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335. When Purpose Feels Stuck - How To Take The Next Step · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 1: It is a hard thing, but it's where you want
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  Speaker 1: to be to have both humility and ambition at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. There's many times my life where I feel this,
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  Speaker 1: where it's like, man, I thought I was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be doing so much more than what I'm doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: But I also have the humility to be where you're
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  Speaker 1: at and be faithful where you're at, because if this
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  Speaker 1: is where God has me, this is where I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be in this season, and God will move me
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  Speaker 1: from I don't I don't have I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: go promote myself. God promotes shepherds into king. So what
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  Speaker 1: I got to do is be great exactly where I'm at.
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  Speaker 2: That's impossible.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you what I believe.
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  Speaker 2: It's your weakness.
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  Speaker 3: It's not your technique.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think you.
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  Speaker 1: they tell you it's too hard, it's just waiting to
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  Speaker 2: What would it take?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to another episode would the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 3: your co host Nick Surface, and I'm looking across as
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  Speaker 3: a man who is currently suing the DMV for defamation
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  Speaker 3: of character. That's right, friends, Garrett uncle back a man
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  Speaker 3: who knows smiling in his driver's license picture is not
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  Speaker 3: on brand. Definitely the fame, I mean your character. Dary's
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  Speaker 3: laughing because literally, yesterday we were purchasing a gun together.
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  Speaker 3: Not like it's not our gun, but you were purchasing
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  Speaker 3: a gun and I was with you, and you pulled
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  Speaker 3: out your license and I was like, bro, you're smiling
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  Speaker 3: in your picture. And you're like, yeah, I need to
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  Speaker 3: get that retaken. That actually shocked me.
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  Speaker 1: Picture was during COVID. I don't know what that says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: things were weird.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I didn't know what was going on. I did
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  Speaker 3: not expect you to have a smiling driver's license picture.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, there you go, raise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's a driver's license used for? Usually either
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  Speaker 1: something you need access to or you've been pulled over.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe like, don't mean mug the people that you know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, the guy's gonna look at you though and
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  Speaker 3: control your fate, and yeah, maybe he's not.
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  Speaker 1: I smile at police officers. I'm you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: turn the charm on when when needed.
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  Speaker 3: You know, And I've seen you turn the charm on
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  Speaker 3: and it's always a it's a tool, tool in the
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  Speaker 3: tool bag. Yeah I don't think I like that tool
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  Speaker 3: in your tool bag. All right, Gee, today's episode is
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  Speaker 3: take the next step of your purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about purpose till the day we die,
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  Speaker 3: because it is I think it is the essence of
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  Speaker 3: what really drives someone to live the impossible life. Is
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  Speaker 3: that that eternal calling card of the Lord that, like
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  Speaker 3: we are meant for purpose.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite scriptures on the topic, Ecclesiastes three
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  Speaker 1: to eleven, God placed eternity in the human heart inside
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  Speaker 1: each and every one of us. There is this hole
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  Speaker 1: that cannot be filled. There's a feeling, there's a sensation
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  Speaker 1: that no other sense that you indulge in can fulfill
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  Speaker 1: this desire to fulfill what God's put you on the
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  Speaker 1: earth to do. We all, like animals, don't think like, man,
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  Speaker 1: am I living up to my purpose? You inherently man
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  Speaker 1: knows that we are here for a reason, and you
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  Speaker 1: seek that reason right now? I mean, there's other It's
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  Speaker 1: not a reflection of iq, right, It's a reflection of
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  Speaker 1: the way God made us. Because you know, the example
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  Speaker 1: I use all the time is I've met some, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really dumb people, and I've met some really smart animals,
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  Speaker 1: and I know I have met an animal that is
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  Speaker 1: smarter than the dumbest person that I've ever met. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm just using that as an example of purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Is not a reflection of intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: It's a reflection of we were made in God's image,
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  Speaker 3: and so what animals don't look up at the stars
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  Speaker 3: and think like why am I here? What is my
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  Speaker 3: life matter? What's my place in all of this? But man,
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  Speaker 3: does I think that's so good? Because I think evolutionists
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  Speaker 3: would say that it's just a function of like when
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  Speaker 3: you asked that question slowly because you're superior intelligence, and
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  Speaker 3: what you're saying is you're like, no, that's God's pulling
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  Speaker 3: on us. It's his design work in the way it's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to work. So ge this really is for people
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  Speaker 3: like to take the next step because so many people
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  Speaker 3: like don't know what to do, or they feel like
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  Speaker 3: they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, and
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  Speaker 3: they just there's something unsettling when you're doing something. You're like, man,
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm made for more. We had a last
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  Speaker 3: week we went out to dinner with some friends. If
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  Speaker 3: you listen to the podcast, I know we're getting a
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  Speaker 3: lot of new listeners because they're commenting on Spotify, which
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  Speaker 3: we always appreciate. So love having you guys, you first
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  Speaker 3: timers here and if you haven't heard, you'd have to
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  Speaker 3: go back to It was in late March when we
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  Speaker 3: did our fifty mother and my wife unfortunately had the
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  Speaker 3: terrible experience of getting hype innatremia, not getting she drank
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  Speaker 3: so much water because it was so hot, she got
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  Speaker 3: hype innatremia and almost died.
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  Speaker 1: So it was somehow, you know, ninety five degrees in
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  Speaker 1: March in Texas. Lendsay and I were talking about that yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: just like, you know, so far, you know, Pierce is
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  Speaker 1: doing up. I can't remember what it's like, the hobb
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  Speaker 1: and Arrow or yeah, some hot race and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm over hot races. Yeah, because every ultra we've done
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  Speaker 1: so far has been a hot one.
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  Speaker 2: Always. We thought this was going to be finally be
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  Speaker 2: the nice weather cultra.
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  Speaker 3: But we've run in December twice and March. What is like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we just need to leave Texas. I think
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  Speaker 3: we talked about to other people about how they need
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  Speaker 3: to use wisdom. Maybe we just need to plant our
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  Speaker 3: next ultra, like go to Colorado, like where we can
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  Speaker 3: guarantee the weather, because Texas doesn't like us anyways. Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: I'm down, let's go. Yeah, we're doing the cold weather one.
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  Speaker 3: But so Rien had an honestly of a brush with death.
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  Speaker 3: The doctor told me he was like it was a
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  Speaker 3: critical illness, and I was tired. I had been up
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  Speaker 3: for like twenty one hours and run thirty seven miles
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  Speaker 3: in ninety six degree. I was like, just tell me straight,
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  Speaker 3: was she going to die? He's like, yes, she was
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  Speaker 3: going to die. I was like, well, thank you for
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  Speaker 3: saving her life. So I'm saying this now and you
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  Speaker 3: can go back and listen to the whole story, because
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  Speaker 3: it was an incredible display of God's grace and his goodness.
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  Speaker 3: That is the real story there. But what was so
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  Speaker 3: interesting we went out with some of the people that
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  Speaker 3: were instrumental in saving her life and I could just
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  Speaker 3: to say thank you, and we took them out and
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  Speaker 3: it was really sweet to kind of relive that night
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  Speaker 3: with them. And she asked a question. She said, so,
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  Speaker 3: did you guys find like this, like a whole new
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  Speaker 3: closeness in your marriage and just in life after the experience,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because she watched it.
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  Speaker 2: She watched Rian.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she was in shock, muttering incoherent, incomprehensible like words.
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  Speaker 3: It sounded like she was speaking in tongues for hours.
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  Speaker 3: She couldn't even give her own name. So it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of weird when you see somebody you love like that
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  Speaker 3: in that state. And so she was with us while
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  Speaker 3: that was going on. So she asked me that question.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you know what, I was like, Reen and
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  Speaker 3: I talked about this eight weeks after I looked at her,
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  Speaker 3: I said, you had that, and obviously it took you
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  Speaker 3: weeks to recover and get back to your full state
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  Speaker 3: of energy. But once you did that, we just went
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  Speaker 3: right back to our life. And that's the answer I
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  Speaker 3: said to I said, if you asked me before that
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  Speaker 3: that marathon, how our how our marriage was, I would say,
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  Speaker 3: it's the best it's ever been and it's getting better.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, and if you ask me that now,
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  Speaker 3: it's the same exact answer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, so we just I was like, that
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  Speaker 3: was one of the things I was actually pretty proud
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  Speaker 3: of is there was nothing that it was like, oh man,
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  Speaker 3: we should really look at this, or we should spend
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  Speaker 3: more family time, or we shouldn't work so much, or
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  Speaker 3: all the things that people with near death experiences come out,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, I'm gonna go take a trip to
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  Speaker 3: Hawaii or whatever. There was none of that. It was like,
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  Speaker 3: if we would if that would have been her time,
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  Speaker 3: she would have died lived in a great life. And
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  Speaker 3: that's that's an awesome thing. But for so many people
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  Speaker 3: out there, I wonder, and I want you to think
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  Speaker 3: about this, dyninge early would be a real would feel
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  Speaker 3: really unjust the way that we understand society right now,
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  Speaker 3: but Dyne at an old age, knowing you missed your
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  Speaker 3: purpose would feel so much worse. Imagine being eighty nine
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  Speaker 3: years old and you're looking back and go, man, I
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  Speaker 3: missed it and you can do nothing to change it.
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  Speaker 3: That thought eats me up so much that just the
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  Speaker 3: thought of it. So the question is do you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like that to come top home. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: be not like those whose fear of death. Be not
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  Speaker 1: like those who get to the end of their life
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  Speaker 1: and pray and whap for a little more time, wishing
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  Speaker 1: they could do it over again. Yeah, ma'am, that's the
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  Speaker 1: worst worst feeling that you could feel. And really, what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about today is this terrible feeling
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  Speaker 1: that people feel where you know, and this is you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the things I love to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: It's what a lot of people come to this podcast
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  Speaker 1: for is getting a deeper sense of purpose. Because the
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  Speaker 1: worst feeling that you can have isn't being poor. The
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  Speaker 1: worst feeling that you have isn't being in pain. The
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  Speaker 1: worst feeling that you can have is knowing that you're
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  Speaker 1: missing it, yeah, right, Like I don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 1: but I know I'm not doing what I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be doing. People ask the question, what's my purpose, and
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to figure it out. It's either I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure what to pursue or I'm waiting for the next
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  Speaker 1: door to open. You know, I don't know what I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. There's a lot of places that people
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  Speaker 1: get stuck in purpose, but you know it, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you know if you're pursuing your purpose, and like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm living on a purpose, and you also know if you're not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well you said to me, you have no there's
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  Speaker 3: nothing that you're like, Oh, I really should be doing
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  Speaker 3: something else, you know, like you don't know where you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be in ten to twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I want to help people get to because
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  Speaker 1: like where I'm personally, for me, where I'm at in
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  Speaker 1: my life is I can't tell you I know everything
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  Speaker 1: about my purpose now. Like if I back up ten
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  Speaker 1: years from where I'm at today, I didn't know I'd
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  Speaker 1: be exactly where I'm at today. But there's also a
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  Speaker 1: lot of parts of today that I could see ten
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  Speaker 1: years ago, like the specifics I didn't know, but I
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  Speaker 1: would like I'm when I think about what I could
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  Speaker 1: see back then, it lines up with where I'm at today.
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  Speaker 1: I just couldn't see all the specific details. And I
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  Speaker 1: would say the same for my future today. I can't
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  Speaker 1: see everything that's in my future, but I know where
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  Speaker 1: I'm going, I know some of what the future holds,
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  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't say a and in any way about
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  Speaker 1: my life today that I'm not doing what I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be doing right right, And for anyone who's listening,
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  Speaker 1: you can answer that question the same way. And if
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  Speaker 1: you can, if if you can answer that question, say
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  Speaker 1: like I know I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be doing, fantastic, great, listen to this episode, take some
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  Speaker 1: of the details, and maybe this will give you handles
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  Speaker 1: to help bring other people along in their journey. But
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  Speaker 1: for anyone else that you would say that, it's me,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm not where I'm supposed to be, Like I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's more for me. Well, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk through that in a way today to help you understand.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about purpose before and I'm going to I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to re explain the pieces of purpose. But then
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  Speaker 1: what I want to be able to do is help
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  Speaker 1: people understand what is the next thing that I need
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  Speaker 1: to do, because it's that's the question we've asked me, like,
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  Speaker 1: what is tell me what to do?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I am going to attempt to tell you. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what you got, here's what you got to do.
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  Speaker 3: This is not something you like to do very often.
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  Speaker 2: What I love.
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  Speaker 3: I smiled whenever you were talking about how you didn't
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  Speaker 3: know ten years ago what you'd be doing, because you
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  Speaker 3: and I've been doing this for coming up on five
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  Speaker 3: years now. Gee, we actually have to remember that it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be five years soon. There were a few
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  Speaker 3: weeks away from We're like one week away, bro, so
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  Speaker 3: so we should probably I don't remember that. Yeah, But
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  Speaker 3: the point, the point I'm making is, I remember when
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  Speaker 3: we started, you said, I want to go as far
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  Speaker 3: in business and ministry as possible. Like you said, I've
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  Speaker 3: seen people that have gone they've gone all one way
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  Speaker 3: and none of the other one, and I want to
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm called to do both. Right, And
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  Speaker 3: so when you say that purpose has two parts, and
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  Speaker 3: the reason I smile is because I'm seeing you walk
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  Speaker 3: into that same as what you said now, being your
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  Speaker 3: friend walking close with you for five years and this
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  Speaker 3: was like what you're doing now didn't even exist. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't even I don't even know that the circumstances
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  Speaker 3: were right. The season was not right for it five
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  Speaker 3: years ago, and now it's the perfect season for you
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  Speaker 3: doing what you're doing. So purpose has two parts. G
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  Speaker 3: this you were the one who who engineered this once
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  Speaker 3: you want you to tell them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So first people asked the question, well, like what's
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  Speaker 1: my purpose?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And what you are wanting to hear is like a
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  Speaker 1: statement or like do that you know there's there's God
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  Speaker 1: gives a few clear purpose statements in the Bible. The
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  Speaker 1: one that and we'll come back to this a minute,
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  Speaker 1: but the one that I is a great example is
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  Speaker 1: when God tells Moses, I'm going to use you to
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  Speaker 1: shepherd my people out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: That's a purpose statement.
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  Speaker 1: This is end of Exodus three and Exodus four where
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  Speaker 1: God appears to Moses. That's a purpose statement. This is
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  Speaker 1: what your life is about. Okay. One of the and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to cover both of these. One of the
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  Speaker 1: ones that I love speaks to me personally is Joseph's life. Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: he was the beginning his The purpose of his life
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  Speaker 1: was to save all of Israel from starvation and famine
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  Speaker 1: and bring them into Egypt. But with your life and
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  Speaker 1: your purpose, you can cover it in two pieces. What's
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  Speaker 1: in your heart and what's in your hand, and so
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  Speaker 1: let me explain these things. And really your purpose is
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  Speaker 1: where both of these things come together. Your life is
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  Speaker 1: more than just you know, one statement or one sentence.
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  Speaker 1: But understand that God does have a purpose for you.
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  Speaker 1: God made you for a reason. I talk about this
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  Speaker 1: every Saturday. A mighty men, so awesome and mighty men.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I got to meet some guys from was a
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. Yea from Sale in North Carolina. Yeah, from
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: So cool.
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  Speaker 1: When people travel across the country just to come meet
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  Speaker 1: us and visit USh.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to Jerry, Mark and John. They may be
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  Speaker 3: driving back. They said it was sixteen hours. So I
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  Speaker 3: was like, man, yeah, that's that's that's a journey. So
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  Speaker 3: wherever you're at, come visit us anytime.
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  Speaker 2: At Mighty men. I'm not gone very often.
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  Speaker 1: I'm there like forty eight, forty nine weeks a year,
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  Speaker 1: so but feel free to reach out to us if
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  Speaker 1: you want to make sure we're going to be there.
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  Speaker 3: Always reach out to us and by us me because no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm being serious cause we've had people say, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: was going to be here, and I'm like, hey, you
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  Speaker 3: chose one of the few weekends that either Garrett's not
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  Speaker 3: there or both of us, like, for example, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks from now, neither of us will be there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, So anyways, one of the things I cover
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  Speaker 1: at Mighty Men all the time is talking about God
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  Speaker 1: is a plan for your life. God is a purpose
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  Speaker 1: for you. God wants you to know your purpose. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a process where you're going to discover what your
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  Speaker 1: purpose is. And so that's what I'm going to explain that,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to get into the pieces. So
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: first piece is what's in your heart? Okay, now, yes,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: the if you grew up around church, I did you
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  Speaker 1: know you're familiar with hearing that the heart is evil, deceitful,
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  Speaker 1: and wicked.
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  Speaker 2: Who can know it?
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: That's in Jeremiah and it's true. But God, and what
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: is the heart? Well, the heart is this desire center.
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  Speaker 1: Bible talks about the heart over three hundred times, not
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  Speaker 1: once is it talking about the organ that pumps blood. Right,
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  Speaker 1: What the heart is is it's this desire center, it's
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: this way, it's this thing inside of you that it's
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: a capacity that God put inside of you to seek.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: And what's really interesting about the heart as well, is
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: that the heart is where we wrestle with God. It's
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: really like the heart is almost like the altar in
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: your life because and a good example of this is
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  Speaker 1: when Moses is speaking to Pharaoh. The first four times,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: it's four or five. The first four times I believe
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: that Moses is speaking to Pharaoh. Moses goes to Pharaoh
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: and says, Pharaoh, let my people go. And it says
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: that Pharaoh hardened his heart. And then the last time
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: that Moses speaks to Pharaoh, it says God hardened Pharaoh's heart.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: It's a really interesting thing about the heart. And we've
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: done other episodes I believe just talking about the heart
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: because you know, when when I'm praying for people, especially
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: trying to get people to come to know the Lord,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I will pray that God will open their heart because
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: people's hearts can be closed off, but also God can
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: do something there. But anyways, the hearts, by the way,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: nicely done, thank you. But anyways, the heart is this
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: desire center inside each and every one of them. So
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: let me back up for a second with your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: All throughout the Bible, God has a purpose for you.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: God wants you to know your purpose, but he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you what it is. Right nowhere in there does
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: it say this is the purpose for nick Surface's life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Been looking a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't say that in scripture. So if God has
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: a plan and a purpose for you and he doesn't
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: tell you what it is, what does that mean. He
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: means he wants you to discover it, right and and
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: the Bible does not leave us lost on how to
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: discover our purpose. It is through through the scriptures, and
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: it's these two concepts of what's in your heart and
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: what's in your hand. So the heart is you're going
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: to have a desire, You're going to have a dream
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: in your life. But there's also things that you can
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: desire that can be both. They can be righteous or
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: they can be sinful. And we'll come back to that
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  Speaker 1: in a minute. But the a couple of scriptures I
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: want to give you really quick on heart. Proverbs sixteen
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  Speaker 1: to nine. A man's heart plans his way, but the
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Lord establishes his steps and Proverbs thirty seven to four.
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  Speaker 1: Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: the desires of your heart. What you've got to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: with your heart is you can have a dream, but
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: it can become a sinful thing for so many of us.
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  Speaker 1: You might think like, well, I wanted to start this,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I want to have this business, or I want to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: play a sport or whatever it is, and that can
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: become a sinful desire. Where you begin to like this
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: is how God tested Abraham with Isaac. I gave you
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the dream, but then you better not put the dream
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: in front of me. Now, God wanted him to have
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the son, but then God tested him with the son
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  Speaker 1: with your What God wants most is for us to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: be close to him, for us to be like him.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: And a part of what He put us on the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: earth to do is how we're going to grow and
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: mature in that right right. I made you with this capacity.
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  Speaker 1: I put you on the earth for a purpose. I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: want you to accomplish that purpose. But also remember for
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: our purpose. It's not that I'm doing something that God
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: needs me to do that he.
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  Speaker 2: Can already do.
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  Speaker 1: Correct, So why did God give me a purpose in
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the first place so that I could know Him deeper
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  Speaker 1: through the process. So there's no and no, at no
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  Speaker 1: time does God care more about you accomplishing your purpose
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  Speaker 1: than he cares about you being close to him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that is so key because I think those
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  Speaker 3: two scriptures, obviously we shows them for a reason. PROVERBT
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  Speaker 3: sixteen nine shows you how it works. Like because like
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: you said, if you've grown up in a church where
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: you've been told that's Jeremiah seventeen, I believe it's seventeen
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventeen where he talks about you know, the heart
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  Speaker 3: is wicked, deceitful. It's like you're like, oh, no, I've
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: got this disease in the center of me.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: And but that's what that's what, that's what you can
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: It's a misconception that you think, like, man, the heart
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: is just this evil thing. Yeah, well, Ezekiel thirty six,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and this is still the Old Testament. Yeah, Ezekiel thirty
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  Speaker 1: six says. God says, I will take out your heart
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  Speaker 1: of stone and give you a new heart. So God
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  Speaker 1: didn't just put this evil thing inside of us. What
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  Speaker 1: that means is there's something inside of us that's really powerful.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And when we're sinful, which we all naturally are. When
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: we're sinful, that thing is a sinful powerful thing, right,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: And what we've got to do is you've got to
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have it's not being perfect, but when you're cleansed by
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus and you live, you're living a
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: life that is pursuing him. You can take your dream
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and put it on the altar and it's going to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: burn off all the sinful pieces of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why we put Psalms thirty seven four
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: because people sometimes will say, like the light yourself and
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: the Lord, and he'll give you the desires of your heart,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: which is almost like if you placate God with whatever
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: you think it is, like you don't sin and you
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: give a tithe then it's like you can just go
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: all the stuff that you really want. It's just going
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: to show up. And that is a very transactional thought process.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: When what that is is it's showing you the right order.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Like what you said, God doesn't want you to ever,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: doesn't need your purpose to happen more than he needs
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: you to want him. Is such a perfect way of
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: saying it, because that's order, and that's how God works,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: is order and authority.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And one of the revelations I've had in my life
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  Speaker 1: something that guides me is God cares way more about
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: why you do what you do than what you do.
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  Speaker 1: And the example in the Bible that I relate to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a lot is the story of Joseph's life where Joseph says,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: you know what is Joseph's dream?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And what I'm getting to, by the way, is every
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: one of us has a dream because that dream that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like you got, there's a purpose inside of you. God
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: puts you here for a reason, and that's the most
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: fulfilling thing that you could do, is accomplish your purpose,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: not be somebody else. You might think like, oh, man,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I'd love to be I was just used Tiger Woods
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: because he's someone I grew up admiring, Like, man, I'd
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: love to be Tiger Woods. Well, if I became Tiger Woods,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I would feel unfulfilled, which sounds wild to think about. Yeah, right,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: but that's not what God put me on the earth
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to do. But anyways, coming back to Joseph, Joseph is
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: a perfect example of this. Joseph has a dream that
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: his brothers would bow down to him, right, And you
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: could say, like if any like, if anyone goes and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: tells their friends that's their dream, Like I had, I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: had a dream that my whole family is going to
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: bow down to me, he'd be like, Wow.
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  Speaker 3: You're pretty arrogant. Yeah, that's my dream with us on
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: our friendship.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: To know it's a man like, you're so arrogant, right,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it's actually the I mean, it's also really interesting in
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Joseph's life that script you know, it just says scripture
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: just says Joseph had a dream. It's very The text
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: is very clear. It doesn't say that God gave him
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a dream, that the Angel of the Lord appeared to him.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: It just says Joseph had a dream.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: The story of Joseph, I don't think any like true
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: follower of Christ today would write that story because it's
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: not giving God enough glory because there's so many things
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: in there where it's just kind of like and and
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: God was with Joseph, and it's like a small little
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: subtext of just like how God.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Don't there's not one different than many of the other
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: stories in the Bible, because like God never God or
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord never appears and speaks to Joseah.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I know, it's crazy.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: It's the kind of story like, oh, I'm not sure
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: about this.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Was that really God? It's like, no, that was God
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: has but so has this dream that rose were bowed
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  Speaker 1: down to him. Tells his brothers this dream and they
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: try to kill him. He ends up in slavery and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: for over a decade, Joseph's life is going in the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: wrong direction. But what he does is he stays faithful
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  Speaker 1: through that whole process. And if you haven't read Joseph's
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  Speaker 1: story in Genesis recently, go read it again.
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  Speaker 3: And this is thirty seven, so good.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: But Joseph, then, you know, out of prison, becomes number
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  Speaker 1: two to Pharaoh, so at the height of the Egyptian Empire,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: becomes the second most powerful person in the world. And
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: then his family eventually does come because there's a famine
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: his family, and he interprets Pharaoh's geam. I'm skipping through
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the story to get to make my point. His family
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: comes to Egypt because there's a famine and his family
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: has to bow down to him. But that wasn't the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: purpose of Joseph's life. The purpose of Joseph's life was
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: by means of his family coming. All of Israel then
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: came into Egypt. And if they had not, Israel would
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of I mean, the entire nation of Israel would have
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: just died in a famine.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: So what Joseph.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: By Joseph following his dream, which seemed like man that
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: seems kind of arrogant, by Joseph following, but he was not.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: God used him in a mighty way right by following
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: his dream, he got to his purpose. And it's one
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of the things that I think is so interesting. Why
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: didn't God give Joseph a dream to save Israel?
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I know, because he was never going to do it
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: in his lifetime. God's plans are so much greater than
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: one lifetime.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, God could have you know, Joseph,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: one day you'll save all of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the dream that he gave him.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And so it's so it's so interesting, like how could
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Joseph know that that's a righteous dream? The only way
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Joseph could know it's a righteous dream is by having
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a deep relationship with God, and like God, if this
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is what if this is you, then then okay, right,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you know that's the only way you could know, because
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: other people are going to judge, but they're not the judge.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: He's the judge, right, And so through a deep relationship
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: with God, I put this back on people the same
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: way I tell folks, you know the difference between sin
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and not sin. You don't need to ask, like you know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: you know deeply within you, like if something is a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: sin or not?
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  Speaker 2: And like who told you that?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Did you memorize like every law in scripture? Do you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: know is what is sinful and what is not? No,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you just inherently know, and in that same way that
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: that's a matter of the heart. And in that same
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: way you can tell other people like I don't know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. No, you know in your heart one,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: whether you're following your like whether you're living on purpose
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: or not. But also you know in your heart if
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the dream that you have so deep within you is
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: righteous or not.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's so good.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Gee, you'll because you'll know if there's sin there in
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that dream, and that it is one of the scariest
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: things to wrestle with because to give up that dream
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: or to try and pull the sin out of that dream.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You have to put it on the altar. You have
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: to do exactly what Abraham did with Isaac. Well, God,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: if this is what you're saying, then I'll do it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: But you have to be willing to give it up.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is the challenge. I think the story
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: of Joseph is literally the perfect one. You could look
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: at David because David had a chance to make his
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: dream and what he had been anointed to do happen
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: on his own behalf as well, but his heart was
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: in the right place as well. He didn't kill Saul.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: But with Joseph, like you said, it's so I want
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: for those of you that are like man, I really
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: need to know right because people like you said, they
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: want to have their purpose laid out. I remember when
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: we were with the Cleveland Guardians doing our Bible study
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: and we said to them, the purpose of your life
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: is not to be a baseball player. I remember a
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: couple I could see a few of their faces like wait,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: what because and because I said to him, I was like,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: because if that's the purpose of your life, you're going
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: to retire probably if you're lucky in your late thirties,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: then what's the purpose of your life? Because like you said,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: we want a purpose statement. So imagine with Joseph, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: because I want people to understand the complexity of how
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: God can work, and because we want certainty. If God
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: had gone to Joseph said, Hey, Joseph, there's this guy
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: named Jesus. He's the Lambslange from before the foundation of
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the world. He's going to redeem everything that God, that
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: all of God's creation. So what your purpose is is
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: to actually go to eat Egypt because we need you
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: to get into authority so that you can then allow
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: a place for your family to come down, reproduce for
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: four hundred years and get to the point where they're millions,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: because they're going to be slaves, and then God's going
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: to show up and deliver them. He's going to give
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: them the law. They're going to not be able to
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: keep it for a long time. It's going to go really,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: really bad. Then they're going to get come back and
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: rebuild a little bit and then fall apart again. Then
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: when they're slaves, this country that you don't know about
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: yet called Rome or then they're going to come in.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And then then She's gonna come and he's going to
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: die on the cross, and that it would have been
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: so far beyond him. And I'm saying all that because
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I'm speaking to myself right now.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Gee.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: It is a great reminder of humility that, like we
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: always say when anytime somebody reaches out to us and says, hey,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: thanks for what you're doing or whatever they say, or
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: honored to play our part, yep, it is a reminder
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: that all of us, every person listening to this, your
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: purpose is not about you. Our purpose is to glorify God.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: It's to bring his plans in the earth. And we
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: have to remind ourselves because it can be so discouraging.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: We can look at things in our life and we
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: don't like the way they're going. And it's a fresh
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: remind you have no idea the part that you're supposed
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: to play in the greater part. But your job is
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: to be faithful. It is all for God's glory.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, And if God printed out all the instructions and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: told you why and said do this, do this, than this,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: than this, than this would not give God the glory
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the same way that if he just says, Joseph, you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: have a dream, right, it's so wid that's part of
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the point of right, that that it glorifies God, that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you would trust in him, brings you closer to Him,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and that you would pursue your purpose.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: But we're getting a little bit off on right on.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It's a fantastic conversation, but I want to get to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: really the meat of what I want us to Accomlishate,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: let me go on to the second piece here. This
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is a refresher. Yes, right, we have ti there are
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: multiple episodes on purpose. But you know what in three
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five, right, the thirty five and three
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five episodes, only four or five episodes of
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you know, being focused on purpose is probably not even enough.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got more than that, dude, It's just tight.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of purpose.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Second piece here is what's in your hand? Okay, so
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: remember this is what your your purpose. But if you
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: want to know the like we talk about this in
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Mindset Mastery, like we teach this concept deeply. If you
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: want to find your purpose, you got to know what's
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in your heart and you got to know what's in
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: your hand. Well, what is this piece? What's in your hand?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: We did an episode on this by the way where
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: God asks. There's ten questions that God asks in the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Old Testament, and all of these are questions that like,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: if God's asking you a question, is like when you're
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a little boy and your dad asks you a question.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: It's like, the question is for you to learn something
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: from I already know the answer to that question. That
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: was episode two thirty, the questions God is asking you.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: It's a great, great episode.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And so again, if God's asking a question, it's not
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: because he needs the answer the answers for us. One
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of those questions is Exodus four two. God asks Moses
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a question. This is Moses, what's in your hand? But
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this starts at the beginning, at the end of Exodus three,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: where God appears to Moses. And this is what I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: was referencing earlier, where God appears to Moses and gives
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  Speaker 1: them a purpose statement. This is what most people think
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  Speaker 1: they want, right, God just appear to me and tell
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  Speaker 1: me what the purpose of my life is. Well, God
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  Speaker 1: does this for Moses and Moses like what Nope, you
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  Speaker 1: got the you got the wrong guy, Yeah you got
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  Speaker 1: You're looking for a different Moses.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Five times he just says no to him, and it's
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  Speaker 1: so I want him to get off on that. But
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  Speaker 1: God appears to Moses tells him what his purpose is,
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  Speaker 1: and Moses struggles with it.
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  Speaker 2: But and so instead of God just slapping Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Upside the head and saying, hey, dummy, I know what
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  Speaker 1: your purpose is, like, don't don't make me like let
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  Speaker 1: me hurt you, like, I know what you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be doing, to help him, God asks him a question, question, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: what's in your hand? What was in Moses's hand was
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd's staff. Yeah, because really the reason Moses is
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  Speaker 1: struggling is he's like, there's no way that could be me.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't see it in himself. He's like, I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't listen to me. I don't not i don't
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  Speaker 1: have the authority to do that. I'm not a good speaker.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's just way beyond my capacity. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: reason that God doesn't appear to most people and tell
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  Speaker 1: them what their purpose is, because they would have the
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  Speaker 1: same response, there's no way that's what I'm really supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be doing. So to help him, God says, Moses,
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  Speaker 1: what's in your hand? What was in his hand was
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd's staff? Throw the staff on the ground, it
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  Speaker 1: becomes a snake. Pick up the snake, it becomes a staff.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm paraphrasing all of Moses's story, but the point
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  Speaker 1: is that God shows Moses, I don't need you to
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  Speaker 1: tell me what you don't have. I need you to
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  Speaker 1: be faithful with what I have given you. And so
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  Speaker 1: for all of like by understanding what was in his
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  Speaker 1: hand was enough that allowed Moses to move forward.
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  Speaker 2: And for us, we've got it.
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  Speaker 1: Like, if you want to move forward in the purpose,
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  Speaker 1: in the plan that God has for your life, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to take inventory. Okay, what's the dream in my heart?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: What do I want with my life? And then also
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: what's in my hand? What did God give me?
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  Speaker 3: And if you can use both of those, if you
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  Speaker 3: can possess both of those things at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be able to move forward in your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: But where people get stuck is either in the dream
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  Speaker 1: category and the what's in their heart and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about how to fix that, or in the
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  Speaker 1: what's in your hand category. It doesn't mean you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be any person like for most people, they think, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't I can't move forward in my purpose because
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  Speaker 1: I don't have this, and that's rarely the case, right
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  Speaker 1: It's you got to be faithful with what you have
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  Speaker 1: right now, David, you know, and doesn't ever say that
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  Speaker 1: David had a dream to be king, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he did, but I bet David didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to stay where he was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh man, you read some of his psalms, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, this was a dude who was thinking, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know when he's talking about when I look up
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  Speaker 3: at the stars, the work of your hands? You know,
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  Speaker 3: what is man? That you're mindful of the son of Man,
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  Speaker 3: that he's on your thoughts. It's like, and I'm paraphrasing
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  Speaker 3: that Psalms eight. This was not a dude who was
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  Speaker 3: out there just going, well, there's the sheep, hate my life,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like he's looking up and
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  Speaker 3: realizing there's a vastness. There was definitely an eternal pull
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  Speaker 3: on him.
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  Speaker 1: I would I would imagine, you know, for to be
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  Speaker 1: a young man who had killed lions and bears that
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: as a young teenager saw a giant and said like,
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  Speaker 1: who is this? You know, uncircumcised philistine who blasphems our God.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Probably a dude who's got a little bit of greatness
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: capacity inside of him for sure. Anyways, the point that
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  Speaker 1: I'm making is don't know if he had a dream
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  Speaker 1: to be king. But what David did do is say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, well, this is where God has me,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what is in my hand is being
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd, and I'm going to be great at this.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what I like to call God promotions. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: when you'll be faithful with where you are, God takes
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  Speaker 1: shepherds and make some kings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will say what's in your hand? Part
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: of this in Exodus four two we do in the
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  Speaker 3: Purpose Playbook, we actually help people walk through this. The
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  Speaker 3: point of what I'm saying is that we're not always
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  Speaker 3: so good at realizing what's in our hand because it's
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  Speaker 3: usually not physical. Right, there's gonna be some physical obviously,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: you've got your body and you got and everybody's good
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: at picking those things up. But what I've found is
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  Speaker 3: when God brings purpose together, and I've helped walk some
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  Speaker 3: people through purpose the same as you. We've walked probably
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  Speaker 3: quite a few people at this point, what I always
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  Speaker 3: find is it's like I'm helping them see all the
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  Speaker 3: puzzle pieces on the table. And when you see all
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: the puzzle pieces on the table, you don't necessarily go like, oh,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I'll just put them together real quick, but you can go, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm starting to see where I need to do my
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: work so that then I can get to the other
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: piece of the puzzle. Most people, they can't even see
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  Speaker 3: half of the puzzle pieces. And so when I've worked
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  Speaker 3: with people, I'm like, no, look at this, and at this,
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  Speaker 3: look at what's already there, because people are looking for
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  Speaker 3: something they don't have, and oftentimes it's like it's what
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  Speaker 3: you do have, but you're not even seeing it. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what that's what what's in your hand is I.
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  Speaker 1: Went, I mean, I've been through this multiple times in
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  Speaker 1: my own life where I took inventory of what's in
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  Speaker 1: my hand and even you know, I would say sharpened
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  Speaker 1: that tool. It's like, but I had a tool, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I have no use for this tool, but I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to sharpen it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to develop it. And I twice in my
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: life I've asked God, like, God, why did.
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  Speaker 1: You make me this way? Why did you give me
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: this capacity? And you know you know this about me?
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  Speaker 1: One of what I have said my some of what
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I've said my strengths are is being a chaos navigator
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  Speaker 1: and in odds to fire. And that's exactly where I'm
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  Speaker 1: at in my life today. And I could not be
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  Speaker 1: doing the things I'm doing in my life today now
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  Speaker 1: if I hadn't just not just the way that God
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: made me, but taken the way God made me and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: over developed it way beyond what I personally needed it
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: for in the season that I was developing it. If
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I had not done that, I would not be I
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: would not be capable of doing what I'm doing today, right.
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  Speaker 3: And I do know you and you once said to
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  Speaker 3: me that you live with a constant yes. And I
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: want people to capture this because this is really key
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  Speaker 3: for purpose. A lot of people, the reason they're stuck
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  Speaker 3: is because they're waiting for what you said. They need
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  Speaker 3: the burning bush, or they need a word from the Lord,
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  Speaker 3: or they need someone to say, like, here's what you're
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: gonna do before they'll move. I remember you said, when
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: you live with a constant yes, you know when you
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: get God's no. That was what you said to them.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: I was like, that's so good. So what we're saying
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: we want you to be unleashed the way my old pastor.
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  Speaker 2: Let's explain that a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say that the way my old pastor
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: used to say is you can't turn a car that's
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: in park. You got to you got to start trying
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  Speaker 3: stuff like be the be the dog that wants to eat.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you used to say it. In the seal teams. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted. I mean to do the job that I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: did in the military. You have to be someone who
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  Speaker 1: uh takes action and is a courageous person. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be someone who like always has to be kicked and
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  Speaker 1: told what to do right right when it comes to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: like that specific analogy was for clearing buildings, It's like, look,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you know what, you know what to do, go do
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  Speaker 1: it right. What you can't do is like clear a
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  Speaker 1: hallway and then get stuck at the hallway and be
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  Speaker 1: like Chief, you want me to keep going? That doesn't
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: work right, Like you just got to keep kicking the
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  Speaker 1: dog to like go get the bird. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be a dog that like I have
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  Speaker 1: to go get the bird. And it's like you want
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  Speaker 1: to be that kind of you want to be that
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  Speaker 1: kind of dog or God wants us to be that way.
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  Speaker 1: When you're working with employees, you want those type of
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  Speaker 1: people that it's like, make me pull you back, don't
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: make me kick you forward. And I have done what
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  Speaker 1: I can to be that way with God. And that's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: what Nick means by a constant Yes, it's like, look,
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  Speaker 1: I get on my knees every day before God. I
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: have a lot of ambition, I have a lot of desires.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I get on my knees every day before God and say, God,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: if you don't want this, I don't want it. And
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I have a level of and I'm getting ahead of
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: myself a little bit on what we're going to cover,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: but it's okay if we repeat it. I live in
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a certain way where I know you know what I'm
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: chasing after, I'm doing it for the right reasons, and.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: God will speak to me like it'll be clear, like
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: God will speak to my heart. Oh no, I'm what
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: if what I'm doing becomes a sinful thing? Right?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And so I'm not looking for God to tell me like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: go do it. It's like I have already trained you
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  Speaker 1: and authorized you and put you in a place to
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  Speaker 1: go do this thing. You why you keep asking me
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: to tell you should do this?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very good? All right, gee, let's let's let's get
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  Speaker 3: to the I want to talk about the cure for
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  Speaker 3: a lack of action. But before we do that, you've
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  Speaker 3: said it. You said it like this and warm when
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was so good. So I want to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that it's for people. When you know that
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: God's put inside of you what you're supposed to do
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: that is a place of reassurance. And what you just
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: talked about about getting on your knees every day, I
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: like highlight that. I feel like that's probably one of
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  Speaker 3: the most things that you say that I repeat to
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: people all the time because I think that it's such
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: a it's a thing that you say that people can
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: be like, all right, yeah, cool, But it's putting that
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  Speaker 3: thing on the altar, right, because you said, when we're
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: putting the thing that God's put in our heart on
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: the altar, we're letting the sinful parts of it burn off, right,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: And that comes from a depth of relationship. You said
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: it earlier, like you have to want him more than
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: anything else, which guess what that includes even working for him.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Oftentimes people can like be like, they're so apt to
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: work for God more than his blessings and more than
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: his purpose, more than more than purpose. So you have
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to want him more than anything else. That is truly
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: what it's like to live with your life on the altar.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: And when we say that, I think it sounds like
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: understandable in concept, but like practical application. I have an example, Jeeve,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: but like there's practal applications of how this works out.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I just want to make sure people grasp this before
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: we talk about taking action.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll jump into this and I'll just say on
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  Speaker 1: you know, God's put it inside of you.
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  Speaker 2: This is both biblical and this is.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Also ancient wisdom, and it's one of the most powerful
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Greek sayings, know thyself Aristotle who said knowing yourself is
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the beginning of all wisdom.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. Right,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you have to know, Like, you've got to know yourself.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: You've got to know what's inside of you. That is
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: part of like if you just read the Hero's Journey
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: or understand what a hero's journey is in life, it
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: is a it's a story of him realizing where he
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: came from. Who he is, how he is, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what sets him up to do what he's supposed to do.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: And within each one of us, God has made you
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: a certain way. And until you develop yourself and search
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the depths of your heart and develop your relationship with God,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you're just not gonna You're not going to get to
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: your purpose.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: You're not ready.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: But when you develop yourself, that's what's going to open
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the door for you to walk into what God has
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: for you to do on the earth.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. With the I want to give a
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  Speaker 3: practical example, geef for like what it is to have
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: your heart on the altar, because people will think of
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: things like, oh, well maybe this is good, maybe this
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: is bad, right, I mean, did you want you?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So this is okay.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: This is a good understanding for people to have as
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: it relates to purpose. I've used multiple analogies for this,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: but the point about your purpose is understanding that God
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: cares way more why you do what you do than
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: what you do. And a great example of that is again,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: because you're part like in growing into your purpose, You've
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: got to get to this place in your heart God.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: And so I'm saying all of that to say, it's
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: why you do it, not just what you do. And
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a practical example of that is sex. Okay, sex can
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: be something that is holy and righteous. Right, and remember
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: what holiness is. It means to be used rightly. It's
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: in line with its design. God designed sex within the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: intimacy of marriage to be a beautiful, wonderful, amazing thing,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Sex can also be a terrible, sinful thing. Right,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: But they're both sex, right, right, But one can be
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: holy and righteous, one can be terrible and sinful. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: why you're doing it and where you're doing it, the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: context of where, when, how you're doing it is what
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: makes it righteous or not. So I would say the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: same thing about like, okay, pull sex out and let's
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: put your purpose in there. Right you accomplishing your purpose
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: could be a terrible thing. You Joseph getting his brother's
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: a bow down to him could have been a terrible,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: very good could have been a terrible, arrogant thing. Could
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: have also been exactly what God intended.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me and let me give you a very
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: relevant example for every person listening to this our podcast. Right,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: do I want our podcast to grow?
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Yes? Of course?
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Do you want it to grow. Yes, do we pray
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: for God's blessing? Of course we do, and do we
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: do everything we know to do to help it grow. Yes,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: But here's the part where you have to constantly keep
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: it on the altar. And I'll just speak for myself here.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: I always have to check myself because I'm a marketer.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: G every day I work to hit targets for my clients,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: and I'm pretty good at what I do, so I'm
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: used to living by a number. So what do I do?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I know our metrics, I'm in them every day. And
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: if it ever becomes the point that I am starting
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: to go like how do I make this number grow?
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Rather than how do I serve the people He's entrusted
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: us with, I'm wrong. And if I'd be lying to
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: you if I said I haven't been on the wrong
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: side at various points where I've had to come back
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: and be like, Lord, you know what? And what wrong
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: feels like is it feels like I'm frustrated that we're
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: not bigger. Like I'm like, man, I feel like what
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: we're doing is good. I know it's helping people we
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: should be and it's like, hang on, no, you know
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: what we should we should play the part that God's
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: given us to play, which means I need to look
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: at whoever's listening, whoever's involved in anything, whether it's in
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: our school community, or in our programs or just someone
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: that sends us an email. How do I serve this
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: person and love them the way they need to be
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: loved and as long and that when that's my focus,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, Lord, whatever growth happens, I
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: know that you're the one that's in control.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be faithful with what God put in my hand,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do everything I can to do this
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: for the right reason, and the rest is going to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: be up to God. Where people can get stuck sometimes
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and it can.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: We can.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: You can be this way, and podcasts be this way.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: In your work, you're thinking, Okay, I'm going to trust
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: God for a season so I can get what I want,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: and the same way that people think, well, I'll work
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: for a season to have money and then I'll have
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: financial freedom and I can do what I want to do.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And I you know, we're not going to get into that,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: even though we've talked about that as a concept and
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: not what I think is a great concept on this podcast,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: but you could also you could. I think people unintentionally
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: sometimes do the same thing with God. Yeah, I'll trust
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: God until I can get what I want. Then I
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: won't have to rely on him so much.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: And if that's what's in your heart, and if that's
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: what you're doing, either consciously or subconsciously, you're not going
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: in the right direction.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very good.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's so that that's just as if I
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  Speaker 3: think we've let people know how important the artist the
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: lack of action. You know, this is the cure for
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: a lack of action if you don't know what you're
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: supposed to do and you're waiting to hear an answer.
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  Speaker 3: Because we talked about that like that you want to
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: be the dog that eats You got to get to.
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  Speaker 1: Work well, because people can get stuck in two places
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: right right, People say like, oh, okay, I've got good got
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: good inventory of what's in my hand, and I'm doing
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: all these things, but you know, with what's I don't
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: know what. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know what my dream is. Right, And I
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: would to those folks, right. I went through a season
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: in my life Nick where I was telling you about
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: this where it's happened a couple of times, but I'm
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: going to refer to one in particular. Right after I
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: graduated high school. From the time I graduated high school
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: to the time I went into the Navy, there was
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: like five or six month season where it wasn't depression.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: And I would just say, it was like darkness in
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: my life. And it wasn't like an evil darkness. It
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: was just like a cloudy darkness. I was just like
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: so much desire to do something and I didn't know
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: what it was I was supposed to do. I was doing.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I was very disciplined in that season. I you know,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: spent hours in the gym, read lots of books. I
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: was doing everything I could to develop myself. I knew
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: college was not the path for me. That's another story
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: for another time. I was got very disenfranchised by college.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: You were ahead of your time.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Knew I didn't want to go in that direction. I
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: was like, what is it that I'm supposed to do?
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: And I threw myself into it. Like one of the
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: things I've always loved and still loved is piano. I
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: love piano music. I plan on having a player piano
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: in my house, so I can it can just play
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: a piano for me all the time, nice, and I
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: got really obsessed with piano. I was like, Okay, I'm gonna,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: you know, learn piano. And there was a season like
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: literally for ten twelve hours a day, I'm playing piano
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: right for until I got to a point that like
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I could play very well, and then I was like,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: this isn't it right? And I went through multiple things
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: like that where because I was like, Okay, I'm just
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: going to try stuff. I'm doing everything I can to
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: develop myself, and I don't know what I'm supposed to
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: do right because right never right now, I'm talking about
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: one of the places that you can get stuck.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: And I felt like I had I was.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Doing everything I could with what's in my hand category
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: and I had a dream to be great, but I
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: didn't know what I was supposed to do, and people
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: get stuck in this place. Sometimes I was doing. I
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: was pursuing the Lord. I had a great relationship with
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: the Lord. In that season, I was doing everything I could. Yeah,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: for about six months, I just went from thing to thing,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and I didn't quit when it got hard. I would
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: like get a like low level of mastery in this thing,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: like I did with piano. I'd get a low level
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: mastery and they'd be like, Nope, this isn't it. Like
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: it just I just wasn't feeling it. And so that's
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: what was so frustrating. I'm like and I'm just screaming
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: at the sky, like, God, what do you want me
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: to do? And I was in that season for six months, which,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: looking at the context of life, is a short amount
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: of time. I was in that season for six months.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Fro'm like, I'm doing everything I know to do. God,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I'm seeking you wholeheartedly. I'm developing myself. I want to
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: do what you put me on there to do. Just
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: tell me what to do. And for six months I
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: didn't get an answer. And then one of my nights
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: I was just up late, like searching for answers. Is
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: when I saw the YouTube video for buds Class Discovery Channel,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: you know Budds Class two thirty four of their Discovery Channel documentary.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Watched the whole thing, and a few months later I
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: was in the Navy, right.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: But I'm saying that is an example of this is
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: one of the places people get stuck. I was doing
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: everything I could do with what's in my hand, and
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I the only way that it worked was because like
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I went and I was seeking God. So I would say,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say, it's not like I'm perfect,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: but I was saying I was doing everything right in
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: that season, but I still had to wait.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's so we're gonna we're going to talk
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: about the work, because there's three key areas for you
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: to really get to work, and we will make we
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: will make the purpose about our work when oftentimes the
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: work that we're giving you to do leads you to
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: your purpose. I think it's so interesting John the Baptist, right,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: he's known as John the Baptist, but his purpose wasn't
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: to baptize, right, It was the work he had to
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: do to know and fulfill his purpose. I think this
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: is a scripture I love. Is John one thirty one
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: through thirty four. This is John talking to his disciples
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: after they're like, hey, you know some of your disciples
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: has gone, and seeing that Jesus guy that you baptized,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: and he says, I myself did not know him, but
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: the reason I came baptizing with water was that he
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: might be revealed to Israel. Then John gave this testimony.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: dove and remain on him, And I myself did not
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: know him, But the one who sent me to baptize
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: with water told me. This is an insight and how
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: God gets you to fulfill the purposes and plans for
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: your life. The man on whom you see the Spirit
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: come down and remain is the one who will baptize
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: with the Holy Spirit. I have seen, and I testify
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: that this is God's chosen one. I think that's a
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: wonderful thing. God says, Hey, go baptist, Okay, But aren't
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I Elijah harn I the voice of the one in
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: the desert calling prepare the way of the Lord. Yeah,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: go baptize, okay, because here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna see.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: You're gonna see that the Spirit to send like a
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: dove on this guy. And that's how you're gonna know.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: And then, and what a crazy thing that this guy,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: who's called the greatest born among men by Jesus then
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: goes on. It's like, okay, you're gonna beheaded. It feels
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: like such a meaningless death, except for you realize that
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: man he played his partner eternity.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Think about the people who were there that day, and
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: John the Baptist is just like baptizing people like, ah, man,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: this is great, Like I'm getting baptized by the crazy guy. Yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: but this is awesome. And then John bat and those people,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: no one else there had any awareness of what that
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: day was. And then then he baptized the Jesus and
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: he's like, hey, everybody, this guy's the Messiah.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: He was like what, well, because they thought he was.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: You know, they were asking John, are you the one
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: that we're expecting? And I yeah, there's so much in
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: that all right, so gee, let's let's uh, let's get
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: into this. There's three key areas.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's well, the point is people get stuck
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: in two places, right, You get stuck in Okay. I
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: got what's in my hand, and I'm doing everything I
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: can there, and I just don't know what, you know,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to what I'm supposed to pursue. I
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: don't know what my dream is. You're going to move
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: forward in your purpose when you've got both these things.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: What's in my hand and what's in my heart. So
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: people get stuck there or people say, you know, well,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: I've got a dream, this is what I've always wanted
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: to do, but I don't have the resources that I
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: need to move forward.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: It's not right.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: And so we're talking about both stucks because the point
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: of today is like, how do I move forward in
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: my purpose? Well, you've got to have both. Got to
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: have what's in my hand and what's in my heart.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: And so whichever one you're you're struggling with, that's what
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: you've got to work on with the If you're struggling
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: with what's in my heart, you've got to grow closer
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: to the Lord and be able to search your heart
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: and see deep like what is the thing I've always wanted?
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: And is this righteous?
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: And when you can do that, you've got the what's
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: in my That's a hard one, right, and you're you're
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: going to not be able to really say I've got
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the I've got the heart part right until you get
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: your heart right with the Lord. Okay, let's go to
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: the other side. Say you've got that right, Cab. I'm
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: deep in my relationship with God. I really know what
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: I want my life to be about, but I don't have,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Like you know, I don't have the resources, I don't
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: have the means, I don't have the skills, I don't
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: have the whatever to be able to move forward in that.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: So let's work on let's talk about the how to
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: move forward in the what's in your hand?
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Category?
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I put it really into just a few
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: different things discipline, self, mastery, and stewardship. Right, and you
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: can look at them and we'll go through all these things.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: But I look at David's life and that's honestly the
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: summary of it.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: David as a shepherd said, I'm going to be great
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: with where I'm at. This isn't where I want to be,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: but I'm going to be great where I'm at. What
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: did Joseph do after he was you know, his brothers
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: try to kill him and he gets sold into slavery
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: and becomes a slave in Potiphar's home. It says that
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Joseph was so excellent that Potiphar worried for nothing. You've
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: got to take you know what. This isn't where I
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: want to be, This isn't the season I want to
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: be in. I see myself doing things so much greater
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: than where I'm at. I you know, this is where
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: you just got to have some humility, right, It's it's
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: it is a hard thing, but it's where you want
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: to be to have both humility and ambition at the
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: same time. And I've been here in my life and
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I would say there's times where there's many times in
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: my life where feel this where it's like, man, I
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm supposed to be doing so much more
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: than what I'm doing right now, but also have the
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: humility to be where you're at and be faithful where
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: you're at, because if this is where God has me,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: this is where I'm supposed to be in this season,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: and God will move me for I don't I don't
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: have I don't have to go promote myself. God God
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: promotes shepherds into kings. So what I got to do
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: is be great exactly where I'm at. And so what
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: we're talking about is like these are the things like
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: if you want to move forward, It's like, man, I
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: got this dream, I want to do all this stuff,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: but you're stuck. I'm what I'm what I'm trying to
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: do is I'm putting it back on us. I'm putting
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: it back on you as the listener, I'm putting it
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: on myself.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: To move forward.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: If you want to move forward in your purpose, God
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: is waiting on you. You are not waiting on God.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: God is waiting on you.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you're going to go through seasons where it's like, okay,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: six months, maybe a couple years of like I'm doing
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: everything right.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: You are.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: You are waiting for the appointed time, right, but you
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: still got to use all of that time. It'll feel
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: like you're waiting. But all of that preparation has a reason.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Gee, there's so much in what you just said.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I think that's one of the hardest. Like if we could,
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: if we could say where we want everybody to be,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: it's that you are actively seeking the Lord, You're in
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: a close relation with him and you're doing everything you
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: know to do that. That's when it's like, okay, now
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: you're living purposely. But here's the caveat and you said it,
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: there has to still be a trust that God's the
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: one who brings the promotion because we use I mentioned
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: David earlier, he had the chance to give himself his
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: promotion when he could have killed soul. Yeah, and what
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: he said I think it was abash I says, let
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: me just drive my spirit through me. It won't take
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: two hits, that's what he says. Aka, bro, I'll finish
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: him in one. It'll be quiet and we can get
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: out of here. And he says, no. He says, whether
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: by old age, which means David, David in his heart
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: was waiting, willing to wait until Saul died, he said,
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: by old age, by war, or by some other means. Aka,
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: I'm trusting God for the promotion, and so you can
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: be and all these things right, I'm grown closer to
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: the Lord. I'm doing everything I know to do, and
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: yet still the trust has to be that Lord, You're
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: going to bring it about at the right time. And
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: that is that is a hard thing to walk out,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: but it is a wonderful place to be. That that
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: is literally purposeful living. And yes, because that's what we
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: talk about. You can't have your purpose. You got to
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: live purposefully. And really what we're talking about today is
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: how to live purposely. You got to live with full
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: presence of what's in your heart and then also with
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: full activation of what's in your hands. So let's just
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: talk about these three things for a second. So this is,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: you know, if you've if you're in the second camp
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: of I've got it in my heart and I'm you know,
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: maybe I don't have full inventory of what's in my hand.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: This is what I would tell you to do. It's discipline,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: self mastery, and stewardship. And what is discipline. Discipline is
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: doing what you know to do. And this is if
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: there's an area in your life where it's like, man,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I like you, let me put it this way. You're
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: like begging God, God, please move me forward. But you're
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: not doing what you already know to do. Yeah, who's
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: God waiting on He's waiting on you. You're not waiting.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: You're not waiting on God. God's waiting on you because
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: you're not being as disciplined as you could be. And
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: this does, this really accomplishes two things. It gives us
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: peace of like so much of it is in God's control,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: but also.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: We have we actually have.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: When you it's kind of full circle. When you get
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: this understanding of God's sovereignty, you also understand because he's
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: a good God and he works in an ordered way.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Even though he's sovereign in full control, we actually have
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: way more influence than we think we do Yeah, he's like,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just waiting on you.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: If so, You've got to understand if I could, if
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I'm just developed myself to where God is, where I'm ready,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: then God's going to move me forward.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Because he's doing it for you. I just want to
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: remind people because sometimes that can make it sound like
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: God's a task master because that's what we experienced in
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: our jobs or whoever has you know, been in charge
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: of whatever we're doing. God's not a task master. He's
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: always preparing you and it's always for your best good.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: So it's not that he's just like, well, if you
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: do it right, then I'll be good.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: It's like, no, I want you to be it'd be
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: like Elijah, you know, getting mad at you and saying like, well,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: why can't you let me just hit off a pitching machine?
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Right? You're not ready? Right, that's exactly right? Yeah, very good.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: So discipline you've if you are not as disciplined as
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: you should be, and you know the answer to that,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: you don't need me to tell you maybe your wife
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: tells you. You don't need your wife to tell you, like,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: you know, if you could be more disciplined and if
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: you and if you have that sick feeling of man,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I'm just not where I want to be in my life.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Fix it be disciplined. Yeah, very good.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: The second thing is self mastery, and this is different
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: than discipline in that this is this is like full
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: development of yourself and your skill sets. And I've been
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: you can see this, and people who really get onto
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: their purpose you can see this in the Bible. I
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: can tell you I've been through this in my own
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: life where I developed my skills further than I thought,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Like there's no there's no relevancy for me to develop
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: this skill to this level at this time, right, But
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: this is these are the skills that God's given me.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: This is the abilities that I've that I have.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: They can you know, like.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: For me, one of those being the ability to communicate
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: and speak. It's like, well, I've just I'm like, you
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: know what, I feel like this is supposed to be
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: a part of my life. You know, it's not like
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: my primary profession, but this is a part of my life.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to develop this as much as I can,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: and I still have a long way to go in
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: that it is because it's such a difficult skill. But
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: there's been so many skills in my life where I said, Okay,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm going to do this as as
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: much as I can. I think about for myself just
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: in the context of equanimity and resiliency. It's something that
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: I teach. It's something that's spiritual. It's also something that
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  Speaker 1: God's naturally given me. And I could say like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I've got plenty of that, but I have developed it
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  Speaker 1: to its fullest capacity, and you know what, I've ended
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  Speaker 1: up needing it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what you're walking through right now, you've been using
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  Speaker 3: it at a very very high.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Level because it's being a Really what that comes down
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  Speaker 1: to is being a good and faithful steward, right, And
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: it's all these things discipline, self mastery, and stewardship. Stewardship
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  Speaker 1: is understanding. I don't own it. It doesn't belong to me, right.
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  Speaker 1: I look my life in this context of something I
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: say to young men who because I'm the hope for
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: any parent who their children play a lot of video games.
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  Speaker 1: I played a lot of video games, and I turned out, okay,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: I just did other things too. If video games is
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  Speaker 1: all you do, then we have a problem. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things I say to young men who are gamers,
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  Speaker 1: is I, you know, trying to give them some thought
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  Speaker 1: about their life? Is when you play in a video game,
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  Speaker 1: do you help your character? Like do you help a
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  Speaker 1: max stat like you want him to get to his
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  Speaker 1: best capacity, his fullest capacity.
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  Speaker 2: You make all these decisions.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, because one day I'm going to beat the
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: final boss, and when I show up to the final boss,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have you know the best gear and
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have the best stats. You make all
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: these wise decisions to be your best because you're playing
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the character not as him, but as someone who knows
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: what's best for him, right, And this is what you've
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: got to do for yourself. Very good play like And
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm connecting that to stewardship case. Stewardship
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  Speaker 1: is I don't own it. It doesn't belong to me.
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  Speaker 1: I try to look at my own life that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's not mine. God gave this to me, so use
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  Speaker 1: it just like you would if like your friend gives
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  Speaker 1: you a bunch of money, like you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: waste it the same way you might waste yours. If
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  Speaker 1: you are a good person, how hopefully you are some
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: people would, but because it's your friend's money, it's like, hey,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: you know, here's your money back. I know you told
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: me to hang onto this five hundred dollars for you,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: you know. I all I did was I bought your
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: son a cheeseburger and we just got this burger and
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: a small drink. And here's the receipt and here's all
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the money that was with that.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Here. Take your stuff back, right, because.
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  Speaker 1: It's not yours. So you're going to be a good
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: keeper of it. Be this way with your life. Be
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: a good keeper of who God has made you to
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: be and of all of the resources that God has
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: given you. If you can say, like if you're in
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: this category of stuck where it's like, man, I just
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm not where God wants me. Like, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm not you know my purpose. I don't
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: know my purpose is. And I'd really like to be this,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just kind of like stuck in my life.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: But in any of these areas discipline, self mastery, or stewardship,
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  Speaker 1: you could say, man, I could be better. Then that's
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: what you're waiting on. Yeah, right, So be a better
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  Speaker 1: steward of not of your life, and every resource that
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: God has given.
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  Speaker 3: You before we wrapped you. I just want to make
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  Speaker 3: one point about max stat because we cover max stat
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  Speaker 3: in the Purpose Playbook, which is available in our school community,
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  Speaker 3: and I know a lot of people had they were
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: struggling to understand max stat in the way that we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about it, because I think for a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people they'll say, well, that means that I just need
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  Speaker 3: to be one hundred at everything. Like if you're imagining
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  Speaker 3: playing a baseball game, I'm one hundred on throwing them,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: a hundred on running them, a hundred on hitting for power,
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: and one hundred on hitting for oh and also I'm
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: a hundred on pitching. And like unless your show he Otani,
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: you are, I mean, he's he's the guy who's actually
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: broken this, but he had a gift from God to
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: be able to do both. The point I'm making in
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  Speaker 3: actual life, you're trying to understand that you need to
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: be max stats on what God has given you the
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: capacity for. So there's things that you and I spend
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: zero time improving ourselves on. I'm not trying to I'll
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  Speaker 3: just use a really simple one. I'm never going to
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  Speaker 3: try and be a graphic designer. I'm not gifted at it.
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  Speaker 3: It is just not what God has gifted.
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  Speaker 2: Me to do. Because not the design guy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not there. I'm not and so I spend no
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  Speaker 3: time doing that. And you might be like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't really help me in life. This is part
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  Speaker 3: of the skill of knowing of self mastery that ties
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  Speaker 3: into stewardship, because the more you begin to know what
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: God's put you on the earth for and you start
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: to say, Okay, here's my natural strengths. And there's things
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: like Clifton Strengths Finder, which I would recommend everybody to do.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: We don't get paid for it, but it will tell
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: you your top five, your top ten things that you're
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: really good at. And I think if you the more
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  Speaker 3: you understand that, the more you go, Okay, let's lean
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  Speaker 3: into those and max stat my top five and in
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: my bottom five, I'm going to hire those out. I'm
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: going to find other people who are who are great
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: partners or people that I want to be aligned with,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: because together, it's it's God math. It's five plus five
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  Speaker 3: equals fifteen, and that's that's where you start to That's
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  Speaker 3: that is actual max stating your life. And I want
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: to say it because I don't want people to think
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: that we're like, you need to be great at everything.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: That's not what we're saying. We're saying, take your strengths,
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: and take your strengths to the absolute extreme. And then
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: the things that you know you're weak at, and by
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: the way, you're not allowed to be weak at, like
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: love and forgiveness, that those are not those are not
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: strengths and weak my strength. Yeah, yeah, my strength is
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: not is not people. So I'm just gonna treat everybody horribly. No,
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: we're talking about actual like abilities and skill sets when
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: we're talking about that. That's what we mean when we
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: say max stat So I just want to make sure
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: I caveat that g because we had a lot of
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: questions on that when we did purpose playbook.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I just want to remind everyone as we wrap up,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: you can be in a season where, just like I
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: was for I was doing everything that I was supposed
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: to do, and I was still like, God, will God
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: show me, God open a door? But I was doing
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: everything I could with what was in my hand, and
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: I had a dream just to be great. Didn't know
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: exactly what I was supposed to do, and even then
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: it took months for God to show me. But what
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: I what I did know at that point was I'm
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: doing what I'm doing all I can do. And what
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: you are always have the ability to do is get
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: out of the sick feeling of man. I just feel
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: like there's more for me. And that's exactly who we
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: speak to on this podcast. People who want everything that
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: God has for them, that know that God created you
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: for a great purpose, that God created you for a reason.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: God is a great plan for your life. That's who
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: we're speaking to. And what we talked about today is
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: that you can get to this place at any time
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: where not that like, oh there it is like God
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: wrote it down, this is the purpose of my life.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: But at any time, you can get to a place
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: where you know that you're doing everything that God called
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: you to do. So be faithful with what God's put
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: in your hand, have a deep relationship with the Lord
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: that you can test your dream, that you can talk
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: to God and say, God, is this righteous? Is this
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: what You've called me to do? That you can get
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: on your knees every morning, and when you're doing both
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: of these things, when you have full possession of what's
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: in your heart and you have full possession of what's
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: in your hand, then you are fully authorized to go
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: out and do everything God puts you on the earth
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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