God's voice personally has been a catalyst in changing my life. I am not the smartest kid on
the block. I don't have a lot of education, a lot of experience per se. I also don't have a
lot of knowledge concerning life and so many other things, to be as successful as God has
blessed me with. And if I can look back into my life, some of the wisest decisions that I've made
was really leading of the Holy Spirit. They were not of my own doing. The voice of God. The first,
I would say the first time that I remember vividly, that set the course in my life,
happened around 16 years of age when I, I felt like I heard God in my spirit. It wasn't audible
but it felt like it was audible. When God painted the picture of what my future will be like at the
age of 16, of the kind of people I'm gonna be impacting and the kind of church I'm going to
be leading. It was crazy. It was unbelievable but it was so real it changed my future.
It changed the direction of my life. I knew from that point what I'm supposed to do with my life
and ever since that time, I'm 35 now, that's what I've been doing. Sometimes people ask me, they're
like, "Man, you know God is blessing you. You're seeing the the faithfulness of God." But I'm going
to tell you one thing guys, is that I've been doing this for a very long time. And the reason
I've been doing this is because I felt and I was secure and confident that this is what the Lord
spoke to me to do. See, a lot of us, we don't want to obey the voice of Jesus because it calls us
into the impossible. It calls us into sacrifice. It calls us into the unknown. When Jesus tells
the servants, "Take water and pour it into the vessels and then take you to the leader or take
to the organizer of the wedding." That is foolish. That is crazy. That's, that's ridiculous. But it's
in that process the miracle happened and by doing that they became a blessing to the wedding party.
When you obey the voice of God, you unlock miracles in your life.
When you obey the voice of God, you become someone else's miracle. God takes you to the next level.
So many people plateau in their walk with God for this one reason, because they plateau in their
obedience. When you stop obeying God you stop growing in the next level with the Holy Spirit.
The key to the next level with the Holy Spirit is not always praying more, fasting more or giving
more. It's obeying God. If He tells you to fast more, fast more. If He tells you to give more,
give more. If He tells you to forgive, forgive. Your next level is not connected to you doing
more, it's connected to you obeying what He says. "Whatever He says," Mary says to the servants,
"whatever He says just do it." Like the Nike says, "Just do it." Come on somebody,
drop that in the chat. Just do it. Many of you are spiritually stagnant
and the key right now is not to punish yourself, the key is to find what is He saying to you in
this season that you need to do and just do that one thing. It could be something
that you're not comfortable with. It could be something that takes you out of the realm of
what's convenient. It could be something that takes you out of the realm of what's normal.
It will take you into something maybe that radical and ridiculous, and not even reasonable
to some people. But I can guarantee you, I'm a living witness. It will change your life. It will
transform your life. It will change your life, if you simply obey the voice of the Holy Spirit.
I don't fast to fast, even though fasting is part of my Christian discipline. I fast because
I want to be obedient. When we did 21 day, 40, 40 day fast, people are like, "How do you
do it?" I don't do it, I obey. For me it's not about 40 day fast, for me it's about obedience
and if I say, "Lord, I want to obey You." He will give me the grace to obey.
You know when me and my wife given over six cars already, it's not about I wanted to be
generous. No, I just want to be obedient, that's all. And I want to challenge you to do the same.
When it comes to consistency and prayer, it's not about, "Oh, I just want to be disciplined."
That's not about that for me. For me it's about obedience. I want to be obedient to the Lord.
The writing of the book, it's about obedience. It's about like even right now, what the Lord is
challenging me to do in the next six months of my life is about obedience. It's not something
I'm super comfortable with, and it's not about sacrifice, it's about obedience. Abraham did
not try to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham simply obeyed God and it led to sacrifice. God does not reward
sacrifice, He rewards obedience but obedience always leads to sacrifice. Come on somebody,
drop that in the chat. God does not reward sacrifice, He rewards obedience
because obedience always leads to sacrifice. You can sacrifice and not obey but you cannot obey and
not sacrifice. Saul sacrificed in disobedience but Abraham obeyed and it led him to sacrifice.
The Bible says, "Jesus learned obedience through the things that he suffered." Jesus didn't come on
the cross to prove that He was sacrificial Lamb. He came on the cross because He was obedient to
His Father and that led Him to sacrifice. And so do not fall in love and become addicted to
sacrifice, addicted to discipline. Be in love and addicted with the voice and obedience to
the Lord. And you will see great miracles in your life and you will see God will make you a miracle
to someone else. Come on somebody, drop number one in the chat if you are with me and you are
in agreement that it's time to obey God. Like that old Christian hymn says, "Trust and obey,
that's the only way. Trust and obey." Drop that in the chat. Trust and obey. Obedience is the key.