This is a new video from Lecrae’s new album Rehab. The song is “Background” I pray you enjoy and that the words speak to you as they have me.

Seems like almost everyday I have the same conversation.   People seemed to be more obsessed about what I eat then what I do. So today I thought I share with you how one of those conversations. Get ready cuz here goes…

Them: What are you eating?

Me: Egg and spinach sandwich and some baby carrots on the side.

Them: Looks good but I could never eat anything like that.

Me: Oh? It’s good, but why couldn’t you eat like this?

Them: I like food to much.

Me: You do know this is food?

Them: Yeah, I know its food but I mean real food like muffins, cup cakes, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Me:  Oh I see. That’s what you call real food?

Them: Well, I think what you eat is real but I would need some ranch dressing. By the way, you look like you work out.  I am wanting to get in shape, you got any tips?

Me: Sure, I’d love to help. It’s simple to get in to shape but it does require you to put in some work.

Them: I’m ready to go; just tell me what to do

Me: Well, basically you just need to EAT, MOVE, and REST. Eat healthy –REAL food, Move – exercise 3-4 times a week, and Rest – get good sleep and manage your stress level.

Them: Oh, that sounds great but don’t you have something else?

Me: No

TD Jakes –

The world is changing

Having the foresight and vision to see where you are going

We have to reach all ages and all groups

If you get out front, you’ll get shot at.

God called us to be forward thinking person.

People who hang on the corner have a limited worldview. They think the whole world is like the corner they hang on.

Leading out of your comfort zone.

Don’t rob yourself of getting off the corner; we have to leave the safety of our community

ON YOUR MARK GET SET GO- go into the entire world and preach the gospel to every living person

If you walk up to someone and put a mirror under their nose and there’s fog start preaching

Our job as Christian leaders is not let anything around us push us back to the corner

You cant change the world from the corner

People who play it safe aren’t leaders, you have to get out front

Look how far our reach is, yet are we armored with what reaches the masses

You can’t reach the world if you not a multi cultured person

Leaders are forward thinking people who are stretched

The only way to learn how to not say something stupid is to say something stupid

We serve a God that can speak to anybody; the question is who do you speak to

The cell phone test- if you wanna no broad you are check your cell phone and see if they are all like you

If preachers only talk to preacher they regurgitate the same things its like your on the corner

Only the church doesn’t take the time to learn the langue of the masses

If you do a good job in a fish tank but your called to an ocean what are missing out on.

Fish are limited to the size of the tank they are in

Good doesn’t want you in a bigger tank he wants you in the ocean

You have to go place where you are uncomfortable

If you live in world were you are the smartest person get out of that room. Go where you are out of your element

This is the year God is saying I am going to stretch

God doesn’t want you fishing in 10 gal tank but out in the deep ocean

Every great teacher is a great learner

Every great speakers is a great listener

Fruit is born when differences come together

This is the time for us to be more fruitful today.

Are you gonna be an eagle or are you gonna be a chicken on the ground

Are you gonna fly or are you gonna flop?

Generational Tension

When it comes to the generations in ministry, division is bad tension is good.

I am able to do so much because of those who invested in me.

Do resent the next generation poor into the them.

We are not raising the next generation they are the church of today.

One reason the older generation finds it difficult to invest in the younger generation is because on insecurities.

When you lead from insecurities to hinder those around you. You hand out task and make followers and not responsibly and create leaders.

There is nothing worst than a fat 50 year old pastor wearing skinny jeans.

To the older generation if you are not dead you are not done.

If you’re of the older generation embrace the fact that you can be like a parent to the younger generation.

The younger generation needs the older generation

When it comes to ministry the younger generation feels like things should come easy.

Don’t over estimate what God wants to do through wants to do through you in the short run. When it does happen you under estimate what God wants to do in the long term.

Don’t get discourage in the short run

Because the younger generation feels entitled so they don’t show honor well

If you want to lead up show honor

Honor publicly influence privately

Jesus is not your homeboy is the True Risen King of Kings and Lord of Lords

We need to lift up and place people in a place of honor

One of the biggest problems in the church is men don’t love the wives like Christ loved the church and women don’t honor their husbands.

Your dishonor or those in authority of you is hindering what God wants to do.

We honor those who have paved the way for us. They are those who made it possible to do some of things we can do today.

This generation is the most cause driven generation and I believe in you

God believes in you. You didn’t choose him he choose you.

Give God glory by taking the best of those who have gone before you.

Gabe Lyons is the author of the forthcoming book, The Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America and co-author of UnChristian, a bestseller that reveals exclusive research on pop culture’s negative perceptions of Christians.

People don’t want to believe that we know the way truth and the light. We are meet with resistance

The church is no longer the center of culture like it once use to be it now sits on the outside.

Christian interaction with current culture

Separatist – to avoided the culture and fight the enemy (the culture)

Culturist  – just to live like the culture

They should not just separate, they should not just blend in but they are going to come along and restore.

We have to understand the gospel. Restorers understand the gospel

Overt the past century we only looked at 2 parts the fall and then the redemption to get as many as possible to go to heaven.

The culturist – just about doing the good deeds apart from Christ

Restorers – about the renewal and restoration. Not just a speech or stick to beat them over the head with.

The next generation isn’t just doing things the old way. They aren’t scared of the broken; they aren’t offended by it or just talk about it. They get up and do something about it.

They create things to do something about the work or restoration. Using the talent and the burden they have for the broken world.

When we look out at the people in church we must realize they are out on mission in their everyday life. Be it a teacher or someone working 9-5 in an office.

We have to understand our mission in the world

Culture changes when leaders start to work together on a common goal.

Sometimes your deep in the work of your calling and sometimes you calling finds you.

We are not just to state the good news but embody it the good news.

Perry Noble

Every time I hear Francis Chan I’m not sure if I love Jesus any more

1 Kings 17

I’m not sure if I should be following this guy, I not sure he’s going to take me where I need to go.

Church is sometimes like the prom, everybody dress up and acts like there good, especially the leaders.

The best ministry advice I can give you “do what the Lord tells you”

More time on your face less time on facebook will equal more of God in your church.

Consultants don’t really know jack about your church, God does

If you can explain what happing in your church it not God, It’s when you can’t explain what going on its God.

If you’ve been in ministry more than a week you’ve driven by Home Depot thinking I could sale hammer the rest of your life? Sometimes it’s hard when dealing with people

The brook is dry, you thought God called you there but things don’t seem right. You know God called you to do this. Your praying to God how could this happen.

Most of us get 1 Kings 18 because that what we preach.

God didn’t bring Elijah to the brook to punish him but to prepare him for greater things.

If your at point where the brook seems dry God’s not punishing you he’s preparing you. God had to teach Elijah something – Elijah thought the brook was his supply and God want to teach him the brook might go dry but I am God and I never go dry.

God always comes through!

We don’t give up when we are by the brook and it’s dry. Jesus is alive he blew the doors of the tomb.
Some of you are at the brook and are about to run from the situation that God Rules over.

You shouldn’t quit don’t give up on the God that has never given up on you

Tad Agoglia, founder of Disaster Recovery Solutions’ First Response Team

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Beth Moore

Life quickly changes but the gospel is still the same life changing

Fear and insecurity
Proverbs 3:26

We cant’ believe our own fear on insecurity that tries to come out of us
This is the gorilla on our back. It’s the snare that we put our selves in.

It will still the life of God from us. We are from birth naturally self-centered, our unchecked self-conciseness just get bigger and bigger. The world we live in now the draws out on our insecurities. Instant scrutiny consumes us, before we are finished with a project or message we are over critical.

Everybody has a voice making us all published authors. Yet with out the benefit of an editor. We are in age and time were people tweet stuff before they even have a chance to absorb it.

On your best day of leadership you’ll have something come on you about how you can do better. One of the greatest battles a leader has is to feel threatened.

Pride is the graveyard of great leader, insecurities is the pych-ward.

Our society is producing an alarming rate of full-blown narcissist. Most narcissists have no idea they are narcissists. It is the big threat of our day and would we even know it if it over took us. God is doing all this amazing work all over the earth yet we seemed to be focused on the “me”.

Job 18:15

We can’t start stuff in the spirit and finish it in the flesh. We can’t make supernatural things happen with our on fleshly hands. We can’t forget about Christ our first love.

The enemy is real and he will do all he can to render you ineffective or make you quit. We have to know who we are and who we are not.

A lot of leader loose out to the slow death of discouragement., Know who you are in Christ.

No matter how many times you crash and burn in life, it’s not the end of you but a reminder that God still works miracles. So don’t it take you out. You are miracle matrial.

Christine Cain

• God has not call us to do church but be the church
• We are here to do what God want us to do.
• We need to be filled with passion we need to live for God out of Passion.
• Like sheep sometimes we just end up lost.
• Christine born in Australia l but was Greek.
• She grew up poor and was abused at the hand of 4 men for 12 years..
• 10 years ago she found out she was adopted and what she thought was her history was not
• People end up lost whether or not on their own or not and its our job to go seek and find them.
• The job of the church is to reroute people as they begin to get of track in life to point them to Christ.
• Christine talks about how when she was in Europe and saw a poster about sex trafficking and she didn’t believe it existed in out day and age. Yet God reveled to her. What he had set her free from she was to help others.
• Christine started the A21 Campaign
• The church thinks that we cry we have sympathy but that just emotion. Sympathy begins when we cross the street and actually begin to do something.
• It’s not about our limitation but God’s supernatural ability to do something.
• We need to go find darkness and shine the light

Lets get radical about the mercy and passion of God and go into the world and shine his light