Onward Part 3

So to be someone who is a green dot player, you have to have a certain level of intelligence, acumen, experience in order to facilitate this responsibility. You have to be able to hear the coach's instruction, process the complexity of the defense in front of you, and translate that whisper into a command for the rest of the team. And hopefully, the rest of the team turn around and they follow the green dot player, because there's someone who has eyes on, someone who is locked in. [00:53:37] (37 seconds)  #HearProcessLead

So most of us, we treat prayer. Let me speak for myself. A lot of the times, I can treat prayer like a 911 call. I'm going through it. Things are going rough. 911, what's your emergency? And and I only dial in when the when the blitz is actually already hitting, but but the green dot player, however, stays on the line, and prayer of what Paul is trying to say is the discipline of keeping that communication link open when you are in the mud of your Monday morning. [00:58:35] (36 seconds)  #KeepTheLineOpenPrayer

And if the static of your life is too loud, you might miss the adjustment. Understand something. The green dot becomes the most sophisticated system in the universe. Remember the structure, the coordinator in the booth, the coach on the sideline, and the signal in the ear. When you stay devoted to prayer, you're not just getting a hunch. You're actually receiving the collective intelligence of the trinity. [00:59:50] (29 seconds)  #CollectiveIntelligenceOfPrayer

I have some good news for you today. The fifteen second silence isn't god abandoning you, but it's god affirming your agency that you have what it takes to make a winning play. Oh, he could keep talking. Don't get me wrong. He could keep on instructing you and guiding you, but God is not looking to try and and and and grow a bunch of robots that just simply do what he says. He God is asking you to to be ready and willing to take on his instruction to use your own god given intelligence, and navigate the state of play based upon the instructions that you have been given. You actually have agency in this. [01:08:37] (42 seconds)  #GodAffirmsYourAgency

``Here's my message for you today. Today, someone's fifteen seconds of silence might feel like fifteen hours, days, months, or even years. And if you are in your fifteen seconds of silence right now, here's what I want to say to you. This is the moment where he hands you the agency to execute what he's already told you. And he speaks to prepare you. The silence is not punishment, it's permission to move. The silence is not to make life difficult for you. If God has given you silence, then God has more God has more than likely told you everything you need to know to make the play. [01:10:08] (46 seconds)  #FifteenSecondsPermission

For the people that are all around you. For the family that are here. For the for the people that you come into contact with. Whether it's clients or or customers or whether it's people that you work with and engage with, whether it's people that you rub shoulders within in clubs and societies, your life, your season speech, your gracious conduct. This is the proof that there is a coach in the booth who actually cares about the player and the entire team. This is not a one person thing. This is a team thing. [01:12:57] (35 seconds)  #ProofOfCoachCare

It's about it's about embracing the good news that the hit list or the hazard list, the things that we spoke about last week that are trying to knock you down. They don't have the final say. The defense might be heavy, the blitz might be coming, and the stadium might be definite, but you have the voice. You have the green dot. The ball is in your hand, the play is called headset on. It is time to go onward. [01:14:33] (30 seconds)  #GreenDotMoveForward

When you're on the field, you may argue and say, I'm not the best person for this job. I can't do what other quarterbacks have done in the past. But God is God's success is not dependent upon how limited you are. His success is dependent on the whether his players who have the green dot can do exactly what he is telling them to do, and he fills in those gaps. [01:15:30] (27 seconds)  #GodFillsTheGaps