Your Resolution Didn't Fail - You Quit Acting

your resolutions didn't fail. You quit acting. And you will soon understand what I mean by that. Every year, you come to a new year, very loud and very energetic, very motivated. You may be seated now. Very loud, very energetic. You like using, what is that thing called? There's some apps on the phone that track your walking. You know, like those watches track, I'm doing my walking. Then you have the app that you even make notes of everything that you are going to do. Everything on the phone, you do. You even say, ah, this is my year. This is the words that happen during the course of the first weeks or days of the year. But the problem is that when you said it, your habits didn't hear it. You said it, no, this is my year, but your habits didn't hear it. Even the alarm went off. You snooze. You have even, you know that some people have what they call a budget app even. They use the budget app to budget how they're going to go about their finances this year. But can I tell you, you're not lazy. You're definitely not lazy. You're just tired of failing. Because anytime, whenever you do something, you keep on failing. So it's not because you don't have the action steps towards what you want to do. It's just that, you're tired. You know, like, sometimes you're not, what is this? You're not unspiritual. Let me call it that way. Is there even a word of unspiritual? You're not, you're not in the world. You're just overloaded with so much that you still need to do. And some of the times, it's not that there's no vision. You know exactly, exactly, exactly what to do. It's like, you know, I'm thirsty. You know exactly what to do. But because you can't open the cap, you just, you don't follow through. You know what I'm trying to say? It's like, when you, when you want to make sure that for this whole week, I'm only going to drink water. No cold drink. No energy drink. No what, what. I'm going to follow through. But because the water from the tap suddenly is not nice. And you forgot to buy water. Now you're not following through. So there's this small obstacles that keeps you from going to where you want to become. So the vision is there. It's there. It's just the smaller things that stop you. And, and, and sometimes you, you do this thing one day. They call fake it to make it, you know, fake it to make it or fake it until you make it. Let me write. Others are doing, when you see doing successfully, but yet you're not going. But I need to ask you a real question. Why do you keep promising what you haven't built a system to obey? You didn't build a system that you can obey. And that is just the introduction of my message. But before I get into the message, you shall. Before I get into the message, I just need to make sure that we are unfortunately a prophetic church. And some of the prophetic words that go out in church, it needs to be out there. It's not a word for me only. We prophesy to each other. But this one is a bigger one. If you can, if you want, you can please come and stand here in front and you can use your, this pipe as well as your, how do you call it? You come. Or, or, or, wherever you understand. Thank you. So, this is a prophetic word from God. You can maybe just look it here and then you're going to keep it in your hand. Oh. I don't know. Amen. I greet you all in the name of Jesus. Today I'm presenting to you a message from the Lord God himself who prophesied to me and told me something that no man is seeing in the world. I read. They don't see a mother in my wife. They only seek the father as the source. Their children only want the hand of the father. They don't want the hand of the mother. They don't want her daily breath. They don't want to hear her voice praise and worship. They don't even see a big brother in the Lord Jesus. in the firstborn of the father. They don't even want to obey the words or the voice of the big brother. Not even the father. Nor be led by his spirit. The children who don't obey the son nor be led by him but expect the hand of the father and not accept the hand of the mother. The time has come. Those who don't have the spirit of the father or mother will never see the hand of the father. The children who carry the spirit of the other father, the father who has no wife but copies everything the real father does, they will not see their bigger brother Jesus. This fake father instructs his children to go to the heart of the only mother. To take from her pocket, they lie to the real children of their mother and take her daily bread. Because the day she was born, the Sabbath, their mother is now portrayed as a whole. People no longer look at the church as the house of God. To the real children, even those children that are lost. This fake father shows his children that daily bread of the mother is crumbs because the father shows them fake love, gives them a fake hand, fake power and expired bread. the children of this father show the real children that the fake father is stronger than the real father. The real father has decided that those children of the fake children in the last days will receive no mercy. those children that are lost will have to choose between the two fathers. Such decisions will be final before the eyes of the real father. The children that have the hand of the father and accept the hand of the mother, they will receive not only love but power to demonstrate long life and that daily bread will make them full. Those children will speak to their father and receive answers without delay. Prayers will be answered. Their mother's beauty will be restored. Their children will buy for her a diamond necklace, tithe, and offering. This will grow the heart of their mother. Her voice will be sweeter to the kids, sweeter than the kids even knew. Praise and worship will be different. Their children will show who their parents are and who their bigger brother is. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I don't want to get into that prophetic book. But one thing I can tell you now is that that word is a word that the world needs to hear. And I'm not I'm not I'm not the one to speak. another one to speak when it comes to deeper things but when God has spoken we don't want to mess with that. I leave it to that. Anybody anybody that has a ear ear where the spirit of God was saying I will put this message specific part prophetic word I will put it out there and I do ask your permission also if I can I will do so because it's very important to understand that in the times where we live today I can't claim this as my prophetic word it's yours you got it from God and you need to be able or people need to see who is the mouthpiece that got this word you understand not to see but it's not to brag or not to put a pedestal to put on a pedestal but it's to make sure that everybody understand that God speaks to each and every one of us there's no one God doesn't speak to it's just that we don't know how to communicate what he has spoken to us to others you see it's a hard one to especially when somebody says God has spoken to me about a certain thing then you are jealous because you feel like God is not speaking to you no God has been spoken to you it's just that you don't know how to communicate it over so I'm leaving it on that getting back to my message my question was why do you keep promising what you haven't built the system to obey and I want to read a few scriptures and just give you a basic meaning of the scriptures Romans 12 is 2 and if you are there the Bible says and be not did you hear he says be not be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that he may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God can you see because when you're looking at this change that last doesn't start with a calendar change that last like whenever there's a change let's say for argument sake your your the reason let me say that way the reason why you do what you do and why it lasts it doesn't start with it's January I need to change it starts with your thinking it's what you think and every time when you think you keep repeating what you think and that allows you to shape what you become or what your world is seeing through of what you have I hope this makes sense the reason I'm I'm saying this is be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so which means that sometimes it has to come into the mind to first be renewed before change can happen before new year's resolutions can happen before visions can happen because if somebody's vision is to become a millionaire and your mind has not been millionaire renewed but your mind is still in the hundred rent things won't change don't see yourself as I'm going to be a millionaire see yourself already as a millionaire renew your mind as a Christian and say I'm a Christian don't say things like for argument sake in your mind you know you are Christian but whenever you talk you speak like as if you are not a Christian I hope I make sense because it's very important that you should understand that when we talking about renewing of the mind some people think it's a it's a new age thing but there you see black and white in the Bible can you see it says in the Bible not somewhere else to renew your mind to renew your mind now I want to go to the next scripture which is Proverbs 16 verse 3 Proverbs 16 verse 3 says the following commit thy works unto the Lord did you hear he says your works meaning to say the things that you are doing I'm not talking about I'm talking about your works what I what I mean by I'm not talking about your works like as in your job title let's call it that way I'm not talking about your job title I'm talking about the things that you do so if ever I want to watch TV commit my TV watching to God so commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established and thy thoughts shall be established there's another another version I'm trying to okay let me let me do the let me do the amplified version maybe it comes out a bit different than what I have it here but when you go to Proverbs 16 and I'm reading now out of the amplified version 16 verse 3 it says roll your works upon the Lord commit and trust them wholly to him he will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to his will so shall your plans be established and succeed did you hear you see the amplified version sometimes amplify what we don't know because if you read this is the King James version it says commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established did you hear he says and thy thoughts shall be established he will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to his will so which means that whenever you take his words I mean you take your works unto him it gets in alignment with his will God doesn't bless intentions I can tell you now you can have all the good intentions of the world your intentions is pure I'm telling you he doesn't even care about it but what he cares is that after your thoughts your commitment to action that is what makes a difference because if I can tell you now the world would have been the best ever place if everybody's intention was taken in consideration this would have been the best place to love it but each intention at the same time is also not pure my intentions might be wow I want to do it out of the good will of my heart or you see some of the things that we understand that at the beginning of the year we always have this thing of pumped up and charged up and then during the course of the year the pot wants to put you back together again it's like almost you broke down again now Luke 14 28 for which of you intending to build a tower one good did you hear that intending which of you intending to build a tower set it not down first and counted the cost whatever he have sufficient to finish it so sometimes it's very important that even if you intended to do something you need to do the planning that you intend to do so it's like almost you you you you you saying ah this year I'm going to buy suit the cost of a suit depending on what you want can can be even 300 rent so it's easy to get the 300 rent but how do you plan to get that 300 rent is easy maybe for some but 300 rent might be heavy some of the kids that is in school want a 300 rent suit but they can't afford now they have to keep on asking the family for 5 rent here 10 rent there 20 rent there you understand so your intentions are there but your planning fail your intentions and therefore intentions doesn't help at all because intentions doesn't count the cost man so whenever you start a year of especially do do something that you are no no I'm going to go too far I don't want a message to jump jump jump jump I'm coming to that part I wanted to say now but this has to do with values just so that you can understand what I'm talking about when we're talking about values is that when I value God above everything else I will do godly things most of the time but if my value is money mammon is the one I will more run to I'm just giving you when we're talking about values so which means that anytime whenever whatever action you want to do it brought down it's brought down to the heart I'm too fast James 1 22 but may you doers of the world and not hearers only deceiving your own self deceiving your own self so so don't get it wrong by thinking that self deception is not denying God it's agreeing with him and still not moving so you agree that no I know what to do yet I ought not doing now let me let me go to a a a a a a a Greek ish there's a Greek word kum now it means to rise to take a stand or to take responsibility now I don't know how the English how they spell it is the q u m kum that is how but it is pronounced kum so what this means it means or this word implies let me rather say it implies initiative initiative and remember not initiative so action steps this week stop waiting to feel ready I need you to understand that stop feeling ready do you know that for somebody to walk the only thing he need to do is to put one foot in front of another the moment you start putting one foot in front of another it doesn't matter what will happen but you will start moving you might be putting it like the girls trying to make a selfie you know like you might be thinking that one foot in front of it it's a selfie but it's a selfie that proves you're doing something so so I don't want to sound too theology or too Greek or too Hebrew or whatever but there's a Greek word metamorpho and from that Greek word comes the word metamorphosis or whatever English English what it means it's that to be transformed from the inside out not from the outside in because this is where we we make the difference the way your heart God has placed your heart to be with such good heart anytime when somebody tramp on your toes you retaliate from who you are do you know what I mean it's like just because you getting hurt from the outside you retaliate and you are you are like me bishop I am not holy don't don't think I'm innocent when I talk like this I speak to you you are mad when you think I'm speaking to you I'm speaking more to myself than I'm speaking to you more better more forces meaning you are transformed transformed from within sometimes it's not a mood shift no it's like suddenly I don't feel like no it's not the mood it's really not the mood it's how the patterns needs to shift because one thing you need to understand how you build from within is how you see God from within do you know that the Bible says greater is he that is within me he didn't say he that is within you neither you me you not any one of you is me so the greater he is within you is just the matter of which one is within you I think I think I need to stop the preaching here because if I keep on hitting today somebody might be thinking this message is specifically for you but I'm speaking to me myself and I me myself and I so don't think I'm speaking to you because most of these things start touching you so let me let me explain what what is really happening behind the scenes here's the truth anytime whenever something new starts let's say for argument sake you you get a new job you put so much resolutions on how am I going to get to do this job but the problem is not the resolutions that you put the problem is you put too much big resolutions it's too high it's it's a bar set for a world record person if you start something new you can't yet be a record builder or record person no you can't be so your resolution or your your your vision or your way of saying it should be small small not too big because the moment you hit a bigger one you will feel confident but the moment you hit it not your confidence will be cracked start small and build up sometimes you need to do daily systems you know like not not having no man you know when your resolutions is disconnected from the daily systems that you have in place and I'm calling it systems but sometimes it can mean habit as well so the habits that you have is in the morning to wake up and the first thing you do go to toilet but some of us need to go to toilet because somebody told me once you know why I go to toilet first fight me but I'm saying it exactly like the way he said it I take all the shit out so that I don't have shit thoughts what does that mean whenever you get up the first thing you do is to have that negative things why do you want to start your day off negative already I didn't make it yes it's true it's good not because we are human beings sometimes we don't make it but it's not to hurt yourself for the first thing in the morning to be thinking of that your first thing in the morning is to talk to God I have made it through the night you woke me up the system or the habits that you have is the stinking thinking you know there's there's something in psychology it's called they call they call it habit collapse this is now big goals with no cues no triggers no structure it's like you have big goals but you don't follow it through yet scripture calls it otherwise psychology calls it habit collapse but scripture calls it deceiving your own self deceiving your own self and here you're fighting about others who has been deceptive to you this one was deceiving me how many times you deceive yourself how many times you're talking about others deception that is big but your deception is daily i'm not talking about big deceptions like you that one is scammed me out of my ten thousand rent you understand what i'm saying they scammed us bishop they scammed us big time i once gave a guy a thousand rent because he needs to get me a car and by that time i was broke broke like nobody's business the only thing he said you are you are under it wasn't deb review what was that thing let's call it blacklist yeah you are blacklisted i will be able to help you to get that car you give me a thousand rent i clear your name co-itc at that time or no no no you didn't say i clear your name i just do something that whenever you do do the application what will happen is that they will approve it afterwards i will fix it and i'm like what are you fixing no don't worry no don't worry i will tell you but afterwards i realized what he meant when he said it but me mumu didn't know what this guy was talking about i gave him the thousand rent cash and content what is the eft we did eft i called i have phone phone instead phone what the phone didn't ring or do anything for weeks weeks weeks he got his thousand rent yet every day when i wake up bishop this is what i do okay five o'clock no i'm making excuse that i'm just looking at the time to see what time it is but you know how i deceive myself ah there's something here what is this what's up who sent me whatsapp this early deception so don't think i'm talking about you when i say this i'm speaking about myself just so that you can understand that we are human beings but we are not supposed to stay where we are i mean i mean there's a guy called dr demartini he say something that hit me and it hit me very hard he said that people don't rise to their goals did you hear he don't rise to their goals they love according to their values so your goal can be whatever but if your value is not aligned with that goal might as well forget it so i realize something most of us are trying to force these goals it doesn't match with what we actually value more so we have the goals yes you do have the goals but what is your values according to these goals that you have set that is why january january is like a loud month while february is quiet it's quiet generally we we we we are what can i make an example of is this morning we were talking about it january i said when money comes we need to get guests guests january it's something i said that we need to do for this year is to get the guest off but lo and behold my value i can guarantee you now is good food because of good food that stove will come i can guarantee you now because of time it will come you know why i say time ma i value my time more than anything because if i look at this stove what is oven oven oven oven have you seen oven that takes 30 minutes just to warm up it's like that old car with the with the sling it's like it's like generator you have to warm it up it's time consuming i value i value my time and the food more than the money that needs to be spent on that as well as i value there's too many things that goes into just the stove i value my family time my wife can't be sitting there on the stove the whole time doing what what what what this is me so why is it you have something that you say you are about to so align your value first before you do any goals i said align your value first before you look look jesus already said it you know what he said let me let me let me prove to you he said where your treasure is there will be your heart there your heart will also be will be also yeah where your treasure is your heart will also be there so your calendar your bank statements your your your your energies like your cha-cha whatever the case may be these are the things you're talking about all these things is is like coming coming down to your values what is in your heart below your heart when i say below your heart matthew 621 says it for where your treasure is there your heart will be also so it's not to say that you don't want to do what you don't want to do it's just that the things that you value redirects you back to your values and therefore the goals that you set is not aligned to your values it's a year of action remember it's a two way action we're talking about all the time it's an action that you have to do towards God but also an action that God needs to do towards you so it's a year of action that comes in two parts so whenever God's action is quiet look at your values align your values because some of the things that you do is not aligned it's not aligned yesterday we we went to the shop and we we made a mistake with one of the items in the trolley the first thing the first thing that happened is I take the thing out and Lachey immediately realized must we get another one she didn't wait for me to ask must she go you please go and take it the way she is so much of a person that tried to serve she ran to go and fetch the item you see it's the value of serving that made her to run and I still said I still make a remark which I'm not going to make clear now and I said to my wife look at what she does that speaks to who she is no I'm not putting you on a pedestal I'm just saying who you are I'm not making it a fuss or anything I'm just saying who you are we even had an incident day before yesterday no it was also it was even yesterday again another one of values that made us to almost get to the house but had to go somewhere and I'm not going to say that one please I'm not going to put you on the spot there so you don't go and run away from your goals you just return to your values but I want to give you some steps like physical steps here I'm going to use lots of Bible what's the type I only start the message now and the time is gone already I'm asking forgiveness but this one the unfortunate part is I can't skip it Luke 14 28 Luke 14 28 now Luke 14 28 says the following and the nicest part of it is that when you when you're talking about people who talk about scriptures now they always say old testament old old old this comes from new testament now Luke 14 28 for which of you intending to build a tower sit it not down first and counter the cost whether you have sufficient to finish it now it's important to understand this number one number one please write it down if you are taking notes rather have fewer goals and reach it than to have many and don't reach one at all God really honors the counted cost not the crowded lists so whenever you have a plan take all your plans put them on paper write them all down then from let's say you have 30 from the 30 choose the top 10 of that 30 which is 30% of the 30 then from that 10 use 30% of that 10 which is 3 so always always make make sure that on the 30% you have the 10% now the top 10% if I can call it that way the things that you really when you're looking at the 30% this one I can do later this one is not that important this one is fine let me leave this one this one is a must you keep it on the 10% so when you go to all the 10 must you know like it's a must that you must do it then that 10 of must do you make another 3 of must do again that's where you take the cream of the crops and you cut it down to only 3 things to do somebody once says that if you have too many things to do or if you are focusing on too many things you're not focusing on anything if you are focusing on too many things you're not focusing on anything so when you're looking at the tree you it doesn't stop there now you ask the question from this tree which one of these three will make the biggest impact like this is the thing that will change my entire life if God would have asked me questions about these three goals which one will be a godly goal a goal that even God will say well done my son then you start with that one first so write fewer goals that's the one and number two if I can guarantee you something there the guarantee is that a goal without a deadline it's a mere wish list a goal without a deadline is a wish list it's like I wish I wish I wish you look 14 verse 20 8 that that's the one some 90 sorry I almost gave the wrong one some 90 let's go to some 90 and we read verse 12 some 90 verse 12 says so teach us come on come on I almost doesn't want to say this so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom did you hear that part he says so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom did you hear this morning I started off when I started off I said just recently we were talking about a new year now we are talking about the month that comes to an end today is already the 24th so next month it's no longer a new year teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom which means that when you number your days it creates an awareness of urgency if something has not been said must I say something can I thank you so when you when you look at this bishop I want you to I want you to back to the days when you were younger on the spot but I want us all to think of it if you go to some 90 verse 12 so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom now my question is numbering our days is knowing that my mother comes back by five o'clock and she will scream because dishes is too much by quarter to five I'm running cleaning that kitchen quickly before she goes if she comes in here the kitchen must be clean bishop you remember those days if daddy says ah by the time I come back and this yacht is not clean you are a robot because you got a dead he says no you must clean the yacht he didn't say when it will stay for days months or even years so never tell your children put that laptop I mean put that computer correctly don't say by the next time I see it it must be correct because next time might be three weeks from now fix it now finish and don't put some delaying words because delaying words means the same like the guy who came to the what is this thing called to the bar delaying words is like this free beer tomorrow so anytime whenever somebody walk in there they expecting free beer but it will only come tomorrow tomorrow might never comes if you keep on seeing that message free beer tomorrow huh every day you will be there and tomorrow never comes so this is the same you need to attach a time frame to it to make sure that it creates an awareness of urgency sometimes you even have to schedule in your wife's calendar or in your husband's calendar we are going out on this day because the last time you told me that we are going to go out was 12 years back when the kid was 14 years old I mean it was 14 12 years back when the kid was 4 years old huh you said we will go out now the kids are 16 years we have never went out put it in his calendar take the phone and say date night regardless or not it does not matter date night is date night you are going and holding hands and walk like bishop and the wife do when they come and I admire that walking sometimes but the thing is me and son so it's the thing that we need to put in the calendar and the worst part of it is that sometimes whenever you say something or you are about to do something the problem is that there's no reminder of a constant a constant no there's no constant reminder of what you were saying so number three is make them visible so whatever you wrote as a as a goal or a plan or whatever you call it you need to make it visible now what I mean by visible is that some people call it a vision board but do you know what I like to call it I like to call it an accountability partner show it to an accountability partner because how you make it visible is we starting church at nine now at nine o'clock regardless of if there's anybody or not something should happen inside here so what you do is accountability is that this door must be opened by nine it doesn't happen all the time but it shows visibility that somebody is about to come now you must see how we sometimes scattered you think ma you think when you when you are at home rushing here we don't also rush from here we are running just to make sure that everything is so what accountability means in somebody's way is I mean what visibility means in somebody's way I call it accountability it's not because of Habakkuk but it's because of I feel Habakkuk is better this way Habakkuk 2 verse 2 says write the vision down no no wait let me go to the Habakkuk next bishop you see why I like this Bible because this Bible it helps me to get quickly to the place where I need to go but also at the same time sometimes I get confused am I now correct oh 2 verse 2 and the Lord answered me did you hear it comes from the Lord and said write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run that read it it did you hear what he says he didn't say that you who read it alone all the time he said that he that read it may run with it now imagine if I put it for myself and I forgot to read it's open for anybody for take yes do you know what I'm saying so when it's there it's open for anybody to take this is what I mean somebody have an idea of a business the business idea is there but nobody to execute it so when you give it to an accountability partner somebody might take it and run with it somebody might take it and run with it come on I want you to understand that whenever somebody run with it wait man how how must I explain this one this is where people comes in ah he stole my idea no God gave the authority that it must be stolen man it's not stealing bishop it's it's the last part and make it plain up on tables that he may run that read it it's not for you to make the vision it's for somebody who is running so it's not stealing it has been given authority for go ahead do it the worst part of it is that some of the things that we are actually doing in fountain of grace for arguments say i sometimes i sometimes look back and i say you you you did it i have not executed it on it i have not executed it and then somebody else ran with it bishop i don't know if you can remember there was maybe three years back four years back no it's it's long can you even remember that the day when it was your when it was your birthday i make some soccer player to to give you birthday wishes you remember that video that i made yeah i remember you remember it was it was a video that was made is it messy i think messy that was the voice so it's it's long time ago do you know people today that same thing i was using that then they are using it for the churches huh the same thing they can make messy to say hey church today is church at 12th log come i'll be there you hear the voice of mercy and everybody is here not knowing i see i see the money ai some of these things that i wanted to do many years ago is now so widely spread that i feel like i'm behind bishop i'm behind i should have executed those ideas years ago for the church but yet i only feel now i need to execute it run with it it's actually give me that scripture it's not to the swift the race is not to the swift net what does it say after that yeah yeah come yes aha it's not for him that runner but he that is willing ah that's the one i'm looking for did you hear what he says there some people are running but they're not willing holy spirit rain down oh comforter and friend how how we need your touch again when the holy spirit comes upon me i sometimes admire the knowledge i have ma some of these things that i'm talking about is not in my notes is nowhere founded in my notes but the holy spirit who gives utterance for those who don't know how to speak just start all right make them visible that's number three make them visible so he that ran with it it was not his idea but he ran with it or ran past dance i miss god sometimes as i help me i they are easy example the angles hour so the thing that i need you to understand is that when it's visible anybody can run with it so you need an accountability partner number four this number four is to make it easy for you what i what i can say is reduce friction that's number four reduce friction if you go to hebrews 12 verse 1 please go to hebrews 12 verse 1 where hebrews 12 verse 1 says the following he says wherefore seeing we we also are compassed about with so a great cloud of witness let us lay aside every way and the sin which easily besets us and let us run with patience So the things that makes you slow down. The things that slow you down. It's almost like you are... So whenever somebody does this to the horse or the donkey, the horse or the donkey know it's time to slow down or to stop how you train them. It's the same thing that the weight is doing to you. It keeps on slowing you down. So what it means is actually weight kills momentum. You might be like going fast, fast, fast. Suddenly you understand. No man, I like this new me. Let me run with it. Let me run with it. Running. Let me run with it. But then when you go slow, slow, you don't understand why slow, slow, it's the weight. Let me run with it. Let me... Let me explain what I mean by this. Sometimes for you to go to gym, it's a problem. Problem number one. So five o'clock in the morning, if you still need to decide which clothes you're going to wear to gym. By the time you realize you have spent two hours just to decide on the clothing. Reduce friction means that take the clothes the day before and put it so that the only thing you can do is when you come, you're waking up and you're putting on the clothes is the same thing and you go. That is what I mean by reduce friction. So whenever there's a goal that you need to set, whatever you need to do, hammer on it. Hammer on it. Some of the friction is our own negative thoughts. Let me explain the negative thoughts. Let me explain the negative thoughts. Just so that you can understand what I'm talking about. So that it doesn't sound like we are holy, man. We are not holy. Come on. We are... Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I... Okay, let me explain what I mean. Whenever there's a new idea coming up for a business idea, do you know what we do? We see all the reasons why we should not do it. And we forget one step at a time is all it takes to get there. One step at a time is all it takes to get there. I want to make an example. I want to start a business, but I don't have an idea of a business. This is what I can do. This is what I can do. Just to start a business. Buy a packet of chippies. Chippies. It doesn't cost you a lot to buy chippies. A packet of chippies. All you do is you just go and stand in front of the schoolyard. Don't do anything. Don't do anything. Don't do anything. That's all you do. Somebody will come and ask, hey, that chippies. What do you do with the chippies? You have not spoken to anybody. You just stood there with the chippies. Ah, it's two rand. I don't know. How much is chippies today? One rand. I don't know. I haven't been buying the kids sweets for a long time. No. In fact, we bought expensive ones yesterday. What I'm trying to say is that business ideas start with at least doing one thing. One thing. And that is to stand with the chippies. You have not done sales. Do you know what is sales? Sales is something that people think it's hard. Sales is not something that people think is hard. Sales is something so easy. The only thing you have to do is to make somebody aware that they want it. That's sales. No. I don't need a haircut because. Oh, okay. Do you even have time? You mean you cut your hair yourself? Do you have time? When do you have time to cut your hair? It makes me aware. Because my value is time. Do you know what will happen? Ah, man. You can just cut my hair. Because it's even. It's better than. While you are cutting my hair. I can. Scroll on Facebook. I mean. I can check my business profile so long. You understand what I'm saying? You understand what I'm saying? These are the things. It's very important to understand this. Once you can reduce friction. Your A for away. Number five. I wanna. You know. I was asking. I was asking somebody once now. That. That. Whenever I preach. You have been listening to. The messages. Tell me something that. Stand out for you. That I need to change in this new year. Do you know what was the thing? Is that. You think people think. Like you think. People don't think like you. That's the unfortunate part is that. You say something. And you drop it. You don't explain. It's like. It's like. The more I. I keep on doing that. The more I realize. Hey. But I've been doing that quite a lot of times. So when I. When I. When I talking about. About this. Now. Let's say that the reduce of friction. I wanted to just say. Reduce friction. Take your techies. At night. Put them by your bedside. Get in it. And go. But. That made me aware. That I sometimes. Don't explain. So that. Somebody can understand. I almost say you're five years. A five year must understand. A ten year old. I'm saying five years. I'm saying five years. I'm saying five years. that pies. I'm saying five years. general terug. Worth the two years. Younger is as Liten. Every year, she's. She's three years. Younger than Liten. But only for two days. She's two years. two years, I mean a year younger than Lita okay number five I need you to build a daily like literally daily remember what our message was for some time it was obedience so you need to build a daily obedience obey your own whatever you say to yourself I'm not even asking about God I'm just saying obey yourself what is it that you would like to obey yourself for this year I think I think I'm done let's go to Romans 12 verse 2 Romans 12 verse 2 and be not conformed to this world but be it transformed by the renewing of your mind but ye may prove what it is that's good and acceptable and perfect will of the Lord good and acceptable perfect will of the Lord what it says it says that transformed by the renewing of your mind so when you're talking about the renewing of your mind it means that your mind needs to be in a constant renewal what I renewed with now in five hours from now it's no longer new makes sense let me make an example you don't know Neil had an Armstrong you don't know Neil had an Armstrong you see the only thing that you know is that Neil Armstrong is the guy that went on to to the the outer space what they call space do you understand what I'm saying so I can't teach you anything new about the name Neil Armstrong he doesn't even have an Armstrong I just made you to understand that what you know you already know it's no new not new anymore it's already old so a renewing of the mind is something constantly you can't renew your mind on a yearly basis only renewing of the mind is almost a secondly thing every second of the day I said it's almost I'm not I'm not putting the bar too high I say almost but I also don't mean you need to renew your mind every day but let's just do it at least 52 times a year which is once a week don't you know that renewing 52 times a year is already more than what others are doing and that's only once a week so build daily obedience I just want you to when I look at the daily obedience I just want you to take a specific something for that day and make it non-negotiable for argument's sake I'm just making an example Bishop do you know when I I think I does this without noticing it I don't I don't do it in a conscious way it's subconsciously so whenever I'm in a meeting or wherever I go and you see me sitting like this just know I'm thinking I'm in deep thoughts because I have there's what we call a there's a there's a something anchored yeah that's that's the word I have anchored my thoughts in a in in this movement because what I I was supposed to do is I should have anchored my thoughts on a different way but now the way every time I want to think I will sit on my laptop how am I going to get this right by the time I realize I get the answers because this sign is to tell the brain there's something that needs answer now and that is a habit that I've been doing now with this habit that I've been doing I've made it a non negotiable habit that whenever I go into mind mapping or thinking or solving issues I will be sitting like that and it's never the right or the left it's both so it's not a hand that I choose but it's it's the hand that comes first so when I'm busy writing I might be sitting with the left hand if I'm not writing I'll be sitting with the right hand but when I think this is my thinking anchor I'm talking something that I was supposed to explain but this one is not part of the message just go and google anchoring that's daily obedience number six now number six should have been the first one but I wanted to keep it for later and here I'm not going to explain too much involve God daily whatever your thoughts is whatever your plans is God did Proverbs 16 verse 3 commitment invites mission you know when you when you commit to something Bishop somebody was talking about my my clothing how I wear the clothes when I preach in Northern Cape hey but you look sometimes you look like a gangster I'm like okay no it's fine I look like gangster said no but try and tone down the gangsterism I said no I'm from Gautain excuse you are from Northern Cape I don't care what how you see me I care but how God is working through me because if I need to look at how I look hey you might find me after two hours still looking for clothes to wear and the service is over so when I look like this I was standing in the cupboard and when I look I'm like let me just the moment I put on the clothes I realized hey but the hottest day of the year I'm choosing these hot things but it's because of I didn't want to think any further because thinking involves maybe ironing so sometimes when I stand here bishop there's there's only one thing I have to confess I almost put my Manchester t-shirt on today now and I thought of you serious I I was about to then I'm thinking I'm not here to I'm not here to I'm here to give the message not to put emphasis on a team you understand so the moment I put on that it might be a bit of a difficulty because I might have won last night I don't know the games I have not watched any games hit me one yeah oh today yeah the game is today yeah so so what I said is I this one I know I'm going to tramp on somebody's toes let me rather let the focus be on God than on the game so sometimes when I want to wear that proudly Manchester outfit I must not say proudly Manchester but sometimes sometimes sometimes we have been the hit us but what I'm trying to say is when I involve God daily it made me to realize clothing like that is not going to be the focus of the word there I can say to him that is gangster especially when we won like we won last week but that game was too many goals lost so when we won the game last week to wear that t-shirt is nice but when you lose it's not too nice but God needs to be the focus to involve him daily if I stand here with that thing unfortunate parties you won't understand the message you will more think of the game I wonder how the game is going to be played this guy so he supports this Manchester thing Bishop some of the things that I support I am not allowing anybody to know let me go politics no no no no politics is not something but what I'm trying to say is that I don't like speaking about politics I hate politics with a passion because the unfortunate part is where I'm standing I can't choose sides and I've never been a politician or love politics I hate from day one my dad was a big politician but I hated it with a passion even up till today I hate it with a passion I just like the people that does what they say they will do and that's that's the thing about politicians they they lie but what I'm trying to say is that I have to involve God daily and that makes me to make sure that my stand in certain areas I can't be saying for you I'm EFF today because I want my lemma to stay out of jail tomorrow I am I am ANC because they gave my village electricity but today the same guys that gave my village electricity can't fix the drainage there I'm just saying you know the the the sewerage in for years and it can't be fixed and that's under the municipality that is under the ANC I can't be saying I'm the biggest PA because if I say I'm the biggest PA do you know what I'll be doing to you bishop I'll be saying to you about hambe you know what I'm saying I can't tell you because at the end of the day I will tramp on somebody's toes regardless whichever one I am I will and the unfortunate part is in politics there's no there's no fair play in politics soccer yes we can talk there's fair play involve God daily you know you know sometimes you need to pray before you do something not pray the time when you failed I made mistake pray first make sense actually let me wrap it up now number seven number seven is very important to track your faithfulness tracking your faithfulness it helps you know when I say tracking your faithfulness because when we're talking about tracking if you go to Galatians six and you go to six verse nine Galatians six verse nine how do you track your faithfulness is when it's tough and yet you're still going on and let us not be weary in well doing for in due seasons in due season we shall reap if we find not this it proves consistency to your faithfulness it proves consistency to your faithfulness you know let me make an example about myself now I used to preach discipline like I used to preach discipline in fact I do preach it now still but I'm living a rushed life in the morning Levin says it's time papa it's time I realized it's seven o'clock I have not woken up I'm not disciplined to get up at five o'clock in the morning sometimes I sleep till seven sometimes I woke up at half past four another day I wake up six o'clock I have no discipline in waking up sometimes I sleep at twelve at night sometimes seven o'clock you find me already asleep I don't have discipline but I need you to understand one thing I'm sometimes also confused you know like I sometimes say to people I'm going to visit you I over book my visits and yet I don't follow up I we had a conversation with my wife my wife says another one you are saying you're going to visit and you don't visit another one that you're saying that you're going to meet up with and you don't I also ask God once in a lifetime God I am committed to growth but in the morning the first thing is the cell phone instead of washing my face I Facebook instead of watching the time I tick tock tick tock tick tock I'm telling you I'm sometimes thinking that I'm going with the flow I'm on YouTube these are the things that I think I need to do but yet I don't do it you know sometimes God is asking us one thing only he's asking us can you tell me your fruit show me the fruit in fact he's asking you show me the fruit don't tell me what you need to do don't tell me what you ought to do don't tell me what you are about to do just show me the fruit I want evidence sometimes God is like is like Thomas he wants evidence he's not doubting no he's not doubting he just wants evidence let me let me let me feel if you've been pierced no God for this year we are yet we have not done you know sometimes it's just us us how do you call it showing up that's it if we can show up we are good so within the next 24 hours I need you to sit down and write your three goals schedule that time into your calendar for the goals and make sure that you pray Proverbs 16 verse 3 aloud then you don't just do all this but track daily at least one thing that you have done towards the goal that you have set up track it like tell make a tick box and say oh at least today to start my company I have registered in CIPC at least today I have called somebody who knows about business to find out how can I start these things and then just remove one distraction one negative thought move it away tell that thought look I know I might not be having the money but let me start doing because most of the time whenever we start moving into directions God open the provisions and tell somebody tell them hey for this for for this coming here I am 75 kilogram I want to become 73 2 you know what I'm saying and do you know 75 3 days without eating you are ready on 73 and that's not even a goal it's just telling somebody so do that today I preached 3 hours Lord Jesus today I surrender my hype my excitement to you and I give you my habits the habits of sometimes knowing that it's wrong I repent from for promising you that I will do it but I have not put any plan into place for doing it I repent that sometimes even if I have done it I've done it so wrongly that I tramp on people's toes and I stop because I thought I hurt somebody today I want to repent and ask you renew my mind so that whatever comes out of my mind is not just a language out of my mouth but it's an action step towards what you want us to accomplish teach me also to count the cost and yet after counting still obey even if I can see the counts doesn't add up but yet still I obey in what you say establish my thoughts my God as I commit my action to you in the mighty name give me the grace for consistency not just for one day but for every day to do one thing I choose obedience instead of the applause of others I choose to do it instead of saying it I decree and declare today I choose that systems will be helping me for this year not slogans I decree and declare that I will act before I start announcing anything I decree and declare that I will renew my mind daily in the mighty name of Jesus I commit my word unto you I decree and declare that in the mighty name of Jesus I stand up and I do something small not just standing up and not moving today I do what your word says and I change anything quietly in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior Amen and Amen just remember this year it doesn't need more promises it need more obedience that's it now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God God God God