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Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel on Wednesdays, we bring you the
Speaker 4: best of I hope you enjoy the podcast. God bless
Speaker 4: you and thanks for letting us come into your homes.
Speaker 4: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by
Speaker 4: and be a part of one of our services. I
Speaker 4: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks
Speaker 4: so much for tuning in, and thank you again for
Speaker 4: coming out today. I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 4: and I heard about this lady. She was on an
Speaker 4: airplane reading her Bible. The men sitting next to her said,
Speaker 4: you don't believe all that stuff in there? Do you?
Speaker 4: She said, of course I do. It's the Bible. He said, well,
Speaker 4: what about that God that got swallowed by a well?
Speaker 4: She said, oh, you mean Jonah. Yes, I believe that too.
Speaker 4: He said, well, how could he possibly live that long
Speaker 4: inside of a well? She thought about it a moment, said,
Speaker 4: I don't know. When I get to heaven, I'll have
Speaker 4: to ask him. He said, sarcastically, what if he's not
Speaker 4: in heaven? She said, then you're going to have to
Speaker 4: ask him. Hold up your Bible, say it like you
Speaker 4: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it
Speaker 4: says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 4: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 4: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.
Speaker 4: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 4: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about keep growing.
Speaker 4: Too many people suffer from destination disease. They've reached a
Speaker 4: certain level, attained a goal. Now they're coasting off of
Speaker 4: what they've already learned. Studies tell us that fifty percent
Speaker 4: of people after they graduate from high school will never
Speaker 4: read an entire book the rest of their life. One
Speaker 4: reason is we see learning as a period of life
Speaker 4: instead of a way of life. We learned when we
Speaker 4: were growing up in school, we had teachers, coaches, parents
Speaker 4: that taught us, expected us to learn. But now we
Speaker 4: think I'm out of school, done with my training, I've
Speaker 4: got my job. But God never created us to reach
Speaker 4: one level and stop. Whether you're ninety years old or
Speaker 4: nine years old, we should constantly be learning, improving our skills,
Speaker 4: getting better at what we do. You have to take
Speaker 4: responsibility for your growth. Growth is not automatic. What steps
Speaker 4: are you taking to get better? Are you reading books,
Speaker 4: listening to teaching CDs? Are you taking any courses on
Speaker 4: the internet, going to any seminars? Do you have any mentors?
Speaker 4: Are you gleaning from people that know more than you?
Speaker 4: Don't just coast through life relying off of what you've
Speaker 4: already learned. You have treasure on the inside. There is skill, talent,
Speaker 4: potential put in you by the creator of the universe,
Speaker 4: but it's not going to automatically come out. It has
Speaker 4: to be developed. Now, I read where the wealthiest places
Speaker 4: on Earth are not the oil fields of the Middle East,
Speaker 4: nor the diamond mines of South Africa. The wealthiest places
Speaker 4: are the cemeteries buried in the ground are businesses that
Speaker 4: were never formed, songs that were never sung, books that
Speaker 4: were never written, potential that was never realized, dreams that
Speaker 4: never came to pass. Don't let that be. You don't
Speaker 4: go to your grave with your treasure still in you.
Speaker 4: Keep growing, keep learning. Pablo Cosas was one of the
Speaker 4: greatest cellist players that ever lived. He started playing at
Speaker 4: the age of twelve, and he accomplished things that no
Speaker 4: other musician did. He was known around the world as
Speaker 4: the best in his field. At eighty five, he still
Speaker 4: got up every morning and practiced five hours a day.
Speaker 4: A reporter asked him why he still put so much
Speaker 4: effort into it. He smiled and said, I think I'm
Speaker 4: getting better. He understood this principle. When you stop learning,
Speaker 4: you stop growing. Whatever you do, get better at it,
Speaker 4: sharpen your skills. Don't you dare be at the same
Speaker 4: place next year as you are right now. There is
Speaker 4: so much opportunity to learn. There is more knowledge available
Speaker 4: today than any time in history. We have no excuse
Speaker 4: to not improve. We don't even have to go to
Speaker 4: the library like we did in old days. You don't
Speaker 4: even really have to go to the university the Internet
Speaker 4: comes right into our living rooms. It wasn't created just
Speaker 4: to share pictures and look up movie times and play games.
Speaker 4: That's all fine, but it is a tool to help
Speaker 4: you learn, a tool to help you increase. You have
Speaker 4: a responsibility not only to God, not only to your family,
Speaker 4: but you owe it to yourself to develop what God's
Speaker 4: put in you. If you're in cells, get better at it.
Speaker 4: Read books to learn how to communicate more effectively. People
Speaker 4: have gone where you're going. Listen to what they have
Speaker 4: to say. Take at least fifteen minutes a day, turn
Speaker 4: off the television and invest in yourself. You should be
Speaker 4: doing something strategic and something intentional every day to improve
Speaker 4: your skills, not vague. All right, Joel, I'll do it
Speaker 4: if I have time. No, you're better than that. You
Speaker 4: have too much in you to stay where you are.
Speaker 4: Your destiny is too great to get stuck. A lot
Speaker 4: of times we're sitting back saying God, I'm waiting on you, God,
Speaker 4: I'm waiting for my big break. Let me tell you
Speaker 4: who gets the big breaks. People that are prepared, people
Speaker 4: that have developed their skills. You got to be proactive
Speaker 4: and take these steps to grow. When God sees you
Speaker 4: doing your part, developing what He's given you. Then he
Speaker 4: will do his part and open doors that no man
Speaker 4: can shut by you say, Joel, I'm busy. I don't
Speaker 4: have extra time to take training courses. I don't have
Speaker 4: time to read books learn something new off all behind.
Speaker 4: Like these two lumberjacks. They were out chopping down trees.
Speaker 4: One said, I'm going to take a break and go
Speaker 4: sharpen my axe. The other said, I don't have time
Speaker 4: to do that, got too much work to do. He
Speaker 4: kept chopping and chopping. The other man went and sharpened
Speaker 4: his axe, came back three hours later and chopped down
Speaker 4: twice as many trees. Sometimes you need to take a
Speaker 4: break and sharpen your axe. If you'll sharpen your skills,
Speaker 4: you'll get more done in less time. If you'll sharpen
Speaker 4: your skills, you may not have to work so hard.
Speaker 4: Whether you're a teacher, a mechanic, a banker, a doctor.
Speaker 4: Don't settle where you are and just coast off of
Speaker 4: what you've already learned. Stir up what God's put in
Speaker 4: you and get better at it. Sharpen your axe. This
Speaker 4: is a call to action. There are amazing things in
Speaker 4: your future. God has shifted things in your favor. Now.
Speaker 4: God is looking for people who are prepared, people that
Speaker 4: are taking steps to grow, people that are serious about
Speaker 4: fulfilling their destiny. This is what David did. He was
Speaker 4: out in the shepherd's fields taking care of his father's sheep.
Speaker 4: In today's terms, he had a minimum wage job. It
Speaker 4: was boring, no friends, no opportunity for growth. David could
Speaker 4: have slacked off, been sloppy, unmotivated, thought no reason to
Speaker 4: develop my skills. I'm stuck out here with these sheep now.
Speaker 4: While he was out there all alone, instead of being
Speaker 4: lazy killing time, he got his slingshot out and started practicing,
Speaker 4: day after day, month after month. I can see him
Speaker 4: setting up that target, slinging that stone again and again, practicing, learning,
Speaker 4: making adjustments, getting better, sharpening his skills. When a coyote
Speaker 4: or wild animal try to attack one of his sheep
Speaker 4: is no problem. David took that sling in that stone
Speaker 4: and nailed it. David was a sharpshooter, a marksman so skilled,
Speaker 4: so precise, he could hit a bull's eye one hundred
Speaker 4: meters away. When God needed someone to slay a giant,
Speaker 4: someone to lead his chosen people. He looked to see
Speaker 4: who was prepared, who had developed his skills. God didn't
Speaker 4: just choose anybody. He chose a skilled marksman that could
Speaker 4: hit a target with exact precision. In the same way,
Speaker 4: when God is looking for people to promote today, he
Speaker 4: doesn't just close his eyes and randomly say, well, I'll
Speaker 4: pick you. You won the lottery, it's your lucky day. No,
Speaker 4: God looks for people who have developed their skills. And
Speaker 4: when David stood before Goliath and slung that stone, sometimes
Speaker 4: we think that was all God, and yes, in a sense,
Speaker 4: I know it was God. But the truth is God.
Speaker 4: God didn't sling the stone. God didn't cause it to
Speaker 4: hit at just the right spot. It was the skill
Speaker 4: God gave David that he had developed. Like David, God
Speaker 4: is put in each one of you skill that can
Speaker 4: slay a giant. You have skill that can open new doors,
Speaker 4: skills that can lead to an abundant life. But the
Speaker 4: key is that skill has to be developed. Every day
Speaker 4: you spend growing, learning, improving. You're getting prepared for that
Speaker 4: new level. You may be at a lower position now
Speaker 4: doing something that feels insignificant. You know you have so
Speaker 4: much more in you. You could easily slack off and
Speaker 4: think there's no future here. I'll get prepared after I
Speaker 4: get that promotion. I'll sharp enough after I get that
Speaker 4: big break. Then maybe I'll take some courses, lose a
Speaker 4: few pounds, have a better attitude, buy some new clothes. No,
Speaker 4: you've got it backwards. You've got to start improving right
Speaker 4: where you are. Start sharpening your skills while you're waiting.
Speaker 4: Study your boss, study your manager, learn that position, be
Speaker 4: able to step into their shoes. When God sees you prepared,
Speaker 4: that he can open new doors. The scripture says, there
Speaker 4: your gifts will make room for you. If no new
Speaker 4: doors are opening, don't get discouraged. Just develop your gifts
Speaker 4: in a greater way. Improve your skills. Well, Joel, my supervisor,
Speaker 4: they have ten years seniority on me. They're not going anywhere.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you a secret. If you'll outgrow your position,
Speaker 4: outperform them, outproduce them no more than them, then God
Speaker 4: will somehow, some way get you to where you're supposed
Speaker 4: to be. Your gifts will make room for you. Don't
Speaker 4: worry about who's in front of you, how long they've
Speaker 4: been there, how it's never going to work out. You
Speaker 4: just keep growing, learning, getting prepared, and the right doors
Speaker 4: will open. The fact is God may not want you
Speaker 4: to have your supervisor's position. That may be too low
Speaker 4: for you. God may be about to thrust you right
Speaker 4: past them into a whole new level. I know a
Speaker 4: former receptionist. She used to answer the phone. Today she's
Speaker 4: running a multi million dollar worldwide company. You develop what
Speaker 4: God's put in you, and he'll take you further than
Speaker 4: you can ever imagine. But it is easy to fall
Speaker 4: into destination disease. We're comfortable, we're not stretching, not learning
Speaker 4: anything new. There's nothing wrong with this. But you have
Speaker 4: so much more in you. You were created to increase.
Speaker 4: Studies tell us that the average person only uses eleven
Speaker 4: percent of their brain. Think about how much more potential
Speaker 4: we could be tapping into. Maybe you're an accountant, that's good,
Speaker 4: but don't settle there. Why don't you go get your
Speaker 4: CPA license. There's a new skill you can develop. That
Speaker 4: gift will make more room for you. Maybe you're an electrician,
Speaker 4: a mechanic, a plumber. That's great, but what steps are
Speaker 4: you taking to improve in today's competitive marketplace, with the
Speaker 4: economy so tight, business so bottom line oriented? If you're
Speaker 4: not improving, you're falling behind. If you're at the same
Speaker 4: skill level today as you were five years ago, you're
Speaker 4: at a disadvantage. You need to develop your gifts in
Speaker 4: such a way that your company cannot make it without you,
Speaker 4: or at least things don't run nearly as smoothly when
Speaker 4: you're not there. If you take a week off and
Speaker 4: nobody misses you, all the work gets done, sales are
Speaker 4: just as good. If you're the owner, that's a great thing.
Speaker 4: But if you're an employee, I need to sound the alarm.
Speaker 4: If you're not being missed, then maybe you're not need
Speaker 4: You need to kick it into a new gear. Produce
Speaker 4: more than you're producing. Take classes to improve your skills.
Speaker 4: Step it up a notch. Well, Joel, I'm at a
Speaker 4: lower position. Nobody had ever missed me. No, don't use
Speaker 4: that as an excuse to slack off. You have treasure
Speaker 4: in you. You have skill and talent. Once it's developed,
Speaker 4: it will cause you to be noticed. Proverb says, do
Speaker 4: you see a man skilled in their work, they will
Speaker 4: stand before kings and great men. You keep sharpening your skills,
Speaker 4: and like cream, you will rise to the top. God
Speaker 4: will cause you to be noticed. This is what Joseph did.
Speaker 4: He started at the very bottom in the pith, sold
Speaker 4: into slavery by his brothers. But Joseph didn't wait till
Speaker 4: he was vindicated before he decided to be his best.
Speaker 4: He developed his skills as a slave. He was so
Speaker 4: valuable that he was put in charge of all of
Speaker 4: his master's house when he was falsely accused and put
Speaker 4: into prison. He was so organized, so skilled, so valuable
Speaker 4: there that they put him in charge of a whole prison.
Speaker 4: What is that cream rising to the top. When the
Speaker 4: pharaoh needed someone to run the country and administer the
Speaker 4: nationwide feeding program, Pharaoh didn't choose a cabinet member, didn't
Speaker 4: choose his department head. He chose Joseph, a prisoner, a slave.
Speaker 4: Why Joseph developed his skills right where he was, and
Speaker 4: his gifts made room for him. Don't let where you
Speaker 4: are be an excuse to not grow. I don't like
Speaker 4: my job, Joel. These people don't treat me right. I'm uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I've had unfair things happen. No, the treasure is still
Speaker 4: in you. God is saying it's time to get it out.
Speaker 4: Start stretching, take some new courses, sharpen your skills. We should.
Speaker 4: He's so productive, so full of wisdom that no matter
Speaker 4: where we are, like cream, we always rise to the top.
Speaker 4: And one way you will be invaluable is learned to
Speaker 4: be a problem solver. That's what Joseph was. He was
Speaker 4: solution oriented. Don't go to your boss and say, our
Speaker 4: department's falling apart, and this manager's about to quit, and
Speaker 4: Bob cursed out Jim yesterday, and Sally's never on time,
Speaker 4: nobody's paid our taxes. What do you want us to do? No,
Speaker 4: you're not gonna get promoted like that. If you're ever
Speaker 4: going to present a problem, always present a solution as well.
Speaker 4: If you don't know the solution, that don't present the
Speaker 4: problem just yet. Anybody can tell me the building's on fire.
Speaker 4: That's easy, that doesn't take any skill. But as an employer,
Speaker 4: I want somebody to not only tell me the buildings
Speaker 4: on fire, but the fire department's on the way, and
Speaker 4: we got everybody out, and we notified the insurance company
Speaker 4: and we got a new place lined up to meet.
Speaker 4: If you want to be invaluable to your organization, present solutions,
Speaker 4: not just problems. What steps are you taking to better
Speaker 4: yourself so you can go to the next level. Are
Speaker 4: you reading books trade magazines so you can stay up
Speaker 4: to date. Can you take a course that would give
Speaker 4: you an advantage? You have to stay on the offensive. Well, Joel,
Speaker 4: I got my degree, I got my education. I did
Speaker 4: my part. Now do you know how many degrees are
Speaker 4: outdated in as little as five years? The world is
Speaker 4: changing so fast. If you don't have this attitude to
Speaker 4: continue learning, taking these steps to grow, then you'll fall behind.
Speaker 4: And some of you need to be set free from
Speaker 4: destination disease. You've reached a certain level. God's blessed you.
Speaker 4: Now you're coasting, but you were not created to stay there.
Speaker 4: Break out of the box and learn something new. Will
Speaker 4: Rogers said, Even if you're on the right track, if
Speaker 4: you just sit there, eventually you're going to get run over.
Speaker 4: And yes, God has great things in your future. He
Speaker 4: wants to take you where you couldn't go on your own.
Speaker 4: But if you're not prepared, if you haven't developed your skills,
Speaker 4: it can hinder you from the fullness of your destiny.
Speaker 4: Every one of us should have a personal growth plan,
Speaker 4: not something vague. Okay, j'all, I'll take the training every
Speaker 4: once in a while. No, you need a specific plan
Speaker 4: that lays out how you're going to grow. These are
Speaker 4: the steps I'm going to take this year twenty thirteen
Speaker 4: to help me improve. Let me give you some ideas.
Speaker 4: Driving to work each morning, instead of listening to the radio,
Speaker 4: put on some good teaching CDs. Put on training materials
Speaker 4: that will help you improve in your field. The average
Speaker 4: American spends three hundred hours a year in their car.
Speaker 4: You can turn your car into a university. Think about
Speaker 4: how much you can learn in three hundred hours. That's
Speaker 4: invaluable time. Take advantage of it. Another suggestion, while you're
Speaker 4: working out at the gym, make sure you have good
Speaker 4: information going into you. People tell me all the time, Joel,
Speaker 4: I listen to you while I'm out running. While I'm exercising,
Speaker 4: one lady said, I listen to you every night before
Speaker 4: I go to bed. You always put me right to sleep.
Speaker 4: I thought, thanks a lot, But these are simple things.
Speaker 4: I'm not asking you to go study an extra three
Speaker 4: hours a day. I'm saying take advantage of the time
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Speaker 4: That's a growth plan. If you're going to continue growing,
Speaker 4: you need to have good mentors, people that know more
Speaker 4: than you, people that have gone where you're going. Let
Speaker 4: them speak into your life. Listen to their ideas, study them,
Speaker 4: find out how they think and how they do what
Speaker 4: they do. You could even learn from their mistakes. I
Speaker 4: heard about this company of sales associates. There were about
Speaker 4: three one hundred of them in the same room, all
Speaker 4: from the same company. The speaker asked how many of
Speaker 4: them knew who the top three salespeople in the company were.
Speaker 4: Every hand went up in the room. He then asked,
Speaker 4: how many of you have taken one of them out
Speaker 4: to lunch to find out how they do what they do?
Speaker 4: Not one hand went up. There are people all around us.
Speaker 4: God has put in our path on purpose so that
Speaker 4: we can gain wisdom, insight, knowledge, But we have to
Speaker 4: stay open. Look around this week and see who God
Speaker 4: put in your life that you could be learning from now.
Speaker 4: I say this respectfully, but don't waste your valuable time
Speaker 4: with people that are not adding anything to your growth.
Speaker 4: Life is too short to hang around people that are
Speaker 4: not going anywhere. Destination disease is contagious. If you're around
Speaker 4: them long enough, it'll rub off on you. You need
Speaker 4: to associate with people that inspire you, people that challenge
Speaker 4: you to rise higher, people that make you better now,
Speaker 4: people that are constantly dragging you down, trying to convince
Speaker 4: you to settle where you are. Your destiny is too
Speaker 4: important for that. Young people. You may not be the
Speaker 4: most popular person in school, but I've learned after twenty
Speaker 4: years nobody really cares who the most popular person was.
Speaker 4: And that person that's getting all the attention now maybe
Speaker 4: because they never study. They're far out. They've got more bleing. Listen,
Speaker 4: in twenty years, the bleing doesn't matter. What matters is
Speaker 4: did you get a good education? Did you get a
Speaker 4: good foundation that you can build your life on. It's
Speaker 4: funny in school, the science fair is never the most
Speaker 4: popular event. Being in the math club is never as
Speaker 4: popular as being on the football team. Some of my
Speaker 4: friends that played sports made fun of people that were
Speaker 4: on the debate team, but now they work for people
Speaker 4: that were on the debate team. Listen to high school,
Speaker 4: junior high those are critical formative years, and these days
Speaker 4: there's so much emphasis on sports. And I love sports.
Speaker 4: I grew up playing sports. I still do sports teach
Speaker 4: us teamwork and discipline and camaraderie. That's all great, but
Speaker 4: we need to keep it in perspective. Most people are
Speaker 4: not going to play sports for a living. I read
Speaker 4: where one in one million kids will play professional basketball.
Speaker 4: I don't mean to depress you, but if you're white,
Speaker 4: it's one in five million kids. I made that up,
Speaker 4: but it's probably right the average. It's not that funny.
Speaker 4: It's funny because it's true. The average professional football career
Speaker 4: is three and a half years. And even if you
Speaker 4: do make it, that's great, but you still need a
Speaker 4: good foundation. When you study, you learn, you take school seriously.
Speaker 4: Other students may call you a geek, a bookworm, a nerd.
Speaker 4: Don't worry about it. In a few years they'll call
Speaker 4: your boss. They'll call your CEO, president, senator, pastor doctor.
Speaker 4: I read where Ford, Harry Firestone, and Thomas Edison all
Speaker 4: had homes next door to each other in Florida. They
Speaker 4: were close friends, and they spent much of their summers together.
Speaker 4: It matters who you associate with now. If your friends
Speaker 4: are Larry Curley and Mow, you may have a good time,
Speaker 4: but are they adding anything to your growth? The scripture
Speaker 4: says to redeem the time. You need to see time
Speaker 4: as a gift. God has given us eighty six thousand,
Speaker 4: four hundred seconds each day. Just like you spend money,
Speaker 4: you are spending that time. If you're hanging around people
Speaker 4: that have no goals, they haven't grown in five years,
Speaker 4: time wasters, then you're not being responsible with what God
Speaker 4: has given you. It is critical that you surround yourself
Speaker 4: with the right people. If you're the smartest one in
Speaker 4: your group, your group is too small. You need to
Speaker 4: be around people that know more than you, that are
Speaker 4: more talented, that are more experienced. Not to be intimidated,
Speaker 4: but to be inspired. If you take an oak tree
Speaker 4: seed and you plant it in a five gallon pot,
Speaker 4: that tree will never grow to the size that God
Speaker 4: created it to. Why because it's being restricted by the
Speaker 4: size of the pot. In the same way, God has
Speaker 4: destined you to do great things. You have talent ability,
Speaker 4: potential on the inside, but some of you are being
Speaker 4: limited by the size of your environment. The people you're
Speaker 4: around think small, they're negative, They're pull you down. Listen,
Speaker 4: You've got to break out of that pot. God has
Speaker 4: destined you to soar. Surround yourself with people that are
Speaker 4: going places, people that inspire you to rise higher. My
Speaker 4: question today, are you doing anything strategic and intentional to
Speaker 4: keep growing? If not, you can get started. It's not
Speaker 4: too late to become all God's created you to be.
Speaker 4: First step develop your personal growth plan. It can be
Speaker 4: something like I'm going to take the first twenty minutes
Speaker 4: every morning and meditate on God's word. I'm going to
Speaker 4: put in a teaching CD driving to work. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: take fifteen minutes before I go to bed and read
Speaker 4: a book. I'm going to be in church each week.
Speaker 4: I'm going to hook up with my mentor and glean
Speaker 4: from them. That's a definite plan. When God sees you
Speaker 4: taken responsibility for your growth, He'll reward your efforts and
Speaker 4: in the coming days, you're going to have an opportunity
Speaker 4: to step into a new level of your destiny. God
Speaker 4: has shifted things in your favor. There is promotion, opportunities
Speaker 4: of businesses, divine connections, books, It's all in your future.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is now is the time to
Speaker 4: get prepared. Don't get caught with destination disease. The treasure
Speaker 4: is in you. It's got to be developed. Redeem the time.
Speaker 4: Make a decision to grow in some way every day.
Speaker 4: If you'll keep sharpening your skills, getting better at what
Speaker 4: you do, God promises your gifts will make room for you.
Speaker 3: Now.
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