Manifest Your Gifts | Develop Your Hidden Potential to Live a Greater Life

I'll be teaching this morning. I want to use a scripture like proverbs chapter 18 verse 16 and it says that a man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. That scripture speaks about you. I think the verse has a prophetic background. For you as a believer, the gift of a man makes room for him and brings him before great men and I just want to use new rules as a theme and I'm not saying that he is a great man but I'm telling you that this hero is Not what I was, maybe Don't think much of me, but you would if you knew what I was doing, if it weren't for God, I would be nothing, so I want to ask you some questions.

Number one, what are you doing to feed

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gift? and when I say, feed

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gift, what are you doing to hone your craft, sharpen your skills, or do you have a false sense of having reached a level in

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that you don't think about? that they need to

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more because if they think that they have closed doors and limited the height to which God could take them because they are satisfied too easily. Is it possible that they could be better at what they do? How dare they? you die until you answer that question and until you can consider the possibility that your critics are right you will never grow up I meet kings and queens I was in Botswana with the president and first lady of Botswana then I met the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, he stood up from his chair in the race to come meet me.

You know, I came to find myself simply because of my gift. I make people laugh. He put me in the presence of great men. That's what my gift did for me. what you will give won't work for you just because you have a degree doesn't mean you've managed to try it just because you're successful or talented doesn't mean you can't take some classes in it Stop feeling insulted by the suggestion that you could go back What are you doing to feed your gift? What do you have that feeds you? You should surround yourself with people who feed you, not you.

You should have something that you know how to work with. They let you do it, it's over. I'm most effective when I'm in my element. Do you know what your element is? Do you feel comfortable in your element? Do you know how to defeat your enemy by knowing who you are and knowing how to work at what you do? I have because everyone here God gave you something and you have to learn to work maybe you are here because you need to hear this here maybe you are here because you need to dust off your dreams maybe you need to explore your imagination maybe you just need to identify your gift so you can stop stumbling in your own

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trying to figure out what you can do when God already planted it inside you a long time ago look back in your own life it could be possible that you are closing doors that God is opening for you but you close the door because you are not good enough mature to understand the realm you have reached ja the gods do not take you before the great men well what are you going to do when you get there David would have ruined his position in the palace if it were not for Jonathan David knew how to kill giants he knew how to kill lions he knew how to kill bears That's how he got to the palace He didn't know anything about palace protocol He didn't know what to wear He was dressed like a fool He was running around looking stupid If Jonathan hadn't taken him under his wing and taught him Davus's gift would have taken him to a level that David's maturity would not have allowed him to be able to remain your mouth can close more doors than you have ever seen your method can close Mordor I don't care if you have more degrees than a thermometer I have seen educated people and they simply ignorant has done it all I mean I could explain calculus backwards and I didn't have the sense to wait for someone to invite you to play a role if when the alarm goes off in the morning and you're not happy with it you're not doing what you want to do, so fighting against the current you go against what God created you for the secret of your financial success in all your abilities so that you can understand yourself and your gift you are fried chicken better than anyone you should be somewhere frying chicken yes what you really do is babysit you should be babysitting telling jokes you were guilty if you paint you should get paid you have better than everyone else you should be someone worth doing someone is happy those are

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if you fix cars you work with your hands you're supposed to you should be working with your hand you do anything else when the alarm goes off in the morning you're not going to like it now if you wake up you're going to fall that's not paying you what you want you hate your coworkers that you're down there your boss It doesn't have to be your boss, look, that's what ruins me.

I have never had a boss who I thought should have been in charge of me. I never thought that someone should be in charge of me. I always felt free. I want to come to work everything I want to do If you're not happy about waking up to go where you need to go If your job makes you sick it's because you're not living in your gift If you're living in your gift You're great It's just that if you're not You're, I didn't know what I had, it was a gift as a kid, my gift is that I could take any information and transpose it into comedy immediately, I don't just have to think about it.

It comes to me is a gift and when I was young I didn't know how to control it. I was just left in trouble. I stayed in the principal's office. I stayed in the pastor's office. I said everyone had an office. I was depressed. Bishop Jake said this. I said I would hate to die and never do what I was born to do you should research that before wasting your time and take a look at the people who are gossips all the time they do it out of frustration because they don't make you understand them and their gift people who are They have identified in their gift they don't like gossip they don't care what you do they are very interested in their gift they are having a relationship with their gift they are honing their skills doing well they don't have time because they can't lose focus oh god don't I let's start talking about focus you can't lose the I have to concentrate to be good at me I can't let anything or anyone understand between me and what I have to do because my strength is what I understand who I am and your gift will make you space now what is your gift is what you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort that is your gift stop running from the gift your gift will make room for you stop trying to be something you have no talent for excellence create no one asked you to come here you study to be a dentist and you are very good at it listen to me you all have this identified guilt it is what you do best with the least amount of effort that is what you should do you are wasting your time pursuing your passion the bible does not mention passion mentions your Don, what are you? gifted stop and do that stop tripping you can do it if you fry chicken better than everyone you know you're somewhere fried chicken people make millions of dollars fried chicken Popeyes Kentucky Fried Chicken El Pollo Loco all they do is make chicken that someone just started making chicken, you know the story of Marie Callender, do you know what this woman did, man, she worked for a restaurant, a greasy restaurant that was going out of business, it was her only job, she was a single mother, it was her only job, did I need that job? but the restaurant was going to close, so she went to the owner of the restaurant and said: let me bake one of my cakes.

People liked my cakes and see if I can help you make some money. He said, "Whatever you bring," he bought a cake. They sold every slice the next day people came and asked for the way she had to go home and make another cake the next day so many people asked for the way chair to make popular cakes then people started saying can I buy my own way ? She made so many pies at this store that she finally saved up money and put a commercial oven in her house. She also made so many pies to make the store.

She no longer sells hamburgers. Oh, she's selling her Jim Pie. This is how Marie Callender got stuck Marie Callender. Now it has over 120 restaurants, you can't go to any frozen food section without seeing it there, a reality, you know what it started with, oh why does the Bible say that a man in the gift of it will create a trail in the room? No one gets rid of what they think they have. you have to make yourself indispensable and you automatically have job security to cut yourself I should have their nose cut off to ruin their face a man's gift makes room for him before I did with the room I want to deal with to bring you great men before because many Sometimes when you are gifted, your gift will take you into an environment of people that you have not been prepared for and if you are not careful, even though your

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got you there, your character cannot keep you there because you do not know how to be in the environment in which you are. the one you are gifted to be in, you are talented enough to be there, but you are not mature enough to be there and filling your immaturity will often abort the room that the gift creates for you have you ever had enough gifts?

God, open a door, you got into an environment, then you did something so stupid that you went home and realized that I ruined that a man's gift will make room for him and take him before great men. What are you going to do when you arrive? You're talented enough to get there, but you're not mature enough to still be talented enough to be selected for the choir, but you can't get along with anyone in the choir. Countless times, I think just take it to a stage and the person could sing well enough to be able to stay, but they were so arrogant that they became so arrogant because they weren't mature enough to stand the light of success now they're out of their minds now that they have they have a white room with a white flower that a white race and a white this in a way let's get out of this get out of yesterday you were singing about some fried chicken and green cabbage copy yourself you lost your mind you lost your head get out what to do to cut my hair I met him in 1986 he cut my hair for $10 I remembered him when I was on television I had hired him he went out there he started earning $300 per haircut I paid the team he a bill would be like that For many years he He earned fifteen hundred dollars per haircut.

I cut my hair four times a week for television and tools. He paid 1,500 every time he earned six thousand dollars a week. Do you know what he was doing cutting hair with that same haircut? I paid $10 for in '87 this guy was cutting it now for 1,500 I cut my hair but let me tell you what he did. I paid him a lot of money to be with me all these years. I gave him a severance package. He, good luck, guess what he got now, he has four salons and owned barbering faculties, you know what he makes now 3.6 million a year, you know what he does, he cut half of it, he doesn't do anything else, that's it his fault, friend of mine we grew up with all he did was mow the lawn he had a single blade push lawn mower he was so good at it he could lift the blades and lorem he could cut patterns in your lawn us little guy , I'm going to a man let's go swimming now I have companies Jackson Grass he could cut patterns on you I could put your initials on your grass when I was a kid two dollars for the front two dollars for the back four dollars we used to laugh at him all the time good time let me tell you what we laughed that night got a landscaping company in Cleveland nobody is born making four million dollars a year you know what he does mowed lawns got 38 trucks got all the contracts at the mall corporations in the city and when it's snowing Outside you do a good job mowing the grass, he put snowplows on the front of his trucks and got all the snow removal contracts.

This guy makes four million dollars a year and you know what he does, he mows the lawn. You're great in your element but you have to understand the Bob Murphy in your element there's nothing wrong with being quiet when God takes you to a new level don't try to be awesome shut up you just got here shut up you still don't know where you are shut up look look look to God, what I'm trying to prepare you for is for God to take you into situations that will be so new and so shocking that when you get there, you will be there because of your gift, but you will be disoriented take a moment to understand your surroundings look where you are everything that is not what it seems is closed orient yourself to what God is about to do in your life God said I am preparing to do something new in your life do not enter through a new door with an old attitude trying to do the same what you did in this area now that you are in that area buy all the truths are not transferable what worked in this element does not always work work in that element you have to study the environment you are in before making a mistake how many people made a mistake stupid mistake i didn't kill anyone he didn't hit me i'm destroyed because you are narrow minded you only see things from your perspective and you limit your growth because the only thing you can see is what you were used to and now god has taken you to another dimension and you have to have a global perspective of concern if someone says global because of what you expected.

I have to have a global perspective of where you are now. I don't know who I'm talking to this morning, but I feel like I have a coach. because you arepreparing to go to another dimension. You are preparing. to go to another area, God will orbit you more towards things so fast that he will just take you there, but your mind will not be ready for it and you will need this tape, you may not need it now, but I need this. I was speaking at a school. I was talking to the students. The

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was mortified with my message because I was telling the truth I was telling the children that your education is important but your education is not the most important thing in your life sorry it is not your dream it is the most important thing in this world overcome your education if your dreams overshadow your education I said and the principal came on stage as I spoke, don't ever say that to my school again, well I'm just telling you that you can't save your children a lot of pain if you ever talk to them about their dreams. you have to talk to young people about their dreams look it's not your education the bible don't even mention education it's not even in them the bible says that a man without a dream or vision will perish if you talk to children about their dreams your dreams can drive you to get an education, but if you never find out what a child dreams of, you can't get their attention.

He is the man of your dreams. If you have a child who wants to be an airplane pilot, you can stop talking to you. about education, talk to him about being a pilot, how wonderful it is where he will be able to fly, then he will do it, man, he will do engineering, he will go to science because he wants to be a pilot, that's the dream. The most important thing is that people are killing me with this education. I need higher education, but you can achieve it without education. I do not have any. You know, a lot of people have degrees.

I'm not working, I'm not working anywhere now if you want to be a doctor. the lawyer did things like that you have to go get an education, we're not talking about that, but you still have all these pieces of paper hanging on your wall, you got a degree, you're not Lincoln, with that your life will never end up being a straight path I started at Fordham University as a pre-med student. I took a course called Cardiac Morphogenesis. I couldn't read it, I couldn't say it, I sure couldn't pass it, so I decided to go pre-med. -law, then journalism and without any academic focus my grades took off in their own direction.

I had a 1.8 GPA one semester and the university very politely suggested that I would be better off taking some time off. He was 20 years old. I was at my lowest point. period and then one day March 27, 1975 I was helping my mother in her beauty salon, there was an older woman who was considered one of the oldest in the town and I did not know her personally but I looked in the mirror and every time I looked at myself. mirror. I could see her when she was looking. She said something I will never forget. Young man said.

I have a prophecy, a spiritual prophecy. She said, "You're going to travel the world and talk to millions of people." You are 20 years old. I failed school, so when I returned to Fordham that fall I went in and changed majors one last time and in the years that followed, just as that woman prophesied, I have traveled the world and spoken to millions of people around the world. through my films. I discovered that nothing in life is worth it unless you take risks. nothing without looking at this last gift will make room for him govern his capacity is going to make capacity is going to make capacity God is going to make will put you in a big place look what your gift will be will put you in a big place will create a space for you will create if you are good in your gift it will create space for you it will create positions for you it will create opportunities for you it will create favor for you David didn't know anything about palaces he only got there because he was good with the rag and the stone but look how far he went with the rag and the stone I say this to people who you know are anointed, truly anointed people can take less equipment and do more with it, you won't have as much as someone else, but you learn to work with what you have and if you get a job, God will open doors for you. . for you and take you to another level I heard the Lord tell me he said when you get to that congregation tell my people that I have new rules for them tell them that their eyes have not seen their ears they have not heard nor have they entered into their hearts the things that I prepared for they who love I have rooms prepared for you at this moment I had them prepared when you were going through your problems and your trials in your trials and your temptation I already had a blessing prepared for you and for me I am waiting for you to grow enough so that you can look all the clothing of what I have for you.

Check that someone tells you to prepare to meet new ideas, new concepts, new philosophy, new challenges, new levels, new dimensions, new double, some new problems, new burden. new crisis new rule what's happening? It's new rules here It's the frustration of living and dying and the rooms God has for you You never grew up enough to handle what God had for you I'd hate to not be able to get what God has for me That's a failure I was 27 October 8, 1985 hilarities coming I walked into the comedy club for the first time in my life what an amateur night $50.00 I drove 40 minutes home I cried the whole way home this girl I rode was she said why are you crying? and my $50 is just you understand I was born she said what do you mean you were born besides I know what I'm going to do the rest of my life she said remember 50 dogs but now I've been praying all my life God what is that my life came to be more than this?

I wanted that comedy competition. I went to work on October 9th the next morning and quit my job. That decision cost me everything I had. I lost everything. I lost my family. I lost friends. I lost every day. I was homeless I

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d in a car for three years but I just saw this I saw this I saw this vision I just chased it I said why did I say you have to take risks in life if you don't take risks in life you will never have the life that God has for you life is about risk if you play it safe you will not have much life remember that this life is risk take courage to pursue your dream I just did it it cost me everything God is Very good man, when he sees you take a leap of faith, it provides you with everything you need.

Nantz is going to cost you something, but most people aren't willing to pay what it costs to go after your dream because you get a little hurt and most people don't. I don't like to feel uncomfortable if you don't want to feel uncomfortable, please don't look for success because success is very uncomfortable. I learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable. If you can get that through your head, everything you've been through, God helped you. You didn't even realize, he just helped you through it, you can't name anything, he didn't help you through it. Well, I lost my mother.

I'm still grieving there. I lost my mom 21 years ago. I'm still grieving. It's over, but I'm here. You know I'm over it. You will get through it, but you have to take risks in life. The man cannot play it safe. You have to jump to God. Go far. You will fail at some point. your life, accept it, you will lose, you will be embarrassed, you will suck at something, embrace it because it is inevitable and I should know that in the acting business you fail all the time at the beginning of my career. I auditioned for a role in a Broadway musical. role for me I thought except for the fact that I can't sing I didn't get the job but this is what I didn't quit I didn't back down I left there to prepare for the next audition I prayed I prayed and prayed but I kept failing and failing and failing but no It mattered because there's an old saying: "If you spend enough time at the barbershop, sooner or later you'll get a haircut to take a break and I took a break if you don't fail you're not even trying to get something you never had you have to do something." that you never imagined you are on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts that represent your unfulfilled

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the ghosts of the ideas that you never acted on the ghosts of the talents that you did not use and they are standing around your bed angry , disappointed and upset they say that we came to you, you could have brought us to light and now we have to go to the grave together so you have to go out there you have to give everything you have, whether it is your time, your talent, your prayers or your treasures, the question is what are you going to do with what you have, I'm not talking about how much.

You have whatever your gift is, what are you going to do with what you have some things for yourself that you haven't received? God said to Abram I will show you this how close he says he says bow down before me and be perfect and when the office used to teach this, they used to tell us that God had put you in front and God was behind you watching your perfection and that if you were perfect enough you could get the promises of God, but all the people understood English, they didn't understand. Hebrew the word perfect in Hebrew does not mean holy it means mature God said stand in front of me and grow and the more you grow the more I will unlock promises for you I have new levels of glory and when I will see you grow I will give you things that I had for you when you were a child and my son doesn't even know it.

I have a gold watch that I bought when he was born and it has his name Thomas Dexter Jake's jr. and my name, Thomas Dexter, Jake's eldest, engraved on the gold watch. I chose him before he was born. I can't give it to him now, if I give it to him now, Terry, you know what I'm going to show you. Do you want to think? about it he doesn't know it he's never seen it but he's close to it all the time I haven't published it it's

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the best things in life it's on the other side of fear it's on the other side of fear but fear freezes people man , your fear of failure freezes people, I guess I don't, if you don't do it, you might not make it, that's for shelter, so that's just my opinion, it's probably not what most of the people share, but the man of your dreams is what you dream of you have to dream of something so big that it eclipses all your fears the way you overcome fear is with your dream you have to make your dream so big that nothing matters except that dream you are willing to do anything it is necessary Nelson Mandela said that you cannot find passion by playing small and settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living because taking risks is not just about looking for a job, but also about Know what you know and what you don't.

Know that it is about being open to people and ideas, not only to take risks, but also to be open to life, to accept new points of view and to be open to new opinions, even if you are afraid, it can be scary, It will also be rewarding because the risks you take the people you know the people you love the faith you have that is what will define sent to earth to free man and the gift man and the gift is what God always uses the Bible said that the hand of Gideon and the sword of the Lord had given him victory the better a man is with his gift the more God will be able to use the price to pay for being gifted the Bible said to him to whom much is given much is required the better in architecture the busier he is, the busier he is, the more complete he is, the more he has to fight to have time and find a sense of personality, the better a dentist is, the busier he is, the more people visit him, the better he has the doctor at his side from his bed.

The more comfortable your patients get with them, the more they call you, the less time you have for yourself, the more exhausted you become, you can be more effective than a doctor, but you can be miserable as a person because you have no life. on your own, what do you do to detox, what do you do to relieve stress, what do you do to get away from it all if you can't answer these questions, I know you're drowning, you're drowning, you may be talented, but are you? drowning right now if you don't have an outlet if you don't have things to do that allow you to detoxify and de-stress and eliminate you if you don't have a secret place I guarantee you that you are being overwhelmed by the responsibilities of life on the side of your tank hot water there is a valve called a pressure relief valve, it is there so that the pressure that builds up inside does not cause a hot water thing to explode naturally from what consumes the hot water it will make it self destructive if it does not have a relief valve, have you identified your relief valves, are they a divine relief?

Oh, it's going to be difficult here this morning, I don't have time to get into this this morning, but Delilah was Samson's release valve, the Bible doesn't talk about them having wild, torrential sex, he says he needed a place to lay down. head, be careful where you rest your head, never get discouraged, never stop, never give everything you have and when you fall throughout life, remember this fall, look forward, man, identify that God, give me a gift and pursue it, you should do what God created you to do, you really should do it.