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💼 The 11th Hour Business: Checking In with the Ultimate CEO · Divine Timing

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  Speaker 1: Church family, grace and peace to you in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. How are you today? Me?
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  Speaker 1: I am well. Waking up to a morning cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: locked into God's message and ready to execute. Ready? Good.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. Many of you understand that God gives us choices.
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  Speaker 1: We have that freedom. Proverbs 16.1 tells us the plans
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  Speaker 1: of the heart belong to man. But what if I
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  Speaker 1: told you that given all the choices we have, the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate conclusion, if we are smart, is that we really
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  Speaker 1: have no choice. Let me explain. Imagine working for the
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  Speaker 1: most successful, powerful, and generous CEO in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the universe. His company owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
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  Speaker 1: His resources are infinite. And when you succeed in your role,
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  Speaker 1: who benefits? You do. It pleases the boss, and he
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  Speaker 1: blesses your life. Now imagine we are in the 11th
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  Speaker 1: hour of the workday. The sun is setting. The boss
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  Speaker 1: is coming back to settle accounts. That is where we
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  Speaker 1: are in the church age. The master is returning and
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  Speaker 1: we want to be found faithful. Think about the best
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  Speaker 1: job you ever had. Maybe you had a boss you
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  Speaker 1: actually liked. Checking in wasn't a dreaded obligation. Communication was open, helpful,
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  Speaker 1: even enjoyable. That is how our daily check-in with the
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  Speaker 1: Lord should be. This isn't rigid religion. It's a living
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  Speaker 1: relationship with the CEO of our souls. When we open
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  Speaker 1: his word, we're reading the corporate manual. When we pray,
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  Speaker 1: we have a direct line to the boardroom of heaven. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're following this teaching on divinetiming.io, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to open the featured image and really look at it
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  Speaker 1: because I want to explain what you're seeing. That graph
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  Speaker 1: represents what I'll call your business health meter. But the
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  Speaker 1: business is really your life, and God is the ultimate CEO.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the line. There are seasons when it rises,
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  Speaker 1: when we're praying, opening his word, listening, and asking for direction,
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  Speaker 1: and allowing God to correct our course. Then come the dips.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we stop checking in. Pornography creeps in. Alcohol starts
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  Speaker 1: controlling us. Maybe it's cursing, laziness, pride, anger, greed, or
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  Speaker 1: simply becoming so distracted by the world that we start
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  Speaker 1: running the company without consulting the CEO. Now hear me carefully.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying every financial loss, failed business deal, or
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  Speaker 1: hardship means God is punishing you. That's not the point.
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  Speaker 1: The point is direction. God gives us freedom, but choices
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  Speaker 1: have consequences. Choices create trajectories. And here's the beautiful part.
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  Speaker 1: The dip does not have to be the end of
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  Speaker 1: the graph. When we recognize the drift and turn back
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  Speaker 1: toward God, when we pray, open his word, repent where necessary,
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  Speaker 1: and say, Lord, I've been trying to run this myself.
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  Speaker 1: Show me what you want. The trajectory can change. Church,
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  Speaker 1: that's the opportunity. Activate your faith. The boardroom isn't closed.
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  Speaker 1: You have access to the one who sees around corners
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  Speaker 1: you cannot see. He knows tomorrow while you're still trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out today. He knows which doors should open,
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  Speaker 1: which should close, what needs to leave your life, and
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  Speaker 1: what he wants to develop inside you. So yes, God
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  Speaker 1: gives us choices. But once you understand who is sitting
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  Speaker 1: in that boardroom, who knows the future, and who wants
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  Speaker 1: to guide you, if we're playing it smart, What choice
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  Speaker 1: do we really have? Check in with the CEO. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: himself used this business analogy. In Matthew 25, he tells
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  Speaker 1: the parable of the talents. A master entrusts his property
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  Speaker 1: to his servants. When he returns, he settles accounts. The
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  Speaker 1: faithful servants who worked with what they were given hear
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  Speaker 1: those beautiful words, well done, good and faithful servant. Then
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew 20, the owner of the vineyard goes out
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  Speaker 1: at the 11th hour. just one hour before closing time,
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  Speaker 1: to bring in more workers. Church, look at the clock.
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  Speaker 1: It is the 11th hour. Ephesians 5 tells us to
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  Speaker 1: make the best use of our time. And 2 Chronicles 16.9
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  Speaker 1: tells us the eyes of the Lord range throughout the
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  Speaker 1: earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose
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  Speaker 1: hearts are fully committed to him. He's looking for us.
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  Speaker 1: He's available to us. Why would we try to navigate
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  Speaker 1: this life alone? Whether you're in Nigeria, the Philippines, America,
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  Speaker 1: Latin America, Russia, or anywhere else, if you belong to
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  Speaker 1: the church of the living God, we are family. We're
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  Speaker 1: on the same team, working for the same master. So
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  Speaker 1: check in with him today. Open the word. Pray. Listen
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  Speaker 1: for his voice. Do business with your talents. And if
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  Speaker 1: your health meter has dipped, don't stare at the dip.
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  Speaker 1: Turn back to the one who can redirect your path.
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  Speaker 1: The sun is setting on this age, and the master
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  Speaker 1: is at the door. Let us be found faithful when
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  Speaker 1: he arrives, so that we might hear those ultimate words
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  Speaker 1: of commendation. Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into
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  Speaker 1: the joy of your master. If this teaching encouraged you,
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  Speaker 1: We are family, and we're in this together. And, if
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  Speaker 1: you enjoyed this teaching, let me know where you're from.
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  Speaker 1: God be with you. This is David signing off.