Zion Church | The Pathway to Success Part 13 | Pastor Keith Battle

``I'm a I'm a I'm a Patterness, sir. Let patterns speak louder than promises. Look at the pattern. Yes. Don't be buying a pie. Yeah. Yeah. We can do that. Yeah. My company could do that. We got you know, we got we do we do Gladys Knight. We we got we got Lou Rawls. We we we did all them people, man. We did Michael Jackson, Prince. Still doing Prince today. They always said, yeah, we we we can handle all of the marketing and all that. Believe the pattern. Because the pattern say, you're late, you don't show up, you're unprofessional, you're argumentative, you're combative. But when you came in, you were smiling, you're smelling good, looking good, saying we can make this happen. Believe the patterns over the problem. Because watch this. Because you about to shake hands. And somebody about to shake hands with somebody you don't really need to be hooked up with. [00:22:34] (55 seconds)  #PatternsOverPromises

She had intelligence. She had information that was necessary for him to be successful. And watch this, even though she was still active in that lifestyle, when you read Joshua chapter two, you can see that God was working on her life. She says, know who you are. I know who you all are. I know what the Lord is doing in your life. I wanna be a part of that. I don't always wanna be like that. What I love about God, he doesn't wait till you get all the way out of what you're into before he even start using you. That's why you gotta be careful when you judge people that God has his hand on because all of us was in something at one time. I said all of us was up in something at one time, and some of us, if the truth be told, still got a shoestring in something right now. You ain't all the way loose yet. [00:16:24] (50 seconds)  #GodUsesYouNow

Joshua served Moses as his assistant for thirty to forty years. That was critical because guess what? Even before Joshua knew where he would ended up, Moses was already there. You need a Moses in your life who has already done what you're trying to do. You need a Moses in your life who has the experience and the knowledge and the wisdom to help you navigate places that you're gonna to go watch this. To help you go through things and situations that you're have to go through and to help normalize it for you. Because some of you think that your pain is strange. [00:08:09] (38 seconds)  #FindYourMoses

And you talk one way about the word and about God when you're in an environment with believers, but then when you get around your coworkers and your frat brothers and your sorority sisters and your classmates and your teammates, they start talking raunchy and ratchet and profane. You you watch this. How is that coming out the same fountain? Wow. Wow. You got really quiet over in this section. Just over in this area. Like, no. No. Look. No. We're consistent. We don't have these we don't have a compartmentalized life. I'm I'm not I'm not just a lawyer and a and a a delta and a Christian. I'm a Christian everything. Christ is all. Christ is first. [00:04:18] (43 seconds)  #ConsistentFaith

Is God is God an accent piece in your life or he's is he the centerpiece of your life? Is Jesus at the center of it all? From beginning to the end. Is he the center of your life? I mean, he's chief. He's central. He's germane to all of your decisions, to your relationships, to your business, to your parenting, to your money. You know why this is so important? Because he will help you to make the right partnerships. He will help you to get into the right partnerships. He will protect you from the wrong partnerships if he's central. [00:39:46] (43 seconds)  #JesusAtTheCenter

Communication and trust, pertinent for good partnerships. Let me tell you how you know you got a bad partnership, when you can't talk about the important things. You always avoid the conversations. Do you know how important it is for for Rahab and these spies to communicate and Joshua to have a communication triangle going on? Because check this out. Rahab, you had better this rope, you put down out the window to get us out, this same rope better be here when we get back. And your whole family better be in the house. And then she had to tell them, oh, you're you're gonna be dead. And then she had to tell them, now they know they're looking for you. You go right up this hill, you stay up there for three days. Because they're gonna be looking for you. They ain't gonna find you. You stay up there. When they come back through the gate, then you go out. That's this communication is critical. And when you can't have critical conversations with somebody you're in a partnership with, that's a dangerous thing. And when you have the critical conversation, it ends up in ambiguity. You never have any progress, and it's usually an argument. We don't have time to argue. [00:27:21] (63 seconds)  #TalkAndTrust

Complimentary strengths is important. You wanna look for somebody who has abilities in areas that you don't. One of the things that keep people, pastor Page, from moving their thing forward is they're doing too much of the things that are connected to the thing. They're not doing the thing that they do the most, they're doing everything. They're doing the admin stuff, they're doing the marketing, they're doing the finances, they're the bookkeeper, they're doing all this stuff and stuff that they're not even good at. So they never get to do what they're good at. You need complimentary strengths. See when and you don't need the same strength. If everybody's good at the same thing, you can only add to what you're building. When you have complementary and diverse strengths, you multiply. I promise you that's true. [00:24:38] (49 seconds)  #ComplementaryStrengths

The next thing is you gotta figure out what the clear roles are. What are the clear roles for this partnership? Be clear about it. Put it in writing. This is what you would do. This is what I do. Can we agree on this? Rahab had a clear role. The spies had a clear role. What are your difference roles? Cultural fit. Now, what's the difference between chemistry and cultural fit? Chemistry, I talked about earlier, can be a personal thing between you and the person. You can have a team that already exist, and you feel like you have good chemistry with somebody you wanna bring on the team, but they're bad culturally for the whole team. Do you understand what I just said? So somebody can be a good chemistry fit, but you like the person, but they're bad cultural fit for the rest of the team. And you will force it to work because you like them. But the whole morale of the team went down when they showed up. And then watch this, toxicity becomes normalcy. And you start saying something like, we ain't even fight like this before. You start going back in time. Remember we used to be happy? We used to have fun working together. What happened? And you all everybody know is when they came, you brought them here. [00:25:27] (74 seconds)  #DefineRoles