I was praying and really seeking the Lord's face about where we would go today.

There's much that I want to talk to you about. I want you to understand what we're doing and why we're doing what we're doing.

And I want to help you to understand what I believe God is doing in this hour, what God is doing in this season.

And beyond that, I want to give us some instruction. What should we be doing in the midst of what God is doing?

And there was a passage of scripture. I want to draw your attention to it's in second Timothy.

Interesting. This is my second week in second Timothy.

And second Timothy, as you know, the great leader Paul was admonishing and encouraging his protege, young Timothy.

And I believe that he was setting him up and getting him ready for the great destiny and the great future that was on his life.

And I believe that that's what God is doing with you, those of you who are watching.

I believe that God is setting you up so that everything that God has placed in you can come forth.

Because that is success. Success is not how much money you make. It is not how many followers you have on social media.

It is not how many people know your name. Success is about how well you can produce and manifest the thing that God created you for.

In other words, success is about how well you can be you.

Because when you can be you, you can be used. And God wants to use you. He created you to be a gift and the blessing to the times in which you were born into.

And so Paul is encouraging Timothy, but I believe that God is encouraging us with these words and found the second Timothy chapter 2 verse 3 from 9.

And that weren't reads this way. It says, you therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

It says no one engaged in warfare intangles himself with the affairs of this life.

That he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. And also if anyone competes in athletics.

He is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

The hard working farmer must be first to partake of the crops.

Consider what I say and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.

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