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Okay, so what's the plan?

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Has God ever asked you to do something that was probably bigger than what you could have

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imagined or thought?

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Yeah, he's done it with me.

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And you know what?

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I'm so grateful looking back now that when I've really first started walking with the

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Lord that he didn't really kind of clue me in on how he was going to use me because honestly

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I think I would have run.

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I think I know I would have run and you know honestly I think there was a lot of things

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probably I ran from out of fear because I didn't think I was able to do it or I didn't

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have the skill set to do it yet or it was just bigger than what I could have imagined

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or you know sometimes the enemy starts really beating you up and you're consumed with everything

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you can't do instead of this big wonderful glorious God that wants to use us in spite

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of ourselves you know.

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So I want to talk to you about making a plan.

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Okay number one do you have a vision for it?

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What's the vision?

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What do you feel like he's telling you to do?

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It might you know it might seem kind of scary but you might want to write that down.

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Okay next you got to think about what is it going to take to get you there.

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Days of preparation are never wasted days.

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Days of organizing your steps you know I can remember when I first got born again I had

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older Christians in me say things like oh Jesus is coming soon and there isn't time

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to get ready.

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I mean that's kind of okay we yeah things are accelerating kind of fast right now but

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if there's something that you feel like you're supposed to be doing and that doesn't necessarily

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even mean ministry you need to get ready for it.

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What does that look like?

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Okay what are the steps?

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What are what's the training?

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What's the skill set?

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What's the doors that have to open?

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If God is wanting to open doors for you then you need to get ready for them now because

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when you're ready and you can walk through those doors you're going to be able to go

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into it successfully and it will happen.

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You know if you're really getting ready for some stuff don't don't compromise and this

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really has more to do with believing God for a spouse.

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You know if when you're in the in the process of seeking the Lord and remember I work for

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teenagers for years okay that's my heart.

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Teenagers need to think about going to college and getting a degree and getting some training

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and thinking about what kind of skill set do I need for ministry.

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You know if you're really called into the ministry just think about it.

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We are called to manage people and we are called to market our message.

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Our message is Jesus is Lord.

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He has come to die on a cross and save us from our sins and if we will repent and receive

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him we can have eternal life but we market our message and we manage people.

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So really ministry is good business.

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You cannot go wrong getting some sort of training in business.

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You can't go wrong learning how to manage money.

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You know one of the things that's probably most important if you're really going to go

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and step into ministry is how are you going to handle the business end of things.

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I can remember years ago I was really really young I just come to Tulsa and I'm working

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at the prayer tower and in walks Myles Monroe.

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He's waiting for his congregation to show up and they're going to do a tour of O.R.U.

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and he's got about an hour on his hands before his group arrives so he just kind of sits

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down at the counter and starts up a conversation with some random O.R.U. student and the next

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thing I know I'm having an opportunity to really ask him about his life.

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It was amazing.

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I love Myles Monroe.

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I ended up having his nephews in Bible class years later and you know the cool thing and

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he really inspired me to write books.

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I am a huge Myles Monroe fan.

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The thing that he left me with on that day was number one how much he loved his people

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and then number two he told me the most important degree that he got while he was at O.R.U.

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was accounting.

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I was like wait a minute timeout aren't you like you know this theologian that's gone

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all over the world and preached the gospel and shared the ministry all over.

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Yes.

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This is a preacher's preacher.

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He was a teacher's teacher.

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He had kingdom mentality and he knew how to love his people.

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I really hope I get to the Bahamas someday and I get to see the work.

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But he told me that the degrees in accounting and the ability to manage money actually what

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put him into a position within the government of the Bahamas.

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of Bahamas, which opened the doors for him to be in charge

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of financial things and business and administrative things

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within the Bahamas, which gave him an ambassador's passport,

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which enabled him to do all kinds of things with ministry

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that he couldn't have ever imagined.

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You see, days of preparation are vital days.

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And if God is telling you to get ready in a specific area,

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you have no idea how down the road,

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God will use that to share the gospel.

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So my encouragement, my invitation for you today is,

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what's the plan?

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Make a plan.

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If the plan seems scary or bigger than you, well, guess what?

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God generally asks us to do things

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that we don't have the capacity, strength,

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or skill set to do it.

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We do it anyway.

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He's faithful.

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Days of preparation are never wasted days.

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Have a good day.