Zion Church | The Pathway To Success PT 12 | Pastor Keith Battle

There are things I'm gonna say tonight that are critical to what god considers good success. Because god's standard for success is not always the same as the standard in the world. So the first point I'm gonna make in fact, I think it's important that we first bring definition and distinction between good success and other types of success, and that goes to my first point. And that is the fact that when you're talking about good success, good success is not just personal in nature, it is tribal in nature. [00:03:29] (31 seconds)  #SuccessIsTribal

Why am I bringing that up? Because you're not gonna be successful without working hard. You have to work hard. Give me Proverbs fourteen twenty three. Proverbs fourteen twenty three says, work brings profit, talk brings poverty. Think about that for a minute. You know what I mean? If talk brings poverty, talk really is cheap. You know why talk is cheap? Because you ain't gotta do nothing when you talk. Talk I call this talk is cheap with people who go to Starbucks and they go sit down and for breakfast and they always talk in business, but they ain't never making no money or doing nothing. He said, yeah, child. We could do this, and we got this. And the data is there. The data is right there, girl. Brother, the the man, the the the stuff is right there. All we gotta do is is Gemini, that thing, and GP chat. We got all the material. And then they they hug and they leave the restaurant, and they haven't moved the needle one inch. But talk for two hours. Talk is cheap. And people feel good psychologically after they've talked about something or they told other people what they're gonna do or what can be done. But talk leads to poverty. [00:29:01] (72 seconds)  #WorkOverTalk

You can't be successful because good success means you gotta accept that. Let me hurry up and get to my last point because because because we run out of time. This is the second thing I wanna say. When it comes to good success when it comes to good success, it's also gonna require hard work. Now I'm gonna add to that parenthetically that that's not without rest. You do have to rest because if you don't rest, you won't be available. Insufficient rest makes you vulnerable to stuff, and then you're not available. But it does require hard work. [00:24:47] (33 seconds)  #WorkWithRest

Yeah. That's that's what it leads to. You gotta do something. And Joshua what I love about Joshua is he didn't just talk and he finished. He didn't just start the work. He finished. The reason why a lot of people aren't successful because you don't finish. You don't finish. You don't finish, and then you don't finish on time. Even even if you do finish something and you leave a lot of stuff unfinished, when you when you do finish it, you don't finish on time. And what that makes you is it makes you unreliable. We don't we don't have to soften it up or dress it up. You're under you watch this. You cannot be elevated if you cannot be trusted. Amen. [00:30:13] (43 seconds)  #FinishWhatYouStart

You're going down. What I'm trying to say is, how can you be this tall? Let me ask y'all something. Do any of you who are here put the camera on them. Do any of you online but yes or no in the chat. Do any of you have a difficult time seeing pastor Shimon Smalls? No. What a name. His height makes him easy to see. How can you be that tall on your coronation and nobody see you? That means he had to do extra work of hiding himself. In order for him to hide his stuff, he's got to stoop down and bend down and duck down. And I'm tired of some of y'all shrieking down, lowering down, being small, reducing your vision, reducing who you are so that nobody knows who you are. But I come to put the spotlight on you today. I come to put the spot light on you today. You are the one. You are the one. You got to come out of hiding. You're not humble. You're hiding. You're not humble. You're hiding. [00:23:09] (66 seconds)  #StepOutOfHiding

If he sends you to Dallas, expect success in Dallas. If he sends you to New York, expect success in New York. If God sends you to Idaho, to Wyoming, it doesn't matter. If he sent me there, there is something that belongs to me there. There's an audience there that I'm anointed to help. There's a product that I have. Your inventory will work internationally. That's what I'm trying to say to somebody, and everybody doesn't get that because you just land over Larry and you just you just Southeast Susie. But if you get your mind if you ever break out of your mind, if you ever break out of the limitations of your mind, that there's no geographical limit on what God can do in your life, that anywhere he takes you, he will blow you up. Are you understanding what I'm saying? You can't be limited like that. Somebody that knows what I'm talking about, just thank God for the things you haven't even seen yet. I'm not hearing my Let me just go on back to this. Amen. Preach, pastor. Wherever you go, I ain't gonna get stuck there. [00:09:42] (63 seconds)  #SuccessWhereverYouGo

There are some things I'm gonna give your descendants, Abraham. And Joshua, I want you to know that you are the one part of your assignment is is to help them get to it. So watch this. So so so so so God is saying to Joshua, I need you to understand that part of your assignment is to uplift others. That's why what I can't get past is those four words in that verse, which says you are the one. [00:11:27] (25 seconds)  #AssignedToUplift

What does that mean? The reason why you can't walk in your oneness is because you're so busy trying to not offend anybody. You don't act like you're the one. You act like you're the many, But one is exclusive, and one comes with responsibility. And the reason why you're not doing is because you're scared. You try to make it seem like you're humble, but you ain't humble. You're scared. You're not humble, you don't wanna ruffle any feathers. You're not humble, you just don't wanna offend anybody. You're not humble, you just don't want haters. You're not humble, you just don't like people being jealous of you. But you gotta be tough enough with haters hating on you and jealous people jealous of you and envious people envious of you. And people don't like that you shake up the status quo and that you disturb processes and that you come to make a difference. You got to stand on that anyway. Why? Because you're the one. [00:14:13] (59 seconds)  #OwnYourOneness