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hey family i’m pastor torre
i’m pastor sarah and listen you’re
getting ready to hear an incredible word
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hallelujah what a good and awesome and
mighty god we serve
it’s an honor to be with you today i’m
excited to continue in
on this series that god has given to me
and i just believe that
that we’re going to come out of this
series stronger
we’re going to come out of this series
wiser we’re going to come out of this
series
with real life practical tools that’ll
allow us to run our race
unlike ever before and i just want to
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where you’re watching from we love you
we’re praying for you we’re building
together and i believe that god
is building something in us and
ultimately he’s going to build something
through us
and i’m just excited to continue on in
this series and i believe that god is
just going to give you some
some practical stuff get your pin and
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we’re going to take this information
we’re going to apply it and we’re going
to be blessed
as a result of it i know it i believe it
uh i cannot
wait to share with you where we’re
headed uh for
today as you know we started a couple of
weeks ago we started a series called
starting over and uh and it’s just been
the feedback that i’ve been getting from
this series has been just
through the roof and so i’m excited to
continue
to teach and to continue to lead and to
build us
with this word and i want to give you
the foundational passage of scripture
that that i believe
is prophetic to this season it’s in
haggai two and nine
this is our base this is our foundation
i believe this is a promise not
just simply to to haggai when they were
rebuilding the temple but i believe it’s
a promise of the people of god
we have as a world gone through some
some challenging times and we’re still
in the midst of challenging
times and and there’s some things that
have been broken down there’s some
things that
are no longer there we cannot go back to
those things but i believe
that god has not left us in ruins i
believe that god is giving us
things to build and what we build now is
going to be better than what was before
i believe that
haggai 2 and i says the glory of this
latter temple shall be greater
than the former says the lord of hosts
and in this place i will give peace
says the lord of hosts father thank you
so much for your word
it is a lamp into our feet it is
enlightened to our path
it is bread not bread that we we don’t
live off of bread alone but we live off
of the bread that is the word
that proceeds out of your mouth you said
that i am the living bread and we’re so
thankful
and father as we just pause and stop
and get still to hear from you father i
pray for your sons and daughters who are
watching right now
your sons and daughters who are
listening your sons and daughters who
will experience this word
and i pray that it will be bread i pray
that it will be
food i pray that it will build up and it
will edify that it will give clarity
that it will bring them to a place of
alignment god unlike
any other time in their lives and so i
just thank you i thank you for giving me
the spirit of wisdom
and revelation and insight and knowledge
and power
and prophecy to communicate your truths
to your sons and daughters that it might
penetrate take root and bear fruit we
love you
we worship you in advance right now we
open up our hearts and our minds to you
we open up our souls for what you’re
getting ready to do we receive it
we reclaim it right now that we’re gonna
be better as a result of this encounter
and that’s what we want lord an
encounter in jesus name
amen amen hallelujah so so we’ve been
talking about starting over in today’s
installment of the series is called the
difference
a day makes and i’d like to always go
back
and do a recap just in case you weren’t
with us last week or the week before i’m
going to do just a brief
recap and then we’re going to tackle the
conversation that we’re going to have
today and i believe you’re going to be
greatly blessed
by that conversation but but as an
overarching thought
i believe right now that we are in a
time
of rebuilding and we talked about how
in order to build something greater we
have to move into a time of reflection
you remember that
we need reflection reflection is the
doorway
to perspective and we must have the
right perspective
moving forward we must reflect because
if we do not reflect
we’re going to continue keeping the
repeating the class
and continuing the same class over and
over and over
again we must reflect or we will be
in the classroom but not learning you
know what i’m talking about
reflection brings us to maturity
and clarity in other words let me say
that again
reflection brings us to maturity and
clarity in other words
if we do not have a time of reflection
we cannot get to maturity
and clarity because everything that we
experience
in life is all designed
to build us all of it god uses all of it
you’ve heard it said before for god
causes all things to work together for
good
so 2020 as challenging as a year it has
been in 2021 has
has got its own challenges but at the
end of the day
these experiences these things that
we’re seeing and learning
and discovering are designed to mature
us so that when we step
into that next season we’re not the same
person
we’re more mature and in order to build
wisely
we’re going to have to have clarity so
so
reflection brings us to maturity
and it brings us to clarity and so as it
relates to reflection i gave you
homework and there were eight
reflection questions that that we all
needed to sit
with ourselves and sit with god and
begin to journal
and and answer those questions there
were eight questions and
and if you weren’t here again the week
before last then you can go back and
listen to the podcast watch the video
get those eight questions
work through those exercises because we
are going somewhere and we’re trying to
build something
this is not about you stimulating you
for a moment and then you move on no we
we are going to apply
these these principles and work these
exercises because we’re going to be made
better
as a result of it and so there were
eight reflection questions i pray that
you
have have answered those questions i
answered my i actually showed you i
talked about mine
last week i went through them and and i
can tell you right now the biggest
question on that list of eight
was the question who am i now who am i
now who am i
who have i become as a result of what i
experienced
and the reason why that is so important
is because your identity determines
everything your your ident your identity
if you’re taking notes write this down
we talked about last
week but your identity is the portal
through which you
enter life it’s everything the way that
i
show up in the world whether i’m
confident or not confident whether i
i dare to do something or i acquiesce
back into the background
has to do with how i have defined myself
and so so our identity it’s the portal
in which it’s how
we show up in the world
and i gave you my identity statement uh
last week
as well and i’ll just say it again in
fact i want you to if you have
written out your identity statement i
want you to put it right there in the
feed or right there in the comments mine
is
who am i what’s my identity who am i now
i’m the ray
the son of god light to my wife light to
my children and all that i encounter
and i’m an anointed architect of
creation
structures and systems that produce good
things and most importantly god things
now that’s me
but what about you i want you to define
yourself right now
take a minute if you’ve done this
exercise i want you to just shout it out
because it’s important
to make known who you are it’s important
to put yourself out there believe it
believe it enough
to step into it because i believe that
god’s going to begin to show some of you
aspects of who you are and who you truly
are in him not what people say you are
not who you thought you are but who you
truly are
and as a result of that i believe that
you’re going to start showing up in the
world as that and you might as well
announce who you are
you might as well stop acquiescing you
might as well stop being less than who
you are you might as well
stop hiding you might as well come out
of the closet and say this is
who god created me to be this is who i’m
called to be
and this is what i’m called to do go
ahead take about 15 20 seconds i got all
day
and put it right there in the feed let
everybody know who’s watching
who you are go ahead handle your
business handling your business
who are you hallelujah
and that’s the biggest question that you
could answer
and then we learned that
once you have established yourself in
your specific identity
we talked about how you have to start
seeing yourself
as an investor into that identity
and that destiny so so knowing who you
are
is just the starting point knowing who
you are
is just the place that you begin next
you have to recognize that you got to
build that idea you got to walk it out
because remember god defines you
before you become you i’ll say it again
god defines you before you become you
and that’s why we get confused
and that’s why we kind of we kind of get
hung up on things because god does
stuff like hey you you are a an awesome
king or you an
awesome queen while you’re still tending
to the sheep
isn’t that crazy because you have to
understand that god
sees in completion god decrees he
declares the end from the beginning
because
he doesn’t know how to do otherwise he’s
not going to define you watch this
he’s not going to define you by
something that you are today but
but won’t be tomorrow i need to say that
better
when god sees you he sees you in
completion he does not see you in stages
we
you and i have to walk out the stages
right
that’s our job that’s our responsibility
god gives us the vision
and now we have to just keep moving
forward in that identity
until that that vision unfolds we build
the vision
by walking in the vision that god has
given to us are you tracking with me
so the so the i am statement is just the
beginning
discovering who you are is just the
beginning
it’s how it starts it’s it’s that that’s
the easy part
but then after that you have to say now
i’ve got to invest
into what god said and we talked about
the resources
that we use to invest with we learn that
we have
valuable but watch this but very limited
resources to invest into that identity
and that destiny and we define those
resources as
one attention and focus this is a
critical resource
what you give your attention and your
focus to is everything big picture
and even down into the day-to-day small
minute details of life
you have to pay attention to what you’re
paying attention to
and not only is your focus and your
attention
a very valuable yet limited resource so
is your time
i think that your time is the most
limited resource that you have
i said it last week and i’ll say it
again and remember we’re just recapping
i would rather you take my money than
take my time because i cannot get it
back
and i just oh when someone is wasting my
time
i feel violated it’s almost like they
raped me or something it’s terrible
and so you have your your attention your
focus your time i’m talking about
these limited resources and you have to
recognize them
as limited so that you can be good
stewards over them your attention your
focus your time
watch this your energy your
output from the moment that we wake up
in the day
until the moment that we close our eyes
and fall asleep on the pillow we have a
certain amount of energy and what i’ve
learned about god is that god
only gives us enough energy for that
which is purpose and destiny
i feel the holy ghost and this is why
you have to manage your energy well
because the enemy will distract you and
he will have you giving your energy to
things that don’t matter
so that when the things that do matter
show up you have no energy to give to it
are you tracking with me so we have to
manage our energy we have to manage our
wind we have to manage our breath
right and so we talked about these
limited resources and again we talked
about it extensively last week but i
just want to i’m building on to
something
our attention and our focus our time our
energy
here is one number four is and we’re
talking about
these valuable resources that we have
but they are limited
is your concern yes your concern
what you have the capacity to be
concerned about
is limited it’s limited
and i’m not trying to cause you to be
insensitive and not to care or whatever
it’s good to care but you got to know
what you’re supposed to care deeply
about
are you tracking with me i love
everybody
and and i am uh to a certain degree
concerned about things that concern
humanity
but i am not overly concerned about
something that i am not
called to be concerned about i know how
to care
but not think about it i i know how to
care
but move on i i know how to care but not
have it keep me up at night
because i’m only supposed to carry the
burden that god has anointed me to carry
are you tracking
with me somebody needs that revelation
right now
oh god i got stories but we got to move
on because i want to get to what we’re
talking about
today and so we’ve got i’m talking about
the limited resources in case you
weren’t here attention focused time
energy concern and then pearls what are
pearls pearls are your gifts your
talents and your anointing
these are limited resources and you
cannot give them to
everybody not everyone is worthy
of the gift of you your wisdom
your pearls there’s a passage of
scripture you’ve seen it before it says
cast not your referrals your pearls
before the swan and so and so so your
exercise for this past
week was to answer the question
right you should already know or you
should be
gaining ground on knowing
who you are now that’s so important i
can’t even
imagine showing up in the world each day
not knowing who i am
i can’t even imagine that but beyond
that once you discover that
remember we’re always building okay once
you discover that
then you have to be able to answer the
question what do i
need to do daily to maintain
that identity and live out that destiny
wow i love it all these questions
i’ve learned that that self uh
mastery has to do with the questions
you’re committed to consistently asking
yourself
some of us are afraid to ask tough
questions or questions that
that necessitate reflection and
soul-searching
and digging in but you and i if we’re
going to be
everything that god has created us to be
we have to become
comfortable in fact to embrace the
rhythm of constant
and consistent reflection asking
ourselves
tough questions that necessitate us
having a wrestling bout with ourselves
and our in a wrestling bout with god
until we get down to the truth because
once we get down to the truth we have an
accurate image
that we can go after and to pursue
so once i can answer the question who am
i now in order to build that identity
i have to ask the question what do i
need to do
daily to maintain
and live out that destiny what do i have
to do
daily daily daily
the difference a day makes and so
and so i want you to develop
a success strategy this is this is
the next thing i asked you to do and i
don’t know if you did it now and i’m
going to show you mine just in case but
but this is important you got to know
who you are
and then you have to begin to ask
yourself what what do i need to do
daily to maintain that
you have to define what daily
success looks like for you
according to that identity this is the
work
this is the work and so i want you to
develop a
success strategy one that can be broken
down daily
and i also want you to see each day
differently i i don’t ever want to hear
this phrase come out of your mouth
same stuff different day you can fill in
the blank
no this is the day that the lord has
made we’re going to rejoice and be glad
and
it’s an i feel god i want you to see
each day as special
because here is the thing every day
is loaded with opportunity
god unpacks destiny day
by day by day
every day is loaded with opportunity
each day is special watch this if you
see it right
perspective is everything you know
there’s a hebrew word for for day in the
scripture
and i didn’t understand it at first it’s
the hebrew word you know
when it talks about in the beginning god
created the heavens and the earth and
the night and the day and all that kind
of stuff that word day is a hebrew word
and it’s the hebrew word yum yum
and here’s what that word means it
literally means to be hot
or heat day hot heat
i’m lost pt stay with me it is a
reference to the sun
because the day the day
was represented by the heat or
the sun coming up
and so and so there is this this passage
of scripture
in in psalm 19 that really i think puts
the day in context and it essentially
it it references the sun and it talks
about how the sun
rushes out of its chamber to run its
race
look at it real quickly psalm 19
verse 4 and 5 it says and then he has
set the tabernacle for the sun
which is like a bridegroom coming out of
its chamber
and rejoices like a strong man
to run its race see that’s how we’re
supposed to step into every day
we’re supposed to step into each day
with the strength and the discipline of
the son saying
this is a new day and i’ve got a race to
run i feel that when god
blesses you with a new day he’s blessing
you with a new
opportunity to get it right and i wish i
had about 700 people
that would learn to say each and every
day
this is the day that the lord has made i
am going to rejoice
and be glad in it i am not defined by
yesterday
i’m defined by the opportunities that
god has placed in front of me today
i dare you right now what if today was
the day that your miracle was coming
what if today was the day that your
breakthrough was coming
what if today was the day that the walls
of jericho were gonna come down flat
on your behalf i’m just crazy enough
to enter each day saying god
this is today i will rejoice
come on somebody i will rejoice
because to rejoice
is to acknowledge the specialness of the
day
every single day
psalm says god loads each day with
benefits
i want you to see the day differently
i don’t ever want you to hear i hear you
say oh the same old stuff no it’s not
and the reason why you’re getting the
same old things is because your
mentality is saying this is the same old
day
if god creates a new day
and in his divine planning
has sketched you into that day
there’s something for you in that day oh
god i feel the lord
breakthrough happens we got a lot of
ground cover
a lot of ground to cover and so
so each day is to be
seized carpet dm
seize the day each day is to be seized
because it’s full of opportunity
and there is nothing more powerful
than a daily strategy
oh the power the power
not simply of strategy but the power of
a daily strategy you know when you look
at creation when you look at yourself
when you look at everything that god
has made there was nothing that was
made that was done so without strategy
oh i felt the spirit you you
if you look at the intricate details of
your anatomy
and the solar systems and how things
work together and how things
that seemingly have nothing to do with
each other work together and function
and some degree of harmony in unison
that that produce and perpetuates life
it educates us about god
in that god is a strategist
it’s all about strategy so if god is a
strategist
and our very being is a strategy it
seems
as if it would be prudent for you and i
to function in life
with the strategy and in business or any
sort of a corporate setting or or any
sort of whether it’s sports or anything
there’s always the big strategy but then
there is the strategy
that is broken down to daily executable
actionable actions are you tracking with
me
and so and so and so since i am a
strategy
and god is strategic
and i’m created in the image of god that
means that i must be strategic
and i must break my strategy down
down to
daily strategy just do me a favor put it
put it in the comments put in the feed
right there i’m a strategy i’m a
strategy i’m a strategy
what i’ve learned is that purpose and
destiny is maximized by
the strategy of the awakened
see a lot of times
we think we have so much faith in god
that we think that god’s going to do it
for us
let me say that we god is awesome god is
amazing god’s going to bring it to pass
but what i’ve learned is god’s going to
bring it to pass through the strategy
that you and he that you and god
come together and work through are you
tracking with me and so watch this
so for me my daily routine is my
strategy
if you’re taking notes write this down
destiny
belongs to people who are diligent
with days let’s say it again
destiny belongs to people
who are not wasteful with days
but who are diligent with days if you
show up at the end of the week friday
like oh this thing sure went by fast
and see how can you even measure whether
or not you had a good week
how can you even measure whether or not
you had a good day unless there was a
strategy in place
that you’re weighing what productivity
should look like
it wasn’t a good week if i didn’t have a
strategy about what i was going to
accomplish that week
it wasn’t a good week if i didn’t say
hey
this is what i want to get done this
week
and according to the grand vision of my
life this is what i want to get
accomplished
how can i tell and it’s the same thing
about the day how was your day when
someone asks you the question
how was your day what are you going to
use to measure
your response by i felt good
you can feel good and do nothing
you can feel good and actually be moving
backwards you can feel good
and be wasted no no no destiny belongs
to people
who are diligent not with years not with
weeks not with
with days
destiny people value days why
because they understand that their life
is in their daily routine
your life it’s crazy because life seems
so long
and it sings so wide and it seems so
grand and it seems like
it is just voluminous and it is all
those things but at the end of the day
guess what
your life can also be
defined by days your life
is in your daily allah
your prayer requests are in your daily
routines
the things that you’re believing god for
you’re looking at them saying god
where are they i can’t see them where
are they i’ll tell you where they are
they’re in your daily routine
that’s how god gets things
accomplished how do you know whether or
not
you had a good day i’ll tell you you’ll
know by
whether or not you hit your targets
are you tracking with me it’s wonderful
if you laughed all day it’s wonderful
that you got to see a friend today it’s
all that’s
wonderful but
the only so you have to understand that
good
catch this is associated with god’s
strategy
you’re like pt you lost me hold on
remember in the beginning
when god was creating things and then
when he said
you know let the earth do this let it
bring forth
its fruit and bud and then when he did
that he said it is good
he said let there be and it was and it
was good so
when the thing when the creation does
what the plan of the creator
has instructed that is when something is
good
are you tracking with me so so good has
to do with strategy
good has to do with purpose good has to
do with identity
it is not good if you laughed a lot
that is a good thing but i asked you how
your day was
and the only way that you can know that
you had a good day
is if you defined the day you set
targets for the day
and through discipline you hit those
targets are you tracking with me
if you’re tracking with me i know it’s
tight but but it’s right but if you
track it with me go ahead and put it in
the feet right there say i’m tracking
with you
i’m tracking with you i’m tracking with
you
and here is another thing that’s kind of
deep that you have to understand
is that when you set your goals and you
set your daily strategy
and you set your daily targets and you
hit them watch this
it builds within you what i’d like to
call
the momentum of self-confidence
self-confidence see see see when you
get your plan in place and when you get
your daily targets in place
and you watch this and you make a
covenant with yourself
and say this is what i’m going to do and
you make that covenant with yourself and
this is what i’m going to do
what you don’t realize you are building
a momentum in you because now you are
trusting you you are trustworthy now
because here is the thing
some of us won’t even commit to doing
things because deep down we don’t trust
ourselves
but when you set that goal when you and
god come together and you sit down and
you concoct a plan
that that you pray through and this is a
plan that that
that you will win and you set it out
there you put it out there you set it up
and then when you start checking those
boxes it builds a personal sense of
integrity that creates the momentum that
allows you
to set humongous goals and accomplish
them
because you don’t have watch this you
have not
allowed your lack of discipline to cause
you to become
a hater to your own self i wish i could
say that better
do you understand what i’m saying see
you need to prove to you
who you are and there’s momentum
when you set your goals and you hit them
you say wow i really am
great wow i really am excellent wow i
really
am a woman or a man of my word wow i can
really do this and now all of a sudden
you are working with you
towards everything that god has promised
you
if you track it with me just put it in
the feeds i’m tracking with you i gotta
i gotta move through this i
i’ve got to move through this that there
is a momentum there’s a momentum
that that is established when you trust
yourself
there’s a momentum that something
happens there’s this momentum
and the self-confidence that comes when
you prove to you
that you have integrity are you tracking
with me and so i want to take you
through
as i promise i want to take you through
my daily success plan this is unique to
me but
i’m just praying that as you see me work
this out in front of you
it will give you tips on how you can do
yours let me just tell you this this is
my thing that’s how i get out it’s my
thing right now so the first thing i do
when i get up in the morning when the
first thing i do hallelujah
in the heart of the day when when the
sun comes up and
he’s and i’m getting ready to run my
race the first thing i do is i stretch
i meditate and i pray i get my stretch
on
i meditate in my pray and the whole
watch this
the whole purpose of me doing this is to
define myself
who am i now so
so i start the day i start the day
by answering the question for myself
who am i who am i i stretch
i meditate in my prey the second thing i
do
is i kiss my wife and if she sleep
before i get up i might kiss her anyway
or i might send her a text that’s a kiss
because i don’t wake her up
i kiss my wife good morning these are
the things that are important to me the
third thing i do is i work out
here why why do i work out because if i
ain’t got no body if i’m not healthy
game over are you tracking with me so i
work out it
is so important so look at what’s
happening i’m dealing with my spirit and
my
soul i’m connecting with my
relationships
my most important relationship and then
i’m going straight to my body
i work out i have breakfast right there
and then i shower and i have a face
routine i have face products i put my
face products on
then i get dressed watch this i get
dressed whether i’m going somewhere or
not
this is so critical you got to dress
sometimes there’s something emotionally
powerful and engaging about getting
dressed
i feel better my meetings go better
right
when i get dressed it’s a rhythm see
what i’m trying to get
us to is to get us in a rhythm there is
a rhythm
of success okay so
kiss my wife workout breakfast shower
face routine dress
then i check in with the kids again i’m
back into relationships i haven’t taken
one meeting yet
i’m connecting with the things that
matter most me god
my relationships my body my family i
send a text to the kids
nearly every day hey just it could be
some sort of thought
you know hey love you you know do this
watch out for this check this out
i affirm them every single day by text
i’m just hopefully again this is mine
yours is going to be different you’re
going to be creating one this week but i
want to take you through mine
then i go down to my office and when i
go down to my office
i review my to-do list i check my mail
i check my emails and i check my text i
review my to-do list
and you’re going to see at night in just
a second that before i go to sleep
i lay out my to-do list but sometimes
things change
priorities shift all the time and so you
have to be looking
at your world and managing your world to
see if what you had planned is still an
effect can i talk to you like this
you’re saying pt you’re saying like a
motivation will be jesus would be
preaching the gospel yeah but here’s the
thing
a lot of people say hallelujah they’d be
trying to bind devils what they need to
try to bind is their undisciplined
lifestyle
did i say that i’m sorry
no no we need it all we need jesus and
an organizer
come on somebody we need jesus and a
10-year plan hello
yeah i’ll just get that out of the way i
i need to keep going
we’re getting a little pressed for time
so so so i check in with the kids i go
to my office
i review my to-do list again because i
need to see what’s shifted
and i don’t just rush into things i need
to get organized now that i’m going into
business mode
i need to get organized fresh because i
want to prioritize things
because because when i don’t get lost
when i’m in business mode
i’m still in control i’m still to ray
i’m still the chief
architect of my businesses my companies
i am still in control
so i do not go in there and get
overwhelmed by watch this
the demands or the requests of me no no
i’m still in charge baby
let me see what’s a fire what’s not a
fire etc are you tracking with me
prioritization is everything is
everything is everything
and then i go into my meetings and i’m
going to talk to you about meetings
really quickly but let me move through
the rest of them
because i want you to understand what
qualifies
as that which can be a meeting on my
calendar
and then i have lunch i got to eat i got
to take care of my body then i go into
my afternoon meetings or afternoon and
he’s here
every single day i have what what is
called tourette time
and to rate time could be ride my
motorcycle
it could be reading terrain time could
be a nap
i might just say you know what instead
of ride my motor instead of reading the
book you know what’s going to serve me
well
is a 30-minute one-hour nap right
but again i’m in control i’m seizing the
day
i’m mastering the day here is something
that’s really important
all day long i’m journaling thoughts and
insights throughout the day because
sometimes your future can be radically
transformed
by one powerful revolutionary thought so
i honor my thoughts i i make
space see if i’m always reaching for
cell phones
and picking up this phone and picking up
that i can’t even
have space to receive the downloads that
i need
that could revolution revolutionize my
family and my children’s children are
you attracted with me
so never underestimate the power of a
thought always have
some sort of system something handy in
place a journal pad your phone
always have something in place that you
can use and grab
to document your thoughts because what
i’m describing to you
is a life that is aligned it is an
aligned lifestyle
and when you are in alignment in an
aligned lifestyle
revelation will come inside will come
things will come to you and they will
set you up for the next 30 years of my
life if you track it with me just go
ahead and put it right there in the
comments i’m tracking with you pt
i’m tracking with you come on i’m trying
can i talk to you like this i can preach
you up next week but this week
we are about to get better are you
hearing the words that are coming out of
my mouth
we’re going to get better we’re getting
ready to have strategy
you won’t just wake up one day and be
great you have to decide that you’re
going to be great and you have to step
into it with wisdom
and skill you have to be disciplined and
diligent
the bible talks about diligence when you
get a chance just do a word search
in the bible on the word diligent and
diligent
oh it’s powerful it talks about the
person in proverbs it says the person
with the slack hand will be poor that
word poor literally means needy
but the diligent the hand of the
diligent will be made rich
you have to be diligent oh watch through
the lord but let me let me keep tracking
because
because i we we we’re we’re moving
we’re moving kind of close to our end of
our time here today
so i have my tourette time i journal my
thoughts then later i have a touch point
with younger kids
with my younger kids right my two
youngest i want to touch them throughout
the day i don’t want to be so busy and
doing my thing that i don’t
take a minute and just stare at them in
their face and get into their world and
find out what’s important to you
what’s important to you as a
four-year-old right
what’s important to you as an
eleven-year-old let me just take a
minute
and just suspend everything because
sometimes god will hide a treasure
in the perspective of a four-year-old
or an eleven-year-old are you tracking
with me right it’s just mine it’s just
mine this is just mine
so i put ella to sleep or excuse me i’m
ahead of myself
my touch point with younger kids dinner
with family
almost every night 95 of the time i have
dinner with my family
right around the table and i got to tell
you as horrible as the pandemic is
we’ve had a lot more time around a
dinner table see god always
even in the worst of things hides a
great thing
in what is a challenging thing dinner
with family i put out asleep
and then i have what i call my evening
wind down right
i i think that if you just fall asleep
you missed an opportunity
and i think if you just fall asleep you
subject yourself to whatever thoughts
where
wherever you left off you subject
yourself no you don’t want to fall
asleep
you want to be in control even of how
you go down
and so i have my evening routine my
evening wind down and that’s
that’s my face routine yeah i’m trying
to keep that skin cracking hello
somebody
they say black don’t crack but there’s
things that you can do come on somebody
to help help it out
glory to god okay and so and so i have
my evening wind down my face routine
i i shore up my to-do list this helps me
with anxiety at night
i write down i get out of my head
and onto my pad things that if i did not
do that
they would have me up at night this
gives me a sense of finality
i have said that yes these things are
still pending
but i have allocated time to do them on
tomorrow
and it allows me to sleep better you’d
be surprised
just taking down doing a to-do list for
the things that you have to do tomorrow
how much better your sleep will improve
and how much you can even fight back
against anxiety
if you get the stuff that’s keeping you
up at night out of your head
and onto your pad or your track a little
bit if this is helping you just just put
it in a feed this is helpful pt this is
helpful pt is helpful
okay so i short my to-do list i connect
with my wife again
right because we’re both busy so let’s
connect again
hey did we miss each other today hey
what’s going on how’s this going what’s
going on with the money over here what’s
happening here with this company okay
are we hey is everything lined up there
hey did we do get that connect
and then i have my sleep preparation i
there’s some things that i take
uh some natural things like melatonin i
take things to you know what i mean to
enhance my sleep that’s just me
you have to figure out what works well
for you
and then and then i go to sleep
so my question for you is what’s your
daily strategy
to accomplish who you are
what’s your daily strategy how are you
going to be
who god has called you to be if you
haven’t asked the question who am i now
and worked out what it’s going to take
sat with god to work out what it’s going
to take
to accomplish that identity and watch
this
these things that that that i’m talking
about
these things are not negotiated afresh
each day
nor are these things determined by how
i’m feeling
i’ve already negotiated those things
let me tell you something this morning i
didn’t want to go down to the gym
but a decision had already been made i’m
not negotiating with
whether or not i’m going to go to the
gym or whether or not i’m going to do my
routine
i’m not that’s already been worked out
these things were already negotiated
when i consulted god
and i decided what it was going to take
in order for me to win
in life are you tracking with me
and so once you define it
you have to guard it vociferously
i’m talking about extreme discipline
extreme discipline
once you figure out what it’s going to
take
in order for you to win you and god are
going to sit down you guys are going to
pray
you’re going to talk through some things
you’re going to look at the identity
you’re going to look at what you have
not what you don’t have but what you do
have
you’re going to look at the
opportunities that are in your hands
and once you figure that out that’s it
and now i’d guard it because i’ll tell
you right now as i talked about last
week we’re almost done
as i talked about last week that once
you set that thing in motion
there’s going to be so many things that
come
and attempt to distract it
and so it necessitates extreme
discipline watch this there are people
that are more successful than you not
because
that they are more talented than you but
because they’re more disciplined than
you
and you are hating on them and saying
they ain’t all that
and she and all that and i i can sing
circles around her i can do
this around her i can preach that then
around here and then
yeah you can talk all that you want to
but a disciplined person
i would rather have mediocre ability
and excellent and extreme discipline
than tremendous ability with no work
ethic
i will out work you
like the tortoise and the hair i will
outwork you
and you be better at what you do than me
but my discipline
and my work ethic god respects it
he honors it are you tracking with me
if you’re taking notes i want you to
write this thought down we’re almost on
we’re almost home
success is not a destination
it’s a discipline success
is not a destination
it’s a discipline in other words i don’t
arrive at success
i position myself in success
and success has to do with what i am
committed
to being disciplined to do daily which
is kind of cool
that means that you don’t have to wait
for success you are
successful the moment that you do the
thing that successful people do
and successful people are ruthlessly and
radically disciplined now remember i
told you i wanted to point something out
about my meetings this is important
i have the opportunity to take meetings
all day
long but i do not because
if things can’t not can’t just show up
my calendar
if something somehow gets on my calendar
that i didn’t approve man i’m calling my
staff like yo
what how how did this happen my calendar
is
sacred it’s sacred
it’s not just 10 a.m 11 a.m 12 a.m no no
no it’s sacred and everything that’s
on my calendar needs to meet
one of these three criteria
it is to sustain territory
to gain territory or to serve
say it again if it’s on my calendar
it has to fall into and legitimately i’m
not talking about stretching trying to
make something fit
it has to sustain territory what do i
mean by that that means that
that i’ve been working hard and i’ve
been building the kingdom and i’ve been
advancing kingdom the kingdom and one of
the things that i’ve learned as a leader
is just because you have it doesn’t mean
you’ll get to keep it
just because you’ve cast vision to your
team or
you’ve cast vision to your your church
or your
non-profit organization or you cast
vision to your company
and the employees they’re in just
because you cast
vision does not mean that the vision
will be sustained without your
involvement
i’ve said it before it’s in my call
leaders things and i’ll say it again
you cannot just speak vision one time
you have to speak it over and over and
over again
because no one will be as passionate
about your vision
than you are that was for free
entrepreneurs that was for free leaders
are you tracking with me and so so i
must
sustain territory but i cannot spend all
of my time
sustaining territory because i’m not
called to simply
sustain i am also called to gain
territory
so i’m asking myself before i take a
meeting
does this is this meeting critical and
important for me to sustain the
territory
that god has blessed me
to gain okay no okay well then well then
well then will this help me gain
territory because i know where i’m
going i understand what i’m after
and so is this call going to position me
stretch me align me bring me into
relationships with people
that are a part of his plan for me to
gain territory
because i am a kingdom kid i’m not here
to take up air
i’m here to take territory for the lord
if you are a kingdom kid
put it in the comments right there i’m a
kingdom kid i’m called to
influence and i’m called to impact so
i’m not just gonna sustain
i have got to gain territory until the
whole world
is filled with the knowledge of the
glory of god i feel like preaching
god gave me this life he saved me he
raised me
i can’t keep it to my self so i’m
looking for new
and creative ways to release the glory
of god
out of my mouth out of my creations
remember i told you who i am
i’m a son of god i am an architect
of awesome things that bring glory to my
father
i’m gonna gain territory and keep taking
territory
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as long as i have breath i’m
seizing the day god can i make you more
famous
god can i make you more glorious god can
i get this person
to know who you are god can i get that
person to know who you are
and god because i know you’re a big god
i’m asking for nations
i’m not just asking for people i’m
asking for cities
i’m asking for regions i’m asking for
countries in jesus name
if you are a kingdom ambassador hit me
up in the comments right now
and say i’m a kingdom ambassador
and this is why it’s why i don’t play
around with days
i’m on a time clock and i want to bring
god as much fruit
as i can so so pardon me if i don’t take
hillmaten
if i’m able to i may have somebody else
but if it’s not to sustain the territory
that god has blessed me
to gain and if it’s not to gain or to
extend territory
you may not get but there is one more
i’m called to serve i’m called to serve
and so if it’s on my calendar
this could be one of three things
sustained territory
to gain territory and to serve but i’m
going to be honest with you
because my life is service
and my time is limited
there’s going to be much more time spent
in sustaining
and gaining but that’s just me
here’s one more thought i’m going to
leave you you got to figure this out for
yourself
but here’s one more thought i think this
is important
destiny people people who are going to
maximize today
people who are people of strategy
they absolutely love
the word no oh my god
if you’re going to be everything that
god has called you to be
you are going to have to not just be not
tolerate
the word love excuse me not tolerate
the word no you you are going
to have to love no
oh it almost should be cathartic when
you say no
you almost ought to go into tongues no
recovery
it ought to just just do something to
you
hallelujah because here is the thing
you should be giving more no’s than
you’re giving guesses
because your life and your time
is too precious 90
of my answers 90
is no no
and only 10 is yes
because my yes is my commitment
and my yes ties me up
my no frees me so that i can give my
life to the ten
percent that is what god is actually
calling me to do
god is not calling me to do the 90
he’s only calling me to do the 10 so
what i say
no to is actually more important than
what i say yes to
and there is another critical
consideration
concerning your daily strategy
and we are going to discuss it
next week that was sneaky
family hear me i believe the lord
laid a lot of things out give you a lot
to think about
the difference a day can make
is everything everything happens
day by day
and if we’re going to be great we’ve got
to master
not the week not the month master of the
day
if you master the day the week and the
month and the year comes with it
i want us to get with god
and to get our daily plan family i know
some of us are
really young and we think we’ve got
plenty of time
but you can’t even say you had a good
day unless you devel defined ahead of
time
what it would take to create a good day
give us this day our daily bread each
day is unique
that means that every morning every
waking
day you have an opportunity to be
thankful
grateful optimistic every time that sun
gup
comes up again there’s a race to run
and maybe you didn’t get it right
yesterday all right
no day is perfect sometimes things
that are outside of your control take
place i get that i completely understand
that
but let me challenge you when that
happens instead of just
letting whatever took place totally
control your day if you are able to
take a step back and say okay with what
i have
left in this day
what i have left in this moment
show me how to still make it a win
because there’s no failure in you
family i want us to be disciplined
i just believe that what god is building
is going to require all of us
we’re going to have to be strategic
we’ll have to be prayerful
and we’re going to have to be good
stewards over each day that god gives to
us
so that’s my prayer for you this week
your homework if you haven’t done it
already
is i want you to write out what it’s
going to take
for you to maintain that identity that
god revealed
to you and i want you to stick with it
and you know what if you have one day
where you fall short just make sure you
don’t have two days
get back on it get back in it you’re
building something
i love you i want to pray for you
father thank you so much for this time
that you allow me with your sons and
daughters
thank you god for reminding us the
difference a day can make thank you for
god given us
for practical tools and insight
perspectives and understanding i thank
you
for the fruitfulness that will be born
out of
out of this word out of this time that
we’ve spent together
i thank you for the love that you have
for your sons and daughters i thank you
that some
who may have perhaps not done things the
way they’ve always wanted to i thank you
god that with each day there’s new mercy
new mercy day by day
and we thank you god and we receive that
new mercy to do great things
i thank you god for dreams that are
going to be realized for visions that
are going to be manifest
hallelujah for momentum that is coming
to your sons and daughters that
will carry them into everything that you
promised them
and so we love you we thank you for this
opportunity to gather around your word
to be sharpened to be strengthened and
to be inspired towards all the great
things you have in store
we love you god we thank you bless these
your sons and daughters each and every
single one of them
in jesus name amen
amen
you