July 31, 2025 • 31 mins
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Pastor J Anthony Gilbert delivers a powerful message about the importance of having a spiritual coach to reach your full potential in Christ. He explains why coaching is essential for your development and growth as a believer.
• Cannot bypass the process to get to progress
• Jesus trained disciples for 3.5 years before giving them power
• Disciples don't make themselves - they need someone to pour into them
• Your gifting will take you where your character can't keep you
• Every branch gets pruned - whether producing or not producing
• Coaching helps shift your perspective during trials and persecution
• Root determines fruit - character determines what you can sustain
• Character allows you to turn difficult situations into opportunities for growth
• Having a coach invites Jesus into your situation through fellowship
• God is preparing people now for seats that will soon be available
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Coming up on today's dimensions.
Listen, I've got about 30minutes to hit you with
something nice and hot today, soglad that you tuned in.
But we're going to be talkingabout the power of coaching, the
power of coaching in your lifeand why having a coach in this
day and hour?
In order to keep oil in yourlamp, love in your heart and sin
11 out of your life.
If you want to shift to thenext dimension, if you want to
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go higher, you've got to have acoach.
You saw it back in the day gotmilk.
Question is today got coaching.
All that and more coming upnext on dimensions.
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Pastor J Anthony Gilbert here.
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And then today I want to talk toyou about the power of coaching
in your life.
Ladies and gentlemen, we havelost that in the body of Christ.
Even in the world today,everybody wants to reinvent the
wheel, wants to do their ownthing.
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Everybody wants to bypass theprocess to get to progress.
I'm going to say that again youcannot bypass the process to
get to progress and it'simportant that you are rooted in
some things.
See so many people.
They want to see the benefitsand the blessing.
That's why you can't get caughtup in the get rich quick
schemes, the get slim quickschemes, people oh man, you can
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lose 55 pounds in 25 days andall these types of things.
Ladies and gentlemen, there'ssomething to be gained in the
process.
Something happens in your lifewhen you allow God to take you
through a process.
It's no different than ifyou're one of those people where
you know you ever seen thehungry man dinner for
Thanksgiving.
You know Thanksgiving is goingto be here before you know it.
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By the way, I mean, we'realready coming into August.
Today's the last day of Julyand get one of them hungry man
dinners.
They got the turkey with thegravy and the mashed potatoes
and they got the little brownieand you throw that in the
microwave.
You know, you've got the cornand everything and you've got
your Thanksgiving dinner.
You can have that in three tofive minutes.
But there's something about theprocess of taking the time to
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baste that turkey or, in mysituation, I like to deep fry
them.
Can I get an amen, somebody Tobe able to deep fry them turkeys
and to get them ready and thetender, loving care to peel
those potatoes and knock thestuff out of the box and take
the time to make.
No, not craft, but you got tobreak down that macaroni and
cheese and get the fivedifferent cheeses and the milk
and the evaporated skim milk andall the types of things that
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you got to get in order to makeit all what it needs to be.
There's something about theprocess.
You can't bypass the process toget to progress.
Something happens when you getroots in your life, and that's
where coaching comes in, becausecoaching helps you along the
way, because many times, ladiesand gentlemen, in our life, we
don't understand why we're inwhat we're in and we need
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somebody else to come along theway and to help us in those
blind spots that we're having.
That's why the Bible says hereI want you to look at this in
Matthew, chapter 28, in versenumber 19 and 20.
Now, this is one of Jesus' lastMatter of fact.
Let's jump up to verse number18, actually, I didn't plan on
going here, but let me jump toverse number 18.
This is one of Jesus' laststatements that he gives to his
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disciples and how important itis.
Go, therefore, and makedisciples of all nations, so
that lets me know, first of all,that disciples do not make
themselves.
Now can I help you real quickly?
If you have not been discipled,if you are not being discipled
before Jesus, y'all ready forthis?
Here we go.
Before Jesus ever gave them anActs chapter to experience, they
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served him, they walked withhim and they learned from him
for three and a half years, as amatter of fact, in order to be
able to be qualified as anapostle, when Judas had hung
himself.
When you read in Acts chapternumber one, judas had hung
himself and there was one short,and during those 10 days, there
was a delay and they began toseek the Lord concerning the
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power of the Holy Ghost that wascoming.
He said wait until the promiseof the Father comes.
And in the middle of theirseeking God, they understood
there was a seat missing becauseJudas had hung himself.
And so when they began to gothrough the selection process of
who should be in that position,this is what they said.
Now I want you to catch this.
It had to be somebody that waswith Jesus from the time he was
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baptized and witnessed it allthe way to his ascension, and
there was a man named Matthias.
Now let me tell you somethingreal quickly about Matthias.
He's not preached on enough inthe body of Christ because there
are too many people that arenot faithful in the process.
There are too many people thatdidn't realize Matthias had no
clue that he was going to besitting in a seat that Judas
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kept warm for three years, threeand a half years.
He kept it warm for him untilhe was there.
Sometimes you don't realize.
I hope somebody catches thisright now.
You don't realize what God mayhave in store for you.
He's just been proving yourfaithfulness.
That's why sometimes you can'tleave.
Nobody knew Matthias.
He's not mentioned in any ofthe scriptures, except in Acts,
chapter one.
And now his name is inscribedupon those 12 apostles, those
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chairs that are held for them inheaven.
Matthias, his name will be onthere.
Why he got selected?
Because he was faithful in theprocess.
Who am I talking to right now?
Type that in the chat right nowand just say I got to be
faithful in the process.
I'll type that in the chatright now and just say I got to
be faithful in the process.
You got to be faithful in theprocess because in the process
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where God teaches you thepromises and the principles and
it's amazing that before theycould be qualified for an upper
room experience, which meansthey were endowed with authority
they spent three and a halfyears serving, walking and
learning the words of the Lordfrom Jesus himself and therefore
now listen.
The problem with a lot of peopletoday and the reason why you
need coaching in your life and alot of times, the reason why
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people don't get promoted, theydon't get elevated, they don't
get blessed, they don't getpromoted, is because they lack
the principles for the position.
My good God, type that in there.
Type that in there they lack.
You have to have principles forpower, principles for position,
and Jesus said before I giveyou a position of authority and
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power, I need to put you in aprocess.
For three and a half years, hetaught them the principles and
the purposes of the kingdom.
So when they got the seat andthey were endued with power,
they did not have power.
Watch this and zeal withoutknowledge.
This is why coaching is soimportant, and many of you right
now you might be stalling inyour spiritual walk because
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you're trying to do it on yourown.
Now, I didn't get that far, butlook here in Matthew 28, verse
19,.
Go, therefore, and makedisciples, which means they
don't make themselves.
They don't make themselves.
Somebody's got to be pouringinto you, and there are areas in
your marriage, there are areasin your life, there are areas in
your finances, there's areas inyour administration ability.
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There's areas in your life thatyou need to grow and develop in
, because God is preparing youfor something more, and you
can't do it by yourself.
Listen, how many of y'all wouldgo to a doctor that said, hey,
I'm here and I'm just going towork this thing out on my own.
I'm going to do open heartsurgery right now, but I ain't
been to school.
I'm going to learn.
I'm going to read this book andI'm going to put you out and
we're going to learn this thingas we go.
How many of y'all be okay withthat?
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But we do this.
That's what we do in the bodyof Christ.
We will take people or we willtake ourselves, and we just
going to go and just run with it, we just going to fake it till
we make it.
And the problem is we never makeit because you don't make
disciples by yourself.
That's why Jesus said go andmake disciples, peter.
It's the only time you seeJesus ask three questions, ask
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one question three separatetimes.
He said Peter, do you love me,peter?
Do you love me, peter?
Do you love me?
What do you say?
Feed my sheep.
Feed my sheep, then feed mylambs.
And what he was saying to Peteris this is the most important
thing you are going to do is tofeed the people of God.
Now, listen, feeding the peopleof God.
Now let me help somebody.
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Feeding, being fed is not onSunday morning.
That's part of it.
That's part of it.
That's part of the meal.
If I could actually even breakit down, I would say Sunday
morning is the appetizer, sundaymorning is where you find out
what's on the menu.
What you need is somebody.
That's when you're there inchurch.
Let me say this as well when youare in church, you should
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always take notes.
Whenever you're sitting under aman or woman of God, you need
to take notes, write down notes.
Why?
Because the spirit of the Lordis speaking through their
message to you, and so you writethose things down and that's
where you begin to execute aplan for what God has revealed
to you on a Sunday morning or ona Wednesday night, or when
you're at a conference.
And now you come home and yourjob now is to digest what God
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has given to you.
The problem with most people wethink, just because we
swallowed the meal, that we'vedigested the meal.
Now you have to digest the mealand administer it throughout
your life, throughout your body,as the Lord sees fit.
This is where coaching comes in, because many times now, watch.
This is very powerful.
Once you get a word from God,something shifts in your life.
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Now hold your finger there inMatthew 28 and go with me over
to Mark, chapter number four.
I hope you're getting somethingout of this.
Take a minute while we're goingthere, like subscribe, follow,
share, let somebody know you'reon Dimensions.
Every day I'm going to betrying to come to you guys right
around the same time.
I'm going to iron down a timesooner or later, but right now
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it's going to be sometimethroughout the day.
Every day, I'm going to bebringing you the word of the
Lord.
Some things are going to beprophetic, some things are going
to be teaching, but you're notgoing to want to miss these.
This is 30 minutes to get youroil tank filled, to get
revelation, to get wisdom, toget insight, to hear what the
spirit of the Lord is saying, tocatch the prophetic forecast of
what God is saying.
Now look here, mark, chapternumber four, real quickly, this
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is the parable of the sowers.
But I want you to see somethinghere, because this is really,
really important.
And he breaks down the parableof the sower here, verse number
13,.
All right, it says.
And he said to them do notunderstand this parable.
How then would you understandall parables?
The sower sows the word, andthese are the ones by the
wayside, where the word is sown,and immediately Satan comes and
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takes away the word that's sownin the heart.
So notice this here when youget revelation, when you get a
prophetic word, the devil isgoing to do is he's going to
send himself, he's going to sendan attack.
Look at what it says.
And he takes away the word thatwas sown.
These, likewise, are the onessown on stony ground who, when
they hear the word, immediatelyreceive it with gladness and
they have no root in themselvesand so endure for a time and
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after when tribulation orpersecution arises.
For the word's sake.
Now, we missed that right there.
Tribulation and persecutionarise when we get a word.
Why the word is meant to putyou into a process.
So when I get education, when Iget teaching, now, I have to go
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through a process to determinehas that word taken root in my
life?
This is where coaching comes in.
This is where having somebodyto walk you through a process,
somebody that you look up to,someone that you believe God has
put into your life, that saysI'm gonna sit at their feet, I'm
gonna learn from them, I'mgonna open up my life to them,
I'm gonna spend time with themon a weekly basis, even if it's
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only one hour, let them pourinto my life.
My life never changed until Igot coached it's another word
disciple.
I never changed Now.
There were areas of my ministrythat never developed until I
got a coach.
Come on, somebody I'm preachingbetter than some of y'all are
shouting right now.
You gotta have a coach in yourlife and remember this.
You ready I want you to typethis in your mentor will always
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first be your tour mentor.
I want you to catch that.
Your mentor is not there to beyour friend.
Your coach is not there to beyour friend.
They are there to be your tourmentor.
Now watch this how do I select acoach?
How do I get somebody?
Do they see greatness withinyou?
But the first, most importantthing what do you see in them
that you want?
You want to be coached bysomebody that has something and
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is further than where you are.
You don't want your peer to beyour coach because they're on
your same level.
You want someone that's onanother level.
I like that name To be able toreach inside of you and pull out
of you what God has placedwithin you.
So you want to be able to seeinside of them.
But you want them to see thatyou have something inside of you
and you want them to go fishingto pull that out.
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So the purpose of makingdisciples is.
God has placed gifts andabilities and things inside of
you and God does not want yourgifting to take you someplace.
Your character can't keep you.
That's why we're seeing so manyministers and preachers and
people fall today.
Jesus took 30 years Somebodysay 30 years, 30 years of
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training for a three and a halfyear ministry.
Now we take three and a halfyears of training for a 30 year
ministry and we wonder why wedon't have the root, we don't
have the depth.
We wonder why we see so manypastors burn out.
We wonder why we see so manypastors in moral failure.
We wonder why we see so manypeople that can't survive the
long haul and have no enduranceis because they lacked a coach.
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They did not get any roots.
Look here again.
It says these are the ones sownon stony ground who, when they
hear the word, they receive it,but they have no root.
Now watch this.
This is why coaching is soimportant, because a coach will
look at your life and show youthings of where you can make
adjustments and development.
They're not there to be yourfriend, they're there to
encourage you at times, butsometimes they're there to bring
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the shears.
Now go with me real quickly.
I want you to catch that therein Mark 4.
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No-transcript trials.
We go into tribulations becauseof the word, but we don't know
how, we don't have the wisdom ofthe word to appropriate it and
so, as a result, we don't knowhow to work it.
In that situation, many timesnow are you ready for this?
We will bypass the process, wewill forfeit it, we will rebuke
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it, we will call it the devilbecause it's creating change
within us.
A coach knows how to discernwhen there's a change needs to
be made, or even if there is acompromise that needs to be made
.
Sometimes you may.
When I say a compromise, maybe,okay, you give a little, you
take a little.
Sometimes it's just God'sworking in you to change you and
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sometimes, if you don't havethe wisdom and understanding of
that, you give a little, youtake a little.
Sometimes it's just God'sworking in you to change you and
sometimes, if you don't havethe wisdom and the understanding
of that, you will look at thatand think it's abuse.
How in the world could somebodyask me to do that?
This can't be God.
There were things in my marriage, when I first got married, that
I knew for sure that my wifewas wrong.
Man, I would have went to mygrave swearing that she was
wrong.
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I would have said ain't no waythat she ain't wrong and I'm
right in this situation.
But thank God for coaching.
I had another man of God thatsat me down said hey, jay, this
is incorrect.
You need to look at this thisway.
And coaching are you ready?
Helps to shift your perspectivein the persecution and in the
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tribulation and in the trial.
Okay, coaches help shift yourperspective.
They help you to see the wordas you should see it and how it
appropriates itself in your lifeto develop you and to grow you
and to make you who you need tobe.
And therefore, you don't getoff of the cross too soon.
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You don't get out of theprocess too soon.
You don't leave the church toosoon.
You don't leave the marriagetoo soon.
You don't leave the gym toosoon.
If you're in a gym and you got acoach, you stay in position
because you have to trust theprocess.
My good God Almighty, I feelthe Holy Ghost on this today.
Trust the process, but manypeople aren't even in one.
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They're in it but they don'tidentify it and they don't know
how to cooperate with what Godis doing, because at the end of
every process there will alwaysbe a promotion.
Come on somebody.
My good God Almighty, now watchthis.
Why is it important tounderstand the process?
Why?
What is the power of coaching?
The power of coaching developsyou and grows you and matures
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you and puts the word in you andputs wisdom in you and helps
you to see what.
Listen, whenever you get a wordfrom God, he will put you in a
storm.
He will put you in a trial.
He'll put you in a test to seeif you know how to skillfully
appropriate the scriptures inyour life, hallelujah and if you
don't know what to do, you'llhave the promise, bypass the
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process.
Are you ready?
And then you'll never see thefulfillment of that promise in
your life.
Now let's go to John, chapter 15.
Real quickly, john, chapter 15.
Y'all getting some stuff out ofthis.
Come on somebody, go on andshare this with somebody,
because, listen, somebody'sgetting ready to go to the next
level, somebody.
You've been asking God what isit going to take for me to shift
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?
And God says you need a coachin your life.
We've lost it in the church.
And listen, coaching is not aone-time event at your church.
You went and took a class.
You're not coached.
Coaching is a lifelong journey.
You never stop getting coached.
Somebody's always further downthe line than you.
And why reinvent the wheel If wewould just humble ourselves and
learn the power and theblessing of impartation?
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Oh, to be able to sit atsomebody's feet and to glean
from their wisdom and allow theHoly Spirit.
Do you understand the power ofcoaching, is it?
It invites Jesus himself intoyour situation.
Wow, how do I know that?
If any two of you said cometogether, he said where two or
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more of you are gatheredtogether in my name, there, I
will be in the midst.
Jesus left the 99 to go afterthe one, and his power is so
attracted to unity that when twopeople come together and it
takes you and another person tobe coached and you should be
coaching somebody else as wellJesus said I'll be there in the
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midst.
So it invites the power ofChrist, the wisdom of Christ,
the manifold wisdom of Christ,into your life.
When you start becomingcoachable in your own, so many
people never grow.
Because if God would haveallowed discipleship to happen
on its own doesn't mean youcan't study, doesn't mean you
don't get to know God, but thecoaching and the discipleship.
The discipleship is adisciplined one.
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So if you don't have that inyour life, you can't develop,
you will plateau in areas ofyour life and you won't go to
the next level.
You need a coach.
Come on, somebody.
Now look at this here.
What does a coach do for you?
You ready Verse number one ofJohn, chapter 15.
I am the true vine.
My father is the vine dresser.
Now look at this here.
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Every branch in me that doesnot bear fruit, he takes away.
But every branch that bearsfruit, he prunes that it may
bear more fruit.
Now watch this If you'rewhether you're producing or
you're not producing, everybodyhas an appointment with the
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shears.
Yes, everybody's going to becut.
It doesn't matter who you are,you're going to be cut if you're
producing.
So why is that?
Now let me show you the power ofcoaching.
Coaching or discipleship,causes you to produce greater
fruit, hallelujah.
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Every branch of me that doesn'tbear fruit, he takes away.
Why?
I don't want to be aroundpeople that are watch this.
Sap suckers, sap stealers Seethrough.
The vine flows into the branchwhat is needed for it to begin
to produce, and so what happensto a lot of people is that they
suck the sap, they suck thenutrients, but then they don't
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want to produce, which meansthis Now, watch this.
I'll talk about this maybelater on.
There are people that get a wordfrom God, know what to do, and
their lack of obedience andapplying that word stops the
production of the fruit.
The vine has done its job, thebranch has been fed, but they're
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not obedient to produce.
So God says I'm not gonna allowyou to steal the precious
nutrients, the anointing mypresence, and not be productive,
because if you're getting thatin your life, that means there's
an area of obedience that musthappen.
There must be a cooperationwith the word of God.
And so he says I'm going to cutthem away, but watch this.
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This is what's amazing.
A lot of people miss this here.
If you begin to produce, godwill prune you.
He will cut you back, and thepurpose of pruning is it cuts
you back.
So then you grow downwardinstead of outward.
You get deeper root and youhave to understand root has the
ability to produce fruit.
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Oh Jesus, my good God almighty,now watch this.
Why is that important?
This is what this is what acoach does.
They come in and say, wow,you're doing really good, but
let me cut you back a little bit.
Hey, you need to be on time.
Hey, are you ready?
I've had people that I'vedecided so sometimes.
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Maybe maybe they have some bodyhygiene that they need to work
on, maybe they need to get ahaircut, maybe they need to
brush their teeth, maybe theyneed to iron their clothes
Sometimes.
Sometimes I had a person onetime years and years ago in my
ministry.
This woman had such a heart forGod, she's run hard to God, but
I mean she had odors and so sheno one ever talked about it and
I went and I ministered to herand her whole life shifted.
I mean, her whole life justwent to a whole different
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dimension.
Because of that.
I didn't embarrass her, I justpoured into her.
Sometimes it's the way we dealwith people.
Maybe you're a manager andthere's a ways that you need to
deal with your staff.
That's not good, and so Godwill allow people to bring
correction in your life so thenyou can have a better rapport
with your staff.
I mean, the list could go on.
Maybe you need to be a betterlistener, whatever it might be,
but you're doing good, but thenGod wants to do even greater.
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So listen, if you stop growing,listen, you stop producing.
So you should always be lookinghow do I get better, how do I
develop?
And that, ladies and gentlemen,is the purpose of a coach.
That's what a coach does foryou.
It helps you to grow, it helpsyou to develop and, no matter
whether you're producing or not,you will meet the shears.
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And that's what a coach will dofor you.
Why?
Because then now you're readyfor this.
Now watch this.
Why is root so important?
Now watch this.
Why is root so important?
Root has the ability to go intothe dark, damp places.
Watch this and take all of thedirt and take it and turn it
into what will bring forth fruit.
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Root determines fruit.
Now, root is symbolic of ourcharacter.
Our character has to have theability to be put into.
If you think about it, what dothey do?
They even put you in manuresometimes, which means you can
walk through.
You know they had a bumpersticker back in the day that
says stuff happens.
Except it wasn't stuff.
And sometimes, when you getinto the stuff and stuff hits
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your life, if you follow whatI'm saying and you have stuff,
stuff is stinky.
When you got the stinky stuffthat you're in character is what
root is.
It takes the manure, it takesthose things and takes the
nutrients out of it, brings itforth, pushes it through the
vine into the branch, so thenproduction can happen.
Your ability you ready for thisto take and for God to be able
to put you in the stinky stuffand be able to cause you to be
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productive is based upon thecharacter that he's worked
within you.
So sometimes when he cuts youback, he's expanding your
character.
So then you can take what it isthat you've been in Maybe it's
not fair, maybe it's this, maybeit's them and he says I'm going
to grow your root and, as aresult, there will be greater
fruit.
Come on somebody.
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Hallelujah.
And that's the reason whycoaching is so important for us
as believers.
The power of coaching willchange your life.
I am firmly convinced that manypeople nowadays are not
attracted to coaching anymore.
We need it, especially in thisday and hour.
God gave me three things.
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He said tell people that youneed to do three things.
Number one keep loving your I'msorry, keep oil in your lamp.
Loving your heart and sendingleaven out of your life.
Technically four, but threestatements here.
Keep oil in your lamp, lovingyour heart, sending leaven out
of your life.
Ladies and gentlemen, if youdon't have a coach, you don't
learn how to be an oil producerin the kingdom.
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There are things that you willdo instinctively and there's
some things that you've got tolearn along the way.
Even the greatest players onthe planet, in any sport, in any
type of thing, they all need acoach, and they are the ones
that help bring together thewhole game plan.
I want to encourage you todayto really consider finding a
coach.
If you don't have one, if youdon't have a ministry that
you're attached to that helpsyou to become the best version
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of yourself possible, you needto have that.
If you are in a ministry, youneed to go to that pastor, go to
those leaders and say, hey, Iwant to become my best self, I
want to become all that God'scalled me to be.
You won't get there.
I'm going to say it again youwill not get there without the
right coach.
You will not get there untilyou get under somebody and let
somebody point to you.
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Many of you are cyclical.
You'll go good for a little bitand then you'll fall off.
You go good for a little bitand then you'll fall off.
It's because the scriptureshave not been applied in your
life.
Go and make disciples.
Jesus had the disciples walkingwith him for three and a half
years.
They served him, they walkedwith him and they learned from
him for three and a half yearsand then he gave them power.
Listen, somebody listening rightnow, spirit of the Lord, is
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saying to you that if you wouldget under coaching, there is a
seat reserved for you.
There is a place in that upperroom that's reserved for you.
There is a new anointing thatis going to come upon you.
That has been scheduled, andGod says I'm going to send
somebody into your life, intothe season, in order to grow you
and to develop you, to make youthe man or woman of God that
he's called you to be, toprepare you for the promotion
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that is coming.
You have a short amount of time.
You have a short season becauseGod says I'm getting you
prepared for the chair that'savailable.
There's somebody that'soccupying it now that God is
going to move out of positionthat you're getting ready to
come into.
And God's saying if you do notprepare yourself, if you do not
allow coaching to happen.
You will take a position andthen you can forfeit what it is
that I have for you, becauseyour character will take you I'm
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sorry, your gifting will takeyou someplace.
Your character won't be able tokeep you and you will not be
prepared for the destiny.
Remember your appointment withyour destiny has already been
set since the beginning of time.
Will you be ready when it comes?
The appointment has been set.
The question is will you wastethe time that you have?
Will you despise smallbeginnings?
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Allow the Holy Spirit to growyou and to develop you, to make
you the best version of yourselfthat God's called you to be,
and get under a coach Everybody.
I have four men in my liferight now that are continually
pouring into my life because Ibelieve in the power of coaching
.
So I want to encourage you withthat today and, before I go, I
want to pray for you that Godwould just begin to anoint you
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and bless you, and I just wantyou to lift up your hands right
where you are.
Father, in the name of Jesus, Ipray for every person watching.
Lord, I thank you for theanointing of the Holy Ghost upon
their lives.
I thank you for the gifting,the callings, the destinies that
you have for them.
I thank you.
That eye has not seen nor earheard, neither has it entered
into the heart of men the thingsthat you have prepared for them
.
But, father, god, you'repreparing them for what you have
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prepared for them.
And so, lord God, I pray that,lord, you would anoint them,
that you would fill them, thatthey would not bypass the
process to get to progress, theywould not despise small
beginnings but, lord, they wouldstay under tutors and teachers
until they become all thatyou've called them to be.
May these words be sealed intheir hearts and in their minds
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and, father, I thank you forwhat you're doing in them, and
that the best is yet to come.
In Jesus' name, we pray Amen,amen, amen.
Well, listen, I hope that you'vebeen blessed by this today.
I'll be coming back to youtomorrow and I want you to tune
in again.
I want you to take a momentright now to like, subscribe,
follow, share, get on thepodcast, take this word, get it
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over and over in your spirit.
There's a lot that you got fedwith in under 30 minutes, so I
want you to take a minute, getthat podcast, listen to this
again, work it into your life.
Find yourself a coach, becomewho God's called you to be.
The people that havediscipleship and coaching in
their life in this season arethe ones that are going to have
greater oil, that are going tohave greater impact.
They're going to go furtherthan everyone else because they
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are listen, we all.
Sir Walter Raleigh simply saidthis.
He said we see further becausewe stand on the shoulders of
giants.
It's important that weunderstand that reality.
Stand on somebody else and then, therefore, you will grow and
develop and become all that Godhas called you to be.
Well, I'm Pastor J AnthonyGilbert.
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I love you all so much, prayingfor you.
Have a wonderful day, go getthem your best and blessed days
are out in front of you and Ibelieve that the rest of this
year, for you and for me, isgoing to be the best of this
year.
I'll see you next time righthere on Dimensions.
Coming up on today's dimensions.
Listen, I've got about 30minutes to hit you with
something nice and hot today, soglad that you tuned in.
But we're going to be talkingabout the power of coaching, the
power of coaching in your lifeand why having a coach in this
day and hour?
In order to keep oil in yourlamp, love in your heart and sin
11 out of your life.
If you want to shift to thenext dimension, if you want to
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go higher, you've got to have acoach.
You saw it back in the day gotmilk.
Question is today got coaching.
All that and more coming upnext on dimensions.
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And then today I want to talk toyou about the power of coaching
in your life.
Ladies and gentlemen, we havelost that in the body of Christ.
Even in the world today,everybody wants to reinvent the
wheel, wants to do their ownthing.
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Everybody wants to bypass theprocess to get to progress.
I'm going to say that again youcannot bypass the process to
get to progress and it'simportant that you are rooted in
some things.
See so many people.
They want to see the benefitsand the blessing.
That's why you can't get caughtup in the get rich quick
schemes, the get slim quickschemes, people oh man, you can
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lose 55 pounds in 25 days andall these types of things.
Ladies and gentlemen, there'ssomething to be gained in the
process.
Something happens in your lifewhen you allow God to take you
through a process.
It's no different than ifyou're one of those people where
you know you ever seen thehungry man dinner for
Thanksgiving.
You know Thanksgiving is goingto be here before you know it.
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By the way, I mean, we'realready coming into August.
Today's the last day of Julyand get one of them hungry man
dinners.
They got the turkey with thegravy and the mashed potatoes
and they got the little brownieand you throw that in the
microwave.
You know, you've got the cornand everything and you've got
your Thanksgiving dinner.
You can have that in three tofive minutes.
But there's something about theprocess of taking the time to
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baste that turkey or, in mysituation, I like to deep fry
them.
Can I get an amen, somebody Tobe able to deep fry them turkeys
and to get them ready and thetender, loving care to peel
those potatoes and knock thestuff out of the box and take
the time to make.
No, not craft, but you got tobreak down that macaroni and
cheese and get the fivedifferent cheeses and the milk
and the evaporated skim milk andall the types of things that
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you got to get in order to makeit all what it needs to be.
There's something about theprocess.
You can't bypass the process toget to progress.
Something happens when you getroots in your life, and that's
where coaching comes in, becausecoaching helps you along the
way, because many times, ladiesand gentlemen, in our life, we
don't understand why we're inwhat we're in and we need
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somebody else to come along theway and to help us in those
blind spots that we're having.
That's why the Bible says hereI want you to look at this in
Matthew, chapter 28, in versenumber 19 and 20.
Now, this is one of Jesus' lastMatter of fact.
Let's jump up to verse number18, actually, I didn't plan on
going here, but let me jump toverse number 18.
This is one of Jesus' laststatements that he gives to his
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disciples and how important itis.
Go, therefore, and makedisciples of all nations, so
that lets me know, first of all,that disciples do not make
themselves.
Now can I help you real quickly?
If you have not been discipled,if you are not being discipled
before Jesus, y'all ready forthis?
Here we go.
Before Jesus ever gave them anActs chapter to experience, they
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served him, they walked withhim and they learned from him
for three and a half years, as amatter of fact, in order to be
able to be qualified as anapostle, when Judas had hung
himself.
When you read in Acts chapternumber one, judas had hung
himself and there was one short,and during those 10 days, there
was a delay and they began toseek the Lord concerning the
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power of the Holy Ghost that wascoming.
He said wait until the promiseof the Father comes.
And in the middle of theirseeking God, they understood
there was a seat missing becauseJudas had hung himself.
And so when they began to gothrough the selection process of
who should be in that position,this is what they said.
Now I want you to catch this.
It had to be somebody that waswith Jesus from the time he was
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baptized and witnessed it allthe way to his ascension, and
there was a man named Matthias.
Now let me tell you somethingreal quickly about Matthias.
He's not preached on enough inthe body of Christ because there
are too many people that arenot faithful in the process.
There are too many people thatdidn't realize Matthias had no
clue that he was going to besitting in a seat that Judas
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kept warm for three years, threeand a half years.
He kept it warm for him untilhe was there.
Sometimes you don't realize.
I hope somebody catches thisright now.
You don't realize what God mayhave in store for you.
He's just been proving yourfaithfulness.
That's why sometimes you can'tleave.
Nobody knew Matthias.
He's not mentioned in any ofthe scriptures, except in Acts,
chapter one.
And now his name is inscribedupon those 12 apostles, those
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chairs that are held for them inheaven.
Matthias, his name will be onthere.
Why he got selected?
Because he was faithful in theprocess.
Who am I talking to right now?
Type that in the chat right nowand just say I got to be
faithful in the process.
I'll type that in the chatright now and just say I got to
be faithful in the process.
You got to be faithful in theprocess because in the process
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where God teaches you thepromises and the principles and
it's amazing that before theycould be qualified for an upper
room experience, which meansthey were endowed with authority
they spent three and a halfyears serving, walking and
learning the words of the Lordfrom Jesus himself and therefore
now listen.
The problem with a lot of peopletoday and the reason why you
need coaching in your life and alot of times, the reason why
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people don't get promoted, theydon't get elevated, they don't
get blessed, they don't getpromoted, is because they lack
the principles for the position.
My good God, type that in there.
Type that in there they lack.
You have to have principles forpower, principles for position,
and Jesus said before I giveyou a position of authority and
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power, I need to put you in aprocess.
For three and a half years, hetaught them the principles and
the purposes of the kingdom.
So when they got the seat andthey were endued with power,
they did not have power.
Watch this and zeal withoutknowledge.
This is why coaching is soimportant, and many of you right
now you might be stalling inyour spiritual walk because
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you're trying to do it on yourown.
Now, I didn't get that far, butlook here in Matthew 28, verse
19,.
Go, therefore, and makedisciples, which means they
don't make themselves.
They don't make themselves.
Somebody's got to be pouringinto you, and there are areas in
your marriage, there are areasin your life, there are areas in
your finances, there's areas inyour administration ability.
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There's areas in your life thatyou need to grow and develop in
, because God is preparing youfor something more, and you
can't do it by yourself.
Listen, how many of y'all wouldgo to a doctor that said, hey,
I'm here and I'm just going towork this thing out on my own.
I'm going to do open heartsurgery right now, but I ain't
been to school.
I'm going to learn.
I'm going to read this book andI'm going to put you out and
we're going to learn this thingas we go.
How many of y'all be okay withthat?
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But we do this.
That's what we do in the bodyof Christ.
We will take people or we willtake ourselves, and we just
going to go and just run with it, we just going to fake it till
we make it.
And the problem is we never makeit because you don't make
disciples by yourself.
That's why Jesus said go andmake disciples, peter.
It's the only time you seeJesus ask three questions, ask
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one question three separatetimes.
He said Peter, do you love me,peter?
Do you love me, peter?
Do you love me?
What do you say?
Feed my sheep.
Feed my sheep, then feed mylambs.
And what he was saying to Peteris this is the most important
thing you are going to do is tofeed the people of God.
Now, listen, feeding the peopleof God.
Now let me help somebody.
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Feeding, being fed is not onSunday morning.
That's part of it.
That's part of it.
That's part of the meal.
If I could actually even breakit down, I would say Sunday
morning is the appetizer, sundaymorning is where you find out
what's on the menu.
What you need is somebody.
That's when you're there inchurch.
Let me say this as well when youare in church, you should
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always take notes.
Whenever you're sitting under aman or woman of God, you need
to take notes, write down notes.
Why?
Because the spirit of the Lordis speaking through their
message to you, and so you writethose things down and that's
where you begin to execute aplan for what God has revealed
to you on a Sunday morning or ona Wednesday night, or when
you're at a conference.
And now you come home and yourjob now is to digest what God
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has given to you.
The problem with most people wethink, just because we
swallowed the meal, that we'vedigested the meal.
Now you have to digest the mealand administer it throughout
your life, throughout your body,as the Lord sees fit.
This is where coaching comes in, because many times now, watch.
This is very powerful.
Once you get a word from God,something shifts in your life.
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Now hold your finger there inMatthew 28 and go with me over
to Mark, chapter number four.
I hope you're getting somethingout of this.
Take a minute while we're goingthere, like subscribe, follow,
share, let somebody know you'reon Dimensions.
Every day I'm going to betrying to come to you guys right
around the same time.
I'm going to iron down a timesooner or later, but right now
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it's going to be sometimethroughout the day.
Every day, I'm going to bebringing you the word of the
Lord.
Some things are going to beprophetic, some things are going
to be teaching, but you're notgoing to want to miss these.
This is 30 minutes to get youroil tank filled, to get
revelation, to get wisdom, toget insight, to hear what the
spirit of the Lord is saying, tocatch the prophetic forecast of
what God is saying.
Now look here, mark, chapternumber four, real quickly, this
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is the parable of the sowers.
But I want you to see somethinghere, because this is really,
really important.
And he breaks down the parableof the sower here, verse number
13,.
All right, it says.
And he said to them do notunderstand this parable.
How then would you understandall parables?
The sower sows the word, andthese are the ones by the
wayside, where the word is sown,and immediately Satan comes and
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takes away the word that's sownin the heart.
So notice this here when youget revelation, when you get a
prophetic word, the devil isgoing to do is he's going to
send himself, he's going to sendan attack.
Look at what it says.
And he takes away the word thatwas sown.
These, likewise, are the onessown on stony ground who, when
they hear the word, immediatelyreceive it with gladness and
they have no root in themselvesand so endure for a time and
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after when tribulation orpersecution arises.
For the word's sake.
Now, we missed that right there.
Tribulation and persecutionarise when we get a word.
Why the word is meant to putyou into a process.
So when I get education, when Iget teaching, now, I have to go
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through a process to determinehas that word taken root in my
life?
This is where coaching comes in.
This is where having somebodyto walk you through a process,
somebody that you look up to,someone that you believe God has
put into your life, that saysI'm gonna sit at their feet, I'm
gonna learn from them, I'mgonna open up my life to them,
I'm gonna spend time with themon a weekly basis, even if it's
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only one hour, let them pourinto my life.
My life never changed until Igot coached it's another word
disciple.
I never changed Now.
There were areas of my ministrythat never developed until I
got a coach.
Come on, somebody I'm preachingbetter than some of y'all are
shouting right now.
You gotta have a coach in yourlife and remember this.
You ready I want you to typethis in your mentor will always
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first be your tour mentor.
I want you to catch that.
Your mentor is not there to beyour friend.
Your coach is not there to beyour friend.
They are there to be your tourmentor.
Now watch this how do I select acoach?
How do I get somebody?
Do they see greatness withinyou?
But the first, most importantthing what do you see in them
that you want?
You want to be coached bysomebody that has something and
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is further than where you are.
You don't want your peer to beyour coach because they're on
your same level.
You want someone that's onanother level.
I like that name To be able toreach inside of you and pull out
of you what God has placedwithin you.
So you want to be able to seeinside of them.
But you want them to see thatyou have something inside of you
and you want them to go fishingto pull that out.
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So the purpose of makingdisciples is.
God has placed gifts andabilities and things inside of
you and God does not want yourgifting to take you someplace.
Your character can't keep you.
That's why we're seeing so manyministers and preachers and
people fall today.
Jesus took 30 years Somebodysay 30 years, 30 years of
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training for a three and a halfyear ministry.
Now we take three and a halfyears of training for a 30 year
ministry and we wonder why wedon't have the root, we don't
have the depth.
We wonder why we see so manypastors burn out.
We wonder why we see so manypastors in moral failure.
We wonder why we see so manypeople that can't survive the
long haul and have no enduranceis because they lacked a coach.
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They did not get any roots.
Look here again.
It says these are the ones sownon stony ground who, when they
hear the word, they receive it,but they have no root.
Now watch this.
This is why coaching is soimportant, because a coach will
look at your life and show youthings of where you can make
adjustments and development.
They're not there to be yourfriend, they're there to
encourage you at times, butsometimes they're there to bring
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the shears.
Now go with me real quickly.
I want you to catch that therein Mark 4.
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No-transcript trials.
We go into tribulations becauseof the word, but we don't know
how, we don't have the wisdom ofthe word to appropriate it and
so, as a result, we don't knowhow to work it.
In that situation, many timesnow are you ready for this?
We will bypass the process, wewill forfeit it, we will rebuke
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it, we will call it the devilbecause it's creating change
within us.
A coach knows how to discernwhen there's a change needs to
be made, or even if there is acompromise that needs to be made
.
Sometimes you may.
When I say a compromise, maybe,okay, you give a little, you
take a little.
Sometimes it's just God'sworking in you to change you and
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sometimes, if you don't havethe wisdom and understanding of
that, you give a little, youtake a little.
Sometimes it's just God'sworking in you to change you and
sometimes, if you don't havethe wisdom and the understanding
of that, you will look at thatand think it's abuse.
How in the world could somebodyask me to do that?
This can't be God.
There were things in my marriage, when I first got married, that
I knew for sure that my wifewas wrong.
Man, I would have went to mygrave swearing that she was
wrong.
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I would have said ain't no waythat she ain't wrong and I'm
right in this situation.
But thank God for coaching.
I had another man of God thatsat me down said hey, jay, this
is incorrect.
You need to look at this thisway.
And coaching are you ready?
Helps to shift your perspectivein the persecution and in the
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tribulation and in the trial.
Okay, coaches help shift yourperspective.
They help you to see the wordas you should see it and how it
appropriates itself in your lifeto develop you and to grow you
and to make you who you need tobe.
And therefore, you don't getoff of the cross too soon.
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You don't get out of theprocess too soon.
You don't leave the church toosoon.
You don't leave the marriagetoo soon.
You don't leave the gym toosoon.
If you're in a gym and you got acoach, you stay in position
because you have to trust theprocess.
My good God Almighty, I feelthe Holy Ghost on this today.
Trust the process, but manypeople aren't even in one.
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They're in it but they don'tidentify it and they don't know
how to cooperate with what Godis doing, because at the end of
every process there will alwaysbe a promotion.
Come on somebody.
My good God Almighty, now watchthis.
Why is it important tounderstand the process?
Why?
What is the power of coaching?
The power of coaching developsyou and grows you and matures
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you and puts the word in you andputs wisdom in you and helps
you to see what.
Listen, whenever you get a wordfrom God, he will put you in a
storm.
He will put you in a trial.
He'll put you in a test to seeif you know how to skillfully
appropriate the scriptures inyour life, hallelujah and if you
don't know what to do, you'llhave the promise, bypass the
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process.
Are you ready?
And then you'll never see thefulfillment of that promise in
your life.
Now let's go to John, chapter 15.
Real quickly, john, chapter 15.
Y'all getting some stuff out ofthis.
Come on somebody, go on andshare this with somebody,
because, listen, somebody'sgetting ready to go to the next
level, somebody.
You've been asking God what isit going to take for me to shift
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?
And God says you need a coachin your life.
We've lost it in the church.
And listen, coaching is not aone-time event at your church.
You went and took a class.
You're not coached.
Coaching is a lifelong journey.
You never stop getting coached.
Somebody's always further downthe line than you.
And why reinvent the wheel If wewould just humble ourselves and
learn the power and theblessing of impartation?
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Oh, to be able to sit atsomebody's feet and to glean
from their wisdom and allow theHoly Spirit.
Do you understand the power ofcoaching, is it?
It invites Jesus himself intoyour situation.
Wow, how do I know that?
If any two of you said cometogether, he said where two or
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more of you are gatheredtogether in my name, there, I
will be in the midst.
Jesus left the 99 to go afterthe one, and his power is so
attracted to unity that when twopeople come together and it
takes you and another person tobe coached and you should be
coaching somebody else as wellJesus said I'll be there in the
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midst.
So it invites the power ofChrist, the wisdom of Christ,
the manifold wisdom of Christ,into your life.
When you start becomingcoachable in your own, so many
people never grow.
Because if God would haveallowed discipleship to happen
on its own doesn't mean youcan't study, doesn't mean you
don't get to know God, but thecoaching and the discipleship.
The discipleship is adisciplined one.
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So if you don't have that inyour life, you can't develop,
you will plateau in areas ofyour life and you won't go to
the next level.
You need a coach.
Come on, somebody.
Now look at this here.
What does a coach do for you?
You ready Verse number one ofJohn, chapter 15.
I am the true vine.
My father is the vine dresser.
Now look at this here.
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Every branch in me that doesnot bear fruit, he takes away.
But every branch that bearsfruit, he prunes that it may
bear more fruit.
Now watch this If you'rewhether you're producing or
you're not producing, everybodyhas an appointment with the
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shears.
Yes, everybody's going to becut.
It doesn't matter who you are,you're going to be cut if you're
producing.
So why is that?
Now let me show you the power ofcoaching.
Coaching or discipleship,causes you to produce greater
fruit, hallelujah.
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Every branch of me that doesn'tbear fruit, he takes away.
Why?
I don't want to be aroundpeople that are watch this.
Sap suckers, sap stealers Seethrough.
The vine flows into the branchwhat is needed for it to begin
to produce, and so what happensto a lot of people is that they
suck the sap, they suck thenutrients, but then they don't
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want to produce, which meansthis Now, watch this.
I'll talk about this maybelater on.
There are people that get a wordfrom God, know what to do, and
their lack of obedience andapplying that word stops the
production of the fruit.
The vine has done its job, thebranch has been fed, but they're
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not obedient to produce.
So God says I'm not gonna allowyou to steal the precious
nutrients, the anointing mypresence, and not be productive,
because if you're getting thatin your life, that means there's
an area of obedience that musthappen.
There must be a cooperationwith the word of God.
And so he says I'm going to cutthem away, but watch this.
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This is what's amazing.
A lot of people miss this here.
If you begin to produce, godwill prune you.
He will cut you back, and thepurpose of pruning is it cuts
you back.
So then you grow downwardinstead of outward.
You get deeper root and youhave to understand root has the
ability to produce fruit.
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Oh Jesus, my good God almighty,now watch this.
Why is that important?
This is what this is what acoach does.
They come in and say, wow,you're doing really good, but
let me cut you back a little bit.
Hey, you need to be on time.
Hey, are you ready?
I've had people that I'vedecided so sometimes.
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Maybe maybe they have some bodyhygiene that they need to work
on, maybe they need to get ahaircut, maybe they need to
brush their teeth, maybe theyneed to iron their clothes
Sometimes.
Sometimes I had a person onetime years and years ago in my
ministry.
This woman had such a heart forGod, she's run hard to God, but
I mean she had odors and so sheno one ever talked about it and
I went and I ministered to herand her whole life shifted.
I mean, her whole life justwent to a whole different
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dimension.
Because of that.
I didn't embarrass her, I justpoured into her.
Sometimes it's the way we dealwith people.
Maybe you're a manager andthere's a ways that you need to
deal with your staff.
That's not good, and so Godwill allow people to bring
correction in your life so thenyou can have a better rapport
with your staff.
I mean, the list could go on.
Maybe you need to be a betterlistener, whatever it might be,
but you're doing good, but thenGod wants to do even greater.
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So listen, if you stop growing,listen, you stop producing.
So you should always be lookinghow do I get better, how do I
develop?
And that, ladies and gentlemen,is the purpose of a coach.
That's what a coach does foryou.
It helps you to grow, it helpsyou to develop and, no matter
whether you're producing or not,you will meet the shears.
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And that's what a coach will dofor you.
Why?
Because then now you're readyfor this.
Now watch this.
Why is root so important?
Now watch this.
Why is root so important?
Root has the ability to go intothe dark, damp places.
Watch this and take all of thedirt and take it and turn it
into what will bring forth fruit.
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Root determines fruit.
Now, root is symbolic of ourcharacter.
Our character has to have theability to be put into.
If you think about it, what dothey do?
They even put you in manuresometimes, which means you can
walk through.
You know they had a bumpersticker back in the day that
says stuff happens.
Except it wasn't stuff.
And sometimes, when you getinto the stuff and stuff hits
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your life, if you follow whatI'm saying and you have stuff,
stuff is stinky.
When you got the stinky stuffthat you're in character is what
root is.
It takes the manure, it takesthose things and takes the
nutrients out of it, brings itforth, pushes it through the
vine into the branch, so thenproduction can happen.
Your ability you ready for thisto take and for God to be able
to put you in the stinky stuffand be able to cause you to be
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productive is based upon thecharacter that he's worked
within you.
So sometimes when he cuts youback, he's expanding your
character.
So then you can take what it isthat you've been in Maybe it's
not fair, maybe it's this, maybeit's them and he says I'm going
to grow your root and, as aresult, there will be greater
fruit.
Come on somebody.
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Hallelujah.
And that's the reason whycoaching is so important for us
as believers.
The power of coaching willchange your life.
I am firmly convinced that manypeople nowadays are not
attracted to coaching anymore.
We need it, especially in thisday and hour.
God gave me three things.
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He said tell people that youneed to do three things.
Number one keep loving your I'msorry, keep oil in your lamp.
Loving your heart and sendingleaven out of your life.
Technically four, but threestatements here.
Keep oil in your lamp, lovingyour heart, sending leaven out
of your life.
Ladies and gentlemen, if youdon't have a coach, you don't
learn how to be an oil producerin the kingdom.
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There are things that you willdo instinctively and there's
some things that you've got tolearn along the way.
Even the greatest players onthe planet, in any sport, in any
type of thing, they all need acoach, and they are the ones
that help bring together thewhole game plan.
I want to encourage you todayto really consider finding a
coach.
If you don't have one, if youdon't have a ministry that
you're attached to that helpsyou to become the best version
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of yourself possible, you needto have that.
If you are in a ministry, youneed to go to that pastor, go to
those leaders and say, hey, Iwant to become my best self, I
want to become all that God'scalled me to be.
You won't get there.
I'm going to say it again youwill not get there without the
right coach.
You will not get there untilyou get under somebody and let
somebody point to you.
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Many of you are cyclical.
You'll go good for a little bitand then you'll fall off.
You go good for a little bitand then you'll fall off.
It's because the scriptureshave not been applied in your
life.
Go and make disciples.
Jesus had the disciples walkingwith him for three and a half
years.
They served him, they walkedwith him and they learned from
him for three and a half yearsand then he gave them power.
Listen, somebody listening rightnow, spirit of the Lord, is
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saying to you that if you wouldget under coaching, there is a
seat reserved for you.
There is a place in that upperroom that's reserved for you.
There is a new anointing thatis going to come upon you.
That has been scheduled, andGod says I'm going to send
somebody into your life, intothe season, in order to grow you
and to develop you, to make youthe man or woman of God that
he's called you to be, toprepare you for the promotion
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that is coming.
You have a short amount of time.
You have a short season becauseGod says I'm getting you
prepared for the chair that'savailable.
There's somebody that'soccupying it now that God is
going to move out of positionthat you're getting ready to
come into.
And God's saying if you do notprepare yourself, if you do not
allow coaching to happen.
You will take a position andthen you can forfeit what it is
that I have for you, becauseyour character will take you I'm
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sorry, your gifting will takeyou someplace.
Your character won't be able tokeep you and you will not be
prepared for the destiny.
Remember your appointment withyour destiny has already been
set since the beginning of time.
Will you be ready when it comes?
The appointment has been set.
The question is will you wastethe time that you have?
Will you despise smallbeginnings?
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Allow the Holy Spirit to growyou and to develop you, to make
you the best version of yourselfthat God's called you to be,
and get under a coach Everybody.
I have four men in my liferight now that are continually
pouring into my life because Ibelieve in the power of coaching
.
So I want to encourage you withthat today and, before I go, I
want to pray for you that Godwould just begin to anoint you
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and bless you, and I just wantyou to lift up your hands right
where you are.
Father, in the name of Jesus, Ipray for every person watching.
Lord, I thank you for theanointing of the Holy Ghost upon
their lives.
I thank you for the gifting,the callings, the destinies that
you have for them.
I thank you.
That eye has not seen nor earheard, neither has it entered
into the heart of men the thingsthat you have prepared for them
.
But, father, god, you'repreparing them for what you have
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prepared for them.
And so, lord God, I pray that,lord, you would anoint them,
that you would fill them, thatthey would not bypass the
process to get to progress, theywould not despise small
beginnings but, lord, they wouldstay under tutors and teachers
until they become all thatyou've called them to be.
May these words be sealed intheir hearts and in their minds
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and, father, I thank you forwhat you're doing in them, and
that the best is yet to come.
In Jesus' name, we pray Amen,amen, amen.
Well, listen, I hope that you'vebeen blessed by this today.
I'll be coming back to youtomorrow and I want you to tune
in again.
I want you to take a momentright now to like, subscribe,
follow, share, get on thepodcast, take this word, get it
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over and over in your spirit.
There's a lot that you got fedwith in under 30 minutes, so I
want you to take a minute, getthat podcast, listen to this
again, work it into your life.
Find yourself a coach, becomewho God's called you to be.
The people that havediscipleship and coaching in
their life in this season arethe ones that are going to have
greater oil, that are going tohave greater impact.
They're going to go furtherthan everyone else because they
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are listen, we all.
Sir Walter Raleigh simply saidthis.
He said we see further becausewe stand on the shoulders of
giants.
It's important that weunderstand that reality.
Stand on somebody else and then, therefore, you will grow and
develop and become all that Godhas called you to be.
Well, I'm Pastor J AnthonyGilbert.
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I love you all so much, prayingfor you.
Have a wonderful day, go getthem your best and blessed days
are out in front of you and Ibelieve that the rest of this
year, for you and for me, isgoing to be the best of this
year.
I'll see you next time righthere on Dimensions.
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