Occupying the Future: Multigenerational Leadership and Legacy

``God's covenants are always transgenerational. That's why he's called the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Right? His covenants are always transgenerational. When he caught his covenant with Abraham, he told Abraham from scratch that it was beyond him. That through his seed, all the families of the earth will be blessed. God created time, but he does not live within it. He lives in eternity, so his plans are eternal. So one generation can't fulfill his plans and purposes. There's just got to be that cooperation, that collaboration across generations to get the job done. [00:28:03] (44 seconds)  #GenerationalCovenant

Why did he have to go into Egypt? Why did he have to go to Egypt? That's it. When God showed him that dream, even he did not know the location for the fulfillment of the dream. Only God did. His brothers did not know. Right? It was Egypt, the most powerful nation at that time. That was the place for the fulfillment of the vision. And then it was for him to be leader. If he rode into Egypt on a horse like a prince with a dream from God, one day, everybody will bow to me. They'll just kill him. So God smuggled him in, quote and unquote. Right? As a slave, sold in the market. He was there in disguise. And when it was time, boom, straight to the palace. [00:39:08] (58 seconds)  #DisguisedForDestiny

Second Timothy two two, Paul says to Timothy, the things you've received from me among many witnesses, he said, commit them to other people who will be able to teach others also. I saw four generations of leaders in one verse. Paul said to Timothy, the things you receive from me. Timothy is second generation. He said commit to faithful men. Those faithful men are third level. He said, who will be able to teach others also? Four generations. No generation should damn what God is doing. Block what God is doing. It's it's it's a race, and we must be willing to pass the baton. Is that okay? [00:55:04] (44 seconds)  #MultiplyLeaders

The one responsibility you have under God like David had, is for you to show up. You got to show up at the battlefront. You got to show up at those intersections where certain problems are bedeviling our world. The mass ignorance, the mass poverty, the diseases on the global scale, the social problems that you have, you got to show up on God's behalf. Because when you read the story, in first Samuel 17, it says, Goliath was angry and and and was moving towards David. And the bible says that he cursed David by his gods. So it wasn't a physical fight. It was first of all a spiritual fight. [01:12:39] (58 seconds)  #ShowUpForBattle

He was now telling them not to be bitter with themselves, not to be grieved with themselves. He said, I know from your perspective you sold me. He said, boy, it was not exactly that. You don't have that power. It was actually God that sent me. Something needed to be done. The way God works is different from the way human beings work. You could not have done it if God did not give you the permission. It's important. This thing would deliver us from bitterness. Right? [00:36:23] (34 seconds)  #LetGoOfBitterness

Whenever you get into any position anywhere, church, business, anything, one of the first things you should think about is the day you will exit. It will help you to make the most of the opportunity you have in that role. You know why? You will exit. You will exit willingly or unwillingly. You will exit anyway. If everything collapses after you exited, that's failure. That's why they say there's no success without the successor. [00:55:48] (36 seconds)  #PlanYourExit

Because first Corinthians ten thirteen says, God is faithful. He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear. But he will, with the temptation, also make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it. The the biggest word for me in that verse is the word allow. When I read that verse, the allow stands out to me in caps. Allow. No devil is powerful enough to do anything, not to talk of human being, if God does not allow. And he says, God will not allow if you don't have the capacity to handle it. [00:37:10] (38 seconds)  #GodLimitsTemptation

So everything that was happening around there was part of the fulfillment of God's plan. So I'm just saying, our own focus that we must look beyond people and circumstances to see the bigger picture of what God is doing. We must value and pursue alignment with his plans. Alignment. That's all. That should be one of our most prominent prayer points, just alignment. Because some of sometimes some of the things we're asking for are actually outside of God's plans. Well, Romans eight twenty eight says that we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose. Joseph was sold into Egypt because God allowed. [00:37:49] (49 seconds)  #AlignWithHisPlan