 Tony Gaskins here. For those of you for the Blessed Tribe members, if you make it on here, y'all make sure when I get this situated to let folks know it's not a Q&A. I just popping in to do my Sunday sermon live today, but I gotta make sure my service working. I was having a little issues a little earlier, so I turned off my Wi-Fi, so hopefully my service working and I can, I'm at my son's soccer game, so they got to get here an hour early. And so I typically get some work done in that hour before the game. He always got to be here an hour before so they could fake warm up because they still start the game and be cold, but I'm not sure what they get an hour early for. And this is another thing too that I've learned that I've experienced is my son, my oldest son, 14, these youth sports today, they don't care about your relationship with God. My seven-year-old got a photo shoot today at 10 a.m. So if your church got an 8 a.m. service, got a 10 a.m. service and 11 30 service, they cut and write in the middle of everything for your child to come do a photo shoot. And then my oldest son, he had a game yesterday and now you got a game today. So it goes to show that in this day and age, you got to have a relationship with God for yourself. You got to know God yourself. You can't depend on being able to sit inside of a building to get to know God. You got to have your own personal relationship because when you have kids and they have their ministry and the Lord put that on my heart, he said, listen, you had kids and soccer is your son ministry. That's how he want to be a light. That's how he want to be a light for me. So that's your dependent. You got to have him in the place he need to be and you brought him in the world. So it ain't fair that you cut his life off and not give him the opportunities to realize his dreams when he's your dependent. When he wouldn't be here had you not brought him here. So I had that revelation because I see a lot of times I see a lot of times parents take their child's dream so that they could be in a building on Sunday, quote unquote, getting, you know, getting closer to God and not a child can't grow and do what they wanna do and fulfill their dreams and be their best because their parent had them in a building every Sunday and thought that that would make them more of a Christian like they say sitting in the garage ain't gonna make you a car. So Lord gave me that revelation is you got to have a real relationship on your own. But I was thinking today and I wanted to pop in and chat with you that's about for a little while as I'm thinking about lack because one of the things I'm noticing is that we live in lack and it's what I call broke minded but we live in lack and we live in a state of penny pinching and we live in a state of barely getting by and we don't really have a sense of abundance because any and everything we get, we want to spend it, we wanna live out of it and we wanna realize the fullest extent of our income and a lot of times we can get caught up keeping up with the Joneses and doing too much. And a lot of times we don't understand balance and we don't understand seasons and one of the things that I see all around me and in my own life for so many years is lack from paycheck to paycheck and never really get into a place of freedom, a place where we can enjoy life and appreciate life and come to a space to where we can be grateful. And as I was reading a word and I saw where God says, he closed the lilies of the field and he feeds the fowls of the air. So how much more will I do for you, my child? And a lot of times we speak lack and we speak scarcity and we speak brokenness and we speak downtrodden and all of this stuff over our life and we say it out loud and we claim that instead of claiming abundance, instead of claiming overflow, we claim lack and we move like that and we think like that and it's one thing to, you gotta be able to stretch your mind to the place to where you can see more. You can see more for yourself and when you can see more for yourself and your mind, what your mind is gonna do is it's gonna give you a solution, it's gonna give you a plan so that you can be more, so that you can realize more. So one of the things that I did, instead of saying my glass is half empty, I started saying it's half full and then I started saying my glass is full and so what happens is my mind stretches and I can see more and I can do more. So you know how crazy it is and the reason why I say this is because you passing through earth and stress kills. So you have relationship stress and that's what we're trying to alleviate is relationship stress, stress for the most part on my page and I saw a thing that said, relationship stress is the number one form of stress, that it's more stressful than work-related stress, than family-related stress, than death-related stress, when a family member or a friend, they die, that relationship stress is the most toxic form of stress and that it increases your chances of a premature death by 300 to 500% by natural causes. And I realized that so I focus on the foundation of life which is relationships, we seek in relationships but after you do a lot of work in that area, it's other types of stress that'll take you out and the next stress after relationship stress that'll take us out is financial stress, robbing Peter to pay Paul and living paycheck to paycheck. And the reason why a lot of times we live paycheck to paycheck is because we live out of everything that's in the check and we don't store up anything for the hard times for the rainy days and we have to get to a place to where you can really understand abundance and you can trust God and you can walk with God and you can not fret in the middle of what you're going through and never and in any way, in any aspect, speak it over yourself. So many times I'll see people who they're going through and they're experiencing something in their life and they will write it out in the comments on social media saying that they broke. I post a new course or I post a video and somebody said, I'll never find love. I never, it's so hard to find love. I never have a happy relationship. Not only did you think it, but you took the time to write it. So now your brain accepts that as the truth and you can't move away from that. You're going to walk right into it. I was talking to a client the other day and the client asked me, Tony, why you don't believe in horoscopes? Why you don't read horoscopes and zodiac? What does zodiac mean and all of that? And I said, because for one, that stuff related to divination, a different form of sorcery. And if I go read something that tells me I am this way based on the time that I was born, the day that I was born, I have just locked myself into that because my mind will believe anything that it reads. So now I got to do extra work trying to break that barrier, trying to break those boundaries because as humans we always seeking the answers to the unknown. So we want to know what's going to happen tomorrow. A lot of times people write me when I do a Q and A, people write me like I'm like I could see the future. They writing me for an answer that will give them peace about their future as if I'm a psychic, which is working for the devil or a prophet, which is working for God. But they essentially saying, will my ex come back to me and will we live happily ever after? And I have to remind them I can't see the future but we want to know the answers for tomorrow. And that's why so many people get into these horoscopes and these zodiac signs because you trying to get the answers to the unknown and you trying to solve a puzzle instead of walking by faith, instead of naming and claiming, instead of saying what you want to be, instead of saying what you want to do and who you going to be and what you going to do. And I remember reading one of them things that a lot of people talk about and they got whole Instagram pages about your zodiac sign and it'll tell you who you are and half of it might be true and the other half might be false but half that is false we will do everything in our power to make it true. And then we will get into a rut and we'll go into a place in our life to where we living in a way and we might be living toxic and we might be living out of order and we'll say, oh, I'm a Capricorn, I'm a Libra. So, you know, that's how I have to be. You know, that's what I got to do. That's what I got to do because I'm this, I'm that. And we put boundaries on ourself. And then I post some, hey, life code certification or this right here and I see a whole bunch of people like, I can't afford it. I can't afford it. I can't afford it. And it's like, if you can't afford something, don't put that out in the world. Don't write that in cement. Keep that to yourself. And tell yourself, I can afford it. I will be able to afford it. So your mind will start to see solutions so you can go to the next level. When you hear somebody talk about a relationship, don't tell yourself, I'll never find a happy relationship. I'll never be happy. I can never meet somebody. Tell yourself, my time is coming so that your mind can stretch and see the possibilities because if you tell yourself, you can't have something. If you tell yourself, you can't do something, guess what? Your countenance changes. Your mind shuts down. Your smile goes to a frown. So if you telling yourself that something is not for you and you walking through your life and I tell myself, I'm not blessed and nothing is going right and everything is going bad and nothing gonna work out for me, if I'm saying all of that, what is my countenance gonna be? I'm gonna be moping and complaining. I'm gonna be moping and complaining. I'm gonna be walking around. I'm gonna have my head down and my blessing could be standing in the elevator with me. My blessing could be a conversation that I would've had if my head was up and a smile was on my face. My blessing could be the networking that would've transpired had my mindset been telling me that I'm in the blessing. I'm living in a blessing. That because I'm breathing, I'm blessed. That because I'm living, I'm blessed and I'm blessed going and I'm blessed coming. I'm blessed in the now and I'm gonna be blessed tomorrow. I was blessed yesterday. And so when you change that mindset and you stop speaking scarcity, stop speaking lack because your mind will believe everything you tell it. Your subconscious mind cannot decipher between fact or fiction. Anything it hears, anything it reads, anything that it is told, it believes it and it moves towards it. So you determine what you're going to believe. You can't control what's gonna happen to you but you can control how you respond to it, not react to it, how you respond to it. And this where you have to go. You have to get to that place to where you take the limits off of your mind. You take the boundaries off of your mind. You know, when I was making, when I was a dog and I was living reckless and we counted the amount of women we could get determine our manhood. It was absolutely crazy for me to say that one day I'm gonna meet my wife and be 100% faithful. That was so unbelievable. That was so far fetched but I knew that's what my heart wanted. My heart wanted to be settled and secure in real love. But because of the environment that I grew up in and the way that we live, a happy healthy marriage without knock down drag out arguments was so far fetched. To be in a relationship now going on 15 years of marriage and we barely argue and when I say argue, I mean getting mad and getting silent. That never happens in our relationship. We go through that probably once a quarter to where we have a disagreement. And you know what the disagreement is about? And I tell y'all this all the time. It's typically about my wife yelling too loud at the soccer game. And I almost had to take a man life because she yelling too loud. He go to yelling loud. I'm quiet, I don't say a word. Then he go to threaten to knock me out. So now he finna lose his life over a soccer game. And I had to get on my wife about that. That's what we disagree about. But coming from a place where all I saw around me was domestic violence in a relationship. All I saw around me was divorce. All I saw around me was kids being abandoned by their father, abandoned by their mother. All I saw around me was abusive mothers who would curse their child out, beat on their child. I remember watching women in my family. I saw a woman in my family pick up that telephone. You know the telephone that was shaped like a square and it got to receive with that sit on the top of it. Pick up that telephone and throw it like a baseball pitch and hit my cousin, he was a boy, hit my cousin in the arm with it while he running away from her. That was his mama. The women in my family, they didn't have a, there was no father to my cousins. None of them knew their father. That's what I saw growing up. I was the only one that would be at my grandma house that knew my daddy. And I had another cousin who knew her daddy, but he was in a thing where they cut the head off of chickens and dance around in circles. And they did voodoo and all of that right there. So her upbringing was rough in that household because her daddy was in the voodoo and all the other stuff, he was from Haiti. But he wasn't into Christianity or nothing like that. He was into other spiritual stuff that they did from his homeland. And a part of that too turned into him being abusive to her. So she was the only one who knew her dad out of my mama, 12 siblings. So for me to say, I'm gonna be in a happy, healthy marriage, that's the furthest thing from my reality. I remember seeing my female cousins after they would be beat by a male and pregnant by a male, have one or two kids from a male, they would then give up on males because it was so toxic, so abusive, and then they would start dating females and leave the males alone. And I would see them. I remember a lady coming over to my grandma's house and half of her skin was black and half of her skin was white and it was not vitiligo, vitilago. I said, what happened to her? Oh, your auntie burnt them. Your auntie burnt them with on hot, hot grease. Like what, in the room? I remember being at my grandma's house, another auntie come over there hunched over, she limping, say, what happened to her? She got thrilled, ribs broke by a boyfriend. I remember being over there, another woman come up, whole face swole up, whole face swole up. Couldn't eat, it looked like a softball was in her face. I say, what happened to her? Your uncle broke her jaw. Wow, another time, auntie come up. I say, what happened to her? She had permanently swole lips. She had full knots, knots on both lips, knots on both eyes. She had a thumb that was turned to this, like he was doing a right turn and it was stuck like that. I say, what happened to her? Her boyfriend's beat on her. I remember talking to my grandma and she telling me about, she bit the finger off of one of her baby daddies. Another one, she splashed hot water on him. And so you see, I'm seeing this and it's all around me and who would have thought? And so a lot of times people don't realize why people do what they do. That's why I teach on relationships because I saw it destroy homes. I saw it destroy people. I saw it ruin people. And every single woman I knew had been violated before the age of eight. And people wonder why I do what I do because of what I come from. But for me to say, hey, I want a marriage that's healthy, that's whole, that I wanna change my life and not be a product of my environment. But I want every environment I go into to be a product of me. That was far fetched, but I had to say it. See, you got to see it in your mind before you see it with your eyes. You got to see it in your mind before you see it with your eyes. It got to be a thought. It got to be a vision before it's reality. And so stop speaking lack over yourself. Stop speaking damnation over yourself. Stop speaking curses, generational curses over yourself. Stop speaking poverty over yourself. Stop speaking oppression over yourself. Stop, you know, I see everything through the lens of color because I'm raised in Florida. So because I'm raised in the South, because Clue-Club's clan came to my middle school, it's hard for me to see stuff outside of the lens of color. So my son played soccer and he meshed around and he lowered his shoulder and he run somebody over and the ref coming to him out. But then when the white kid do it and he don't get chewed out, I said, oh, my son got chewed out cause he black. My son come and do a soccer play and the ref call a foul. And then another kid, a white kid do the same thing and the ref don't call a foul. I said, oh, he did that cause my son black. And here I am trapped in that loop because of how I was raised. And this what I recognize and this what I realized. So I have to now walk with a confidence. I got to walk with a presence that says I deserve to be here and I'm gonna get everything that I deserve. I'm gonna get everything that God got for me and can't nobody stand in my way. And so I have to approach life like that to get outside of that loop that my brain may be in. And that's what you got to realize and understand. And so this is the thing. When God say, I clothe the lilies of the field and I feed the fowls of the air, how much more will I do for you my child? You got to know that your tomorrow is taken care of. So why you got ulcers today? Why you crying today? Why you worried about today? Instead you got to walk by faith. You got to believe and you got to know. And this one thing that I believe in that a lot of people might not believe in and I've heard people speak against this. A lot of people speak against this right here. But one thing about me is I believe, I believe in working twice as hard as I pray. A lot of people just wanna, a lot of people just wanna pray. Just wanna pray and then don't do nothing. I believe in working twice as hard as I pray because faith without works is dead. And what I mean by that is I got to get out and I can't just say, Lord, heal the world and then sit down. I got to show up on here and I got to share a message with somebody cause it's gonna bless somebody. It's gonna help somebody. So I got to do my work. I got to do my work. If I say, Lord, I need you to bless. I need a blessing. The men, they was on a boat. They was on a boat with Jesus and they'd been out there and they was like, man, we done been out here all day. We ain't caught nothing. We ain't caught nothing. And they was like, you know, ain't nothing gonna happen. And Jesus say, hey, listen, cast the net on the right side of the boat. Cast the net on the right side of the boat. And thank y'all for the super chats and somebody just sent me cash. I've seen it pop up on my notification. God bless y'all, I really appreciate it. But y'all, I'm speaking to you right now. So y'all forgive me if I miss it. And they were like, man, we done been out here all day. What you talking about? Cast the net over there. When the last time you fish? When the last time you went fishing? You don't know nobody know fishing. Ain't you the son of God? You ain't got the fish. You turn five loads and two fish, defeat a multitude. What you know about this? Hey, cast the net over there like I told you, nah? So when they finally listen to Jesus and they cast the net over there, the net went in the water and the next thing you know, so many fish in that net, they couldn't even pull it up. They had to just ride back and let it float in the water. They couldn't even pull it up. It was so many fish in there. See, you can't just pray, you're gonna have to cast the net. You're gonna have to cast the net. You're gonna have to do something. So when I say, Lord, I need a blessing. Something got to give, something got to happen. I go to work him. I don't just pray and sit idle. I go to work. Cause God say, study the ant. The ant don't stop working. The ant don't stop or the proverb tell you that too much of that folding of your arms and too much slumbering, it's gonna lead to poverty. So you got to get up and you got to go to work. It's so many people that I see just crying, broke, crying, broke, crying, broke, but don't wanna do nothing extra. Don't wanna do nothing extra. I refuse. If I'm broke from my job, I'm finna start working on a dream. And I'm gonna balance the dream and the job until the dream becomes a job. Until the dream surpasses the job. Until I'm being paid more from my dream than I am from my job. I'm gonna balance it too. If I got to work 80 hours a week instead of 40, that's what I'm gonna do. If 40 I'm full rested and the other 40 I'm drained, that's what I'm gonna do until my breakthrough happen. And then it's gonna be a seasonal rest. I done had grind time and then I done had rest time. So I done lived it and I done seen it. I done seen where I had to work 70, 80 hours. 70 to 80 hours a week to make $60,000. And then I done seen where I had to work 10 hours a week and make seven figures. See, seasons change. Seasons change, but you got to know when it's time to grind. You got to know when it's time to do the work. And the one thing I can't stand is broke mouth people. I can't stand no broke mouth person. And what I mean by that is always cursing their life, talking about what they don't have, what they can't get, what they can't find, what can't happen, what's not working, what won't work, woe is me. It's easy to say when you're married, it's hard I help other singers. And it's like, it's gonna stay hard as long as you walk around looking like that. Somebody see you and wanna be your king, wanna be your queen and you walk around looking like a sour-faced lemon. Anybody say something to you? You got to add, what do you want? I remember the time when I'm out promoting my book. I'm at the mall promoting my book. I'm handing out the business card, promoting my book, promoting my book. And the security guard come up to me. Mall caught, Paul Blart, come up to me. Sir, you can't be in here with that. You can't be in here with that, sir. You can't be in here soliciting. I didn't know what soliciting meant at the time. I was 23 years old. I ain't had no degree. And he put me out of the mall. So I go outside now when you get out your car, I'm putting it in your hand, uh, uh, uh, because I had just got out the streets. And when I was in the street, I used to bust that little zip bag open and put it in your nose and let you smell that. Woo, what a, yeah, that's that mid grade. Yeah, that's that drove. So now that's what I'm doing on my books. I'm putting it in the hand. And I remember I went in the hand of a later business card and she was with her daughter. And she's the latest say, hold on now, now listen, do not come over here playing games because I am tired of the games. Do you want a real relationship or do you want to play games? I was like, man, man, I'm married. I said, man, I'm married. I'm coming to hand you a business card promoting my new book. Oh, oh, oh, excuse me. Excuse me. So yeah, so tell me about your book. I rather not, but I went on head and told about the book. But see, this is how we confrontational with our blessings. What if I was single? If I was single going to shoot my shot, if I got that kind of response, what I'm finna see at this point is a woman chopping me up, putting me in her freezer because she found a text message in my phone from Pizza Hut. Let me know the deliverer is on the way. And she thought P.H. stand for Felicia Henderson. You see what I'm saying? And so I had to realize, Tony, you can't block your blessings through a mind that's broken. You have to speak. So when I said I want to be married, healthy, and whole, but all I saw growing up was abuse, that was far-fetched. When I got a job and my W-2 said $19,900, at $19,900 a year, I said I want to earn six figures before the age of 30. I want to earn six figures before the age of 30. I was 25 years old making $19,900 a year when I said I want to earn six figures. And then I said, well, what is six figures now? It sound good. I heard somebody say it. I said that's $100,000. How in the world am I finna go from $20,000 to $100,000? That's five times what I'm making. Guess what? I had to say it in order to see it. People always say, well, it's easier said than done. Everything is easier said than done, but it got to be said in order to be done. It got to be said in order to be done, but we get so caught up in lack. We get so caught up in scarcity. We get so caught up in limited beliefs. We get so caught up in being afraid to believe, being afraid to think about the next level, and we get scared of heights. You can't be scared of heights when you've been given wings to fly. You cannot be scared of heights when you've been given wings to fly. So you have to understand that the next level depends on you. And if you can't believe it, then you can't receive it. And we've been hearing that since we was children and we never let it soak in, but you got to hear that. You got to believe that. You got to hold on to that. And so when I said that, that was so far fetched. And then guess what? In a matter of a couple of years, my brain showed me in my stillness, in my stillness, when I would lie down at night, I would lie in stillness. I would lie in peace. I would lie in quiet. And I would just envision, what can I do? With what I have to help me get to where I want to be. And my brain, when I took the limits off of it, and I allowed my mind to be boundless, I could then see the visions, the ideas. Do this, do this, do this. So I started stringing things together. I said, oh, I could write a book telling my story. Then I said, oh, I can ghost write books for other people who can't write because I wrote my book in 10 days. So that must be a gift because I heard it took this person a year to write a book. I wrote my book in 10 days, one, two hours at a time. So that 130 page book, so that must be a gift. Let me ghost write. Oh, you know how to write, but you don't know how to publish. Okay, let me be an author consultant. Okay, I wrote about the book, you got questions. I don't have free time, so let me charge for my time. Oh, this is called consulting. This is called coaching. Oh, it's people getting paid for coaching because they're giving value and they're giving time that they cannot redeem on their death bed. So they put a price on their time for their value and it's a whole industry for it. I said, oh, let me, okay. Somebody told me that on a, because I was seeking knowledge, I heard on a conference call a tele-seminar where the man say, if you wrote a book, you could coach on that subject. Then he said, you could speak on that subject. Then he said, you could make a course on that subject. So it's book, course, speak, coach. One thing become four streams of income. So now I'm 23, 24, 25 years old, but because I said, I wanna take my family from $20,000 a year to $100,000 a year. So my mind said, what can I do? You see what I'm saying? You gotta stop speaking scarcity. You gotta stop speaking lack. You gotta stop speaking failure. You gotta stop speaking condemnation and damnation and trials and tribulation over your life. And you have to trust and believe that if the files of the air don't go a day without being fed, how much more will he do for you, his child? If the lilies of the field are clothed, how much more will he do for you, his child? So then one thing became another and guess what? When I hit six figures, I didn't hit six figures. I hit 150,000. I literally went from way below 100,000 to 150,000. And I said, wow. But see, that's what your mind will do. With a little bit of flavor, a little blessing dabbed on it. And then when I got there, I was crazy. I say, I wanna go from 100 to 250. I said, I done tried this before it worked. Let me say it again. Hey, I wanna go from 100 to 250. And on one side in a little piece of my mind, it's like, boy, you crazy. Boy, you crazy. Boy, you come from nothing. Boy, your parents never even made more than 50 grand in a year. Hey, what are you talking about? You wanna be at 250. What you talking about? You want a healthy relationship. When all you saw was abuse growing up from your family, not my household, but all around me. What are you talking about? See, you had that little thing right there that's in your mind, that's in your ear, but you gotta keep speaking what you want. You gotta keep believing what you want. And then you gotta work towards it. So if I want a healthy marriage, guess what I gotta work on me? If I want a healthy business, guess what I gotta work on me? I got to do the work. I got to stop speaking lack. I got to stop speaking doubt. I got to stop speaking failure. So guess what? I said, I want 250. So then, okay, instead of ghost writing for 1500, let me see what ghost writing go for. Oh, this man got a contract on Google. He charge 20,000, but he older than me and he white, this is what I said to myself. I'm young, I ain't got a college degree. I got to charge 10K. So I charge 10K to ghost write. And then I started getting clients. It was celebrity wives that was hiring me to ghost write their book. $10,000, one nothing to them. So I write their book, 100 pages. Then Olympians, gold medalists start hiring me to write their book. People was coming to me, just from me sending tweets out of quotes on Twitter. So because I cast the net. See, over here when I'm fishing alone, without God, nothing happening. But then when I say, what can I do? How it's gonna work? Cast the net on the right side of the boat. You essentially doing the same thing you've been doing, but now you locked in with the X factor that a lot of people don't believe real. People believe, oh, the same people who gave you the N word is the same people who gave you the Holy Bible. I say, okay, well, y'all using the N word not like it don't mean nothing. So what, so what you mean? It must not be too bad a thing. Y'all the way y'all using it. So let me use this Holy Bible then. And guess what? It was keys in them. It was keys to the city in that Holy Bible. It was liberation in that Holy Bible. It was freedom in that Holy Bible. I'm like, whoa, whoa, there's some Jews in here. Oh my goodness, you mean to tell me these are the principles I should be living by? And these are the promises that come with it. Let me try this. Let me try the word by the word at the word. And guess what? The blessing came, the blessing came. And now with blessings, the adversary always try to add burdens because it's people around you who they wanna see you sacrifice, but then they wanna be in your success. They don't wanna be in your sacrifice. They don't want the heat from the kitchen, but they want the aroma at the dinner table. They want the flavor. They don't wanna help season, but they wanna taste it. And so that's where the blessing come with burdens. Now the burden don't come from he who bless you. The burden come from he who wanna steal your blessing, who wanna turn your blessing into a curse. And that's what you got to realize and understand. So here I am, I'm sitting here and I'm looking and I say, man, I want 250. And I had to lie down in my stillness. And the reason why I say I want 250 cause I say it's another level of living. Why I got the sacrifice and why I got the slave and why I got to be down here when I'm watching this man over here and he can do this right here for his family. He could do this right here for his family. That's the old way of what you already make is enough. Who said, who said I got to put a limit on my dream? Who said I got to cap my potential? Who said I want 250? I ain't see how I was gonna get there and guess what, the next year 250 came. The next year I say, I think I'm doing pretty good at 250, 250 might, hey, I want 350. Guess what, the next year 350 came. And I say, oh man, man, do I want 450? I say, I want 450. Guess what, the next year 450 came. I say, man, I want 500. I want 500 and guess what? Things change. Things change. I went back to 250 or 280. I said, whoa, hold on. Now this ain't how it's supposed to work. Hold on. Now this ain't how it's supposed to work. But see, sometimes what you got to realize, a slingshot got to be pulled back in order to go forward. See, sometimes you got to step back. If I take and I put this picture right in your face, you can't really get nothing from the picture because it's right in your face. But see, when I pull this picture back, now you could see, now you could see the beauty of the picture. So see, I had to take a couple steps back. And when I went from 500 to two fifth back, the two fifth, I'm like, hold on now. Hold on now, what's going on now? This ain't how this supposed to work. Hold on now. You supposed to be able to speak this thing and believe this thing and this thing come. But then guess what? What I saw is, see, you got a little lazy. See, you got a little complacent. See, you got to understand you could be content, but you can't be complacent. It's a difference. It's a difference between being content and being complacent. See, you got complacent. See, it started coming too easy and you got comfortable. No, you got to keep working. You got to keep grinding. You got to keep doing what you've been doing. You got to keep sowing. You got to keep growing. You got to keep going. So I'm like, oh, okay. All right, so, oh, all right. So I got to do something else. So then I had to put my hand to the plow. Put my head down and go to work. So I'm working. I'm working. I'm working and I'm working twice as hard as I'm praying. I'm working twice as hard, but I'm believing twice as hard as I'm working. And I'm moving and I'm moving. And the next thing you know, okay, all right, boom. I'm back by the 500. And then I'm at 500 and I say, I say I'm finna make a stretch. So I'm gonna make a stretch. I say, you know what? Cause see what I said I wanted in my marriage, what I said I wanted in my household, I got that. So see what mattered to me is the things that money can't buy. That's the thing that mattered most. But see what I realized, that's on me. That's on me. If I treat my wife like a queen, my household gonna be peaceful because I chose a person with character and integrity. So if I'm a good man, I don't have to worry about a marriage being hard. People always talk about marriage being hard. Marriage not hard. The people that's in it are stubborn. The marriage easy. Marriage easy when you're not hard headed. Marriage ain't hard, you hard headed. The person in the marriage. So men fear marriage. A lot of men fear marriage because they fear being with one woman for the rest of their life. They fear being a man of integrity, who is not lying, who is not cheating, who is not manipulating, who is not controlling. So they say marriage is hard. So they see marriage like a prison. Marriage is freedom. When you have integrity and you have character. So see, I had everything that money, I got everything that money can't buy. So at that point I say, well, I wanna do better in my business. I wanna give my family more. I don't wanna just be able to live and take care of my kids. I wanna be able to put something away for my kids. I wanna be able to put up for their college fund. I wanna be able to put up for the down payment on their house. I wanna be able to put up for their higher education, their advanced degrees. I wanna be able to do that. I wanna be able to go to that next level. So I'm sitting at 500, knocking on the door and I say, I want 750. And then something is, man, you crazy. You're crazy. How you finna do 750 and you don't do manual labor? But the world you finna do for 750. You know what I had to get out of my way. I had to get out of my way because I felt unrightfully privileged. So I was watching people, I was watching people create something that was 10% of what I had created. And they was doing launch parties. They was doing Instagram countdowns. They was doing whole parades for they knew product. I was writing a book a year and not batting the eye. I wasn't telling a soul. I remember when I started to promote a book, people were like, you're an author? I'm like, I've been an author for a decade. Oh, I didn't know he was an author because I just was serving, I just was giving. And so God was blessing me without me even promoting myself. I just was giving, just giving, just giving. And my quotes started reaching 20 million people a week on Facebook. So on Facebook, my quotes was reaching 20 million people a week. So my self-published books was earning 5,000 to 15,000 a month without me promoting them. People was Googling my name because they saw my quotes. And I realized, okay, it'll take me a wild account to 1,000. Let alone 10,000, 100,000, 500,000, 1 million. Facebook showing me insights that say your posts have reached 20 million people this week. And that was every single week. And then when I took off from posting, I went on vacation for a week. And when I looked at the end of that week, it say your posts reached 10 million people this week. I didn't even make a post. So I said, hmm. So the Lord say, okay, you sitting here and you being blessed from your work, from your service. But you know, it's okay to let people know that you have a product. Like don't get caught up feeling, being scared because everybody talking about fake gurus and fake dis and charlatans because you know you're not that. You know you serve from your heart. You know you give what you say you're giving and you know you charge a fraction of what the competition charging. It's okay to let people know that you exist, that you leaving a mark on the world. Ain't nothing wrong with doing what you're doing. It's something wrong with the people who doing it for the wrong reasons and doing it the wrong way. But don't confuse yourself as that if you know you're not that because this ain't that. And I said, whoa, okay, all right. So when I'm sitting there and I say, okay, instead of, I said, I want 750 because I want generational wealth. Now I wanna be able to set my grandkids up. And that thing say, boy, you crazy, man, you crazy. You ain't got no degree. You ain't got no degree. You ain't got no team. You don't have a mentor. You don't have an assistant. You ain't even got an office. How you finna do 750,000 in a year? Offer just your natural God-given gifts. You don't even, you don't take, you don't ask for donations. You don't post your cash out. You don't post your PayPal. You don't say hit the like. You don't stop the video and ask everybody to hit the like button. You don't ask nobody to subscribe. You just giving, you just serving. So how are you gonna go to the next level? I said it and do you know what? For the first time in my life, that year, my wife had, she bought me a planner every year and I never wrote in the planner. I never wrote in the planner. I gotta get ready for my son again. I gotta get ready to go. I never wrote in the planner. But for the first time I sat down and I wrote, I said, I wanna train a thousand life coaches this year. I wanna pay off credit card debt. I wanna earn 750, my hand almost locked up when I went to write that. But for the first time I wrote my goals and when I look back at the end of the year, I had trained probably 1,500 to 2,000 life coaches, people to become life coaches. I think I said I want to get my mentor.life to 100 coaches, get 100 coaches on my mentor.life. When I look back at them goals, they had been hit. And do you know it wasn't just, it didn't go from 500 to 750. It went from 500 cross a million and a half. See, I'm sharing this, like the multi-level marketing people say, there's a quote when I did multi-level marketing for a few months. We was in the meeting, the man say, I don't say this to impress you, but to impress upon you. I was like, whoa, whoa, that was cold. But what say that again, what you said? So I don't say this to impress you, but to impress upon you. Like the man said to me, when you take the limits off your mind, when you take the limits off your mind and you start to believe different, you start to believe better and you stop speaking scarcity over your life, stop speaking lack over your life, stop speaking barely and start speaking abundance, stop speaking famine and start speaking harvest. I don't speak famine, I don't speak broke, I don't speak scarcity, I don't speak loneliness, I don't speak arguments in my relationship, I don't speak normal, I don't speak average, I speak exceptional, I speak abundance, I speak exceedingly, I speak above and beyond. Don't tell me that every marriage gonna have arguments and fights. I'm not claiming that, I'm claiming peace, I'm claiming prosperity, I'm claiming happiness and I'ma change me, I'ma do everything I could do in my power and then I'ma lead or rest up to God. I'ma cast a net on the right side of the boat. I've been on the left side of the boat all day and ain't caught nothing. Jesus say cast on the right side of the boat and I'm gonna move in you, I'ma move for you. This what you got to do. So I say that's what I'm gonna do. That's what I'm gonna do and guess what? I saw exceedingly above and beyond. I'm not finna get caught up in rappers talking about Jesus ain't real. Well, who, for when, he real for me, showed up and showed out in my life. I'm not finna listen to people talking about this or slave religion. Well, I'm free, I'm living good. I'm blessed, I'm favored, it going and coming. When it's up, when it's down, I'm good. In the rough times, in the bad time, in the whatever you call it, I got peace because I'm connected to something. So look, call it what you wanna call it. Call it how you wanna call it. See it as you wanna see it, but I'm finna do what's for me. I'm finna believe and receive for me. I'm not getting caught up in your propaganda and what you talking about because I tried the word at the word. I opened the Holy Bible and I read it and I lived it for myself and I saw that it's real. So you can believe in what you wanna believe in because I don't believe in fairy tales. This my reality. I'm not telling you about a fairy tale. I'm telling you about a peaceful reality based on the lifestyle that I'm living. So listen, rapper, listen, comedian, listen, gatekeeper, listen, radio host, listen, TV host. You could be an atheist, an agnostic, a prattastic, a maglastic, a sagalastic, whatever you wanna be. But for me and my house, we will serve the Lord and we blessed and highly favored. We peaceful. You ain't seen a marriage with this much peace because God is the center. You ain't seen kid, my ninth grader is in a school that they do college freshman work in the ninth grade. The kids on his soccer team, the work that they doing at their school my son did in the sixth grade. Since the fourth grade, they started giving our A's and they give our A minuses. My oldest son has never had an A minus. He got nine classes. The boy played travel soccer, just made the Olympic development program. He gotta do homework till midnight this year he did homework till 2 a.m. one night because he want that. But God give him peace, give him grace. So see, when I invite God into my household and I see his peace and I see his presence and I see his blessings and I see his grace, you can't convince me that I believe in a fairy tale. You can't convince me that God ain't real. You can't convince me that the Holy Bible is fruitless, you can't convince me of that because my life shows me otherwise. You can't convince me of that. Anything you wanna compare, anything you wanna compare, I'm gonna show you that God gonna get the victory. Anything you wanna compare, the spiritual, the emotional, the physical, the financial, anything you wanna compare, I'm gonna show you that God gonna win in and out of season. That God gonna be good in and out of season. That in the Job season, there's gonna be peace. In the famine, there's gonna be peace. In oppression, there's gonna be peace. In bondage, there's gonna be peace. See, peace is the real prosperity. And that's what a lot of people don't understand but I'm telling you, you better get off of social media, you better stop listening to people cause they look like they got some money. If people that's on the radio sleeping on somebody couch, it's people on a TV show sleeping on somebody couch. Rob and Peter to pay Paul. But because people got a platform, we wanna listen to they blasphemy. We wanna listen to they sacrilegion. We wanna listen to they ignorance. They wanna believe in science. They finna look at how a child is conceived and a child is born and how a child grows into adulthood. They wanna look at how the body heals and how we heal and how we grow and they wanna believe that come from evolution. They wanna believe that come from a combustion in the sky. They don't wanna believe in a supernatural power because they got science. Guess what? The human mind came rapid self around the creator. That's like a laptop computer, an Apple computer trying to understand Steve Jobs with a stroke of a key. Steve Jobs, God rest his soul, could disrupt that Apple computer. And I don't think he believed in God. So guess what? That science can heal you. That science can't buy your health. That science can't do nothing for you. If you don't believe in something bigger than you, that mean you're arrogant and that mean you're living in ignorance. If you think you the highest creation, if you think that you created yourself, that you made yourself, I'm here to tell you I beg to differ. And I guarantee you, I dare you to try Jesus. I dare you to try Jesus. Listen, I was in the streets 21 hours a day. I don't believe in fairy tales because bullets is a reality. My life could have been lost. You hear me? I don't believe in fairy tales. It got to be real for me to believe in it. And I'm gonna tell you what's real. Jesus Christ, that holy Bible, because one thing I've seen is a lot of the bad times I brought it upon myself. I couldn't even blame nobody. And the other bad times that I didn't bring upon myself, what I realized is life happens. That's what we call life. There's good, there's evil, and life happens. Good and bad happens to everybody. So you can't look at because you lost your mama, because your sister was abused. All that doesn't happen. Life happens. Stop blaming God. Stop questioning God. Walk by faith, live by faith. Get in a word that is the basic instructions before leaving earth. B-I-B-L-E, basic instructions before leaving earth. And give it a real chance. Give it a real shot and see what happens in your life. Even when you feel down and out in your finances, lose your job. You start to do right and everything start to go wrong. That's evidence that you own to something because opposition only meets those who are set up for greatness. Opposition don't approach you if you mediocre. If you ain't meant to be, nothing to do, nothing opposition don't wanna have, nothing to do with you because you ain't nothing to oppose. So you gonna go through when you going to. You gonna go through. You gonna lose people. Read the book of Job, that's the holy Bible trying to let you know that just because you faithful, just because you righteous don't mean everything gonna be peaches and cream. Job whole family was killed. All his assets was taken. Everything was burnt to the ground. But on the other side, he got double for his trouble. You just got the weather to storm. You got the weather to storm without cursing God. And when you stop cursing God, when you stop blaming God for your pain, for your problem, for your trouble and you realize that it's him who you go to in those times. You don't pull away from God and get mad with God because you going through, this is life. We set up to go through. You see the evil in the world? You see the evil people? How you expect to have an evil people and not to have trials and tribulations in the world? You gonna have trials and tribulations. You gonna have upsets. You gonna have setbacks because we live in an evil world. So what you expect? So it's in that time that you draw closer to the cross. It's at that time that you believe harder, that you dig deeper and that you keep walking by faith, not by sight. Because see when you walking by sight, you won't get far. You got to be able to walk even when you can't see and trust and believe that it's gonna work out in your favor. And I'm telling you, I done seen it. I ain't telling you nothing for no hype. I ain't telling you, I'm not taking up an offering plate. I ain't got nothing invested in this. I ain't got to pay no, I ain't got to pay to build and rent. I'm not a pastor. I'm not a reverend. I don't want your donation. I don't need your donation. I ain't, so don't feel like when the word coming from me that it's a motive attached to it. I ain't got, I don't have no collection plate. You hear what I'm telling you? This coming from real life. You talking to somebody who could have took their life. I used to sleep with a 380 under my pillow. A nightmare would have blew my brains out because I was hustling 21 out of 24 hours a day. All I believe in is reality. And I'm here to tell you that God real, the realest thing I've ever seen. The take a man, when I told you, God gave me everything. See, what the wisdom was that God gave me. He say, son, listen, before you worry about getting money, get the things money cannot buy. Get the things that you don't want money to buy. What's that? A wife. Find you a wife. First, find you a woman who gonna love you for you and not for your money. Find you a woman who want you for you. Find you a woman who can respect your ambition. Find you a woman who gonna love you where you at, not for where you have arrived. Get what money can't buy first. And if you could get a woman who will be with you before you a millionaire, before you at the top, now you found something that is not only valuable, it's priceless. Get that first. Get a healthy household where your kids are well behaved, well mannered to where they walk around like they got some sense. Get that first. And then everything else will be added unto you. And that's what I did. So when I'm sitting there with a happy wife, with healthy kids and I look at my business and I say I want more because I wanna build something that I could pass down. The Bible say a good man leaves an inheritance to his children. And so I got the marriage, I got the kids and money didn't buy it, frame didn't buy it. I don't want a woman at this stage of my life. I need a woman that's gonna work with me and build with me, that's willing to toil in the field with me. I need a woman that's gonna love me for me, that could see where I'm going, that's gonna speak life into me. She got a hand up, she helping me. She working with me, she encouraging me. She holding me accountable. She not settling for less than my best. She not settling for me cheating on her. She ain't settling for me beating on her. She ain't settling for me cursing at her. She want my best. And if I could give her my best, my integrity, my character then she gonna ride with me cause it ain't about money. And God sent me that, God blessed me that. So when you see my wife, when you see my wife with $100,000 on, understand that she was there when I didn't have a dollar. So now that God then gave me what money can't buy, guess what? When you read the word, do you know who Solomon was? Do you know who Solomon was? Do you know that in this day and time, Solomon would be worth $3 trillion. That if you add up all of the richest men in the world, they would not equal Solomon. So see, a lot of time people get caught up and they think that because you serve God, you can't be blessed. Do you know what David was? Do you know what Solomon was? Do you know what these men of God, what God blessed them with? Do you think you could live with integrity and not be blessed? Do you think you could live a righteous lifestyle and not be blessed? Not have a good job? Not get a raise on your job? If you go into your job and you love your neighbor as you love yourself, what do you think they're gonna do? They're gonna promote you. If you go into your job and you work as if you're working unto the Lord, what you think they're gonna do? They're gonna promote you. See, people think that it's about the prosperity. No, it's about the principle because principles don't change. So when you live by principle, there are byproducts that come from you living that way. When you live a righteous lifestyle, good eventually is going to happen. On the other side of the trouble, it's gonna be double, a double portion. So what did the scripture say? It say, I've been young and I've been old. I got to go, my son ain't going, but see the Lord move, but I'm finna go. I've been young and I've been old, but never once have I seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread. So that lets you know that although you may feel like you've been forgotten, you have not been forsaken. Although you may feel down, it is not over. You down, but you not out. If you could look up, what the man said, if you could look up, you could get up. So guess what? You got to get back up and you got to keep going and you got to know, you got to know who holds tomorrow. What they say, I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but I know who's bringing it. And that's what you got to understand. And so what you have to realize, and I started to talk to God about that, I said, Lord, I said, Lord, hold on. I said, hold on. Now, how you want me to help people believe in you if I'm struggling? If the word, if the word don't work for me, how am I gonna get somebody else? How am I gonna get the word to work for somebody else? And Lord, let me know, listen, you ain't waiting on me, I'm waiting on you. You got to get your heart aligned. You got to get your heart right. You got to get your mind right. Then I could pull out. But if I pull out and your heart and your mind ain't right, it'll destroy you. And I'm not a man that I should lie, so I can't put more on you than you can bear. You ain't ready to receive everything I got for you. Oh Lord, oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. God just gave me a revelation and a mystery. Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness. I see it, I see it. See, I ain't talking to you right now. I'm talking to me right now. Oh my goodness, the Lord just showed me something. Oh my goodness, and my wife been telling me this. Oh my goodness, my wife been telling me this. She been saying, Tony, God cannot do everything that he's going to do through you because you have not got the lesson. With every level, there are new devils. But with every level, there are new lessons. In order to get to the next level, you got to get the lesson. Until you get the lesson, you cannot level up. You got to destroy the monster at the end of the level in order to be advanced to the next level. And as long as you keep losing to the monster at the level that you own, you cannot realize your next level. Oh my goodness, I got the goal because I realized what I got to do. And I hope you realize what you got to do too. Hey, God bless you. The spirit just left the room. I got to get to my son because your family is your first ministry. We'll...