June 6, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode, Nick delivers a powerful and practical message to high school and college graduates (and honestly, anyone in transition). Discover why it’s okay not to have it all figured out, how God uses every season to build your future, and what to do in the “wait.” From biblical truths to life-changing mindset shifts, this teaching will encourage you to stop obsessing over the what and focus on the who—the One walking with you into your future.
Whether you’re stepping into college, the workforce, ministry, or the unknown—this episode will help anchor your heart, reframe your purpose, and challenge you to grow with God, not just go with culture.
Key Scriptures:
Proverbs 19:21 • Ecclesiastes 3:11 • Isaiah 40:31 • Philippians 1:6
Micah 6:8 • 2 Corinthians 3:18 • Romans 8:28 • Galatians 6:9
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You are listening to the Life, Hope and Leadership Podcast with
Nick Shabrinsky. A transparent, honest and
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I've been talking to a couple ofmy kids in my church that I love
and they're growing up up and they're getting older and
they're graduating high school. I see.
You know what, man? I've, I've been burdened for.
You've been praying for you. And, and I'm going to write, I'm
going to record a podcast just to kind of share a little bit of
my heart about my experiences post graduation, what that looks
like, What's the Bible say aboutit?
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What does life look like? It's very easy to get
overwhelmed about what you got to do and when you're going to
do it and what you're going to commit your life to.
And I think that we really put too much pressure on on young
people as they're coming out of high school, realizing when you
look back, it's like, dude, it'snot like your kids get much time
to fully explore what they want to do and where they want to be.
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I mean, you're trapped in the sequence of school up until
you're about 1718 years old. And so I want to give you a
little bit of love and support, encouragement on on what we do
post graduation. So this podcast is really for
those who are aspiring for next,but you're overwhelmed, maybe
anxiety, that fear, that worry, whatever.
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And I don't want you to have that.
So today's episode, it will be alife, hope and a leadership all
in one, because it is all about leading yourself, having hope
and tomorrow and navigating life.
I want you to remember this. And we can title it this way.
It's not always about knowing where you're going, but knowing
who you're going with. It's not always about knowing
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what you're going to do next, but man, I want to know who's
going to be there next. And This is why I'm so confident
about God and about my faith in Him because I can look back.
I mean, I listen, I have, I havefailed, I have screwed up.
I have been fired. I have lost credit scores.
I had a repo car I looked at. I had used to get eviction
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notices. My phone would be shut off.
I have failed people. I have in in my greatest tried
to do the greatest and be the greatest.
I have let people down. I have struggled with with
addictions and all mean just things my whole life and and yet
here I am today where I am and I'm and I'm nowhere close to
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where I want to be because I'm not going to get complacent, but
I'm so grateful for where I am and I can't explain any of it
except for the fact that I knew who I went with.
I was going from every season with and for God and I began to
really search my own self. You know when the when we pray,
God search me, know me, see if there's any wicked things in me,
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lead me in your way everlasting part of God knowing you is also
showing you who you are part of God knowing you.
People want to pray that but forfor that verse to come to
fruition, you can't fix your mind on things above and you
can't renew your mind and you can't work out your salvation
unless God shows you those very things that Psalm 13927 says
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search me, God know me, see if there's any wicked ways in me.
OK, well I have to show you these things so that when they
show back up, you stop doing them, you change them, you grow
through them, you mature. Maturing in your walk with God
is not based on age. It's not based on how long you
think you've been saved, how long you've known him.
It's about really knowing and growing in in your the
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revelation of who he is and the revelation of who you are.
The more you know who you are, the more you realize how much
you need him. Trust me, I know that and I'm
knowing that I'm getting that's why I do these podcasts, man,
Like it's like I'm sitting theregoing, man, I remember being
that age. OK, well, what did I learn?
Well, you know, I need to express that.
And This is why it's so important that you learn to, to,
to fulfill the, the instruction of Jesus Christ to not only go
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out and win souls, but make disciples.
Why? Because as you're walking with
people, you, you start to be more gracious when you remember
what God brought you through in that season and that failure and
that shortcoming and that victory and that success.
So you don't always have to knowwhere you're going, but it's a
important to know who you're going with.
First and foremost, you should be going with God.
Secondly, you should be going with yourself.
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You should be going with yourself.
There's no guarantee anybody else will be there.
Think about it. God's there, you're there.
Nobody else has to be there. Nobody else has to stick around.
They will come, they will go, and that's fine.
But there will be some people that will stick around.
Praise God. And I, I taught this before, I
believe there's three types of people in your life.
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Obviously many more categories, but I believe we can really sum
them up into these three. Number one is people who are for
you. These are people that love you,
they support you, they are for you.
They're cheering you on, man. They are, they are, they are
partners in crime. Then there's people who are with
you. Man, it's awesome, 'cause people
who are with you, they're in proximity.
They can carry what you carry. They can burden with what you
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burden. They see what you see.
They're right there with you. And then there's people who are
against you. And people who are against you
are intentionally trying to harmyou, divert you, detour you,
distract you, put you down. But don't be deceived.
People who are with you are not always for you.
People who are with you are are not always against you, but
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there are people who are for you.
And so there will the people that will be there the rest of
your life will be the people that are for you.
They may not always be there in proximity, but they might be
there within reach. Praise God with the technology
we got today. So anyway, all that being said,
as graduates, you know, it's so easy to to be like, Oh my gosh,
I'm going to be friends with my people forever.
Where do I go? How do I leave town?
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What do I do with my family? Do I move far away?
Do I need a college? Do I need university?
Do I need trade school? First and foremost, you got to
just chill out and grad and, and, and celebrate your
graduation. All right, It is important that
in every season of your life, like what what can happen is
graduates, sadly, a lot of people go out and they party and
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then they lose their life. They go out and they do
something stupid and there's a lot of people right after post
graduation that make major life changes that you really, I would
tell you to pump the brakes a little bit.
They go, they get tattoos. They might, you know, go out and
get married real quick. They might go out and party,
drink, you know, completely relinquish all of their
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inhibitions, you know, remove all their their high school,
middle school boundaries that were developed.
I'm an adult now. Leave me alone.
I'll do my thing. That is one of the worst things
you can do. Just pump the brakes.
When I say celebrate, what I'm meaning is, is take time, not
just one day, not just a week, but really reminisce and think
about and and ruminate on the fact that you just finished 12
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years of education. Put that in the perspective.
That's three bachelor's degrees.It's 2 masters.
That's a master's and a doctorate.
OK, so if we're going to talk university training, that is
that is that is 12 years of yourlife that you committed and you
did it. And that's important because a
lot of times it's like, well, I had to do it.
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Well, you know, you had to, but you also did don't forget there
is a drop out rate. You finished, OK, whether you're
finishing right now, you're going from your GED or you're
finishing and getting your diploma, because I don't want
people who dropped out to be beat up.
But that's the same day at the at the same call like I can't, I
can't short come to graduate whostuck with it.
It's easy to want to give up. It's not always easy to give up,
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but you know, everybody feels those moments of distraction.
But you did it. You finished the program and
it's bigger than a ceremony. It's a it's a reminder that you
are a finisher. And I want you to catch that
because my pastor, when I'm one of my pastors taught me years
ago, he said, man have the fire of a finisher and I did not.
I did not celebrate my high school education as much as I
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should have. I have a lot of friends who
never finished in in fact, my, my, the dad who raised me would
tell you he didn't even barely finish 8th grade.
He dropped out, went back a couple times because of truancy
officers in high school, blah blah, blah, blah.
Ended up, thank God, getting into a good trade and he figured
it out. But you haven't, you're a
finisher. And so that's, that's important.
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OK, so as you're celebrating that, I want you to to just, I
mean, get a journal, get something that you can, you can
just be like, Yo, this is my talk to me future journal, OK,
And I want you to consider purpose.
It's very easy to think that purpose is a job, that purpose
is a skill set. The purpose is a trade.
One of the one of the worst things we've told young people
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is that that you need to know what you're going to do for the
rest of your life. This, this is what it does, is
it attaches identity and purposeand success to a doing and and
while you will do things in order to achieve success, and
while you will have a job and a task at hand, your identity,
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your purpose, your worth, your value and your success are not
based on what you do. However, you will have to do
some things. Here's the truth though.
You don't have to know what you're going to do for the rest
of your life. And and what I want you to to
realize is maybe you. I always tell, I always tell
young people yo go get your unless you are dead set on what
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you want to do, go get your basic classes.
If you feel pressure for continued academics and for some
people continued academics rightinto college is great because
you need to keep that that kind of mechanism rolling for other
people. I'm, I tell them, Hey, have you
considered going out and doing some humanitarian work?
I'm, I'm, I'm all about missionswork.
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I believe handy humanitarian is great, but I believe missionary
work is better because it attaches eternal purpose, not
just a momentary satisfaction. So I would say, hey, go on a
missions trip, go see the world and serve other people.
You know, Jesus comes out of heaven, steps into earth.
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The Bible says while he was equal with God, took no
reputation, but took the form ofa servant.
So he stepped down. He served people.
So I'm like, look, you don't have to know what you want to do
for the rest of your life. You just have to know what you
want to do with your life. So start defining that, OK, your
calling is bigger than a career and I want you to.
The Bible literally says Proverbs 19 verse 21.
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Many plans are in a person's minds, but the Lord, the Lord
will purpose you to succeed. The Bible says that the the
footsteps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord.
Why do I tell you that? Because it's easy to think.
You have to figure it out. You know, I said something a
second ago. I wish I would have remembered
exactly how I said that. But you don't have to.
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You don't have to figure out what you're going to do.
You there it is. You have to figure out what you
want to do, not what you're going to do.
What do you want to do with yourlife?
So for me, here's mine, man. I want to make a difference.
I want to have a provisionary future set aside for my wife and
I, I want to make sure she's taken care of.
We have kids, we have family. I want to make sure that there's
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substantial things to stand on. I want to make sure that I teach
people how to walk with God. I want to make the world a
better place. I want to work hard.
I want people to be able to lookat me and, and say, I know that
guy, you know, and, and on both sides of his of his life, what
you see and what you don't see. And and I and I and he's a good
dude. And I haven't always been that
way. I have fallen.
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I've screwed up. I've but because I was
constantly trying to fulfill my purpose through this is what I
have to do. But when you really go and and
look, the reality is a lot of you might already be doing
something because of who you want to be and because of what
you want. That's great.
This is just affirmation. And that's what was for me.
I never was doing anything in mywalk with Christ just to do the
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job. But when I realized, wait, aside
from the job, what do who do I want to be?
Man? I want to be a great person.
What does great mean? What does that mean to you?
Because great, a very superficial statement, very
broad. OK, so then what does great
mean? Want to be a good son?
I want to be a good husband, a good father, a good friend.
I want to work hard. I want to be organized.
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I want to be clean. I want to, I want to be
creative. You have to figure that out,
define that because that's that's where purpose really
comes out of all right. And then you step away and go,
here's some freedom. I can change my mind, but that
doesn't change me. So I want you to remember this
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because this is super important and a lot of people don't
realize that God's timeline is way different than yours.
God's timeline is way different than yours.
You know, I heard people say it all the time.
God doesn't cook in a microwave.And I, I agree.
I agree with that and I want youto be encouraged with that
because it's very easy once again, to look at the timeline.
I when this is when I want to get married, this is when I want
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to have kids. This is when I want to have a
home. This is when I, that's great,
That's planning. Praise God, That's great.
There's planning. There's nothing wrong with that,
but God's timeline might look different.
I think of like King David. You think of Joseph in the Bible
and you can take me for example,God called me in the ministry
when I was 17. God told me very clearly the
name of the church that I would plant when I was 18.
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When did I plant Generations House of worship?
I think when I was 33. I believe we launched it when I
was 33. We, we, we started, we started
planting 31, launched at 3315 years.
King David, God calls him he's just a shepherd boy.
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God calls him as a young teenager.
He's he's out there taking care of his father's business.
Joseph sold into slavery. These guys waited years before
they ever saw the vision in the dream, Joseph sold out by his
brothers. Backstabbed man, lied to,
deceived, treated so harshly unfair.
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But you have to understand that just that, that when you're in
this next season, the Bible saysIsaiah 4031, those who wait,
those who wait, those who wait upon the Lord, they shall mount
up on wings like eagles. They shall run and not grow
weary. They shall walk and not faint.
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So I like this helps me because I'm going, God, I remember being
21, what am I going to do? And I'm 24, Oh my God, what are
you going to do next? What do I need to be doing?
So I just kept doing it. And then I'm like, God, I don't
know what generations House of worship is.
I I hear you talking about aboutbooks and podcasts and all these
things the Lord was telling me to do.
I don't know how to do them. So I just kept kept doing what I
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knew to do and kept waiting on the Lord.
And waiting is active. I want you to remember that
waiting is an action word, OK? It's a verb.
Waiting is a verb. Not just not just waiting it
out. No, I mean like waiting is an
active thing that we do. And my reference is that I don't
wait like I'm sitting in a lounge chair waiting for my ride
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to pull up. I wait on God like I would would
if I was his waiter, his server at a restaurant.
Hey, God, just take your time. I'll just keep, what do you
need? What can I do?
You need a refill. What do you got?
You want to talk? So I'm actively serving God.
I'm actively serving his church.I'm staying in an active
mindset. A lot of people, they graduate
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something and then they want to take a want to take like a
massive sabbatical. I would tell you, be very
careful about how long you stop,about how far you stop, about
why you stop. OK?
God has made everything the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 3,
everything for an appropriate time.
He's also given us an an idea ofputting eternity deep in our
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hearts. But nobody, nobody knows what
God had done from the beginning to the end.
We don't know. And so what's so cool about that
is you go, you know what? If I'm with him, I don't.
I trust him. The beginning happened.
There's already an end in mind. Whatever that is, I don't know.
It doesn't matter. So just be where you're at,
enjoy the ride, and just realizethat you know what everything
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God is doing in your life is. I always call it Arsenal, and
that's how I'd like you to thinkof it, man.
Like everything that you get to go through his arsenal in your
life, tool belt. Some of it's going to be
testimonies to share with people, man.
I did that, man. I went through that, man.
Yeah, you know that. Some of it's going to be skill
sets. Hey, this is how you do this.
This is how you build that. That's how you fix this.
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It's going to be creative things.
Oh, I remember being in a room and I saw someone create that.
That means I can create. So everything God is doing is an
arsenal for your tool belt. If you, if you take it with you,
a lot of people, they fight every season of their life.
They're mad at everybody. They argue with everybody, they
argue with themselves. They, they put themselves down,
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They, they beat themselves up over their failures and defeats.
So this is, this is like, you got to step back and just be
like, dude, it's all good, man. It's all good.
I'm learning from that. If you beat yourself up over
something, more than likely you won't learn as much from it.
There's repentance. If you beat other people up for
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their failures, you're not goingto value, you're going to be.
So if you're reactive, you're not responding.
This is where I always say the word to our church.
Are you response able? Can you handle an appropriate
response rather than reacting? Are you reactionary or you
responsible? This Pepsi's flat and it's been
sitting here because I don't drink Pepsi enough.
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Well, a lot. And I'm so thirsty and it's flat
and it's gross, but whatever. So you're getting the best of
me. OK, so here's the next thing I
want you. And it goes in line with what I
was just saying. What do you do while you're
waiting? Every moment, every season,
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every skill, every relationship,every victory, every failure,
every experience is your tool belt.
And when you learn to celebrate that, you will love your bosses.
You will ask them questions rather than talk about them
behind their backs. You will be challenged by your
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peers rather than just being annoyed by why did they do that?
How did this happen? What goes on over there?
What's that do? I did a podcast called Press the
Buttons, I think is what it's called.
Just press buttons, man. And realize that everything
you're going through, everythingyou're experiencing, the losses,
the setbacks, the struggles, thevictories, all of it is in your
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tool belt. My pastor, one of my pastors
told me this. God never, God never.
Here's how it was. God never promotes you past your
last act of disobedience. So if you're not training and
learning, dude, you might be missing divine opportunities.
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And then my, my pastor told me this, that God never, this is
the one I was thinking about. God never promotes you until
you're overqualified in your present.
And I'm sure someone could be like, well, that's not in the
Bible. And you know what?
It's a good saying, but when youdo look in the Bible, you see
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God almost over preparing David,over preparing Joseph, getting
them so ready for for something so much bigger than they even
realized they would need to know.
And I'm grateful for the opportunities I've been in, but
I'm like, I'm my God. I need to learn more.
And I'm constantly wanting to know more because I want to lead
our church better and I want to lead people better.
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I want to lead myself better, myfamily better.
But God never wastes preparation, so you shouldn't
either. God, never waste preparation, so
you shouldn't either. Here's some practical things you
can do. OK, learn new skills.
Go on YouTube, Go sit under an be careful now because there's
so much stuff out there that's AI.
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You might you got to be careful.You might be misled and how to
learn how to do stuff appropriately.
But like like learn budgeting, learn communication skills, read
books. We have a different people in
our church reading different books and different people on
our teams. Like I'm reading this reading a
leadership lessons right by Abraham Lincoln.
Like I want to learn from Lincoln.
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Dude, that dude's gone. He did some great stuff, man.
We have our team reading relationships one O 1 with a lot
of our team. Here's a little a little book
that I bought a long time ago. I flipped through here all the
time, relationships, little bookof connections, different little
assets and tips on how to be a better person, a a better
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connector, a better friend. Learn how to use all this
digital stuff. Learn how to use AI in these
tools no matter what age you areOK, because these things are
going to if you don't stay in infront of what's what's going on,
you're going to get left behind.So just learn trades.
Well, it's not about my job. Who cares?
Anything you learn is going to somehow make you better no
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matter what. Read a book you should always be
reading, listen to podcasts. Just keep growing, man.
Another thing, build quality to your your fruitful
relationships, OK? There's going to be, you're in a
graduation season, which means they're going to be major
branches of your life that are going to be pruned off.
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OK, I know you don't want to hear it.
It's going to happen. People, relationships, friends,
you, they're not you just you'rejust going to realize in the
next 10 years, probably five years, that almost most of the
people that you have been aroundyour whole life or this whole
season of your life are more than likely going to just move
on. Doesn't mean they don't love
you. Doesn't mean they won't like
your post on social media. Doesn't mean that there's going
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to be beef. But what?
But you do need to realize that people are going to fall off.
So take those fruitful relationships, the ones that
that really add value, the ones that you add value to and the
ones that are forever relationships, family
relationships that are fruitful,not ones that are abusive.
And you just work on them. Make sure that you're being
intentional because in this season of your life, you're
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going to get so focused on whereyou're going that you might
forget where you came from. Sometimes that's good, but most
of the times it's not. Reflect on.
Get a journal out. Like I said, reflect on your
wins and your failures. OK?
I assume you're writing this down.
Write down your wins and your failures.
What is God taught you through each of them?
All right, I firmly believe in this one.
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Get in, get in your church, plugin local church.
If you're going to college and you're home different times, go
to both, OK? Get plugged in.
Serve that community. There are so many things,
especially in larger or healthier rope, not necessarily
large to be healthy and not healthy.
Healthy is not always large. So, but what I'm saying is
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there's a lot like in our church, there's a lot of facets
that you can serve in that will give you life skills.
And so find a church where you can plug in and like if you're
interested in graphics, volunteer in that department.
If you're interested in animals,go volunteer at an animal
rescue. If you are into, you know, like
you want to know all about the universe, we'll go volunteer
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somewhere like a local observatory or something like
that. People, these are skills that
you're going to get, you're going to get real life skills
and more than likely be working with people who have real life
skills when you get involved. And then most importantly, you
just have to keep renewing your mind.
It is so important for you to renew your mind with the word of
God because pop culture is goingto change every year.
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I mean, more and more and more it's just these crazy waves of
ideas that that constantly just goes all the way back from not
even the mullet keeps going. Just these weird things we do
and we pick them up and we renewour mind with pop culture.
And then wherever the Bible saysin James one, we're ever
shifting, OK, just like the the waves of the sea.
So you don't want to be tossed back and forth.
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Get in the word of God, learn the word of God, know the word
of God, renew your mind, master your confession.
That's what my one of my pastorsalways told me.
So I want you to remember those who wait upon the Lord.
The Bible says, man, he, he, he's going to give you the
strength to keep going. I don't want you to get focused
on look, get get a plan. There's not I talked about this
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before, I think, and it was you take a dream, you pull a dream
out of that cloud, OK, you mighthave 1000 dreams floating around
up there. When you pull one down you go,
hey, you know what, I'm going tostart making this a goal, OK,
for it to be a goal. Now you get a plan, OK, have
1000 dreams, have a million dreams, have a billion dreams,
have some goals, get some plans.But let God remind you that none
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of that stuff matters if you lose sight of yourself.
What's the Bible say? What is the profit?
A man or woman to gain the worldbut lose their soul.
So your moment is right now, right where you are today, not
tomorrow, not yesterday, right where you are.
It's not about a job, it's not about your school.
It's about what God is teaching you and what God has taught you
and what He wants to teach you. And so you've learned to
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complete something. You have learned how to connect
with your community. You have learned how to work
through no matter how big or small your community of school
was. You've learned to work through
conflict. You have developed communication
skills. You've learned how to solve
problems. You are a finisher, dude.
That is, that is awesome. And you are a learner with and
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that learning is a lifelong superpower.
So you need to be confident of that.
OK. And then I just want you to
remember this is you have permission to grow.
You have permission to grow. You are allowed to change over
and over again. You are allowed to explore.
You are allowed to take the nextstep.
You are allowed to take the nextstep without knowing the 4th or
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5th step. Step out in faith.
Trust God. Philippians 1/6.
We're confident. God began something in me.
He's going to complete it. Say it.
He's going to complete it. Say it.
He's going to complete it. So growth is, is, is a good
thing. God wants that.
And then last but not least, I think I wrote it right, here we
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go. I want you to ask 1000 questions
as often as you can. Don't just do the bare minimum
job. Wherever you're working,
whatever class you're in, whatever mentors you got,
whatever teachers you have, whatever opportunities you get,
ask more questions. I remember my pastor told me a
story. He was offered an invitation to
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go have dinner with some people he really looked up to.
These were some prominent figures in his life that he
really aspired from, and they met him.
And so a lot of the people at the table began to ask my pastor
questions. My pastor just kept answering
their questions. And then when he left, his
mentor who took him to the dinner table said, how did you
like dinner? My pastor said I really enjoyed
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it, it was so awesome. And then his mentor said, how
many questions did you ask? And he goes, I'm not sure.
He said you asked 0 because you wanted to tell everybody what
you knew. He never took a moment to learn
what they knew. And these were all people you
looked up to. If you could have asked each
each one of them a question, youwould have 567 new answers to
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something you never knew. So whatever room you're in, if
you got a boss, hey, how did youbecome the boss?
Hey, what do you do here that you think I would really learn
better? If you're around to someone
who's in do a financial provision, Hey, can I sit with
you? What were three things you did
to create financial success? If you're around someone who's
making a difference for the Kingdom of God, Hey, let me ask
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you, where did you, where do youtrace your greatest impact back
to ask questions, breathe, celebrate, write them down,
think about it, and then ask us good question.
Why? I don't know what question to
ask. OK, then ask somebody that.
Hey, let me ask you something. If I wanted to be you, what
question do you think I need to ask you?
So what? What?
Who cares? So what did they say?
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Oh, you're stupid. Why are you asking me that?
Say, well, I hope that's not thequestion that you want me to
ask. Instead of asking what will I do
for the rest of my life? Ask God.
God, what can you do through me and me?
What do you want to do in my life right now?
I hope that helps you guys breathe, calm down, trust the
process. Whatever God is working in you,
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he's going to complete it. He's faithful.
Well done. You graduated, you did it.
Go change your world. Thanks for being a part of.
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I've been talking to a couple ofmy kids in my church that I love
and they're growing up up and they're getting older and
they're graduating high school. I see.
You know what, man? I've, I've been burdened for.
You've been praying for you. And, and I'm going to write, I'm
going to record a podcast just to kind of share a little bit of
my heart about my experiences post graduation, what that looks
like, What's the Bible say aboutit?
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What does life look like? It's very easy to get
overwhelmed about what you got to do and when you're going to
do it and what you're going to commit your life to.
And I think that we really put too much pressure on on young
people as they're coming out of high school, realizing when you
look back, it's like, dude, it'snot like your kids get much time
to fully explore what they want to do and where they want to be.
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I mean, you're trapped in the sequence of school up until
you're about 1718 years old. And so I want to give you a
little bit of love and support, encouragement on on what we do
post graduation. So this podcast is really for
those who are aspiring for next,but you're overwhelmed, maybe
anxiety, that fear, that worry, whatever.
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And I don't want you to have that.
So today's episode, it will be alife, hope and a leadership all
in one, because it is all about leading yourself, having hope
and tomorrow and navigating life.
I want you to remember this. And we can title it this way.
It's not always about knowing where you're going, but knowing
who you're going with. It's not always about knowing
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what you're going to do next, but man, I want to know who's
going to be there next. And This is why I'm so confident
about God and about my faith in Him because I can look back.
I mean, I listen, I have, I havefailed, I have screwed up.
I have been fired. I have lost credit scores.
I had a repo car I looked at. I had used to get eviction
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notices. My phone would be shut off.
I have failed people. I have in in my greatest tried
to do the greatest and be the greatest.
I have let people down. I have struggled with with
addictions and all mean just things my whole life and and yet
here I am today where I am and I'm and I'm nowhere close to
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where I want to be because I'm not going to get complacent, but
I'm so grateful for where I am and I can't explain any of it
except for the fact that I knew who I went with.
I was going from every season with and for God and I began to
really search my own self. You know when the when we pray,
God search me, know me, see if there's any wicked things in me,
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lead me in your way everlasting part of God knowing you is also
showing you who you are part of God knowing you.
People want to pray that but forfor that verse to come to
fruition, you can't fix your mind on things above and you
can't renew your mind and you can't work out your salvation
unless God shows you those very things that Psalm 13927 says
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search me, God know me, see if there's any wicked ways in me.
OK, well I have to show you these things so that when they
show back up, you stop doing them, you change them, you grow
through them, you mature. Maturing in your walk with God
is not based on age. It's not based on how long you
think you've been saved, how long you've known him.
It's about really knowing and growing in in your the
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revelation of who he is and the revelation of who you are.
The more you know who you are, the more you realize how much
you need him. Trust me, I know that and I'm
knowing that I'm getting that's why I do these podcasts, man,
Like it's like I'm sitting theregoing, man, I remember being
that age. OK, well, what did I learn?
Well, you know, I need to express that.
And This is why it's so important that you learn to, to,
to fulfill the, the instruction of Jesus Christ to not only go
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out and win souls, but make disciples.
Why? Because as you're walking with
people, you, you start to be more gracious when you remember
what God brought you through in that season and that failure and
that shortcoming and that victory and that success.
So you don't always have to knowwhere you're going, but it's a
important to know who you're going with.
First and foremost, you should be going with God.
Secondly, you should be going with yourself.
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You should be going with yourself.
There's no guarantee anybody else will be there.
Think about it. God's there, you're there.
Nobody else has to be there. Nobody else has to stick around.
They will come, they will go, and that's fine.
But there will be some people that will stick around.
Praise God. And I, I taught this before, I
believe there's three types of people in your life.
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Obviously many more categories, but I believe we can really sum
them up into these three. Number one is people who are for
you. These are people that love you,
they support you, they are for you.
They're cheering you on, man. They are, they are, they are
partners in crime. Then there's people who are with
you. Man, it's awesome, 'cause people
who are with you, they're in proximity.
They can carry what you carry. They can burden with what you
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burden. They see what you see.
They're right there with you. And then there's people who are
against you. And people who are against you
are intentionally trying to harmyou, divert you, detour you,
distract you, put you down. But don't be deceived.
People who are with you are not always for you.
People who are with you are are not always against you, but
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there are people who are for you.
And so there will the people that will be there the rest of
your life will be the people that are for you.
They may not always be there in proximity, but they might be
there within reach. Praise God with the technology
we got today. So anyway, all that being said,
as graduates, you know, it's so easy to to be like, Oh my gosh,
I'm going to be friends with my people forever.
Where do I go? How do I leave town?
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What do I do with my family? Do I move far away?
Do I need a college? Do I need university?
Do I need trade school? First and foremost, you got to
just chill out and grad and, and, and celebrate your
graduation. All right, It is important that
in every season of your life, like what what can happen is
graduates, sadly, a lot of people go out and they party and
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then they lose their life. They go out and they do
something stupid and there's a lot of people right after post
graduation that make major life changes that you really, I would
tell you to pump the brakes a little bit.
They go, they get tattoos. They might, you know, go out and
get married real quick. They might go out and party,
drink, you know, completely relinquish all of their
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inhibitions, you know, remove all their their high school,
middle school boundaries that were developed.
I'm an adult now. Leave me alone.
I'll do my thing. That is one of the worst things
you can do. Just pump the brakes.
When I say celebrate, what I'm meaning is, is take time, not
just one day, not just a week, but really reminisce and think
about and and ruminate on the fact that you just finished 12
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years of education. Put that in the perspective.
That's three bachelor's degrees.It's 2 masters.
That's a master's and a doctorate.
OK, so if we're going to talk university training, that is
that is that is 12 years of yourlife that you committed and you
did it. And that's important because a
lot of times it's like, well, I had to do it.
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Well, you know, you had to, but you also did don't forget there
is a drop out rate. You finished, OK, whether you're
finishing right now, you're going from your GED or you're
finishing and getting your diploma, because I don't want
people who dropped out to be beat up.
But that's the same day at the at the same call like I can't, I
can't short come to graduate whostuck with it.
It's easy to want to give up. It's not always easy to give up,
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but you know, everybody feels those moments of distraction.
But you did it. You finished the program and
it's bigger than a ceremony. It's a it's a reminder that you
are a finisher. And I want you to catch that
because my pastor, when I'm one of my pastors taught me years
ago, he said, man have the fire of a finisher and I did not.
I did not celebrate my high school education as much as I
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should have. I have a lot of friends who
never finished in in fact, my, my, the dad who raised me would
tell you he didn't even barely finish 8th grade.
He dropped out, went back a couple times because of truancy
officers in high school, blah blah, blah, blah.
Ended up, thank God, getting into a good trade and he figured
it out. But you haven't, you're a
finisher. And so that's, that's important.
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OK, so as you're celebrating that, I want you to to just, I
mean, get a journal, get something that you can, you can
just be like, Yo, this is my talk to me future journal, OK,
And I want you to consider purpose.
It's very easy to think that purpose is a job, that purpose
is a skill set. The purpose is a trade.
One of the one of the worst things we've told young people
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is that that you need to know what you're going to do for the
rest of your life. This, this is what it does, is
it attaches identity and purposeand success to a doing and and
while you will do things in order to achieve success, and
while you will have a job and a task at hand, your identity,
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your purpose, your worth, your value and your success are not
based on what you do. However, you will have to do
some things. Here's the truth though.
You don't have to know what you're going to do for the rest
of your life. And and what I want you to to
realize is maybe you. I always tell, I always tell
young people yo go get your unless you are dead set on what
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you want to do, go get your basic classes.
If you feel pressure for continued academics and for some
people continued academics rightinto college is great because
you need to keep that that kind of mechanism rolling for other
people. I'm, I tell them, Hey, have you
considered going out and doing some humanitarian work?
I'm, I'm, I'm all about missionswork.
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I believe handy humanitarian is great, but I believe missionary
work is better because it attaches eternal purpose, not
just a momentary satisfaction. So I would say, hey, go on a
missions trip, go see the world and serve other people.
You know, Jesus comes out of heaven, steps into earth.
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The Bible says while he was equal with God, took no
reputation, but took the form ofa servant.
So he stepped down. He served people.
So I'm like, look, you don't have to know what you want to do
for the rest of your life. You just have to know what you
want to do with your life. So start defining that, OK, your
calling is bigger than a career and I want you to.
The Bible literally says Proverbs 19 verse 21.
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Many plans are in a person's minds, but the Lord, the Lord
will purpose you to succeed. The Bible says that the the
footsteps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord.
Why do I tell you that? Because it's easy to think.
You have to figure it out. You know, I said something a
second ago. I wish I would have remembered
exactly how I said that. But you don't have to.
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You don't have to figure out what you're going to do.
You there it is. You have to figure out what you
want to do, not what you're going to do.
What do you want to do with yourlife?
So for me, here's mine, man. I want to make a difference.
I want to have a provisionary future set aside for my wife and
I, I want to make sure she's taken care of.
We have kids, we have family. I want to make sure that there's
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substantial things to stand on. I want to make sure that I teach
people how to walk with God. I want to make the world a
better place. I want to work hard.
I want people to be able to lookat me and, and say, I know that
guy, you know, and, and on both sides of his of his life, what
you see and what you don't see. And and I and I and he's a good
dude. And I haven't always been that
way. I have fallen.
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I've screwed up. I've but because I was
constantly trying to fulfill my purpose through this is what I
have to do. But when you really go and and
look, the reality is a lot of you might already be doing
something because of who you want to be and because of what
you want. That's great.
This is just affirmation. And that's what was for me.
I never was doing anything in mywalk with Christ just to do the
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job. But when I realized, wait, aside
from the job, what do who do I want to be?
Man? I want to be a great person.
What does great mean? What does that mean to you?
Because great, a very superficial statement, very
broad. OK, so then what does great
mean? Want to be a good son?
I want to be a good husband, a good father, a good friend.
I want to work hard. I want to be organized.
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I want to be clean. I want to, I want to be
creative. You have to figure that out,
define that because that's that's where purpose really
comes out of all right. And then you step away and go,
here's some freedom. I can change my mind, but that
doesn't change me. So I want you to remember this
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because this is super important and a lot of people don't
realize that God's timeline is way different than yours.
God's timeline is way different than yours.
You know, I heard people say it all the time.
God doesn't cook in a microwave.And I, I agree.
I agree with that and I want youto be encouraged with that
because it's very easy once again, to look at the timeline.
I when this is when I want to get married, this is when I want
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to have kids. This is when I want to have a
home. This is when I, that's great,
That's planning. Praise God, That's great.
There's planning. There's nothing wrong with that,
but God's timeline might look different.
I think of like King David. You think of Joseph in the Bible
and you can take me for example,God called me in the ministry
when I was 17. God told me very clearly the
name of the church that I would plant when I was 18.
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When did I plant Generations House of worship?
I think when I was 33. I believe we launched it when I
was 33. We, we, we started, we started
planting 31, launched at 3315 years.
King David, God calls him he's just a shepherd boy.
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God calls him as a young teenager.
He's he's out there taking care of his father's business.
Joseph sold into slavery. These guys waited years before
they ever saw the vision in the dream, Joseph sold out by his
brothers. Backstabbed man, lied to,
deceived, treated so harshly unfair.
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But you have to understand that just that, that when you're in
this next season, the Bible saysIsaiah 4031, those who wait,
those who wait, those who wait upon the Lord, they shall mount
up on wings like eagles. They shall run and not grow
weary. They shall walk and not faint.
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So I like this helps me because I'm going, God, I remember being
21, what am I going to do? And I'm 24, Oh my God, what are
you going to do next? What do I need to be doing?
So I just kept doing it. And then I'm like, God, I don't
know what generations House of worship is.
I I hear you talking about aboutbooks and podcasts and all these
things the Lord was telling me to do.
I don't know how to do them. So I just kept kept doing what I
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knew to do and kept waiting on the Lord.
And waiting is active. I want you to remember that
waiting is an action word, OK? It's a verb.
Waiting is a verb. Not just not just waiting it
out. No, I mean like waiting is an
active thing that we do. And my reference is that I don't
wait like I'm sitting in a lounge chair waiting for my ride
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to pull up. I wait on God like I would would
if I was his waiter, his server at a restaurant.
Hey, God, just take your time. I'll just keep, what do you
need? What can I do?
You need a refill. What do you got?
You want to talk? So I'm actively serving God.
I'm actively serving his church.I'm staying in an active
mindset. A lot of people, they graduate
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something and then they want to take a want to take like a
massive sabbatical. I would tell you, be very
careful about how long you stop,about how far you stop, about
why you stop. OK?
God has made everything the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 3,
everything for an appropriate time.
He's also given us an an idea ofputting eternity deep in our
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hearts. But nobody, nobody knows what
God had done from the beginning to the end.
We don't know. And so what's so cool about that
is you go, you know what? If I'm with him, I don't.
I trust him. The beginning happened.
There's already an end in mind. Whatever that is, I don't know.
It doesn't matter. So just be where you're at,
enjoy the ride, and just realizethat you know what everything
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God is doing in your life is. I always call it Arsenal, and
that's how I'd like you to thinkof it, man.
Like everything that you get to go through his arsenal in your
life, tool belt. Some of it's going to be
testimonies to share with people, man.
I did that, man. I went through that, man.
Yeah, you know that. Some of it's going to be skill
sets. Hey, this is how you do this.
This is how you build that. That's how you fix this.
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It's going to be creative things.
Oh, I remember being in a room and I saw someone create that.
That means I can create. So everything God is doing is an
arsenal for your tool belt. If you, if you take it with you,
a lot of people, they fight every season of their life.
They're mad at everybody. They argue with everybody, they
argue with themselves. They, they put themselves down,
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They, they beat themselves up over their failures and defeats.
So this is, this is like, you got to step back and just be
like, dude, it's all good, man. It's all good.
I'm learning from that. If you beat yourself up over
something, more than likely you won't learn as much from it.
There's repentance. If you beat other people up for
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their failures, you're not goingto value, you're going to be.
So if you're reactive, you're not responding.
This is where I always say the word to our church.
Are you response able? Can you handle an appropriate
response rather than reacting? Are you reactionary or you
responsible? This Pepsi's flat and it's been
sitting here because I don't drink Pepsi enough.
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Well, a lot. And I'm so thirsty and it's flat
and it's gross, but whatever. So you're getting the best of
me. OK, so here's the next thing I
want you. And it goes in line with what I
was just saying. What do you do while you're
waiting? Every moment, every season,
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every skill, every relationship,every victory, every failure,
every experience is your tool belt.
And when you learn to celebrate that, you will love your bosses.
You will ask them questions rather than talk about them
behind their backs. You will be challenged by your
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peers rather than just being annoyed by why did they do that?
How did this happen? What goes on over there?
What's that do? I did a podcast called Press the
Buttons, I think is what it's called.
Just press buttons, man. And realize that everything
you're going through, everythingyou're experiencing, the losses,
the setbacks, the struggles, thevictories, all of it is in your
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tool belt. My pastor, one of my pastors
told me this. God never, God never.
Here's how it was. God never promotes you past your
last act of disobedience. So if you're not training and
learning, dude, you might be missing divine opportunities.
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And then my, my pastor told me this, that God never, this is
the one I was thinking about. God never promotes you until
you're overqualified in your present.
And I'm sure someone could be like, well, that's not in the
Bible. And you know what?
It's a good saying, but when youdo look in the Bible, you see
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God almost over preparing David,over preparing Joseph, getting
them so ready for for something so much bigger than they even
realized they would need to know.
And I'm grateful for the opportunities I've been in, but
I'm like, I'm my God. I need to learn more.
And I'm constantly wanting to know more because I want to lead
our church better and I want to lead people better.
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I want to lead myself better, myfamily better.
But God never wastes preparation, so you shouldn't
either. God, never waste preparation, so
you shouldn't either. Here's some practical things you
can do. OK, learn new skills.
Go on YouTube, Go sit under an be careful now because there's
so much stuff out there that's AI.
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You might you got to be careful.You might be misled and how to
learn how to do stuff appropriately.
But like like learn budgeting, learn communication skills, read
books. We have a different people in
our church reading different books and different people on
our teams. Like I'm reading this reading a
leadership lessons right by Abraham Lincoln.
Like I want to learn from Lincoln.
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Dude, that dude's gone. He did some great stuff, man.
We have our team reading relationships one O 1 with a lot
of our team. Here's a little a little book
that I bought a long time ago. I flipped through here all the
time, relationships, little bookof connections, different little
assets and tips on how to be a better person, a a better
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connector, a better friend. Learn how to use all this
digital stuff. Learn how to use AI in these
tools no matter what age you areOK, because these things are
going to if you don't stay in infront of what's what's going on,
you're going to get left behind.So just learn trades.
Well, it's not about my job. Who cares?
Anything you learn is going to somehow make you better no
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matter what. Read a book you should always be
reading, listen to podcasts. Just keep growing, man.
Another thing, build quality to your your fruitful
relationships, OK? There's going to be, you're in a
graduation season, which means they're going to be major
branches of your life that are going to be pruned off.
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OK, I know you don't want to hear it.
It's going to happen. People, relationships, friends,
you, they're not you just you'rejust going to realize in the
next 10 years, probably five years, that almost most of the
people that you have been aroundyour whole life or this whole
season of your life are more than likely going to just move
on. Doesn't mean they don't love
you. Doesn't mean they won't like
your post on social media. Doesn't mean that there's going
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to be beef. But what?
But you do need to realize that people are going to fall off.
So take those fruitful relationships, the ones that
that really add value, the ones that you add value to and the
ones that are forever relationships, family
relationships that are fruitful,not ones that are abusive.
And you just work on them. Make sure that you're being
intentional because in this season of your life, you're
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going to get so focused on whereyou're going that you might
forget where you came from. Sometimes that's good, but most
of the times it's not. Reflect on.
Get a journal out. Like I said, reflect on your
wins and your failures. OK?
I assume you're writing this down.
Write down your wins and your failures.
What is God taught you through each of them?
All right, I firmly believe in this one.
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Get in, get in your church, plugin local church.
If you're going to college and you're home different times, go
to both, OK? Get plugged in.
Serve that community. There are so many things,
especially in larger or healthier rope, not necessarily
large to be healthy and not healthy.
Healthy is not always large. So, but what I'm saying is
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there's a lot like in our church, there's a lot of facets
that you can serve in that will give you life skills.
And so find a church where you can plug in and like if you're
interested in graphics, volunteer in that department.
If you're interested in animals,go volunteer at an animal
rescue. If you are into, you know, like
you want to know all about the universe, we'll go volunteer
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somewhere like a local observatory or something like
that. People, these are skills that
you're going to get, you're going to get real life skills
and more than likely be working with people who have real life
skills when you get involved. And then most importantly, you
just have to keep renewing your mind.
It is so important for you to renew your mind with the word of
God because pop culture is goingto change every year.
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I mean, more and more and more it's just these crazy waves of
ideas that that constantly just goes all the way back from not
even the mullet keeps going. Just these weird things we do
and we pick them up and we renewour mind with pop culture.
And then wherever the Bible saysin James one, we're ever
shifting, OK, just like the the waves of the sea.
So you don't want to be tossed back and forth.
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Get in the word of God, learn the word of God, know the word
of God, renew your mind, master your confession.
That's what my one of my pastorsalways told me.
So I want you to remember those who wait upon the Lord.
The Bible says, man, he, he, he's going to give you the
strength to keep going. I don't want you to get focused
on look, get get a plan. There's not I talked about this
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before, I think, and it was you take a dream, you pull a dream
out of that cloud, OK, you mighthave 1000 dreams floating around
up there. When you pull one down you go,
hey, you know what, I'm going tostart making this a goal, OK,
for it to be a goal. Now you get a plan, OK, have
1000 dreams, have a million dreams, have a billion dreams,
have some goals, get some plans.But let God remind you that none
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of that stuff matters if you lose sight of yourself.
What's the Bible say? What is the profit?
A man or woman to gain the worldbut lose their soul.
So your moment is right now, right where you are today, not
tomorrow, not yesterday, right where you are.
It's not about a job, it's not about your school.
It's about what God is teaching you and what God has taught you
and what He wants to teach you. And so you've learned to
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complete something. You have learned how to connect
with your community. You have learned how to work
through no matter how big or small your community of school
was. You've learned to work through
conflict. You have developed communication
skills. You've learned how to solve
problems. You are a finisher, dude.
That is, that is awesome. And you are a learner with and
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that learning is a lifelong superpower.
So you need to be confident of that.
OK. And then I just want you to
remember this is you have permission to grow.
You have permission to grow. You are allowed to change over
and over again. You are allowed to explore.
You are allowed to take the nextstep.
You are allowed to take the nextstep without knowing the 4th or
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5th step. Step out in faith.
Trust God. Philippians 1/6.
We're confident. God began something in me.
He's going to complete it. Say it.
He's going to complete it. Say it.
He's going to complete it. So growth is, is, is a good
thing. God wants that.
And then last but not least, I think I wrote it right, here we
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go. I want you to ask 1000 questions
as often as you can. Don't just do the bare minimum
job. Wherever you're working,
whatever class you're in, whatever mentors you got,
whatever teachers you have, whatever opportunities you get,
ask more questions. I remember my pastor told me a
story. He was offered an invitation to
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go have dinner with some people he really looked up to.
These were some prominent figures in his life that he
really aspired from, and they met him.
And so a lot of the people at the table began to ask my pastor
questions. My pastor just kept answering
their questions. And then when he left, his
mentor who took him to the dinner table said, how did you
like dinner? My pastor said I really enjoyed
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it, it was so awesome. And then his mentor said, how
many questions did you ask? And he goes, I'm not sure.
He said you asked 0 because you wanted to tell everybody what
you knew. He never took a moment to learn
what they knew. And these were all people you
looked up to. If you could have asked each
each one of them a question, youwould have 567 new answers to
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something you never knew. So whatever room you're in, if
you got a boss, hey, how did youbecome the boss?
Hey, what do you do here that you think I would really learn
better? If you're around to someone
who's in do a financial provision, Hey, can I sit with
you? What were three things you did
to create financial success? If you're around someone who's
making a difference for the Kingdom of God, Hey, let me ask
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you, where did you, where do youtrace your greatest impact back
to ask questions, breathe, celebrate, write them down,
think about it, and then ask us good question.
Why? I don't know what question to
ask. OK, then ask somebody that.
Hey, let me ask you something. If I wanted to be you, what
question do you think I need to ask you?
So what? What?
Who cares? So what did they say?
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Oh, you're stupid. Why are you asking me that?
Say, well, I hope that's not thequestion that you want me to
ask. Instead of asking what will I do
for the rest of my life? Ask God.
God, what can you do through me and me?
What do you want to do in my life right now?
I hope that helps you guys breathe, calm down, trust the
process. Whatever God is working in you,
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he's going to complete it. He's faithful.
Well done. You graduated, you did it.
Go change your world. Thanks for being a part of.
You're listening to the Life, Hope and Leadership Podcast with
Nick Shabrinsky, A transparent, honest and encouraging podcast
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to equip you through real life experiences.
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