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 the day the Lord hath made. We'll be glad. We will rejoice in it. Rejoice in every single moment that you have under the sun in this cosmos and this arrangement. Be thankful, be happy. Continually give God that sacrifice. Praise. Praise him and thank him and be joyful.
[00:00:26] It's. It's nice to be back. I was gone for two, three days last week and it feels like it's been a lifetime. But it's funny because when I. Maybe when I drink a little too much or when I eat certain things, I just kind of lose my mind. And ever since I left, I've just been in this circle of negative thought, just of fear of freaking out, being tired. I mean, like the whole gambit of emotions, which is just ludicrous. And when that happens to me, I get quiet with God and I start writing to him. I start asking him to remove, you know, anything that's going on, my doubts, my worries, anything in order to clear my mind up so that I can get back to relying on the Source, relying on God.
[00:01:14] As you build and as you develop as a believer and when you start to have that faith that, that having a firm belief and conviction that God is your God and that he's going to take care of you and that he's always there for you. And having His Word, it just renew and renovate your mind and your thoughts to what the Word says. You can't live in that continual.
[00:01:35] I don't want to say the gutter, but you can't live. You can't snowball in your mind.
[00:01:39] I mean, the smallest thing will occur and I'll just start to snowball in there. It gets bigger and bigger and bigger, bigger. I go down like a month instead of looking at right now. And right now God takes care of me. God will take care of you. Obviously. He's there for you. You got to put the word on in your mind and in your heart. It's here to be.
[00:02:00] I was reading in Proverbs this morning, chapter 22, verse 1. It says a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches in loving favor rather than silver and gold.
[00:02:10] When you believe in the name of Jesus Christ, you're chosen. And you've been chosen before the foundations of the world. God chose you as a son of God. And that's better than all the riches and all the favor you can Have.
[00:02:23] And sometimes when I read this, I just. I get. It's all abstract, you know, it's all the riches and this, that and the other. But when you actually get to it, like for me, in my mind today, even today, I was just thinking about, like, God, are we gonna be successful?
[00:02:38] Are you gonna continue to build us up? Are we gonna stall out? Are we gonna, like, what's gonna happen?
[00:02:44] It's not an abstract thought to be thinking on riches and not on God.
[00:02:50] When you rely on God, he will provide. Period.
[00:02:55] Verse 2.
[00:02:56] The rich and the poor meet together. The Lord is the maker of them all.
[00:03:02] All of this stuff is getting wiped out, all of it. And you can't pay your way into heaven. It's through believing.
[00:03:10] Once you believe in the name of Jesus Christ. Romans 10, 9, 10. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto safety, salvation and preservation.
[00:03:27] Verse 3. A prudent or a cunning man foresee ath the evil and hideth himself, or is absent, or concealeth himself. But the simple pass on and are punished, or pay, or suffer for it.
[00:03:42] If, you know, there's a guy that I was. That I want to go golfing with, and he's a partier. He's fun, man. He's a lot of fun, but he parties. And I'm at the point in my life where I don't really party too much. I'll have a drink or two at night, but I'm not like, I'm not drinking for a. I'm not trying to get drunk. And yet this guy is so much fun, and I want to golf with him, and it'd be so much fun to do so. However, you got to know what's going to end up happening.
[00:04:07] You have to choose the right things in life, the right ways in life.
[00:04:11] Do it. I mean, what does God want you to do? You know? I mean, sometimes God wants you to go out and have a good time, but it's just the.
[00:04:18] You got to choose the right things. God says it. A prudent man foresees the evil. Cunning or crafty man, he sees the evil and hideth himself.
[00:04:27] It's okay to miss out.
[00:04:30] Verse Verse 4. By humility and fear of the Lord are riches on honor and life. And I love this translation. The reward of humility, that is the fear of Jehovah, are riches Honor and life having that reverential awe towards God. And what does God ask you to do? God asks you to read.
[00:04:53] God asks you to renovate your mind. If you don't know what God asks you to do, get into the Word. It's not about listening to what other people teach. In fact, God talks about how the Spirit itself will teach you. When you get in there and read it, you don't need a teacher. You need the Word.
[00:05:10] And it talks about the milk of the Word. You start off just reading something small, and then you'll get deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper. You feed yourself with milk, not with meat. If you want to start with something, Proverbs or Ecclesiastes, I suggest Romans 1. Just read that over and over again.
[00:05:27] It'll work with you.
[00:05:29] I want to finish up with this. If you jump over to Proverbs 22, verse 29.
[00:05:35] See thou a man diligent in his business, or a man that's working, he shall stand before kings. He shall not stand before men who are obscure or mean men.
[00:05:47] If you find yourself not wanting to work, you gotta understand you have to work. That's life. It's part of what life's about. You gotta put the time in.
[00:05:54] In all thy ways. Acknowledge God, and he shall direct thy path. Look to God for any question you have, any answer you need. Go to God and be blessed by it, because he's gonna take care of you.
[00:06:05] Have a beautiful day. Pray the big prayers. Pray the small prayers. Lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. Again, when you pray, you always pray to God. It's a very specific word. It's praying to God, not to Jesus Christ. You pray to God, lifting it up in the name of Jesus Christ. Have a great day. God bless you and your family, and I'll talk to you tomorrow.
[00:06:30] Mistake.
[00:06:34] Well, Heavenly Father, thank you so much for each and everything you do for us and how you do it. I thank you for just renovating or renewing my mind and just working with me to get rid of all the. The. All the noise. I don't even know what. What. How to explain it, but I. I just want that gone. Father, I thank you for your people and how much of a blessing it is to be a part of your believers. I pray for each and every one of them that you just show them the way to get to know you better and to bless you. I thank you for those people who teach, and a blessing it is to listen to them and.
[00:07:05] And I. I'm just very, very thankful for it. I pray for a great day. I pray for the taxes today, that it goes well, and then we can just bust out everything. And for the continual growth of the business.
[00:07:16] And yeah, just for your great blessings, I lift up everything to you in the name of Lord and Savior Christ.
