ins and obstacles and
adversities
the ten commandments was to israel what
the constitution is to the country you
have to have one set of principles you
can’t have five different principles in
the same organization
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bringing whatever you have influence
over to a common set of basic ideals
that defines you and sets you apart is
important and it’s not just good enough
for you to know it the people up under
you have to know it and then you have a
criteria to pick out who goes with you
because if you can’t align with my
vision then you can’t stay on my team
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you have to see how your life’s vision
fits into my vision in order for you to
be a good fit up under the wings of my
umbrella because if you don’t you have
your own agenda and when you come into
my atmosphere with your agenda you turn
my vision into division and when we find
division we have to let’s go
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you cannot counsel out division
when you have two different visions one
of us has got to go
lot had to separate from abraham
it’s only when you can find a way to fit
your vision up under my vision and let
me say it in a biblical way how can two
walk together
save they agree
now the fact that jesus increased in
wisdom and stature and favor with god
and with man say that with me jesus
increased in wisdom and stature and
favor with god and with man lets me know
that i need influence with god because
favor is influence and i need influence
with man
and if the enemy can’t take away my
influence with god he will attack my
influence with man
i can be anointed have influence with
god and destroy my reputation and lose
influence with men and still be as
anointed as i ever was with god but be
totally ineffective with men because i
have lost my influence with men though i
maintain my influence with god i will
always be god’s man
but i might not be
his man that he can use because i am
still having influence with god but i
have damaged my influence with man note
to self protect your influence with man
at all costs because if you lose your
influence with man you limit
your ability to be effective though you
still have influence with god
i’m not saying you can’t survive it
i’m i’m saying you’re going to suffer
from it
i’m saying you’re going to have loss
from it
i’m saying that influence with men is
fickle
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and it’s hard enough to keep when you’ve
done your best
because there’s always some snake
crawling around trying to bite and
destroy your influence with man
you don’t want to help the snake bite
you
can i go deeper with his scene
they had one body of principles and
ideas that all of them had to learn and
moses understood when he established the
ten commandments the judgments and the
ordinances i meant to say it that way
the ten commandments the judgment and
the ordinance are the three divisions
that establish them and set them apart
from the egypt the egyptians and the
hittites and the jebusites it wasn’t
their look it wasn’t their clothing it
was their principles
we worked too much on our appearance and
too little on our principles
we worked too much on our image and too
little on our realities
so we spent all of our money looking
successful
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oh y’all ain’t gonna help me
rather than being successful
if you were what you looked like you
wouldn’t you would be able to sleep at
night but we have a tendency to spend
the money that god gave us to take us to
the next level on our image
and not on our reality
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so the first thing we do when a door is
open to us is try to look the part
and we spend all of our resources on
trying to look the part rather than to
be the part
it’s one thing to look like a president
and it’s another thing to be one
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do you want to have the look
or do you want to have the being
now the look will fool people for a
while for man looks on the outer
appearance but the look will never fool
god because god looks on the heart and
at the end of the day what’s in the
heart will trump what’s on the body
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you can’t fake knowledge
you either know it or you don’t
you can’t fake knowledge you either got
it or you don’t i could dress like a
doctor i could wear the clothing of a
doctor i could wear the shoes of a
doctor but when you put me in the
operating room you’re going to readily
find out i’m not a doctor even though i
might know some terms that make me sound
like a doctor i’ve got to be more than a
look when i got a scalpel in my hand
the church has accepted a lot of people
who look like leaders
who know a few things that they saw on
instagram like leaders and they’ve got a
few slogans and no context to put it in
context to go along with the slogans and
they they string together sayings that
they got off of twitter into sermons and
when they run out of cliches they start
talking about people because they are
trying to produce something that they
are not
and you cannot produce what you are not
i can teach what i know but i can only
produce what i
am if i learn mandarin i can teach
mandarin but that doesn’t make me
chinese
so i can teach mandarin but when i have
a baby the baby is not going to come out
chinese because i can only produce what
i am
you will only go as far as you are
you cannot produce what’s not in you
stop trying to be other people because
it’s not in your inventory to do what
they do you must be authentic you must
be yourself even at the risk of being
unorthodox you have to be who god made
you
you have to do it the way god gave you
to do it you have to speak it the way
god gave you to speak it you have to be
an original
authenticity
is imperative for great leadership
i can learn like from you but i can
never be you
so the only thing i want from a mentor
is to learn principles and concepts but
when once i learn the principles and the
concepts i can’t be my teacher
i can only be myself
uniformed ideas create justice you can’t
have one set of principles for your
friends and another set of principles
for your foes you can’t have one set of
principles for this group in your office
and another set of principles for
another group in your office uniformity
creates justice justice must be blind it
can’t blink because you’re a woman he
can’t blink because you’re cute he can’t
blink because you’re fine fine might get
you a date but it won’t get you a job it
can’t blink because you’re nice looking
it’s got to be fair and equitable and
even across the board so being nice can
only take you so far sooner or later
you’re going to have to go from
personality to performance
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have you ever seen somebody trying to
fake you out with nice
and they thought if you liked them well
enough that you would always call them
if i call you to cut the grass i don’t
care how nice you are if you can’t cut
the grass i’m going to call somebody
else nice
personality does not trump performance
but it will hinder it
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it’s not that personality is not
important but if all you got is
personality
you know it’s not going to do me any
good i don’t want to go to a doctor and
all i’m able to say about him is he’s so
nice
he don’t know nothing but he’s so nice
he cut out my lungs but he’s so nice
i want him to be nice
but i want him to be knowledgeable
are you hearing what i’m saying
and i want to be treated with fairty
fairness now what is happening here
is moses is leading people with motion
sickness
he is leading people with motion
sickness i don’t have much motion
sickness but my wife has a lot of motion
sickness
she can ride in a car most of the time
but maybe not in the back seat she
doesn’t do well on a boat so a cruise is
a challenge because motion makes her
sick it’s called motion sickness and if
she doesn’t take some medicine she can’t
take a boat ride because of motion
sickness and most of us are leading
people who have motion sickness
moses is leading people who haven’t
moved for 430 years
and now he’s got them living on the road
and the very fact that they have motion
sickness makes them difficult to move
and moses is a leader and the only
metric of leadership is movement if he
doesn’t move he’s not a leader but if he
moves them they’re going to have motion
sickness because they have not moved for
430 years they have spiritual atrophy
most churches have spiritual atrophy
atrophy is when you haven’t moved
something in so long it ceases to move
without pain
most churches have spiritual atrophy no
we’ve always done it like that you
always sing the song before you read the
prayer deacon wilson always takes up the
offering that’s atrophy anytime people
start talking about always
and they worship normalcy more than they
worship movement it becomes difficult to
lead them because they’re uncomfortable
with change and moses has the dubious
task of trying to move people who have
spent 430 years being motionless
so the bible says
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that they were moved by god from place
to place
and anytime god has you moving from
place to place you’re leading through
uncertainty you don’t know what’s going
to happen next reading their journey is
like reading a good movie one moment
they’re fighting avalanche at referendum
and the next moment they can’t find any
water the next chapter you turn over
into the snakes are coming out and
biting them and the next chapter you
turn into god has covered them with a
cloud of fire to keep them warm at night
and the moment you get used to the cloud
of fire he is turned into a pillar of
smoke by day and then you turn past the
next chapter and they come to a face
filled with palm trees and fresh water
and you walk on a little further and
they come to a dry place and every time
they kept moving they kept blaming moses
because they had motion sickness they
had moved for 430 years some of you
listening at me right now have not
changed in 20 or 30 years and now this
pandemic is driving you crazy because
it’s forcing you to have to move and
you’re uncomfortable because you have
spiritual atrophy and you keep waiting
for god to make it like it was and
success for you is for god to take you
back to what you’re used to but i came
to tell you that god has closed up the
red sea and you can’t go back to what it
was you must adapt to what it is what it
is what it is what it is what it is you
gotta you gotta adapt to what it is not
what it was not what it will be you got
to adapt to what it is what it is
am i talking to somebody today
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see that most of us are trying to manage
people
you got wives trying to manage husbands
you got husbands trying to manage wives
you’ve got parents trying to manage
children you got people trying to manage
life most of us are trying to manage
people you’re upset with people because
they won’t be managed they won’t do what
you tell them to do they won’t go where
you tell them to go god does not call
you to manage people he calls you to
lead people
once god calls you to lead people he
will call you to manage procedures
i was talking to a lady patricia heyroyd
and she almost knocked me out of my
chair with this point you manage
procedures you lead people
[Applause]
we don’t spend enough time managing
procedures
we as preachers are so busy making
sermons
we don’t want to be bothered with
procedures
and long after the sermon is over the
church has to live with the procedures
and now the pandemic has come to
preachers who spend all their time
studying for the sermon
and they get the sermon so that they can
move people and they’re not used to
managing procedures that means that
you’ve got to be willing to tweak your
procedures that means you’ve got to be a
person who stops saying this is just how
i do it this is just how i am this is
just the way it is you cannot fall in
love with the procedure the procedure’s
got to be willing to change so that the
results can increase who am i talking to
the procedures have got to be willing to
change so that the results can increase
that’s why you take your car for a
tune-up so that you can adjust the
procedures to increase the performance
you have no more performance than you
have willingness to adjust the procedure
in other words if you always do what
you’ve always done you will always be
where you’ve always been not because you
didn’t have a vision not because you
didn’t want to go forward but because
you refused to change the procedures if
you don’t change the procedures you
can’t have the promotion
[Music]
[Applause]
and i came to tell somebody you’ve been
working hard on the wrong stuff
you’re trying to manage people and
people will always break out
from people who manage them
that’s why they’re in the wilderness in
the first place is because they are
tired of being managed by pharaoh they
have broken away from the bondage of
having to live my life by your rules
you may be my wife but this is my life i
may be your husband but this is your
life you can’t
manage my life with your opinions
[Applause]
what has to happen is we lead people we
manage procedures because people will
always leave
managers
people will eventually break away from
people who manage them
because to manage me is to dominate me
like i am an inanimate object and i
don’t have an opinion
you can lead me but you can’t manage me
we need to spend more time managing the
procedures
measuring
the results
and leading the people
so i’m trying to bring people
into a procedure
that has metrics
of performance
i got to go i got to go i can’t stay on
that
people change in uncertainty
you don’t know who you got until you get
them in an uncertain environment you
don’t know what you got to deal with as
long as we was dating as long as we was
hanging out as long as you had time to
get your hair done as long as you had
time to get your nails done as long as
you had time to schedule me into your
schedule that’s one thing but people
when you start putting them in
situations of uncertainty they change
and all of a sudden you get to see who
they really are because if i take you
away from your familiar i get to find
out who you are
[Applause]
can i go deeper
this is why i want you to be at the
leadership conference this is why you
need to be there whether you’re a pastor
or not or an entrepreneur or not is
because god is getting ready to increase
your favor
with god
and with man
god is getting ready to increase
your influence
with god and with man
everybody in here who has been sensing
that god is getting ready to increase
you and maybe you’ve been a little
scared of it and maybe you’ve been a
little shy of it but there’s been
something speaking in your ear and
sometimes at the wrong season in your
life to you that god is getting ready to
increase your influence jump up and give
god a praise right now
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
i’m just teaching today i’m not worried
about making you shout but i want you to
understand something increase means
uncertainty
increase means going into the unfamiliar
increase means being prepared to lead
people who don’t like you
[Applause]
you got to be prepared to lead people
who don’t like you and the problem with
you is that you want to be liked
and you want to be liked even if you
have to stop leading
and then you wonder why you’re not going
anywhere it’s because you change the
goal
from leadership to lockership
until you are willing to be
controversial and be disliked and lead
people that are murmuring and
complaining you will never be able to
lead people
if you use their reaction as the
thermometer to your progress as if
something is wrong because they’re
murmuring you will stop growing because
if you read the text these people were
always murmuring they were always had
road rage every time he moved them they
was complaining about something that’s
what got them bit wednesday night by the
snakes they were murmuring and
complaining and god sent the snakes out
now when they’re not complaining about
the snakes now they’re complaining about
the water there’s no water out here
people will always complain
when you take them out of their comfort
zone
because being stretched is uncomfortable
being stretched is painful
being stretched activates muscles and
cells and nerves and tendencies that
have been dormant being stretched it’s
the strategy of where we are right now
clearly clearly clearly god is
stretching all of us
[Applause]
he is stretching us
he is stretching us he has got us out of
our comfort zone we are all bickering
with each other we are all angry with
each other we are getting on each
other’s nerves because we are being
stretched
nobody is totally sure what’s going to
happen next not the experts not the news
commentators not the haters not the
spectators not the preachers not the
pastors nobody knows for sure what’s
going to happen next because god is
stretching us
and taking us from place to place
and we are on the road and some of us
have got a lot of rage but the time has
come
for you to release your rage and get
back on the road and do what god called
you to do
with your mouth closed because if you
don’t shut your mouth you’re going to
delay your journey
and die in the wilderness when you could
have been in the promised land because
you can’t stop murmuring and complaining
and crying out to god
lord make it like it was
i hate to tell you this it will never be
like it was your marriage won’t be like
it was your children won’t be like it
was you won’t be like it was your church
won’t be like it was your nation won’t
be like it was nothing stays like it is
except death
[Applause]
if you want to stay young die young
[Music]
[Applause]
the only way to forever be 21 is died
21.
let it be your last birthday
death will stop the birthdays
death will stop the birthdays but if
you’re going to live you’re going to
change
you can go screaming you can go crawling
you can go complaining you can be
dragged into it you can sit back and
watch it happen and not do nothing about
it but you must be prepared if you’re a
leader for change agile on your feet
mobile in your thinking not in love with
your own procedures
[Applause]
the problem with many in my generation
is that they are in love with their own
procedures so they refuse to do church
in new and creative ways and they refuse
to adapt to technology and now we’re in
a situation where sometimes technology
is the only way we can communicate and
you refuse to learn it because you
thought you could opt out of it but you
can’t opt out of change when change
comes you got to go back to school you
got to go back to school this is a
learning season it’s not just a leading
season it’s a learning season and moses
as gifted as he was as anointed as he
was as ordained as he was
still had to learn
sit down sit down i’m just talking to
you
is this good
is this helping anybody
he had to learn that people changed in
uncertainty
he had to learn that the people who left
willingly with him
soon turned against him
they turned against him before he got to
the red sea
it’s an interesting fact that many of
the people who voted for president trump
also voted for president obama
check it out
google it
the ratio of people who voted for trump
is in many cases similar to the same
people who voted for obama which means
they didn’t vote for either one they
voted for change
it changed by any means necessary
and you can say whatever you want to
about it one way or the other if you are
in a struggling state if you’re in a
struggling atmosphere if you’re in a
struggling economy it doesn’t matter
what the stock market is if you don’t
have no money in it
[Applause]
oh the stock market is doing good what
does that have to do with me having
beans in the refrigerator
[Applause]
people vote according to what they see
in their
environment and they will change from
baptist to methodist from methodist and
non-denominational
they will change from democrat to
republican even the candidates will
change they will change their position
they will change what they say because
in uncertainty people change
now to him whom much is given much is
required
and some of you are intimidated because
god is putting you in a situation that
is too big for you but just because it’s
too big for you doesn’t mean it’s not
that it that it’s not yours to do
[Applause]
can i go deeper
i want to talk to all the people who
sense that god is about to give you
increase
i want to talk to you for a minute
about weight distribution
i want you to understand that moses had
to learn several things
number one when when moses committed the
murder in egypt and he had to flee to
jethro’s house
he started learning leadership with
sheep
when god called moses through the
burning bush moses was leading sheep
that was his job
that was his first job
he had always lived in the palace
he has gone from being a prince in the
palace to a shepherd with sheep
because god will give you your destiny
in seed form early
whatever you have become right now you
were in some ways that when you were a
child
there’s something that happened to you
something that motivated you something
that stirred you something you were
running from or something you were
running to whether you used it rightly
or wrongly if you are a leader now
you’ve always been a leader if you’re an
influencer now you’ve always been an
influencer you might have been a drug
dealer influencer you might have been a
pimp influencer you might have been a
bad boy influencer but you have always
influenced people and god is trying to
take that gift and take it from his
perversion to its conversion so that he
can convert it into something he can use
there is not one person in this room
that god cannot use there is something
in your history something in your story
something in your agony something in
your pain that has prepared you for
something bigger than yourself the
question is do you have the flexibility
to transfer from leading sheep to
leading people
let me go a little bit deeper i wish i
had more time when god meets peter peter
is down by the boat mending his nets
jesus asked peter can i borrow your boat
peter said go ahead i’m not using it he
pushed out a little bit from land and
peter’s boat or his business became
god’s platform
is your business god’s platform
i’m not gonna bother that so peter
pushed out a little bit from land
jesus is standing on peter’s business
as a platform to do his preaching
and peter is a fisher of fish
and jesus says to him watch this because
here’s my point he says follow me
and i will make you fishers of men
in other words you got the skill set
from fishing for fish i’m gonna transfer
it and now make you fishers of man
whatever you are going to be is hidden
in the details of your history
you’ve got to learn though
because practice is not like recital
so he practiced on sheep
and then god let him practice his
miracles in the desert
when the burning bush came kind of go a
little bit deeper i’m having a good time
i like to teach leadership when the
burning bush came god said we need to
practice
you need to practice for what’s next
before you get there
you need to practice so here’s here’s
how we’re going to practice stick your
hand in your bosom he stuck his hand in
his muscle it came out white as snow god
said stick it in again it came back out
it was healed he said
let go of your stick and it turned into
a snake he said grab the snake by the
tail that took a lot of courage he
grabbed the snake by the tail it turned
into a stick again he said pour out
water he poured out water and it turned
to blood and god said okay we’re done
with rehearsal let’s go and perform
let’s go to pharaoh’s house and we’re
going to do these tricks on the road
we’re taking these tricks on the road
write that down we’re taking these
tricks on the road the things you
learned in private god’s going to use in
the open we’re taking these tricks on
the road you were never wasting your
time even when you were shoveling
sheepdog even when you were taking care
of sheep it was on the job training for
what god is about to do in your life
everything you’ve been through every
night you cried every night you felt
denied every day you felt overlooked
every day you felt like it wasn’t ever
going to happen was all rehearsal now we
get ready to play the game let the band
play let the music start let the dancers
dance bring the cheerleaders out the
game is about to begin go down there and
tell pharaoh that god said let my people
go excuse me i got a question who shall
i say sent me i’m too big to be defined
i’m too big to be locked up in a
definition just tell him i am that i am
because i am so ambidextrous i’ll be
bred when you’re hungry i’ll be water
when you’re thirsty i’ll be away when
there is no way i’ll be a clown above
you by night i’ll be a pillar of fire
when you’re cold whatever you need me to
be i can become whatever you need me to
be i’m flexible and if you’re gonna be
like me you gotta be flexible you gotta
be able to be more than one thing i
break the cage that locked you down to
one dimension that’s kept you back in
the sheepfold that’s kept you handling
sheep when you were called to lead
nations
[Music]
my god i feel like i’m talking to
somebody i don’t know who it is
but whoever it is wave your hand at me
type on the lion make some noise holler
at you boy let me hear from you give me
a clap sign
give me a signal
let me know i’m talking to you if i’m
getting you ready for what’s next in
your life if i’m getting you ready for
what’s next in your life holla and i
can’t hear y’all
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
sit down i’m going a little bit deeper
can i go
you all ready go with me
so they got road rage
because they’re out of their comfort
zone they got road rage because they’re
being stretched they got road rage
because they have to use their lesser
used muscles
pastor tubman i listen to one trainer
talk about how some of these guys can be
all buff and be built and
be muscular and be muscle bound and have
big muscles and can’t handle small
weights
because just because you got big muscles
right here don’t mean you got big
muscles right here the muscle you work
on is the muscle that builds so you can
look good and get in a fight and get
your tail whip because you worked out on
the wrong muscles some of you have been
working real hard on the wrong muscle
set you become real good at doing
something that is unfruitful and you’ve
got to be willing to change i oh god i
decree and declare there will be massive
change in your life you will not waste
another year building up a muscle group
you don’t need god is getting ready to
put you in areas that’s going to stretch
the weaknesses in you that they may
become stronger
[Music]
so moses went from leadership to
learning
he went from leadership to learning
and when he gets to jethro’s house he
learns by handling sheep which is
practice for handling people when he
gets to the burning bush he learns how
to do his miracles in the privacy before
god before he does it in front of his
enemies
because if it doesn’t work in the glory
it ain’t gonna work in your life
[Music]
can i go deeper with this
now he’s leading the people but he’s
leading them like their sheep
the sheep have one shepherd
and a stranger’s voice they will not
follow
so moses is leading the children of
israel and all roads lead to him all
decisions come to him all
responsibilities come to him and jethro
comes down to visit him and when jethro
comes down to visit him the bible says
that jethro just sat back and watched
him all day long this is one generation
watching another generation he watched
him all day long and moses did nothing
all day but hear the grievances of the
people who had road rage
she took my this she’s using my tent he
stole my wife they went off with my kid
this one took my dog this one took my
cat and at the end of the day moses was
exhausted
moses was exhausted
and when he when his father-in-law
looked at him and he said you’re not
doing it right
the journey is too great for you to do
with the procedure you have in place
you got a sheet procedure
in a national opportunity
and i love education i believe in
education i think education is real
important but if there is one weakness
in education one of it is is that
education doesn’t prepare you
for protocol and application
so you have the facts to get the job but
you don’t know how to talk in the office
so the moment you get angry in the
office you go back to your hood girl
routine i i tell you what because
[Music]
[Applause]
you got a master’s degree but behind the
master’s degree
you still boo-boo
and if they wake up boo boo it’s gonna
be hell up in this office
i’m not going to hr i’m not found a
grievance i’m going to kick this chair
back and you and me you want some of
this
and now you get disqualified for
something you’ve been training six years
for you’ve got the education to do it
but not the discipline to function in it
y’all ain’t gonna talk to me but i know
i’m talking good i know i’m talking good
i could call some names of people that i
know that are qualified but got
disqualified because they have road rage
and anytime they get on the road the
rage comes out
[Applause]
am i talking to anybody
and then god says to him
you can’t be a one-man band like you
were with the sheep
cause these are people they’re gonna
have all kind of problems they can talk
the anything that can talk is gonna give
you some trouble
that’s why a dog is a man’s best friend
i don’t care what you say to me a dog i
don’t know if it’s true about women but
a dog is a man’s best friend cause a dog
will lick you like you and never say
nothing
everybody else got a mouth gonna talk
[Applause]
if you want a friend you can trust
get a dog
everybody else is suspect
[Applause]
right that’s all i want you to be able
to say well
[Applause]
and be happy to see me when i come home
jump up on my chest and try to lick me
in the face that’s all that’s all i’ll
feed you and walk you and take you to
the vet we got a deal
[Applause]
never seen a dog betray its owner
they’re not judgmental
they’re not self-righteous
they don’t break covenant
they don’t tell lies
i love them
everybody else i watch with one eye
squid
because people change in uncertainty
so then god says to him something i’m
gonna make a quick illustration uh uh is
don nearby
i want don to come i want frank to come
i want hattie to come right quick and
just stand right up on stage here for a
minute
oh yeah since the sudden
she’s not sister hill anymore
got to keep up with this and honey you
come and stand and y’all stand in front
of me straight across facing the people
now yeah just straight across like
hattie’s doing
just stand right there
now my wife runs the women’s department
frank is my ceo over the polish house
don is executive director of security
and safety here at departed house
hattie hill is the president of td
jake’s foundation
i didn’t bet you let me pet you
everybody
i pat it
everybody i pat it
i put paint on
every one of these people
is worried
about something that i would have to
worry about if they didn’t
so what i’m teaching you is that as the
vision gets bigger
you need weight distribution
weight distribution
is worry alignment
that means i gave her something to worry
about i gave him something to worry
about i gave him something to worry
about i gave her something to worry
about all of it would be my worry but
now they share the worry who is sharing
your worry
[Applause]
or do you keep on taking on more and
more and more and got less
weight distribution
so all of a sudden
he’s worried
about what i don’t have to be worried
about
and if he ain’t worried about
it i’m worried about him
okay
i got in a stab meeting and flipped
completely out and i said i’m angry
because you are not
because if you would have been angry i
wouldn’t have got to be angry you’d have
fixed it before it got to me
so this
though it looks like
uh
titles
and position and power it’s really
weight distribution
because the journey is too great
and the meetings are too many
and the demands are too massive
for me to be all of them
[Music]
now there are more that i can call up
here this is just an example
who
is sharing the weight
who is sharing the weight if you don’t
get weight distribution
you are going to burn up
not because it wasn’t yours
but because you have not learned
how to let go and distribute weight
and you know why you don’t distribute
weight
because you got control issues
and as long as you got control issues
you got growth limitations
this is why you need to be at the
leadership conference because the
concepts that i’m teaching here are many
of the concepts that i’m going to
elaborate on there i’m telling you just
because you don’t have the money for it
just because you don’t have the time for
it and just because you feel overwhelmed
doesn’t mean that god didn’t give it to
you
god gave it to you but you’ve got to
build weight distribution
before you can have land acquisition
that’s okay
you can’t take over new territories by
yourself
can i go just a tiny bit deeper
i don’t have to meet with anybody they
meet with
i just have to meet with them
yes sir
if i meet with them come on come here
oscar is oscar here
he went out he went out where’d he go
[Applause]
that’s a problem
anytime i can’t get weight distribution
i can’t get alignment i got all of them
standing
in alignment
none of them
duplicate
each other’s roles
every one of them must stay in their
lane or it doesn’t work
watch this
moses took the weight that was on him
and distributed it out to 70 million
yes sir it took 70 men
to handle his vision
but it was still his vision
i’m trying to show you how to increase
yes
you got to increase by multiplying
yourself
and create diversity
and still not compromise unity
i cannot have
these four which really it’s about 15 or
more on my executive leadership team i
cannot have these four
fighting like children
i can’t have them disagreeing yeah i
want them to disagree
i want them to debate
i want her to fight for the foundation
like there ain’t nothing else that
matters and i want him to turn to her
and tell her wait a minute yeah
the potter’s house has something in this
too yes
and then i want him to say you can raise
all the resources you need but if we all
get shot in here
it’s going to be a problem and then i
want her to say you don’t have no women
on the program
[Applause]
everybody has an area of rule
equal but divided
it i want you to get this let me let me
show it to you two ways
when jesus cast the demons out of the
legion yeah
all the demons that was in this one man
went into a herd of pigs
it took a herd of pigs to handle the
demons that were on one man
it took 70 elders
before moses got relief
[Music]
good people are my vacation
baby baby
this is hawaii
there’s no need in sending me to hawaii
if all i get to do is worry in a new
place
[Applause]
the more you lift the weight
the more i get relief
thank you very much just an illustration
so moses learned that
we all know you married to her you have
to come over here
and use my message today then
he said that i’mma claim my own woman
give god a praise for brother and sister
son
so write this down who’s on my team
and how much weight do they carry
cause a lot of people on your team are
creating weight
not relieving weight i gotta go i gotta
go i gotta stop i gotta i gotta move
from learning because i gotta touch on
legacy so so i talked about leadership
and talked about learning i talked about
let me talk just a minute about legacy
i sat down with dr the late dr casey
price first time i’d ever set out to
talk to him i went out to interview him
yeah
and
there were two things that were big
takeaways for me from sitting down to
talk to him
he said to me he said everybody says
they call to preach and i say preach
what
he said because preach is too broad of a
category to build a calling around
he says my assignment was to preach
faith
and i was faithful
to my assignment
god called me to teach faith to his
people
so he had a clear sense
of who he was
okay and when i got to talk to him what
fascinated me about him though we are
completely different in a lot of ways
uh what fascinated me about him that
caused him to stomp his foot and the
whole world shook you can’t go to a part
of the world and say frederick casey
price and nobody knows who you’re
talking about
like him or not that has nothing to do
with it what i’m telling you he boom and
the world show
[Music]
if you want to be a world shaker you got
to talk to world shakers
he said i had a keen sense of what i was
called to do do you have a keen sense of
what you were called to do
[Applause]
then i said to him is there anything
that you did that if you had to do over
again you wouldn’t do it
he said i wouldn’t i wouldn’t have built
the dome
he said
god permitted me to build it but he
never directed me to build it
is
is there a difference yes there is a big
difference between god
permitting you to do something
and directing you to do it
are you doing it because you’re
permitted to do it or you’re called to
do it
let me go a little further
things i have learned this is not fred
this is me
i have learned that provision follows
vision
doesn’t follow need
it doesn’t follow hunger
it doesn’t follow emotions
provision
follows
vision
do you not know if you got enough vision
you can walk in the bank
with a seven year plan
and get millions of dollars
on some you ain’t even done yet
[Music]
if the vision is strong enough
the provision will overtake you
do y’all hear what i’m saying if your
vision is strong enough billionaires
will invest into it they will not invest
into it because you want money i had
seven billionaires sitting at the table
don’t mean nothing
they won’t invest in it because you want
it
if you lay out a vision in a construct
that they can receive
then they will invest
according to your
vision write it make it plain
let him that read it that run thereby
you have to have a clear vision for my
money i can’t give my money to something
that don’t have no eyes
i can’t invest in a blind man
i can only invest in somebody who sees
something that i agree with
who y’all got quiet
people not gonna give you money because
i knew i needed cause i just had another
baby you had that baby
i ain’t got nothing to do with you
having that baby
that don’t have nothing to do with why i
should pay you more because you had sex
and i had a baby
i wouldn’t there
your need does not constitute
my supply
y’all don’t want to hear this
because you want people to feel sorry
for you and relieve your suffering
that’s not how the world works
people invest for return
and if you don’t have a vision beyond
what you want
that doesn’t include what i want
why should i put money into what you
want
you don’t do
that you know
that you only loaned money to your
cousin freddy twice
he never paid you back at all
so when his number comes up on the
ringtone
you act like you got your phone plugged
up
because cousin freddie has taught you
that he is a poor investment so don’t be
looking at me all funny while i’m trying
to tell you people don’t invest in
blindness
second thing i’ve learned
the only people that leave you
are those who don’t share
your vision
everybody who left me couldn’t stay
and everyone who stayed
couldn’t leave
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if people can leave you
let them
paul said they came out from us
because they were not of us
for had they been of us
no doubt they would have continued with
us
sometimes people leaving you as a favor
y’all ain’t gonna talk to me
sometimes people leaving you is a
blessing and you cry and you hurt and
you have emotion but go ahead when you
get through crying you’re gonna be
better
because if you can make it without me
surely
i have an obligation to show you
i can make it with you okay i’m okay too
you feel good without me i got to feel
good without you all i got to do and let
you mentor me
because if you can make it without me i
can make it without you i’m not going to
be the only one walking around crying
and running in the walls while you’re
going out to the club
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i’m gonna get my jenny craig on
hey
hey
yeah yeah i’m getting like jenny gregor
get myself together
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god does not want you weeping around the
tomb of who left
while you neglect who stayed
need to reward people
for loyalty
but what happens to us is we are so
grieved about who left
that we are not taken care of who
stayed and the victory becomes changing
the mind of somebody who didn’t have
your mind in the first place
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final point and i’m almost done
you can’t get there
if you don’t pivot
you can’t get there
if you don’t pivot i don’t know why i’m
teaching this to you
this is the stuff we do at leadership
conference
i don’t know why i’m teaching you can’t
get there if you don’t pivot now i’m
gonna wrap this up cause i talked about
the rage of the people
okay
i talked about what leadership is
i talked about what learning is
i want to talk about what legacy is
because this is the one place where
moses blows it
this is the one place where moses blows
it
the first time god said smite the rock
he hit the rock
and the water came out and god was
pleased because he obeyed
by the second time the people’s road
rage
had gotten so bad
that moses got mad
every other time the people railed
against him he prayed
and he was okay
but they triggered his old demon he had
always had an anger problem
remember when he saw the hebrew and the
egyptian fighting and moses looked out
the window and got mad and went out
there and had never been a warrior and
murdered the egyptian
him having anger is what caused him to
go to the desert in the first place but
all the while he was suppressing his
rage all the while they had road rage he
was suppressing his rage have you ever
had somebody honk their horn and cuss at
you and you suppress your rage because
it wasn’t that you couldn’t think of
nothing to say back but you was just
saved that day
y’all ain’t gonna be real with me where
are my real people at make some noise
you saved on tuesday and you just went
on and said bless him jesus
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glory to god hallelujah
cause you had your prayer light that
morning and you was ready for and you
were but if they caught you on thursday
and that that i climbed out of my car
stood up through the rooftop went
berserk
on this guy
and then thought
you can’t do this you’re a preacher
i climbed back down in the car
looked around to see if any of y’all was
around i had flipped out
i don’t even know what i said
but he’s saying something to me that
made me forget
40-something years of ministry
and i forgot i was bishop he was talking
to thomas and thomas flipped out on him
i stood up in my sports car with the
hood off of it standing up talking about
you want some of this
and i looked around i didn’t see none of
y’all at ease right now in the car and
said praise the lord
don’t make me go off in here don’t make
me flip out of here i forgot who i was i
forgot my name i forgot my address i
forgot my calling i couldn’t think of my
social security number i flipped out on
him i said 12 things before i came to
myself and said oh departure’s house
i looked around i was so glad i didn’t
see none of y’all and i hope none of
y’all saw me and i ain’t saying nothing
about what i said because i can’t be
sure what i said i flipped the core i
flipped down
i had a moment of temporary and saturday
he called me out my name
and i wanted to tell him i can talk too
the rage is contagious
the race that has been on them has now
gotten to him
it has triggered what he has been
suppressing and now when they rev up
against him and they start talking to
him and saying we’re thirsty
i know he wanted to say so and i
you think i don’t have a mouth
if you ain’t drinking that i ain’t
either
you think i’m not human this is my
problem do i make water
so god says to him watch this closely
this is my clothes god said to him
speak to the rock that they may drink
but moses listened to them
and made a decision in rage
note to all leaders
never decide why you’re mad
he made a decision in range and the
bible says
that he smote the rock twice
and when he smoked the rock the water
still flow
in spite of you don’t hear that did you
hear what i just said
the water still flowed in spite of his
disobedience
just because your water’s flowing
doesn’t mean you’re living right
moses did it all wrong and the water
still flowed
but as they were drinking
because of his road rage
combined with their outrage god said to
him
you will not see the promised land
because you disobeyed me
i’m gonna tell you why and i’ll leave my
teaching with this
the reason
that god
told him to smite the rock the first
time
is because the rock in the old testament
is a type of christ
who was smitten
for our transgressions
and bruised for our iniquities and the
chastisement of his peace was upon him
and by his stripes we were healed but he
was only supposed to be smitten once
when god told him that when he told god
they need water he said don’t hit it
again
cause you’re gonna break the type
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speak to the rock
because once the rock has been smitten
once whenever you need water
he will never have to go through
what he went through the first time
because one smite did it all
whenever you need healing
whenever you need
deliverance whenever you need a
breakthrough
you’ll never have to go through this
again
no man took his life
he laid it down
and if he laid it down
he will pick it back up again
and now he ever liveth
to make intercession for us he’ll never
have to go back to the cross again and
when moses hit the rock twice he didn’t
know it but he lied on jesus
he act like once was not enough
and god wanted us to know
i got it all done with the first blow
so that all of your needs can be
supplied
according to his riches in glory but
because moses got road rage
he broke the shadow
and lost his ticket
to the promised land
so he led them to a place
that he never got to go himself
because he never got rid of his rage
what are you angry about
how can you let your anger forfeit your
prophecy
your anger is about to terminate
god’s plan for your life
i plan for you to go to the promised
land but if you don’t get a grip on your
anger you’re going to lose your calling
who am i talking to
every time you get mad
every time you get angry
you get yourself in trouble
the last time
you got hot
you blew up
and delayed your prophecy
by 40 years
and you spent 40 years
in a wilderness you didn’t have to go
through
because you lost your temper
and took matters into your own hand i
thought you learned
by your 40-year imprisonment
not to make a decision
in the heat of your anger
and here you go again
and because you did it again
not only did you mess up my shadow
you shorten your destiny
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so god took moses up into the
mountaintop
never to be seen again
and guess what
all the people who had been murmuring
against him
started
crying
and they cried
30 days
for the man they didn’t appreciate
when they had him
they cried 30 days
when they lost him
the praises of people
are fickle
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today they say hosanna
tomorrow they say crucify
and if you live
to please him
you will die frustrated moses
you know what’s killing you dude
it’s not that you’re not on the road
is nothing wrong with your car
is that you have road rage
and you’ve never gotten rid of it i
understand why you got it
you didn’t grow up in your mama’s house
you grew up with strangers
god only knows what happened to you in
pharaoh’s house
and you are still angry
and that anger has polluted your
marriages
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your jobs
your interactions with your own children
because you have rage
that rage
murdered
a man
that i had a plan for
that rage
delayed your destiny 40 years
you could have spoke to pharaoh from in
inside his house
i had to take you out of it and bring
you back to it 40 years later because
you are an angry man
and you’re angry about things that won’t
change
i know how important it was to you
for the children of israel to love you
because then you would have a people
and i know how you have never had
a people
you were too egyptian to fit in with
them
and to hebrew to be one of us
and because you are a leader you have
always been a misfit
and i know it has caused you pain to be
unorthodox
but that’s who i call to be leaders
is misfits
great leaders are always weird
if they would have fit they would have
fit
they found themselves by not fitting
god called them to him and he never let
them fit in
if you would have been comfortable with
the slaves you would have thought like
them if you would have thought like them
you couldn’t lead them
if you would have been comfortable with
egypt you would have forfeited your
destiny i meant for you to be thrown out
of everything you were thrown out of so
that as they threw you out you would
find you out
and the very thing
that makes you dysfunctional
is the same thing
that makes you functional
your misalignment with men
is what made you eligible to be in
alignment with me
and other prophets have i spoke to
through dreams and visions but of my
servant moses will i speak face to face
when you lost them you got me
i was their replacement
i was your father i was your mother i
was your best friend i played with you i
trained you i watched over you i looked
out for you i exposed you to different
cultures and different kinds i educated
you i gave you the opportunity the
reason you can write in the egyptian
language is because i expose you to
things you would have never gotten in
your mama’s house why do you keep
weeping for that which i’ve rejected
you’ve been an angry man all of your
life and everything you lost your temper
took it from you
and this is not gender specific
there are as many angry women as there
are angry men
and you cannot enjoy today because
you’re still angry about yesterday and i
am calling it road rage road rage is any
rage that is triggered by the journey
if you have something that triggers you
on your journey you have road rage and
if you don’t deal with your road rage
you’re gonna cancel out your
opportunities
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road rage
will make you climb out of a car
and not thinking run back and snatch
somebody through a window not thinking
whether they have a gun or not road
range makes you make dumb decisions
how many decisions have you made
out of road rage
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sometimes you’re angry with people who
aren’t even here anymore
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three things
leading
learning
and legacy
moses messed up his legacy
in a moment of rage
he forfeited the destination
i went to mount nebo and stood on top of
it he was so close to the province land
i mean you can see it clearly from the
top of mount nebo
you can see the greenery the desert is
over here and the greenery is over here
the shepherds were grazing in the field
when i was here i could see the
shepherds grazing in the field i could
see the work going on and the vineyards
that were going on all around the jordan
on one side it’s all sand and on the
other side it’s all life and from mount
libo you can see for miles
moses got to see it
but he never got to be it
because he had
road rage i speak to every one of you
that are watching me all over the world
that rage undealt with is going to kill
you
it will not kill the person you’re mad
at
it will kill you
you drank the poison
and now you’re waiting on them to die
until you release that rage
you will forfeit your opportunity
from having the favor influence
leadership
that god has allocated for you your eyes
have not seen your ears have not heard
neither have it into your heart what god
has for you if you will let go
of that road
rage
moses story
ends less than what it should have been
his feet should have walked into the
promised land
but his anger
knocked it out
stand to your feet everyone
the message that lies before you is road
rage
you can be entertained by it you can be
educated by it or you can be changed by
it
i pick change
question number one
strip down
take your church face off
take your titles and all your degrees
and throw them in the trash
what are you angry about
and what are you going to do
about the anger satan planet to steal
your legacy
from you
you blame people
you give yourself permission to be crazy
you blame everybody for everything that
went wrong
until you take responsibility there will
be no change
road rage
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before you wreck
god wants to deliver you
from suppressed
rage
do i have anger absolutely
do i carry it absolutely not
i will let you have it
in real time speed
cause i can’t sleep angry
i can’t think angry
i can’t be creative angry
if i’m wrong you’re gonna get a chance
to tell me i’m wrong but i will confront
you because i will not suppress what i’m
feeling
lest i pollute
where i’m going
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