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