Jesus, we just pray your blessing on what I'm about to say.

And we pray that you would just open our hearts and that you would prepare us for the days

ahead that you would prepare us for the opportunities that are ahead of us, that we don't even know are ahead, but that are there.

I pray that you would prepare us for the opportunities that we're not yet aware of.

Amen. I want to tell you that I just have this thought a minute ago that, you know,

the opportunities that are ahead of us that we, let me say this, like we have this vision and this is where we're going.

And we think we're going to do this and we're going to do, and here's my plan, my five step plan to get to this place I feel God's called me to.

And by the way, you know, I'm not devaluing that at all, right? So I believe in that. I believe in having a vision.

If you don't know that by now, then I don't know how you got the third year.

But so, you know, so I want you to know that I have a high value for that, but I also know that sometimes the Lord has, I feel like what I'm saying is prophetic right now.

I actually have a plan for what I'm going to share with you. I've made the plan up 15 minutes ago and it's really good.

But I feel like I'm supposed to tell you this.

Sometimes on the way to look for your donkeys, you find your destiny. Now that's not the first time I've said that.

But, you know, with reference to Saul. So Saul is out doing something practical. He's, you know, we say he's looking for his donkeys, but I mean that's actually his job.

He's doing what he thinks he's supposed to do and harrow his father's farm. So he's out doing what he does every day.

And you lose the donkeys and the father's like, why don't you go find those? It's not a big deal. He goes out. He's looking for the donkeys.

And in the middle of that, he finds his destiny. And where I'm going there is that I don't know if you're going to end up where you think you're going to end up.

I just know that you're preparing for where God knows you're going to end up.

And the challenge is that sometimes God will let you chase butterflies, thinking that you're going this way.

And he'll actually use all that preparation. Like you think you're preparing for this amazing thing. And so you are really motivated prepare, but that's not where you're going at all.

And I was thinking in my life, you know, I mean my story, you guys have probably been, you've heard my story so many times.

I don't want to bore you with the details, but I do want to encourage you with, you know, my dream was to, I mean, when I met Jesus, I think that I've always been a radical believer.

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