Today we are walking in: KINGDOM KEYS TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE!
Yahusha (Joshua) 1:8
“This Cepher of the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may guard to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.”
“This Cepher of the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may guard to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.”
INFLUENCE
Today we look to the word—INFLUENCE—through the Hebrew word CHOKMAH—H2451—to understand how wisdom, skill, and the knowledge of YAHUAH’s instructions equip us to fulfill our purpose and make a difference!
H2451 — Chokmah (חָכְמָה)
According to the Hebrew lexicon used by Blue Letter Bible, chokmah means wisdom, skill, shrewdness, or prudence. Its usage includes wisdom in administration, ethical and religious matters, and practical skill.
Influence is the capacity to affect circumstances and the lives of others. In this teaching, we are looking at influence that comes through wisdom, obedience, stewardship, purpose, and the development of the gifts YAHUAH has placed within us.
Today we look to the word—INFLUENCE—through the Hebrew word CHOKMAH—H2451—to understand how wisdom, skill, and the knowledge of YAHUAH’s instructions equip us to fulfill our purpose and make a difference!
H2451 — Chokmah (חָכְמָה)
According to the Hebrew lexicon used by Blue Letter Bible, chokmah means wisdom, skill, shrewdness, or prudence. Its usage includes wisdom in administration, ethical and religious matters, and practical skill.
Influence is the capacity to affect circumstances and the lives of others. In this teaching, we are looking at influence that comes through wisdom, obedience, stewardship, purpose, and the development of the gifts YAHUAH has placed within us.
The Torah Testifies………
1. Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1:28
“And ELOHIYM blessed them, and ELOHIYM said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
2. Devariym (Deuteronomy) 8:18
“But you shall remember YAHUAH ELOHAYKA: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.”
3. Shemoth (Exodus) 31:3
“And I have filled him with the RUACH ELOHIYM, in wisdom (H2451 — chokmah), and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.”
1. Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1:28
“And ELOHIYM blessed them, and ELOHIYM said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
2. Devariym (Deuteronomy) 8:18
“But you shall remember YAHUAH ELOHAYKA: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.”
3. Shemoth (Exodus) 31:3
“And I have filled him with the RUACH ELOHIYM, in wisdom (H2451 — chokmah), and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.”
The Prophets Proclaim………
1. Yahusha (Joshua) 1:8
“This Cepher of the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may guard to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.”
2. Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 11:2
“And the RUACH YAHUAH shall rest upon him, the RUACH of wisdom (H2451 — chokmah) and understanding, the RUACH of counsel and might, the RUACH of knowledge and of the fear of YAHUAH.”
3. Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 29:11
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says YAHUAH, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
1. Yahusha (Joshua) 1:8
“This Cepher of the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may guard to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.”
2. Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 11:2
“And the RUACH YAHUAH shall rest upon him, the RUACH of wisdom (H2451 — chokmah) and understanding, the RUACH of counsel and might, the RUACH of knowledge and of the fear of YAHUAH.”
3. Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 29:11
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says YAHUAH, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
The Writings Witness………
1. Mishlei (Proverbs) 18:16
“A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.”
2. Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 10:10
“If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom (H2451 — chokmah) is profitable to direct.”
3. Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 9:15
“Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom (H2451 — chokmah) delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.”
KINGDOM KEYS TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE
This morning, I want to talk about Kingdom keys to making a difference in the world.
Dr. Myles Munroe says, I was born on an island, seven miles wide and twenty-one miles long. I was born in a little village called Bain Town. I was born in a wooden house built on four big rocks with two bedrooms, one from my mother and father and one for my seven sisters. So the four boys had to sleep on the floor.
I grew up sleeping on a wooden floor on a mat that was woven from a tree by my Mom. My mother gave us sheets to sleep under so we could be protected from the elements. I remember waking up many nights scratching myself from the bites of mosquitoes and roaches and rats that crawled over my body. I remember sleeping on that floor with big dreams.
I dreamt of one day wanting to change the world and impact the world and today as you see, my dream came to pass. So from sleeping on the floor in a poor village to advising heads of state.
I’ve come to show you and to share with you how that happened because if it happened to me it can happen to you. The Most High is no respecter of persons.
I want you to begin by writing this statement down. This has to do with the purpose for your life, why were you conceived.
First of all, you were not born just to make a living, you are not born just to pay bills, you are not born just to keep up some kind of rent or mortgage payment, you were not born just to eat food and breathe oxygen.
I am convinced that you were born not just to make a living, but you were born to make a difference. You were born to change the world. You were never sent here, to leave the world the way it was, when you arrived.
I want to talk to you about how to position yourself to make an impact in the world.
How do you make a difference in the world?
First of all, the key to make a difference in the world is influence.
What is influence?
Influence is the capacity to affect and effect circumstances in your environment. That’s called making a difference.
What is the source of influence? What makes a person influential?
Position
Power
Knowledge
Expertise
Experience
Survival character and that’s important. A person’s influence, as an individual whose character survived difficult odds.
Dedication to purpose will make you influential.
Wealth makes you influential.
People who are influential or who changed the world are people who are either experiencing all of this list or more than three of these.
Yahusha said something very important to us and I think we need to remember it.
Yahusha said go into all the world and make disciples of every nation. This particular mandate or commission is one that I still don’t think we understand fully.
The Greek word for world is cosmos and it means governing powers or systems of control. For example, the political world is the system of politics which refers to the banking system, the insurance system, the educational system, the entertainment system, and the world of sports. These are all called cosmos.
Go into those worlds and make disciples.
Disciple is not a religious word. The word disciple is a word from the field of education. The word disciple simply means student. It means student or learner.
Now the word disciple implies that you cannot make a disciple of someone unless you are their teacher. You cannot be the teacher unless you are in a position of influence. You cannot teach students who you can’t influence and you cannot influence students unless you are in a position of power and you have knowledge!
Yahusha said I want you to be the teacher in the nation of students. That means for you to influence and disciple the nation, you have to be in a position where you are the one in the position of influence.
This is why the assembly for the most part is losing the world very fast because we are so busy trying to make people prepare to go to heaven. We don’t train them to have an impact on the earth.
Discipleship has to do with you becoming a person of influence. Can you remember that the Most High can make an entire government, your students?
Yoseph had the same experience. The Scriptures say that Pharaoh became the son of Yoseph and Yoseph became the father of Pharaoh.
Now wait a minute, Pharaoh is an old man. He is the king of the most powerful nation in history, he’s the head of the top civilization of the world and yet a young man who was just in his 20’s becomes his great influence.
Yoseph changed the entire laws of Mitsrayim and he made Pharaoh decree that all Egyptians shall worship The Most High.
That’s called influence, power, expertise, knowledge, and survival character.
You cannot disciple if you don’t influence.
So here’s my question, which one of these influences is the most powerful source of influence?
The power of wealth.
Wealth is an important source of influence. Commonwealth is one of the most powerful forces on earth.
I want to read a verse of scripture written by the richest man that ever lived. His name was Shelomoh, the son of David. He was a king.
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) chapter 9 verse 14 there was once a small city but only a few people in it. A powerful King came against it, surrounded it and said he would seize it.
Now there lived in that city, a man who was wise but poor.
That’s a bad combination.
Next verse, it says his wisdom could have saved the city but because he was poor no one listened to the poor man.
There are people who have great solutions to problems in this great country but no one listens.
Now notice what the Scriptures say, being poor causes people not to listen to you. He was wise but poor.
In other words, when you gain wealth, you gain attention. The reason why the poor man’s wisdom could not save the country is because he didn’t have what the country considered attractive.
This is why it’s important for you to learn the keys to influence to make a difference.
This man could not make a difference not because he didn’t have the answers, but he was not in a position of influence.
That means for you to make a difference you have to be in a position of influence.
In Bere’shiyth (Genesis) chapter 26 verse 12 it says Yitschaq planted crops in that land and the same year he reaped a hundredfold. Why? Because the Most High blessed the planting and the man became rich and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
Verse 14 he had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Yitschaq followed the Most High’s laws and submitted to His will—this is all connected to His anointing.
So what happened—the Most High blessed his seed that was sown.
Don’t forget that he planted like everybody else planted, except the Most High blessed him and he became wealthy, but then it says he became very wealthy because he continued to grow in wealth and what happened?
The enemies, people who didn’t like him, had to respect him. They even became jealous of him.
Dr. Myles Munroe said, I remember one day when I landed my jet and my pilot pulled up in Chicago and we pulled up to a private Airport, I stepped out of my aircraft after that another plane pulled up next to me and Oprah Winfrey stepped out.
She looked at me, I looked at her. She smiled and I smiled back. The only way to meet her was to be at that private Airport where no one goes.
She walks up to me and she says, “hello, what’s your name?”
I said “I’m Dr. Myles Munroe, what’s your name?”
She said “I’m Oprah Winfrey.”
I said, “I like your show” and she said “I like your books.”
Then she said “that’s a nice aircraft” I said “yours ain’t too bad either”.
Here’s my point, if I didn’t have that position, I could never speak into her life.
I’m going to show you how to succeed in the middle of any situation.
The greatest motivator of mankind is self-preservation. Everybody is trying to survive.
Self-preservation is defined as access to everything you need for your life.
That’s self-preservation, but poverty is the lack of access of sufficient resources.
In other words riches is when you accumulate excess resources, poverty is when you lack resources.
Wealthy people are those who have the ability to produce whatever they need when they need it.
These are three different groups of people.
Poor people lack access to resources, rich people accumulate excess resources, but wealthy people are different. They produce whatever they need when they need it.
That means wealthy people don’t care what the environment is like or what circumstances are like, they create the environment they want to produce the wealth that they need.
There are three different spheres of wealth. You must be wealthy in all areas of life.
Spiritual wealth toward Yah.
Psychological wealth that’s your intellect and your emotions.
Physical wealth which means you must be healthy and whole in your body.
Social wealth, you must be wealthy with friends and with family and relationships.
Influential wealth you must be wealthy in the area of impacting the world and the systems around you. In other words, you must have wealth that helps you to understand the power of influence and then you must have wealth that is able to impact corporate understanding. Influential wealth of systems means being able to impact the world around you.
If you are just wealthy in one of these areas, you are not wealthy yet.
There are people for example, who’ve got a lot of money but they have a sick body. That means, they are poor in their health.
Some people have a lot of money, but they are sick in the area of their relationships with their parents or with their family or their children or with their spouse. That’s poverty.
In other words, wealth is not just in physical, monetary resources. Wealth is a holistic approach to having access to all you need.
This is why it’s important to have wealth, even in your relationships.
Sha’ul talks about this wealth of the kingdom of Yah in Eph’siym (Ephesians) chapter 2 verse 12 he has a word you know well, it says, at that time you were without Ha’Mashiach being aliens from the Commonwealth of Yisra’el and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without Yah in the world.
He said but since that you’ve been brought close through Yahusha in his blood, in other words the blood of Yahusha literally was sent to earth, not just to save you, but to bring you back to Commonwealth.
That’s why he redeemed you. Not to take you to heaven, but to bring heaven down to you.
You can be a part of Yah’s health and wealth system therefore Yahusha came to talk about this kingdom.
The Kingdom of the Most High is about understanding His commonwealth.
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 24 verse 14 Yahusha said and this good news of the kingdom would be preached into the whole world to testimony to all men and then the end will come.
Mattithyahu 4:17 Yahusha said, repent for the kingdom of heaven has arrived.
And Mattithyahu 25 come you are blessed by my Father, he says take your inheritance. The kingdom was prepared for you since the creation of the world.
Mattithyahu 10 verse 7 as you go preach this message, the kingdom of heaven is near.
Then he says in Mattithyahu 6, when you pray, don’t pray to go to heaven.
He says pray our Father who is in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come and thy will be done on earth just like it is in heaven.
In other words, he says pray for the kingdom to come.
Mattithyahu 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom. Whatever you lock up will be locked up whatever you open will be open.
These are principles.
In other words, I’m gonna give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Notice the word keys is plural.
These are principles and laws. These are systems that he wants to teach us.
You have guaranteed success. These are laws by which you can live by in the kingdom of Yah and experience Yah’s best in every way.
The keys are laws that guarantee results. Keys are principles that guarantee what he promised.
The Most High didn’t leave us to guess—He gave us the keys!!!
If I gave you the key to my house what kind of confidence do you have when you walk up to my door?
Total confidence.
If I give you the key to my car, you don’t have to pray anymore. You know that the key will open the car.
Keys take away experimentation. Keys remove guessing.
I’m going to give you the keys of the kingdom lifestyle.
You have to learn all the principles by which the kingdom of Yah functions.
These have delivered me from religion and brought me into relationship with the kingdom which has made my life influential in the world.
The secret of success is learning the laws of the Most High.
Yahusha (Joshua) chapter 1 verse 8 it says keep this book of the Torah on your lips, meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then I will make your way prosperous and you will have good success.
Notice He relates success to laws.
Success attracts success.
Listen to me carefully, it’s important to succeed because success creates influence, and influence makes you—make the difference.
You cannot make a difference if you are not influential, you cannot be influential if you are not successful in something.
The Most High says success is predictable because it’s based on laws.
If you keep my Torah He says on your mind, on your lips and you walk in them then you will make your way prosperous, that’s the wealthy part, and have good success which is the influential part.
That’s why singing and dancing and praising Him ain’t enough.
You have to get in position where His laws are active in your life so that you become prosperous and have good success.
Then people seek you out for your advice and for your influence.
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 8:17 Beware that you may say my power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.
The Most High says no.
Remember the Most High for it is he who has given you the ability, not just the power, but the ability to produce wealth and to show his covenant and to prove his covenant that he made to your fathers.
I thought you could pray for money but apparently He doesn’t give you money.
Remember the Most High for it is he who doesn’t give you wealth. He gives you the ability to produce wealth.
Wow!!
He doesn’t give you wealth. He gives you the ability to produce wealth.
The word ability means ideas. Secondly it means concepts. Thirdly it means schemes.
The Hebrew word ability means the capacity to have ideas.
When you ask the Most High for money He doesn’t give you cash, he gives you ideas.
One of the problems in our developing countries has made us very dependent on people and dependency creates a spirit of expectation for things to be provided for you without effort.
This is why in most developing countries poverty is reigning.
We expect people to help us all the time but He says if you pray for help, if you pray for financial wealth, I don’t give you money.
I give you ideas, I give you concepts, I give you schemes.
This is how He produces wealth in your life.
The Most High says, I will give you the ability to produce.
Produce means first of all to create. Secondly it means to develop. Thirdly it means to grow.
Abba says I give you ideas which is to create wealth. I will give you schemes to develop wealth. I will give you ideas to grow wealth.
The Most High’s people if they’re going to become wealthy and want to become influential, they must start thinking about pursuing ideas.
You can’t just have an idea. You have got to produce. You have got to create it.
It takes a woman nine months to bring forward a baby, the discomfort, the emotional changes, the hormonal changes, all the things she goes through. But she’s bringing forth a product of life.
If you’re going to become influential you must become wealthy.
To become wealthy you must capture and conceive ideas. And then to conceive ideas you must produce them.
That takes work and time and you have to grow those ideas.
This is why I believe that success is designed by Him to be inevitable.
Success is predictable.
I can predict if a person will succeed, its predictable.
The problem is, failure is also predictable.
If you start smoking cigarettes right now at age 14, I can predict the failure of your lungs and I don’t need prophecy.
If you start drinking alcohol right now at age 16, in 25 years your liver will be fried. I can predict that you will fail in your health.
In other words if you violate certain laws the results are predictable.
Here’s the answer to success.
Everything in life was designed to function by laws. This is why you can predict success and failure.
Laws make life predictable.
Let’s say you have a car in the parking lot. The car was made by a manufacturer and is designed to function by unleaded gasoline so the law of gasoline activates your car.
If you decide that you’re gonna put orange juice in your gas tank and you pray over the orange juice and you fast over the orange juice and you put it in your car, can I predict what would happen to your car?
Yes!!
You don’t need to pray about it.
Sometimes we pray for the Most High to do things and He is saying you are violating the laws!!
Prayer will not transform orange juice into the gasoline.
He says the law is already there. This car requires fuel or gasoline.
So He has set you up to succeed but success depends on laws.
Your success is good for the Most High.
I learned this principle and my whole life changed.
He said to me, your success is good for me.
This is why I know I cannot fail unless I choose to fail.
Now what do I mean by your success is good for the Most High?
Because He is the manufacturer.
You know that every product made by a manufacturer comes with a warranty and a guarantee.
When you open the box, the first thing you see is not the product. You see a book and the book always says do not attempt to operate this product until you read this completely.
Do you really completely read it?
Don’t tell any stories!!
You don’t!!
Nobody does!!
That’s why your computer has 500 functions you only know four.
When you read that booklet there are two pages in the back of the book.
The first page is the warranty, the second page is the guarantee.
When you read those pages it tells you if this product is not functioning the way the manufacturer has promised, return it to us at our expense, we will pay for the shipment, we will repair it at our expense, we will ship it back to you at our expense, and we will make sure it works at our expense.
Now here’s the problem, they don’t even know you.
Do you think they love you?
They love you that much that they would actually give you a new one and ship it to you and pay for it?
They don’t know you, so what is this commitment about replacing, repairing, shipping, and paying for it?
Here’s why they are not interested in you.
They are interested in their name.
Their name is on the product, so the success of the product protects their name.
So the failure of the product will destroy their name.
The Hebrew word for name has a number of meanings in English.
First it means to be, being, the being of. It also means image, the image of a thing. It also means character, a character of a thing.
So you have to be careful what you name people.
For example the word Ya’aqov means deceiver.
I don’t know who named him but it was a bad name.
Ya’aqov became exactly what they called him, a deceiver.
What does the Most High do when Yah bless Ya’aqov?
First thing he did was change his name.
Why?
Because his character was the problem.
So He changed his name from Ya’aqov to Yisra’el.
When the Most High met Avraham, his name was Avram. Avram means father of none. He had none.
He said I will change your name to Avraham. Avraham is father of many.
When Yahusha met Kepha his name was Shim’on. Shim’on means unstable. Yahusha said I will call you Kepha, it means Rock.
So you have in your hand a product from Apple. Apple put the image on the product and their image is their name.
The word name also means reputation.
The Scriptures call it namesake.
He says I will do everything for you not for your sake but for My name’s sake.
So here’s the good news about success.
The success of a product protects the reputation of the manufacturer and this is why your success is important to Him.
The first thing He put upon you and me was His image, His name.
That’s why you have to succeed to protect His name.
So success is not a pursuit, success is a byproduct of obedience to laws.
When you obey the laws of the Most High’s kingdom, success becomes a natural result and therefore it’s more important to learn the laws of the AHAYAH ASHER AHAYAH, than to pursue success.
This is why for you to make an impact in the world and become an influence in the world you have to understand how to become successful.
You are on your way to becoming influential and no one can stop what He’s going do because He’s going to make it successful for his name’s sake.
Failure therefore is not good for the Most High.
Your success is necessary for Him and that’s why the King of the Universe can do everything necessary to make sure you succeed.
Success first of all it’s not what you’ve done compared to what other people have done.
Success is what you’ve done compared to what you know you could have done.
Therefore success is not comparison with other people, success is when you compare yourself with yourself, knowing what you have done.
In other words, I am the only measure of my success because I know I could have done better.
When I was in school, I came in one time for my class and I told my mother, I got a B on my test and I came first in class, and my mother says are you proud of that?
I’m ashamed of you.
I said but mom I came first.
She says no you didn’t come first.
Everybody is just dumber than you that’s all. You’re supposed to get an A.
She changed my life that night.
She would tell me to stop measuring your life by other people’s failure, you know what you could do.
Stop comparing with other people who don’t do nothing.
This is why success is the fulfillment of purpose and assignment for your life.
Yochanon (John) chapter 17 verse 4 he says Father I have brought you glory by completing the work you gave me to do.
He saw success, not comparing himself with anybody else.
He said my success is that I completed the work you gave me to do.
I brought you glory, I brought you pride, I brought you fulfillment as my manufacturer because I completed the work you gave me to do.
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 29 verse 11 I know the plans I have for you he says plans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future.
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) chapter 10 verse 10 if the ax is dull and its edge is unsharpened, much strength is needed, but with knowledge of the laws of skill, success comes quickly.
What a powerful verse let’s read it again.
Qoheleth chapter 10 verse 10 if the axe is dull and its edge is unsharpened more strength is needed but with skill knowledge of laws success comes quickly.
Have you ever tried to chop a tree down with a dull ax?
You know what happens when you try that?
First of all, the tree is not chopped down.
Secondly, you never hurt the tree, you hurt yourself. You become blistered.
There’s no one cutting that tree—what’s wrong?
The axe is dull.
Shelomoh is saying, look no matter how big the assignment is, that’s the tree in your life.
You cannot refine your skills, without getting knowledge and information on how to do things.
According to the laws of the Most High, if you do that he says success comes quickly.
You can spend 10 hours trying to chop a tree down, you can spend 10 years trying to accomplish an assignment and He is saying there is nothing wrong with the assignment, you just don’t have the knowledge of the laws of how to make that become successful.
If you don’t understand the laws of the Most High, you work hard and get nothing done.
Sometimes people say I’m a hard worker and they are broke and poor.
Working hard doesn’t make you successful, working smart does.
People have been working hard for 40 years but still don’t have money, they have no influence, they have no position, they have no kind of impact on the world.
There are pastors in this city who’ve been pastors for 40 years and they still get 200 people.
40 years and no one listens to them.
They working hard but somehow they’re missing the laws.
You have got to keep sharpening your skills so success comes.
I challenge you therefore to stop buying too much food and start buying more books and CDs and DVDs.
Feed your skills, sharpen your skill because success is inevitable.
If you want to be successful do not seek success.
People who try to be successful are never successful.
Bill Gates never tried to be successful. The late Steve Jobs never tried to be successful. Nelson Mandela never tried to be successful. Mahatma Gandhi never tried to be successful. Thomas Edison never tried to be successful.
Successful people don’t seek success, so if you want to be successful do not seek success.
You need to seek to become a person of value.
If you want to be effective in the world you must become a person of value.
When you become valuable to the world they seek you out!!
By the Most High’s grace he has made me very valuable.
So I’m being invited all over the world to share my skills but these skills have taken over 30 years to develop.
When I speak on subjects I speak with authority.
What makes a dentist valuable?
They spent hours and years learning about your teeth and that’s why you would drive for hours to go to a dentist and you give them your money to pay for his skill.
Why do doctors become so valuable?
They have spent 8 years, 10 years, skilling, and sharpening their skill in medicine, and you would go and take them your money and drive to another state fly to another state just to go to a specific doctor.
Why?
Because they have made themselves valuable.
What makes a lawyer valuable?
They spend years studying the law and they develop a skill and you go to them and you give them all your money to do business in legal affairs.
My question is, are they looking for you?
How come no one’s looking for you?
It could be because you are a jack of all trades and you master nothing!!
So how do you become valuable?
Number one, first you must refine your uniqueness. Find what’s unique about you and refine it, and develop it.
Number two, produce significance by making your skill valuable to the world.
Your significance makes you attractive.
How do you become significant?
You find your unique gift.
Every human being came to earth with a gift.
I don’t try to be rich. I just stay with my unique gift of training people to think like a leader.
Whatever you refine, you attract.
Whatever you develop skillfully, will make you valuable to people who need it.
Stop trying to be everything to everybody.
Develop something that is unique to your gift.
This is the secret to becoming influential.
If you’re going to make a difference in the world you have to become unique and uniqueness comes from finding your gift and refining it and developing it to the point where everybody will pursue it.
In other words, your gift it makes you a valuable person.
Value is determined by your refined gift and your refined gift makes you significant.
No one came to earth empty.
The problem with our culture is our culture doesn’t help us to find our gift.
It simply helps us to find a job and your job doesn’t make you valuable.
Your job actually keeps you poor, your job is not your skill or your gift.
This is why most people who want to change the world usually have to leave their jobs.
That’s a tough one.
If you’re going to become effective in life, you’re going to have to declare independence from the system because the system is designed to make you a normal person.
Sometimes we are so busy trying to fit in we never stand out.
You are a world changer.
No more limitations on your mind.
You and I were designed by the Most High to make an impact, not just an impression.
There are three types of people in every crowd.
Choose which one are you.
Poor people, rich people, and wealthy people.
Now He says he wants you to have wealth.
What’s the difference between a wealthy person, a rich person, and a poor person?
Poor people think about money all the time, rich people think about things that they have bought, wealthy people think about ideas.
Which one are you?
Poor people pursue money, rich people accumulate money, wealthy people they create money.
Money is collected by poor people, rich people store money, wealthy people invest money.
They all handle money differently.
Some of you are around people who are always talking about money. You know where they are in this category.
Poor people buy chicken, wealthy people buy books.
Poor people go to restaurants, wealthy people go to libraries.
Poor people go to shoe stores, wealthy people they go to bookstores.
Poor people spend money, rich people protect money, wealthy people grow money and they transfer to the next generation.
So the key to wealth is not working for money it’s letting money work for you.
The Most High gives you ideas and more ideas and more ideas and more ideas and tells you to impact the world with your ideas.
Here is His economic plan:
Devariym chapter 8, I give you the ability to produce wealth in other words everyone possesses a seed of greatness.
Your seed is your purpose and your passion.
There’s something in you, and you have your future trapped on the inside of it.
In every seed there is a forest and in every forest there is fruit and your seed is the ideas that the Most High gave you that won’t go away.
Everyone has a seed and in that seed is a tree, on that tree is fruit.
Trees never bring their fruit to you.
This is deep.
I discovered that when you refine your gift and produce your fruit you are not going to look for followers they look for you.
Whatever you were born to give to the world is not for you, there’s a market that is waiting eagerly for it!!
There are people in the world who need you to exist but they can’t find you because you are trapped under a career, a job.
They can’t find your fruit.
When I was a little child growing up there was a lady behind us who had a big fence she had many fruit trees.
You know we never had an interest in the trees until we saw the fruit.
Once those mangoes came upon those trees, believe me at six years old we found a way to climb the fence, she had dogs in a yard, we would give the dogs food to keep him quiet.
In other words when someone wants to find you and come to get your fruit, they will jump over obstacles to get to you.
Your fruit determines your future, your seed determines your natural abilities.
You were born with natural abilities The Most High gave you and that tells you what you were born to do.
Life is bigger than pastoring.
Pastoring is not your gift it’s a function.
There’s something else you are carrying that is your source of success not pastoring.
Don’t go into pastoring to make a living you’ll starve to death.
The Scriptures never say a man’s pastoring shall make room for him in the world.
It says a man’s gift.
Abba is not an American, the Most High is not a British, AHAYAH ASHER AHAYAH is not a Frenchman, the King of the Universe is not Spanish.
He is the King of kings and Most High of Most Highs and He’s dropping ideas.
Four ways to produce your idea.
The Scriptures say the Most High made a field but didn’t allow anything to grow because there was no man to manage the ground.
In other words the Most High told you to manage the earth.
His Resources were sent to earth for you to be a manager of his resources and therefore He said that you will be the manager of his property on earth.
Whatever you fail to manage you will lose the motivation for.
His creation was management.
The Most High’s primary measure of success is management.
If you can’t manage His resources, he takes them from you.
Management will always attract the Most High’s resources.
He will always give to you—because you manage and this is why most people fail.
Because management attracts resources.
I remember Yahusha gave a seminar on management one time and he said if you can’t manage little who will give you much?
In other words, you have a gift and a talent, you’ve got an anointing and an idea, but you must learn to manage resources properly and don’t waste things.
He will remove from you when you mismanage.
You must become a disciplined person.
Someone asked me some years ago Dr. J I want to go into the ministry what should I study to go into the ministry?
And I said to them study Business Administration and management.
They were shocked and they said wait a minute shouldn’t I study theology?
I said no.
Study Business Administration and management and they were confused.
I said a secret to my success in ministry around the world is my capacity to manage.
When you are a good manager the Most High trusts you with more when you are a poor manager Yah protects things from you.
Management attracts the Most High.
I read the story about the 5,000 people who were fed by Yahusha and everybody normally sees the big things, I look at the little things.
I noticed that Yahusha at the end of the feeding 5,000 people, he gave an instruction.
He says pick up every crumb.
That was a management instruction, waste nothing.
Can you tell me today what you did with your last paycheck completely?
And can you tell me if what you did with it was good management?
Every cent?
Why would Yah trust in my hands millions of dollars?
Because he knows I will never mismanage it.
Whatever you mismanage you lose.
Start saving your money, set a goal for your gift, decide you’re gonna stop wasting His resources and He will trust you with more.
Finally I want to give you the Most High’s system that I use to become wealthy and it’s found in Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1 verse 28.
Yah blessed them and said be fruitful and multiply and replenish and subdue and then you’ll have dominion over the earth.
His system is very simple.
First he says be fruitful.
The word fruitful doesn’t mean to have children, it means to be productive.
First you produce a product.
Secondly you reproduce it. The same quality over and over again.
Thirdly you replenish it.
Replenish means to distribute.
You cannot become successful with inventory, you must be able to distribute.
Then He said subdue.
Subdue means to control the market.
Find your passion, find the idea that won’t go away.
It’s a product and then he says multiply it.
If you multiply your idea your product, you still won’t be wealthy, it’s called inventory.
Having a warehouse full of inventory still makes you poor, you must replenish, and develop a distribution system.
Get it to the market and Yah says and I want you to subdue the market, dominate the market.
You know a few years ago Bill Gates was so successful in obeying the King of King’s laws that the United States government called him before the Congress and said to him we cannot allow you to have this kind of power we’re gonna break your company up.
They said because we cannot have Microsoft controlling every computer in the world and they commanded him to break up his company.
Why?
He was too successful, he was dominating the market.
Who is the first one we think of when you get a toothache?
A Dentist.
Who do you think about first when you have pain in your body?
A doctor.
Who do you think of when you got a legal problem?
You think about a lawyer.
Question—why should we think about you?
What do you have that you control the market with?
From this day forward you are going to have to find your gift, you’re going to have to refine your gift, you’re going to have to decide, what am I going to develop?
Who am I?
What am I carrying?
The Most High has sent me to set you free from the spirit of your job to help you find your work.
Your job is what they pay you to do, your work is what you was born to do.
Your job is your skill, your work is your gift.
Your job you can retire from, your work you can never retire from.
Your job is temporary, your work is permanent!!
Your job is what you learned, your work is what you were born with.
Your job gives you a salary, your work gives you wealth.
You can get fired from your job you can never get fired from your work because your work goes with you.
It is your gift.
A man’s gift makes room for him in the world.
Final scripture to remember and here it is the Most High never said to be seed-full he said to be fruitful!!
The Most High Yah is saying, look produce fruit, he didn’t say for you to produce seed—which means that He has already concluded you are carrying seed.
He says give me the fruit people—don’t eat seed!!
They don’t pay for seed, they don’t run out the seed, be fruitful, there’s something you carry.
Abba has sent me to tell you to stop allowing other people to suffocate your dream and to stifle your vision.
Inside of you is an awesome person that will change the world!!
ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH YAH!!!!
Dr. Myles Munroe’s Closing Testimony: The Gift Hidden Under a Job
Dr. Myles Munroe said there was a lady came to my office crying, she was so depressed and she said pastor I just got laid off from my job.
I got three children all by myself and I was working at the hotel making beds and now I lost my job.
All I have in my hand is my last paycheck, what am I supposed to do?
She started weeping and complaining.
I just looked at her and I smiled.
She said how can you be smiling?
I said I know you you’ve been coming to this assembly a long time.
I said do you have an oven in your house?
Yes.
I said how many times do you use your oven in a week?
Once.
I said wait a minute you bought an oven and it’s there seven days a week and you only use it once a week?
Yes every Sunday.
I said that means you are abusing your oven, it is lying idle six days a week useless.
What you getting at pastor?
I said you have any flour in your house?
Yes.
Have any sugar?
Yes.
I said remember those cookies you made for me a few times?
Yes.
I want you to go home and take this last check you have and buy all the ingredients that made those cookies.
I want you to make cookies and take them back to the same hotel that laid you off and give everyone in the hotel free cookies.
I said just do what I say, if you obey me you’ll succeed.
She left my office, I prayed for her, prayed over her check.
I said go and then she ran to the store and baked cookies that night.
She called me up saying I’m going to the hotel to give them out.
I said it’s fine.
She went to the hotel and gave little plastic bags to everybody, all the employees, all the managers supervisors, and everybody.
They were shocked to see her back on the premises.
Two days later she called me she says I got orders for 15 dozen cookies.
I said that’s good I said tell them they have to prepay.
They prepaid and she made fifteen dozen cookies.
The next week it was twenty five.
Six months later she had hired two people to help her make the batter.
One year later this lady had an employment of twelve people, a thousand dozen cookies every month.
Two years later she has a factory all the big food stores are buying her cookies packaged and today she’s a multimillionaire.
One day she came to see me and she was dressed real sharp in a suit had a bag in her hand and she said pastor I just came just to tell you thanks.
I said thanks for what?
I forgot what it was going on.
She said I brought you some cookies.
I said oh I know who you are.
She said yes company’s going fine 115 people on staff distribution all over the place, she said just want to thank you and I want to thank the Most High for them firing me.
She says there’s something in the bag.
I looked in the bag, there’s an envelope and I said what is that, she said just open it.
I opened it up, over ten thousand dollars check, she said I just want to tell you thanks for letting me see that my gift was always in me and it was buried under a job and the Most High knew I would never find my gift until he got rid of the job.
1. Mishlei (Proverbs) 18:16
“A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.”
2. Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 10:10
“If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom (H2451 — chokmah) is profitable to direct.”
3. Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 9:15
“Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom (H2451 — chokmah) delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.”
KINGDOM KEYS TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE
This morning, I want to talk about Kingdom keys to making a difference in the world.
Dr. Myles Munroe says, I was born on an island, seven miles wide and twenty-one miles long. I was born in a little village called Bain Town. I was born in a wooden house built on four big rocks with two bedrooms, one from my mother and father and one for my seven sisters. So the four boys had to sleep on the floor.
I grew up sleeping on a wooden floor on a mat that was woven from a tree by my Mom. My mother gave us sheets to sleep under so we could be protected from the elements. I remember waking up many nights scratching myself from the bites of mosquitoes and roaches and rats that crawled over my body. I remember sleeping on that floor with big dreams.
I dreamt of one day wanting to change the world and impact the world and today as you see, my dream came to pass. So from sleeping on the floor in a poor village to advising heads of state.
I’ve come to show you and to share with you how that happened because if it happened to me it can happen to you. The Most High is no respecter of persons.
I want you to begin by writing this statement down. This has to do with the purpose for your life, why were you conceived.
First of all, you were not born just to make a living, you are not born just to pay bills, you are not born just to keep up some kind of rent or mortgage payment, you were not born just to eat food and breathe oxygen.
I am convinced that you were born not just to make a living, but you were born to make a difference. You were born to change the world. You were never sent here, to leave the world the way it was, when you arrived.
I want to talk to you about how to position yourself to make an impact in the world.
How do you make a difference in the world?
First of all, the key to make a difference in the world is influence.
What is influence?
Influence is the capacity to affect and effect circumstances in your environment. That’s called making a difference.
What is the source of influence? What makes a person influential?
Position
Power
Knowledge
Expertise
Experience
Survival character and that’s important. A person’s influence, as an individual whose character survived difficult odds.
Dedication to purpose will make you influential.
Wealth makes you influential.
People who are influential or who changed the world are people who are either experiencing all of this list or more than three of these.
Yahusha said something very important to us and I think we need to remember it.
Yahusha said go into all the world and make disciples of every nation. This particular mandate or commission is one that I still don’t think we understand fully.
The Greek word for world is cosmos and it means governing powers or systems of control. For example, the political world is the system of politics which refers to the banking system, the insurance system, the educational system, the entertainment system, and the world of sports. These are all called cosmos.
Go into those worlds and make disciples.
Disciple is not a religious word. The word disciple is a word from the field of education. The word disciple simply means student. It means student or learner.
Now the word disciple implies that you cannot make a disciple of someone unless you are their teacher. You cannot be the teacher unless you are in a position of influence. You cannot teach students who you can’t influence and you cannot influence students unless you are in a position of power and you have knowledge!
Yahusha said I want you to be the teacher in the nation of students. That means for you to influence and disciple the nation, you have to be in a position where you are the one in the position of influence.
This is why the assembly for the most part is losing the world very fast because we are so busy trying to make people prepare to go to heaven. We don’t train them to have an impact on the earth.
Discipleship has to do with you becoming a person of influence. Can you remember that the Most High can make an entire government, your students?
Yoseph had the same experience. The Scriptures say that Pharaoh became the son of Yoseph and Yoseph became the father of Pharaoh.
Now wait a minute, Pharaoh is an old man. He is the king of the most powerful nation in history, he’s the head of the top civilization of the world and yet a young man who was just in his 20’s becomes his great influence.
Yoseph changed the entire laws of Mitsrayim and he made Pharaoh decree that all Egyptians shall worship The Most High.
That’s called influence, power, expertise, knowledge, and survival character.
You cannot disciple if you don’t influence.
So here’s my question, which one of these influences is the most powerful source of influence?
The power of wealth.
Wealth is an important source of influence. Commonwealth is one of the most powerful forces on earth.
I want to read a verse of scripture written by the richest man that ever lived. His name was Shelomoh, the son of David. He was a king.
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) chapter 9 verse 14 there was once a small city but only a few people in it. A powerful King came against it, surrounded it and said he would seize it.
Now there lived in that city, a man who was wise but poor.
That’s a bad combination.
Next verse, it says his wisdom could have saved the city but because he was poor no one listened to the poor man.
There are people who have great solutions to problems in this great country but no one listens.
Now notice what the Scriptures say, being poor causes people not to listen to you. He was wise but poor.
In other words, when you gain wealth, you gain attention. The reason why the poor man’s wisdom could not save the country is because he didn’t have what the country considered attractive.
This is why it’s important for you to learn the keys to influence to make a difference.
This man could not make a difference not because he didn’t have the answers, but he was not in a position of influence.
That means for you to make a difference you have to be in a position of influence.
In Bere’shiyth (Genesis) chapter 26 verse 12 it says Yitschaq planted crops in that land and the same year he reaped a hundredfold. Why? Because the Most High blessed the planting and the man became rich and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
Verse 14 he had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Yitschaq followed the Most High’s laws and submitted to His will—this is all connected to His anointing.
So what happened—the Most High blessed his seed that was sown.
Don’t forget that he planted like everybody else planted, except the Most High blessed him and he became wealthy, but then it says he became very wealthy because he continued to grow in wealth and what happened?
The enemies, people who didn’t like him, had to respect him. They even became jealous of him.
Dr. Myles Munroe said, I remember one day when I landed my jet and my pilot pulled up in Chicago and we pulled up to a private Airport, I stepped out of my aircraft after that another plane pulled up next to me and Oprah Winfrey stepped out.
She looked at me, I looked at her. She smiled and I smiled back. The only way to meet her was to be at that private Airport where no one goes.
She walks up to me and she says, “hello, what’s your name?”
I said “I’m Dr. Myles Munroe, what’s your name?”
She said “I’m Oprah Winfrey.”
I said, “I like your show” and she said “I like your books.”
Then she said “that’s a nice aircraft” I said “yours ain’t too bad either”.
Here’s my point, if I didn’t have that position, I could never speak into her life.
I’m going to show you how to succeed in the middle of any situation.
The greatest motivator of mankind is self-preservation. Everybody is trying to survive.
Self-preservation is defined as access to everything you need for your life.
That’s self-preservation, but poverty is the lack of access of sufficient resources.
In other words riches is when you accumulate excess resources, poverty is when you lack resources.
Wealthy people are those who have the ability to produce whatever they need when they need it.
These are three different groups of people.
Poor people lack access to resources, rich people accumulate excess resources, but wealthy people are different. They produce whatever they need when they need it.
That means wealthy people don’t care what the environment is like or what circumstances are like, they create the environment they want to produce the wealth that they need.
There are three different spheres of wealth. You must be wealthy in all areas of life.
Spiritual wealth toward Yah.
Psychological wealth that’s your intellect and your emotions.
Physical wealth which means you must be healthy and whole in your body.
Social wealth, you must be wealthy with friends and with family and relationships.
Influential wealth you must be wealthy in the area of impacting the world and the systems around you. In other words, you must have wealth that helps you to understand the power of influence and then you must have wealth that is able to impact corporate understanding. Influential wealth of systems means being able to impact the world around you.
If you are just wealthy in one of these areas, you are not wealthy yet.
There are people for example, who’ve got a lot of money but they have a sick body. That means, they are poor in their health.
Some people have a lot of money, but they are sick in the area of their relationships with their parents or with their family or their children or with their spouse. That’s poverty.
In other words, wealth is not just in physical, monetary resources. Wealth is a holistic approach to having access to all you need.
This is why it’s important to have wealth, even in your relationships.
Sha’ul talks about this wealth of the kingdom of Yah in Eph’siym (Ephesians) chapter 2 verse 12 he has a word you know well, it says, at that time you were without Ha’Mashiach being aliens from the Commonwealth of Yisra’el and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope without Yah in the world.
He said but since that you’ve been brought close through Yahusha in his blood, in other words the blood of Yahusha literally was sent to earth, not just to save you, but to bring you back to Commonwealth.
That’s why he redeemed you. Not to take you to heaven, but to bring heaven down to you.
You can be a part of Yah’s health and wealth system therefore Yahusha came to talk about this kingdom.
The Kingdom of the Most High is about understanding His commonwealth.
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 24 verse 14 Yahusha said and this good news of the kingdom would be preached into the whole world to testimony to all men and then the end will come.
Mattithyahu 4:17 Yahusha said, repent for the kingdom of heaven has arrived.
And Mattithyahu 25 come you are blessed by my Father, he says take your inheritance. The kingdom was prepared for you since the creation of the world.
Mattithyahu 10 verse 7 as you go preach this message, the kingdom of heaven is near.
Then he says in Mattithyahu 6, when you pray, don’t pray to go to heaven.
He says pray our Father who is in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come and thy will be done on earth just like it is in heaven.
In other words, he says pray for the kingdom to come.
Mattithyahu 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom. Whatever you lock up will be locked up whatever you open will be open.
These are principles.
In other words, I’m gonna give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Notice the word keys is plural.
These are principles and laws. These are systems that he wants to teach us.
You have guaranteed success. These are laws by which you can live by in the kingdom of Yah and experience Yah’s best in every way.
The keys are laws that guarantee results. Keys are principles that guarantee what he promised.
The Most High didn’t leave us to guess—He gave us the keys!!!
If I gave you the key to my house what kind of confidence do you have when you walk up to my door?
Total confidence.
If I give you the key to my car, you don’t have to pray anymore. You know that the key will open the car.
Keys take away experimentation. Keys remove guessing.
I’m going to give you the keys of the kingdom lifestyle.
You have to learn all the principles by which the kingdom of Yah functions.
These have delivered me from religion and brought me into relationship with the kingdom which has made my life influential in the world.
The secret of success is learning the laws of the Most High.
Yahusha (Joshua) chapter 1 verse 8 it says keep this book of the Torah on your lips, meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then I will make your way prosperous and you will have good success.
Notice He relates success to laws.
Success attracts success.
Listen to me carefully, it’s important to succeed because success creates influence, and influence makes you—make the difference.
You cannot make a difference if you are not influential, you cannot be influential if you are not successful in something.
The Most High says success is predictable because it’s based on laws.
If you keep my Torah He says on your mind, on your lips and you walk in them then you will make your way prosperous, that’s the wealthy part, and have good success which is the influential part.
That’s why singing and dancing and praising Him ain’t enough.
You have to get in position where His laws are active in your life so that you become prosperous and have good success.
Then people seek you out for your advice and for your influence.
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 8:17 Beware that you may say my power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.
The Most High says no.
Remember the Most High for it is he who has given you the ability, not just the power, but the ability to produce wealth and to show his covenant and to prove his covenant that he made to your fathers.
I thought you could pray for money but apparently He doesn’t give you money.
Remember the Most High for it is he who doesn’t give you wealth. He gives you the ability to produce wealth.
Wow!!
He doesn’t give you wealth. He gives you the ability to produce wealth.
The word ability means ideas. Secondly it means concepts. Thirdly it means schemes.
The Hebrew word ability means the capacity to have ideas.
When you ask the Most High for money He doesn’t give you cash, he gives you ideas.
One of the problems in our developing countries has made us very dependent on people and dependency creates a spirit of expectation for things to be provided for you without effort.
This is why in most developing countries poverty is reigning.
We expect people to help us all the time but He says if you pray for help, if you pray for financial wealth, I don’t give you money.
I give you ideas, I give you concepts, I give you schemes.
This is how He produces wealth in your life.
The Most High says, I will give you the ability to produce.
Produce means first of all to create. Secondly it means to develop. Thirdly it means to grow.
Abba says I give you ideas which is to create wealth. I will give you schemes to develop wealth. I will give you ideas to grow wealth.
The Most High’s people if they’re going to become wealthy and want to become influential, they must start thinking about pursuing ideas.
You can’t just have an idea. You have got to produce. You have got to create it.
It takes a woman nine months to bring forward a baby, the discomfort, the emotional changes, the hormonal changes, all the things she goes through. But she’s bringing forth a product of life.
If you’re going to become influential you must become wealthy.
To become wealthy you must capture and conceive ideas. And then to conceive ideas you must produce them.
That takes work and time and you have to grow those ideas.
This is why I believe that success is designed by Him to be inevitable.
Success is predictable.
I can predict if a person will succeed, its predictable.
The problem is, failure is also predictable.
If you start smoking cigarettes right now at age 14, I can predict the failure of your lungs and I don’t need prophecy.
If you start drinking alcohol right now at age 16, in 25 years your liver will be fried. I can predict that you will fail in your health.
In other words if you violate certain laws the results are predictable.
Here’s the answer to success.
Everything in life was designed to function by laws. This is why you can predict success and failure.
Laws make life predictable.
Let’s say you have a car in the parking lot. The car was made by a manufacturer and is designed to function by unleaded gasoline so the law of gasoline activates your car.
If you decide that you’re gonna put orange juice in your gas tank and you pray over the orange juice and you fast over the orange juice and you put it in your car, can I predict what would happen to your car?
Yes!!
You don’t need to pray about it.
Sometimes we pray for the Most High to do things and He is saying you are violating the laws!!
Prayer will not transform orange juice into the gasoline.
He says the law is already there. This car requires fuel or gasoline.
So He has set you up to succeed but success depends on laws.
Your success is good for the Most High.
I learned this principle and my whole life changed.
He said to me, your success is good for me.
This is why I know I cannot fail unless I choose to fail.
Now what do I mean by your success is good for the Most High?
Because He is the manufacturer.
You know that every product made by a manufacturer comes with a warranty and a guarantee.
When you open the box, the first thing you see is not the product. You see a book and the book always says do not attempt to operate this product until you read this completely.
Do you really completely read it?
Don’t tell any stories!!
You don’t!!
Nobody does!!
That’s why your computer has 500 functions you only know four.
When you read that booklet there are two pages in the back of the book.
The first page is the warranty, the second page is the guarantee.
When you read those pages it tells you if this product is not functioning the way the manufacturer has promised, return it to us at our expense, we will pay for the shipment, we will repair it at our expense, we will ship it back to you at our expense, and we will make sure it works at our expense.
Now here’s the problem, they don’t even know you.
Do you think they love you?
They love you that much that they would actually give you a new one and ship it to you and pay for it?
They don’t know you, so what is this commitment about replacing, repairing, shipping, and paying for it?
Here’s why they are not interested in you.
They are interested in their name.
Their name is on the product, so the success of the product protects their name.
So the failure of the product will destroy their name.
The Hebrew word for name has a number of meanings in English.
First it means to be, being, the being of. It also means image, the image of a thing. It also means character, a character of a thing.
So you have to be careful what you name people.
For example the word Ya’aqov means deceiver.
I don’t know who named him but it was a bad name.
Ya’aqov became exactly what they called him, a deceiver.
What does the Most High do when Yah bless Ya’aqov?
First thing he did was change his name.
Why?
Because his character was the problem.
So He changed his name from Ya’aqov to Yisra’el.
When the Most High met Avraham, his name was Avram. Avram means father of none. He had none.
He said I will change your name to Avraham. Avraham is father of many.
When Yahusha met Kepha his name was Shim’on. Shim’on means unstable. Yahusha said I will call you Kepha, it means Rock.
So you have in your hand a product from Apple. Apple put the image on the product and their image is their name.
The word name also means reputation.
The Scriptures call it namesake.
He says I will do everything for you not for your sake but for My name’s sake.
So here’s the good news about success.
The success of a product protects the reputation of the manufacturer and this is why your success is important to Him.
The first thing He put upon you and me was His image, His name.
That’s why you have to succeed to protect His name.
So success is not a pursuit, success is a byproduct of obedience to laws.
When you obey the laws of the Most High’s kingdom, success becomes a natural result and therefore it’s more important to learn the laws of the AHAYAH ASHER AHAYAH, than to pursue success.
This is why for you to make an impact in the world and become an influence in the world you have to understand how to become successful.
You are on your way to becoming influential and no one can stop what He’s going do because He’s going to make it successful for his name’s sake.
Failure therefore is not good for the Most High.
Your success is necessary for Him and that’s why the King of the Universe can do everything necessary to make sure you succeed.
Success first of all it’s not what you’ve done compared to what other people have done.
Success is what you’ve done compared to what you know you could have done.
Therefore success is not comparison with other people, success is when you compare yourself with yourself, knowing what you have done.
In other words, I am the only measure of my success because I know I could have done better.
When I was in school, I came in one time for my class and I told my mother, I got a B on my test and I came first in class, and my mother says are you proud of that?
I’m ashamed of you.
I said but mom I came first.
She says no you didn’t come first.
Everybody is just dumber than you that’s all. You’re supposed to get an A.
She changed my life that night.
She would tell me to stop measuring your life by other people’s failure, you know what you could do.
Stop comparing with other people who don’t do nothing.
This is why success is the fulfillment of purpose and assignment for your life.
Yochanon (John) chapter 17 verse 4 he says Father I have brought you glory by completing the work you gave me to do.
He saw success, not comparing himself with anybody else.
He said my success is that I completed the work you gave me to do.
I brought you glory, I brought you pride, I brought you fulfillment as my manufacturer because I completed the work you gave me to do.
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 29 verse 11 I know the plans I have for you he says plans to prosper you not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future.
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) chapter 10 verse 10 if the ax is dull and its edge is unsharpened, much strength is needed, but with knowledge of the laws of skill, success comes quickly.
What a powerful verse let’s read it again.
Qoheleth chapter 10 verse 10 if the axe is dull and its edge is unsharpened more strength is needed but with skill knowledge of laws success comes quickly.
Have you ever tried to chop a tree down with a dull ax?
You know what happens when you try that?
First of all, the tree is not chopped down.
Secondly, you never hurt the tree, you hurt yourself. You become blistered.
There’s no one cutting that tree—what’s wrong?
The axe is dull.
Shelomoh is saying, look no matter how big the assignment is, that’s the tree in your life.
You cannot refine your skills, without getting knowledge and information on how to do things.
According to the laws of the Most High, if you do that he says success comes quickly.
You can spend 10 hours trying to chop a tree down, you can spend 10 years trying to accomplish an assignment and He is saying there is nothing wrong with the assignment, you just don’t have the knowledge of the laws of how to make that become successful.
If you don’t understand the laws of the Most High, you work hard and get nothing done.
Sometimes people say I’m a hard worker and they are broke and poor.
Working hard doesn’t make you successful, working smart does.
People have been working hard for 40 years but still don’t have money, they have no influence, they have no position, they have no kind of impact on the world.
There are pastors in this city who’ve been pastors for 40 years and they still get 200 people.
40 years and no one listens to them.
They working hard but somehow they’re missing the laws.
You have got to keep sharpening your skills so success comes.
I challenge you therefore to stop buying too much food and start buying more books and CDs and DVDs.
Feed your skills, sharpen your skill because success is inevitable.
If you want to be successful do not seek success.
People who try to be successful are never successful.
Bill Gates never tried to be successful. The late Steve Jobs never tried to be successful. Nelson Mandela never tried to be successful. Mahatma Gandhi never tried to be successful. Thomas Edison never tried to be successful.
Successful people don’t seek success, so if you want to be successful do not seek success.
You need to seek to become a person of value.
If you want to be effective in the world you must become a person of value.
When you become valuable to the world they seek you out!!
By the Most High’s grace he has made me very valuable.
So I’m being invited all over the world to share my skills but these skills have taken over 30 years to develop.
When I speak on subjects I speak with authority.
What makes a dentist valuable?
They spent hours and years learning about your teeth and that’s why you would drive for hours to go to a dentist and you give them your money to pay for his skill.
Why do doctors become so valuable?
They have spent 8 years, 10 years, skilling, and sharpening their skill in medicine, and you would go and take them your money and drive to another state fly to another state just to go to a specific doctor.
Why?
Because they have made themselves valuable.
What makes a lawyer valuable?
They spend years studying the law and they develop a skill and you go to them and you give them all your money to do business in legal affairs.
My question is, are they looking for you?
How come no one’s looking for you?
It could be because you are a jack of all trades and you master nothing!!
So how do you become valuable?
Number one, first you must refine your uniqueness. Find what’s unique about you and refine it, and develop it.
Number two, produce significance by making your skill valuable to the world.
Your significance makes you attractive.
How do you become significant?
You find your unique gift.
Every human being came to earth with a gift.
I don’t try to be rich. I just stay with my unique gift of training people to think like a leader.
Whatever you refine, you attract.
Whatever you develop skillfully, will make you valuable to people who need it.
Stop trying to be everything to everybody.
Develop something that is unique to your gift.
This is the secret to becoming influential.
If you’re going to make a difference in the world you have to become unique and uniqueness comes from finding your gift and refining it and developing it to the point where everybody will pursue it.
In other words, your gift it makes you a valuable person.
Value is determined by your refined gift and your refined gift makes you significant.
No one came to earth empty.
The problem with our culture is our culture doesn’t help us to find our gift.
It simply helps us to find a job and your job doesn’t make you valuable.
Your job actually keeps you poor, your job is not your skill or your gift.
This is why most people who want to change the world usually have to leave their jobs.
That’s a tough one.
If you’re going to become effective in life, you’re going to have to declare independence from the system because the system is designed to make you a normal person.
Sometimes we are so busy trying to fit in we never stand out.
You are a world changer.
No more limitations on your mind.
You and I were designed by the Most High to make an impact, not just an impression.
There are three types of people in every crowd.
Choose which one are you.
Poor people, rich people, and wealthy people.
Now He says he wants you to have wealth.
What’s the difference between a wealthy person, a rich person, and a poor person?
Poor people think about money all the time, rich people think about things that they have bought, wealthy people think about ideas.
Which one are you?
Poor people pursue money, rich people accumulate money, wealthy people they create money.
Money is collected by poor people, rich people store money, wealthy people invest money.
They all handle money differently.
Some of you are around people who are always talking about money. You know where they are in this category.
Poor people buy chicken, wealthy people buy books.
Poor people go to restaurants, wealthy people go to libraries.
Poor people go to shoe stores, wealthy people they go to bookstores.
Poor people spend money, rich people protect money, wealthy people grow money and they transfer to the next generation.
So the key to wealth is not working for money it’s letting money work for you.
The Most High gives you ideas and more ideas and more ideas and more ideas and tells you to impact the world with your ideas.
Here is His economic plan:
Devariym chapter 8, I give you the ability to produce wealth in other words everyone possesses a seed of greatness.
Your seed is your purpose and your passion.
There’s something in you, and you have your future trapped on the inside of it.
In every seed there is a forest and in every forest there is fruit and your seed is the ideas that the Most High gave you that won’t go away.
Everyone has a seed and in that seed is a tree, on that tree is fruit.
Trees never bring their fruit to you.
This is deep.
I discovered that when you refine your gift and produce your fruit you are not going to look for followers they look for you.
Whatever you were born to give to the world is not for you, there’s a market that is waiting eagerly for it!!
There are people in the world who need you to exist but they can’t find you because you are trapped under a career, a job.
They can’t find your fruit.
When I was a little child growing up there was a lady behind us who had a big fence she had many fruit trees.
You know we never had an interest in the trees until we saw the fruit.
Once those mangoes came upon those trees, believe me at six years old we found a way to climb the fence, she had dogs in a yard, we would give the dogs food to keep him quiet.
In other words when someone wants to find you and come to get your fruit, they will jump over obstacles to get to you.
Your fruit determines your future, your seed determines your natural abilities.
You were born with natural abilities The Most High gave you and that tells you what you were born to do.
Life is bigger than pastoring.
Pastoring is not your gift it’s a function.
There’s something else you are carrying that is your source of success not pastoring.
Don’t go into pastoring to make a living you’ll starve to death.
The Scriptures never say a man’s pastoring shall make room for him in the world.
It says a man’s gift.
Abba is not an American, the Most High is not a British, AHAYAH ASHER AHAYAH is not a Frenchman, the King of the Universe is not Spanish.
He is the King of kings and Most High of Most Highs and He’s dropping ideas.
Four ways to produce your idea.
The Scriptures say the Most High made a field but didn’t allow anything to grow because there was no man to manage the ground.
In other words the Most High told you to manage the earth.
His Resources were sent to earth for you to be a manager of his resources and therefore He said that you will be the manager of his property on earth.
Whatever you fail to manage you will lose the motivation for.
His creation was management.
The Most High’s primary measure of success is management.
If you can’t manage His resources, he takes them from you.
Management will always attract the Most High’s resources.
He will always give to you—because you manage and this is why most people fail.
Because management attracts resources.
I remember Yahusha gave a seminar on management one time and he said if you can’t manage little who will give you much?
In other words, you have a gift and a talent, you’ve got an anointing and an idea, but you must learn to manage resources properly and don’t waste things.
He will remove from you when you mismanage.
You must become a disciplined person.
Someone asked me some years ago Dr. J I want to go into the ministry what should I study to go into the ministry?
And I said to them study Business Administration and management.
They were shocked and they said wait a minute shouldn’t I study theology?
I said no.
Study Business Administration and management and they were confused.
I said a secret to my success in ministry around the world is my capacity to manage.
When you are a good manager the Most High trusts you with more when you are a poor manager Yah protects things from you.
Management attracts the Most High.
I read the story about the 5,000 people who were fed by Yahusha and everybody normally sees the big things, I look at the little things.
I noticed that Yahusha at the end of the feeding 5,000 people, he gave an instruction.
He says pick up every crumb.
That was a management instruction, waste nothing.
Can you tell me today what you did with your last paycheck completely?
And can you tell me if what you did with it was good management?
Every cent?
Why would Yah trust in my hands millions of dollars?
Because he knows I will never mismanage it.
Whatever you mismanage you lose.
Start saving your money, set a goal for your gift, decide you’re gonna stop wasting His resources and He will trust you with more.
Finally I want to give you the Most High’s system that I use to become wealthy and it’s found in Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1 verse 28.
Yah blessed them and said be fruitful and multiply and replenish and subdue and then you’ll have dominion over the earth.
His system is very simple.
First he says be fruitful.
The word fruitful doesn’t mean to have children, it means to be productive.
First you produce a product.
Secondly you reproduce it. The same quality over and over again.
Thirdly you replenish it.
Replenish means to distribute.
You cannot become successful with inventory, you must be able to distribute.
Then He said subdue.
Subdue means to control the market.
Find your passion, find the idea that won’t go away.
It’s a product and then he says multiply it.
If you multiply your idea your product, you still won’t be wealthy, it’s called inventory.
Having a warehouse full of inventory still makes you poor, you must replenish, and develop a distribution system.
Get it to the market and Yah says and I want you to subdue the market, dominate the market.
You know a few years ago Bill Gates was so successful in obeying the King of King’s laws that the United States government called him before the Congress and said to him we cannot allow you to have this kind of power we’re gonna break your company up.
They said because we cannot have Microsoft controlling every computer in the world and they commanded him to break up his company.
Why?
He was too successful, he was dominating the market.
Who is the first one we think of when you get a toothache?
A Dentist.
Who do you think about first when you have pain in your body?
A doctor.
Who do you think of when you got a legal problem?
You think about a lawyer.
Question—why should we think about you?
What do you have that you control the market with?
From this day forward you are going to have to find your gift, you’re going to have to refine your gift, you’re going to have to decide, what am I going to develop?
Who am I?
What am I carrying?
The Most High has sent me to set you free from the spirit of your job to help you find your work.
Your job is what they pay you to do, your work is what you was born to do.
Your job is your skill, your work is your gift.
Your job you can retire from, your work you can never retire from.
Your job is temporary, your work is permanent!!
Your job is what you learned, your work is what you were born with.
Your job gives you a salary, your work gives you wealth.
You can get fired from your job you can never get fired from your work because your work goes with you.
It is your gift.
A man’s gift makes room for him in the world.
Final scripture to remember and here it is the Most High never said to be seed-full he said to be fruitful!!
The Most High Yah is saying, look produce fruit, he didn’t say for you to produce seed—which means that He has already concluded you are carrying seed.
He says give me the fruit people—don’t eat seed!!
They don’t pay for seed, they don’t run out the seed, be fruitful, there’s something you carry.
Abba has sent me to tell you to stop allowing other people to suffocate your dream and to stifle your vision.
Inside of you is an awesome person that will change the world!!
ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH YAH!!!!
Dr. Myles Munroe’s Closing Testimony: The Gift Hidden Under a Job
Dr. Myles Munroe said there was a lady came to my office crying, she was so depressed and she said pastor I just got laid off from my job.
I got three children all by myself and I was working at the hotel making beds and now I lost my job.
All I have in my hand is my last paycheck, what am I supposed to do?
She started weeping and complaining.
I just looked at her and I smiled.
She said how can you be smiling?
I said I know you you’ve been coming to this assembly a long time.
I said do you have an oven in your house?
Yes.
I said how many times do you use your oven in a week?
Once.
I said wait a minute you bought an oven and it’s there seven days a week and you only use it once a week?
Yes every Sunday.
I said that means you are abusing your oven, it is lying idle six days a week useless.
What you getting at pastor?
I said you have any flour in your house?
Yes.
Have any sugar?
Yes.
I said remember those cookies you made for me a few times?
Yes.
I want you to go home and take this last check you have and buy all the ingredients that made those cookies.
I want you to make cookies and take them back to the same hotel that laid you off and give everyone in the hotel free cookies.
I said just do what I say, if you obey me you’ll succeed.
She left my office, I prayed for her, prayed over her check.
I said go and then she ran to the store and baked cookies that night.
She called me up saying I’m going to the hotel to give them out.
I said it’s fine.
She went to the hotel and gave little plastic bags to everybody, all the employees, all the managers supervisors, and everybody.
They were shocked to see her back on the premises.
Two days later she called me she says I got orders for 15 dozen cookies.
I said that’s good I said tell them they have to prepay.
They prepaid and she made fifteen dozen cookies.
The next week it was twenty five.
Six months later she had hired two people to help her make the batter.
One year later this lady had an employment of twelve people, a thousand dozen cookies every month.
Two years later she has a factory all the big food stores are buying her cookies packaged and today she’s a multimillionaire.
One day she came to see me and she was dressed real sharp in a suit had a bag in her hand and she said pastor I just came just to tell you thanks.
I said thanks for what?
I forgot what it was going on.
She said I brought you some cookies.
I said oh I know who you are.
She said yes company’s going fine 115 people on staff distribution all over the place, she said just want to thank you and I want to thank the Most High for them firing me.
She says there’s something in the bag.
I looked in the bag, there’s an envelope and I said what is that, she said just open it.
I opened it up, over ten thousand dollars check, she said I just want to tell you thanks for letting me see that my gift was always in me and it was buried under a job and the Most High knew I would never find my gift until he got rid of the job.
