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Creflo Dollar - The Dangers of Settling For Less

May 12, 2026 | 27:29

Creflo Dollar - The Dangers of Settling For Less
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Dangers of Settling For Less | May 12, 2026
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  • Creflo: i want to talk to you about, today, "the dangers of
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  • Settling for less."
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  • "the dangers of settling for less."
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  • And this is very important because as people of grace and
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  • Faith, we cannot allow ourselves to become comfortable with
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  • Settling for less.
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  • So let me start off by giving you a working definition for
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  • This lesson for the next 2 days.
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  • It is my objective to just try to get you to see this from a
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  • Different perspective and show you just what the enemy's been
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  • Doing and what life has been trying to play on you, and i
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  • Just pray that you--you're like you're on a springboard, that
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  • You go higher and higher as a result of what you hear today
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  • And next week.
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  • Settling means, and i define it like this: forfeiting
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  • God's best.
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  • When you forfeit god's best by clinging to the less.
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  • Forfeiting god's best while clinging to the less.
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  • And i wonder how many christians have practiced settling.
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  • You're settling for an average job and god wants you to have a
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  • Greater job.
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  • You're settling for a life lived in a lesser way and god has this
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  • Greater way for you to live.
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  • You're settling for the husband that doesn't fit what god said
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  • You could have, or the wife that--how much settling have we
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  • Been doing or how much settling are we doing?
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  • And i don't want you to settle.
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  • I know i've talked to parents and their biggest fear is that
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  • Their children will settle when there's so much more that god
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  • Has already done and that god has already prepared for
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  • Your life.
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  • And you find yourself settling, maybe out of fear, maybe out
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  • Of impatience.
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  • But why is it that we continue to settle when jesus has done so
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  • Much for us?
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  • And we keep choosing the easy route when you know, like i
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  • Know, that everything in life is going to cost you something.
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  • And so, i want to start off immediately as we begin to look
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  • At this.
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  • I just want to spend some time working on what we mean when you
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  • Hear this word "settling for less."
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  • Settling is, number one, it means--it's the compromise
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  • Of identity.
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  • We spend a lot of time talking about your jesus identity.
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  • The fact that you are righteous, you are forgiven, you are seated
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  • With him in heavenly places.
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  • You are who jesus says you are, not what your past says you are,
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  • Not what the world says you are.
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  • And when you find yourself, you know, walking in unforgiveness,
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  • You remind yourself, "that's not me."
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  • When you find yourself holding bitterness, "that's not me."
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  • When you find yourself walking around, working for
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  • Righteousness, when jesus has already made you righteous,
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  • You remind yourself, "that's not me."
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  • Your identity is important and when you settle, you compromise
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  • Your identity.
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  • What do i mean by that?
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  • You're choosing something that doesn't reflect who you truly
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  • Are in christ.
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  • You settle by choosing something that doesn't reflect who you are
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  • In christ jesus.
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  • So that's one thing to look at when you look at this
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  • Word "settling."
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  • Settling also is when you lower your expectations.
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  • Settling when you lower your expectations, adjusting your
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  • Standards downward instead of trusting god to meet them.
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  • Are you lowering your expectations?
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  • Are you lowering your expectations to a point where
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  • You're actually adjusting your standards and it's almost like
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  • You're dumbing yourself down because you're settling
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  • For something?
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  • Settling for a job because it's like, "well, at least i got
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  • One," when god has a tremendous call and equipped you and wired
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  • You with an ability to do some amazing things and you adjusted
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  • Yourself downward, you dumbed yourself down.
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  • Maybe as a woman in order for this man to love you.
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  • He feels challenged by your wiring and you have to dumb
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  • Yourself down and settle for someone that won't celebrate who
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  • You are and how you've been wired.
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  • Here's the third thing i want you to look at.
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  • Settling is choosing comfort over growth.
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  • You choose comfort over growth.
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  • It's comfortable here.
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  • I know this thing can make me grow, but i'm choosing comfort
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  • Over growth, and i told you you cannot grow in a comfort zone,
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  • That most of your growth as christians will take place
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  • In discomfort.
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  • And what happens when you choose your comfort over your growth,
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  • You're preferring what's easy or even what's familiar, even if
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  • It's harmful or even if it's unfruitful.
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  • You refer something that's easy, something that's familiar.
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  • There's the challenge that says you can do better, but you're,
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  • Maybe through fear, "i'm settling for this 'cause it's
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  • Easy, at least i got a check.
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  • It's easy.
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  • At least i got somebody to cuddle up with during christmas
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  • When it's cold outside," right?
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  • Or maybe it's something familiar, when you have this
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  • God-given ability to really grab hold of something new but you
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  • Don't know it.
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  • And you just kind of stay with what you know.
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  • And as christian people, sometimes we do that.
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  • We fail to grow spiritually because it's easier to stay with
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  • What you know.
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  • "i don't want to hear pastor dollar talk all that
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  • Grace stuff.
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  • I'm gonna stay with what i know."
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  • And you settle.
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  • And here's the fourth thing i want you to realize about this.
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  • Settling is trading god's abundance for a survival mode.
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  • John 10:10, "i come--the thief comes to kill, steal, and
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  • Destroy, but i've come that you might have life and have it more
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  • Abundantly," and what some do is they just--they settle.
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  • They don't trust god's abundance, so they trade god's
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  • Abundance for survival mode.
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  • Surviving.
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  • And life is not supposed to be about just surviving, not for
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  • The christian.
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  • It should be about thriving in this grace life.
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  • Not surviving, not living from paycheck to paycheck and being
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  • All right with that.
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  • I see--i hear people make a lot of excuses for surviving.
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  • "well, i'm surviving," and so i quickly say to them, "you don't
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  • Have to.
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  • You can do more than survive."
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  • Because the god, the creator, and the design of your life has
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  • Wired you to do something so amazing, so significant, so
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  • Dynamic that when you go to work, you'll almost do it for
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  • Free because you love doing what you're doing.
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  • But what we do sometimes is we start comparing ourselves
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  • Amongst ourselves, and now we're trying to do what we see
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  • Somebody else doing instead of going and seeking god and
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  • Saying, "god, what is it that i've been wired to do?"
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  • And when you begin to move in that direction, then every day
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  • Becomes a day where you say, "lord, what is it, whatever you
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  • Want to do through me, do it."
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  • And you'll find yourself discovering the will of god for
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  • Your life, because everyday you're submitting to the
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  • Holy spirit, "what do you want me to do today?"
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  • And then you do that.
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  • "what do you want me to do this day," and then you do that.
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  • And now you've got a trail of stuff that start looking pretty
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  • Common that's leading you down a path.
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  • And you're like, "i'm just doing this because that's what god
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  • Wanted me to do today," and you'll realize you have
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  • A special wiring to do what god is asking you to do that day.
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  • But when we x out the holy spirit from our
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  • Day-to-day lives,
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  • The holy spirit was given to lead and to guide us into all
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  • The truth, and part of that truth is the truth of your
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  • Wiring, the truth of your purpose, the truth of
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  • Your existence.
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  • These teachings are preparing us for some crazy times to come.
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  • And in christ jesus, you're going to be all right.
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  • And they can talk about all the jobs that ai is going to take,
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  • But ai will never be able to steal from you your purpose.
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  • [applauding]
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  • But settling will rob you of the greatness of the call that god
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  • Has put in your life.
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  • For some of you it might just-- it might just mean
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  • Switching products.
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  • Boy, if you can sell weed, you can sell computer chips.
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  • If you can talk people into doing stuff, you can get a job
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  • Negotiating in business.
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  • Let me calm down.
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  • Settling for less.
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  • I really want you to get what this means.
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  • It means accepting a situation.
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  • Settling for less means accepting a relationship,
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  • Accepting an opportunity, accepting a lifestyle, that
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  • Falls short of your true worth.
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  • It falls short of your potential.
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  • It falls short of your god-given purpose.
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  • It falls short of your wiring.
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  • There's so many of us in the body of christ, we're wired for
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  • Some pretty extraordinary things, but we keep accepting
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  • The situation.
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  • We accept the relationships.
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  • "well, at least i'm not by myself," and so you settle for
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  • Some toxic relationship with a friend that's just using you and
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  • Moving you farther and farther away from the path of
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  • Your existence.
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  • And i know this is a little different teaching, but like
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  • I told you, when whatever hit hits, world changers is going to
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  • Be ready to live the grace life.
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  • Because all i'm talking right now, i'm--we're not leaving it
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  • Up to you in the middle of this.
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  • If you'll just learn how to accept what jesus has already
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  • Done for you, then the holy spirit begins to interrupt
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  • Your walk, starts directing you this way, that way, telling you
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  • To stop, telling you to rest, telling you to go, telling you
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  • To move here, telling you to do that, and if you'll allow him to
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  • Lead and guide you, that's what he's sent here for.
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  • Holy ghost wasn't sent here so you could do cartwheels only
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  • When you come to church or so you can shake, rattle, and roll.
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  • The holy spirit was sent here to lead and guide you through this
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  • Experiment of life and when it's over with, you can give god
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  • Praise and say, "i could not have made it without you."
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  • And those of you who will do that will find that life didn't
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  • Do you, you did life.
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  • And when it's the day for you to leave, you'll look up towards
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  • Heaven, tell everybody "bye" and say, "what a ride.
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  • Now let's go to the next level."
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  • Why settle? why settle?
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  • Why let time go by?
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  • When you have the spirit of truth nudging you, at first that
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  • Nudge is pretty obvious, and then it starts getting faint
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  • Because you're building callousness.
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  • And you're not sensing it like you used to.
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  • Ask the holy spirit, "god, make me sensitive to your nudges.
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  • Make me sensitive.
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  • Take away the fear of me stepping out and doing something
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  • You're leading me to do."
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  • I asked the lord, i said, "god, i have to--if you don't mind,
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  • If you'd just kind of let me know this.
  • 00:15:45.657 --> 00:15:50.596
  • Why do people choose to settle for less?
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  • Number one, fear.
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  • Fear.
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  • People fall short of their true worth.
  • 00:16:02.875 --> 00:16:05.077
  • They fall short of their potential, they fall short of
  • 00:16:05.077 --> 00:16:07.546
  • Their god-given purpose, they fall short of their wiring by
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  • God, often out of fear.
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  • "i'm afraid.
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  • I compared myself to such and so and such and so and, you know,
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  • I can't be like them, so i'm afraid that i'm going to be
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  • A laughing stock.
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  • I'm afraid that i don't know enough.
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  • I don't--i--" do you--you would be so shocked of what you
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  • Do know.
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  • Some of you have been wired to know something, like,
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  • By common sense.
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  • That somebody had to go to school to get a lot of training
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  • For and it's already in you.
  • 00:16:37.176 --> 00:16:40.312
  • You look at an equation and say, "well, that's easy.
  • 00:16:40.312 --> 00:16:42.481
  • You just take this right here and put x right here and put
  • 00:16:42.481 --> 00:16:44.917
  • That right here and then x is equal to that," and everybody
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  • Looking at you like...
  • 00:16:47.019 --> 00:16:48.754
  • Because you're wired to do it.
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  • It's just like a guy who can open the hood of a car and just
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  • Know that "well, i can see this thing.
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  • I, you know, this is connected to this and this is connected
  • 00:16:56.462 --> 00:16:59.298
  • To that.
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  • And so in order for this to be a problem and stopping that, then
  • 00:17:00.632 --> 00:17:02.668
  • You've got to see that and go back to that.
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  • So that must be the situation."
  • 00:17:04.336 --> 00:17:05.904
  • And then somebody else is like, "wh-wh-wh-what?"
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  • And you don't have to settle for the group that you're hanging
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  • Out with.
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  • All of you have a tribe.
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  • And you need to find the tribe that's got your similar wiring
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  • And you won't be weird with that tribe because they
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  • Understand you.
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  • So fear is one of those things.
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  • You might be afraid that that tribe that doesn't understand
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  • You, won't understand why you're doing what you're doing.
  • 00:17:34.099 --> 00:17:37.503
  • They don't--they can't see you, they don't understand you.
  • 00:17:37.503 --> 00:17:40.105
  • But you have settled for a group of toxic people and every time
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  • You're around them, they make you feel bad, they gaslight you,
  • 00:17:44.243 --> 00:17:48.280
  • They tell you that, you know, you need to pay for this, you
  • 00:17:48.280 --> 00:17:51.350
  • Need to do that, and you're walking around in people
  • 00:17:51.350 --> 00:17:54.720
  • Bondage, addicted to approval, and don't want to ruffle the
  • 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:59.324
  • Feathers with nobody because of fear and all they're doing is
  • 00:17:59.324 --> 00:18:04.062
  • Stopping you from going down the path that leads to success.
  • 00:18:04.062 --> 00:18:14.106
  • Number two, comfort.
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  • Some people settle 'cause it's-- because it's just more
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  • Comfortable to do that.
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  • It's just more comfortable to do that.
  • 00:18:25.484 --> 00:18:28.887
  • "you know, i'm just gonna stay in this little 500-seat thing
  • 00:18:28.887 --> 00:18:34.026
  • And pay rent for the rest of my life."
  • 00:18:34.026 --> 00:18:36.962
  • When all that time you're paying rent, you could have bought 2 or
  • 00:18:36.962 --> 00:18:39.865
  • 3 homes, invested in real estate, done all kinds of stuff,
  • 00:18:39.865 --> 00:18:43.368
  • But it's just so much comfortable just to
  • 00:18:43.368 --> 00:18:47.039
  • Stay where i am.
  • 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:48.407
  • At least i know i can do this every week, and then complain
  • 00:18:48.407 --> 00:18:51.977
  • About it.
  • 00:18:51.977 --> 00:18:55.814
  • It's just more comfortable for me to hang around with these
  • 00:18:55.814 --> 00:19:00.953
  • Toxic people.
  • 00:19:00.953 --> 00:19:02.287
  • It's more comfortable for me to date this toxic man who doesn't
  • 00:19:02.287 --> 00:19:05.390
  • Love me, but at least i got somebody to hold me.
  • 00:19:05.390 --> 00:19:09.461
  • Girl, you better get you a big blanket.
  • 00:19:09.461 --> 00:19:16.101
  • Got somebody to hold me.
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  • You think i'm playing this.
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  • I meet people with this.
  • 00:19:24.376 --> 00:19:27.312
  • They choose comfort and settling for where they're comfortable.
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  • Number three, impatience may be a reason.
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  • "i'm just not patient enough to let the process do what needs to
  • 00:19:37.489 --> 00:19:42.995
  • Be done.
  • 00:19:42.995 --> 00:19:44.529
  • I'm just not patient enough."
  • 00:19:44.529 --> 00:19:47.132
  • I meet pastors all the time.
  • 00:19:47.132 --> 00:19:49.301
  • Every, you know, time i go to graduation and then they have a
  • 00:19:49.301 --> 00:19:52.971
  • Seminary school, there's always some seminary student come up to
  • 00:19:52.971 --> 00:19:55.507
  • Me, talking about, "well, how long did it take?"
  • 00:19:55.507 --> 00:19:59.544
  • I really don't know.
  • 00:19:59.544 --> 00:20:00.879
  • I wasn't looking and counting how long it took.
  • 00:20:00.879 --> 00:20:04.683
  • When the vision moves you, when it's more important than the
  • 00:20:04.683 --> 00:20:11.823
  • Outcome, you get so caught up in what you're doing, you don't
  • 00:20:11.823 --> 00:20:15.594
  • Keep up with the time.
  • 00:20:15.594 --> 00:20:18.363
  • I was just so invested in imparting into two or three
  • 00:20:18.363 --> 00:20:21.900
  • People that showed up at a weekend bible study.
  • 00:20:21.900 --> 00:20:25.337
  • I was just so invested in if i can teach this lesson and they
  • 00:20:25.337 --> 00:20:28.740
  • Can get an understanding and take it home in their lives
  • 00:20:28.740 --> 00:20:31.343
  • And do it.
  • 00:20:31.343 --> 00:20:33.478
  • I remember when we went in the school cafeteria.
  • 00:20:33.478 --> 00:20:38.617
  • And i was just into, is this going to get the job done, lord?
  • 00:20:38.617 --> 00:20:41.987
  • Is this what you want me to say?
  • 00:20:41.987 --> 00:20:43.355
  • How should i say what needs to be said?
  • 00:20:43.355 --> 00:20:45.891
  • Eight people sitting there.
  • 00:20:45.891 --> 00:20:47.526
  • I'll never forget, eight people sitting there, two of them came
  • 00:20:47.526 --> 00:20:50.762
  • From the elderly home.
  • 00:20:50.762 --> 00:20:52.831
  • And one of the lady got up and, right in front of me, i was
  • 00:20:52.831 --> 00:20:56.268
  • Teaching and she just walked right in front of me, "get me
  • 00:20:56.268 --> 00:20:58.103
  • Out of here.
  • 00:20:58.103 --> 00:21:01.073
  • Get me out of here.
  • 00:21:01.073 --> 00:21:02.407
  • He ain't gonna ever shut up.
  • 00:21:02.407 --> 00:21:03.775
  • Get me out of here."
  • 00:21:03.775 --> 00:21:05.110
  • I was like, "oh my god, i may not even be called to do this.
  • 00:21:05.110 --> 00:21:07.245
  • This lady's just--" i felt like, "oh well, i just need to quit.
  • 00:21:07.245 --> 00:21:11.149
  • Maybe this is just not what i'm supposed to do."
  • 00:21:11.149 --> 00:21:14.820
  • But then right behind that, somebody says, "i got
  • 00:21:14.820 --> 00:21:17.322
  • Understanding," and i was hungry for understanding, and time went
  • 00:21:17.322 --> 00:21:24.196
  • By and it didn't happen overnight.
  • 00:21:24.196 --> 00:21:27.999
  • Time went by and time went by, and time kept going by.
  • 00:21:27.999 --> 00:21:33.238
  • And one day i looked in my--in the mirror and said, "when did
  • 00:21:33.238 --> 00:21:35.474
  • This happen?"
  • 00:21:35.474 --> 00:21:37.476
  • And time kept going by.
  • 00:21:37.476 --> 00:21:40.011
  • And next thing you know, i'm moving towards 45 years in the
  • 00:21:40.011 --> 00:21:43.715
  • Ministry and time keeps going by.
  • 00:21:43.715 --> 00:21:46.351
  • And it keeps going by. [congregation applauding]
  • 00:21:46.351 --> 00:21:54.326
  • The success is not always the fruit that comes out of what
  • 00:21:54.326 --> 00:21:56.895
  • You're doing.
  • 00:21:56.895 --> 00:21:58.263
  • The success is knowing that you're doing what you were
  • 00:21:58.263 --> 00:22:00.065
  • Called and wired to do.
  • 00:22:00.065 --> 00:22:06.471
  • Because god will take care of you when you're moving in his
  • 00:22:06.471 --> 00:22:10.075
  • Will and you don't allow impatience to stop you from
  • 00:22:10.075 --> 00:22:13.445
  • Doing what god has called you to do.
  • 00:22:13.445 --> 00:22:15.514
  • What has god called you to do?
  • 00:22:15.514 --> 00:22:19.584
  • And have you settled?
  • 00:22:19.584 --> 00:22:22.220
  • And it's not too late to unsettle.
  • 00:22:22.220 --> 00:22:26.525
  • "well, you got to understand, brother dollar, i'm 80
  • 00:22:26.525 --> 00:22:28.360
  • Years old."
  • 00:22:28.360 --> 00:22:29.694
  • Moses didn't get started until 80.
  • 00:22:29.694 --> 00:22:32.431
  • What that mean?
  • 00:22:32.431 --> 00:22:33.765
  • Eighty years old, you're going to stop at 80 years.
  • 00:22:33.765 --> 00:22:35.534
  • I mean, you know you are much better than you were at 20, 30,
  • 00:22:35.534 --> 00:22:40.205
  • 40, 50.
  • 00:22:40.205 --> 00:22:41.573
  • There's so much you know and understand right now.
  • 00:22:41.573 --> 00:22:43.608
  • You realize had i been a little bit more emotionally mature,
  • 00:22:43.608 --> 00:22:46.845
  • I would have handled that differently.
  • 00:22:46.845 --> 00:22:49.548
  • And now you've got all of this package together and you want
  • 00:22:48.213 --> 00:22:52.384
  • To retire?
  • 00:22:52.384 --> 00:22:57.055
  • Somebody had the mitigated gall to ask me, "when you retire?"
  • 00:22:57.055 --> 00:23:00.826
  • Boy, please.
  • 00:23:00.826 --> 00:23:03.929
  • Retire, "well, you need to retire.
  • 00:23:03.929 --> 00:23:05.330
  • It's time for a younger person to take over."
  • 00:23:05.330 --> 00:23:07.332
  • Well, they're going to have to wait till i leave.
  • 00:23:07.332 --> 00:23:13.505
  • I ain't retire.
  • 00:23:13.505 --> 00:23:14.873
  • Retire?
  • 00:23:14.873 --> 00:23:17.409
  • What i'm gonna do if i retire?
  • 00:23:17.409 --> 00:23:18.743
  • "well, you can go fishing."
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  • 00:23:20.111 --> 00:23:25.750
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  • 00:23:25.750 --> 00:23:27.085
  • He--you mean to tell me he not turning things over like
  • 00:23:27.085 --> 00:23:29.454
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  • I mean, i'm just figuring this out.
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  • Took 30 years to figure out what to preach.
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