Embracing Our Identity as God's Chosen Generation

He desires his chosen heritage. He desires his chosen people to value themselves according to the price he has placed upon them. You are expensive. You cost more than Luchy or Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Luchy, that's the Louis Vuitton together. More than all of that, you are, you are expensive. You cost a whole lot to God and because you cost a lot, he expects a lot. [00:24:28] (34 seconds)  #NoFailureInGodsWork

Working for Christ are never—ah, never, somebody say never. Never. You are to never think, much less speak of failure in your work. Never. Never. It ought not ever even cross your mind when you're doing God's work that this might not work. You are to talk faith and speak faith. Not once should, not, not, not once should we even think or think of failure. We are to cooperate with the one who knows how much no failure. And here's why. Because the Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things. His spirit is to be our what, everybody? His spirit. Come on, man. You are his chosen. [00:25:04] (57 seconds)  #InspireConfidenceDaily

Confidence inspires confidence. So here's what I need you to do. I need you to be the one on your job. I need you to be the one at your school. I need you to be the one in your family that inspires confidence that God is able to give you the victory at whatever that thing is that your family dealing with, that your peers dealing with, that your job dealing with, that your community is there. You be the one who inspires confidence. [00:27:24] (37 seconds)  #HigherCallingBeyondCareer

A high GPA means nothing, hear me now, if it's not connected to a higher responsibility. It means you're smart. It means you're intelligent. It means you're a deep thinker. It means all of those things. But can I tell you something? The confidence that David had, it wasn't necessarily about Goliath. That's right. It wasn't about slaying the giant. It wasn't to be written down in history. There was a deeper reason as to why David had the audacity and the courage to even approach Goliath in the first place. [00:29:20] (38 seconds)  #ProclaimGodsReality

David is motivated by this bigger mission, this grander mission that people will know that God is real, like the young people say. That, hear me now, hear me now, even when the scripture says you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of him. It's not so you can walk around arrogant about the truth that you have. [00:30:52] (34 seconds)  #GenerationalUnityMatters

When people look at your life, do they sit back and say, man, God is real. That's the responsibility. Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous life. [00:32:04] (16 seconds)  #ResistGenerationalDivision

Being chosen, watch this, means that we live with generational unity. I want you to see something, won't you see something, watch this, go to the next life woman, you're chosen, what generation? Now here's one of you to understand, when Peter is describing generation here, he's not necessarily referring to a specific age group, he's referring to a people. So watch this, whether you are 5, 55, or 105, as long as you are alive, you are the chosen generation. If you have breath in your lungs, there is still a work for you to do. [00:32:32] (64 seconds)  #HonorAllSaints

What we need, hear me now, is a safe space for the—hear me, the whole church needs to be a safe space so that any man, any woman, can come and fight in the armor that they used to. Hear me now, I'm not just talking about clothes. [00:49:33] (28 seconds)  #BlessedByChosenResponsibility

As time changes, so does approaches. So does methods. So does strategies. But the gospel remains the same. Those three angels' messages remain the same. That Sabbath remains the same. State of the dead remains the same. Second coming remains the same. The message never changes, but the method, the strategy, the way that we deliver it, listen to me, it has to change. [00:50:44] (38 seconds)  #GloryDaysAhead

Brother Fields has the boom box plugged up. In this other container, he pulls out a tape, a cassette tape. He put the cassette tape inside, close it, and press play. And on this cassette tape is an evangelistic sermon series by the pastor who had been there for 30 years ago. Pastor Kennedy Luckett, for those of you who may know him. And Pastor Luckett is preaching, and as he's preaching, and he's saying, open your Bibles to Revelation chapter 1 and verse 7, the young people open their Bibles to Revelation 1 and verse 7. When the pastor says, would you say amen, the young people say amen. And this Bible study goes on for about 20, 30 minutes of them listening to this word. Brother Fields asking them if they understand and making an appeal at the end. I'm sitting there, hear me now, in amazement. Here is this 70-year-old man who said, I can't read, Pastor, but I use what I have. [00:56:40] (85 seconds)