Give It Your Best Performance!
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 5/19/2023Romans 12
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez challenges believers to stop underperforming and start giving their best to God by embracing their unique gifts and speaking faith over their future. He emphasizes that while the enemy wants us to focus on fear and comparison, God has provided the grace and strength for us to excel on whatever 'stage' He has placed us.
Key points
- •Every believer has been uniquely gifted according to God's grace, and these gifts are intended for service, not selfish gain.
- •Prophesying to your future means speaking words of faith and life over your circumstances rather than speaking out of bitterness or past wounds.
- •Underperformance often stems from fear or comparing oneself to others; God expects us to perform at our best using the specific capacity He has provided.
- •Success in life and ministry is not about human effort alone but about walking in the empowerment and strength that God provides for the specific assignment He gave you.
Scripture
Purpose
Grace
Faith
Spiritual Growth
Stewardship
Life application
This week, identify one area where you have been 'underperforming' due to fear or comparison. Consciously choose to 'prophesy' to that situation by speaking God's promises over it and committing to give that task your absolute best effort regardless of who is watching.
Reflection questions
- What specific gift or 'stage' has God given you in this season of your life?
- In what ways have you allowed the opinions of others or past betrayals to cause you to shrink back from your purpose?
- How can you shift your language from speaking about your 'lack' to speaking about God's 'grace' and provision?
- Are you currently trying to operate in someone else's calling, or are you embracing the unique grace God gave to you specifically?
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0:03you may be seated
0:05father we come to you this morning
0:08recognizing that
0:11we're living in
0:13a blessed moment
0:17it's a moment where you get to speak to
0:20us
0:22concerning
0:25particular area of Our Lives
0:28and that is our faith walk
0:32each and every week
0:34we get to come into this building call
0:37your temple
0:39and thousands
0:42will log in their phones their iPads
0:46their tablets their computer
0:49to stream the service
0:52to hear what you have to say
0:58and for many of us we can truly say
1:01you've been speaking to us
1:04you've been pushing us into our purpose
1:08and there have been times when we
1:11lose sight of
1:13where we need to be and what we need to
1:16do and how we need to speak
1:19that you will send a word through your
1:21servant
1:24something
1:26is said in the sermon
1:28that somehow
1:30brings Clarity to the Clutter
1:33that's in our head
1:36this morning I pray
1:39it would be an Awakening for somebody
1:43there'll be a moment that as they stream
1:46as they sit in the auditorium
1:48he'll be a wake-up call
1:52there'll be a push
1:55to let them know that
1:59you've got so much
2:01planned for them that they're not an
2:04afterthought
2:07that you've been trying to get them to
2:10walk away
2:12from religion
2:14and the rituals
2:16that have so set them back for years and
2:19you want them
2:21to come into this new revelation of Who
2:25You Are
2:27and what you're doing in their lives
2:31so I pray that you will give me the
2:33strength to deliver this message
2:35accurately
2:37so that at the end of the day we can all
2:40leave here and say
2:42God spoke to us
2:45we thank you that your word is already
2:46blessed
2:48and that your people have positioned
2:50themselves to hear it
2:52and we will forever give you the praise
2:55the honor and the glory in Jesus name
2:58amen if you're ready for the word come
3:01on with the Clapping of your hands
3:09a few years ago a young man decided to
3:13audition for one of television's most
3:17popular shows
3:19seeking to become
3:22America's Best
3:24Talent
3:26he knew that he was talented and truly
3:30had an incredible voice
3:33so he prepared himself for this once in
3:36a lifetime opportunity
3:38by enrolling in a program that would
3:42help train his voice
3:44and help him with
3:47stage presentation
3:50so the day finally came
3:54and he walked out on stage
3:57in front of a huge crowd
4:01and millions of people watching around
4:05the world
4:08but unfortunately
4:11the unthinkable happened
4:14I want you to picture this
4:17he dreamed of this moment
4:21he was prepared for the moment
4:25and he's now living in the moment
4:31as he walked out on stage the audience
4:34was very supportive
4:37they applauded him
4:42the music started and everyone was
4:45waiting to hear his voice
4:49and the judges were waiting to see his
4:53talent
4:54in display
4:56wondering could it be that he is the one
5:01to become
5:02America's Best
5:04Talent
5:06he stood on the stage
5:08and as the music started
5:13he missed his cue
5:16and became very nervous and started to
5:20shake
5:21one of the judges signaled for the music
5:23to stop
5:25and then spoke to the young man and said
5:27these words to him
5:30what's wrong
5:32why are you so nervous
5:35you can do this
5:38take a deep breath
5:40pull yourself together
5:44and try again
5:47but this time
5:50on the stage
5:53and let your natural gifts
5:58come forth
5:59this time
6:01don't be nervous
6:03on the stage on the moment
6:07and just let your natural gifts
6:11come forth
6:13I firmly believe that some of you are
6:16just like this young man
6:18you have been given some
6:21talents if you will
6:23these are god-given
6:26talents or abilities
6:29and God has opened many doors for you to
6:32display your talents but somehow when
6:36you stand in the moment of opportunity
6:38you get nervous
6:41and you are unable to perform at your
6:46best and by the way that's what God
6:49expects of all of us to perform
6:54at our best
6:56so God sent me here today to tell you it
6:59is time you perform at your best because
7:03at this stage of your life
7:06you must give it your best performance
7:11you must make it your best performance
7:18so that's what I want to talk to you
7:19about this morning
7:22in this moment of your life
7:25you are compelled
7:27to give it your best
7:31in this season of your life you are
7:34commanded to perform
7:37at your best
7:39whatever you've been given whatever God
7:43has called you to do whatever gifts God
7:46has given you get on the stage that God
7:52has made available for you and do your
7:57thing
7:59whatever that is do it
8:02and confront your fears
8:05and give it your best shot
8:09let's look at Romans 12 verse 6. I want
8:13us to pay attention to this the Bible
8:16says that we have different gifts
8:21that's what it says
8:23we have different gifts according to the
8:28grace given to each of us if your gift
8:32is prophesying then prophesy in
8:37accordance with your faith
8:41everybody has been given different gifts
8:45you don't need to follow somebody else
8:48or copy somebody else's Gift Stop
8:52committing people for their gifts
8:55every one of us this is what the
8:57scripture says every one of us have been
9:00given different gifts
9:02so ask yourself the question
9:04what is your gift
9:07what is your gift
9:10it's not enough for you just to look at
9:12me and look at other people
9:14and applaud us
9:16and say great gift
9:19and ignore yours
9:22the Bible says everybody has been given
9:25a gift oh by the way by the way if you
9:28are a male a male born a male you've
9:33been given a gift to being a male body
9:39it's a gift
9:40[Applause]
9:42[Music]
9:45and the gift by God to being a female
9:48body
9:49that's a gift
9:53that's a gift
9:55if you're dating
9:57God has given you an opportunity to date
10:01someone of the opposite sex
10:04to have the ability to bring two
10:07histories together to figure out
10:10how can you love each other
10:14if you're a father you've been given the
10:16gift to be a father
10:19think about it
10:21if you're a mother you've been given the
10:24gift to give birth to a child
10:28if you have a job
10:30you've been given a gift to function on
10:33that job
10:35if you're a owner of a company you've
10:38been given a gift to have the ability to
10:41have the courage to go and start that
10:44company
10:45it's a gift
10:48if you ran for election and you got
10:50elected
10:51it's a gift that was given to you
10:54to serve your community
10:56if you're a spiritual leader like myself
10:58it's a gift
11:01when God gives you a stage like this to
11:04speak to not only people who are sitting
11:07in front of you but to speak to millions
11:10of people around the world that's a gift
11:15the Bible says
11:17the gift was given to you according to
11:19the grace according to the grace
11:23that God put up on you and then he says
11:27here
11:28if you have the gift
11:30prophesying
11:33in other words to articulate and to
11:37speak
11:38to for who thank you Holy Spirit to
11:42foretell of what is to come
11:44[Music]
11:47then use it
11:50here's the question I have for you what
11:53have you been saying about your future
11:56lately
11:59ah are you prophesying to your future
12:04[Music]
12:05and what are you saying about your
12:07future are you saying my future is
12:10blessed my future has it looks promising
12:13my future is great and I believe that
12:15God's going to open doors for me or are
12:18you saying that I'll never make it are
12:21you saying I have some setbacks I'm
12:23broken I'm wounded are you are you so
12:26bitter about your past that you can't
12:29foretell of your future
12:33the gift that was given to you is to
12:36foretell of what is to come of because
12:39you've been given the ability to step
12:43into your future
12:45so what are you saying about tomorrow
12:49what are you saying about next week what
12:52are you saying about next year what are
12:54you saying about the next 10 years of
12:55your life
12:57I just wish some of you will begin to
13:00open up your mouth and begin to Speak
13:03Life
13:05begin to speak that you are anointed
13:08begin to speak that you are great begin
13:11to speak that the favor and the
13:13blessings of God are upon your life
13:15begin to speak that it won't always be
13:18like this I don't care what you're going
13:20through I I wish you just begin to speak
13:23that God's going to make a way out I be
13:26I just wish you begin to speak that your
13:28ladder is greater glory to God than your
13:32current situation I wish you would begin
13:34to prophesy to yourself and say I am
13:37healed even though you are sick I just
13:40wish you begin to prophesy that every
13:43one of your children will come out to be
13:46great why because they come from the
13:48great great scene
13:50I just wish you'll begin to prophesy
13:55prophesying to your future
13:57speak those things that are not
14:00the way you want to see them
14:03stop saying negative things out of your
14:05mouth
14:06I wish you begin to speak over your job
14:09I don't care if the workplace is toxic I
14:13just wish you begin to speak God for
14:15everything at this workplace that is not
14:18of you for everything that's trying to
14:20come against me God I speak that you'll
14:23remove it and that God that your glory
14:26will shine upon me every time I walk
14:29through these doors the enemy will know
14:32that's a woman of God that's a man of
14:35God speak into your future
14:41that's the gift that you've been given
14:44you've not been given a gift to lie
14:48you have not been given a gift to say
14:51negative words
14:53would you get that gift from
14:57where do you get that gift from to hold
15:00your head down and think that you are
15:01not important that you're not a child of
15:03God that you're not a Seed of Abraham
15:06no you've been given a gift to speak
15:09that my best will come forth say it with
15:13me my best will come forth say it out
15:16loud again
15:17[Applause]
15:19say I would perform at my best
15:23come on say it again
15:26that's what you're supposed to be
15:27speaking
15:29so the Apostle Paul is telling us here
15:31that we were all blessed with unique
15:34gifts
15:35gifts that are specifically tailored to
15:39match the grace
15:41that has been given to each and every
15:43one of us
15:46I've been pastoring for 32 years
15:49it's been a long journey
15:52but I have to confess to you
15:54it has been a fulfilling one
15:59I hear pastors complain I have pastors
16:02who call me
16:04some even have greater Church than me
16:06meaning more people than me
16:10and they will say to me Henry you make
16:13it look so easy what is it what what are
16:16you doing that I'm not doing and when
16:18they share some of the most intimate
16:20things with me
16:23and I look back and I never forget I
16:26responded to one of them by saying this
16:28when he asked the question how do you
16:31handle what you do and you walk with
16:34such Grace in it
16:37and I responded
16:39and I say
16:42because I've been empowered
16:45to do it
16:48so my calling as a leader watch this is
16:52not something I went out on my own to do
16:56[Applause]
16:58[Music]
17:00ah glory to God that's why it's not good
17:04to copy other people's responsibility if
17:09you are not called to do it
17:11stay out of it
17:14but when you're called to do something
17:17God and the Holy Spirit makes it so
17:21easy
17:25my responsibility as a leader is so easy
17:29because I was born to do this
17:33I was called to do it
17:36I didn't see another person and say well
17:38I want to be a preacher no
17:40in fact the truth is I never wanted to
17:42be a preacher
17:44I was thrust into this
17:47but I was called anointed and appointed
17:51so what would make other people think is
17:54a struggle
17:55it's fun
17:58I love it
18:00no matter what am I being challenged
18:03absolutely
18:05am I dealing with the Israelites
18:07absolutely
18:12inconsistent
18:15come on now one minute they say
18:18something the next minute they don't say
18:20anything come on now and if you've been
18:21in the church for a long time sometimes
18:24we church people can be cruel cold
18:28insensitive
18:33talk to me here now
18:35but when you're given the grace to walk
18:38into something just do it
18:41Paul is saying to us that God has wired
18:44us to perform at our best
18:47and this is based on the gift that he
18:50has empowered us with who've been
18:52empowered
18:53to be at our best so you don't tell
18:59don't tell me you cannot stand on the
19:02stage of life when God puts you at that
19:05workplace when God puts you into that
19:07marriage when God puts you into that
19:09relationship when God has given you the
19:11opportunity to bring children into the
19:14world don't stand here and tell me today
19:16you don't have the ability to do your
19:20job
19:22right
19:24you have the ability to do it
19:27don't tell me that you don't have the
19:30ability to finish college
19:33it's too much
19:36I don't know how I'm gonna make it
19:38you have the ability to do it
19:42because it's inside of you
19:44and if you prophesy to yourself
19:47that you're going to succeed
19:50then you will accomplish it
19:53first of all
19:54let me say this you have the capacity to
19:59perform well for god
20:03every assignment given to you you have
20:06the capacity to perform well
20:11you do listen to me young people
20:13you have the capacity to perform well
20:17and here's what Satan is doing Satan
20:20he's very
20:22subtle
20:23listen to me he is so subtle
20:27he knows as a young person
20:30all your mind is on
20:34is the now
20:37what you see in the moment
20:39how you feel
20:41he pushes you to operate with your
20:44senses
20:46if it looks good
20:48if it feels good
20:51if it tastes good
20:54if it sounds good
20:57good
21:00so he comes at you
21:03with all kinds
21:06plays on your emotions
21:10so young lady
21:11that's why he will send a young man in
21:15your life
21:17he looks good
21:18[Music]
21:19he sounds
21:22males
21:26that's his purpose
21:29because what you don't know
21:31as long as he can get you in the moment
21:35to make decisions that will cancel your
21:38tomorrow
21:40please hear me
21:42[Applause]
21:44all of a sudden
21:46he gets you to underperform
21:50in your youthful days
21:53so you will never over perform
21:56in your senior years
21:59you ask how many people are over 50 in
22:03this room are streaming
22:05you ask them
22:07how many times they have heard a voice
22:11say to them back in their teens in their
22:15twenties don't do that
22:19don't go there
22:23don't Embrace that
22:25talk to me here now
22:27but they didn't listen
22:30and they made bad decisions that they're
22:33actually
22:34live in the consequences of those bad
22:37decisions to this day
22:40do I have a witness out there
22:46because Satan wants you to underperform
22:49and never perform at your best
22:54no one lacks the ability to perform well
22:58in life
23:00anybody who says that to you or voices
23:03you're hearing
23:04that you don't have what it takes
23:07that's a lie
23:10Satan he comes and he's trying to tell
23:13you
23:14it's a lie
23:17you can't be your best now
23:19he'll come up with all kinds of reasons
23:22why
23:24you can't
23:26you will never perform well
23:29the problem is
23:31you keep choosing
23:33to underperform in life
23:36and because of that you're performing
23:39poorly
23:41because you're in this room you're
23:43streaming right now and what the devil
23:45has done he has lied to you
23:48and here's the thing stop lying to
23:50yourself
23:52it's one thing to have the devil lie to
23:55you
23:56but it's a whole nother thing when you
23:58start lying to yourself
24:00that you lack the strength and the
24:02fortitude to serve God
24:04you do possess the courage to perform
24:08well in times of pain lack betrayal
24:13uncertainty and dysfunction let me say
24:16it again
24:17you do possess the courage to perform
24:21well
24:22in times
24:24of pain
24:27you're sitting in here today
24:30and you look good
24:32you've got it all together
24:35no one could ever tell but deep on the
24:37inside of you you're broken and you're
24:40hurting
24:41you're in pain emotionally
24:45some of you actually physically
24:47but you do have the courage to perform
24:49watch this even when you're in pain
24:54who lied to you to tell you that you're
24:56going to walk your way through life
24:58happy ever after
25:02that every day you're gonna wake up and
25:04you're just gonna be clapping and
25:05knocking your tambourine like the
25:07children of Israel thinking that all is
25:09going to be well let me just be the
25:11first to tell you baby if you want to
25:13make it on the side of success in life
25:15you've got to learn to fight your way
25:18through life
25:20you're going to have to
25:24you possess the courage
25:28to perform even with lack
25:32even when you don't have enough
25:36even when there's insufficiency in your
25:39life
25:40it's too late to tell me that God won't
25:43work miracles with your deficiencies
25:48if you keep sitting there and keep
25:51prophesying I'm broke
25:54I don't have no money
25:56and be miserable and be angry and
26:00jealous over what other people have or
26:02get envious and totally disgusted and
26:06other people getting blessed
26:09you're canceling your blessing
26:12you can perform there's a bunch of us
26:15who can testify today
26:17that there were moments in our life we
26:20were flat broke
26:23but we didn't get up with a miserable
26:25look on our face we didn't go to work to
26:28tell everybody we were broke we didn't
26:30come to church and hold our heads down I
26:34don't know if there's anybody out there
26:35there are plenty of days we leave our
26:37house in our cars dressed up and look
26:41like a million dollars but bro but we
26:44knew that God would make a way somehow
26:50because we prophesy
26:53that he's away maker
26:58so we over perform
27:00broke and got ain't got no money but
27:03going to look for a house broke ain't
27:05got no money going to buy a car broke
27:09ain't got no money taking our children
27:11to college and know that God's gonna
27:13give us the tuition money am I talking
27:16to anybody in this place
27:19because we're prophesying to our future
27:22[Laughter]
27:24[Applause]
27:26we can perform in the midst of lack even
27:29when people betray us even with
27:31uncertainty and dysfunction secondly you
27:34are capable of Performing very well as a
27:38man a woman
27:40a fiance a husband a wife a father
27:44a mother a co-worker
27:47manager
27:49friend
27:51and most importantly as a kingdom
27:53citizen
27:55you have the ability to perform
27:59whatever God pushing you into
28:03please I ask you
28:06to own it
28:09stand up in it
28:12as a child of God knowing fully well
28:16that your past experiences have prepared
28:20you
28:21for the moment you're in
28:25some of you have been to Hell and back
28:30[Applause]
28:33you're in a moment
28:36sees the moment
28:39be the best person you can ever be
28:43change change your attitude
28:46and walk into the promises of God for
28:50your life
28:52so give life your best performance
28:55whatever it may be stand up
28:58get it together
29:01hold your head up
29:04on your stage
29:07face what is in front of you
29:10and then let your best self tell the
29:14story of God's grace upon your life
29:19own it
29:22I'm standing here today
29:25because of the grace of God
29:29I'm on in my stage
29:32I came from a poor family
29:36when I got to this country I could
29:39barely make it when I came to South
29:41Florida from New York
29:44all I had was 150 and a pound of roast
29:48beef
29:50wrapped up in a foil container
29:53and didn't have an apartment to live in
29:57and the only thing I had in the
29:59refrigerator was a gallon of water when
30:01I tell you there was absolutely no food
30:04in the refrigerator
30:07poor
30:09I just got married
30:11I was in a new city a new town
30:15but I was in the will of God
30:18the odds were against me here's an
30:20island boy come into South Florida back
30:24then it was not this diverse
30:27and I'm coming down here
30:30in a place I've never been before
30:34it was scary I was shaking I didn't know
30:37how I was going to make it I could not
30:40see myself on a stage like this I could
30:44not see that God would use me to speak
30:47to millions of people every day I didn't
30:50see it
30:53but when the moment arrived
30:57when the moment arrived
31:00July 7th 1991.
31:04when God said start the Faith Center
31:08and I got into a school cafeteria
31:12nobody showed up
31:14I was in the moment I was on the stage
31:17that God gave me
31:20and sometimes when God puts you on the
31:22stage
31:24you're not going to get the support you
31:26want
31:28sometimes it's lonely
31:31sometimes you're going to wish
31:35some of your loved ones would follow you
31:39sometimes nobody God will allow nobody
31:43to support you
31:46because I'm going to tell you something
31:48when you start leaning on people and
31:51people become your support
31:53they have a tendency to get in an
31:55attitude with you and they'll pull their
31:57support but when God is for you
32:01uh I feel my help in this place today
32:04when God is for you who in this world
32:09can be against you I am sent by God to
32:12tell somebody today when God is for you
32:16you stand on that stage hold your head
32:19up and speak the word of God and God
32:23will show up in your life
32:28tell your neighbor on the stage
32:31get on it
32:33hold your head up on it
32:37if you find yourself in life stage
32:40looking back
32:42the things that have hurt you
32:44and have caused you pain
32:47hold your head up
32:49please hold your head up
32:52get yourself together
32:55I don't know which woman God sent me
32:57here to talk to
32:58I don't know who's that man who's
33:00streaming today God says get yourself
33:03together
33:06let your voice be heard saying my God is
33:14a God who gives second chances to do
33:18life all over again all are not lost
33:21baby you can win again you can step in
33:25the moment you can seize the moment and
33:28you can be great for God
33:31but you gotta on the stage
33:34perhaps you're nervous this morning
33:37you're nervous about your future
33:40and you're wondering if people
33:43will approve of you
33:46will they'll even like you
33:50will they embrace you
33:53and even celebrate you
33:57but I'm going to ask you to stop
33:58thinking that way
34:02if you keep living your life
34:06thinking
34:08that people
34:10are the ones who are going to get you
34:13to the next side of life
34:16or you live in
34:19the blessed life when you're living the
34:21blessed life
34:23you will never perform at your best
34:34I was 29.
34:40two years into pastoring
34:44full of energy
34:46excitement
34:49and I know God spoke to me
34:54God said church was
34:56just growing like crazy
35:00people were coming couldn't have enough
35:03seats on the inside
35:05and God says
35:07it's your time I'm going to give you a
35:09building
35:1329 Young
35:17I remember I had a gentleman who
35:20was supposed to be my Bishop at the time
35:24and all I did I called him I was so
35:27excited 29.
35:30and I said come on
35:32I want to show you what the Lord is
35:34doing
35:38he drove on the property and
35:40I said I'd
35:42wasn't this building another building I
35:44said
35:45I'm believing God for this building
35:49and I'd love to
35:51get it and
35:52I just know that I have some great
35:54people behind me and
35:56I know this is my building
36:00and he was much older than I
36:04and he looked at me straight in the eye
36:07with a look
36:09I would never forget for the rest of my
36:11life
36:14he said young man
36:16who Do You Think You Are
36:20who Do You Think You Are
36:23did you get our permission
36:26to even do this
36:29what makes you think
36:32you can own something like this
36:37and then he said
36:39you're moving too fast
36:42and I'm going to watch you fail
36:50when he said that to me
36:55my best self
36:57rose up
36:58[Applause]
37:01I'm trying to help somebody in here
37:03today
37:04[Music]
37:06my best self
37:09said you have a choice to embrace what
37:13he said
37:15make that
37:16your destiny
37:19or you can speak life into your future
37:23long story short
37:26the same guy who told me those words
37:28years later
37:30made an appointment to see me
37:35watch this
37:38and sat down in my office and asked me
37:42he said I have to admit to you
37:46I need you to teach me
37:49watch this
37:51how to do this
37:54I've been pastoring longer than you
37:57and I'm nowhere close would you teach me
38:01he never apologized
38:04watch this he never apologized
38:07he just wanted
38:10to know how I did what I did
38:13so he can try it too
38:17and my old bad self let's put it that
38:20way
38:22my bad self
38:25what it uh what
38:29but my best self
38:32stood up and say show him
38:35[Music]
38:36because if it's in you
38:40but if it's not in you I don't care how
38:42much they tutor you
38:45why am I telling you this
38:49some of you have been told
38:53you will never amount to anything good
38:57some of you have been told who Do You
39:00Think You Are
39:04telling you when God put something in
39:06you young man
39:09young lady when God put something in you
39:12go
39:14for it
39:16go for it
39:19go for it
39:22I want to close with this
39:24because I think I'm helping somebody
39:25here
39:29you need to stop caring about what other
39:30people
39:31think of you
39:36stop caring about what other people
39:40think of you
39:43start thinking about what God thinks of
39:46you
39:47God prepared you he wired you and
39:50empowered you to be at your best so stop
39:53living your life missing out on the many
39:57cues
40:01that God has given you
40:03to let your best self come forward
40:07stop bearing your talents
40:10stop feeling like other people are more
40:13gifted than you
40:15you remember the story in the Bible
40:19and talents were given out
40:22one received five two and one
40:26and the one who received one was
40:28watching the one who received two and
40:30five
40:32if you keep living your life comparing
40:34yourself with other people
40:37it'll mess you up
40:40you will never perform well in life if
40:43you
40:44constantly think
40:47that other people are better looking
40:48than you
40:50more handsome than you
40:52more happier than you more successful
40:55than you
40:57more richer than you
41:00comparing yourself with others is
41:02denying your own potential
41:06Matthew 25 verse 15.
41:09and then I give you first beat of four
41:11and close
41:13terrible
41:15here's what Jesus
41:17said to one he gave five
41:20what did he give to you
41:24are you in something that you were never
41:27anointed to do
41:34have you taken a career
41:38that you went and spent a lot of money
41:41to be certified in because the the main
41:44reason why you did it was just for money
41:48it's dangerous
41:51you want to go into something that
41:53you're passionate about
41:55that you'll even do it for free
41:59because that's how much you love it
42:04that's your duty
42:05think about that
42:07and then he gave one two one five
42:11first Peter 4 10 and 11. and this is it
42:17I love this man
42:20each of you
42:23should use whatever gift you have
42:27received
42:28to serve others wait a minute
42:32you were not giving your gifts
42:34just to lock it up
42:38satisfy yourself
42:42because we're in a selfish Society
42:46people are even in relationship
42:49scream about love love love love love
42:51you always want somebody to love you
42:53right love me right make me feel good
42:55make me well are you are you doing the
42:58same to somebody else
43:02you're so demanding in your marriage
43:06what are you giving back
43:10and for you sisters who put these to men
43:12well I need a man he got to have a job
43:14he got to have a car he got to have good
43:17credit and he's got to have money in the
43:19bank and he's got to own his own home
43:21those are five things let me ask you do
43:23you have those five things
43:26[Applause]
43:27[Music]
43:32how dare you demand that a man should
43:35have those five things and you don't
43:37even possess one
43:39all you have is your looks
43:45cause you think your looks are worth
43:49him risking his credit
43:53his house his money his car and his
43:57career because he's smart he knows
44:02at the end
44:03you get half
44:06oh that went over their heads let me get
44:10back to the scripture
44:12each of you should use whatever gift
44:15you've received to serve others
44:18as faithful what stewards
44:22of God's grace
44:25in this various form verse 11.
44:27and then it says if anyone speaks
44:32they should do so as one who speaks the
44:35very words of God not what you feel
44:39you will only be at your best when you
44:41speak the words of God if anyone serves
44:44they should do so with not with your
44:48strength you listen you will never love
44:50somebody with their human strength alone
44:54because I don't care how long you've
44:56been married sometimes you want to kill
44:58your spouse and tell the Lord where you
45:00buried them
45:03sometimes you love your kids but how
45:05many of you want to kill your kids and
45:07show the Lord the stone you put at their
45:09graveside
45:15but you do it
45:17with the strength that God watch this
45:20provides you've got it
45:24you have it
45:26if you're called to be a spiritual
45:27leader
45:29he'll give you the strength to love his
45:31people
45:32so that in all things
45:36it's not about you
45:37you performing at your best is not so
45:40that you take the stage of life and
45:43people just applaud you
45:46at the end of the day
45:49when human Applause
45:52stop
45:53what you want to hear
45:55is God say to you well done
45:59good
46:01and faithful servant by your hips please
46:04and if you be so kind
46:06just give me a few minutes we're going
46:08to pray
46:10and I'm going to challenge you
46:12to do what you normally do every week
46:14you're streaming
46:16and I know God
46:18spoke to you I know that
46:21I sense it
46:22I feel it God spoke clearly to you this
46:25morning
46:26to be at your best self
46:30this time perform at your best
46:34you can
46:36you can go to that workplace and totally
46:38change your attitude
46:40you can go home totally change your
46:42attitude
46:45you can go back to that relationship
46:48and if you give it a second chance
46:51you can change it
46:53but it has to come from here father
46:57it is my hope that what you would what
46:59you have spoken to us about today
47:02that we'll embrace it
47:04even when parts of it
47:08touch some of the most sensitive areas
47:11of Our Lives
47:13that we must be willing to allow the
47:15word to correct us thank you for your
47:17people
47:19their willingness this morning to
47:21embrace it as we go out this week
47:24we stand firm
47:26knowing father you're going to bless us
47:28in a tremendous way
47:30[Music]