How To Manage Seasons of Stress and Chaos

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Are you feeling overwhelmed by the incessant demands of life, juggling commitments that pull you in every direction? Fear not, for in our latest soul-stirring session, we delve deep into the art of balancing ministry, and family life, all through the lens of unwavering faith.  In this episode I will be offering insights and tools necessary to navigate the stresses and chaos of life without losing sight of those precious, non-negotiable commitments like family time, prayer time and church time. 

This episode is not just about survival; it's about thriving under pressure. Together, we'll explore how the sins of omission can be subtle yet significantly damaging, urging believers to avoid neglecting spiritual duties. From personal anecdotes to strategic advice, we cover the importance of distinguishing urgency from priority and the power of a simple task list in managing life's responsibilities.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're like me, ladies and gentlemen, there are
seasons of your life when thingsget chaotic.
When you got things coming fromthis side, that side, from the
back and from the front, youdon't seem to know where to turn
and everybody's tugging on you.
Pastor Jay, how do you handleall of these things that?
You've got a podcast, you'rethe pastor of a church, you're
on television, you're a voicefor pro-life, you've got

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speaking engagements, you're onTV.
You've got all these thingsgoing on and a pro-life
pregnancy center.
How do you manage it all andstill have time for your kids
and that's right Time for mybaby girl, the peanut butter to
my jelly, come on somebody.
Everything that I need, she'smy everything and still have
time to manage all of thesethings?
You have questions.

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I've got answers.
That's what Dimensions is allabout, baby.
And guess what?
You don't know what else we'regoing to get into as well.
It's going to be good.
It's about to get deep.
I'm glad you've tuned in.
Are you all ready, as I am.
Dimensions starts now Music.

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Well, ladies and gentlemen,welcome to the latest edition of
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them that are dealing with somechaotic times, some stressful
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And what's happened is we turnmoral and unethical things that

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We should cry loud and sparenot and declare what the spirit
of the Lord is saying.
So I've got a whole lot morecoming to you, but today, my
good God, I am so excited to getinto about how to manage

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seasons of stress and chaos.
You know, one of the thingsI've realized is a lot of people
going through a lot ofdifferent things right now, and
people are struggling and goingthrough all sorts of different
things.
You know something you aregoing to make it through this
season.
You're not going to fall.
You're not going to fall downand not get back up.
You're not going to struggle.
You're not going to lose yourmind.

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You are going to make it.
In Jesus' name, I just want youto type that in right now that
I'm going to make it.
You have to realize somethingthat what you're in right now
isn't going to be forever.
I think one of the biggestmisconceptions for a lot of
people is when they're in thevalley, they believe they're
going to be in the valleyforever, and when they're on the
mountain, they feel they'regoing to be on the mountain

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forever.
You can't have a mountainwithout two valleys and I hope
you understand that.
You're not going to be in themountain forever.
When the wind is behind yourback and you're pedaling
downhill and everything's goingwell, you're not going to be in
the valley, where it feels likeyou're in 10th gear on a
mountain bike and trying to goup the hill and the wind is
blowing at you.

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Not only is the wind blowing,the rain is coming down and
you're trushing, trugging andtrying to get yourself up that
hill.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's apart of life.
I want to teach you how tonavigate some of those things,
because many people do very wellwhen they're on the mountain
top and when they're coming downand they're pedaling and
they're shouting and praying inthe Holy Ghost and saying

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hallelujah.
Things are so great.
Nothing wrong with that, butrealize there are mountain times
, there are valley times andthere are times when life hits
all at once.
How do you manage those things?
Leaders have to learn how tonavigate turbulence.
True leaders know how tonavigate turbulence.
I hope you're taking down somenotes right there.

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That's good, that's tweetworthy.
Right there.
Leaders know how to navigateturbulence, and this is the
reality.
Leaders have the ability toremain consistent whether
they're in the mountain orthey're in the valley or in the
in-between times.
They know how to navigate both.
You have to be able to navigateboth in your life, because
they're both going to come.

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There's a time and a season foreverything, and it seems like
you've I'm sure you've heard theproverbial statement when it
rains, it pours, and it reallydoes.
There are times where it's justchaotic and things are coming
at you from every side andyou're wondering how to manage
it, and I'm going to talk to youabout some things that you
should do and some things thatyou shouldn't do.
Matter of fact, I've got aboutnine here.
There's probably going to bemore than that, but I've got

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nine specifics that I want togive to you, because I believe
there's some people that arewatching right now, that you've
been going through somedifficult times, and sometimes
the number one thing that peoplewant to do is they want to
throw off all theresponsibilities when things get
chaotic.
It's too much, it's too hard, Ican't make it, it's going to be
too difficult.
That's not the case, ladies andgentlemen.
You have to understand thatjust because things get

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difficult, you're going to makeit.
You don't throw off all yourresponsibilities and just do
everything to take the pressureoff.
You understand it's.
Pressure is a privilege, and soit's one of those things that
you have to understand.
When God puts weight upon yourlife, it's not so you can throw
the weight off.
He's trying to develop you andto grow you in your life, and

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the number one thing that peopledo many times when they're
hitting stressful times isthey'll take all the pressure
off.
How do I get the pressure offof me?
I just want to get out of this,and you have to learn.
Are you all ready?
You have to learn how to cookunder pressure.
Yeah, you got to learn how tocook under pressure.
You've got to learn how todevelop.

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You got to learn how to grow.
You've got to learn how totenderize.
You got to learn how to do allthese things.
When the pressure is on you,you can't take the pressure off,
you can't tell everybody it'stoo hard.
I like back in the day whenCOVID first hit and Tom Hanks
got, he said there's no cryingin baseball.
You know, sometimes you've gotto press in and it's going to be
difficult sometimes.
So I want to give you a pass ofScripture here.
The first one here is in Luke,chapter 10, verse 38 through 42.

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I want to read this to youbecause I believe this would
really be a blessing to you.
Luke, chapter 10, verse 38through 42.
It's the story of Mary andMartha and I believe it's kind
of the tale of the mountain andthe valley, if I can say it like
that.
And verse 38 of Luke, chapter10, it says here Now it happened
as they went that they entereda certain village and a certain

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woman named Martha welcomed himinto her house and she had a
sister called Mary Now, look atthis who sat at Jesus's feet and
heard his words.
But Martha was distracted withmuch serving and she approached
him and said Lord, do you notcare that my sister has left me
to serve alone?
Therefore, tell her to help me.

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And Jesus answered and saidMartha, martha, you are worried
and troubled about many things,but one thing is needed, and
Mary has chosen that good partwhich shall not be taken away
from her.
Now I want to.
A lot of people read thispassage of Scripture here and
they think that Martha is theone that's in error Error and
Mary is the one that is correct.

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And into some degree that'strue, but I don't want to
discount Martha, because thereare sometimes are you ready for
this?
There are sometimes that workis needed to be done.
There are times Martha's upworking.
She's doing all the things thatshe needs to do.
The problem, watched, is this isthis is one point when You're
dealing in how to manage seasonsof stress and chaos.

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It's not the fact that thingsaren't important, it's not the
fact that things aren't urgent.
What separates one person fromthe other is the ability to
determine priority.
My good god Almighty, theability to Determine priority.
Things are gonna come your way.
You have to learn how toDetermine Priority and urgency.

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If you don't learn those thingsand you'll just take whatever
comes, that you will manage you,and you can't do that.
And one of the things that Ithink is important is that both
of them had valid things goingon.
Martha was trying to work.
Mary was sitting at the feet ofJesus.
It was not the fact watch thisthat I I don't believe this that

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Mary wasn't eventually going toget to work.
She had the right priorities inplace.
It's the first thing I want tomention.
When seasons of stress and chaoscome your way, the first thing
you want to do is you want topray my good, god, do not allow
the stress and everythinghappened and say well, god, I'll
get to you later.

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Some people will tell mesometimes, yeah, things are
getting really, really busy forme so I haven't had time to
really get to prayer.
I do prayer at the end of theday.
I said doing prayer at the endof your day is like saying I'm
gonna run a marathon and I'lleat when I'm done.
You're putting the cart infront of the horse.
You can't run without fuel andyou got to realize many times
watch, this is important whenyou're dealing with seasons of
stress and chaos and things thatare coming your way.

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Sometimes they're not justnatural things.
Sometimes there's demonicattacks within them, and you'll
never defeat demonic attackswith Natural weapons, the
weapons of our warfare are notConnell but mighty, through God,
to the pulling down ofstrongholds.
So if you do not prioritize theimportance of hanging out with

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Jesus and spending time to getyour spiritual art Artillery,
you're gonna be going in theretrying to defeat a spiritual
power with natural ability,natural strength, and you will
not have the ability or power.
The Bible says in Ephesians,chapter 6, to be strong and Lord
and In the power of his might.
Then put on the whole armor ofGod.

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The first thing you've got todo before you go out to battle
is put on your armor.
How do you do that?
You spend time with God inprayer.
It's not the fact that Marthadid not have valid things that
needed to be done.
The fact was, her priority waswrong.
She was trying to do the workwithout sitting down With it,

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the feet of the one that givesher the power, the ability and
the call to do so.
I think it's so important thatwe identify that.
Ladies and gentlemen, look atus here.
Martha, you are worried andtroubled about many things.
What think about it?
Many one, two, three, four,five, six, seven, eight, however
many there were.
But one thing is needed Marychose the good part, which will

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not be taken from her.
You can't do all the thingsuntil you have prioritized the
one thing Spending time.
I don't care how busy you get,I don't care how hard it is, you
need to make sure you arespending time with God in prayer
.
You have to understand.
The moment you got saved, youdrew a big bull's eye on your
chest and told hell, satan inevery one of his cohorts, hit me

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with your best shot, I can takeit.
You got to understand.
The first thing is prayer.
Matthew 6 33 the whole chaptersix is all about priority and he
talks about the Gentiles saywhat are we gonna eat and where
are we gonna sleep and what arewe gonna wear and all these
things that, after all thesethings Do the Gentiles sing?
But what does he say?
Seek ye first the kingdom ofGod, his righteousness, his way

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of doing things and what allthese things shall be added.
Then we look at Luke 10.
Here Martha's worried about allthese things.
Mary chose the one thing.
Who do you think is going to bebetter off?
Your life is never better offby Ruling God out of the
equation.
It's kind of like people thatsay well, you know, I didn't
have enough money to tithe.
So basically, what you'resaying is that, well, lord,
you'll understand, I'm betterwithout you, god.

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I'm not going to pray todaybecause I'm better without you.
I can handle today on my own.
You are already stressed out andfeeling overwhelmed.
How are you going to rule outthe burden bearer?
The aim is of your life, theburden bearer, jesus, coming to
me, all you that labor and areheavy laden.
I will give you a.
Take my yoke upon you and learnof me, for my yoke is easy and
my burden is like you think it'sgoing to get better Apart from

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Jesus Christ, apart fromspending time with God?
You think it's going to getbetter financially by ruling God
out of your money and out ofyour time and out of you.
Well, I'm not going to tithe.
This we got.
I got this once I get.
Wait a minute.
You're not giving to Godbecause God needs it.
You're giving to God becauseyou need it.
Come on somebody.
You're not praying to Godbecause he needs it.
You're praying to God becauseyou need it.

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And what happens?
The first thing the devil wantsto do is to get you burdened
down, get you stressed out, thatyou start removing prayer out
of your life and you startremoving tithing and giving out
of your life.
You have to establish early inyour world that prayer must be
the top priority of the believer.
Come on somebody.

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And this is why I want to startwith this.
I want to start with thisbecause what happens?
Watch this the greatest sin.
If I were to ask you right nowwhat are the greatest sins, go
ahead and just think I'm gonnagive you just a second here
while I talk, write down andthink in your mind what are the
greatest sins?
What are they?
You know, because I think a lotof times we think the greatest
sins are one thing, when I thinkthey're another.
Think about it for a minute.

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What are the greatest sins,especially for the believer?
And most likely we have what'scalled sins of commission and
sins of omission.
And people say, well, whatexactly are those sins of
commission?
Are the things that you do,such as like maybe you go out
and you get drunk, you knowadultery, fornication, murder,
lying, cheating, stealing, allthose types of things, and

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that's what we think of.
So we think, as a believer, ifI'm not doing those things, I'm
good, and of course, yeah,that's part of it, but for the
believer, that's the lower life.
For the believer, there's ahigher life, which are the sins
of omissions?
Those are the things that godhas required of you, the things
that god has asked you to dothat you're not doing, such as

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prayer.
People don't thinkprayerlessness is a sin.
Not reading your bible, notgoing to church?
I can't begin to tell you howmany people, when they start
going through difficult times,what is the first thing that
goes?
They're tithing, their prayertime and their church time.
I mean, how do you rule god outof your life, people?
And then, when things startgoing well, people start saying,
okay, god, I got this, I'lltake over from here.
My good god, you don't realize,whenever you do, that god

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refuses to create a life, lifefor you that makes himself
unnecessary.
So you know what happens.
More trouble comes because hecan't trust you, because he
knows if he gives you the lifethat you want, you'll leave him.
So god tests you in the lowtimes and determine where your
loyalties are, because who youare in the prison, who you are
in the pit, joseph, is howyou'll serve god in the palace.

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Oh, my good god, that's so good, right there.
People rule out god real quick.
Let's stop praying, let's starttie, stop tithing the they'll
stop going to church.
Oh pastor, things are gettingbusy.
I can't go to church onwednesdays.
What?
That's not.
It shouldn't even be an optionfor the believer.
You should never say, well, Igot to do this, I got to do that
.
I'm not saying there's never atime to miss.
I'm saying but you're nevergoing to get more out of life by

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giving less to god.
It's just not going to happen.
There's a balance.
Don't get me wrong, but I'veseen so many people rule god out
of their lives.
You've got to keep god apriority.
That's number one.
Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray,pray, pray.
Now remember this.
This is important.
Pressure, oh, this is so good.
Pressure is a privilege, but itcan become problematic.

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You gotta remember thatpressure is a privilege, but it
can become problematic.
So happens when pressure hits,we.
We don't realize it, but wegravitate to what we trust.
We trust that my sleep willgive me more, instead of getting
up earlier and praying, I love.
There's a story.
I believe it was uh, oh, mygosh, but one of the west sleep
brothers, if I'm not mistaken.
He said this is so powerful.
He says I have so much to dotoday, I better start my day off

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with three hours of prayer.
Now most of us say, god, I haveso much to do today I can't
even get to prayer.
But he said I think was johnwestley that said this, if I'm
not mistaken he said there's somuch I have to do today, I might
as well start my first threehours in prayer.
Wow, and think about who getsmore done.

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I'm telling you what.
God will bless you.
He will give you favor if youwill keep the main thing, the
main thing.
Pressure is a privilege becauseletting you know that you're
responsible for something.
But it also become problematicbecause some people lose their
focus when pressure hits, andyou have to be careful that you
don't allow yourself to losefocus when pressure comes.
Pressure exposes what's withinme.

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So therefore, when pressurehits, I gravitate to what's most
important.
Pressure reveals what ispriority in my life.
Pressure reveals what is urgentin my life.
Pressure reveals what isimportant.
Pressure reveals who I am as aperson.
Are you with me?
Pressure can make diamonds, butpressure can also cause you to

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implode or explode.
So the reality is it's allabout how we process it, and
that's why the number one thingyou have to do is to pray.
And then number two Watch this.
Don't replace priority withurgency.
Just because something isurgent doesn't always mean it is

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priority.
My good God, that is soimportant.
What do I mean by that?
Oh, I got so much, I got to doso I can't pray, I can't go to
church, I can't tie.
That can't no, no, no, no, no,no, no.
I understand, but do notreplace Are you hearing what I'm
saying Priority with urgency.
Oh, something's important rightnow.
Because this is the reality.

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Things that are priority watchthis are usually more long term.
Things that are urgent areusually short term.
They're not going to be forever.
When you have a higher priorityscale, it means they have more
weight and importance in yourlife and so be careful of it.
Doesn't mean it's always thecase, but priority, urgency

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means it's got to be done rightnow, but it's probably temporary
.
Things that are priority areusually more long term.
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And what people will do inimmaturity is they will replace
something that is urgent.
Say, let's make that number onein my life because it's urgent
right now, and move everythingelse that seems important to
move way down here Now.
It doesn't mean there's not atime to do that temporarily, but

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what I'm saying?
A lot of people do that andit's what they've done.
They've gotten out of focusbecause their faith structure is
incorrect.
They haven't left the mainthing.
The main thing.
Come on somebody, which leadsme to number three.
You need to develop a task listwhen you are in seasons of chaos
, when you are in seasons ofstress.
Develop a task list when youare you ready for this?
I'm going to go back to thewhole thing about pressure to

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this is important.
If you wake up in the morning,or you go to bed at night and
you wake up in the middle nightand you have all this pressure
and you wake in the morning, youdon't wonder.
You're wondering why do I feelall this on me?
There's probably things infront of you that are going to
have to be tackled.
It is actually responsibilitythat is actually weighing upon
you.
Even if you're not looking atit, for whatever reason, our
internal clock knows it.

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Our internal emotionsunderstand there's something
going on and there's somethinghappening and there's something
coming.
Oh, that's so good, right, thatjust helps somebody.
So I wonder you wake up in themorning?
Why do I feel all this on me?
Why do I feel all this stress?
Why is all this thingshappening my way?
It's because there'sresponsibility on your plate.
So what you need to do is yousit down and develop a task list
and you write down what needsto be accomplished first, what

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is, and you take a minute.
Watch this, not from here, butfrom here.
You got to be very careful.
Why?
Because your heart may say ohmy gosh, I got to do this and I
got to do this, and somebodycalled me.
They want to go about this.
Sometimes you have to know whatto say no to.
So you have to replace you don'twant to replace urgency with
prior or with prior.
You want to replace prioritywith urgency.

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You want to replace urgencywith priority.
So you want priority to be thenumber one thing.
What's priority right now?
No matter how much something maybe coming at me, because just
because something is urgentdoesn't always mean it's
priority.
It's kind of like as a pastor.
You know, there are times thatpeople will knock on your door
oh, I've got an emergency, I gotan emergency.
It may or may not be anemergency, they just want to

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deal with it right now.
It may be important to them andthey're feeling the stress of
it, but it doesn't mean justbecause it's their urgency, it's
your emergency.
Wow, come on, somebody.
Did you hear what I just said?
Just because it's somebody'semergency doesn't mean it's your
urgency, come on.

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It doesn't mean you have toimmediately run.
What this is emergency, pastorJ?
So it's got to be urgent to you, not always, not always.
You have to learn to determine.
Sometimes family can beknocking on your door.
Oh, oh, my gosh, this is anemergency.
Well, that doesn't make it myemergency and it doesn't mean it
has to be my urgency.
You have to have the maturity tobe able to eat, to meet and

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throw away the bone.
You got to know the differencebetween the two, ladies and
gentlemen.
If you don't know that, you'llbe constantly running to people.
People will be running to you.
They'll be telling you got todo this, that and the third and
whatnot, and it's not always apriority for you.
You have to determine early inyour world that you can do that.
You know the difference betweenwhat is urgent and what is

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priority.
And just because somebody hasan emergency doesn't mean it's
your urgency Are you with me?
Or just because it's urgent tothem doesn't mean it's your
emergency that you have toswitch.
So it can go either way.
You have to learn early.
Do not replace priority withurgency.
And I think one of the thingscoming back to your walk with
God do not replace the things ofGod with the things of the
world.
It doesn't mean there's nevernot a time to take a minute or I

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got to make a shift, but Ithink the purpose of this if you
hear the spirit behind mymessage is be careful of things
that are coming in and saying Ineed to take priority over God,
I need to take priority overchurch, I need to take priority
over family.
I need to take priority overyour money right now and you
don't need the tithes.
You need to do what is that Itell you to do?

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You've got to learn not toreplace come on somebody
priority with urgency.
Bring urgency, urgent things inand make them a priority in
your life.
That's number two.
Number three developing a tasklist.
Oh, my good God, developing atask list is so important.
Write down those things.
That's what we've just beentalking about.

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Write down those things thatneed to be accomplished, in
order of those things.
Why do I do that?
Because when pressure hits, ifthere's that tendency to put
things out of order, write downfrom here not from here the
things that need to beaccomplished immediately.
Alright, this needs to be done.
Just because you're somebody'sfeeling a certain way or I'm
feeling a certain way, doesn'tmean that you need to make that

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shift.
And that's why I said develop atask list and be careful.
Pressure is a privilege, but itcan become problematic.
Why is that?
Because when you write downthose things that are important,
you got to write down from yourmind, not from your heart.
These are the things that I'vegot to get to, and just because
you're feeling the pressure andthe pull to do certain things
doesn't mean you always need tojump right up and get it done.

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So make sure you take a minute,write down Alright, these are
the things I need to get to,these are the things that are
most important.
I can't, I can't sacrificethese things, so I've got to
write those down and then I'llget to these other things.
You got to learn what to say noto and what to say yes to.
That's why a task list is soimportant.
What does that help?
You do as well, number four youready?
Number one is pray.
Can't get over that enough, mygoodness.

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Luke 10, 38 to 42.
If you're just tuning in, readthrough that prayer, so
important.
Number two don't replacepriority with urgency.
Number three develop a tasklist.
Number four this is soimportant Something I learned
years and years ago Manage yourstress.
Don't let your stress manage you.
That's why you need a task list.
That's why you have to set thepriority.

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And seasons of chaos, theseseasons of stress, you know you
got to.
You got to learn to put allthose things together, excuse me
.
You have to learn not to allowyour stress to manage you.
What does that mean?
When things are coming in, it'slike it lets you get all worked
up and your head gets off andthen you start running.
How am I going to get this done?
I don't know if I can do it.
And then you just want to putyour head under the covers and

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just say let me just go away.
I can't deal with all thisstuff, it's too much.
And this person coming in?
No, no, no, no, stop, stop,stop, stop, refocus.
Tell yourself, wait a minutehere.
I am in control here.
Yep, this stuff needs to.
I got to get this stuff done.
I got to get to these things.
I'm going to get to it as I can.
I'm going to manage my stressand not allow my stress to

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manage me.
Mind you, this story when Jesuswas asleep in the boat and the
disciples were up saying theywoke him.
They couldn't even wake him up,he was sleeping so soundly.
They said, master, don't youcare that we perish?
Wake up.
And he woke up.
What do you do?
Peace be still.
Remember this you are troubleCEO.
God will never give you morethan you can bear.

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Oh, it is so good right now.
I hope somebody truly catchesthis and I want to say it again.
I know I said it before, but Ithink in this moment I want you
to really hear what I'm saying.
There are sometimes familypeople will come to you in those
moments and really it is not anemergency.
It feels urgent to them.

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I'm not belittling where theyare or what they're feeling, but
everybody, you are not theMessiah, you are not Yahweh, you
are not Jehovah God, you arenot Elohim, you are not the
Trinity, you are not the Savior,you are not called to answer
everybody's problem.
One thing that I heard SteveHarvey say once before he said

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when he got all this money andall these things came his way
and people said, come on, steve,help me out, he said this is my
question to you what would youhave done if I wasn't rich?
If I wasn't rich, what wouldyou have done?
I do XYZ.
He said well, then go do that.
You are not required to be theanswer for everybody's problem.
You have to learn early in yourlife what things you're going

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to get priority to manage yourstress.
Don't let stress tell you whereto go, and sometimes people
will bring stressful things toyou.
You got to learn to block thatout.
You got to learn sometimes evento say no, I'm sorry, I can't
get to you right now.
I just really can't.
I don't have the ability totake four hours and talk with
you right now.
I can't do that right now.
And if they're offended or upset, that doesn't mean that you've

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done something wrong.
Let me say this real quicklyJust because people are upset,
just because people are offended, doesn't always make you wrong.
Oh man, this is, this is goody'all, because a lot of time
people will they get to running.
Oh, my God, so and so there, mymom is going to be upset with
me.
My dad's gonna be upset, mybrother is gonna be upset, my
sister gonna be upset with me,my friends gonna be upset with

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me.
You know what sometimes?
Let them be upset, let themstew in their own juices.
It's fine.
You have to learn.
When you are a leader, you arenot going to make everybody
happy.
You got to learn.
There are times when you haveto tell people no and they're
not gonna like it, but actuallythat no is the best thing for
them, because you can't alwaysbe their Messiah and they have
to learn to grow up.
Sometimes people are in aurgent emergence circumstance.

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For what reason?
Their own decisions.
They put themselves there andnow they want you to bail them
out.
It's not your responsibility.
You are not the Messiah, youare not the Savior.
You can't be the answer toeverybody's problem.
So it's important that you don'tallow stress to manage you.
This is coming.

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This is coming.
This is coming.
You got to take one block at atime and say put all this aside,
get this done, check it off andwatch it.
This is what's so cool, ladiesand gentlemen.
When you do that, by the end ofyour day, by the end of your
week, you're going to feel yourstress lift off of you.
When you manage your stress,when you do what you need to do,

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you'll go to bed that night andall that pressure you felt in
the morning will be off of you.
A lot of people don'tunderstand when that pressure
hits like that in your life,when pressurized situations come
.
It is a privilege, it isresponsibility, but the more you
deal with it, the easier itwill get.
So manage your stress, ladiesand gentlemen.

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Don't let your stress manageyou.
How do you do that?
Don't replace priority withurgency.
Develop a task list.
This is the order of things.
When other things come in, youhave to learn, sometimes even a
way.
At the moment, it's important.
Let me go back to something too.
I want to mention this.
Well, don't replace prioritywith urgency.
That's the reason why one ofthe things that I do, I already
have in my calendar my vacationtime for 24.

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I have my date days with mywife, my prayer times with my
wife, my family times with mykids.
All that's in my calendar.
Nothing gets in on thereoutside of something very, very,
very, very, very extreme, butnot just because it's important.
Well, it might be important,but it's not more important than
my kids or my life.
So there's certain things youhave to plan out early and have

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it in your calendar.
Put those things in there andsay that doesn't come in right
there.
I'm sorry.
When somebody comes in on thatsituation, I can't no different.
If you said, hey, I'm going onvacation, can you do this?
No, I can't, I'm going onvacation.
It's not the fact.
See, this is the thing.
It's not the fact that we can'ttell people no, we don't want
to tell people no, a lot of time.
We don't want to deal with theguilt, we don't want to deal
with the shame.
But see, that's the and whatwill happen?

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Pressure will come in and makeyou take something that is.
It's not that it's notimportant, but less of a
priority.
Remove your family, remove God,remove whatever it is, and put
them up there and do this.
That becomes an idol in yourlife and God will never, ever
bless that.
Keep the main thing, the mainthing, ladies and gentlemen,
very important.
Number five this is good, letme.

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Let me.
Let me recap.
Number one pray.
Number two don't replacepriority with urgency.
Number three develop a tasklist.
Number four manage your stress.
Don't let your stress.
Manage you.
And then, number five, put yourgrind on.
Ladies and gentlemen, put yourgrind on.
You gotta be willing to work.
There are sometimes you'regonna have to get up a little
earlier, you have to go to bed alittle bit later.

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There are sometimes when younormally would come home and
watch your favorite show, you'regonna have to turn it off.
There are sometimes that you'regonna have to be willing to
work a little longer than thosetimes.
You have to get up at five now,yeah, maybe, maybe you have to
get up at four.
I don't know, it just dependson what needs to be done.
And remember this too, thatthere are seasons of stress.
Oh, this is so good.
There are seasons of stress.

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There are times it's not gonnabe further.
Sometimes you grind a littlebit more because of the season
you're in.
It's not permanent.
Let me help you.
It ain't gonna kill you and youain't gonna burn out just cause
you grind for a short season.
There are sometimes it could befour or five days where, man,
I'm really grinding it out.
Put your grind on.

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There are times life demands alittle more.
There are times you have togive a little more.
There are times that's why evenlike, take a look at a lot of
people that are coaches.
They'll say we're out of twohour practices.
They'll extend it a little bit.
They'll say, hey, we're onlygonna do this, but then they
extend it a little bit more.
They make you do a little more.
You're gonna work out hey, Ihad planned eight and they make
you do 10.
You had 10, they planned to do12.
You did 12, they planned on youhave you do 15.

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Why?
Cause life sometimes requiresmore.
Don't always think well, this ismy little status coalite.
This is why my habits alwaysgonna stay that way.
It doesn't work that way.
There are sometimes things arecoming at you.
There are sometimes you have tomove things.
There are times you have to beflexible.
There are times that things arehitting you from every side and
you gotta grind a little bitmore that day.

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Oh yeah, but I plan on goinghome and just sleeping.
You don't get to do that.
You don't get to do that.
There are seasons of it, ladiesand gentlemen.
There are seasons of it.
There are sometimes things thatand what do I mean by that?
Sometimes you worked all dayand planned on doing this and
you gotta come home and yougotta deal with stuff at home.
Man, you deal with that all dayand then you find out you got a
bad report with your kid atschool.

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Your kid wasn't acting the waythey should and so now they're
in trouble.
So now you gotta, instead ofcome home relaxed, and now you
have to talk to your son or yourdaughter, or maybe there's a
situation that pops up in yourmarriage and you thought you're
gonna come home and just have arelaxing, romantic night, but
then this thing popped up.
Maybe there's something that Imean.
There are times when things hitat once.
You gotta learn how to manageit.

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Well, you can't say, well, I'mgonna go home and just have my
popcorn and everybody, leave mealone.
You don't get to shut down andgo your way.
You gotta put your grind on.
There are times you have to putyour grind on.
Yeah, there are things you cansay no to, but not when they're
priority.
And a lot of times what happens?
We sacrifice God, we sacrificeour marriages, we sacrifice our
family, and when I say ourfamily, I mean immediate,

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extended family are not priorityall the time.
They're not even.
When I say immediate family, Imean your wife and your kids,
and if they're adult kids,they're not always immediate
priority as well.
It's important that weunderstand that it's God.
Well, come on somebody.
It's your marriage, and thenit's your children when they're
under 18, and then you go intoextended family, come on, then

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it's our service to the Lord andthen it's our work and we don't
really have friends and friendsand then it's our work, and
it's in that order.
A lot of times work comes in sowe move it ahead of God.
It's all out of order.
And so what happens?
You're not walking in thefullness of the blessing because
you don't know how to managethe things that are coming your

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way.
Oh, this is so good.
I know I'm helping somebodytoday.
Come on y'all.
How do you make it happen?
You gotta sometimes put yourgrind on Number six.
You ready.
Don't get lazy or procrastinate.
Can't put your head under thecover.
You can't get lazy.
You can't say I don't feel likedealing with all this.
You don't get to put on a sadface.
You don't get to pout and cry.

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You may have a moment andeverybody needs those, I get it.
Maybe a little moment where youfeel stressed out or
overwhelmed.
Have your quick little 30minute moment or whatever it is,
and then get back on your grind.
Don't procrastinate.
Procrastination is simply thisAre you ready?
Here's the mentality ofprocrastination.
Why do today what I can put offtill tomorrow?

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Come on, type that in right now.
Why do today?
This is the true definition ofprocrastination.
Why do today what I can put offtill tomorrow?
What I can do tomorrow?
This is the reality.
Why put off till tomorrow whatyou can do today, right now, in
the moment.
Get it done.
Learn how to maximize your time.
It's amazing how people tell methat they don't have time.

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You do.
You have time.
It's just what you choose to dowith it.
Even when you're driving, youcan be riding down the street,
ladies and gentlemen, ridingdown the street doing your thing
, and are you making a phonecall, making your phone calls?
At that point, you gotta callyour credit car company.
Get on the phone.
Call them on the way to thestore.
When you're in the store, makeyour phone calls.
I need to call my mom and checkup on her.

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Well, why?
You're shopping, grab yourstuff and do that.
You gotta learn how to maximizeevery moment of your day.
You gotta learn how to get upearly.
You gotta learn how to staylate.
You can't procrastinate, youcan't get lazy, you can't shut
down.
You gotta get in there.
You gotta do the work and dowhat it is that you know that
you need to do.
It's very, very important.
So don't get lazy and do notprocrastinate, in Jesus' name.

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Come on somebody.
If I had time, I'd read you abunch of scriptures.
Just type up in your Googlesearch Scriptures on being lazy.
There are tons of them,especially in the book of
Proverbs, and you'd be surprisedhow brutal the Bible talks
about being lazy.
Isn't it amazing that Jesus Ibelieve it is in Matthew,
chapter 25, talks about the manwith the talents and he says the

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man that he gave five went inMay 10, the man that he gave two
went in May four.
And the man that he gave one,he says he went and he hid it in
the Lord's dirt, or Lord'smoney in the dirt, and then he
dug it up, said here, I knewthat you reaped where you didn't
sow, and so here's what youhave.
You gave me one, I gave you aback one.
Isn't it amazing that Jesus,what he calls him wicked and

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lazy Wow, he said I was afraid,so I went and hid it.
And here I gave you back what Ihad.
Jesus said you're wicked andyou're lazy.
And I said God, why is itwicked and lazy?
Wicked and lazy watch this areproducts of fear.
Because when you're wicked, youhave believed Satan and his
influence greater than the faiththat God has given you.

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So, first of all, you'reoperating in a wicked spirit
because you have trusted Satanand fear more than you have
trusted faith and the wisdom ofGod.
Number two, with that, wickedand lazy, because when you be
underneath the spirit of fear,you will procrastinate, you will
become lazy, you won't put inthe work and ultimately, fear is
dominating your life.
And so Jesus called him wickedand lazy.

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Don't procrastinate, don't beafraid.
Trust God, get in there, grindit out.
Don't procrastinate, get thestuff done.
Don't sit around and twiddleyour thumbs and sit here and
puttering around no, no, no.
You gotta be focused.
Don't be lazy, don'tprocrastinate.
Get out there, get it done andyou know what's gonna happen
your life will return back tonormalcy.

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Remember I keep saying this andI wanna remind you there are
seasons of chaos and seasons ofstress.
There are times when it hits.
You just have to learn how tobe able to manage it.
This is so good, my good God.
Number seven this is importanttoo.
Look ahead in your calendar.
What do I mean by that?
You might be busy today, but ina week your calendar's gonna

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slow up.
Most of the time it can slow up.
You realize, man, all thisstuff is hitting right now.
I got all this stuff coming up.
Look ahead, a few days down theline you may not have as much
going on.
You can say you know what, in afew days I'm gonna rest.
Right now I'm gonna grind itout.
I'm gonna put my grind on, I'mgonna do what I gotta do.
I'm not gonna be lazy, I'm notgonna procrastinate, but I'm
gonna look ahead in my calendarand say, hey, I'm gonna take
next weekend off.
I'm gonna do this because I'vebeen grinding for the last seven

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, eight days.
It's been really tough, it'sbeen stressful, it's been hard.
Look ahead in your calendar andlook to see there's some open
spots.
Things are going to usuallylighten up, as long as you don't
procrastinate.
Listen, procrastination is akiller.
Laziness is a killer.
You wanna know why?
That stuff ain't going away.
Those bills ain't going away.
That stuff that you don't wannalook at it ain't going away.

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It's still there and it's stillcoming.
So it's very, very importantthat you understand.
Don't be lazy, don'tprocrastinate.
In Jesus' name, and look aheadin your calendar, number eight
don't make excuses.
When life gets stressful, whenlife gets chaotic, don't make
excuses.
You've gotta get in there.
Ladies and gentlemen, you gottabe willing to grind it out.

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You gotta be willing to knowexcuses, say, well, I can't do
it.
For this reason, I can't do it.
Procrastination always hasexcuses.
Why Procrastination?
Excuses are the way that youprocrastinate.
You tell yourself are you readyfor this?
You give yourself a reason whyyou don't have to do it now.
I'll get to it.
Why not now?
Why not now?
Why are you waiting?

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What is the excuse you'regiving yourself?
What is the reasoning you'regiving yourself?
This is important.
You don't lighten the workload.
You don't lighten the workload.
Don't give yourself an excusewhy I don't have to do that.
Well, this is what's going on.
I can't get to it right now.
Yeah, you can.
You just gotta do it.
You gotta get yourresponsibilities done, because a
lot of times, when seasons ofchaos and stress happen, we

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wanna take off the stuff we'vecommitted to.
We wanna take off theresponsibilities we have.
No, that's where you gottapress in, that's where you gotta
develop.
That's where you need a goodcoach in your life.
That's where you need somebodyto say hey, you've got a little
bit more in the tank.
Come on, get up a littleearlier today.
I don't want to.
I don't feel good, I don't feellike it.
That's what kids say.
You're not a kid, you're a manor woman of God that's going
places, that's got greatness onyour life and God wants to do

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great things through.
There are no excuses.
Get the job done.
If you don't, it's gonna keepbuilding up, and building up and
building up.
People can get fired in times ofstress and chaos.
People can lose respect frompeople.
And those times why?
Because they gave their word,they gave their commitment, they
gave different things, and thenthey're letting off the
pressure.
They're saying I'm not gonna doall of this right now.

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I don't want all this on myplate, I can't handle it.
And they're willing to makewatch this, watch this.
This is important.
They are willing to makepermanent changes for temporary
circumstances.
My good God, this is actually abook.
I bet People that are immaturewill make permanent changes from

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temporary circumstances.
What do I mean by that.
They will let go of things thatthey should be holding onto
because they're stressed out anderratic at the moment.
So they let it go.
It's I can't do this.
I gotta get rid of it Forsomething that's here today
gonna be gone tomorrow.
Learn how to not make excuses,get your grind on, not be lazy.

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Don't procrastinate.
It's just temporary, my goodGod.
It's just temporary.
It's not gonna be permanent.
Never make a permanent changefrom a temporary circumstance.
It's just temporary.
Learn how to manage the stress.
Learn how to deal with it.
Learn how to make it a priorityand keep it moving.

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Keep it moving.
I gotta get this off me.
I can't take it.
I'm gonna burn out.
It's gonna be too much.
Stop letting fear dominate yourlife.
You're not gonna die.
It's not gonna kill you.
Manage your stress.
Yeah, still have your time atnight to rest.
Still have your date nights,and that's why I didn't spend a
whole lot of time with that,because the reality is you
should have your calendar laidout.

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Make sure the main things arethe main things.
And let me tell you this Godand your family not extended
family, immediate family Ifyou're single, it's just you and
Jesus.
You can do whatever it is thatyou want.
And let me say this too Singlepeople, if you ain't got family
and kids, very, very, very, very, very, very rarely, should you
constantly be saying you don'thave enough time, you don't have

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anything pulling on you.
But, jesus, I'm not saying youdon't have responsibilities, I'm
saying priority.
You can do what you want, youjust gotta manage it.
You gotta put the right thingsin priority.
You know, I have a spouse, Ihave children that are pulling
on me, that are priority morethan anything else in my life
besides God, and not my serviceto God.
I'm talking about my walk withGod, which means I can't say why

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I need to take care of my wifeand my kids, so I need to sin or
not follow God or do what Godasks me to do, or no, no, no, no
, no, no, no.
That's not the same.
So it's important that weunderstand.
If we're single, ladies andgentlemen, you got all the time
in the world.
You just gotta determine whereyou need to put it.
And most of the time when singlepeople are saying they don't

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have enough time and there'ssomething of priority, there's
somebody taking priority intheir life that shouldn't be.
There's something in their lifethat has priority.
That should not be in theirpriority structure as often.
I need to get back intorealignment, my good God.
No excuses, ladies andgentlemen.
No excuses, I can't get to it.
I can't.

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No, no, no.
Get your work done.
Get up a little earlier then,yeah, but I'll be tired.
Drink some coffee, or giveyourself a five-hour energy
drink or whatever.
If you're a healthy person, gofind healthy ways to.
Uh, yeah, I don't.
I don't want to put allcaffeine in my body.
Okay, don't use caffeine.
Go and get some I don't knowwhat the supplements are and
herbal teas you can drink inorder to give you that.

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Whatever you got to do, you gotto do it.
No excuses, get the job done.
This isn't always easy thingswhen you're in chaos and stress.
Think about it.
If I'm on a plane, ladies andgentlemen, and and there's a
pilot up there, you know andthey get on.
They said, ladies and gentlemen, we are getting ready to
experience some turbulence.
We are asking you at this timeif you would to please buckle
your safety belts and only getup as needed.

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It's going to get a littlebumpy for the next five to 10
minutes and after that we seeourselves smoothing out.
In that moment I'm completely,completely.
We had to mind why.
You told me what's going on.
But if he forgets to hit thatswitch, all right, he forgets to
turn that switch off and he'slooking at the copos and yo man,
I don't think we're going tomake it.
Man, we about to go down.
I don't know what's going tohappen.
I mean, everybody on the planeis going to freak out why

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they're the leader.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you area leader, you have to learn to
navigate turbulence.
There are times you're going toface some turbulent things.
Things are going to be rough.
You have to be the one to getat the helm and to get the
steering wheel and say we'regoing to make it through this,
even with fear in your heart.
You can't allow your emotionsto navigate you.
You got to learn to navigatethe circumstance by faith.
You got to learn to navigate itby prayer.
You got to learn to navigate itby priority.

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You got to learn to do things.
Sometimes you need people thatare not going to be erratic and
emotional in times of stress andchaos.
It doesn't mean it doesn't havean impact upon you.
It doesn't mean you don't feelit.
It doesn't mean you're nothuman.
It can't drive you.
It can't drive you.
You have to be stronger thanthe turbulence that's coming up
against you and that's thereason why there's no excuses in
those moments.

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No, there isn't any.
This is what we've got to do.
We've got to get the job done.
Can't take the day off.
Can't do that.
You've got to think aboutunexpected deaths or family
crisis like that.
That's not what I'm talkingabout.
I'm talking about life.
Just, things are coming.
Things get busy, bills arecoming, phone is ringing.
This happened.
Family issue happened.

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Fight breaks out in yourmarriage.
Fight breaks out with your kids.
You had to fight with someoneon your job.
Man, you lose a job unexpected,I mean.
All these types of thingshappen.
Car breaks down Didn't expectthat.
Flat tire on the way to yourconference.
All this stuff hits all.
What am I supposed to do?
How do I handle it?
I deal with it one brick at atime.
That's why prayer is soimportant, all the things that

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I've mentioned.
Let me revisit these one moretime.
We're almost done.
Number one pray.
Number two don't replacepriority with urgency.
Number three develop a tasklist.
Number four manage your stress.
Don't let your stress manageyou.
Number five put your grind on.
Number six don't get lazy orprocrastinate.
Number seven look ahead in yourcalendar.
Eight don't make excuses.
Don't make excuses.

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Then the ninth one how tonavigate seasons of chaos and
stress.
Number nine, last one troubleDon't last always.
If there's a great song that Icould play for you right now, I
would, but there could becopyright issues, so I don't
mess with it.
Trouble don't last always.

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That's a great song, type it inyour iTunes or wherever you and
just listen to it.
Trouble doesn't last always.
You have to have the mentalitythis is troubles not going to
last forever.
These are, most of the time,the temporary circumstances that
have happened.
I've got to learn to applythese principles that I'm
sharing right now into my worldand then therefore realize
things are going to get better.
You can't have a mountain topwithout two valleys.

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If you're in the valley, it'sbecause a mountain is coming up.
It's called a plain.
If you're in a plain, thereisn't any mountains.
But if there's a mountain in avalley, there can't be a valley
without two mountains and itcan't be a mountain without two
valleys.
They got to be in between and Iguess you could have a mountain
and two valleys there.
But you get my point.
That's the way of life.
Though it's up and down, the keyis you want to be consistent,

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no matter what.
How do you do that?
Trouble doesn't last foreverand I don't know who's watching
right now.
I want you to realize that youmight be facing some things
right now.
Just learn how to bite thebullet.
Learn how to spit in the wind.
Learn how to be able to fight.
I didn't say it's easy.
I don't want to seem like I'mbeing insensitive to what you
may be in and the stress thatyou may be feeling, but we all
have it.
It's all a part of life and allstress that comes.

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God will give you the grace andthe ability to be able to
manage it.
Keep the main thing, the mainthing.
Sometimes.
I'm convinced that for thebeliever, many times the reason
why we're under stress, god justwants to know if he can trust
you with more.
Because even in the nature herepeople say more money, more
problems.
Of course, more people, moreproblems.
How well do you manage it?
Can you manage it?
And so sometimes the reason whyyou're under the pressure and

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the stress that you're under,because God has called you to
more and called you to greater.
And he just wants to know watchthis that you can manage what he
gives you.
And what he gives you doesn'tmanage you.
He loves you too much to letyou lose out on eternal life, to
let you go into alcohol anddrugs.
Can't sleep at night and he'drather just not give it to you.
And you're like God.
I want this, I want that.
Can you handle?

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Can you stand it?
Can you carry the weight of theblessing that God wants to put
upon your life?
Because with it comes problems,with it comes people, with it
comes more issues andcircumstances, more wisdom.
That's going to be needed.
There's all these things thatcome with it.
So he's actually testing you tosee can you handle more?
Is it destroying you?
Can you lean on me?

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Will you still pray?
Will you turn to sin?
Will you turn to alcohol anddrugs?
Will you turn to pornography?
Will you turn whatever it isthat you would turn to Food?
Will you turn to all thesethings in order to take the
pressure off?
And I want to say this as I wrapup I talked about it a little
bit before there's sins ofomission.
When we don't pray, we don'tspend our time in the Lord, we
don't make the things a prioritythat he calls to make us a
priority.
They're not necessarily thosesins of commission which are

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food, when we overeat, or sex orsexual things, or not using our
money correctly, or alcohol,drugs, all those types of things
.
Those are the sins ofcommission.
What happens, though, ladiesand gentlemen?
When we are under pressure andwe don't follow the things that
God's asked us to do and wecommit sins of omission, we

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become lean in our spirits andwe begin to become hungry.
We get that halt hungry, angry,lonely, tired, and now the sins
of commission become moreappealing to us, because we're
empty.
And then what happens?
We start eating from the wrongtree Adam and Eve, instead of

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choosing life.
Because we're hungry and so,because we have not gone to the
table sat at the feet of Jesus,like Mary, we're working
continuously, like Martha.
Now gambling becomes appealing,sex becomes more appealing,
food becomes more appealing.
All these things were hungry,angry, lonely, tired, and we're
vulnerable and we're looking foranswers.
We're looking for something tocomfort us and we start turning

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to the things of the world.
And now we leave because wehave not done the sins, we've
committed sins of omission.
Now we're opening the door andvulnerable to the sins of
commission.
What leads to bondage, whatleads to burnout, what leads to
all these things?
And this is what I'm talking toyou right now, because God
wants to give you a greaterlevel.
There's a greater anointingthat's coming upon your life.

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There's a greater burden thathe wants to give to you, but he
wants to know you can stillremain committed to things he's
asked you to do, because if youdon't stay committed to the
things he's asked you to do,eventually you're going to be
doing the things he's asked younot to do.
Those sins of commission willbe knocking at the door and they
will become very tasty to youbecause your soul is so empty,

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because you have not made thepriority structure correctly in
your life.
My good God, that is so good.
Somebody needs to hear that andtake it and run with it,
because God's calling you toanother level and to another
dimension.
But you have to learn how todeal with pressure, you have to
learn how to deal with conflict,you have to learn how to deal
with all these things and stillkeep the main thing, the main
thing, and not allow yourself toget empty and then step over

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here into the sins of commission.
We start dabbling in the thingsof the world.
You start going back andfeeding on the husk of the flesh
, the flesh, the world, thedevil, and we come into bondage
and then we end up into drugsand alcohol and sexual
promiscuity, even in the church.
It doesn't always start withsins of commission.
It starts with sins of omission, the things God asked you to do
.
You stop going to church, youstop tithing, you stop praying,

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you stop reading your word.
Then what happens now?
You're empty inside.
That's the only way you can getfulfilled.
The flesh starts coming alive.
And then what happens?
You start developing appetitesfor things that you shouldn't
have.
And that's the reality.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'mpersuaded better things of you.
I believe you're watching rightnow, being you're listening
right now because of what Godhas for your life, and I want to

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encourage you.
Trouble doesn't last.
Always Stay at the feet ofJesus, keep on seeking his face
and he will help you.
Well, I really hope this hasencouraged you today and I
believe God's got some greatthings in store for you, and I'm
about to get up on out of hereand let you get back to what it
is that you've been doing aswell.

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But I'm glad you took a minute,just under an hour here just to
get filled up and how to manageseasons of chaos and stress To
hit every one of us.
You still got to keep yourfamily together, spend time with
your wife, spend time with yourkids.
You got to make sure thosethings Everything gets with it.
Spend time with the Lord.
Those things stay in there.
How do you do that?
You develop the things that Igave you, those nine things

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Probably more than nine actually, but those nine topics that I
gave you will help you stay onthe firing line and I want to
pray for you today that God willjust help you.
Give it to me.
Maybe somebody watch right nowthat you.
You're stressed out but youdon't know Jesus and a lot of it
.
He maybe he's allowed all thisstress to bring you saying come
unto me, all you that labor anda heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.
You can't do it without him.

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God never created this worldthat it could be ran apart from
his union and communion with man.
The reason why you're sostressed out and going through
everything you're going throughis because you need Jesus in and
through your world.
So I want to pray with youright now that God would just
help you and that God will blessyou, that you would give your
life to him.
Say, dear father in heaven, Ithank you.

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Today.
My life is unmanageable apartfrom you.
I receive you now as my Savior.
I believe that you came, youdied, you buried and you arose
again, that I might have eternallife.
I receive you as my Savior.
Live inside of me and I willlive for you in Jesus' name,

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amen.
Now, if you prayed that prayer,I want you to email me.
You can call me at 412-586-7159.
You can leave a message thereat our church.
Let somebody know that youreceived Jesus Christ, your
Savior.
You can also email me info atanother levelchurch Info at
another levelchurch Let me knowabout.
You've received Jesus Christ.
You need to now find a church.

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If you don't have a church,come on down to 4555 McKnight
Road right here in Pittsburgh,15237, every Saturday night.
It's six o'clock, wednesdays at630 for our small groups.
Listen, you need to get into achurch.
You need to get baptized, youneed to get discipled, you need
to get developed and learn howto manage these things in your
world.
And if you're watching rightnow and maybe you're just
completely stressed out.
This is gonna help you and Iwanna pray for you as well, that

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God would just give you thegrace needed and that you would
put things in priority.
There's some of you right now.
You're battling with things andGod's saying get back into
priority, put things back intoplace where they need to be.
Put things back where they needto be, get back to God, get
back to your spouse, get back toyour kids, get back to doing
right with your money, get backto tithing, get back to the
things he asked you to do, getback to your budget, get back to
the things he's asked you to doand watch his strength and his

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grace come upon you.
You're battling right now.
You're burnout right now.
You've gotta get back to thepriority.
There's some of you watching.
It's just simply getting backand saying I gotta stay in the
grind.
I gotta stay committed, I gottakeep reaching my deadline.
I gotta learn how to grindthrough.
I gotta get up a little bitearlier and a little bit later.
It's amazing what two hoursgoing to bed an hour an hour
later and getting up an hourearlier what two hours can do in
your day.
If you focus with it, it'samazing what can transpire.

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You're not done.
God has more for you.
You're gonna make it throughthis.
It's not gonna stop tellingyourself.
You're not gonna make it.
Stop speaking your whole,overwhelmed you are.
And how hard it is.
Start declaring.
The Bible says in James, chapternumber three, that the man's or
woman's words are like therudder on a ship it's very small
, but it can turn a huge ship.
It's important that what youdeclare in times of stress,

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times of chaos, it's importantwhat you speak.
Words have power.
Our world that we are in todaywas created by words.
Your words have power and theyshape your world.
It's important.
So even right now, father, inthe name of Jesus, I pray for
every person watching.
I pray, father, god, thatthey'll understand there's
nothing on their plate that youhaven't already given them the

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answer to that you won't givethem an answer to Father.
I thank you right now, father,for blessing them and
strengthening them, upliftingthem, encouraging them.
Father, god, lord, anointingthem to fight.
Father, I bind that spirit oflethargy and laziness and
procrastination and fear andworry and doubt and unbelief.
Father, god, I break it today.
In the name of Jesus, lord, Ipray that they would have a
divine plan.

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Father, I pray for those thatmay have lost their priority
structure with you in theirprayer time and their church
time and their giving and Lordin any other area.
Maybe they've lost theirstructure with their spouse and
with their kids and the timethey need to spend to father
with them.
Lord, I pray that they'll getback into alignment.
Maybe there's some listeningthat they need.
They need vacation time.
They don't ever take any.
Father God, help them to putthat in there and make it a
priority.

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Father, god, lord, anoint andbless each and every person.
Lord, speak to every heartright now and show them what is
applicable to their lives.
And, father, we thank you andwe give you the praise, the
honor and the glory In Jesus'name.
Amen, amen, amen.
Well, listen, I feel goodbecause I know that you're on
the right path and I know you'regetting on to the right path,

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and I believe you haven'twatched my happenstance.
Listen, I believe with all ofmy heart, god is anointing you
for greater, and this here ishelping you to deal and manage
with stress, pressure and chaos,so you won't be destroyed by
the blessing on your life.
You'll be able to manage it,and then God is going to give

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you more.
Now listen before you go.
Hallelujah, don't forget to grabone of my books, wisdom seed,
praying on another level.
This will help you, evenconcerning the things today.
And don't forget to come by andvisit us at another level
ministries every Saturday at sixo'clock and also on Wednesday
nights for our small groups.
Hallelujah, don't forget to goto our YouTube page, facebook

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page.
Download this app.
I've got a whole lot more to besharing with you.
Listen, if you've been blessedby these episodes, you ain't
seen nothing yet.
I got so much more that God'sputting in my spirit just for
you and for me to be together,and I'm really excited about
what is to come.
So know that I'm praying foryou.
I love you.
It's time for you to go.
Get them in Jesus' name.
Your best and your blessed daysare still yet to come.

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Not only are you going tosurvive, you are gonna thrive.
Say that right now, where youare.
I'm not just gonna survive, Iam going to thrive.
In Jesus' name, god bless youand I look forward to seeing you
next time right here onDimensions Like that.