Embracing God's Mercy and Preparedness for Divine Opportunities

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "We like our food fast. We like our friends superficial. We like the idea of God being a genie and not Lord. Hear me, our foods, write this down, friends, faith and faith are reflective of our internal compass. I'm about to change how you look at food. Yeah, your food, your choice of friends and your faith are reflective of your internal compass. Your value system will always express itself and what you eat, who you hang with and what you believe and what you do." [01:09:44](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

2. "Just because you can't see it and just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that God ain't working. Did you just hear what I said? Just because you can't see it and just because you can't feel it don't mean that God's not working. Often I have discovered studying scripture that God is often at work when we are looking at the wrong place. We're thinking that it's going to happen one way, but God makes it happen another way." [01:12:41](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

3. "Opportunities are coming. Come on, tell somebody opportunities are coming. And when the opportunity comes, you've got to be bold and courageous and confident to ask for what you want. Don't settle. Several of you are sitting in this room watching me online and you settle. You don't ask for what you really want because you don't think they'll do it. I'm rebuking you now. Don't you do that anymore. Ask for more than what you think you need." [01:26:12](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

4. "So often, we relish in the good old days and the former glory of past moves of God. And then what we do is we turn them into idols in our heart. And this is what the idol is called. It's called tradition. Traditions that invoke no glory. Traditions that carry no wind, no fire, no presence, no results. But we will hold on to the past. Because it requires no sacrifice in the present." [01:00:39](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

5. "And I'm using sage. I'm following psyches on TikTok, but I'm in every prayer and prophetic call on Facebook. I've got some sage and I got some scripture. It's the mixing for me. It's called religious syncretism. And when you are syncretic is when you mix and you blend different religious practices or belief systems. And you form this new philosophy or tradition that you live by." [01:05:40](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

### Quotes for Members

1. "Your value system. Your internal compass is always going to express itself and what you eat and what you who you hang with and what you believe and what you do. We can mask it up all day long in church, but who we present ourselves in church ain't always who we are in real life. But your value system and your internal compass knows who you are. So you can say all the right things in church and around the saints. But you know, and your value system knows that those two things are not a lie." [01:10:51](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

2. "You got to be willing to get down in the deep, willing to get down in the mud, willing to get down in the dirt. And this is where Nehemiah finds himself. He's not with the people physically and he's not aligned with the king spiritually. He finds himself in the middle. So Nehemiah really could have returned to Jerusalem years ago with his people, but he chose to remain in the palace. Ask me why. Two people asked me why I said, ask me why. The reason he chose to remain in the palace was he was making a decision for himself." [01:11:45](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

3. "You were working at jobs, you're working in places and spaces, and you're not soaking up everything that you need to soak up. You're sitting in rooms, you're sitting in boardrooms, you're sitting in meetings and you haven't learned the structure of how your company is actually, how it's founded. What is the organizational structure? Who reports to who? What are some of the SOPs that I can possibly take and work it in my own business? What are some things that they're doing and how they budget and how they finance what it is that they're doing?" [01:17:35](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

4. "So sometimes the time, the component of time, God is trying to build our faith. He's trying to build our weight up in the spirit. So as I wait, God's weight, your faith growing, you're getting stronger, you're getting bigger. Is your intake of the word going to another level? Because for every level, for every place that you go to, there's another level of attack, there's another level of demonic warfare that you must war and that you must engage in. So see the season and see the time as you're getting ready to go." [01:34:52](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

5. "And this is how you know you're going down. And this is how you know you're off course. And this is how you know that you're not aligned. Where you begin to mix and no longer feel bad about compromising. Where you can do what you want to do when you don't feel no check in your spirit. Where you can sin and you can cuss and you can do whatever it is that you are big and bad enough to do. And you feel no internal check. You compromise. And we're living in a place and space in society. And we're living in a church age and culture where we have compromised." [01:06:32](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)

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