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Be Intentional | Who Did God Create You To Be? · The Curt Landry Podcast

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Hey everyone, you're listening to the Curt Landry podcast where we're going to help you
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discover your kingdom destiny.
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My name is Darrell and sitting right beside me as always it's his show.
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It's Rabbi Curt Landry himself and in this episode we're talking about attentionality,
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about being intentional about your goals and about things that you want to accomplish.
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The Rabbi before we get going just really wanted to see how you're doing, how was your
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weekend, what is up with you?
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Hey, it was a great weekend and you know as I prayed about discussing this subject about
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being intentional, I realized that a lot of times you can get so to say mystical about
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faith where somehow the intentionality of time, task and activity, habits and patterns can
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kind of go to the wayside.
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If you're in the world of self-improvement and you come out of corporate behavioral
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training which I come from, all of that is very common, intentions, goals, time, task,
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activity, habits and patterns, behavior, attitude, mindsets, all of that is everything
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that I was trained at before I was 36 years old but understanding that the last year that
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I was in business, in that business before I got saved, at 35 years old, the project
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I was working on made $7.6 million.
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So I'm not saying it doesn't work, it does generate revenue but I had no peace and no
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direction.
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And so kind of part of my testimony is that once I got saved, I kind of dropped all that
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and then just spent intentionally about a 10-year period of time just really studying the law
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and God's scripture and new and old Testament but primarily studying the law and the instruction
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of God and the proverbs to understand if God is the creator of all things and he is and
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Solomon was the wisest man that ever lived and he was, then I should be able to learn
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from them.
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So basically I went with about a 10-year season of time where I took all that corporate training
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that I had and I was licensed NLP trainer and all that.
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I took all of that and laid it aside and totally meditated and saturated myself in the Lord
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and then as we were going into after that 10-year period of time, going into full-time
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ministry, Christy and I, I realized I was going to have to go back to some of my goal
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setting, back to some of my more practical intentions and applying it to the Spirit and
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it wasn't and it didn't mean that I was operating in the flesh.
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It just means I was basically being a good steward of my mindset, my time and my activity
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and it's really helped me.
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So I'm at a place now 34 years later where I feel like I have for myself personally a
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decent balance of intentionality, faith and operating in things that are not seen.
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So that's what faith is, is operating in things that have not been seen or doing things that
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have not been seen.
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So really my intention of this podcast is to try to help people find a balance between
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practical intentionality and practical time task and activity management and spiritual
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life.
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Yeah, it's kind of the vision for this podcast.
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Obviously, dive it into stories, how those are relatable, how you can connect with people
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on a different level, Rabbi, but our hope overall is that, especially on the topic of
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being intentional, because everything that you do starts with something and it's the
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act of it.
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And so in a second, I want to jump in that, but being intentional, I guess in terms of
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people deciding to listen to this podcast.
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It's an act of something.
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And so when you start ground level saying, hey, I know that I need to change XYZ, or
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I want something, so I need to get in proximity of that.
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What's the first thought of intentionality that comes to you where you say, okay, I need
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to do this?
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The first question you have to ask yourself is, you have to ask yourself, who am I in
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Christ?
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Who am I?
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Because there has to be, if you're going to be intentional, you have to be intentional
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to something, like what is that?
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And then the second thing is, am I reflecting my identity in him?
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And what do I have to do to grow it?
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So one of the things is that so many times people want to create, if I do a lot of purpose
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activity, I'll find my identity.
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And I've written a book, Reclaiming Our Forgotten Heritage, and the whole purpose of the book,
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and you can get that online, anyplace books are sold.
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But the reason I wrote that book, and the reason I think that book is so important is
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this.
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And like I said, I spent probably from about 21, 22, up till 35.
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I was blessed.
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Everything I did seemed to prosper.
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It's very hard working, but I had really good behavioral principles under me from my parents
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and different mentors that I had.
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And so, you know, I was successful.
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When I say that, I was able to make more money than most people at that age.
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And people say, oh, he's got the golden touch.
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It's not really a touch.
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What it is, it's intentionally focusing on what I did, was doing what I was good at.
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So I want to say this to people, if you want to find out who you are in Christ, you need
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to ask yourself.
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It's very simple.
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What are you good at?
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What are you good at?
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What is it, if it wasn't for money and providing for your family, what would you love to do?
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I'm very blessed.
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Like what you're hearing me do right now, this is what I love to do.
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So it's because I was, it's who I am in Christ.
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I'm a teacher.
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And so my identity needs to reflect the fact that I'm a teacher.
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And so what happens is, how do I grow as a teacher is, here I am, basically, have been
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asked to speak at all levels of society.
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And yet I'm very unsatisfied with my communication skills.
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I'm constantly, actually, I'm going the opposite direction as most speakers.
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I'm trying to become more simple and not so complex.
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I'm, I'm trying to be more grassroots and more real.
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And I'm not trying to be more sophisticated because I really think that the key to an audience,
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if my message is, and it is, that you're going to unlock your destiny, then you have to unlock
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why did God, who did God create you to be and how do you find it?
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What's the practice of being intentional?
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I mean, is it, is it something while you're in the moment of having a conversation or,
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you know, preaching or giving a public speech?
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Is it something that is, is you have to be intentional, being intentional in your own
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head to slow down and hit a trigger point?
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I mean, like, what's a good technique to put yourself into that zone?
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Two habits and patterns.
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Habits and patterns will either strengthen your intentionality so that when you do something,
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you're more effective or it will weaken it.
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So these are two real basic things.
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Always end on a good note.
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Whatever you're doing, I do this with my grandkids and sometimes they don't understand.
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But even at two, three, four years old, I was doing this with them with the eight year
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old.
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Now she understands that if we're shooting basketball hoops as an example or we're swimming,
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we're trying to hold our breath for a minute underwater and we only get to 45 seconds.
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We're not getting out of the pool until we get to that 60 second with the eight year
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old and she can't hold her skin older breath actually now longer than a minute.
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But the point is, is that she's not leaving the pool defeated as a quitter.
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She didn't quit.
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So her intention is if she says she's going to do something and it's within her practical
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ability to accomplish it, then she needs to quit everything she does.
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She needs to finish on a good note.
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Third, when you go to bed at night as a Christian, you need to go to bed and you need to pray
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this simple prayer.
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Father, I thank you for everything you've done for me this day, but also forgive me
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for the areas that I've messed up.
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Forgive me of my sin.
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Do not go to bed with sin.
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Do not go to bed with offense.
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You're going to bed and then ask the Lord, Father God, send your messenger and ministering
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angels to me as I rest and sleep with downloads and witty inventions.
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Ask for it so that that Lord, I can be a better person the next day.
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The next morning when you wake up after you use the restroom and you get your coffee or
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whatever your tea or whatever your practice is, give that first 15 or 20 minutes to the
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Lord.
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Those are real basic habits and patterns.
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If you quit, you always finish on a good note, ask the Lord to forgive your sins, thank
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him for the day, good and bad, and start the day off with him.
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Those three things, if you did that for 12 months, you will be a completely different
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person in 12 months.
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All right.
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So let's move to, well, let's put this way.
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Let's get a little bit deeper.
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Okay.
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Let's get to practical type of things, something that's systematic, right?
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Something we can follow.
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And I absolutely love this guide, this resource that Curtin Landry Ministries has.
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And it's something that you've taught for a really long time.
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It's called goals to grow.
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And for consistency, for the intentionality of trying to grow spiritually.
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But the part I love about it, Rabbi, is that it helps you win and achieve your goals for
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yourself throughout the year, if you can be intentional.
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And so kind of introduce us to it a little bit and where someone that is going to download
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this guide.
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And for the quick link on that, that's just CurtinLandry.com forward slash grow 2024.
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But where would somebody start with this guide?
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Okay.
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If this guide, first of all, I'm very proud of it.
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It's basically, I've taken about 45 years experience out of the world and the different
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systems that, of self-improvement that I've, books I've read.
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And I basically circumcised it, so to say, and made it biblical.
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I took out the, the, um, unbiblical stuff out of behavioral change and mindsets and
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kind of made it kosher.
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And, and, but the steps are really simple.
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In fact, in the first chapter of this, it says today we are intentional steps together
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to apply acts.
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And this is a teaching principle that I've used for years called acts, ACT, apply, change
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and transform.
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So what happens is you have to be able to ask the questions that are in this workbook
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and the questions will identify what your goals are.
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And then you will apply the scriptures and the habits and patterns together.
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If you take, and you have a scriptural base, okay, I'm just giving you an example.
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You're facing a fear.
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You're, you're, you're wanting to go into public speaking.
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Okay.
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And, um, you really feel like you have something to say, but you're one of those people and
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it's one of the most fearful things as people to, to public speak.
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So you have to face the fear.
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So what you do is the key to public speaking is to own what you're going to speak on.
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You have to own it, not just know it, not reading a teleprompter.
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You have to own it.
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Okay.
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So you have to invest time.
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Preparation is the key.
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You know, is, uh, uh, for me on a Friday night, I'm going to speak for 45 minutes to
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an hour.
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I usually have eight to 10 hours of prep time for that.
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And my problem is I have too much information.
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So what I have to do, but I've been doing this forever.
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So what I have to do is narrow it down to what I really think people can absorb in this
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session.
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So, so what you have to do is you have to own the information, but then the, the other
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key to it is when you get ready to, to deliver it, you need to pray a prayer like this saying,
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Father God, I ask you to remove all fear, all doubt, all unbelief that I can deliver
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this message in a way that would bring glory to you.
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I decree and declare that I am truly more than conqueror through Christ Jesus.
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I, I buying that spirit of fear because I take authority over, I cast it off my mind.
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I decree, let this mind be in you who is in Christ Jesus.
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And Lord, your word says, Lord, in the Psalms that you will give me the tongue of a well
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and ready writer.
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So what happens is now that what I just did with you, I do that almost every time I speak,
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I am more than a conqueror.
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I have the tongue of a well and ready writer and his word shall not come back void, but
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shall prosper in that which it is sent to do.
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His word is spirit and life.
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I am anointed of God to break every yoke of darkness over those who I'm speaking to.
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You have to be able.
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So what's happening is I've, I own the message.
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I have good notes.
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I know it's going to fit within the timeframe that I'm asked to deliver, but I've also backed
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it up with scripture.
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And that's really what goals to grow by is it gives you the applied change and transform
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and the scriptures you need.
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It gives you the ability to ask questions like, what is it, who you are, what do you
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need to be doing?
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And here's the scriptures to back it up and we'll be right back.
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All right now back to the show.
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What's the impasse you think with people in general creating goals, right?
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You know, it's kind of like starting a one-year Bible or like a daily devotional, you know,
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I mean like January's upon us, right?
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And a lot of Christians have purchased multiple guides, right, to help them just read Scripture
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consistently, right?
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And I mean, I know for myself, but like most Christians go into it with excitement, right?
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The intentionality of like, I'm going to finally do one year perfect.
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I'm probably going to win one year of just reading my Bible.
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But I guess my question to come back to, what's that impasse in general with creating goals,
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right?
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Because everybody's going to have them around the first of year, many or few.
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But like what's that area to like where people don't succeed?
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I, this is just my opinion.
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Okay.
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I'm just giving you, you know, because I've watched.
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I'll share it to a story, testimony.
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Years ago I was at TL Osborne's house and a lot of people may not know who that is, but
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he was one of the world's largest evangelists, led more people to the Lord than anybody in
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his generation, a tremendously wise man, very smart and very simple.
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And he lived in Tulsa and I was blessed to have about 10 year window of time with him.
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We were truly friends and our connection and friendship was that we absolutely like, like
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you can have friends that you play golf with.
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You can have friends.
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My, my, my relationship with TL was he and I loved to unpack scripture and the deeper,
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the better that was our relationship.
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And, but he, he gave me this advice.
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It's kind of a long way of going about to answer your question.
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We're sitting in his, in his living room there at his house and he points over at the light
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switch and he says, rabbi, you see the light switch?
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I said, yeah.
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He says, it takes absolutely no faith for me to turn that light switch on out of habit.
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I will go, I flip it and I know the lights coming on because I trust that the action
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of flipping that switch and the electricity to turn the light on, I trust it's not faith.
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I said, wow.
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And he said, can I give you some advice?
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I said, sure.
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He said, now realizing this was probably maybe 16 years ago, he said, if you'll make
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a choice of one thing every year that you're going to turn from faith to trust and identify
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it in your life where you actually put it in your goals to grow by and you say, I am
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going to not have to like believe for, uh, I'll just give you an example.
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My, one of my things is per physical protection.
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You know, I'm a target.
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I'm a public figure.
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Um, I have security.
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I have security really for the people around me more than myself.
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But there was years ago where I said, I'm just going to trust the Lord.
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So we just came back from this trip from Israel.
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How can you go where you went?
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Because my trust in the Lord isn't by faith.
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I own the trust in the Lord.
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I own it.
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It's like the light switch, but it was on purpose.
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It took like a whole year of actually meditating on scriptures.
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It's like, it's like wealth.
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If you have to remember it's God who gives you the ability to create wealth.
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I don't worry about money.
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Okay.
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Uh, it's, I don't have a lack of money and I haven't for years, but it's, it's the revelation
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of it is Deuteronomy eight 18 through 20 for it's God who gives you the ability to create
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wealth.
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Why?
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To establish his covenant.
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When you realize that God wants to prosper you to, to actually vindicate that his ways
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work, then it's easier to follow.
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So I own that.
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So I don't worry about my protection.
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I don't worry about my finance.
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Think about what, what a, a blessing to not have to exercise faith for protection and
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money where most people are sweating money and they're sweating faith.
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I mean the protection that came from TL Osborne because what happened is I basically took
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kind of a goals to grow by and I say this year I am not going to be afraid of finance.
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I am not going to be afraid of health.
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I am not going to be afraid of relationship.
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You need to just, so what I'm saying to you Darrell is when I see people fail is because
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what happens is they have too many goals.
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You need to choose one goal and say, listen, it's 2024.
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It's the year of the door.
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And I look at my personal inventory and what's my biggest fear?
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Why don't you tackle that, identify it and get all the scriptures that is whatever that
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fear is and start to crean over that believing for that one thing and guess what 16 years
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from now you're going to be sitting here with TL and now I've got 16 things.
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Christie and I just talked about the other day.
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I told her, I said, do you remember when TL challenged me with that?
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I remember I was in such a hurry then I thought, oh, I gotta have faster.
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But literally I just do it every year.
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And so you just work on it.
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It's interesting.
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Like for me, my goal for 2024 personally is working on relationship.
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I want to be able to have more skills to be able to interact with more different people
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in a very practical way.
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I want to be able to trust the Lord that I can become more of a crescent wretch, that
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I can talk to a Muslim.
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Like it doesn't make any difference like whoever it is, if I have to share the information
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that's in me with somebody else, I want to be able to have relationship skills that I
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can trust that I am more than conqueror through Christ Jesus.
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So because it's not about protection, it's not about money and it's not about health.
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Those are areas that I've kind of feel like I'm comfortable in.
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I want to deal with relationship.
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So whatever it is with you, whatever your question is for young people, money, your
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marriage, you have to be intentional about your marriage because if you're not intentional
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about your marriage, then everything else falls apart because you and your wife, you
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are in the math.
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When I do counseling and do weddings, I only marry people in the House of David.
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But the few that I've done, I always say the same thing.
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You have to understand the math of biblical marriage.
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One plus one equals one.
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You have become one and you have to learn how to, through the seasons of time, operate
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in that.
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So you may only be operating in faith that you can operate as a loving, honoring, respectful
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partner in marriage.
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But how about if you just trust that God sent you this person?
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Where that's important is when you disagree and you get offended and it will happen.
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And particularly if the other person is being used to so to say, sand down your rough edges,
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you have to be able to say, no, the Lord, I trust the Lord, he gave me this person.
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And our goal as a couple is not to prosper is not to be financially.
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It's great.
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Listen, I'm good with all the financial goals and the stuff.
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All of that is secondary.
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Your marriage is there is to be, to come together, to be transformed into the likeness of Christ.
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If you'll seek first that kingdom and that likeness and you say, Father God, you sending
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us these children, our job is that they reflect you, not us.
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Then what happens is all of the things, the money, the influence, the resources, the health
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all falls into place.
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So one thing that really stuck out to me is your basic number one goal for 2024 that brings
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it to a really unique spot.
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Not only at Curt Landry Ministries, but just in theology, church, ministry, just the whole
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side, right?
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When it comes to content and communication and developing relationships, something that's
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really unique that we've been working on on the creative media side is basically taking
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your Shabbat.
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So like a lesson that you'd preach on a Friday night and turning that into different languages.
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Not just like, oh, okay, I hear someone dub over the top, which is basically people that
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know exactly what that is, speaking over the top of your audio in, say, Spanish, right?
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But actually using technology to take your actual lesson and, hey, I didn't know Rabbi
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spoke Spanish, right?
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To take that to the next level, did you ever think that like, I mean, I don't know, I mean,
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maybe it would line up with your 2024, but like how cool you kind of think about an opportunity
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to reach a completely different audience of people to spread the gospel?
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I mean, like, did any of that kind of come into like your number one goal or am I just
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kind of shooting at a left field of this?
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No, it has to do with my relationship is being the voice.
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You know, on this recent trip to Israel, I shared my testimony with about 250 soldiers.
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And so, and they had all received my book in Hebrew.
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And I just shared with them, I said, I made a decision in 1991 to be a voice to speak
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for the Lord.
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And I said, and you, your soldiers, I said, your, your actions are helping fulfill that
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voice because a lot of what I speak is prophetic words and prophecy fulfillment of God's word,
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particularly involved to the land of Israel and the people of Israel.
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That message, I think that the most important thing for businesses, families, and particularly
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spiritual churches and ministries, your alignment with standing with Israel being blessed because
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you do it unto the least of these, my brethren, you bless Israel and you'll be blessed.
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That revelation needs to be in every language, absolutely every language.
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I mean, you know, there's, there's bizarre things happening.
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You have one of the ministers in Turkey here just last week and he gets up and he's cursing
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Israel.
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He's at the pulpit there where it, at their government meeting.
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It's like they're in, he's in their Congress room and he's, and he's just spilling out,
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spilling out all this hate.
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You know, we're going to, we're going to annihilate and remove Israel.
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He finishes, he folds up his message.
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He literally took one step to the left and falls to the ground and dies with a heart
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attack.
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Okay.
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And it was in Turkish and they had the thing.
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So the whole world's watching this, but wouldn't it have been good if the people in Turkey would
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have heard some of the messages that I've speak about in Turkish about blessing and standing
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with Israel.
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There has to be something that I mean, it's, we can't do it right now, but that was a prime
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time where the whole nation and the Middle East is watching this guy.
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He gets up in this violent rant and literally turns around and falls to the ground.
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Now I'm not saying that God took them out.
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It could have just been a coincidence.
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That was his day to go, but it would have sure been good if we could have had our message
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on Genesis 12, three and about blessing Israel.
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All right.
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So let's bring it back now.
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So we, we've talked about attentionality, made it relatable, some stories from your
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life, your career, and we've looked at some different perspectives on it.
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Let's bring it back to, let's say, step two.
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Okay.
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So we know that this resource exists.
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It's obviously, if you want to go back, listen to different parts of this episode, you can
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go back and listen.
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But if you want to find this actual guide, it's a free download, CurtLandry.com forward
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slash grow 2024.
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Let's end it on this note.
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What's step two?
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Because we'll have other podcasts to where we can come back and 2024 just started.
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So let's really dive deep into the goals to grow.
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But what's step two for the listener right now to say, Hey, Rabbi, download your guide.
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I picked that one thing.
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What's step two to that one thing and their goals to grow?
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Being in the fruit of the spirit intentionally.
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I will walk in the fruit of the spirit.
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I will walk in love, peace, joy, uh, long suffering.
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I will walk in covenant with God.
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That's it.
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Because so what happens is when you get angry or you get frustrated and you're wanting to
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sin, you have to be able to have that knee jerk reaction that stops you and says, you
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know what, I cannot afford to walk in the flesh because what it's going to do, it's
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going to erode my timetable of the goals that I set because God's trying to establish his
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covenant with me.
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I pray, I write it down, I believe, but what happens is my walk, I need to intentionally,
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it might be a great goal for some of you to say, okay, what, what area of my life do I
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want to, um, uh, make like one goal.
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You might want to say, you know what, my goal for 2024 is Galatians 5 22 through 23, but
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the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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gentleness, self control against such.
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There is no law and that may be your goal and your goal would be to say, I'm not going to
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walk in the flesh intentionally because if I do it, I know it's going to cost me my covenant
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blessing.
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I mean, what a, what a huge life changing single goal.
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I'm going to walk in, I'm going to walk in the spirit.
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Man, tons to unpack in this episode of the Curt Landry podcast.
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If you have questions, uh, if you have direction, you have show topics, anything that you want
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to really shoot to us, uh, send it over to podcast at CurtLandry.com, uh, you know, do
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emails because right about, we get a ton of requests, we get a ton of response and you
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know, that's, that's kind of one of the hopes of this podcast.
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Um, getting feedback, helping people discover their kingdom destiny.
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You know, it's something that the ministry is incredibly, um, excited about as we release
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different types of content and, um, you know, I mean, different languages and really pushing
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the envelope in terms of just reaching that next generation.
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Uh, Rabbi, lasting thought for this episode and then we're going to skip out.
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Uh, my lasting thought is make sure that you, part of your goals to grow is to have fun.
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You're going to have to have some leisure and some fun time and you're going to have
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to schedule it in.
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And the reason I say that is I'll be bringing a prophetic word on 2024.
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Uh, in fact, I'll, I think I'm going to be recording it for a ministry here this week.
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And, and part of that word's going to be, you're going to have to maintain the joy of
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the Lord, which is your strength.
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So you, you can't just, uh, this is going to be a rough year.
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There's going to be a lot of bad news and there's going to be a lot of good opportunities.
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So you, in the midst of the bad news, there's good opportunities, but you have to intentionally
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on purpose figure out how to have fun.
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Whatever that is, whatever it is that you do that you, you, uh, make puzzles in the
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winter, I don't know what it is.
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You play golf, you fish, um, uh, what, whatever it is you cook, whatever that you love to
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do, be watchful over it so that you intentionally do it.
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So protect your joy and per, because here's the thing is we're coming to an end of a season
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of a major sin that is death and that harvest is the Lord is going to harvest the tears
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with judgment and you just need to keep your head bowed, stay full of joy, knowing that
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the best is yet to come.
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One last thing, if you've made it to the end of this episode, every single link, every
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single, uh, resource that we've mentioned, you can find in the show notes in the description
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on this episode, um, of this podcast again, Rabbi, it was a pleasure.
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This episode on intentionality being intentional goals to grow.
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Uh, just a reminder, you can go to curtainlandry.com forward slash grow 2024.
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All right, Rabbi, until next time.
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Thank you.