Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Good morning. Good morning. How are you on this fine, fine, beautiful day? I hope you're having a great day today and I hope you are excited today because today is a day the Lord hath made. We will be glad. We will rejoice in it. Rejoice in every single moment that you have under the sun in this cosmos, in this arrangement. Be thankful, be happy, continually give God that sacrifice of praise. Praise him and thank him and be joyful.
[00:00:27] So there's a lot going on in my mind right now. I've been talking about it, how blessed I was yesterday to read what I read and you know, to keep your mind straight. And what's happening is again, I'm going to keep talking about this other business because there's a lot of thoughts that are going on in my mind.
[00:00:44] Our other business of 15 years, it's a slower business.
[00:00:47] It just cranks super slow. And it took us a long time to draw anything out of it to the point where it took 15 years before me and my brother took, really got paychecks and my sister in law, I mean it took a long time, but it turned, you know what I mean? And now it's starting to go well. This other business is a totally different deal. Like it's a lot quicker, we can draw, draw from it a lot faster.
[00:01:12] And you know, you get your mind if you're like me, it's the idea and you can kind of was it strategically place yourself really, okay, if I do this, we do this and then we can kind of move here and then, you know, you move in your mind with it all.
[00:01:29] And then I start having this weird thing where I start thinking about like, where am I putting my trust right now? Because God wants you to be successful. You are to be successful in life. It's not like you have to be a pauper being a Christian, like that's not what it is. We are to live this life more than abundantly, like beyond abundance.
[00:01:49] David was super successful. Solomon's super successful. There's a lot of believers that did very, very well. And so it's not bad or it's not wrong to do well. And I expect to do well. God knows my heart, God knows where I want to go.
[00:02:02] But this other, this other opportunity is presenting itself. And as I'm running through this, I always do look back because there's a reason why God brought us through what he brought us through. Like I said, I was very successful young and when we started and I had always been successful. So it wasn't like it Came hard. It came natural as a hard worker and I did well.
[00:02:25] And then we started the business and I had no control.
[00:02:28] But now, now it's like God, there's a reason why we went through the things we went through.
[00:02:34] There is a purpose, all things. There's a purpose under there. There's a season, there's a time. I mean, if I go, you know, quickly, I'll go through a couple of this while I finish this story.
[00:02:44] If you jump back, if you go to Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 1, it says to everything there is an appointed time or a season, and a season to every purpose under the heaven. There's a time to be born and a time to die. And the one I really love, if you jump down, it talks about there's a time to go to put away. There's a time to cast away stones, like as in a vineyard, as far as, like break down the field. And there's a time to bring the stones together.
[00:03:14] There's a time to rebuild that field.
[00:03:17] You know, there's a time and a purpose for everything. And again, God sets the day side by side in order that we find nothing past him. So if there, if you are going through it, he sets setting those days so that you find nothing past him to keep your mind there. So again, as this, as this business is in the, like the idea that it could produce and what it could produce, there is a reason God sent us through what we went through. We learned how to have a family and to be around family. I live on a family farm, so like I'm right next to my brother and sister in law and their kids. I'm right next to my mother and my stepdad, like on the same property, very, very close.
[00:03:58] You have to learn to live like that. You got to learn the boundaries of that. You got to learn what's important with the family, what's important with the business. What do you, where do you put importance in it? And it just. If I'd have been very successful young, the only thing I would have cared about is to just continually grow, make more money, make more money. That would have been my mindset. And there's a purpose why God did that. So now I'm struggling with the idea. I not struggling. These are the things I'm weighing. And again, you gotta read the word. If you don't know the word, if you don't have verses in there you can rely on and go back to. You can let yourself just go crazy. And this is gonna be a long teaching, longer Today. But if you go to chat and this is all again, the background of why I'm reading this is chapter five in Ephesians. Be therefore followers or imitators of God, dear children, and walk in love as the Messiah loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.
[00:04:59] Christ died in order that we could be connected to God.
[00:05:02] The world doesn't matter.
[00:05:05] Buying things doesn't matter. Growing, I mean it doesn't matter. What matters is being reconnected to God. Be followers of that.
[00:05:14] Walk in love. As Christ loved us, he died for us. Care about other people. And again, God goes into this. God will change your heart when you read and know what's in the Word. And I was thinking this isn't really a story, it's a testimony. It's the same testimony that you read in the Word about how people controlled their mind. You gotta choose what's important in life.
[00:05:34] You gotta choose with your mind. You got to decide. You have to decide. Where are you placing God? Are you placing the relationship with God first? Because if you do, it changes your perspective. When you're going through tribulation. And you will go through tribulation.
[00:05:48] Tribulation, it affects your patience, patience, endurance, which is the state of being tried. And experience an experience which is that state of being tried. Hope, which is the expectation of future good and hope will never cause you shame. You will never blush, you will never be embarrassed by, by looking for God and relying on God as your number one. And that's why again, when you read this, it's important. Verse 3. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, which is covetousness is the, the act of wanting greediness.
[00:06:21] Let it not be once named among you as becometh. Saints are holy.
[00:06:26] A saint is not a big thing in the Word. You are a saint the minute you believe you're holy, right, You're a saint. So as you become whole, once you become holy by believing in the name of Jesus Christ, don't let fornication, which is sexual immorality and covetousness, which is greediness, be named once among you. But you have to understand the context of all this. Fornication is putting. It's idolatry. It's putting stuff in front of God.
[00:06:54] Don't put things in front of God.
[00:06:57] The number one thing in your life has got to be your relationship with God. When you go through things, you pray about it. When you, when you're dealing with things you pray when you're successful and you're moving, you go back to the foundations of what does the word say? Don't sit there and put money first, don't put success first. And I can easily see myself doing this with this business, which again, why, when I read this stuff, it nails me for this. Ye know that no fornicator, nor unclean persons, nor covish man who is an idolater hath any inheritance of the kingdom of Christ and of God.
[00:07:31] Now again, this is talking about the judgment, but you're not being judged. They're saying you're righteous, you're a son of God. You know that the people that don't believe in that aren't Christian or that's. Which is fine, that don't believe are going to be going through the judgment. And the people that are covish and all these other things aren't going to be, you know, they're going to be judged. God's going to decide whether or not where their heart is, which I don't want to do, but he's going to decide. Don't be like those people walk above that again.
[00:08:00] Don't be like the unwise. Look to God, the author and creator of all things, and rely on that.
[00:08:07] Rely on that. I want to. I should probably just. I'm just going to jump down to here because this is going to get way too long. Verse 18.
[00:08:15] And be not drunk with wine by which is excess, but be filled. Be filled and complete with the Holy Spirit, which you are 100% filled and complete the minute you believe. In the name of Jesus Christ.
[00:08:26] Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submitting yourselves one another to the fear of Christ.
[00:08:41] Again, it's. What do you think on, are you. You're supposed to put into your mind psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody in your heart to the Lord. But I'm guessing you probably put on anxious thoughts. We probably put on what, you know, the success we can have, the anger maybe towards a colleague, the frustration with somebody. But that's not what we're to put on. We're to put on God's love.
[00:09:07] Speaking to ourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Giving thanks always. And again, this is. These are specific words. Giving thanks always to God in the name of Jesus Christ. It's no different than praying you thank God in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, God, for what you do in the name of Jesus Christ.
[00:09:26] It's all specific and it's so loving. Keep accurate.
[00:09:31] Keep an accurate walk, an accurate course of life. Not because you're going to be punished, but because God is blessing you. And knowing that it comes from God will just change your mind. And the blessings that will come from that and the spiritual blessings and the grace. You start to see how much God cares about every moment of your life, about the little things, about the big things. You recognize what, why you went through certain things.
[00:09:55] It's a blessing and you will just. It's like you fall in love with God.
[00:09:59] It's. It's wonderful.
[00:10:01] Pray the big prayers today. Lift everything up. Pray the small prayers.
[00:10:05] Lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. Again, when you pray, you always pray to God, never to Jesus Christ. You pray to God, lifting it up in the name of Jesus Christ. Consider what you're thinking on and think on the right things. Have a beautiful day, A beautiful day. God bless you and your family. And I'll talk to you you tomorrow.
[00:10:32] Well, Heavenly Father, thank you so much just for everything you do for us and, and what you've done for me. I thank you for getting me through all those trials and tribulations and getting me out the other side. I thank you for, for setting my course of life just in order that I know, just so I know it's important.
[00:10:50] Thank you so much for the teachings and how much of a blessing it's been for me and for those people that have reached out. And I just pray for each and every one of them that you take care of them and.
[00:11:00] Yeah, I'm just. I just, I'm just very, very grateful today. Father, I lift up a great day to you in the name of my Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus.