teaching you to be good seed that we
haven’t taught you the power of good
soil and so when we come to Solis issues
the seed ignores the soil we flick the
channel that has nothing to do with me
we close our eyes because we have been
taught to be good seed but we have not
Jesus says the soul was full sowing seed
and in some fell by the wayside some
pheromones rot some pheromones and look
positioning has a lot to do with
flourishing to be in an environment in a
family that supports to my sister and I
were talking the other day I will tell
her what an amazing person she is that
all of our lives together and and all
the things that God did in my life not
once in all of the years that I’ve known
her and she was there when mama hardly
have I ever known her to be jealous of
me not once not ever she has always been
my cheerleader my greatest fan and she
said how can I be jealous of my brother
I said a lot of people have siblings
and suddenly it has to be that God
planted the people that supported me my
brother my sister my mother my father
they all supported me you can have a
good seed but if you’ve been in bad soil
people who hated you
environments that denied you education
that underserved you communities that
limited you mentality set poisoned you
oh do you hear what I’m saying if your
soil wasn’t right it doesn’t mean that
you’re not right but if your soil wasn’t
right it’s gonna affect how you root and
how you grow will choke you out or the
rocks will not have enough soul fill
your roots to grow God for something you
ought to be blaming the soil for you
cannot take a peach seed and plant it in
a teaspoon of dirt and expect it to grow
though the teaspoon of the dirt is the
same size as the peach seed it will not
grow the seed will only grow when it is
planted in something bigger than itself
and I want to know where are you playing
it this morning are you playing it is
something bigger than you or have you
always been planted in teacups
surrounded by little dirt little
resources small-minded people if enough
people like me then I am how many people
following you on Twitter
I got to get my following up I got to
get my friends up because if I have
popularity who you got quite again if if
let me show you how many people follow
so I am because of who follows me who
performance based identity if you do
this you’ll be the fun of God if they
like you
you’ll be the Son of God if I give you
my possessions you’ll be now let me show
you something I’m teaching just do it
okay and yep I’m criticizing doing it to
define who you are
well I’m confused should I do it a lot
good you did you just said just do it
and then you turned around and said not
can I take my old text which way is it
reven do I do it or not do it the
problem is not about doing it it is why
you do it
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what I am criticizing is putting the
doing before the being so that you think
that if I do this I will be somebody if
I like this I will be somebody if they
like me I will be there you got it
and because you’re doing doesn’t come
from the deeper place of being it hasn’t
worked for you because you are who you
are you can do what you can do but if
you’re trying to find out who you are by
doing things you will never find out who
you are by doing you have to start with
being so very already given I want you
to see this I don’t want to lose you
this because the difference between the
two determines the direction of your
destiny if you’re always seeking a
certain status to validate who you are
you’re never gonna have peace you have
to know who you are and then you can
climb to the status you can’t climb up
to find yourself you have to find
yourself so you can climb up you can’t
climb up to find yourself you have to
find yourself so you can climb up so you
can be who you are before anybody knows
who you are
so that means you could be rich while
you could you could be healed while you
you can be loose while you bound it does
not yet appear what you sell me it
hasn’t showed up but you got to be
before you can get
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always go to something bigger than
yourself
I’m wondering if you’ve been defeated
because you have been giving yourself
wholly to something that was too small
to wholly have you thrusts yourselves
into a glass of water have you leapt off
the diving board into a cereal bowl
are you not guilty of immersing yourself
into things that were too small to hold
your vision oh my god this so good I’m
gonna get the CD myself Jesus sent him
to throw himself into something that was
bigger than his condition and he had to
go to get to it he had to get out of his
comfort zone my problem is so many times
you’ve thrown big ideas as small people
you’ve given big commitment to cereal
bowl people and you’re trying to get
your sight back from a source that’s too
small to support what you’re willing to
put in is your investment bigger than
you should see the way you’re looking at
me it’s your it’s the reason you keep
being disappointed by people is that you
have holy throwing yourself into
something that was to life the man said
you pick up the pace if you don’t pick
up the pace you gonna be laughing I’m
amazed at the people that lack the
flexibility to pick up the pace they
just get in a read I scroll down here
and I’m gonna die I’m gonna over here
I’m gonna stroll over there one of the
most amazing thing about the disaster
and Malaysia is that when it happened
everybody had to pick up the pace all
the news media had to pick up the pace
they were booking night flights and
flying over here flying over there
somebody had to work overtime won’t be
home for three days typing in the middle
of my research going on because when
something happens that’s why I can’t
deal with people who cannot pick up the
pace
don’t be strolling
one of you and the people who can pick
up the pace slap your neighbors head
pick up the bass something’s about to
happen pick up the pace something’s
about to happen pick up the pace
something’s about to happen pick up the
pace something’s about to happen pick up
the pace something is about to happen
pick up the pace something’s about to
happen I came to tell the young people
pick up the pace the danger of low
I would rather aim from the stars and
not hit them then to not aim at all I
would rather go after it and not get it
did not go after it at all
I’d rather try and fail did not try at
all had I done more with my life I’m
gonna go for it come my destiny touch
the neighbors to your destiny you can’t
stroll after your destiny you can’t walk
after your destiny you gotta
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since we’re talking about business we’re
talking about money you can’t be tribal
and be a global thinker at the same time
the reason money is called currency said
it needs to be able to flow and the
issue is do you have a vision that flows
beyond people who look like you dressed
like you and vote like you and if you’re
gonna do business you can’t do
segregated business and do it well if
you’ve got a product that you believe in
or message that you believe in or a
movie that you believe in or whatever it
is you want to reach the broadest amount
of people and most people think probably
all of their relationships their
contacts their associates are tribal and
you block the ability to succeed when
you bought the ability to communicate
I lost a lot of money but I kept down on
my knees I was still believing broke I
just three people tell me keep the faith
keep the faith
if you lose the job keep the faith if
you lose the spouse keep the faith if
you bury your child keep the faith if
you have to downsize if you have to
catch the bus to be planted is destiny
conceal to have increase is destiny
reveal so when you plant a seed you
don’t plant it as if the planting were
the final destination you plant it and
you can’t see it anymore
it’s destiny is concealed in the hopes
that ultimately it will become a stalk
of corn or an apple tree or whatever it
was you plan it and in between the
destiny conceal and the destiny reveal
is something we call watering and I
thought as dynamic as the text may be to
crumple with the notion of being planted
and to grumble with the notion of having
increase seems totally irrelevant if we
don’t stop by the station of watering
because watering is the last step
before increase it is a transition point
between what is concealed and what is
revealed and without the benefit of
watering this the thedestiny will die in
the ground never reaching its potential
simply because it has never been watered
and I thought I would ask you this
morning have you ever been watered I’m
reading somebody’s mail right now you
cannot embrace what I’m about to teach
if you don’t understand that you have
been planted you didn’t grow wild you
didn’t just happen you aren’t just an
afterthought you didn’t just come to be
you were planted the sperm cell that
created you out swam all of the millions
before you had a Bible before you had a
hymnbook
you are already in a fight and that cell
elsewhere of all the rest because you
have been planted
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well I want to make the distinction
about being planted because the act of
planting can be confusing to the student
who has not watched because planting
in order to do either one of them you
got to do some digging and once you’re
deep down in the ground both of them are
concealed but one of them has a destiny
and the other one does not you bury the
dead to get rid of the body
but you plant a seed so that it can go
through a transformation of coming back
up greater than it was when it went down
oh good god adversity
that’s so good I’m gonna come over here
and say it again when you plant a seed
you’re not burying it to get rid of it
you’re planting it so that it can go
through a metamorphosis and come back up
better than it was when it went down how
many people in this room has come up
I’m better I’m better I’m better than it
was when I went down it was good for me
that I’ve been afflicted for had I not
been afflicted I would have never known
the glory of God I’m better for it I
didn’t like it but I’m better for it I
couldn’t see down there but I’m better
for it you said I was planted in a dark
place where my sight didn’t work for me
but I’m better for every time you go
through something dark and you can’t see
your way out
remember you’ve been planted not been
I’m coming up I’m coming up brother
right here on the come up and said
brother right here on the come up is any
sisters in here on the come up related
families in here on the come up are they
the preachers in here on the , you
already been through hell already been
through hot water already been planted
already been in a dark place but just
cuz I’m in a dark place don’t expect me
to stay in a dark place
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write yourself a note I have not been
buried I have been planted maybe
underground but I’m not buried in this
mess I’m planted in it
I’m planted in it and if I planted in it
you expect me to come back up again and
when I come back up you won’t recognize
me because I’m gonna be transformed by
the experiences that I have to do friend
that too many times we have put so much
focus on teaching you to be good seed
that we haven’t taught you the power of
good soil and so when we come to Solis
issues the seed ignores the soil we
flick the channel and has nothing to do
with me we close our eyes because we
have been taught to be good seed but we
Jesus says the sole word for sowing seed
and by the elements and look at your
positioning has a lot to do with
flourishing to be in an environment in a
family that supports to my sister and I
were talking the other day I will tell
her what an amazing person she is that
all of our lives together and all the
things that God did in my life not once
in all of the years that I’ve known her
and she was there when mama had me have
I ever known her to be jealous of me
not ever she has always been my
cheerleader my greatest fan and she said
you’re my brother I said a lot of people
and some of my development has to be
that God planted me the people that
supported me my brother my sister my
mother my father they all supported me
you can have good seed but if you’ve
been in bad soil people who hated you in
virus that denied you education that
underserved you communities that limited
oh do you hear what I’m saying if your
soil wasn’t right it doesn’t mean that
you’re not right but if your soil wasn’t
right it’s gonna affect how you root and
how you will choke you out or the rocks
will not have enough tell you roots to
grow for something you ought to be
blaming the soil for you cannot take a
peach seed and plant it in a teaspoon of
dirt and expect it to grow though the
teaspoon of the dirt is the same size as
the piece see it will not grow the seed
will only grow when it is planted in
something bigger than itself and I want
to know where are you playing it this
morning are you playing it is something bigger than planted resources