¶ Changing Mindsets and Leadership
Hello , welcome back , hello , hello One more time . God's diamonds in the rough . Amen . We hope all is well . Amen . If you don't know who we are , my name is Katherine And I am Mike . Amen , and we are a power team . I don't know what you would have called us husband and wife . Amen , mrs So .
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Mate , amen , hallelujah . We are here and ready to just pour out what God is pouring in us . Amen . Since the last conversation mindset , and how Paul got knocked off of his horse and how God and his wisdom changed his mind , hallelujah , amen . Did that affect you at all , honey , this week ?
It definitely did , because it made me just look at my posture and see if it's matching up or lining up with . the Word of God . And I think that's relevant for all of us is to look at our posture and see if we are , so to speak , following after Jesus wholeheartedly .
Right , because we can say that we're following after him , but if we don't put that action behind it , it's almost like we're not doing it at all .
Right , right . I know for me , i definitely have seen the hand of God this week in regard to changing our mindset , because God has called me to leadership . I am allowed to see a lot of things that most don't Amen In regard to mindset . So before we get any deeper , we're going to go ahead and pray Let us pray .
Dear Father , our Lord and our Savior , we just come to you right now saying thank you . Thank you for just waking us up this morning , thank you for allowing us to just get into your Word one more time . Thank you for allowing us to be the willing vessel that you need to give the Lord understanding and the words of your guidance and your leadership .
We pray in the name of Jesus , counseling any of some of the other enemy that would be sent back into the picture of where it came from . We pray and beg you for getting something we might have said , done a thought that's not pleasing your sight , that you'll greatly forgive us and cast you back in the picture of where it came from .
We pray for the ones that just need that , just simply ask to pray for them . We pray in the name of Jesus also , not only just for the ones that say pray for them . We pray for the ones that is too stubborn to call out your name . We also pray for the ones that just have no desire at all to turn towards you .
We pray , in the name of Jesus , that you will change their mind and their heart , that they will come to understanding that they cannot make it without you . These things and all things we ask , all in Jesus mighty name . We say thank you and we say amen , amen , amen .
The music going off was perfect timing , honey , it was .
Perfect timing . You know something you said before . I started praying about the leadership which you said leadership . But see , that's what we do We lead the sheep Absolutely . So I think leadership and leadership goes hands in hand , although fire made a word , but you know .
Some words put together , but I mean really , that's what he said when he told Peter . What did he tell him ?
Go feed my sheep .
That's right , absolutely Hallelujah . And so that's it Absolutely what we intend on doing . Amen , we intend on helping and being a really an encouragement and enlightenment in your life to really understand who we are , because it's not just about you , it's about us as well . Amen , really seeing the diamond that God has crafted us to be , amen .
So when we left off on last week , as we already said , we were dealing with Paul Excuse me And how he was doing what he does Before he was changed , amen , and how God got his attention .
And as we conclude that conversation and move on into the next , you know , can you be a witness that you know when he changes our mind , he's really getting our attention . What'd you think ?
You know , i would definitely say you know when , like you said , when for him to get your attention . He is very Amen , precise when he does it .
You know he looks at things that we go through in life and he's like , okay , look , i know you know about her , but let me put you through this thing right here to get your attention , because sometimes we can go time and time again and just continue to do the same old thing , even if it's against God .
But he said , look , i'm not going to let this go too far , right , sometimes you know , and we hear so many times you know , in church , when they say gotta grab your coat tail . See , when Jesus get you to get your attention , sometimes he gotta grab your coat tail to get your attention .
He has put hands on you , so to speak , to get you , to bring you back to reality , absolutely
¶ Attention, Mindset, and Revival
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Yeah , attention , i mean , i'm gonna tell you that's , that's a strong thing , you know , in regard to our attention , attention and our mindsets , because whatever our mind is set on is the very thing that's going to draw our attention , amen . And when you're talking about attention , you can move that right along parallel with focus , amen .
Wherever you are focused , that that's where you know you're going to , you're going to put the most attention . So , you know , in this and so , when we put it all together and we're talking about revival and we're talking about really being raised from the dead or brought back and centered where God desires us to be , we can take all of that .
And you know , look at the mindset , look at the fact that you know our heart is connected to the mindset And where our mind is set to is where we're going to be drawn to . So where are you drawn to ? you know , as you have , you have come into a season and I know that , if you're here , god is reviving some things that was dead , amen .
Some things , or it might not be dead . He's going to be dying , amen .
And he's trying to bring it back to life , whether it's a vision , a dream , a hope of desire , that kind of died away in the fire Of a and I'm going to say the fire of your wheel , because when you're talking about your wheel you can sometimes You can say the fire could die out when you're moving in your own steps .
But it's certainly something that God has put inside of you to do And see , by you doing it without him , you're moving in the courts of your wheel .
Not to say that he didn't give you that wheel , that he gave you desire , but because he didn't take front stage of the desire , the , the wheel died away because you didn't do it in his strength but you try to do it in yours . Does that make sense ? I hope I didn't confuse anybody . What's your thought , honey ?
No thought at all , because you pretty much summed it up .
Because you know , and as I look back at the things that we go through in life , sometimes you know , not only does God have to sort of speak , pull out , pull out a coat tail , he sometimes had to hit us a little bit hard about like a chin check , because sometimes you know , just grabbing the , the , the coat tail and trying to get our attention is not
enough , because we have our mind set up like , like they always say the older people , you know they stuck in their ways , and sometimes we can be stuck in our ways so hard that we don't recognize when God is trying to get our attention . So then he has to hit us a little bit harder to say , hey , look , you better wake up .
You better wake the heck up right now , because the things that you're going through in life it's going to kill you . But see , at the same time it worked both ways . See , we also sometimes had to grab the enemy by the coach . I say , hey , look , you know you don't have no business touching me , and the enemy is hard headed and stubborn , just like we are .
So sometimes we had to hit him a little bit hard as well .
Gotta learn how to cast that thing down . Hallelujah , tell that thing to go Right on back to the pits of hell where it came from , because you gotta know that the enemy is gonna try to take your attention off of the assignment .
¶ Renewal and Surrender in Faith
Amen , whatever , look , god is trying to do something in your life that's going to not only bring glory to the kingdom and elevate him , but he wants to elevate you . Amen . Don't become a robot in this world , amen . Yeah , we want to get into the world . Yeah , we want to do everything right , amen .
But don't lose yourself and become religious and stop being relational , hallelujah . Don't lose yourself in all of the mundane things of ministry and lose yourself . Amen . You are a part of the equation and that is where the diamond in you will shine .
Amen , because you can have diamonds in this world , but it can be imitation and so they don't shine like real diamonds , they don't reflect light like real diamonds . Hallelujah , you don't want to become a cubic saccone of hallelujah , because you are a diamond . Amen . Yes , is rough , yes is hard , yes is , most of the time , everything .
We don't want it to be , amen . But in the midst of the darkness , in the midst of what God is shaping you through . You're going to come out on the other side A lot shinier , a lot brighter , a much more of an unoriginal hallelujah than everybody else . Amen . Look , your uniqueness is the value . You hurt me . Come on somebody .
And something you just said .
You know it brought a thought to my mind Don't be so strong , heed on trying to change yourself that you miss the way God wants to change you , because sometimes we can , we can do so so much stuff that we're trying to change and we're trying to get every right thing that right and dot every i and dot every t that we miss the change that God wants to do
into us , because sometimes we go through things in life it was meant to happen but we're trying to so much not let it happen .
Amen , amen . You know something when we think about the story and everything that we've said and talking about attention , you know , as the Bible references to us and tells us the story has . Once Paul is blinded and now he has to go to Ananias , to , to , to , at the end of the day , get his sight back .
You know he had three days and you know that that lets us know that detail , manner matters to God . You know what I mean . God in his wisdom , the path that he took Saul on one . He had to not only change the mind of Saul , but he had to change his identity . He changed , think about it .
He took his sight from him only to give him new eyes to see through . Amen , look , the knocking down . You have to know that he's trying to show you , he's trying to teach you how to look through eyes of a new perspective . Amen , so your mind change .
Well , first your heart changes , then your mind changes , and he sets your mind and he changes your eyesight . Hallelujah , you don't no longer see things the way you used to see it . Amen , look , this was just a powerful , powerful . Look at how , when the Lord gets his hands on things , how he will change it to your good Amen . Paul couldn't see anything .
Well , saul , at the time before he received Jesus , totally amen . He couldn't see . He couldn't see the light of God before looking , until he had that encounter Amen . And it's like a lot of folk in this world me before I got saved I couldn't see what they was talking about . Amen . Christian folks was talking when people was preaching and teacher .
It was just like this turn mystery to me . I'm like what is this And why are they running around the room And why are they shouting in tongues And how are they doing this And how are they doing that ? It was always a puzzling question , but I had but God .
He had to get me to a place where I was knocked off the horse and I couldn't get up without seeing him . Hallelujah , come on . Somebody , a whole lot of folks , and God . He brought that forth in learning to live in truth .
Sometimes no , not sometimes , 99% of the time , 100% of the time you gotta get knocked off the horse that you riding on for you to look up and see him . Amen . We wonder why I was taking so long , why I keep praying and they still ain't saved . They're still on them , junk . 10 years later , they still .
They haven't hit the bottom that the Lord need them to hit so they can see him Amen .
You know . For me I would say definitely . You know , and I'm like you .
I was in a place where I can go to church and hear the message of being the message being brought forth , but I was in a state that , everything that they were saying , two things happened Either I felt like there was , i was being pointed out , i was being singled out and I'm sitting way in the back of the church , no matter where I sat .
Okay , next week I went and sat at a different place , but it felt like , no matter where I sat in the church , it was all focused and pointed and directed at me . And even then , the second part was that I was hearing the words , but it was like a foreign language .
It was like the person was speaking a totally , completely different message , that different language I couldn't even understand .
And both occasions and all the occasions that happened , i wind up getting up out of the church and walking out the doors , missing the blessing that God wanted me to understand , and to the point that God had put me in a place I could not run . That's right .
Sometimes we had to get put in that place that we cannot run , whether it's in a group of people that you know , god would give the words to them to speak to you , to speak life to you , or he . Sometimes he will put you in a place that you cannot run , like a jail or a prison .
And for me , you know being in that place of being locked up where I could not run , i had to understand and had to listen to what God was saying to me .
Amen . So you know . So y'all take that with a grain of salt . Look , whatever wherever your mind is is where you're gonna be drawn to in regard to attention .
Amen , and he talks about and we mentioned that before in Romans 12 , talks about us being renewed , being transformed , and being renewed by the renewed , by the wait a minute , being being not conformed to this world , but being transformed by listen to the words . Jesus be transformed by , by tells us how by the renewing of your mind .
So when you get into the place where you decided that I'm going to live my life for Jesus Christ , the only way that you're able to apply it is to be renewed by the Word of God . So when your mind is made up and you decided I'm setting my mind on Jesus , it is then when your attention , your focus , you will be drawn to the Word of God .
Because when we exalt him , he says I will draw , and the scripture goes on to tell us that he will draw on man , but that's also to you . He will draw you to him , he will draw you into a place that is totally surrendered to you . Amen , because I say this is a process I had believed . I believe that Jesus died from me .
I believed all of it , but I had not surrendered Amen , and so I truly believe there is a twofold process to this journey . You first have to start out as a believer and , once you surrender , you become a disciple . Come on , somebody , because it's one thing to believe , but it's another thing when you become a student of the Word .
Amen , honey , do you feel like you're a student of the Word now ? Yeah , i believe that , and I'm going to tell you why . I know that I'm going to listen to his sermon . That was on . Well , by the time you hear this , it'll be last week . You got to listen to his sermon on last week And that right , there is .
Tell , tell , then let's me know that his heart is surrendered unto God . Because , look we , it's one thing to preach it , It's another thing to teach it . But it's another thing when you are living it in your own life And then you turn around and preach it and teach it .
It's a world of difference , hallelujah , when you are where you need to be in regard to how your mind is set , you will be drawn to the Word . Know if ends , but about it , absolutely , 100% , i will stand on it . I would look , you're going to be drawn to the Word . Now , how fast you develop . That's between you and God .
But I'm telling you , and I know it , when you are totally all the way in , you're going to be drawn to his Word . And when you're drawn to his Word , you will , you will , no question , you will be transformed , hallelujah , because when you get in , you're going to learn and you're going to receive it and you're going to be walking in peace .
That's a passage of understanding . Money can't do it . Look it . Nothing can replace the feeling and the fulfillment of a peace that surpasses understanding . I'm telling you , hallelujah , there is nothing better than that . Amen , to have peace , inner peace , to have joy that the world can't take away . Jesus , come on somebody , hallelujah , ain't nothing like it .
And I'm going to tell you what until you experience it , you'll be constantly chasing after this , chasing after that to find it , amen . I'm telling you what . It is only in Jesus . It is only in Jesus , it's only in the relationship that is transpired between you and Him .
This is how you stay where I am , this is where you stay where He is , this is where you , this is how you stay in the light of Jesus . Hallelujah , when you meet and you encounter , truly encounter .
I'm telling you you can believe , but it doesn't mean that you're going to ever have that everlasting peace and joy until you get into divine relationship with Him . That's my word .
My word is this Look , when you decide that you want to be a disciple and a believer , you got to understand one thing You got to have balance . Jesus , come on . You have to have balance , because if you don't have the balance , you'll always stay a believer . If you don't have the balance , you will always stay a disciple .
If you don't have the balance , you can't teach and learn . It's going to be either . Or You got to have the balance and you got to allow God to give you the balance and understanding , because if you don't have the balance , if everything you need to say is always going to be , you are always going to think it's right and it might not be .
You got to be willing to be taught . That's why you got to have the balance .
Hallelujah , let's pray . Father , we thank you so much for your word on today , tonight for some , but we pray to . The blessings of the Lord would be upon us all . We pray in the name of Jesus . You will continue to shape us , make us and mold us into the women of God , to the man of God , into the diamonds .
You have created us to be before the very foundations of this world . Thank you God . Thank you God for this word And we pray this prayer in Jesus name . We do pray , amen , amen , hallelujah , god bless you . I gave my word . That's it . Drop the mic , come on somebody . Hallelujah , y'all , make sure y'all join us next week , amen . Amen .