This Is Your Place: Finding God’s Prepared Eden

And if we're not careful as God's people, we can be saved, gifted, talented, busy, yet still wandering. We could be moving from thing to thing, idea to idea, church to church, opportunity to opportunity, relationship to relationship, never settled, never rooted, never planted, never flourishing. So my question is not just how do I find Eden, but how do I stay in Eden? And the answer is simpler than you think. We see it in the scripture. It depends what tree you eat from. [01:34:39] (37 seconds)  #StayInEden

See, the difference is not the workload. The difference is the anointing. And if you see others bearing fruit where you're not, maybe you're not in the right place. Maybe you went with a career that everybody else did, but that is not what God called you to. Because you thought it was just make more money, and you're exhausted, and you're getting sick, and having heart attacks, and drinking, and you know what you're doing to soothe, and you're not fulfilled. God wants you to live an abundant life. [01:27:31] (31 seconds)  #AnointingOverHustle

God gave him two instructions. Tend it, keep it. Tell your neighbor, tend it, keep it. What does that mean? Tend it, cultivate it, develop it, work it, nurture what God has entrusted with you, and keep it means to guard it, to protect it, to watch over it. That's why you can't talk bad about Oakland. This is my Eden. Steward what God has given. But we live in a culture where everyone is chasing something else. [01:32:04] (31 seconds)  #StewardYourGift

And some of us have been working on something for months and even years, then someone who just starts to with the right and then that moment, all of a sudden doors begin to open, and you start thinking, well, maybe it's not meant for me. Maybe I should give up. Maybe I should throw in the towel. But here is the word of the Lord for you this Sunday. Do not grow weary in doing good for in Kairos time, in your God prepared moment, it will come to pass. Give Jesus all the praise. [01:00:06] (36 seconds)  #TrustYourKairos

And I'm not talking about surface success. These are those people that are experienced true success, where they have peace in their heart, where they're living with purpose in life, and and their destinies are being fulfilled. You see the hand of God evident in everything you they do. And if you see someone living like that, what I would not want to submit to you today, this Sunday, is that they're not just lucky, they may have found the place that was prepared for them. Tell your neighbor, you have a place. And the question is not why them. The question is, God, where is my Eden? [00:57:58] (42 seconds)  #ThriveInYourCalling

And we say people are just jealous or people be hating on us. Well, sometimes that may be true, but sometimes it's just because you have a big mouth and share something God showed you before it was time to talk about it and walk in it. See, when God shows us something, the right response is not to announce it, but get into the word. Let God prepare us. Praise God for it, and be ready to get into it when God has it there for you. [01:06:39] (33 seconds)  #WaitToDeclare

But when we get to Genesis two, God begins to do something different. It's as if God said, when I'm preparing someone for the destiny, I just don't speak it into existence. I personally get to involve and begin to shape it. And scripture tells us he planted the garden. He positioned the tree. He prepared the environment, and scripture says he forms Adam with his own hands. [01:02:30] (28 seconds)  #GodShapesYouAndPlace

He was preparing a place and a person at the same time. Tell your neighbor, a person and a place. God was preparing a person and a place. And I know you, Shiloh, you love the word because you are here today. And I don't know about you, but when I read the word, things blow my mind because in Genesis one, one chapter before, we see God created everything with his spoken word. [01:01:55] (26 seconds)  #WordShapesDestiny