1 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:55,160 Alright, if you, the Bibles, would you turn with me to Matthew 6 and 33? 2 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:04,200 And why you do that, I would like to thank God for giving me this opportunity. 3 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,480 And I won't be before you long, I always want to say that. 4 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:11,200 I ain't gonna be before you long, but I do have something I want to say. 5 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,200 Amen? 6 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:19,240 Matthew 6 and 33, and it reads, and this is in the New Living Translation, 7 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:28,240 seek the kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need. 8 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:29,240 Amen? 9 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,240 You may be seated. 10 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:39,240 So before I get started this morning, I'm looking out in the audience, and I was sitting over there, 11 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,240 and I know it's you Sunday, and I love the youth, right? 12 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,240 That's been my driven purpose. 13 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,240 I taught for a number of years. 14 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,240 And I looked out, and I saw my nieces. 15 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:56,240 I looked out, and I saw my brother in the back with his grandbabies. 16 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,240 I looked out, and I saw my husband over in the corner. 17 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,240 I looked out, and I saw my auntie. 18 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,240 She traveled here from Chicago, my mama's baby sister. 19 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:09,240 And on top of all of that, I was so grateful that my family is here, 20 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,240 but when I look out and I see you, y'all are my family. 21 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,240 And I thank God for you being here today to hear what God has to say. 22 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Amen? 23 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:19,240 Amen. 24 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:28,240 All right, so in Matthew 6, 33, the question I have is, do you know your kingdom value? 25 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:34,240 Now, a lot of times when people take Matthew 6 and 33, they want to stick to tell me, 26 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,240 anybody else got a mama like my mama? 27 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:37,240 Okay, all right. 28 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,240 And I love, and I know her heart's in the right place, 29 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,240 because she really wants God to use me today to minister to His people. 30 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:48,240 And so with that, do you know your kingdom value? 31 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,240 I want to take this one scripture and give you three parts, okay? 32 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,240 During this time, this was a sermon on the mountain. 33 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,240 And God, I mean Jesus, I'm sorry, was talking to the disciples. 34 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:07,240 And he was telling them, seek ye first the kingdom of God, and live righteously, 35 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,240 and then I got you, right? 36 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:14,240 Because he knew he was preparing to go, he knew a lot of things were about to happen, 37 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:19,240 and he needed these people who were going to be leading this charge to do what they needed to do. 38 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,240 Okay, so there were three things that God gave me. 39 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,240 He says, I give you two commandments and a promise. 40 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,240 I ask you to do two things, and I promise you the third one. 41 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,240 Okay, so let's talk about those three things. 42 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,240 So first, seeking the kingdom of God. 43 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:41,240 When I looked up the word seeking, it meant to constantly pursue. 44 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:48,240 And I kept thinking like, okay, well, we used to play hide and go seek when we were younger, 45 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,240 and they talk about seeking and finding, right? 46 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,240 But when you seek, you never quite get there. 47 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,240 Why would God use that word? 48 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:04,240 Okay, and I want you to remember that because it's going to go in line with knowing your kingdom value. 49 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,240 Why would he use that word seek the kingdom? 50 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,240 He could have picked any word he wanted to. 51 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,240 Why would he use that one? 52 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,240 Okay, so as he was talking to the disciples, he says, seek my kingdom. 53 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,240 And I start saying, God, well, what is kingdom? 54 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:19,240 What does that mean? 55 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,240 What is the root of that? 56 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,240 How do I get to seek my kingdom, right? 57 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,240 I was born on this earth. 58 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,240 You told me you knew every hair on my head. 59 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,240 You've looked at all these things. 60 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,240 What does that mean to be the kingdom, right? 61 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,240 He said the kingdom is in my hand. 62 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:35,240 I got it. 63 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:36,240 I got the key. 64 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,240 I got the answer. 65 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,240 I got everything, right? 66 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,240 So how does that translate? 67 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,240 And I said, God, I got it. 68 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,240 It's your assignment. 69 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,240 So I said, okay, it's my assignment. 70 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:56,240 When I started thinking about the disciples, they had an assignment. 71 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:03,240 And if they stayed seeking the kingdom, which was this assignment, 72 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,240 God was going to take care of everything else. 73 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:12,240 So there will be times where they would have to go to places where it could have been a famine. 74 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:13,240 But guess what? 75 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,240 Were they going to worry about what they were going to eat? 76 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,240 Because they were on an assignment for God. 77 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:24,240 Every one of us have an assignment. 78 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:31,240 And if you're sitting there and you don't know what it is, are you seeking God? 79 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:38,240 Some of us can show up to church and have been here every single day from the time we were this little 80 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:43,240 and still don't know our assignment. 81 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,240 Our grandma had one. 82 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,240 Our best friend had one. 83 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,240 Our parents have had one. 84 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,240 You'll see somebody right next to you coming to church when the same time you did. 85 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,240 And they're elevating, going to all kinds of stuff. 86 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,240 And you sit there, sometimes with a jealous heart, wondering, 87 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,240 well, God, where my turn is going to come? 88 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:09,240 But you're seeking what somebody else has instead of seeking the kingdom. 89 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,240 Because my assignment can't be your assignment. 90 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:19,240 Now, they line up because God's perfect will ends up. 91 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:26,240 But there's some things that He wanted Kesha Thomas to do that can't nobody else do. 92 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,240 Because He knows every hair on my head. 93 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,240 He knew I was going to get up the day and put this outfit on. 94 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,240 Now, everybody can't wear it. 95 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,240 I get it. 96 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,240 But Kesha Thomas will, amen? 97 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,240 So you have an assignment. 98 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,240 You have something that God wants you to do. 99 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:52,240 And I want to put that in your heart today that if you don't know, and it's okay, 100 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,240 don't be even ashamed of it. 101 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,240 Just now seek the kingdom. 102 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,240 God has been very playing on what He wants you to do. 103 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:03,240 So how do I do that? 104 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,240 How do I seek the kingdom and figure out my purpose? 105 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:12,240 He says, in every season of your life, 106 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,240 I had a season in my life where I had to be a mom, 107 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,240 and I had to raise my son, 108 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,240 and I had to make sure that he get prepared for the things that he needed to do. 109 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,240 And some of you guys are at the end of that season where you got kids that's about to graduate. 110 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,240 And let me tell you, that's sweet spot when they all know. 111 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,240 You can ask my husband, it's nice. 112 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,240 Okay? 113 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,240 But you got those seasons in your life, 114 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,240 and your season may not be the same season that somebody else is in. 115 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,240 But you have to seek God in your season. 116 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,240 Because even in your season, your assignment is still there. 117 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,240 And you got to sometimes, you be like, 118 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,240 well, why am I going through all of this? 119 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,240 Because God is pruning some things. 120 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,240 He's doing some things in your life because He wants you to understand 121 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,240 that if you go through that, guess what? 122 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,240 You're a little more humble. 123 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,240 Because He may lead you someplace where you need to be humble. 124 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,240 I am taking a class online. 125 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,240 I left the school system in January. 126 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,240 And I took a job with the government. 127 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,240 And everybody would say, 128 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,240 don't you miss it? Don't you miss it? 129 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,240 Don't you miss the kids? Don't you want to go back? 130 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,240 That was a season. 131 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:29,240 I get up in the morning, get me some coffee, check a few emails, 132 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:34,240 or I forgot to tell you, I stay at home. 133 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,240 And He paid me more money. 134 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,240 So I said, God, why would I be worried about all of those things? 135 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,240 Because I still go out and mentor kids. 136 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,240 I'm still down at the spot. 137 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,240 I'll see that influence. 138 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,240 That has not changed, right? 139 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,240 But in this season that I am, I'm about to be 52. 140 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,240 I need to slow down a little bit, refocus on some things, 141 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,240 even though my husband may tell you I don't. 142 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,240 But I try to, right? 143 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,240 So when I think about you understanding your assignment 144 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,240 and seeking God, you've got to seek Him in season and out of season. 145 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,240 Because sometimes you feel like, God, are you listening to me? 146 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,240 Do you hear me? Am I going in the right direction? 147 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,240 And I believe that sometimes He'll give you some stuff. 148 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,240 Then He'll take His hands off and say, I need to see what you can do. 149 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,240 It's the same thing when you send your kids off to college. 150 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,240 You have trained them up. 151 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,240 You've got to take your hands off and see if they're going to do what they're supposed to do. 152 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,240 And we're going to get to that on the second one. 153 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,240 So you've got to seek them in everything you do. 154 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:38,240 Now, when we think about, do you know your kingdom value? 155 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,240 You will know your kingdom value if you know your assignment. 156 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:48,240 Your assignment that God has put you on may look different at different seasons, 157 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,240 but it's still your assignment. 158 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:59,240 Okay? For me, I know that I was put on this earth to mentor, to love, and to grow up children. 159 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,240 Particularly teenagers, young adults. 160 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:07,240 And so I have to be very cautious with that because there are times when other people 161 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:12,240 try to come over into my assignment and confuse me on some things, 162 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,240 and God said, hold up, seek me. 163 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:19,240 Don't worry about whether this is going to happen or that's going to happen or how it's going to happen. 164 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,240 I told you, I gave you an assignment. 165 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:27,240 So in that seeking part, you've got to constantly be on watch. 166 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,240 You've got to guard it up. 167 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:35,240 You've got to know if God gave you an assignment, he's going to make sure it sees through, right? 168 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,240 Amen. 169 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,240 So after you're seeking, so that's the first thing, he said, seek the kingdom of God. 170 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,240 The second one is, live righteously. 171 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,240 All right. 172 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,240 Live righteously. 173 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:53,240 So he told you to seek. 174 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:54,240 That's an action word. 175 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:55,240 That's a verb. Telling you to do something. 176 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,240 Now he's saying to live righteously. 177 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,240 Anybody out here living righteously? 178 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,240 Anybody attempting to live righteously? 179 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:06,240 All right. There we go. 180 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:07,240 Okay. 181 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:14,240 Because you have to think about what exactly does that mean to live righteously? 182 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:23,240 That is his way, meaning God, of doing and being right, adopting his attitude and his character. 183 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:32,240 Now we know we can't be God, but our relationship with God influences our righteousness. 184 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,240 What does that mean? 185 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:40,240 If I don't have a good relationship with my parents, I could be pretty lawless. 186 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,240 I'd hear doing whatever I want to do. 187 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:47,240 And anybody who had a relationship and a good parent and you were out because it's going to happen 188 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:52,240 and you get presented with something that ain't quite right, what's the first thing to come in your mind? 189 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,240 It ain't going like that. 190 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,240 But that's because of the relationship you have with your parent. 191 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,240 Now, sometimes you'll still go ahead and do it. 192 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:02,240 Let's be honest, right? 193 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:03,240 Because God know that. 194 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,240 He know you're going to do it. 195 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:11,240 But at the same time, your relationship that you have with God keeps you righteous. 196 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:12,240 Amen? 197 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:18,240 So when we look at the beatitudes in chapter 5, I just want to go over a couple of them 198 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:22,240 that kind of pushes you into that realm of living righteously. 199 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,240 And I asked Pastor Ford Townsend, Jesus. 200 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,240 Okay. 201 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,240 One says, be gentle. 202 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:35,240 Sometimes you just don't have to say it. 203 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,240 Keep it to yourself. 204 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:44,240 What benefit does it serve? 205 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,240 Some people just love to be right. 206 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:53,240 You will be right and friendless, right and loveless. 207 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,240 But you're right now. 208 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,240 And I'm going to tell the truth and I'm going to do that. 209 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,240 Sometimes it ain't the time for you to do that. 210 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,240 So when you're living righteously, you being a little gentle. 211 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:06,240 Amen? 212 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:07,240 Okay. 213 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,240 You hunger and thirst for justice. 214 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,240 You want things to be right. 215 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:20,240 You don't want to line up with somebody or somebody or something that's doing something wrong. 216 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:24,240 That's one reason I had to leave the school system because I wasn't lining up with the governor. 217 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,240 But that's my point. 218 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:34,240 Sometimes you have to understand that justice needs to prevail over everything. 219 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,240 You have to show mercy. 220 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:43,240 I tell my nieces and all the time I was like, they will be like, she ain't, she this and she got my name in her mouth and she blip-blip. 221 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,240 But you got your name in her mouth. 222 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:47,240 What we doing? 223 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,240 You doing the same thing. 224 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,240 How are you showing mercy? 225 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:57,240 Sometimes people need for you just to take one second and to step back and pause. 226 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,240 Even if they're doing something against you. 227 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:06,240 Because in that moment, God may do something in them that changes everything. 228 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,240 But you get in the way of it because you're going to pop off real quick. 229 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,240 Sometimes you just got to show mercy. 230 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,240 And I'm talking about to those people. 231 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,240 I told you I'm in this training. 232 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:23,240 And I'm in the training there of five men and me in a group. 233 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,240 And all of the men are military. 234 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,240 They're of the Caucasian persuasion. 235 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:32,240 And they know everything. 236 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,240 So I tell you how God will work on you with your mercy, right? 237 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:41,240 I could say, alright guys, we need to look at these blue chairs and this blue table 238 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,240 and make sure it's lined up with the grace there. 239 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:48,240 This guy literally would say, no, no, no, I mean we need the gray, the gray, 240 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,240 we need the blue chair first. 241 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,240 And he does it all the time, right? 242 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,240 Now, 20 year old and my brother can't contest this. 243 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,240 My husband can't contest this. 244 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,240 20, 30 year old Keshia would have been like, look, bro, I ain't going, 245 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,240 you can be doing this to me more time. 246 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:09,240 Now, I mean, I'm the only one that's got a little thug in me. 247 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,240 Okay, I'm just saying. 248 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,240 I mean, come on now. 249 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,240 I know Jesus, I mean he has bought me a mighty long way. 250 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,240 We're going to talk about what that looks like. 251 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:23,240 But it's, I had to endure this for two weeks. 252 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:27,240 Yes, the other day I told my husband, I said, bang, this guy, right? 253 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:32,240 So I get off the phone and I'm telling him, but never will this guy know that, right? 254 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,240 Now there are two majors that are on there and he gets to them, right? 255 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:42,240 As soon as I say something, I say, okay, God, mercy. 256 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,240 All right, your hearts are clean. 257 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,240 What does it mean to have a clean heart? 258 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:52,240 That means when somebody else is prospering and doing something, you ain't jealous. 259 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:56,240 When somebody is doing something, you're not worried about how you can get the same thing. 260 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,240 Because the same thing may kill you. 261 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:06,240 If I am on my assignment and I know the value of my kingdom, 262 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:13,240 the assignment that God has me lined up for, you could have $10 billion, right? 263 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,240 And it won't affect me. 264 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,240 You got to understand your assignment. 265 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,240 All right, I was talking to my best friend, Felicia, 266 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,240 and we've been friends since we were 14 years old, so almost four years. 267 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,240 And she is totally the polar opposite to me. 268 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,240 Anybody else got a best friend that's totally opposite to me? 269 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,240 People are like, how are y'all friends, right? 270 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:39,240 And I tell you, she's so meek and humble and she just, and I'm just, you gonna turn up, you know? 271 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,240 So in high school and stuff, it was, you can imagine, right? 272 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:47,240 So I was talking to her and I asked her, I said, what do you think about value? 273 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,240 She says our relationship. 274 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:51,240 I said, what do you mean? 275 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,240 She says, in the beginning, we were friends. 276 00:16:54,240 --> 00:17:01,240 40 years later, the value of this friendship makes me want to pick up a phone and call you. 277 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,240 Makes me want to spend time with you. 278 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:08,240 Make me understand that even when you're having a bad day and you might be taking it out on me, 279 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,240 I need to show you some mercy, right? 280 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:16,240 So when you think about your kingdom value, how are you treating that assignment that God has you on? 281 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,240 How are you dealing with it? 282 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:23,240 Are you spending time with God? 283 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:24,240 All right. 284 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:34,240 So we've talked about seeking the kingdom of God and we've talked about living righteously. 285 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,240 The last thing living righteously I want to talk about is God's love. 286 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:48,240 Because they say the greatest of all is, in 1 John 4a, it says God is love. 287 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:54,240 Can you imagine that if you show love to something, all that other stuff will come with it? 288 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,240 Unconditional love. 289 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,240 Has anybody ever shown somebody just unconditional love? 290 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:06,240 Like, no, it ain't nothing they can do that will make you not love them. 291 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:11,240 And when you get to that point in your life where you can share that with other people, 292 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:16,240 where they can experience that because the things that you're doing in your life is showing unconditional love to them, 293 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,240 don't you think they are changed? 294 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:23,240 Because it ain't nothing like treating somebody bad and they treat you good. 295 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:28,240 It's something that happens in you, not in them, when you do that. 296 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:34,240 So when you're thinking about living righteously, you've got to think about the idea of just loving. 297 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,240 So we love God, right? 298 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,240 We yield to God's love. 299 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,240 When we yield to God's love, our assignment yields to us. 300 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:49,240 Whatever it is that God has us on, that assignment is going to yield to us. 301 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,240 And what's going to happen as a result of that? 302 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,240 It ain't got no choice but to line up. 303 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:01,240 And everything I do will serve the purpose of me getting that assignment out. 304 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:03,240 Everything I do. 305 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,240 When I think about my assignment of being someone who loves and being around kids, 306 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:12,240 the spot we talk pastor into, he was like, okay, well, maybe I'll sell it. 307 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,240 Maybe I'll do this. 308 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,240 Let the kids have it. 309 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,240 And he wasn't completely sold on it. 310 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,240 I'm going to tell y'all. 311 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,240 And we went through this process where he was like, well, I got to worry about my people 312 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,240 and what they thinking and how they doing this and what y'all doing over there. 313 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,240 What you and kids this and I promise you, if you ever had to do a project with pastor y'all, 314 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,240 I'm going to tell y'all, y'all may think I'm one of his papers, 315 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,240 but baby, it come at a cost. 316 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,240 It ain't easy. 317 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,240 So we didn't have some knockdown dragouts about the spot. 318 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:47,240 But that was a labor of love for me because it's my assignment. 319 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:53,240 And I knew that I had to live righteously with it and communing with him 320 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,240 and how he trusts me with them. 321 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,240 When they get up here and like how the kids will talk about what they're learning over there, 322 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,240 I don't have a choice. 323 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,240 I can't be over there not showing grace or mercy or not loving these kids 324 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,240 because when they get up here, they're going to tell you. 325 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,240 One thing about kids. 326 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,240 I used to say that when I get my reviews, when a principal come in and review you, 327 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,240 let you not be right. 328 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,240 You think you're right. 329 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,240 All right. 330 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,240 So do you know your kingdom value? 331 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,240 So lastly, and then I'm going to sit on down, 332 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:31,240 he will give you everything you need. 333 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,240 Good. 334 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:33,240 God. 335 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:38,240 Now, he didn't say won't, even though sometimes it happens that way, right? 336 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:43,240 But he's going to supply your life will be complete. 337 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,240 It will be fulfilled. 338 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,240 It will be energized. 339 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,240 It will matter and you will matter. 340 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,240 Your impact when you know your assignment and you're doing your assignment 341 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,240 will have such an impact on people. 342 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,240 I'm going to tell you, I go out with Candace a lot. 343 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:03,240 That's my buddy. 344 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,240 We hang out. 345 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,240 And everywhere we go, we could get breakfast. 346 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,240 Two of the kids died and tall to no. 347 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,240 Hey, Miss Keisha, hey, Miss Keisha. 348 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:12,240 We'll go. 349 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,240 I was at a funeral thing. 350 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,240 The guy I said, digging. 351 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:17,240 Hey, Miss Keisha, hey. 352 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:18,240 Oh, my God. 353 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:23,240 I was catching a plane coming back here after going and spending some time in Chicago. 354 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,240 The flight attendant. 355 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,240 Hey, Miss Keisha. 356 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:33,240 So your impact when you are doing what God has called you to do and you own your assignment, 357 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,240 it is great. 358 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,240 She's like, you can't go nowhere. 359 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:45,240 And my friends tell me, I'll tell you, well, we got somebody, Miss Keisha, but I've been good to people. 360 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,240 I've been doing my assignment. 361 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,240 I've been lining up with God. 362 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,240 I've been living rightly by it or a tenth in most times. 363 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,240 Amen. 364 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,240 Because God ain't through with me either. 365 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,240 All right. 366 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:05,240 So when we look at all of the things that God is bringing onto you as a result of you being obedient to Him, 367 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,240 I heard this pastor say one time, and I thought it was really cool. 368 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,240 So I want to say it to you guys. 369 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,240 Hopefully I won't mess it up. 370 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:12,240 All right. 371 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,240 What's two plus two? 372 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,240 What's two times two? 373 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,240 Okay. 374 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:26,240 So when we are in our lives, living our assignment and trying to make things add up, 375 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,240 it will never be able to get where God wants us to go. 376 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:36,240 Because while we're trying to add, God is multiplying. 377 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:47,240 So two plus three is, but two times three is, okay, let God multiply in your life. 378 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:53,240 Do not allow anything to get away of you seeking Him, 379 00:22:53,240 --> 00:23:00,240 of you living rightly by Him, because He says, I will take care of all your needs. 380 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:05,240 So when I think about that, did I know at 52 that I would not be a teacher? 381 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,240 Because people say, you're going to walk away from that? 382 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,240 You got like six, seven years, and you'll get that retirement. 383 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,240 I started adding that retirement up. 384 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:18,240 I said, baby, what Ryan said, I could be out here driving Uber. 385 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,240 But what they, it wasn't worth it. 386 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,240 Amen. 387 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,240 Now, when I can still have that same influence over children, 388 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,240 so I thank God for my assignment. 389 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:33,240 And it feels good because when you work it in the plan that God has you to do, 390 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,240 when you know the value of your kingdom, of your assignment, 391 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,240 God will line that thing up so good that people will be walking around talking to themselves. 392 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,240 Why are you always smiling? 393 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,240 Because I'm walking in my assignment. 394 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:50,240 They be like, why are you, why you got so many people constantly going, Miss Keisha, Miss Keisha? 395 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,240 Because I'm walking in my assignment. 396 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:59,240 They ask me, they say, well, tell me, what is it that you're doing in your life that's making you, 397 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,240 I'm living rightly by God. 398 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:07,240 I'm seeking help every day, even in my weakness, right? 399 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,240 Because I'm going to tell you this week, I had some weak points. 400 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,240 I was like, Lord, God said, it's okay. 401 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,240 Because I know you and every hair on your head. 402 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,240 So I want to encourage you that you have an assignment that is valuable. 403 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,240 And you got to understand what that means. 404 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:33,240 And when you do live rightly by God, and when you live rightly by God, he will supply all. 405 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:37,240 Can y'all say all? All your needs. 406 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:42,240 So I want to be an encouragement to somebody who's thinking about, should I do that? 407 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:46,240 Is it my time? Is it my calling? 408 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,240 Should I start that business? 409 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,240 Should I talk to pastor about the calling on my life? 410 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,240 Should I go out and take this new job? 411 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,240 Should I take this kid into my home? 412 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:03,240 Should I, I mean, all those things that you have been right there, and I mean, God won't let it go. 413 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,240 It's lining up with your assignment. 414 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:14,240 Stop picking up the phone, asking mama now if you're doing the right thing. 415 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,240 I need you to, I wish I had one of them old babies. 416 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:24,240 I need you to pick up the word and seek ye the kingdom of God, amen? 417 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,240 So do not worry what the subtitle of it is. 418 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,240 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness, and I'm going to use this like my mom's saying, 419 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,240 all these things will be added unto you. 420 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:44,240 And verse 34 says, therefore do not worry about tomorrow. 421 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,240 For tomorrow will worry about itself. 422 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:55,240 Today has enough trouble of its own. 423 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,240 Amen? 424 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,240 So if I'm seeking God and I'm on my assignment and I'm not worried about all this other stuff, 425 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:06,240 but I'm allowing God to say, God, this is my assignment, I'm owning, I'm going to keep moving, I'm going to keep doing. 426 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,240 He got you. 427 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,240 Hey, Noah. Good morning. 428 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,240 Y'all know it's here. 429 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:13,240 All right. 430 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,240 So know your assignment. 431 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,240 Seek God. 432 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,240 Serve in love, okay? 433 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,240 Live righteously. 434 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:26,240 And remember his promise that he will supply all of your needs. 435 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,240 So I will say this for the last time. 436 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,240 Do you know your kingdom value? 437 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,240 Amen? 438 00:26:33,240 --> 00:27:02,240 I have four pills.