 In our church we like to take time and take, and kind of go through these series of messages that we do. We talk about healings, we talk about deliverances, we talk about prosperity, we talk about salvation and evangelism. We like to take a month, a month and a half, a few weeks in a row where we like to talk about subjects that really dive into the particular subject and discover God's truth about that subject. Last couple of weeks and today we're going to continue to talk about money, prosperity, and we're going to talk about and renew our mind and the outlook on finances and prosperity. What pastor was talking today about is very important. You have to understand that money, like the Bible says, it answers for all things. Money is the legs that the gospel runs on. You cut off the financing and a lot of missionaries won't be able to go out and do what they do. You cut off the finances and the Bible as you see it won't be able to be printed. You know the Bible app, one of the Bible apps, I think Bible.is, Bible app costs over a few million dollars to design. Somebody had to sponsor it. You know that hospitals as you see and many hospitals around the world even till today are sponsored and supported through church. You know that a lot of advancement in the medicine, it's happening or happened because church sponsored the scientists to make the vaccines to study the issues. Finances are very, very important and one of the biggest damages that Satan done in the church is came and injected the lie that finances are not spiritual. Finances are evil. Money are root of all evil, even though Bible says the love of money is root of all evil and the crippled church to do more than what it does today. Imagine if every Christian will embrace the mindset of God. Imagine if every Christian will embrace the character of Christ. Today we could accomplish as a church a lot more and establish God's kingdom and able to live and take care of our life and our families in Jesus mighty name. Money is influence. See influence will happen, whether Hollywood will influence or whether church will influence. Depends who's going to have more money, who's going to run more ads, who's going to run better TV shows. Money buys things and whatever those things are will depend what kind of influence will be. Today that's why we as a church, we can't undermine the subject. We can't belittle the subject. We can't not talk about the subject and pretend as though it doesn't exist. While we ourselves spend at least eight hours a day working for it. While we ourselves put all the effort, education, knowledge to advance ourselves yet ignore Godly principles and how it's obtained, kept and how it's advanced even further. Today I want to talk about finances and prosperity, but I want to shift to something a little bit different and I'm going to talk about very practical things. How many of you guys want to know practical things? How many of you say you know what, I'm embracing the mindset and I think I'm ready to take the next step. I'm ready to do something. Turn to your neighbor, say do something. Turn to your other neighbor, say just do it. Amen, amen. Open to Psalm 1. Psalm 1 and I'm going to read from Amplified Version, it's a simple version and I like the way things sound there and let's read from verse 1, we're going to read 3 verses. Blessed, that's not Psalm 1 that I sent. Okay, I'll read it from my version, Amplified Version. Blessed and in parenthesis says this, happy, fortunate, prosperous and enviable is the man who walks and lives not in a consul of ungodly. Listen, blessed meaning, happy, fortunate, prosperous and enviable. How many of you want to want to be in a position where people envy you? When people look at your family and they see your family put together, children, you know, great marriage and people envy you. Now, we're not talking about jealousy, we're talking about envy. Want to be in your place. How many of you want to live in a house that it's enviable? You know, when people come to you, come to your house or they drive up into your neighborhood and they're like, wow, look at that, huh? Or how many of you want to drive on a car that's enviable? Now you say, hey, you're taking things out of context, no, I'm not. Bible says blessed is the man. The word blends means enviable, one of the meanings of it. Blessed is the man who walks in the life, who is the man who walks and lives not in the council of ungodly and apprentices says following their advice, their plans and purposes, nor stands submissive or inactive in a path where sinners walk, nor sits down in apprentices meaning relax or rest where the scornful gather, meaning the mockers. But his delight and desire in the law of the Lord and on his law, meaning the priests, the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God, he habitually, say habitually, meditates, meaning plunders and studies at day and night. And he shall be like a tree firmly planted by the streams of water ready to bring forth and to bring forth its fruit and its season. Its leaf also shall not fade or weather and everything he does shall prosper. Say everything he does shall prosper. Do you want to prosper and everything do you do? Today we're going to talk about practical things. There's a lot of things that we can take out of this scripture. But today I'm just going to skip those things like don't associate, make sure you watch who you associate with, don't associate with sinners. Don't spend your time with mocking people. Don't gather with the sinners. Delight in God's word, desire his word, study his word and meditate. Those are the things that we must do to be successful. But today we're going to go into the practical things. Point number one, if you want to be successful, you have to set a goal. Write it down, set a goal. Action without vision is a nightmare. Action without vision and goal is a nightmare. Bible says write the vision and make it plain so he who runs, he can run according to it. Can I ask you today, do you have a goal? Do you have a plan? Is it clear cut? Is it defined? If I ask you, can you automatically respond to it? Do you know where you're going? Do you know what you're trying to achieve in your life? Do you know, are you a dead fish that's floating with the stream of life and hoping the stream of life will take you somewhere nice? Or you're a fish that is alive, that is able to navigate through the river, whether it's upstream or downstream and get to the place where you desire? Are you just drifting through life without any goals, without any vision, without anything in your life? In Proverbs 21 verse 5 says, the plans of a diligent lead to profit. The plan of a diligent leads to your profits, Proverbs 31 verse 5. Do you have a plan? If you don't have a plan, that means you're not working on anything. That means you're not striving for anything. That means you don't know where you're going, you're just drifting through life and that will not lead to a successful life. The culture neighbors say, have a goal. Have a vision, have a goal, have a direction of where you're going. You know that Howard Business Study reveals a remarkable statistics. It says that 83% of population does not have a goal. That's why 83% of population are where they are, they're average or below average. 14% only have a plan in mind, but it's unwritten. Only 3% of goals are written down. Can you imagine 3 out of 100 people only have a written goal down? That's why they're in top 5% of wealth in the world. Right, somewhere underneath that point have a goal, write it down. Have a written goal. A goal that's not written is not a goal. Have a written goal. It must be written on a paper. You know the statistics says that writing your goals gives you 95% higher chance of succeeding it. Just by simply writing, how much does it cost you to write a goal down on a paper? How much does it take of efforts and time to write a goal down? Barely nothing, nothing. But you know it increases your chance by 95% of success. Don't mix it up. It doesn't mean that 95% of the chance you'll be successful. It just increases your chances by 95%. Bible says write a vision and make it plain. Run according to it. Make it simple. Make sure the goals that you write, they're broken down. Have a long-term goal, mid-term goal, short-term goal. Make sure you have like a five-year goal or a dream what you want to achieve. I want to move from this house, move into a better house, bigger house. Make sure you know what kind of house it is, how much it's going to cost, how many rooms it's going to have. What kind of square footage, the more detailed it is, the better chances you have at achieving it. I'm going to go to college and I'm going to graduate, I'm going to get the job. It's going to take me four years to get this diploma. If I'm going to take extra classes and I'm going to push a little harder, I'm going to take some quarters, I'm going to achieve it in three years. And I'm going to do this, this and that and I'm going to get it done. Write it down. Put it somewhere where you see it constantly. Put it on your mirror. Put it in the dashboard of your car. Put it on the wall of your bedroom. So when you wake up, you see it. When you go to bed, it's the last thing you see. Have a vision. Write it down. Keep pursuing it. There was a story, now that Olympics is going on, if you can put that picture up, of Michael Phelps and Joseph Scowling. Michael Phelps in 2008, that was him. He had a dream to compete in Olympics and win a gold medal. Eight years later, in 2016 yesterday, Joseph beats Phelps, his hero, in a 100 meter butterfly and sets a world record. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. Maybe your goal is you're struggling with your health, you're struggling with your weight. Get a picture. Maybe you had a picture of yourself at the time when you were healthy, at the time when you were skinnier, at the time when you were in a better place in your health. Put that picture on your mirror. Put the picture in your wallet. Put the picture on your phone where you've seen it, constantly look at it. This is my goal. I want to go from 180 to 150, that's probably for girls. For guys, maybe more like I want to go from 250 to 180 or something like that. Whatever your measurements are. But have a goal. Make sure it's in front of you every single day. Pursue it. If your goal is to lose 50 pounds, you won't lose 50 pounds in a month. Break it down. My goal is to lose 10 pounds by the end of this month. Work towards it. Celebrate it, just make sure you don't celebrate it with a cake. Reward yourself, the behavior that you repeat, the behavior that you reward is the behavior that you tend to repeat. Have a vision. Have a goal. Turn to your neighbor and say, have a vision. Study says that if you're going to share your goal with someone close to you, you have more chances of achieving a goal. That's why we have home groups. You have to attend your home group. You have to be a part of a group that believes in you, that supports you. Somebody that can push you and challenge you. Somebody that can keep accountable for you. Somebody that can keep you accountable. Amen? Point number two, have an action plan. After you set a goal, have an action plan. Before we go into that, I want to share a personal story. Setting a goal. Me and my wife a couple of years back, we wanted to double our income. And so we decided that we're going to begin to tithe according to the income that we want to see. Not according to the income that we have. And so we started tithing above what we were tithing, giving to where we wanted our income to go. First two, three months, I'm going to tell you, it was tough. Because there was a couple of times we had to borrow a couple hundred bucks because we were short on bills. We had to adjust our budget and kind of learn to live below our means so that we could tithe. But faith, we made a goal, we want to see it. We wrote it down and we put an action to it. We decided to tithe where we want our income to be. It took about a year and two months or three months and our income doubled to the place where we were tithing. It brings me to the second point is have an action plan. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without a vision is a nightmare. But vision without action is just a daydream. It's just a wishful thinking. You know, in our church, we talk a lot about four dimension. We talk about visualizing and meditating, keeping a clear-cut picture of what you want to see, where you want to be, what you want to achieve in life through the word of God, how Bible teaches us, you know. And then a lot of us, we kind of grasp that idea. But this is the only step that we've grasped. And this is the only step we're at. And we're daydreamers. You know, one of the things that brothers call Joseph, they call them, he's a daydreamer, because Joseph had a big dream. He had a dream that his oldest brother, even his mom and dad, will bow before him. I mean, wow, that's what a dream, huh? If you have that dream, don't share it with your mother and father and your brothers. Just learn from Joseph, okay? They call them a daydreamer. Here, daydreamer comes. But Joseph was no daydreamer. Joseph was a hard worker. Joseph had a plan. Maybe he didn't quite knew the plan, but he worked hard. He got into part of first house, he worked his way to the top. He got into the prison, he worked his way to the top. God supernaturally opens the door, he becomes a prime minister. He saves the nation of Egypt and saves his own nation of Israel and supplies for the most, for that part of the world with food. Have an action plan. Set measurable goals. Put dates on them. Here's the problem sometimes when people do the first step and they start having goals in their life. And their goal is like, I wanna make a million a year. Well, it's awesome, it's great. I mean, I would say go for more. Why settle for a million? But let's just say make a million a year. And that's the goal that they have. But they're making $2,000 a month. Well, you're gonna get really, you're gonna just get discouraged on that goal really, really fast. Because $2,000 a month and that probably bring you about 20,000 a year plus, minus. And a million dollars, that's not incomparable. You set goals that you can achieve. I wanna double my income. I wanna go from 2,000 to 4,000. And I wanna do it by the end of the year. Or I wanna do it in one year. I wanna do it in two years. I wanna do it in 18 months. Okay, you stride for it. You got to that point. Now you have more confidence in yourself. Now your self-esteem is built. Now you know you can go further. Now I wanna go from making 4,000. I wanna set the goal to make 10,000. You reach that goal and you go next. You say, why to set the dates? Because it will make you everyday to push you forward. Push you forward. You begin to say, oh man, I'm running out of time. I gotta work harder. I gotta come up with an idea. I gotta open a business. I gotta do something to get to that goal. If your goal just stays up in the air, you'll say, oh, I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow. Tomorrow comes. Next thing you know, already in 2016, we were already in eighth month, August, and some of us have not done anything. We haven't even started our New Year's resolution. Time flies. If you don't put a date on it, you don't push yourself to achieve it. What do you say? Well, you say, what if I put a date for it and I did not come even close to it? Be thankful where you got. Because if you would not set the goal, you would have stayed where you were. You've got further than you were before. Don't give up on the goal. Set another date and keep pushing for it. Keep pushing for it. Keep pushing. Just because you didn't reach that goal within a year. Don't quit on it. Don't get discouraged. Remember that if you would have not set the goal, you will have been where you were. At least you are a bit further than you were now. Keep going. Set measurable goals so you can track your progress. When you set big goals, when you have big dreams, the bigger the dream, the longer time it takes. It's easy to get discouraged. Once you get discouraged, you stop working on your dream, your goal, and where God wants to take you. If you are tracking your progress, if you're having goals that you achieve day after day, journal, have things, write significant things that happen to you. Write little progress that you make so that when you're discouraged, you can go back to it. See God's faithfulness. How far has God taken you? And you say to yourself, if God brought me to this place, he's gonna take me further. If God didn't fail me up to this point, that means he has a plan for me. He has a destiny. He's gonna take me further. Am I helping somebody? This is how you become a person of success. This is the blueprint to become a successful man and woman, a person that will make a difference in your life, in your family, and make a difference in the world around you, amen? And point number three, where I just wanna spend more time on it, do something. Turn to your neighbor and say, do something. A lot of people, not a lot of people, I'm lying, people that get to this, to stage number two, where actually set goals and they have a, get a plan. They write their schedule down. They begin to kinda, they break their schedule down of every day, what I'm gonna do here, what I'm gonna do there, what I'm gonna do on the weekends, what I'm gonna do next week, what I'm gonna do a week afterwards. And even if they get to that stage, a lot of times, they just don't do it. They just quit. You know, by January 5th, 80% of people quit on their New Year's resolution 15 days afterwards. They just, I'm gonna go to the gym tomorrow. Tomorrow comes. You know what I feel tired today? I'm gonna go tomorrow for sure. I'm gonna wake up early. And tomorrow, not only you didn't go, you slept in and were late to work. And tomorrow turns into after tomorrow and after tomorrow. And that's our life. That's how most, that's how 80% of people live their life. Do you wanna be above average? Do you wanna achieve, accomplish something great in your life? You gotta change your habits. You're gonna change what you do. Success is hidden in application, write that down. Success is hidden in application. There are people that have so much knowledge, yet they do nothing with it. They have college degrees, they have knowledge of how to do and how not to do, and they tell everybody what to do, except they don't do it themselves. You all of you have those uncles and aunts that give you financial advice, yet they're dead up to the throat. Yeah, I, sadly I have those too. But success is hidden not in knowledge. Knowledge is the key. But in application. Matthew chapter seven, verse 24, Jesus says this. Everyone who hears these words of mine and what and does them will be like a wise man who builds a house on a rock and a foolish man builds a house on a sand. Sand, it's easier to build a house on a sand. A wise man takes longer. He puts an application. Probably they both went to some kind of a carpenter's school or something like that, a construction school. One man decided to apply his knowledge and dig and put in foundation like you're supposed to be. The other one ignores the instructions and builds it on a house because it's faster, it's better, he doesn't have to put much time. Bible says the time of test came and one was justified, another one was destroyed. The point of what Jesus is saying is that it's not the hearing, it's the application that will make you successful. It's by doing something. It's by applying, taking that little knowledge that you have and applying it and becoming successful in your life. Proverbs chapter six, verse nine through 11 says this. Read, listen to this. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep, a little sheep? A little slumber, a little folding of hands to rest and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed robber. What the scripture says is that folding of hands and a little nap here and there at all asleep will surely, that's a promise from God, turn you into poor person. You have to begin to work and do something. I want you to look at the statistics of wealthy people versus poor people. It says this. 70% of wealthy eat less than 300 calories of junk food. 97 of poor people eat more than 300 calories of junk food. 23% of wealthy gamble, 52% of poor people gamble. 80% of people are focused on accomplishing some single goal in a day, only 12% of people do. 76% of wealthy exercise, Arabic, whatever that word is, for four days a week, 23% of people do. 63% of wealthy listen to an audio book during communes to work versus 5% of poor people do. 81% of wealthy maintain a to-do list versus 19% of poor. 63% of wealthy parents make their children read two or more books of non-fiction books a month versus 3% of people. 70 of wealthy parents make their children volunteer 10 hours or more a month versus 3% of poor people. 80% of wealthy make happy birthday phone calls versus 11% of poor people. 67 of wealthy write down their goals versus 17% of poor people. 88 of wealthy read 30 minutes or more each day for educational or career reasons versus 2%. Let's go to the next slide. Six of wealthy say what's undermined versus 69% of the poor. Now you can, from this statement alone, you can determine where you're gonna end up. 79 of wealthy network five hours or more each month versus 16% of poor. 67 of wealthy watch one hour or less of TV every day versus 23% of poor. 6% of wealthy watch reality TV versus 78% of poor. If you cut that out right here and just spend reading, I promise you you're gonna see some results in your finances. 44% of wealthy wake up three hours before work to start versus only 3% of people. 74 of wealthy teach good daily success habits to the children versus only 1% of poor. 84% of wealthy believers believe good habits create opportunity luck versus 4% of poor. 76 of wealthy believe bad habits create detrimental luck versus 9% of poor. 86 of wealthy believe in lifelong education and self-improvement versus 5% of poor. And last one 86 of wealthy love reading versus 26% of poor. Now I want you to notice all the way up to number 17, first 16 of them, it's all about do. They have a task list, they have a goal, they have this, they do this, they read, they do, they do, they do. Only about three of them here talks about believe. Now, we've been covering about belief and believing, it's very, very important. But do you see the difference? Do you see the difference what makes a person rich and what makes a person poor? It's what they do that makes a difference. Where do you wanna be today? Where do you wanna be five years from now? Do you just wanna be a person that has a wishful thinking? A person that wishes to be like that song Mars Bruno wrote, I wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad. But wanting to be a billionaire and doing something about it is two different things. By the way, when they ask you why a billionaire, not why a millionaire, he says, well because million dollars is not that much nowadays. So I would say live to buy a hire. All joking aside is we gotta put action to work. Bible says that everything that he does will prosper. Everything that he does is prosper. Well, I wanna ask you today, what are you doing today? What are you working on today? What project have you taken on? What is your hands doing? Bible says that all the works of your hands will be blessed. But are your hands doing something else besides flipping or remote control or playing a halo or whatever they play nowadays? Pokemon Go, that's the one. At least you get an exercise walking around. But my question is, what are you providing for God to bless? What are you doing with your life? Let's look into just a plan of action. I'll give you five quick things before we wrap it up. Number one, educate yourself. Educate yourself. Study, learn. Continuously improve yourself in your area. If it's construction, if it's cars, if it's engineering, if it's a medical field, constantly improve yourself. Subscribe to magazines, subscribe to articles, subscribe to blog. Guys, today we're drowning in the world of information. So much information. It's only for you to pick and choose what you want. What you want to receive. Somebody said that we're drowning in the world of an issue of information yet starving for wisdom. Today, information is everywhere. Choose the right information, advance yourself. I spend 30, 40 minutes every single day reading, just random articles here and there about electronics, about politics. I read about, I read about even things like science and about business, different articles every single day to enrich myself, to stimulate myself, to motivate myself, to get my mind working, to get my juices flowing. You have to educate yourself. Number two, get a coach. Get a coach. Your coach can be your pastor, your leader, your parents. Your coach could be your employee, employer. You know, you can learn from your, you know, most employers are willing to share the secret of success and how they got there. You know, most people that succeeded, they're easily, they easily converse, you can start in conversation with them very easily. If you ask them for tips and ways of success and how they succeeded, they'll be more than happy to share with you how they succeeded. It's like they're pride. It's like they're accomplishment. Hey, somebody recognize that I succeeded. Of course I'm gonna let you know. Hey, here are the things, you know. Just ask. Nobody's gonna punch you in the nose for asking. Have a coach. Before you get into a certain area, find those people that succeeded in those areas. Those that are failed, you can learn from both of them. Ask how to succeed in it. Don't jump with all your two feet in it. You might drown. Educate yourself. Find a coach in this area. Your coach can be a book, podcast. Google can be your coach. You know that? If you do it properly and use it properly. Have a coach. Practice number three. Practice. Practice, what did I say? Makes it perfect. But you say, well, how can I practice business when I don't have money to start? How can I practice buying a property when I don't have the money? How can I practice this or that or that? If I, I can't do it right now. I don't have money. Maybe I don't have time. I'm still working in school. I'm still finishing school. I'm working all these crazy hours. Do virtual deals. Before I bought my first real estate property, I did many, many virtual purchases. What do I mean by that? I went and found a place that I want to buy. I ran the numbers. I asked different people what is gonna take to buy it? What's gonna be the interest rate? What's gonna be the payment? How much is gonna cash flow? What needs to be fixed? I did literally hundreds of deals before I purchased one. I'm in the middle of land development and before I got that land development that I'm working on, I did probably at least 20 to 30 of them. I actually went and told the man with the real estate agent, told them that I had the money. I'm interested. I one time I even signed a deal and gave $500 earnest money. When I knew there's no way I could do it. Pulled that land. Yeah, I lost that earnest money but I'll tell you something that I learned. I went to the city. I figured out what needs to be done. What are the codes? Who do I need to hire? How much is gonna cost? How much is engineering? How much is short-plating? How much is this and that? I couldn't do. I didn't have money to do it at that moment. It cost millions and millions of dollars but I've learned something. And when opportunity presented that I could take advantage of it, I knew what to do and I took advantage of it. There was a time I bought a car for Fusion that I have now that I'm selling if you wanna buy it, you can talk to me. But I bought the car and it was brand new 2014 and there was a damage on the front and so I was trying to buy off parts for that car from a junkyard anywhere that I could to get it cheaper because from dealers, buying parts from dealers is like, might as well go buy a new car from them. And so I bought all the parts but I couldn't find a grill for the front. So I went to look at the dealers, how much the grill cost and the grill cost about $700. I was like, I put together a car for less than that. And so I was wondering, man, it can't be, this grill is simple, it's plastic, except that there's like eight different pieces and each piece costs like $70, $120 for another piece and this piece and this piece. And I'm thinking to myself, look, I bet somebody else has the problem that I do. So let me find a solution how to find a cheaper grill and create one or make one. I mean, it can be hard to mold a plastic grill and put it on the car, save myself a bunch of money and then maybe start selling. So what I started doing is I went on different websites to figure out which factory I need to go to get moldings. I contacted some companies from overseas, some in America, specifically ones in China. I learned about different kinds of plastics, which ones are bendable, which ones are breakable, which ones are stronger. I never used it, but I learned the molding process. I learned how it takes or not molding, casting process. I learned about different plastics, which one responds how to the heat and all this stuff. I never end up doing and mass producing all this stuff, but I learned something. Next time opportunity presents to me to cast something or to do some kind of mass production or maybe some kind of idea, I know where to go, which companies to contact for molding, I know about plastic and about all these things. And I can go on and on and on and on about all these things. This is how I started my screen printed business. I knew nothing about it. I went and bought a DVD that taught me how to screen print. I went and bought the equipment, I learned myself and then I had a successful screen printed business. Same thing with, I knew nothing about satellites and communication. Just jumped into it. Prof. T. B. Joshua Colts said, Hey, is any of you need to know anything about satellites and communication? There's a project in Georgia that I need somebody to go and look at the property and look at the equipment and give me feedback. I was like, sure, yes, I do. I had no idea about it. Me and Brent, we went to Georgia. We had those people in Georgia educate us about the satellites, the equipment, the backup power, everything that it takes to run the whole facility. And guess what? Now I know how the satellites and how telecommunication runs through satellites. Will I ever use it in my life? I don't know, maybe, maybe not, but I've learned something and it opened doors for me. I mean, I can go on and on and on. I mean, things like, I had an idea one day. I was taking photos, you know, you can do scan. Like I scan a document now on your phone, you take a picture and you can send somebody. And one time I had to scan like 50 or 60 pages. So you can imagine how painful it was to, you know, trying to align the thing, make sure the lighting is right, make sure there's no shadow and all these things. And I was, and after doing 50 or 60 of them, I was like, there must be a better idea to do this. And so I started thinking about having like a scanner where you place a phone and an app and you place a paper, you know, like one of those automatic feeders and then just app just takes the perfect photos every single time focused and with the thing. And I drew up the, you know, what it's gonna take. I took apart a printer or a church and I look at all the gears, how it operates, how the feeder works. I looked into creating a software. I wrote everything down. I practically put together a virtual business. I never end up going through with it. I look at the market share, what's the possibilities, what's the, you know, what kind of market it is and you know, how much I'll be able to charge for it. I never end up going through it but I've completed a successful idea, at least in my head. I figure out how much it's gonna cost, how much this is gonna do, what I have to do, what kind of people I'm gonna have to bring on board to make this happen. Nobody's stopping you from making virtual deals. Whether it's buying a real estate property. Whether it's, nobody's gonna stop you from going and asking a bank how much do you have to pay for down payment. What kind of payments are you gonna be? What kind of credit score are you gonna have to have? Most people don't even know that. They just kind of blindly go in or even buy in a car. I mean, it's the things like these that sets aside one person from another. There was a time where I had a hedge fund business when I was trading the market and I came up with an algorithm to do an automatic execution of trades. I knew nothing about coding. I knew nothing about writing algorithms. I knew nothing about logic and how it's supposed to do. I partnered up with a person and he taught me all of these things. I shared my side of the knowledge of trading. He shared his side of the knowledge of making algorithm, what it goes in it. And today, if I come to the place and opportunity where I'll need to come up with some kind of algorithm or some kind of app that runs on algorithms, I at least I'll be able to have a conversation with the person and tell him in general what I want and they will execute on details. You understand? You have to do something. You have to engage in work and God will bless yourself, bless you. God will guide your path. You make a plan Bible says and God directs your steps. In other scripture, God says that the steps or the righteous are directed by the Lord. But if you don't make a step, if you don't go some direction, I tell you, I have notebooks and my wife can tell you, sometimes she would catch me in the middle of the night at two o'clock. I can sleep, my mind is working and I'm writing things down. I'm writing things down. I've wrote maybe a hundred different business plans for a hundred different things. I have some things I'll tell you it's laughable but nonetheless I practiced. Practice and the last thing, or two more things, work hard, work very hard, work very hard. What I was talking about last Sunday, you have to work, you have to be diligent in your work and the last one is pray even harder. Prophet D.P. Joshua says this, work is everything depends on you. Pray is everything as if everything depends on God. God is waiting on you to make a move. Will you make a move? Will you begin to do something? Say, do something. Say, do something. God promises to bless the work of your hands but you gotta work, you gotta work. You gotta let your hands do something. You gotta take your hands off of remote control and begin to put it into some kind of a, to do something productive, something practical, whether it's studying and having a career, whether it's coming up with some kind of an invention, whether it's coming up with some kind of creative invention or manufacturing or something or some kind of idea. You know that you don't even have to create or make something to be successful. You can just have an idea that'll improve another idea. That will generate millions of dollars because of it and you can get a portion from it. You know you can, in this day and age it's the easiest way to make money. Literally a guy in a basement with his friends came up with an app called Instagram and six months later got bought out for six billion dollars. Facebook started in a basement. Google started by two Russians. I mean, today the possibilities are endless. My question is, do you have a plan? If you do have a plan, is it clear enough? Is it, you know exactly what you're going for? Do you have a plan of action? Do you know what you're gonna do next three months, next six months, next year? Do you wanna have employees in your company if you own a company? How big do you want the company to be? Or do you always wanna, or do you just wanna own a company and just always work by yourself? Pretty much have another job which comes with a lot more responsibilities and stress. It's up to you what you do. The habits, the small things, reading books, listening to podcasts, listening to audio podcasts. You, in this day and age, it's up to you to succeed. It's up to you what you're gonna do and God will bless the work of your hands. Did you receive anything, church? Come on, put your hands together.