How To Be The Best Without Even Competing

have you ever wondered why so many people feel frustrated and they feel less than and they feel smaller than and they feel insignificant I've wondered that and I I there's a there's a verse of scripture that says that says um they that compare themselves among themselves measuring themselves by themselves are not lies and so one of the things that I learned a long time ago was don't compare myself and if like if you stop comparing yourself it'll change the game for you and it'll make you feel better about who God made you because you weren't

put here to do somebody else's Mission um you were only put here to do your mission and nobody else is put here to do your mission and so own the identity that God gave you and don't buy the identity that the world gave you what does that even mean well what I mean by that what I mean by that is um like the world the world system at a very early age starts giving us what I call an identity and I got that phrase from a lady named Danica I didn't make it up but I

just liked it and I want to give her credit I don't remember her last name offhand but she's a wonderful lady and so but but identity what is all identity it's it's all of the things that the cultural hypnotic societal mechanism that the world system told you you are not you're not tall enough you're not black enough you're not white enough you're not short enough you're not thin enough you're not heavy enough you're not tall enough you're not pretty enough you don't sing good enough you're not smart enough all the things they told you that's

your identity don't buy the identity it costs too much and then you'll go through life trying to correct the identity with what I call them identity it's a false my identity what's that that's that's the Persona you want people to think about you that's that's the you that you want people to think you are instead of the one they told you you weren't but it's not who you really were put here to be either it just makes you feel better about not being who they told you you weren't how many of y'all know what I'm

talking about that's your identity but I believe that what we really need to tap into we need to tap into our true god-given identity the identity that came from the I am that I am the identity that came from the I am that I am that's the identity we all deserve to have that's the one we should be walking through life with and we shouldn't be going through life comparing ourselves not only should we not compare ourselves to other people um and I said this before I don't remember if I said it in here or

not so I'm going to say it again um one of the phrases that Dan Sullivan the guy who wrote The Dan Sullivan question co-authored who not how and now 10x is easier than 2X and all these one of the things he said he said uh uh Benjamin Hardy Dr Benjamin Hardy asking a question like of all the advice you give people like what's the most important advice in your coaching you've ever given anybody and he said and um amb he said A and B what's that always measure backwards he said most people do and they

wrote a book called The Gap in the game right and the Gap Gap and the gain gain and what most people do is they measure their lives based on the gap the gap between where they are and where they think they should be shoulds are a very dangerous thing in fact shoulds are the main ingredient of frustration right the shoulds that you have for other people frustrate you because they're not who you think they should be right um they're the main ingredient for frustration in yourself because you're not where you think you should be right

um they're the main ingredient for frustration and relationships because somebody you're in a relationships with with thinks you should be you're not what they think you should be so shoulds are just not good for people we should not have shoulds did you get that we should not have it's almost oxymoronic but it's very paradoxical we shouldn't have shoulds like shoulds do not serve us right and so you talk about the Gap in the game so so most people measure the gap between where they are and where they think they should be and they feel like

they're not enough because they're measuring themselves in the gap he said but better than that is measure yourself in the gain how do you measure yourself in the game you look at where you came from measure yourself between where you are now and where you came from and if you measure yourself backwards if you measure yourself based on where you came from and where you are now that's always a win but if you measure yourself on where you think you should be that's always a loss why would you play a game where it's rigged for

you to always lose that doesn't make any sense so I'm going to read a passage of scripture for you that does something that I don't understand like I it didn't make sense to me at first because when I read it it was a comparison I'm like and I read it I thought to myself so what and I thought oh what that's the what okay so here's what it says so here's what it says in in First Kings chapter four it says in verse 29 it says and God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much and

largest of heart even as the sand that is on the seashore and Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East Country and all the wisdom of Egypt for he was wiser than all men and then it starts naming the men well when you say all men that pretty much includes everybody but now we're going to get a list okay he was wiser than all men than Ethan the Ezra height then Haman and Hall and Darda and the sons of Mahal and his Fame was in All Nations roundabout like here's the question

I think that all of us are looking for the answer to how can I win and be wiser wealthier and more well-known that's that's I mean that's what our our business objectives are how can I be wiser I'm going to win in my business be wiser wealthier and more well-known that's what it says about Solomon who's wiser now that didn't say it was wealthier wealthier but over in chapter 10 it does here's what it says in chapter 10 verse 23. chapter 10 verse 23 here's what it says so King Solomon exceeded all the kings of

the Earth for riches and for wisdom wait a minute so Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth what's and and then I thought to myself well what is it a competition but it's not a competition from God's perspective it is an observation but Solomon was wiser than everybody else on the earth Solomon was wealthier than everybody else now before some of y'all get sideways um because Solomon Solomon Solomon wasn't always wise Solomon Solomon did things yes he did but see okay so I don't know that this is the case but it seems to be

a parallel David is an Old Testament type of Christ because he was the king his throne lasts forever like Jesus is going to sit on the throne of David forever right so so David the mighty warrior the con the the gentle Shepherd the mighty warrior the one who wrestles and kills a lion and a bear to save a sheep like I didn't just I just said to the lion can I get you a napkin right I'm not going after a lion to save a lamb I just that's just not in me like I see lions

and their teeth are like it's anyway it's a different conversation so like a bear I don't want to mess with a bear I don't want to mess with a lion unless I'm packing and I need to be and if it's a bear I need to be packing something pretty heavy duty right so so so so so David is a type of Christ in fact the word name David means beloved what did God say when Jesus was baptized in Jordan This is my beloved Son whom I'm well pleased right so that's what that's what the name

David means but I believe that Solomon is a type of the New Testament believer and so it shows all the phases of Solomon's life so we can know what to expect if we follow Solomon in a particular phase are y'all tracking here's what I mean so Solomon at the beginning of his life he was a faithful follower of God's purposes and plan in the middle of his life he fell away from God's purposes and plan and then at the end of his life he came to himself and he began to follow again God's purposes and

plans so it's showing us one that when you yield to God life is good when you get away from life when you get away from God it causes you to lose things that you can't get back because Solomon lost things he couldn't get back right so the the he did some so Solomon was a Wise Fool in the middle of his in the middle of his life he was a wise he was a wise youth in that he yielded to God follow God's plan but then he was a Wise Fool he knew things and he

didn't do the things he knew how many how many of us can relate to that right we a lot of times we know what to do we just don't do it well that was solid but then he repented and we know that he repented because when he wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes the whole book of Ecclesiastes was warning us not to do what he did do you understand that what's the theme of Ecclesiastes if you live your life for life under heaven or life Under the Sun you've wasted your life that's the thing that's why

it keeps on saying over and over all his vanity and vexation of spirit all his vaccinations this also is Vanity and vexation Spirit he's saying if you live your life for life under the sun Under the Sun if you live your life for Life Under the Sun what will happen is you will you will waste your life y'all tracking okay cool but then it says so Solomon came back to himself and at the end of the book of Ecclesiastes he said let us hear the conclusion the whole matter this is an Old King who was

wise and then he was a fool and then he was wise again and he's he's like he did all the stuff he married he married 300 women and had like 700 side women like who does that and why would you anyway that's a lot that's a lot of questions right and a whole bunch of other bad stuff okay so so but why would you so so but God told him don't accumulate women unto yourself don't accumulate silver and gold for yourself don't accumulate horses which represent power for yourself don't do that God warned him that

this is what God told the king to do here you want to be a good King here's what you do you study the word of God all day so you can execute righteous judgment that's what you do but it says this is the beginning of Solomon's reign he was wiser and richer than everybody that's fascinating consider it's not a competition so why is it important for us to know because it wouldn't be in the Bible if it wasn't important for us to know why is it important for us to know that Solomon was wiser and

wealthier and more well-known than everyone why is that why is that important it's important because if we look at how Solomon got wiser wealthier and more well-known than everybody then we can pattern that so how did he do it here's how he did it by the way this what I'm about to read to you is why I pattern my business after King Solomon's business model that's laid out in Scripture this is why okay because I know it worked it worked a couple thousand years ago it'll work now right it worked for him worked for me

right because principals don't care who you are all principles always work the same for everybody okay y'all tracking here we go here's what it says First Kings chapter 3. in verse 1. it says and Solomon made an Infinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt and he took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had made an end the building of his house in the house of the Lord and the wall of Jerusalem roundabout so one of the things we see we see um that Solomon uh he procured powerful Partnerships he made

an Infinity with a pharaoh king of Egypt why well if you make an affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt now he's one of your allies which means he's no he's not your enemy right you don't have to worry about this guy attacking me okay um he brought Pharaoh's daughter into the city of David he married Pharaoh's daughter that was one of his wives now in order for pharaoh to attack Israel he has to now take the risk of killing his own grandbabies so Solomon procured some powerful powerful partnership one of the things that I understand

then like like who is more important than how like your fastest path to cat to creating wealth for your family is going to be developing strategic Partnerships with people who have what you lack and when you have what they lack it's the fastest path okay um see somebody has the audience already that would like to buy the stuff that you created they just don't know you exist but they know that other person exists and if you can let that other person exist you can circumvent all of the all of the audience building stuff they did

to get access to Their audience for your offer okay cool that's cool so then it says um only the people sacrificed in high places because there was no house built into the name of the Lord until those days and Solomon loved the Lord walking in the statutes of David's father only a sacrifice and burn into some incidents in the high places Solomon the passion Solomon possessed was that he loved the Lord with all his heart that's the passion he possessed see God is in control of everything now I can resist him I can resist him

and try to do my own thing only to find out I don't have a thing to do right everybody's yielded to somebody so either you yield to God and you have the ability to resist Satan or you yield to Satan then you resist God but nobody's doing their own thing you don't have a thing to do everybody is yielded to a King you're either yielded to the real king the king of kings who wants to make you a king or make you a queen Ladies God if you're a man God wants to make you the

king of your thing if you're a woman God makes wants to make you the queen of your scene but Satan he wants you to yield to him and then he wants to make you a Slave and then he wants you to build to make bricks to build the kingdom that enslaves you and that what he did with the children I'm not Pharaoh did with the children do you understand that's a picture right where's don't you find it fascinating that the job of the Israelites when they were in Egypt was to make the bricks of the

Kingdom like you're going to build the kingdom that enslaves you by the way that's a picture of what how most people live their lives most people live their lives building block after block laying block after block of things that enslave them that's why like what like distractions that's why broke people watch television you don't even understand one of the reasons you're broke is because you've been programmed by the culture hypnotic societal mechanism to be broke television programs are not just calling television programs because they program the TV to play these shows at certain times they're

called television programs because they're made to program you because the cultural hypnotic societal mechanism understands something we haven't figured out yet and that is nobody will ever behave consistently in a way that's inconsistent with their programming all of the results you're producing right now you're producing on a subconscious level so what you have to do is you have to consciously tear down all of the building blocks you've been building your whole life that are imprisoning you in a prison of error by the way what's that what is that called spiritually what's that called in the

scripture it's called a stronghold what is a stronghold a stronghold is a wall of protection that we build around a lie We Believe and most people believe that it's important to know I I know I'm gonna mess with some of y'all now but I ain't because I don't love you I'm gonna tell you right now though see most of us believe that it's important to know who won the game but if you ain't winning in the Game of Life why do you care who wins a game that doesn't do anything for you or the people

in your family why do you care and you say Myron well I just like sports it relaxes me I'm gonna tell you something else to relax will relax you a big bank account will help you relax way better than knowing who won the game my favorite show is on no your favorite show should be you showing other people how you can serve them and they can pay you that should be your favorite show and see what happens is we're so distracted by all of this stuff that doesn't matter at all to our lives to the

quality of Our Lives or the people we've been sent to serve and then we get all and then we get bent out of shape when something goes wrong oh my refrigerator went out and I didn't have enough money all the time you spent watching whatever you've been watching you could have made enough money to buy seven refrigerators is that too tough here's the reality we're okay not fulfilling our purpose because nobody ever told us that that's why we were putting like nobody ever woke us up out of our slumbering distractions okay so Solomon loved the

Lord you know why I love the Lord because he knows what my life should be better than I do I am so blessed yeah I was born a black man in a white man's world whatever that means I get it I get it like by the way I'm not minimizing the fact that it's harder for black people in the United States of America than it's for white people I'm not minimizing that because it is I'm not gonna pretend that it's not but it doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be it was way harder

for people that were born in my parents it's harder it was harder for me than for you young folks today never had to sit on the back of a bus I have Young Folks today never had to drink out of a black only fountain I have Young Folks young black folks today never weren't they weren't allowed to not go in a gas station in Georgia or South Carolina or North Carolina we weren't allowed to go we could buy gas from but we couldn't go inside use the bathroom I remember that so I'm not pretending I'm

not like America like I love America now I know some people say you love me I do love America America hasn't always loved me but that's okay I still love America you know why because at least the fabric of America was was there was enough truth woven into the fabric of America for those wrongs to be righted by an individual who was willing to take responsibility for my own outcomes I'm not saying it was as easy for me as it was for some of my counterparts it doesn't matter if it was harder for me that's

if it was harder for me that's actually better for me why because harder creates stronger and easier creates weaker I didn't lift weights this morning because I I just wanna I wanna I wanna atrophy I'm looking for some atrophy I didn't work out this morning because I want atrophy I made it hurt because a lot of times the things that will help you the most hurt you while you're doing them things that are easy on the front end are often hard on the back end and hard on the front and it's easy on the back

end that's the easy hard principle anyway that was a side rant but I love the Lord because he knows like I'm blessed I'm not just blessed with money I'm blessed with a wife that I love and a wife that loves me I'm blessed with children I love and children love me I'm blessed with friends I love and friends that love me I'm blessed with a I'm blessed with Clarity on the purpose for my life and you know I'm so blessed with Clarity on the purpose of my life I don't really care what you think about

the purpose for my life I mean like I ain't trying to rub you the wrong way but if my life rubs you the wrong way turn around and just be rubbed thank you like I am not seeking any man's approval I don't get my orders from you I get my orders from Heavenly headquarters Solomon got his orders from Heavenly he loved God he wanted he was a young man who wanted to please Lord hey you want to change your life you want your life to be blessed Beyond like your wildest imaginations Go Wrap Your Life

in Psalms chapter one blessed is the man that walketh not on the Council of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of Sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the storm but his Delight is in the law of the Lord and as long as he meditate win day and night he should be like a tree planted by the rivers and Waters that bringeth forth his fruit in a season his Leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper you you sound like a Prosperity Gospel preacher I don't know what that is because it's

not the phrase is not in the Bible but Prosperity is in the Bible and I believe the Bible and by the way Prosper Prosperity is not the devil's word Prosperity is God's word oh you always show you somewhere else it is in God's word uh how about how about Isaiah chapter 55. seek ye the Lord while he may be found call you upon him while he's near let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man has thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and He will have mercy upon him and to our God

he will abundantly pardon for my thoughts are not your thoughts saith the Lord neither are my ways your ways for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways or my thoughts than your thoughts for as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and it watereth the Earth and maketh that bring forth and Bud that may give bread to the eater and seed to the sower so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth and it shall accomplish that which I please and it

shall prosper in the thing where unto I sent it see I don't have to feel coming up with an ad hominem fallacy you want to call me a Prosperity Gospel preacher because you don't know what the Bible teaches what the Bible teaches about Prosperity here's what you know you know you know the poverty gospel the poverty gospel preachers preach you know the name and then claim it blabbing and grab it preachers what that what they preach right and you and and and and and oftentimes they'll tell you to sow money into their life and I'm

not I'm not saying that you shouldn't sow life into the lives of the ministers who serve you because I believe that's biblical but I don't believe it's my job as a minister to tell you to give money to me so I can get rich here I'm gonna tell you something I don't need your money now now guess what because I don't need your money you don't get to tell me what to preach watch this I have traveled all over this world I I'll go preach anywhere and I'll tell the pastor when they call me you

don't need to give me a love offering I don't need you I don't need a love offering you want to take up a love offering give it to your charity give it to your like give it to your pastor I don't need it why I have businesses that work by the way you know what that does that gives me the ability to give advice to a business owner why see a lot of pastors can't advise business owners because they've never been in business I mean you're going to buy some but you can't buy them on

business because if you do you never had a business you don't know what you're talking about just because you're a pastor don't mean you're an expert at everything nobody's an expert at everything not you not me not into a bad day okay so I'm in love the Lord how did Solomon become wiser than all men because of the Partnerships he procured because of the passion because of the passion he possessed but watch this it says um the king went to give me and the sacrifice there for the that was the great high place and a

thousand burn offerings did Solomon offer upon the altar guess what you know to burn offering as a picture of a burnt offering is a picture of total sacrifice what is the word what does the word sacrifice mean is what it means it means you let go of something of a lower nature so you can take a hold of something of a higher nature you let go of something less valuable so you can take a hold of something more valuable that's the that's the meaning of a sacrifice Solomon gave a burnt offering what's a burnt offering

when you burnt the offering it wasn't usable for anybody for anything when somebody gave a burnt offering that's a picture of total sacrifice that's showing God everything I have is yours that's what burnt offering is for like a burnt offering this this passage right here like if you want to look at the New Testament principle you see it in Romans chapter 12 verse one I beseech you or I beg you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God you present your body as a Living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service present your

body as a Living Sacrifice present your body of living so this is a dead sacrifice a burnt offering my life is supposed to be a Living Sacrifice a continual burn offering before the Lord I'm supposed to burn up all of my energy of my life pleasing God and serving people that's the that's my that's how this life becomes a burnt offering are y'all tracking Okay so so the price that Solomon paid he was willing to pay everything see here's here's the problem too many people give lip service to the outcomes they say they want and

they're not willing to put their money where their mouth is you know why because they value the money more than they value growth more than they value learning more than they value transformation well Solomon but the price he paid then it says um [Music] um I left one out or was it uh it moved it they didn't move uh Solomon oh there it is verse three Solomon loved the Lord his God walking in the statutes of David his father the path that he patterned the path that Solomon patterned was paternal he followed in his Father's

Footsteps do you know what a father the word father the word Hebrew word for father is the word Abba it's spelled bait aleph bate Olive bait what is that this letter represents God this represents the house the father is God in the house what does that mean he's God's representative in the house he walked in the statutes of David his father he followed a Godly pattern well then the Lord came to Solomon in a dream I love this story by the way this is one of my favorite stories in the Bible and in gibeon verse

5 the Lord appeared unto Solomon in his dream by night and God said ask what I shall give thee let me translate that into modern day vernacular Solomon I got a blank checkup here with your name on it what would you like me to fill it out for Solomon I'm gonna give you anything and everything you want what would you like how y'all like God for you for God to wake you up and give you that option right like sign me up right in fact if you'll do it sooner I'll go take a nap right

now right right okay and Solomon didn't ask for two of these in one of those and three in green and four in blue here's what Solomon said and Solomon said thou showed under thy servant David my father great Mercy according as he walked before the in truth and in righteousness of Heart by the way there's a very valuable lesson there you showed to David my father mercy and kindness according to as he walked before you in sincerity and Truth who is David okay okay let me ask you a better question that who is who is

Solomon's mama who's Solomon's mama Bathsheba Bathsheba is the woman that David took that belonged to one of his most faithful High character servants Uriah the hittite Uriah the hittite you okay so you understand that the Hittites were Canaanites right right so the Hittites okay so the Hittites were the descendants of Canaan who was Kanan Kanan was the grandson of Noah who was who was who was kanans who was kanan's um uh I'm sorry Caden wasn't the grandson of Noah Kanan was yeah Canon was the grandson of Noah he was the son of kush who's Kush

Kush is son of kush was the son of of um of of ham Bathsheba was Uriah the hittite's wife by the way what does that mean well for those of you who care Solomon's mom was a black woman in case you were wondering she was a horror I mean it's in the Bible I didn't write it it was in there that when I got up the morning and that didn't make her any better or any worse it just happens to be one of those things and why do I why do I why do I bring

that up because there are so many people who would deceive you and have you to believe that the Bible was a white man's book the Bible is no man's book that's why God puts everybody's dirty laundry out on the clothesline he ain't trying to cover up for no God ain't covering up for nobody and so Solomon's mama was Bathsheba whom David stole from Uriah and had Uriah killed but when Solomon looked at his dad he didn't look at him in judgment like a lot of you a lot of people listen to me right now you're

looking you got all this judgment for your parents you know why you got judgment for your parents because you don't know the road they walked you only know the road you walked with them but just just keep on living let's keep on living I get it I get it your mom wasn't perfect I get it your dad wasn't perfect I get that but maybe just like you maybe they did the best they could with what they had and even if they didn't give them room they're humans because I promise you they weren't the first ones

to mess up they weren't the first ones in your family to mess up and you messed up since they messed up so let's just give everybody some Grace okay anyway so he said uh Solomon said thou showed unto David my father great Mercy as according as you walk before the in truth and righteousness of heart um with thee and thou has kept for him this great kindness that thou has given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day and now oh Lord my God thus made thy servant King instead of

David my father and I am but a little child I know not how to go out in order to come in that does not sound like what you want to put on your resume well I'm just but but what experience you have well I'm just a little child I don't know how to go out and come in I don't know how to be a king oh yeah I'm I'm going to be the king I don't know how to do that Solomon's transparency was amazing his humility was amazing do you understand that his lack of qualification

and his awareness of that was his greatest qualification why because God's strength can only be made perfect and you are in my weakness if I'm strong there God doesn't God can't show up there because then people give me credit for something he did and no flesh of Glory in his presence y'all tracking I can see it I can see it in your eye okay um and I and now Lord that's made me the King instead of day of my father and I put a little tried to know how to go out or come in and

thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou has chosen a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted from altitude I'm in the midst of your people here's here's something Solomon realized he was about to be the king but they weren't his people they were God's people he said give therefore thy servant and understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad for who is able to judge this I sow great people and the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon asked this thing and God said unto him

watch this this is how Solomon this is how Solomon became wiser wealthier and more well-known this is it right here God said here's the reason I want you to notice what this little word in uh um in verse 11. it says in verse 10 and the speech please the Lord and Solomon asked this thing and God said unto him because which means all the stuff that just happened are the reason how did Silence why was Solomon wiser than all men why was he wealthier in all men why was he more well known than all men

here's why because thou has asked this thing and has not asked for thyself oh long life neither has thou asked riches for thyself nor has thou asked for the life of thine enemies and we could have tagged on there even though it doesn't say for thyself but thou has asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment in other words Solomon's Prayer wasn't for Solomon Solomon's Prayer was for God and God's people here's what's the essence of Solomon's Pharaoh is this dear Lord give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me on this Earth to

do in a way that pleases you and serves the people you put me here to serve do you realize if that was your heart's desire and that was your prayer every day and that's really what you sought to do that every aspect of your life would get better exponentially in record time dear Lord I I'm a husband I don't know how to be a husband maybe you didn't have a father who was a husband and maybe you never saw an example I don't know how to be a husband dear Lord give me the wisdom to

be the husband you put me on this Earth to be in a way that pleases you and serves these this wife that you give me to serve maybe you don't know how to be a father you've got these little kids dear Lord I don't know how to be a father give me the wisdom to be the father you put me on this Earth to be in a way that pleases you and serves these little children you've given me to serve maybe it's your wife I don't know how to be a wife my mom wasn't married

I don't know how to be a wife Dear Lord give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me on this Earth to do in a way that pleases you and serves this husband you give me to serve maybe you're a mother dear Lord give me the wisdom to be the mother you put me here to be in a way to please you and Sir these people these children you give me to serve I don't know how to be a business owner dear Lord give me the wisdom to be the entrepreneur you put me

here to be in a way that pleases you and serves these people you give me to serve do you understand that's the only way any of our Lives gets better the wealth is created from our creative ability it's our leverage it's the things that I know that give me the ability to do things that you would be willing to pay for that's my leverage my creativity is my Leverage the people I'm supposed to serve those are my connections the way that I serve the way that I serve them how I show up seeking in their

best interest is my contribution and that's oh that's the only way any of us will ever feel fulfilled I'm not going to feel for Money Can't Make Me Feel fulfilled a nice car can't make me feel fulfilled it can't I don't feel money doesn't make me I mean I I like having some it's way better than not having any I've done both right nobody by the way nobody's going to persuade me of the virtues of poverty been there done that got two T-shirts sent them back and don't want them anymore but money ain't gonna fulfill

me a nice car a nice house that's not gonna fulfill me flying on a private Jet's not gonna fulfill me you know it's going to fulfill me pleasing God and serving people that's it that's the whole purpose for my life God put me here by myself but he didn't put me here for myself and when I'm with you I'm supposed to be focused on you and when you're with me you're supposed to be focused on me but everybody's so infected with I me I mean mine disease and all I think about is I me my

and mine if we just like if we can just like I am I'm not telling you something I heard somebody talk about I'm not sharing with you something I read in a book I have been living this and I'm telling you it works just like I'm purporting it to work Serve the People love the people be about the people God did not put you here for yourself the most miserable people I know the most miserable people I know are self-absorbed self-consumed and they only think about themselves by the way you want a formula for being

miserable other than shoulds focus on you because I tell you you focus on you long enough you're gonna find something missing yeah all it doesn't matter who we are we focus on ourselves long enough we don't find something well this could be a little better that could be a little better yeah that way I thought I'd be okay that's one way to do it or you could wake up and just start opening the gifts and saying thank you when you open your eyes and they can see thank you God I've opened a gift because I

know how to look but I don't know how to make myself see do you understand every good thing in your life every good thing in my life is a gift all of it every good thing but but you don't know how hard how hard this business yeah but you don't know you forgot about the God who gave you the ability and the awareness to work hard in that Arena so you can go build that business it's a gift your ability to do the things you do as a gift now you doing them that's the work

you do but the ability to do it and the willingness to do it that's a gift and I'm telling you when we become passionate about the love that we have for the Lord the love that we have for other people I am telling you it'll open doors that no man can close so why is God telling us that Solomon was wiser wealthier more well-known than all these other people here's why because he prayed this Kingdom prayer dear Lord give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me here to do in a way that

pleases you and certain people you put me here sir because because you're seeking to yield your life to God rule over your assignment and please other people you have no competition and you'll get wiser and you'll get wealthier and you'll get more well known because guess what happens when you are yielded to God and you're seeking to serve people some of those people are going to pay you if you serve them at a very high level some of them will pay you at a very high level huh when you're when you when you're consumed with

learning the things you don't know instead of being puffed up and proud about the things you do know you will seek out the answers that you've not yet found and you'll be wiser don't be impressed with your wisdom just know that the more you learn the more you'll become aware of how much you don't know that's why people who think they know the most know the least you're always you always know somebody when they're when they come when they come across as a know-it-all they just they just keep on living you just haven't lived long

enough to find out how wrong you are yet it was more well known because when you serve people at that level here's what they do they talk about you they tell other people about you when you show up for the people the people will show up they'll go out and tell the world about your mission because there are a lot of people in the world who are underserved in fact most people are underserved and almost nobody I don't know that I've ever met anybody who over served it'll change your life when you start to live

like this and then you'll be wiser and wealthier and more well-known than who than than me than than this person than that person no than you were before you yielded to God ruled over your assignment and started serving people here's what Solomon here's what God told Solomon oh I didn't read the rest of it to you here's what it says this is this is this to me is mind-blowing but my mind's easily blown I know you're you're you're you're in so here's what it says um behold I've done according to thy words and lo I've

given the a wise and understanding heart so there was none like you before you neither after the show any arise like unto thee you're the best of the best you're he's like the Michael Jordan the Tiger Woods he's like the best of the best in his Arena there's never going to be another one like you okay but watch this and I have also given thee that which thou has not asked bonuses okay let's look at this heavenly bonus I've also given you that which I was not asked so that they're uh there was none like

the among the Kings like under the all thy days and if that would walk in my ways oh I missed it hold on a second and I've also given you that which now it's not as verse 13 both riches and honor so that there shall not be any among the Kings like under the all thy days and if that will walk in my ways and keep the statues that I commanded thee as David thy father did walk then will I lengthen thy days guess what God Said even though you didn't ask me for the riches

you didn't ask me for the wealth you didn't ask me to be well known but because you asked for the wisdom which is what the application of truth because you asked for the wisdom to do the thing I put you on this Earth to do guess what I'm going to do I'm going to give you some bonuses you're gonna be wealthier you're gonna be wiser so you can be wealthier wiser and well-known well more well known even though you have no competition what do I mean you have no competition the only person who can fulfill

the purpose that God put you here for is you hey hey hey husband hey hear me husband hear me the only person who can serve your wife at that level is you and if you don't do it it's not being done wife the only person who can serve that husband is you if you don't do it can't be done parents if you don't serve those children at the at a Godly level it's not going to get done and the enemy will be happy to come in and give an unsuitable replacement for the job that God

put you here for that you are unwilling to fulfill it's time for us to yield to God is The Sovereign king of our life rule over our assignment as The Sovereign kings and queens of our assignment and then use those assignments to serve every human being whose path we cross and we will do that we will be blessed to be on measure and we will live a life of wonder I trust that this blesses you thank you for watching thank you for sharing thank you for um all the YouTubey stuff I can't remember what all

of it is commenting yeah that's what it is the YouTube stuff y'all know what to do y'all are on YouTube every day just like me stay blessed by the best and I look forward to seeing you on the next video [Applause]