The Gift God Is Waiting For (It's Not What You Think)

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Welcome to the Success by the Book Podcast, the place where Christians who want to experience the extravagant goodness of God in all areas of their lives come from mentorship. I am your host, Dr. Inn, and I'll be unpacking the secrets I have learned from the Word of God over the last two decades. Let's dive in. All right, so this is the deal. God is all powerful, God is all-knowing. God is on our side. God sent Jesus to die for us. God wants us to have a great life. He has given us gift after gift after gift. He gave us the gift of Jesus. He gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us. He gave us the gift of the name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus. He gave us the gift of being able to pray in other tongues. He gives us the gifts of access to him. He says, Come boldly into my throne of grace so you can receive grace and mercy, mercy and grace for your time of need. He gave us the gift of our Bibles so we can know him. He's given us the gift of wisdom, understanding, knowledge. He's given us this the gifts of his principles, which are designed for our success, right? So God is so amazing. He has given us so many gifts. So many gifts. Again, we're going to type. He did it. So type in the chat. Thank you, Jesus. He gave us so many gifts. But the Almighty God also needs a gift from you. He needs a gift from me. Okay? And we're going to talk about that gift because our response to the many gifts God has given us is going to be the gift we're going to give him. Okay? The gift we're going to give him. And let me tell you about this gift. It's so interesting because it is a gift you give him, but it benefits you. Like it will change your life. It will turn your life around. It will turn your world right side up. This is a gift that's almost selfish. You're giving it to him, but they're giving it to you. Okay? You're giving it to you. So this is going to be so good. I want you to understand that this is not something I thought up and I'm like, oh, this would be cool to just say this. And so because of that, I'm going to give you five examples from the Bible. Because the, you know, the Bible says in the matter of two or three witnesses, a matter is in the presence of two or three witnesses, a matter is established. You want to establish this and never forget it. Hi, Minister Smith. Okay. So let's look at it. We're going to start off with Jesus. So this was a gift that God gave Jesus. And this is so fascinating. Okay. Now, if you read the account of Jesus, if you see me looking down, it's because I'm looking at my Bible. This is success by the book, after all. Okay. Okay. So in in Luke, right, there's something very interesting that happens. In Luke chapter 2, we read a lot about Jesus. Okay. And at this time, Jesus was 12 years old. Okay. So Luke chapter 2. Um, you know, Jesus that was when the story of when Jesus got lost, when Mary lost Jesus. I always tell parents this when they're like, oh my goodness, I'm breaking my child. I'm like, have you lost your child? The mother of God lost him. Okay. Okay. So Mary had lost Jesus. They, you know, they they traveled to the temple for the feast, went went back, didn't realize Jesus wasn't with them. They went back, they found Jesus. He was there in the synagogue. It was like, didn't you know I'll be about my father's business? Why were you looking for me? All of that stuff. Okay. Fantastic story. Jesus was 12. Now, when you look at Luke chapter 3, at this point, Jesus was 30. Like the next account after Luke chapter 2, Jesus is 30. Okay. So we have this gap between 12 and 30. And the question is, what was Jesus doing between the ages of 2, of 12 and 30? And the Bible doesn't necessarily give us an account of that, but it does give us a bridge. Okay. So let me show you the bridge here. Okay. The bridge is found at the end of Luke chapter 2. What was Jesus doing? Luke chapter 2, verse 52. And it says, and Jesus increased. Some translations say he grew. Okay. So I have the team put the translation that says grew in there. So you see the New Living Translation says grew. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and favor with God and favor with men. The Bible says that. And after that says nothing about him again until he's 30. Okay. So Jesus was growing. Jesus was increasing. Jesus was becoming a weapon in the hand of God. Somebody that God could use to turn the world right side up. So here we are, we know Jesus grew. And after Jesus grew, he became the person who took, like, who combed Jerusalem and the surrounding areas who changed the world forever. Jesus did that from three, from 30 to 33 and a half, and then he died. Okay. So three and a half years, he was able to change the world. Why? Because he grew. Okay? Because he grew, because he evolved, because he changed. One of the greatest gifts you can give God is your evolution. Because wherever we find ourselves now, it's raw material. No matter how developed we are, it's raw material. The question is: would you take that raw material and then develop it? Can God depend on you to develop that raw material so you can become the version of you that He can use at a higher level, who can touch more people, who can have more impact, who can create more revenue, whatever that is, who can raise kids that are world changers? Like, can I evolve? Can I give the give God the gift of my evolution? And Jesus grew. Okay? Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and favorite men. Okay, so that's one example. I told him I'm gonna give you five. Because after today, we need to be crystal clear on what our most important work is. Okay. Now let's look at another person. Okay. Because when I started reading through the Bible and I saw this, I was like, wait a whole minute. They're all doing this. Okay. So let's look at Luke chapter one. And Luke chapter one talks about John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of Jesus. And Jesus, talking about him, said, Of all the prophets of the Old Testament and all, there's none as great as John the Baptist. So John the Baptist is this great prophet. Okay. Now, once upon a time, he was younger. Let's see what the Bible says. It says in verse 80. So Luke chapter 1, verse 80. Now, Luke was written by the book of Luke was written by Luke the physician. And every time I read it, I was like, this guy was just a physician. Like 80 verses for one chapter? Come on, man. And the next one is 52 verses. I was like, go look at Mark. Anyway, so Luke chapter 1, verse 80 says, So the child, referring to John the Baptist, grew and became strong in spirit and was in the desert. Now get this, till the day of his manifestation to Israel. So this is the deal. God gives you a promise because John the Baptist already knew he was a forerunner. His parents already, he's a parents, already knew that he was a forerunner of Jesus Christ. He didn't go from prophecy to manifestation. You have to get this. We read the Bible, there's so many prophecies about it. We don't go from prophecy to manifestation. He went from prophecy to growing to manifestation. Okay, he went from prophecy to evolution to manifestation. We want to be the person who completes the assignment God gives us. We must evolve. We want to become the people, we want to be the people who be signs and wonders, we must evolve. We want to be the people who the dreams God has shown us, like this is who I made you to be. We want to see it, we must evolve. Wanting to go from manifestation from prophecy to manifestation is a trap. That's what makes people go do photo shoots so they look bigger than they are. Take on debt so they can look bigger than they are. Um, collaborate with certain people so they can appear there greater than they are. And I'm not like all of these things are like, yeah, do a photo shoot by all means, collaborate by all means. But it's not to attain something outside. You haven't attained, you haven't become on the inside. We gotta evolve, we gotta become. We gotta become such that the things that are to come to us just have to because of who we've become. I will evolve. Okay, so we have Jesus, the sinless son of God. He had to evolve to become everything that God called him to be. John the Baptist, who is the greatest prophet, he had to evolve, he had to grow, he had to become strong in spirit, he had to evolve. Okay. Now, let's look at somebody in the Old Testament, right? Is this a brand new strategy? No, nope, nope, nope. I want to show you this. When I read it, I was like, wait, this sounds like Luke chapter 2, verse 52. What is happening here? Okay, so you're gonna see it. Hopefully, you're as mind-blown as I am. Okay, so 1 Samuel chapter 2. First Samuel chapter 2. So if you remember the story of Samuel, Samuel's mother Hannah had been bearing for so long. Um, she was a first wife. There was a second wife, that one had tons of kids, she had no kids, and then she goes to the temple every year, you know, at the time when they have to show up at the temple, and you know, she and and her, the the other wife would mock her, right, and taunt her and all of those things. And so one day she goes to the temple, and in distress of the spirit, she's praying and she's praying and crying out to God, if you give me a son, I'll give him to you, and all of those things. And here comes Eli, the man of God, is like, you know, whatever it is that you've just desired of the Lord, let the Lord grant it to you, right? He didn't even know what it was, but he gave the word, which shows you how powerful the prophetic word can be. So, anyway, she then goes on to have a son. His name is Samuel, and after she weaned him, she brought him back to the temple, like her offering to God, if you will. So he stayed with Eli, um, the you know, the high priest at the time, and all of that. And so this was Samuel. Okay, so this is who he was. Now, get what this says about him. Verse 26. It says, and the child Samuel grew, Jesus had to grow, John the Baptist had to grow, Samuel had to grow. Now, Samuel was a mighty prophet. I don't have time to tell you how amazing he was, but he was the one who anointed the first king who um anointed Sam Saul. He was the person who anointed David. He was the person who um, when Saul went to get him, wanted to send men to get him captured, they couldn't capture him because of the manifestation of the anointing of God on his life. Like it's so fascinating. We can't get into it, but he was a mighty prophet, mighty prophet of God. Okay, it says, and the child Samuel grew. He grew. The gift he gave God was his growth. He grew in stature, like Jesus, in favor both with the Lord and men. So in Jesus' case, it mentioned four dimensions of growth. Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, favor, God in favor with man. For Samuel, it talks about him growing in stature in favor with both the Lord and men. So three dimensions. Now we know that he grew in wisdom as well, but these are the three dimensions that were mentioned. Okay. So he needed to grow. So sometimes we're like, if you can use anything, Lord, use me. And it's a very good thing to say, it's a very good prayer to pray. But the corresponding action to that is then becoming the person he can use. And it is growing. It is growing. Let's stop saying, Lord, this is raw material, whatever you want to do with it, do it. No, let's work on the raw material and make it something he can use. Okay. So I'm not telling you something you've never heard before. I'm not telling you something that God is not already dealing with you on. This is confirmation because if it's true and he told all he had all these people grow, and the gift you give him is your growth, he's talking to you about it. He's talking, even the things that look like challenges, the things that look like character flaws. He's like, grow, grow, learn to overcome this, study this, learn this, practice this, right? The reason we're here is because now we're gonna make a commitment. We're gonna understand it deeply, we're gonna have revelation behind it, and we're gonna go after it. And I made a commitment that there is never going to be a day where I wake up in the morning and then I go to bed at night and I'm the same. Never. That's the come that's the that's the commitment I made. Every single day I'm going to grow. This is the gift I give God. This is a gift. So I can grow in capacity. I want you to think about it. If you have, you know, like 2.0 level of wisdom, you can have a 100.0. If you are you're able to give$10,000 in a year to support the work of the ministry, you can also give a million. If you have a body that based on what you're doing in your body, you can live to 60. You can build a body that you can live to 90. If you have faith that's this itty bitty, or you deploy it in this way, you can deploy a thousand times more. And so the more you grow, the more you can express God's character, the more you can express his power, the more you can walk in his wisdom, the more you can be a sign and wonder, the more influence you can have in your world, the like the more. So the gift we give God is becoming, and he has given us all the tools. And we're gonna look at this stuff, okay? So I've given you two examples, I've given you three examples. Okay, we've done Jesus, we've done John the Baptist, and we've done Samuel. Now, I want to show you because when he showed me this, I was like, wait, a whole minute. Let me show you this, okay? All right, now let me show you that even earthly kings, they are looking for evolution, they're looking for evolvement. So look at this, okay? I want I want you to hear this. Now, the king of Babylon at the time, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken Israel, he had captured Israel, okay? He had defeated Israel, and they brought some of the people from Israel to Babylon as slaves. But I I want to show you this, okay? So Daniel chapter one. Where do I start from? Let me start from verse two. We're gonna read a number of verses, but I want you to lean into the word of God, don't get bored with the word of God, okay? Okay, and the Lord gave Jehoiakim, king of Judah, into his hand, so instead into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shiner, to the house of his God. So Nebuchadnezzar took things from the temple of God and took it and put in the temple of his own God. Okay, okay, and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his God. Okay, so he plundered Israel. Okay, verse three. Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring, pay attention, some of the children of Israel and some of the king's descendants, and some of the nobles. Notice that it said some. He didn't want everybody, he wanted some people. Okay. Now let's look at the characteristics of the people he wanted. Verse 4. He said, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good looking. We can say stature, physical development. Okay, all right. He said, but good looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge, and quick to understand. Okay. Does that not sound like wisdom? Like Jesus grew in wisdom. Okay. And now get this. Okay, so okay, let's stop here because this is this is so exciting. Now, the king, and your God is a king, the king, and you're made for the top, you're made to play with kings. The king was looking for people who had evolved. He wasn't looking for everybody, he was looking for people who had evolved. You want to get promoted, evolve. You want to make new um hit new revenue milestones in your business, evolve. You want to be more healthy, evolve. You want to live longer, evolve. You want to be a person who is led of the spirit, evolve. Do you see what I'm saying? Because kings are looking for people who evolved. People of influence are looking for people who have evolved. People who are influential are looking for people who evolved. People who are the head, the people who are the gatekeepers are looking for people who evolved. That's what they're looking for. They're not looking for raw material. I'm a physician, I'm a pastor, I'm a serial entrepreneur, I'm all this stuff. But where I'm right now is raw material. Because I can take it up many notches. Okay, so the king was looking for people who were evolved. Now let me show you the kicker here. I'm gonna start verse four over. It says, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge, quick to understand. Now get this, who had ability to serve in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans. This is mind-boggling. The king was looking for people who were evolved and the people who can evolve more. We're looking for young men in no blah who don't have any blemish, who are good looking, who have wisdom, who have understanding, who have the ability to serve at the king. So they have skill, they have all this other stuff, right? So they have all these things, and they can then teach them the language and the literature of the Chaldeans. So they're gonna learn a new language, they're gonna learn a new culture, they're gonna learn new processes of doing things, so they can continue to evolve. So the king was looking for people who had evolved and could continue to evolve. So this thing of I've arrived, this thing of, oh, I've graduated graduated college, so I'll never read another book. This thing of, oh, we're we're good now. No, ma'am, no, sir. The people who are going to go to the top and stay at the top because Daniel rose to the top and he stayed at the top for four administrations. Those are people who will evolve and continue to evolve. Continue to evolve. This is not a process that ends. And the more evolved you are, the more of a gift you are, the more you can change your world, the more impact you can have, the more resources you can bring in, the more beautiful your life can become. I will evolve and continue to evolve. We don't stop. We start, we understand what it is, we pay the price for it, and we don't stop. We don't stop for anything. For anything. Thank you, Jesus. Okay, all right. So that's Daniel. That's Daniel. So even an earthly king, not the king of kings and lord of lords, the earthly king is like, uh, we only want people who've evolved, and the people who've evolved that are willing to continue evolving. Otherwise, we don't want to. If an earthly king is not looking to use people who are not willing to continue evolving, we must understand God is no different. Okay, now let's look at one more. Now, this one showed up as a prayer, but the prayer was a prayer of evolution, it blew God's mind. God was like, God was like, Hold up, what just happened here? He said, In fact, because your prayer was for evolution, I'm gonna give you all these other things you didn't pray about. So this is a prayer that made God so excited, and now you understand why. Okay, all right. So let's go here. We're gonna go to 2 Chronicles. We're gonna make every day a gift day for God. That's what we're gonna every single day, every day He gives us breath. Okay, now this is so fun. Second Chronicles chapter one. Okay, now pay attention to this. This is so wild. So wild. Now, Solomon had just been made king of Israel. His father before him, David, at the time was the most amazing king that Israel had ever had. Their first king was Saul. Saul did the most this, David came on, and David served the Lord his God, and he got victory after victory. He took territory, he did like he did so many things. So this is like some pretty big shoes to fill. So here comes Solomon. And on the day that you know he be, you know, became the king and all of this stuff, this is the account, okay?

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In verse 3, let me start from verse 3. It says, Then Solomon and all the assembly with him went to the high place that was Gibeah for the tabernacle of the meeting, uh, with God there, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the wilderness. Okay, so then go to verse six. Pay attention to this. And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offering on it. Okay, he gave a magnificent offering, a thousand burnt offerings. And the Bible says in verse seven, on that night. Now, someday we're gonna have the time to teach about provoking God and all of those things, but he gave a thousand burnt offering on that night. God appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask, what shall I give you? Okay, now I want you to think about it honestly. If God were to show up now, now, right now, and say, What do you want? I'll give it to you. Okay, how many of you are honest to say you're gonna talk about something external that you need? Lord, I need a house. Lord, I need a husband, Lord, I need a wife, Lord, I need you to help my child, Lord, I need money, Lord, I need a new job, Lord, I need this business to hit seven figures finally. Lord, I need healing in my body, Lord, I need, right? All my enemies, handle my enemies, right? Like you would need you would ask him for something. Something, right? You're like, oh, thank you, Jesus. That car that I needed, right? Linda's like, yes, these things, things. That's what I'd ask for, right? Like, yeah, I'll be honest, that's what I would ask for. Like, of course. I'll be like, Are you kidding? Lord, let me bring my 20% coach journal. I have them all written there. Have them all written there. Let me tell you what I need. Okay, okay. Now, I want you to look at what he prayed for. Okay. So, verse 7, on that night, the Lord appeared to Solomon and said to him, Ask, what shall I give you? What will I give you? And Solomon said to God, You have shown great mercy to David, my father, and have made me king in his place. Okay, so he hasn't asked for anything yet, he's making a statement. Then verse 9 Now, O Lord, let your promise to my father be established that you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. So you made me king of a lot of people. The the thing Cassandra says, Yes, it's all written down. I have everything written down, the things I'll tell him to do for me. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that, but I'm just showing you something. So he says, Lord, you made my dad king. You you promised him you'll have a king, you know, on his throne forever. Like you, you know, establish your promise. Then he said, Now give me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in, I may govern these people, I may govern these people. For who can judge this great people of yours? I want you to think about so think about that list you have shown God, think about all the things you'd have told God and listen to what Solomon asked for. Wisdom. One of the four areas of development for Jesus, right? And Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, favorite God, favorite people. He said, Lord, give me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before these people. And that's a phrase, you know, it's a phase old, is it's New King James. So it's it's a phrase I govern these people properly, right? For who can judge this great people of yours? He asked for evolution. He didn't ask for things, he asked for evolution. Solomon could have asked for things, he could have asked for money, he could have asked for riches, he could have asked for fame, he could have asked for visibility, he could have asked for all of these things. He asked for evolution. Give me wisdom, give me knowledge, so I can become the person who can govern your people. I can become the person who can live the life you called me to live. I can become the person for whom the scriptures are true. I can become the person who fulfills my assignment. I can become the person who says, Lord, I completed to the last detail the assignment you gave me. The man asked for evolution. He gave God the gift, if you will, setting the stage to give God the gift of evolution. Like, Lord, help me to become the kind of king you need me to be to govern your people. What just happened? Okay, now let me show you how God responds when you decide. I remember he didn't just ask, right? He had all the corresponding action and stuff like that, but let me show you God's response to evolution. He's like, Wait, wait, what, what? Okay, so this is God. God says in verse 11, very next verse. Then God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for riches, things, or wealth, things, or honor, things, or the life of your enemies, things, nor have you asked for long life, but you have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, you may govern my people over whom I have made you king. The wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. And I will give you now here comes the things because once you evolve, when you evolve, the consequence of your evolution is a lot of things. The consequence of your evolution is a lot of things. Things follow your evolution. So wisdom and knowledge are granted you, and so let's see what follows the evolution. I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who were before you, nor shall any after you have the like. I will give you sign and wonder level riches, wealth, and honor. And did God do that? Yes. Did it follow Solomon? Yes, yes. Now we've seen five examples. We've seen Jesus, we've seen John the John the Baptist, we've seen Samuel, we've seen Nebuchadnezzar, a human king, and what he wanted out of Daniel, right? Or how he ended up picking Daniel, and then we've seen Solomon and God. This is evidence all over the place of how valuable your evolution is to God. Look at how excited it made him after he says, solo boy. You asked me for this. This is what you asked me for? Said, bruv, I'll give you that. Okay, this is Dr. Una translation, right? I'll give you that, I'll give you wealth, I'll give you honor, I'll give you riches, I'll give like you could have asked for all this things that what you wanted is to become the kind of king who can lead the people I put you in charge of. What? Okay. Now I will tell you that in the beginning, my walk with God, this is my 26th year of walking with God. Like seriously walking with him, before I was, you know, whatever. Okay, 26th year. And I'm 47, so do the math, okay. And if you are part of Horizon Shine, or you're you've come on success by the book, this is not your first time, you'll see me live this out. If you're in Horizon Shine, we're doing it together, right? And so growing in favor with God, what is that? Going deeper in him, going deeper in your walk with him, learning to host him, learning, learning him, knowing him, position yourself so you can hear him. We do that, we do that with prayer, right? You guys were here last year, you know, when God started teaching leading us on this whole path of reading through our Bible. And what did we do with that? We we went deeper in him, we got to know him more, right? We got to know him more. We were growing in favor with him. We got to know the things pleasing to him, we got to start learning that obedience is God's love language. Started practicing obedience, practicing, adjusting our character, all of those things, right? Wisdom, we look in the word, don't we? We look in the word and we look in the word, going, how does God do things? For instance, what are we doing today? We are growing in wisdom, we're growing in spiritual intelligence. Remember when God started talking to us about spiritual intelligence and we started leaning into that? Like, what are God's God's what is God's way of doing things? What is God's way of creating results? Now, what we're looking at is God's personal development program. Anybody can have any personal development program, but what was the personal development program he thought was good for Jesus? Jesus growing wisdom, stature, favorite God, and favor people. What does that mean? We grow. What does that mean? We never stop growing. What does that mean? We have multidimensional growth. So if we say, I love God, but I don't do people, that's not in alignment with God's personal development program. Oh, I love to pray, but I'm not about reading the word and growing in wisdom. Because why? Because it's a multidimensional thing. You can't pick one and leave the other. So what are we doing right now? We're growing in wisdom. I cannot tell you, like, there's so many frameworks I use in my businesses. We're talking multi-million dollar business. It's from the word of God, it's straight up from the word of God. Why? Because the wisdom, God's God said, My way, my thoughts are higher than my thoughts, than your thoughts. My ways are higher than your ways. And I thought about it. He said, as the heavens are higher than the earth, he said, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. And I looked at it and said, huh. So if God's thoughts and God's ways are higher than my thoughts and my ways, that must be why his results are so much higher than my results. And I was like, what if I can ditch my way of thinking and pick his and ditch my way of doing things and take his? Then that means now I get results that are like like God-level results. And I'm not saying I'm creating galaxies and stuff like that, but now when people look at the results again, they have to say, huh, that is the finger of God. Why? Because I've given up regular human thinking, I've taken up his thinking, and I've given up regular ways of doing things, I've taken his ways of doing things. That's wisdom. Wisdom. Okay, we come to stature. I told you guys a story of how I lost 20 pounds, I've kept the 20 pounds off. Where did why why am I doing that? Because, okay, we can't say I love to pray and I ignore my body. Jesus grew in stature. Jesus could walk tens of miles. Like, think about when, oh, you walk from Jerusalem to Capanim, he walked from here to here. Look, like he he technically did multiple 5Ks. Okay. Now, your body is your earth suit. So if someone goes to space, they have to wear a space suit. You can't show up in space and just stroll around like your regular body. You need a spacesuit. In the same way, spirits can be on earth, but they can't actually do things on earth. They can influence people who have bodies to do things because this is not their realm. This realm belongs to humans, like spirits that have bodies. Okay? So when God wants to do something in the earth, he inspires people to do it. When Satan wants to get something done in there, he inspires people to do it. God gave jurisdiction to people who have earth suits, earth suits, bodies. Okay. So if you're not nice to this body and the body expires, you have to leave. You and your calling will have to leave. So one of the gifts you give God is you take care of this body because God wants your body to be whole and healthy. Now, there's the healing anointing, there is the anointing for divine health, but there's also the corresponding action. What did he tell you? Type in the chat. What did he tell you? What did he tell you? You're supposed to get your mammogram, you're supposed to get your colonoscopy, and God is the one who's been reminding you. No, type, type what he told you. Type what he told you in the chat. Because I want to normalize this stuff. I want you to realize that God wants you to evolve, God wants you to grow, God wants me to grow. Someone said, literally going for a walk, right? Start going to the gym again. Who else? Who else? What has he told you? Stop eating weekly at Portalos. God will even tell you, stop going there, stop going there. Jenna said, Why are you in my house? We all in the same house, girl. I got you. You got me. Okay, Ahari says, means drinking water, drinking water, exercise, walk more and drink water. Stop sugar. Like, what does God say these things? Yes.

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R3 Chi taught me stop sugary snacks before bed. Why is God telling? Because your evolution, you taking care of this body, you saying, I am going to build a peak performance body that I can use to fulfill my assignment that can take me to a year of to the age of 100. If I need that's what I need to do to do my assignment, this body is going to deliver. God wants that. God wants that. Monica is like, cut the sugar, sister. Cut it. Right? Start going to the gym, enroll in the health cup.

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Pablo says, God tells me all the time about my health. He says, start walking again. So when you hear that, it's not just you thinking. God is like, evolve, evolve, grow in wisdom, growing stature, grow in favor of God, grow in favor of people. Because if you grow in wisdom and you assault this body with sugar and inactivity and unnecessary stress and all of that, you and your wisdom have to leave. And God has to look for another person. Do you know how long it takes God to raise a man of God? And when I say man of God, I'm not saying pulpit, I'm saying somebody who will fulfill assignment. Do you know how long it takes? It takes time to know God, it takes time to build faith, it takes time to grow in the anointing. And just when it's about to start compounding, then you die and go away. God is like, golly. Okay, Jesus has died. Uh huh. Blood has been shed. He made you the temple of the Holy Spirit. Great. He gave you access to his throne room. He made you a son and daughter of the Most High God. Great. Now, in return, in honoring what he has done, I will now evolve multi-dimensional evolution. Right? In wisdom, in stature, in favor of God, in favor with man. In favor of man. All of it, every aspect. So you're here, you're staying home, mom. You deploy this, you grow in wisdom, you grow in capacity, you grow in favor of God, favor of man, you grow in stature, and you give God, you have four children, you give him four kings, four people that'll turn the world right side up. Do you know how you'll be celebrated for all eternity? Do you know what a gift that is? Yes, ma'am, we are growing in this stuff. I will give God the gift of a peak performance body, a sharp mind filled with the wisdom of God, a favor with Him, deep spiritual roots, favor with people. Amazing. Okay, so this is the deal. We must evolve. We must have multi-dimensional evolution, and we must continue to evolve. We don't stop on this side of eternity, we continue evolving until. So if you ever wonder why we do what we do, okay, so you have your church, okay, and in your church, evolution takes place. You have opportunities to grow in wisdom, growing your depth with God, favor with God, all of those things, right? If you wonder why we do what we do in a rise and shine, that's why. It's evolution, it's evolution, it's evolution. Okay, let's do this, okay? And this is so fun. Let me say, tomorrow is the sixth-year anniversary of a rise and shine. What? Sixth year. Okay, so this is the deal. In our world, we have resources for you. One resource is here success by the book. When you show up on success by the book, you are growing in wisdom. You get strategies to grow in stature, to grow in favor with God, to grow in favor with people. Even on here, you're building community here. It's amazing. That's one resource. The second resource we have for you is success is Arise and Shine. Horizon Shine is a prayer meeting we do every single day. And like I told you, Arise and Shine is going to be six years old tomorrow. Every morning, six o'clock. You come, you pray. Okay, so you're going deeper in God. You you you come on there, you're challenged to do the 365 challenge. So you're taking care of your body. You come on there, you're challenged to grow relationships, like not even challenged to grow relationships, because we do that, but you intercede for churches. We're talking hundreds of churches. Last count, 650 churches. That's your influence growing, favor with people, whether you recognize it or not, right? And all the other things we do. And we give you so many resources. We do goal setting, we do all kinds of fun things. We have a board meeting we've got every Monday, all kinds of fun things. So if you're not part of it, dcgeorgia.org forward slash prayer. Okay. So that's the second resource that we have for you. Now, the third resource we have for you is what we have on Substack. Okay. So success by the book.substack.com. And on there we have articles, and we've cleaned that up where every week you're gonna get some kind of article. Okay. Like, so for instance, I did a whole training on the ultimate personal development program, kind of like what we're talking about here. Okay. So it's an article on there. I have my daughter, she just turned 18, powerful testimony of how God delivered her at birth because she was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. She had half of her liver in her chest. Her chest, her chest cavity was then occupied, so she didn't have space for her lungs to grow. She had 9% lung volume, nine, like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And I took that story, documented it, is there as an article for you to read. I talk about praying for wisdom, it's not enough. When you're done praying for wisdom, these are the seven things you need to do to come to convert the answer that God has given you yes to an answer that is in your reality. It's an article there. If you are not subscribed to us on Substack, you want to go subscribe to us on Substack. Okay, that's the link. The team has posted in the chat. Do it now. Okay, do it now. But this is the deal. Now, for some people, and this is not for everybody, but I invite you to be a part of it. We have an inner circle. So it's the success by the book inner circle. And there, what we're what you're going to get, I announced this on Saturday. What you're going to get is every week, you have a training from me. So look at it this way. There are four areas of growth that Jesus was subjected to. Wisdom, stature. So what is wisdom? Doing things God's way. Right? Like, how would God run a business? How would God parents children? How would God take care of a body? How would it's all in the scriptures? It's all in the Bible. Okay? So growing in wisdom, growing in stature, physical body. I told you guys about losing 20 pounds and all the other stuff I'm doing. And then favor with God, going deeper in God, because when we go deeper in God, we go higher in life. And then favor with people, growing in social capital. If you grow in favor with God and you don't grow in favor with men, it will cost you. If it would not cost you, Jesus wouldn't have had to do it. If you find something that Jesus couldn't escape, you have to understand you can escape it. Like, for instance, as an entrepreneur, how do I know that I cannot get away without marketing? Because sometimes people stay at home, pray for their businesses, call for clients. Okay. The Bible says that Jesus went to all the synagogues in all the cities and all the towns, preaching the gospel. If Jesus had to go on a speaking tour to promote his business, promote his business, which is his ministry, then if you're an entrepreneur, hear ye the word of the Lord. You must go out there and promote your business. Jesus not escaping it, just needs to be proof positive to you that you cannot escape it. That's the wisdom of God. Okay. So growing in favor with people is mandatory if you are going to rise all the way to the top. There's no way without it. And so we created the inner circle. And the people in the inner circle, what you get from me is every week you get a training. Week one, wisdom, week two, stature, week three, favorite God, week four, favorite people. Every single week. You get this every single week. And I am not just giving you the concepts, because here we will talk about the concepts, right? But I am giving you how exactly I am doing it. Okay? How I am doing it. The the practical things, what I'm doing to lose the weight, what I'm doing to create a peak performance body, how I study the Bible to get the wisdom, how I pulled this window, I'm applied it to this part of my life and got this result. You get one of those every single week. So guess what happened? Together, we will just be growing at an accelerated speed every single week. Okay. So join the inner circle and it's not anything complicated. You join the inner circle. That's the paid tier of substacks. It's$20 a month, is$200 a year, which is absolutely nothing, right? Like, and so I put that there just so I can have a group of committed people. My programs, like the people who work with me, physicians, they pay me$30,000 for a year. Just putting it in context. But you get you get spiritual development. Like people are like, will you mentor me? Absolutely. Come join me on the inner circle. Okay. The thing I want you to imagine here is now you're the person who evolves. You're the person who evolves daily. You're the person who evolves in a multidimensional way. You're a person who has a balanced, holistic growth. You're growing in wisdom and stature and favorite God and favorite people. So you have this life that is a sign and a wonder. And you have this life that is so profound, so profound, so profound, that the amount of things you can do in three and a half years, like Jesus, most people in seven lifetimes will not be able to do it. Where people are like, oh my goodness, you're going at such a speed. You're transforming at such a speed. This is the opportunity that we have. And I want to invite you to say yes to it. Yes, yes, yes. So that is the dream. That is what is available. And listen to me, hear me, and hear me good. It doesn't matter the mistakes you've made in the past. It doesn't matter the things you've tried before and failed. It doesn't matter if you can't even fully see that you can become all that. None of those things matter. As long as you will say yes. So type in the chat. This is decision time. Type in the chat, yes. This means you're saying yes to evolution. Yes to continue to evolve. There's no endpoint. Yes to multidimensional evolution. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. If you're saying yes, type yes in the chat. Commitment. And you're not just typing because, oh, you know, we want to type in the chat. No, this is a commitment. Yes. Lord, I will give you the gift of my evolution. I will give you the gift of me becoming the best, the absolute best version of me I can be. I will give you the version of the peak performance version of me. I will give you the version of me that I've worked on. That even people look at me and say, My goodness, this person has worked on themselves. I started off as a super shy, socially awkward, introverted, introvert. I would never be doing 99% of the things I'm doing now. Why am I doing them now? Evolution. Evolution. Those of you who have read the read the fight to become, you see me in the beginning of my evolution. Most people who read it are like, wait, this is her? Yeah. Evolution. This is the gift. And we want to give it to God. And we want to give it to God every day. Every day. And as you do this and you become a weapon, God says, You are my battle axe and my weapons of war. We don't want to give him a dull battle axe. We want to be a sharp battle axe in his hand that he can use to accomplish his purposes. We I'm a sharp battle. I'm going to pay the price to be a sharp battle axe. So I'm rooting for every single one of you. Let's do this together. Let's honor God. Let's live a life that brings him glory, unbelievable glory. Okay? Don't forget to share this with the people in your world that you love, your family, your friends, your community, your industry. And I will see you everywhere else. Horizon Shine, Success by the Book, Substack, Inner Circle, and Inner Circle. Oh my goodness, those of you who joined today, I'm gonna go say hi to you guys. Okay, on Substack. All right. If this has helped you in any way, I would love for you to join the movement and share this episode with your friends, family, and the Christians in your world. By doing this simple thing, you could be changing the trajectory of someone's lives, their family, and their community. That makes you a world changer and they will love you forever.