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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on the batter's tach.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's wrong for you to think that you're gonna give
an offering and God's gonna bless a business. You ain't
committed to bless a marriage. You ain't committed to bless
you in school, and you won't study bless you as
a saint of God, and you won't walk like a
saint of God. Who do you think? God is somebody
playing in Vegas. God is not hitting a slot machine.
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God is a guaranteed, definite I am the Mighty God.
Oh sure, bless it, he told Abraham, I swap, I'm
gonna bless you deceased. Hello, everybody, I'm so glad to
have the opportunity to be blessed, to be in your
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home and to be a part of your life, and
to talk to you just very practically today out of
the word of God. I believe it's gonna bless you
in a significant way. We all want changes. We want changes,
We want changes over here and over there in some
area of our lives. We want God to do something.
But without commitment, nothing really happens. So today we're going
(01:07):
to talk about commitment. Uncle, your seatbelts. You're in for
a ride. Commitment LEVI means to be joined, to be connected,
to be focused, to be committed. That is something we
don't see anymore. Oh, we have the ceremonies, we still
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have weddings. The people don't get married anymore. I mean
even the people in the wedding, the bride and the groom.
We throw rice at them, we give them a certificate,
but they don't get married. They move in together, they
get the tax deduction, but they're not married.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
They're not joined together.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Because the first little win, the first little storm, the
first little problem, the first little weakness, the first little test,
they are out of there. They have no route, they
have no connectivity. They are not joined, They are not committed.
They don't have it in their character to withstand anything.
They are only there for convenience, and when they don't
see the convenience or the connection, they forsake the responsibility
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and walk away from their commitment. We seldom see real
church members people. I've seen people come. If everybody who
joined this church came one Sunday, it would kill us.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They come down here, they sassay down.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Here, they walk over there, they get all of the stuff,
they go through the little orientation shake the hand, and
so many people you never see them again.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We go through the actions.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Of commitment, but we're not really committed. We're not really connected,
we're not really joined because we have no understanding. Check
this of our responsibility to any relationship. Write this down.
You cannot have relationship without reciprocity. You cannot have true
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relationship without reciprocity. You cannot get into a relationship to get.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And not give.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And I want you to ask yourselves, do you give
as good as you get? Add up what you're getting
and weigh it against what you're giving, and then you
will know whether you're really joined to anything. You have
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people to come to work, they take a job, they're
not commit it to the job.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They want to check. They wanted to check where.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Everybody wants some money, baby. I'm gonna say it again.
Everybody wants some money. Baby, I'm just here for the check.
That's why it's not gonna work for you. You don't
understand the reciprocity. Anybody wants some money, but if you're
not willing to give at least as good as you get,
it will not last. And that's why you can't stay
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anywhere or work for anybody, because you've never had LEVI.
You may have had Reuben, you might have had semi
in it, but you've never been joined to anything. So
you've had you collect anniversaries, you've got a lot of birthdays,
you've got some plaques on the wall, but you've never
been the person that you could be, because the could
be is locked up behind commitment, and until you're committed,
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you'll never get the could be. I'm glad to quire
some you're happy. I don't have to worry about preaching
your happy. You know what I talked to myself. I
thought I would hate to live and die and never
know what would happen if I ever committed myself to anything.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Some people have.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Never thrown their whole self at nothing, not at school,
not at work, not.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
At marriage, not at church.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh my god, you've had one foot in and one
foot out of every dream all in your life, and
you've never seen what you could be if you ever
really connected and through everything. And that's what's gonna make
your death so sad. That's what's gonna make it so
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sad if that you never lived first, You never fully engaged,
you never fully studied, you never fully invested in anything
or anybody. You want to get something that you are
not willing to give. You have never been joined. You
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just wore the dress, got the plaque, They threw the rice.
You joined the church, you took the job, but you've
never seen what you could be if you threw your
whole self at your dream. You go to this church,
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but you're not joined. If you don't have reciprocity. You're
not joined, if you're not really bought into it, if
you don't really feel like it's my church, or I
come here because I get a word reciprocity, What do
you give back for what you get? Without reciprocity, no
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relationship will ever reach its apex because you're not fully
invested in anything you do.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So you catch some crumbs that fall from the.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Master's table, but you don't get the children's bread. You
get the puppy dog blessing that comes from being in
the right place at the right time, because you are
not joined into the connectivity that produces a real blessing
of God in your life.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And you are getting older, and.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You're running out of time and running out of excuses,
and running out of people to blame. Wonder what would
have happened in school, if you've been committed, Wonder what
would have happened in you're married. If you've been committed,
Wonder what would have happened in your charge, if you'd
have really thrown your whole self. You've always been casual
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and never been committed.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And some of the.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Most casual people are talented people. Because talented people will
lay on their talents, use their talent as a camouflage
to cover up their lack of commitment. And because you're
talented enough to be able to float by on broken pieces,
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you were fool an indiscriminate eye into thinking that you
are committed. You're not committed, You're just talented. You'll never
know what you could have been if you would have
really committed yourself. You're just talented enough to get over
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and you fake them out. And you've been at thirty
or sixty four when you were created to be one
hundredfold person. I just think it would be terrible. I
can't be committed to everything, I can't join everything. I
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can't be married to a thousand women, I can't work
a thousand jobs. I can't join five churches because take
my commitment too seriously to spread it around loosely. Your
life is a false advertisement, four color bit glossy ad
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promising product you don't carry in your inventory. You'll be
shocked how many people sitting out there who can really sing,
but they're unwilling to make the commitment to make the
rehearsals and do what it takes to be upfront. And
so they sit there on their talent and they won't
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do for God what they are asking God to do
for them, and they wonder why they're pride.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The nott have that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
To the three people, say commitment, commitment, commitment. You take
a half committed man and a half committed trifling woman
and put them together, and there are half some half
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committed trifling kids, and the whole house will be half
committed because children will be what they see. Stop fussing
at your kids. They are reflection of you. The whole
life of the facade, The whole thing is the faith,
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the whole thing in the front, your whole life of
the camouflage suit. And now you're getting older, and you'll
never get to see what you could have been because
the cost of getting to see it in the commitment
that you've never been willing to pay you're trying to
get somebody to fall in love with the you that
you've never discovered yourself. You come to the altar and
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you raise your hand and you say, look, Lord, I
give myself to you, but you don't. You walk down
here and join the church, and you say, now I'm
a member of the church, but you're not. You marry
somebody and say you can count on me. I'll be
there through the think and the theater, for better and
for worse, for richer and poor and sickness of the hell.
You didn't mean it. Half studied, half worked, half labored,
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and then wonder why I thought I'd be further than
I am at days. Let me tell you why you
are not further. It is not the devil, it is
not witches, it is not demons, and it's sure God
ain't haters. You are not any further than where you
are right now because you have never thrown your whole
self at anything in your life. And you think greatness
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goes on sale, but true quality never goes on sin.
Greatness costs what it costs. Oh, my God, help me
in here today. I feel something about to take over
this flip. Somebody in this church is ready to receive
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this word. You're ready to get your breakthrough. My God,
I feel a miracle coming in this place today.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I wish I had a hundred people that would give.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
God a play. He called Abraham. I swag, I'm gonna
bless you. Ain't no chance, ain't no doubt, ain't no
joke about it. If I told you I was gonna
bless you, I will open up the window.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Number hell ofever.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Still to come on the Parti's touch.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in
any area of their life until they had suffered, had
sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fopp through
tears and trials and tests. And if you have a
dream and you'll commit to it, it will come to
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pash through the vision tear it who wait for it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
A harvest starts with a small seed.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
If he showed the orchard, everybody will snatch.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So you'll hide it in a seed. If you'll be
faithful over a few.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Things for your gift of any size, you will receive
this stirring message. These are they on CD from the
series Seeds of Greatness.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They're the king in you. They're a victory in you.
As soon as you'll find your cause, you'll unlock your king.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
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you'll receive Bishops Series Seeds of Greatness on four DVDs.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
If you take good seed and your planet in good ground,
it's only a man of time before harvest breaks out.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
However, for your gift of one and twenty dollars in
war will also include seeds for good soil, encouraging words
from Bishop's heart to yours, as well as Bishop's timeless
book sixty four Lessons for Life without Limits. Plant the
seeds of God's word today and your harvest will be
on its way.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
The first commitment is to God. Your second commitments to family.
The second commitment is to family, and it's a very
important commitment. It's a very important commitment. You better be
committed or you ain't gonna make it. If you can
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only love me when you like me, we ain't gonna
make it, because sooner or later I'm gonna pluck your
last nerve. Then say how you like me? Now it's
to your family, crazy as they are. If you're not committed,
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you're not gonna make it. Even the ones with the
personalities you don't like. You have to be committed through
the storm and the rain and the heartache and the
pain and the disappointment. You have to believe in the
we and the us and not the me and the youth,
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or you're not gonna make it. It's a commitment. It's
not a feeling. You gotta come home when you in love,
and you gotta come home when you not in love,
or you're not gonna make it, and stay there till
the love comes back.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
It's a commitment. Y'all. Don't want to hear real truth.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You want to hear fairytale, Hollywood, shake and make stuff.
But in reality, it's a commitment. You're my son in
my house. You're my son when you took the money.
You're my son in the hall pen, you are my
son in the whorehouse. You're my son on the road
back home. It's a commitment.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And if you're not gonna be committed, you don't need
no kids.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Commitment to God number two, commitment to family number three,
commitment to your church. I've never seen anything like this
generation today. They don't commit to anything at all. You
lucky if you see them again after they join and
If you do see them, it's only gonna be on Sundays,
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And don't talk too long because they got to go
forget Sunday night, Wednesday nights out of the question. We'll
hear about the revival next Sunday. We sacrifice nothing for
our church. We will serve nowhere. And yet it's bishop preaching. Yeah,
it's bishop preaching because all about what I can get
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and nothing about what I can give. And if I
think I'm not gonna get what I expect to get,
I won't even show up because I have a give
me mentality I never came to give.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh, I lost you all on that. I lost the
whole house on that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Because you consider with great contemplation where you can go
to be fed. That's good, But where's the reciprocity?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
What do you give for all that you got?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Any relationship that does not have reciprocity will not last.
If I'm always the one giving and always the one sacrifice,
always the one pushing myself over the limit to be
there for you, and I don't see that in return,
Eventually my patience will wither.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
My hope will die, and I will give up.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Any relationship that has no real reciprocity will die strong.
People will keep giving to you a long time. Eventually,
when they don't see it coming back in similar capacity,
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they will eventually become convinced that the investment does not
warrant a return. I tell you before you lose again.
If you don't learn to give like you learn to get,
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every area that there is not reciprocity, it will die.
If I had time, I take you all through the
ecological system, and it's not just biblical, it's ecological as sciences. Everything,
anything that takes more than it gives, will eventually destroy
the soil. I will show you how God commanded the
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farmer to let the ground rests, because you have to
put something back in something that you're taking something out of. See,
somebody has never taught you how to give.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
They teach you how to take.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Are you demanding more of your God, or of your family,
or of your church than you give? Because any area
that you expect more than you invest, you will live
in a perpetual state of disappointment. You've committed to God
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until you committed to your family. We're gonna get through this.
That should be the language you approach your family with.
We will get through this. We may have to bunk up.
We may have to move in together. We may have
to put our backs up against each other. We may
have to both get part time job. We may have
to come outsideway. But we will get through this. When
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you get me, you get help. If I walk in
the room, help came.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'm gonna add something to you. I'm gonna add something
to you. I'm gonna add something to you. I will
not take something from you. Will unless I add something
to you. I will be an asset and not a liability.
If I stay in your house, you're gonna miss me
when I leave. I'm gonna add something to you. I'm
not gonna take something from you. If I join your church,
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you're gonna feel the impact that something has been added
to you. The only number that doesn't add to the
something total of the equation is a zero. What do
people get when they get you? If you can describe it,
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define it, and deliver on it, you'll never be without.
Everybody wants an asset. Liabilities get left behind. Number four.
Commitment to your dream. You cannot get people to believe
in your dream until you believe in it yourself. Stop
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asking people to invest in things where you have no investment.
Stop asking people to deliver something to you where you're
not willing to go to the wire for yourself. Nobody's
going to put into your dream before you put in.
You have to invest in what you dream for. How
they Louyah to God. A golf club is just a
golf club. You can pay five hundred and five thousand
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dollars for it. It's just a golf club until you put
it into the hands of tiger Woods. When you put
it into the hand of the tiger Woods, the value
shoots up.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's the same set of clubs all you add.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's coming when you get it in the hands of
somebody who is committed to a dream, who's been working
when they were five, and swinging when they were six,
and swinging when they were nine, and swinging when they
were twelve. Oh yes, you're gonna get a great return
because they're a great investment. Do you have anything that
you're dreaming that you're willing to be committed to.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Enough to see it happen?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Or are you throwing pennies in the wishing well of
life warning to receive on credit something that you're not
willing to pay for. You must be committed to your dream. Oh,
Holly Loujah, I'm scared to talk about it because I
believe it so bad. You are to see my toes
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are dancing in my shoes. Glory to God. I don't
have no hair on my head, but my hair on
my chin is jerking over this right now. I have
never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area
their life until they had suffered, had sweated and sacrificed,
and kept their focus, had fought through tears and trials
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and tests. And if you have a dream and you
commit to it, it will come to pass.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Through the vision. Tarry who wait for it did not
just the beginning, he also the end.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
If God started it, he will finish it. So Yes,
committed to your dream. Yes, committed to your dream. Anybody
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can dream it, but you'll never see it until you're
willing to be committed to it. I was telling somebody
the other day, when I didn't have anything church, didn't
have it any members. I'd get off work working at
Carbine and drive up the roads and work on the
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church till I had to turn around and go back
to work. We worked when we didn't have food. We
worked when we didn't have lights. I was putting my
whole check in the offering, all of it, trying to
keep it going. When I finally got some staff, I
went on the road preaching, and whatever I made on
the road preaching, I brought it home to make the
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payroll of the staff. And sometimes I got them paid
and couldn't pay me commitments. Looked like a fool. Didn't
have any clothes. Suits was falling off me, lying wore
out in my clothes. Couldn't send them to the cleaners,
had to wash my suit in the washing machine. They
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laughed at me. Looked like an old, raggedy country preacher.
I had holes in my shoes. I couldn't kneel down
who I couldn't kneel down and pray because if I
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knelt down to pray, they would see holes in my shoes.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
They laughed at me.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They said, that boy's lost his mind. He'll never be nothing.
He stutters, he's got a less funny's feets, he'll never
be a preacher.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I don't care what you find.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
If you are committed to what you believe, you'll never never,
never bring down somebody who is committed because somebody who
has really been committed has been down before they ever
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got up. Yeah, you can't scan me off with trouble.
I started in trouble. I grew up with third up
under my fingernail. I'm used to folk not locking me.
I'll fight for myself. Cob that Ah, I've got to stop.
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This is a big subject that many people struggle with it.
They mean, well, they have sincere hearts. They promise so
much more than they're able to deliver it because they
don't understand commitment. What if you threw your whole self
into the vision that God has given you rather than
just hitting that impatis, what would you achieve? You cannot
conquer what you're not willing to commit to. Take that
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word with it today and may God bless you and
strengthen you. That's my prayer for you before we leave.
Get your hands on this book, Destiny. It's four people
who are going somewhere. It is for people who are
trying to master commitment, who feel that they are drawn
of God into a purpose that you can't quite figure out.
So the book is Destiny. Step into your purpose. You
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can do it, and you need to do it right now.
I pray, Goda, bless you. I'll be waiting on Instagram, Twitter,
Facebook to hear your comments as we read together. Destiny,
Step into your purpose. God, bless you. Take care.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I'm sorry, Brian, We're gonna have to let you go failure.
It's not We've had to make staff changes. Listen for destinies.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I think to call Destiny awaits you, will you take
the first step.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Destiny is written to connect what's in you with the
purpose that awaits you. The first action step requires faith.
Order destiny. Today, everywhere books are sold.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
There is more.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Ten committed people work from a thousand spectators. Ten committed people.
Jesus didn't pick but.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Twelve and turn the world upside down with twelve.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
People who were committed. Wonder what would happened in your life,
in your church, in your finances, in your marriage if
you were committed, it says the Bark said
Coming up on the batter's tach.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's wrong for you to think that you're gonna give
an offering and God's gonna bless a business. You ain't
committed to bless a marriage. You ain't committed to bless
you in school, and you won't study bless you as
a saint of God, and you won't walk like a
saint of God. Who do you think? God is somebody
playing in Vegas. God is not hitting a slot machine.
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God is a guaranteed, definite I am the Mighty God.
Oh sure, bless it, he told Abraham, I swap, I'm
gonna bless you deceased. Hello, everybody, I'm so glad to
have the opportunity to be blessed, to be in your
(00:46):
home and to be a part of your life, and
to talk to you just very practically today out of
the word of God. I believe it's gonna bless you
in a significant way. We all want changes. We want changes,
We want changes over here and over there in some
area of our lives. We want God to do something.
But without commitment, nothing really happens. So today we're going
(01:07):
to talk about commitment. Uncle, your seatbelts. You're in for
a ride. Commitment LEVI means to be joined, to be connected,
to be focused, to be committed. That is something we
don't see anymore. Oh, we have the ceremonies, we still
(01:31):
have weddings. The people don't get married anymore. I mean
even the people in the wedding, the bride and the groom.
We throw rice at them, we give them a certificate,
but they don't get married. They move in together, they
get the tax deduction, but they're not married.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
They're not joined together.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Because the first little win, the first little storm, the
first little problem, the first little weakness, the first little test,
they are out of there. They have no route, they
have no connectivity. They are not joined, They are not committed.
They don't have it in their character to withstand anything.
They are only there for convenience, and when they don't
see the convenience or the connection, they forsake the responsibility
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and walk away from their commitment. We seldom see real
church members people. I've seen people come. If everybody who
joined this church came one Sunday, it would kill us.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They come down here, they sassay down.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Here, they walk over there, they get all of the stuff,
they go through the little orientation shake the hand, and
so many people you never see them again.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We go through the actions.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Of commitment, but we're not really committed. We're not really connected,
we're not really joined because we have no understanding. Check
this of our responsibility to any relationship. Write this down.
You cannot have relationship without reciprocity. You cannot have true
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relationship without reciprocity. You cannot get into a relationship to get.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And not give.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And I want you to ask yourselves, do you give
as good as you get? Add up what you're getting
and weigh it against what you're giving, and then you
will know whether you're really joined to anything. You have
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people to come to work, they take a job, they're
not commit it to the job.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They want to check. They wanted to check where.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Everybody wants some money, baby. I'm gonna say it again.
Everybody wants some money. Baby, I'm just here for the check.
That's why it's not gonna work for you. You don't
understand the reciprocity. Anybody wants some money, but if you're
not willing to give at least as good as you get,
it will not last. And that's why you can't stay
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anywhere or work for anybody, because you've never had LEVI.
You may have had Reuben, you might have had semi
in it, but you've never been joined to anything. So
you've had you collect anniversaries, you've got a lot of birthdays,
you've got some plaques on the wall, but you've never
been the person that you could be, because the could
be is locked up behind commitment, and until you're committed,
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you'll never get the could be. I'm glad to quire
some you're happy. I don't have to worry about preaching
your happy. You know what I talked to myself. I
thought I would hate to live and die and never
know what would happen if I ever committed myself to anything.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Some people have.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Never thrown their whole self at nothing, not at school,
not at work, not.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
At marriage, not at church.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Oh my god, you've had one foot in and one
foot out of every dream all in your life, and
you've never seen what you could be if you ever
really connected and through everything. And that's what's gonna make
your death so sad. That's what's gonna make it so
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sad if that you never lived first, You never fully engaged,
you never fully studied, you never fully invested in anything
or anybody. You want to get something that you are
not willing to give. You have never been joined. You
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just wore the dress, got the plaque, They threw the rice.
You joined the church, you took the job, but you've
never seen what you could be if you threw your
whole self at your dream. You go to this church,
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but you're not joined. If you don't have reciprocity. You're
not joined, if you're not really bought into it, if
you don't really feel like it's my church, or I
come here because I get a word reciprocity, What do
you give back for what you get? Without reciprocity, no
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relationship will ever reach its apex because you're not fully
invested in anything you do.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So you catch some crumbs that fall from the.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Master's table, but you don't get the children's bread. You
get the puppy dog blessing that comes from being in
the right place at the right time, because you are
not joined into the connectivity that produces a real blessing
of God in your life.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And you are getting older, and.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You're running out of time and running out of excuses,
and running out of people to blame. Wonder what would
have happened in school, if you've been committed, Wonder what
would have happened in you're married. If you've been committed,
Wonder what would have happened in your charge, if you'd
have really thrown your whole self. You've always been casual
(07:45):
and never been committed.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And some of the.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Most casual people are talented people. Because talented people will
lay on their talents, use their talent as a camouflage
to cover up their lack of commitment. And because you're
talented enough to be able to float by on broken pieces,
(08:11):
you were fool an indiscriminate eye into thinking that you
are committed. You're not committed, You're just talented. You'll never
know what you could have been if you would have
really committed yourself. You're just talented enough to get over
(08:33):
and you fake them out. And you've been at thirty
or sixty four when you were created to be one
hundredfold person. I just think it would be terrible. I
can't be committed to everything, I can't join everything. I
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can't be married to a thousand women, I can't work
a thousand jobs. I can't join five churches because take
my commitment too seriously to spread it around loosely. Your
life is a false advertisement, four color bit glossy ad
(09:16):
promising product you don't carry in your inventory. You'll be
shocked how many people sitting out there who can really sing,
but they're unwilling to make the commitment to make the
rehearsals and do what it takes to be upfront. And
so they sit there on their talent and they won't
(09:37):
do for God what they are asking God to do
for them, and they wonder why they're pride.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
The nott have that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
To the three people, say commitment, commitment, commitment. You take
a half committed man and a half committed trifling woman
and put them together, and there are half some half
(10:09):
committed trifling kids, and the whole house will be half
committed because children will be what they see. Stop fussing
at your kids. They are reflection of you. The whole
life of the facade, The whole thing is the faith,
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the whole thing in the front, your whole life of
the camouflage suit. And now you're getting older, and you'll
never get to see what you could have been because
the cost of getting to see it in the commitment
that you've never been willing to pay you're trying to
get somebody to fall in love with the you that
you've never discovered yourself. You come to the altar and
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you raise your hand and you say, look, Lord, I
give myself to you, but you don't. You walk down
here and join the church, and you say, now I'm
a member of the church, but you're not. You marry
somebody and say you can count on me. I'll be
there through the think and the theater, for better and
for worse, for richer and poor and sickness of the hell.
You didn't mean it. Half studied, half worked, half labored,
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and then wonder why I thought I'd be further than
I am at days. Let me tell you why you
are not further. It is not the devil, it is
not witches, it is not demons, and it's sure God
ain't haters. You are not any further than where you
are right now because you have never thrown your whole
self at anything in your life. And you think greatness
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goes on sale, but true quality never goes on sin.
Greatness costs what it costs. Oh, my God, help me
in here today. I feel something about to take over
this flip. Somebody in this church is ready to receive
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this word. You're ready to get your breakthrough. My God,
I feel a miracle coming in this place today.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I wish I had a hundred people that would give.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
God a play. He called Abraham. I swag, I'm gonna
bless you. Ain't no chance, ain't no doubt, ain't no
joke about it. If I told you I was gonna
bless you, I will open up the window.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Number hell ofever.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Still to come on the Parti's touch.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in
any area of their life until they had suffered, had
sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fopp through
tears and trials and tests. And if you have a
dream and you'll commit to it, it will come to
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pash through the vision tear it who wait for it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
A harvest starts with a small seed.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
If he showed the orchard, everybody will snatch.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So you'll hide it in a seed. If you'll be
faithful over a few.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Things for your gift of any size, you will receive
this stirring message. These are they on CD from the
series Seeds of Greatness.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They're the king in you. They're a victory in you.
As soon as you'll find your cause, you'll unlock your king.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And when your gift is sixty five dollars a more,
you'll receive Bishops Series Seeds of Greatness on four DVDs.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
If you take good seed and your planet in good ground,
it's only a man of time before harvest breaks out.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
However, for your gift of one and twenty dollars in
war will also include seeds for good soil, encouraging words
from Bishop's heart to yours, as well as Bishop's timeless
book sixty four Lessons for Life without Limits. Plant the
seeds of God's word today and your harvest will be
on its way.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
The first commitment is to God. Your second commitments to family.
The second commitment is to family, and it's a very
important commitment. It's a very important commitment. You better be
committed or you ain't gonna make it. If you can
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only love me when you like me, we ain't gonna
make it, because sooner or later I'm gonna pluck your
last nerve. Then say how you like me? Now it's
to your family, crazy as they are. If you're not committed,
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you're not gonna make it. Even the ones with the
personalities you don't like. You have to be committed through
the storm and the rain and the heartache and the
pain and the disappointment. You have to believe in the
we and the us and not the me and the youth,
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or you're not gonna make it. It's a commitment. It's
not a feeling. You gotta come home when you in love,
and you gotta come home when you not in love,
or you're not gonna make it, and stay there till
the love comes back.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
It's a commitment. Y'all. Don't want to hear real truth.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You want to hear fairytale, Hollywood, shake and make stuff.
But in reality, it's a commitment. You're my son in
my house. You're my son when you took the money.
You're my son in the hall pen, you are my
son in the whorehouse. You're my son on the road
back home. It's a commitment.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
And if you're not gonna be committed, you don't need
no kids.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Commitment to God number two, commitment to family number three,
commitment to your church. I've never seen anything like this
generation today. They don't commit to anything at all. You
lucky if you see them again after they join and
If you do see them, it's only gonna be on Sundays,
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And don't talk too long because they got to go
forget Sunday night, Wednesday nights out of the question. We'll
hear about the revival next Sunday. We sacrifice nothing for
our church. We will serve nowhere. And yet it's bishop preaching. Yeah,
it's bishop preaching because all about what I can get
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and nothing about what I can give. And if I
think I'm not gonna get what I expect to get,
I won't even show up because I have a give
me mentality I never came to give.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Oh, I lost you all on that. I lost the
whole house on that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Because you consider with great contemplation where you can go
to be fed. That's good, But where's the reciprocity?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
What do you give for all that you got?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Any relationship that does not have reciprocity will not last.
If I'm always the one giving and always the one sacrifice,
always the one pushing myself over the limit to be
there for you, and I don't see that in return,
Eventually my patience will wither.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
My hope will die, and I will give up.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Any relationship that has no real reciprocity will die strong.
People will keep giving to you a long time. Eventually,
when they don't see it coming back in similar capacity,
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they will eventually become convinced that the investment does not
warrant a return. I tell you before you lose again.
If you don't learn to give like you learn to get,
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every area that there is not reciprocity, it will die.
If I had time, I take you all through the
ecological system, and it's not just biblical, it's ecological as sciences. Everything,
anything that takes more than it gives, will eventually destroy
the soil. I will show you how God commanded the
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farmer to let the ground rests, because you have to
put something back in something that you're taking something out of. See,
somebody has never taught you how to give.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
They teach you how to take.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Are you demanding more of your God, or of your family,
or of your church than you give? Because any area
that you expect more than you invest, you will live
in a perpetual state of disappointment. You've committed to God
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until you committed to your family. We're gonna get through this.
That should be the language you approach your family with.
We will get through this. We may have to bunk up.
We may have to move in together. We may have
to put our backs up against each other. We may
have to both get part time job. We may have
to come outsideway. But we will get through this. When
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you get me, you get help. If I walk in
the room, help came.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'm gonna add something to you. I'm gonna add something
to you. I'm gonna add something to you. I will
not take something from you. Will unless I add something
to you. I will be an asset and not a liability.
If I stay in your house, you're gonna miss me
when I leave. I'm gonna add something to you. I'm
not gonna take something from you. If I join your church,
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you're gonna feel the impact that something has been added
to you. The only number that doesn't add to the
something total of the equation is a zero. What do
people get when they get you? If you can describe it,
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define it, and deliver on it, you'll never be without.
Everybody wants an asset. Liabilities get left behind. Number four.
Commitment to your dream. You cannot get people to believe
in your dream until you believe in it yourself. Stop
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asking people to invest in things where you have no investment.
Stop asking people to deliver something to you where you're
not willing to go to the wire for yourself. Nobody's
going to put into your dream before you put in.
You have to invest in what you dream for. How
they Louyah to God. A golf club is just a
golf club. You can pay five hundred and five thousand
(21:46):
dollars for it. It's just a golf club until you put
it into the hands of tiger Woods. When you put
it into the hand of the tiger Woods, the value
shoots up.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It's the same set of clubs all you add.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's coming when you get it in the hands of
somebody who is committed to a dream, who's been working
when they were five, and swinging when they were six,
and swinging when they were nine, and swinging when they
were twelve. Oh yes, you're gonna get a great return
because they're a great investment. Do you have anything that
you're dreaming that you're willing to be committed to.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Enough to see it happen?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Or are you throwing pennies in the wishing well of
life warning to receive on credit something that you're not
willing to pay for. You must be committed to your dream. Oh,
Holly Loujah, I'm scared to talk about it because I
believe it so bad. You are to see my toes
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are dancing in my shoes. Glory to God. I don't
have no hair on my head, but my hair on
my chin is jerking over this right now. I have
never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area
their life until they had suffered, had sweated and sacrificed,
and kept their focus, had fought through tears and trials
(23:08):
and tests. And if you have a dream and you
commit to it, it will come to pass.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Through the vision. Tarry who wait for it did not
just the beginning, he also the end.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
If God started it, he will finish it. So Yes,
committed to your dream. Yes, committed to your dream. Anybody
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can dream it, but you'll never see it until you're
willing to be committed to it. I was telling somebody
the other day, when I didn't have anything church, didn't
have it any members. I'd get off work working at
Carbine and drive up the roads and work on the
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church till I had to turn around and go back
to work. We worked when we didn't have food. We
worked when we didn't have lights. I was putting my
whole check in the offering, all of it, trying to
keep it going. When I finally got some staff, I
went on the road preaching, and whatever I made on
the road preaching, I brought it home to make the
(24:29):
payroll of the staff. And sometimes I got them paid
and couldn't pay me commitments. Looked like a fool. Didn't
have any clothes. Suits was falling off me, lying wore
out in my clothes. Couldn't send them to the cleaners,
had to wash my suit in the washing machine. They
(24:51):
laughed at me. Looked like an old, raggedy country preacher.
I had holes in my shoes. I couldn't kneel down
who I couldn't kneel down and pray because if I
(25:13):
knelt down to pray, they would see holes in my shoes.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
They laughed at me.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They said, that boy's lost his mind. He'll never be nothing.
He stutters, he's got a less funny's feets, he'll never
be a preacher.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I don't care what you find.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
If you are committed to what you believe, you'll never never,
never bring down somebody who is committed because somebody who
has really been committed has been down before they ever
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got up. Yeah, you can't scan me off with trouble.
I started in trouble. I grew up with third up
under my fingernail. I'm used to folk not locking me.
I'll fight for myself. Cob that Ah, I've got to stop.
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This is a big subject that many people struggle with it.
They mean, well, they have sincere hearts. They promise so
much more than they're able to deliver it because they
don't understand commitment. What if you threw your whole self
into the vision that God has given you rather than
just hitting that impatis, what would you achieve? You cannot
conquer what you're not willing to commit to. Take that
(26:37):
word with it today and may God bless you and
strengthen you. That's my prayer for you before we leave.
Get your hands on this book, Destiny. It's four people
who are going somewhere. It is for people who are
trying to master commitment, who feel that they are drawn
of God into a purpose that you can't quite figure out.
So the book is Destiny. Step into your purpose. You
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can do it, and you need to do it right now.
I pray, Goda, bless you. I'll be waiting on Instagram, Twitter,
Facebook to hear your comments as we read together. Destiny,
Step into your purpose. God, bless you. Take care.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I'm sorry, Brian, We're gonna have to let you go failure.
It's not We've had to make staff changes. Listen for destinies.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I think to call Destiny awaits you, will you take
the first step.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Destiny is written to connect what's in you with the
purpose that awaits you. The first action step requires faith.
Order destiny. Today, everywhere books are sold.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
There is more.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Ten committed people work from a thousand spectators. Ten committed people.
Jesus didn't pick but.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Twelve and turn the world upside down with twelve.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
People who were committed. Wonder what would happened in your life,
in your church, in your finances, in your marriage if
you were committed, it says the Bark said
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