Leadership Training 11/12/2022

Okay. Alright. Welcome to the November meeting at guess we haven't really been together since Since May of last year last year. Yeah, I haven't been together since May. So just wanted to share some things with you about leadership and hopefully we can all go lane from one another and I guess we want to start by asking. Do y'all got mics on your bench, your puce?

Is your mic there? No, Mike's there Yeah, I want to get some Mike's put on all the fuse.

Need two more.

Yes, sir, praise God. Okay.

Okay, when I tell him that hold a color up, so they can see what colors they are at that one in.

Okay, good to go. Good to go. All right, what do you think anybody want to share? What you think leadership is?

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You should Mike please cuz you're recording.

Silence isn't golden here.

So what what what's the leadership to you? You know, your leaders me, come on your microphone so we can hear you if we got to hear you.

To lead. To bead. Anybody else? Tule develop leave develop an example. She left something for y'all didn't she?

I mean, come on. Guidance Direction. Guidance Direction. Okay, do you need to know where you're going?

H a l e, a good follower as well as a leader Dependable. Anybody else

Cassia County accountability leadership starts with you. Are you okay? so you, you

All right. Alright, so that's anybody else got anything to say about leadership? Alright, let's consider this. How about leadership, helping others with life challenges will result in you having success and happiness. Because leaders. Really help others face their life challenges. And it's not only blesses the other person, but it blesses, the leader. This is why when you have children, you find yourself getting involved in their lives. When you have grandchildren, you find yourself getting involved in their lives, you have great grandchildren, you find yourself being involved in their lives, why? Because you're helping them face life challenges. And what the result is is you having success and happiness, because you help somebody else. And even if you don't have children, when you find yourself help, when your brother is or your sisters or your family members, you're doing the same thing because you wonder why, why they always come to me. Cuz you're at later, go to somebody that don't know what's going on or doesn't have the solution you go to someone that has solution. So helping others face, life challenges people have life challenges but it results in you having success and happiness and that's what happens when they go through. They run into a roadblock guess who they call on? They calling you. When you get him out of that one, guess what happens? They find another roadblock and who they call on, or if they don't call on you, they kind of him up around. You know, what do you think? What do you think? And that's what happens. That's why sometimes we look at life and look at situations but Ministry leadership is like a marriage. Because that's what Ministry leadership is. Like I know some people don't want to be married. Ministry. Leadership is like a marriage, you have courtships and you may have been in church before you another church where you came at KLCC and you got to deal with that because that courtship apparently didn't go. Well, so the courtship ended and you find yourself here Kingdom life, but you need to remember this to be successful, really successful anywhere. This is what's going to have to take place even here Kingdom Life. you've got to come to the point where you're married to the ministry and the church, you're with You got to be married to the ministry in the church. You're with, if you're not married to it, it's going to cause a lot of issues. And deal with this right now. Unless you're married, you cannot really be successful. People want to be on the perimeter but, you know, so if you should do this yet, that's why I don't tell people doing marriage cuz I don't know about your man. I got a hard enough time with mine. So you people say what you want to do this, I wouldn't take that. Guess what? You won't be married, you just got a courtship going on. If you can find yourself Alone Again Naturally because you don't get it. But you must be married. To have a real relationship with Ministry and Leadership whether youth want to face it or not. When you have children do you have a courtship with your kids? You really married to them. You you have this relationship where when they face challenges they faced situations you help them guy to help guide them through those situations. Why? Because when you really think about this real success in any job is more than money. When you have a job of raising a family, you have a job of people that are depending on you, brothers and sisters, whoever they might be cousins relatives. You find yourself. It's not about money. Because you've got to understand real success is not about money in life, you can get money anywhere. You can get money anywhere and you can get a good deal anywhere, but you can get the things that marriage offers when you're married to a Ministry, this is what happens with people. When you're married to Adventure, you really in it, you're part of it. You want to see it succeed, you want to see it become grow and develop, that means that you got to put more in it. Then somebody else might put it at and you've got to understand something else. You can get many things that marriage offers anywhere, but you can't get married. You didn't get something that looks like it. You can buy something on the corner or stuff like that, but it's still not marriage. Why? Because marriage is something more. When you're married to a Ministry, you're married to your purpose, you're married to your life assignment. It's something more. Because you got to understand. You cannot Court a church. Either you're in it. For the long haul or you're not in it and too many times people try to court a church. They just kind of want to snuggle I don't want to see what's going on. I just want to they looking at it from the outside so you got to come on in because once you come into it Then you realize this that you will die. For that. Look you know that look you get when you get married a girl, you just stole my heart, my liver, my quiver, everything else, and all that stuff. And then after you get home and get a sitter, I do's and everybody else sat there and said for better for worse and then Here Comes something. Worse Pops at, wait a minute. Now that was just what they say. They told me to say that. Did you really mean it? Don't say it. Don't say obey in your marriage, ceremony. Because people have this mindset of what marriage is, but marriage. You got to die for the eyes that you commit to, you got a die for that. Look then that person that you think my wife. Come on. Look at me.

See there. You think she stole my head when I was young? And she said, God, look at this big head. But she got herself a big head at met. It's the same way when you look at church. It's like what are you going to live with? Oh man, I'm going to live with him. I'm going to live with these people. Yeah, that's why we come in here. We actually live with one another and it's called leadership. And we don't get to pick and choose and we're here to be leaders and you got to be nice to him. You got to talk nice to them and then she says, will you don't talk to other people that way? I said no, cuz I can't. But you realize that what are you going to live with is part of it? And what are you going to be when you're later because you're married, you're part of what's going on here and then not only that Where are you going to? What what are you going to live for? You going to live for the good of your brothers and sisters. We live for the good of our children. And when we think about our children and how they are, and what all they do and and let's face it. Sometimes children of like that your pet use the people to say, all, I love my dog. I love my goldfish or whatever, but that go fishing, but you keep beating me. I'll just hang around you. Now, you don't feed me on my, have to go somewhere else because they understand pets, move on. And guess what? Your kids move on and people move on, even in churches and Leadership and you want them to be able to progress in their life and go forward. But you gotta understand this, your two things you can live for as leaders. You can live and move as if the sunrises and sunsets on you. Oh, I'm this leader in our church and I do this. You strut around to test all poked out, and, or you can live for yourself.

Or you can live your life for God. And that's what it comes down to it and Leadership. You live it for yourself or God. Lets it. Who is the authority figure in your life? You or God. You didn't make the choice. Because understand something God does not solve your problems.

But God does our father, he gives you a fresh set of problems.

He does not solve your problems. You get the choice. You get to live for God. I'm going to pray that I'm going to sing. I'm going to hum, I'm going to try not to say anything at first when I go to the situation. Why? Because you got to understand something God is not in the business of solving my problems. Everything we need is right here. He gives us through Holy Spirit to know what we should be doing with our lives. And he tells us this little burst that some people want to Flinch at That you're always pray. And not faint. And why do people faint? Because so many people, they see you as a leader and they want to live on your prayers.

People will live on your prayers. Pray for me, pray for me. Pray for me, and God says, they're not solving their problems. I can't, I just have to give him some more. Here's some more. And they go from one issue to another issue to another and they got all the stuff going on in life, because they refused to become a leader.

Leadership is for everybody is not just for select few. Even a Ministry. People want you to tell him that. I don't tell people, you know, to believe what I believe. I don't tell people to believe because I believe, but you've got to understand, you've got to know what you're going to live your life in. What are you going to live your life in in faith with the word of God and Faith with what father has prescribed and know what you're going to live with? What are you going to live with their struggles, in life? Their struggles and everything? So get over, you got to become a leader, you got to go deep. You've got to go deep because things aren't what people think it is supposed to be happy. Go lucky, it's not happy. Go lucky all the time at 4. Come on you think you? Look at your kids some time and you want to know what are they thinking and you said you just want to slap me upside the head, but you can't do that cuz you go to jail now. And then you got to ask yourself, what are you going to live for? So we're going to live with. What are you going to live with her? Or you going to live your life in? And what are you going to look like for? As Leaders, you're constantly dealing with situations and circumstances. You're constantly saying I'm not going to again, going back to the line that people tell you. I'm not going to, I wouldn't take that. I wouldn't take shut up. You take more stuff than, you know you don't want to take, what's going to help you. Because father is going to Think about this. When David? When David came? Add Ziploc and their wives, and the kids and all the stuff was gone and they were ready to Stone David and kill him. The Bible says that your leader in the first thing, David did the Bible says he inquired of the Lord

Why don't people inquire of the Lord? Because you become their go-to solution. And they go to you because so they can get there quicker than I can know. We can't get there quicker than you can say. We've learned in life, what we will live with what we live for. And you know what, we're going to do in situations. We learn how to navigate And stay the course with Holy Spirit, as father leads us. And then he allows us to write a book was called stumbles to success you stumbling to the solution. You don't always know. And when you still want a solution boy, you feel good. But people think you know you have this thing about you that you can, I know that God hears me when I pray I'm very persuaded of that because the startup versus a Lord, forgive me.

What forgive me? So I don't nothing there. So nobody can jump up in my face in that little imps. Can't jump on the same to you. They did this, they did work. Forgive me. Very simplistic. But know, if he's going to live your life for your sets for yourself, if you're going to live your life for yourself, then you have to live with the consequences of you got to live for God, then you don't want to straddle the fence because this is what happens in people's lives. They don't know where they want to live for themselves, where they want to live for God. In one day, they're out the next day. They're happy one day. They're set it all works together because why you know, when we first came in the church do you know what they used to tell us? Think about it. There's a state that least get us to quits. Quit drinking quit smoking. Quit. Swearing. Quit gambling. Learn to hate sin. Oh, come on. Y'all know, as well as I do. If you were a rank Center, you didn't need any lessons to be a good Center. It just came naturally and people. I like, I had to have a license to be a. You don't need no lessons to be a sinner. It just comes very naturally because people think it's something that, you know, oh, oh, you just got to quit people, try to quit. Drinking, quit smoking, quit cussing. Quit gambling, and move on with your life, Dr. Monroe said it this way. It shouldn't have been there anyway. And then, especially I, thank God for saving me sanctify, me, feeling with the Holy Ghost. I don't smoke. I don't get over yourself. But makes work a testimony testimony. So and then they used to tell us when you came to church just do your best. How many of us really tried it to our best? Come on. Just try to do your best baby, just try to do your best at the stuff. That ain't what it is because nobody really tries to do their best in life. People try to get by by doing as little So when you say, just do your best, And if you got to figure if they would try a little harder or do a little bit more, they could but guess what they want to do it. You tell family and friends what do your best and it's too hard. How can do your best? Be too hard and as Leaders we've got to understand we have all these religious platitudes that you know people used to tell us so you're going to hell and style and this not the other and if but guess and then then they take and don't be surprised who you meet there. You heard all this stuff that people deal with in religious circles and it's crazy. Because you've got to understand something father is calling each and every believer receiver to himself. To grow up. He said it in a fission C says that you may grow up in him who his head. Grow up in him. Who is head? Grow up in him, who is hit? That's grow up time. But nobody wants to upset the apple cart of Life, the app requires that people deal with. And then, you know, they bring up front and that that's the one that's like the Magic Touch. We're going to give him the right hand of Fellowship, what's in your right hand? At the right hand of fellowship. And then once they gave you the right hand of Fellowship, they sent it to the nearest, the offering plate over there now. So you get the right hand of Fellowship, you go to the offer and fight, why, but God wants you to be honest. Leaders have got to be honest. Why? Because it boils down to this God is God, the Bible is true, and people got to take it or leave it. It's just that simple. And as leaders, We've got to be willing to understand when we deal with people when people come into our lives. Look, you got to make a choice, you can get married and be with us. And what a God is, a God has called us to do, or you just want to coerce him. You want to see it from the outside and find out what's wrong because that's why people find themselves in situations where they live together, and then, it's crazy. And that, and that's why I look sometimes I look at some of these situations now. And when I talked about a gay marriage and things like that, will guess what? Now they got something they call Gay divorce. Because they're doing the same thing. Everybody else is doing nothing. There is there is no difference. You can't try something out. You've got to either be committed to it or not and this is what's happening in our society. They've come to a mindset that I don't want to Holy commit. You going to? Holy commit to Something in life. You're going to be married to, especially with Ministry in your relationship with God, you better understand something. You've got to be willing to take care of all. The people that God sends your way, you don't get to pick and choose any other work in the restaurant. Food Service. See that's good. That's why I tell people don't mistreat your servers. Don't complain too loud about the cook who's cooking your food? Just graciously what you ask him to please. Take this in kind of make it a little more done, you say it gracefully because they know how to burn it.

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See the mindset of people today is everybody wants to relax and take it easy. They don't want to go that extra mile, even leaders. You got understand it, you're a leader. You got to come to a place of

Precision. And what it is, you're doing, you got to want to be the very best at what it is you're doing. because if you don't, you'll find yourself, relaxing, slowing down, take it, easy, pace yourself, and that people, people people tell you this, you need to slow down and take it easy. You're doing too much. And then the next five minutes could you do this? Here they come asking you to do something for them, but they don't want you but they're telling you this. So you need to take some time and do this, and rest, and relax and then they want it. Want you to do something.

And it's so amazing. See because you never will be able to slow down and take it easy and pace yourself cuz guess what? People won't let you.

Nor will the scripture. Let you look and Loop 12. Luke chapter 12, 43 through 48.

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If the master Returns the master returns and what he has done a good job, he wants to know if it finds that the servant has done a good job, say good job.

The Mask returns and finds us doing a good job, there will be a reward. All right.

I tell you, the truth will put that servant in charge of all. He owned all he, you know, when I was at lingo and Bishop used to go away and then he would leave me in charge when he went on vacation after convocation, but I knew one thing, I knew the key, the key was Don't think you were in charge.

That was the key. You're there, you've been given the authority, he's going away, but know this that you're not really in charge read on.

Here it is. But what if the sermon thinks I won't be back for a while because beating the other servants and

That's what can happen. Because he let us mind go to a place where he actually thought he was the master, all right? But

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Alright, Master will return unannounced and unexpected and unexpected. And what station with the with the Unfaithful. I'm trying to figure out who's going to cut him into pieces and pieces. That's what I'm going to do that. Cut him in pieces and Vanishing with the Unfaithful, all right? And 47.

And a servant who knows what the master one can carry out those instructions.

And not prepared to carry out instructions of God because you forgot understand. Again, I share with you. Leadership is so important, your children are a Ministry, your grandchildren are Ministry. Your great-grandchildren are Ministry and yet, you can be a part of this ministry. Because you got to understand it's about all of us, carrying out and following father's instructions. God gives us instructions on what it is. We're to do how weird to live. And when he gives us those instructions, here's here's 48. Now, you need to capture this read on.

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He's working it. But someone who does not know, someone who does not know, and then does something wrong do nephew, don't know. And it does something wrong, you will only be punished lightly much will be required in return.

Someone has been entrusted with much more will be required. The reason your leader. It's because you've learned the lesson, much known, much required. How can? She had this, we're helping you have that because much known much as required. God, has graced and blessed, but it requires much more of my life than he does of your why because you understood I am a leader. And got to understand something else. People call themselves and L and you can have a title, you can have a position and you can have the endowment. But unless you're willing to pay the price

Those things mean nothing. People aren't willing to pay the price. You have chosen to pay the price of leadership and paying the price of leadership is not about. Being a leader is not have the title position or endowment but you're saying I'm willing to pay the price

And L got to also understand something about the pitfalls of overextension because leaders, sometimes I get the Superman or Superwoman complex, they get their Cable ONE. Late, jump out a window, and I forgot I'm not flying today. So, you must recognize a leader. Must deal with the reality that he or she must go. Here's a cat leaders, understand where you. You got to go to 2nd mile. When you're a leader, you got to go to Second Mile, I've got to find a solution. I've got to make this thing work because I'm a leader.

Understand that when you're a leader, you often have to go the second mile. because as L, how many of you can, I used an allergy sometimes of When someone tells your child to take the trash out. How can you tell your child take the trash out and I'll send you go outside and trash is blowing everywhere. Cuz what did they do?

They just took the trash out. You didn't, you didn't show them out to take the trash out, you didn't instruct them out to take the trash out. You just said take the trash out c, l. Have a sense of responsibility that only comes to a few leaders. A lot of leaders don't understand this. See if you're going to lead in your community leaving your home lead in a church, you've got to be the one carrying the load. And you get to carry the load. Why because leaders must be about rowing. Where you are today, what it is? You know. United printing in the machine. I started out on this, is this a simple press, but I went from that simple press. They said, okay, we need you to do this now and they put you on this machine and you got to kind of figure out how to make this machine work. And then they take it from that machine. We got this new machine, we're going to put you on this machine. So you've got to take what you've learned and acclimated with what you are doing now. And then take what you're doing now to the next level because they all operate on the same principle. And this is why it's important for us to understand, you can't stop growing. Leaders cannot stop growing. You can't, you can't. How can I said you can't allow yourself to relax the stop along the way. You've got to understand something. We're more as built with more known more is required. People are paying you on a job or anything to be where you are for 50 years. so when I was on the job, makes it here, this machine that, okay, here this machine here and you know the one thing I told myself when I was in school I never wanted to run a machine And lo and behold. Thirty-some years. I ran. I said, I told myself I didn't want to run any kind of machine. I hated shop. I had a Woodshop. They made to take it metal shop. I hate it plastic shop. I never wanted to work with any kind of machines and I said, I'm going to use my head. And what did I wind up doing getting ink on my hands? My fingernails.

Because I told God, I don't want to run machines. God has a sense of humor so you realize you have got to learn to do and go that extra mile. If that my family helped us by our house. Cars, be able to go on vacation. So, can't complain because as a leader you got to keep growing. You got to keep growing and leaders understand. There are things they called Growing Pains. If you're not willing to push yourself to wear, whatever it is you're doing in life. I told you about my boss when he said to me that time I just started in the apartment, we were working overtime and I had a problem and he told me since I'm only going to show you this once, And I said, you ain't got to worry about it. You I will never ask you again. And I learned how to do it. I learn how to do it, right? And I train other people how to do it, simply because this is what it's about. You've got to master what it is that you're doing that. You can instruct and help someone else grow and become who they're to be. It's not just about us. It's about those who follow us. I mean, it's so amazing.

You know, so amazing. When I look at Destiny back there with German and stuff like that, and what she does and how she does it. And, you know, and then she Pops from back. There she goes downstairs cuz I never wanted to work in the office. No, no, no, but she doesn't, she doesn't willing, and she is learning some things. Why? Because they're going to help her later in life because she's chosen to be later. Leilani, same thing, can you go down? Leilani went down so you can learn stuff. She went to Destiny, went back there, doing whatever David doing in inventory, whatever stuff that is Now that's tough. Why? Because they took the opportunity to learn to be a leader and when you do that, you got to understand something else. Growth comes through failure. You don't grow if you don't fail. But you got a fail to grow. And if you're afraid of failing and you can't be afraid of failing, you do you want to grow and you grow that way. Why you learn from your failures? Yeah you're not a failure yourself there. Just was a situation where it was a little struggle but now I have learned how to do that. I share that these words. Grant me the wisdom to gather the necessary facts to add to the knowledge that already have that the understanding that is a, my spirit might be released. You'll understand it. If you try, you won't get it. If you don't try, you won't get it if you don't get over that hurdle, you know. It's one of the biggest things when we were kids. You know, how you learn how to jump alleys? You jump a lady. Hit that curve and you slide and hit your head. Then you know, you got to get more Lift It Go the Distance cuz if you hit the curb again, you hit your head again. And that's how we learn how to jump alleys. And people think it's crazy, but you learn not to hit the curb, you learn out of porches. Porches, not a real house. Is he hot one porch to the next forged and exports? And then the last porch, big drop. And you learn how to land it seems strange but that's what we did for fun in the city. That's how we live in the city. You learn how to jump Palace. Jump. Porches. People be yelling and screaming. Get off my porch, porch. Why it's do failure. You know, there was this young man, he had this old preacher in the Asus old preacher, how did you become successful? Was it by good judgment. The old preacher answered. No, it was poor judgment. That's how you become a good preacher, you mess up. You realize that I didn't do that right before judgement and you learn from that. Few leaders have times when they make tremendous sacrifices each and every one of you. You made tremendous sacrifice everyone. Chief Elder was going to Jersey after her husband passed, and she was trying to help the church in Jersey and she's been her own money going there every week to help the church in Jersey, but Church in Jersey, they just they had the whole building almost done. But they couldn't come to an agreement and I'm wondering if I might have a never completed that church building because you got it almost done, big nice, new building, everything almost done and they just couldn't pull it together to finish. The last steps seem leaders are learning to live lives. Not a choice but of necessity leaders live out of necessity because you realize that there's something inside of me. That someone needs, there's something inside of me and because someone needs, and it's a necessity that I do things right to anybody can do better. But are you willing to do it, right? Because you got to make yourself do, right? And making yourself do, right? It is a discipline. You got to make yourself because like I said, self wants to relax. Almost take it easy. Hey, and you must understand something. You've got to do. What God has called you to do out of necessity? Because God has called me to do it, whatever you do in word or deed do as Unto the Lord, when I one of my job. I have to do that job as unto the Lord. I had to master whenever tastic near the end or more job. I have to do my own stripping up and I didn't know nothing about stripping negatives and stuff up. I had to go back there. Learn how to take those Crop Marks. Put them in the right place. Take this stuff. And on this masking sheet cut it open so it would burn on the plate. I have to learn to do all that stuff because it was mandatory then that the guy was, he was all Baba. I was there, you got to do it yourself. and you got to do some things and you got to master those things whether you want to or not because leaders Sometimes become weary trying to do the impossible and you got to do the impossible, you got to do it, you got to make yourself, learn some things that you really don't want to learn and guess what, you've got to find. You've got to get a mindset of interest in stuff. You don't like, Come on you got to make yourself an interest in doing things you don't like because if you don't it's just going to make matters worse.

And again, it goes right back to people are afraid of failure. They're afraid of making mistakes. If you don't fail, you're never going to grow. It is through failure, that wisdom is birth. This is why we've been reading through Proverbs where in Chapter 19 going to chapter 20, this coming Wednesday, Proverbs reveal so much. And so much of who we are so much of what, father wants for our lives. And we've got to understand that because it's the failure that wisdom is birth. If you will learn how to succeed, you learn how to grow.

because most people, And here's the issue, they deal with most people are. So thin-skinned.

They can't take someone telling them you didn't do it, right? You know, the worst thing in the world,

With thin skin is when your heart becomes hardened. Because when I finish skin person, then they get a hard heart against the person who's telling them. What they did wrong. Man is like adding insult to injury, don't be telling me. I'm telling you you didn't do it, right? Do it right? And it's kind of like you got to do it over and over and over till you, get a ride and that's why I so important.

You know this same young man, ask this preacher is old preacher. Yes, the preacher says, have you ever been insulted?

Have you ever been had nobody at church ever insults you? Have you ever been insulted in the old preacher? Looked at any says, let's see. I've been kicked. I've been spit on. I've been thrown out. But nobody ever insulted me.

Why? Because the average person in the ministry, if they have a problem that little problem will blow him over, cuz they can't handle something going wrong in their lives. Why Your Leader? Your leader because You can handle the insults. And you don't even count them as insults. You can handle things that go wrong. And you simply say this, it's worth it. It's worth it to the glory of God. It's worth it because God has called me to do this and no money or nothing else. Could pay me to do this job. It's worth it for who I am, and who got called me to be as a person. And that's why it's so important. Understand. Is it worth it to you being a later? Is it worth it to you? Being that light, being that Beacon because with the insults and all the other things that come along with it? Is it worth it? Any questions?

Got a question, okay? As one of them.

Cuz everybody was listening. So

After reading Luke chapter 12, these versus here.

One thing that I saw is that it says you know, the Lord Show make ruler over his household to give them their portion of meat in due season, but it said that the faith Wayne Wise Stewart, whom his Lord shall make ruler. And I guess what I'm trying to say is in the ministry is it the pastor that gives, you know, the leaders, like their assignments or, you know, I mean, how do you know That you know we're going to do. I mean to me it seems like there's nothing to do or there's no assignments or you know there's plenty to do but I think people don't know what to do. You've got to recognize. It's not the people don't know what to do. It's because of What we call a volunteer army, you can ask people to do certain things but is it within where they would be willing to do it? Because we all have the potential to learn to do something. Just like I said about learning to run a printing press, but the willingness to do my Bible says, if you be willing and obedient says, kind of like, when you started out that Sunday night, when Bishop driving down, you said, I'll take the offering started from taking a simple offering receiving an offering, and then he asked you 2.

Do it again and all the sudden the person that was a church treasurer who had a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. They just got this attitude with leadership and they don't want to do it. So Bishop ask you if you would become Church treasure you had no treasury. Treasury experience. You learn on the fly. So father taught you how to be a church treasury taught you how to set of records and things like that. And then all of a sudden, it was 1986 all the Fallout of PTL in all these Ministries and all this stuff about money. So the whole thing changed. So you have to learn how to set up. Proper electronic record-keeping, you have to learn all those things but it was the willingness cuz no one was there to teach you, they were scaring all the preachers. Cuz they were telling the preachers preachers are going to jail with Jim Jim Bakker because of what was going on, and they were three for $5,000 to do this and you did What they were going to charge all this money for because I believe in season. And to me, this is why being in season is so important when you're in the right place at the right time and it's your season. God will use your life to make a difference. So it just seems to me that. I don't know if it's the season. You know that were in you know after that the pandemic is that it just seems like we're coming into the house of the Lord and that's all we're doing. Well, you better understand most Ministries. They're just glad to have a house to church going to. I mean you're not going to things are not going back the way they used to be. Where was religion? It's not going to be religion as it was before we have people doing this. We have people doing that you're helping here. We had all these going to have Revival this week, we're going to, it was like, people were being driven. And they were being driven by religion because it wasn't really about people drawing. My Bible says draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you. Father is calling people to himself whether they coming to church now or whether they get it on Facebook where they get on conference call line. Father wants his word to go out and he says it this way in the scripture that all may know, Okay, if that is the case, then why would we need like a building of this size? OK, Google, hear the word on Sunday, that's what it's about. What's the priority man shall not live by what? But what? God wants to get his word out without all the other stuff. Distracting people from the word.

He's doing it. He's using Facebook. He's conference call and he uses buildings. You got to have a question. You had said you had said earlier than some people. Or living off of your prayers as as a leader. My question is, is Is that? Is living off of our prayers, to strengthen them, or, or are they using us as a reason to be unwilling to do what they're supposed to do as a reason to be unwilling? Because God says that every man would have its own Vineyard and every man will have its own. You know, these parts all that God wants. Everybody has their own, we're living in a day at a time when people want to live off of someone else. Come on, let's be realistic. Here you have people on assistant that been on assistants all their lives. Assistance wasn't made to live on your whole life. Assistance was there to help? Give you a a step up a hand up And some people are people sent my house. How can I project be your house? That's not your house. You have use of it. But it's not yours and people have become so acclimated to someone giving them something that they don't have to put any skin into the game. How do you transition a matter that?

I don't know. only God people that lived in the projects, when I first got married, we all got out. Most of them bought homes. But those are came in afterwards. It's like, they want to stay forever and a day. and it's it's sad because father has enough for everybody and even in the body of Christ, the church, even with the building, its, you were coming to point to where The buildings have got to be tools for what God wants. And this is just where we're at with Ministry. You got to recreate Ministry that we're Ministry becomes not just a place for Sunday, but a place for bringing in elevating. The people I was, I was saying, I reckon so you're not not the projects, I was saying in reference to people. Constantly coming to you saying, pray for me. Pray for me. Pray for me. How do you transition? I'm out of that to where they start praying for themselves. I want you to come with me. We going to the church. We going to kneel right here at this Pew, and we can pray through. Till God, give you your answer and you make them pray. I make them pray and make them pray.

simply because People.

Prayer is communion and fellowship with God, prayers also work. But prayers also learning how to listen. How to listen and what is happening in the lives of our society. There's so many voices.

Let me know when I see you. Okay, is so many voices and those voices are pulling people there at all. All I want, is your money. Look, I work everyday like y'all work and about the money. I mean, I find that I thank God for what He blesses me with as far as Ministry, goes what you all would bless me with but I'm not browbeating, anybody give me anything because that's not what it's about my life. If I want something, I go to my wife. And she'll tell me, no. You realize something? People have got to learn to seek the Lord. That's all I can tell. I'm ain't in it. Reinventing the ministry is going to take coming together. What is the need? Father, we need your mind. We need your heart for this community. And like I said, I mean if we're not to be in this community, please tell us that we can all move forward. Because unless you learn Spanish for somebody to learn Spanish, we can be in the wrong place soon where Cambodian, I mean, let's face the reality. The community has changed. Ain't nobody doing what what they call that stuff. They talk bonics. ebonics and I but ain't nobody talkin ebonics around here but I mean, the place has changed. And so, my thing is that Lord, if you're saying it's time to transition, tell me. I said because but I wanted to be where, if someone would come in, they will be blessed. By what they would, would we receive here? Now, I'm also praying my prayers out of every nation. Kendrick Drive in town. We need a fellowship. Where people can come in and worship together, like you said, in your word, and that's where it's got to come. Because it can't be just one sided. I mean with Pastor Garcia, when he have the church over there on 13th, Street in El Paso Garcia. It I remember when he started on 16th and Swan Terry's come up every Sunday on the corner. 60, this wondering what his guitar and he started that Ministry there. He played a guitar and singing, and playing guitar and singing. And, you know, he built that Ministry but kind of like, When he was gone and his wife tried to carry it on, I don't even know if she still living. Now I'm not sure or how she is but they put their life into that place to do that and they build a tremendous Ministry and but again Oral Roberts, University Oral Roberts, put his life into it. Nobody in this family was able to carry it on. How many Ministries? How many liters? You know, because if you don't Jerry Falwell, look at this boy, he blew that Ministry because their heart wasn't in the ministry. And your heart's got to be in it. That's why I said you got to be married to that Ministry. And people really aren't understanding, they want to court a Ministry but they don't want to really be married to the ministry because married to the ministry, I'm going to do my part, the very best I can. But everything I do works for the glory of God. Yes.