 Tonight I want to speak to you briefly on this topic called one with a difference Amen, how many guys believe that you are you are made you're on this earth to make a difference in somebody's lives in your family You know in our culture in the music world in the sports world in the fashion world So how many say here, you know, I'm gonna make a difference in someplace. Amen. Come on Yeah, and things about you know live in a lifestyle with a difference live in a lifestyle where you're gonna Impact and change somebody's lives requires doing something Different than everybody else. Amen It's like, you know only dead fish swim with the currents the live fish. They swim up the current they they do Different things. It's not easy. It's not fun. You know, you get called names You mess up you you sometimes stand for something and everybody laughs at you you're like man Why am I standing for this? Why am I talking about this? But then it comes at time where where you stand for a difference begins to make a change Amen church and that is what hunger generation family our church We're believing that we're gonna make a difference in our city. Amen church We're gonna see thousands on all to call come up during the service. Amen We're gonna see incurable diseases like this man in the wheelchair They took him out just from the hospital They brought him to that crusade just with the ambulance as he got up and the man of God will begin to pray for him This is a place where I where we are heading in men church We're gonna see the most incurable diseases being healed in this place You know the deaf ears being opened the blind eyes Being able to see the people in wheelchairs people with cancer receive the full clean bill of health in Jesus Might you name if you believe that put your hands together for Jesus One with a difference somebody say one with a difference There's certain things, you know in this Day and age in this culture. There's a lot of things that the whole People do you know as there's certain things that everybody follows these rules What to say how to how to dress how to look this is how you get accepted This is you know what you should not do because if you do these things you are called weird You are you know just an outcast you are gonna be eating alone. Nobody's gonna like you They're gonna laugh at you but many times those are the people that make a difference in our culture a man church as You've seen and as you look at people who are made in life who became great who made an impact on their generation They did something different from everybody else a man And that is what I want to talk to you about Incidents two words. There's an instinct and distinct somebody say instinct and Distinct I want you to put up the meaning the instinct is a natural behavior You are born with and distinct if you want to write this down is choosing to be different There is a natural way of you know growing up being in school as a teenager as a young person as what people do They get high they smoke they drink go to parties. That is an instinct way You don't need to in many times you don't even to teach them that they already know how to do it You know, I went as a little kid. How do they know how to lie? It's like who taught you to lie? It's like did you do this? No, I didn't do it. It's a dog and I was like you're liar I know you did it, you know, you know like instinct, you know when nobody teaches a baby to cry, right? they just come out screaming and crying that's an instinct way, but there is a Distinct way where somebody chooses to be different amen Church in System of this world is a system that is going on this path and that it's way to hell a System of this world is do what you want You know Party as hard as you can when you're young enjoy your teen years go and sleep around You know just care about get high drunk do whatever you want and that is you know There's just culture of that way that we are living in but in order for you to be different order to you make a difference You have to choose to be different Even though you might stand out even though you might be called prude Even though you might be called weird even though you might be called a church boy or even called be called a Jesus freak If you want to make a difference you have to choose to be different Many times I see people that you know they are afraid they're scared to have this fear What will people say what how are they gonna look at me? But but at the end of the day, it's the people that the major crowd that the general people that the Current of people they're looking for somebody to stand out and to lead away They're always looking like who can show us how to live a right life. I know there's parties I know there's drinking but I try that and I'm I'm empty and I'm looking for somebody to stand out to show me How to live a different life? We have to make a choice to be different we we are born with with a with a sinful nature With a nature that wants to fit in with the nature that the one that takes it easy the nature that wants to enjoy itself They nature that the ones who do all it wants for itself But in order for Jesus to make a difference he had to stand out He had to be different. He was called names. He was rejected. He was lied against He was he was persecuted, but he was the one person that was able to change the world Amen church We have to understand something that if you want to make a difference in your family that you are not too small You are not too insignificant You are not, you know, even if you had mistakes even that if you have a past you are not You know too broken to make a difference in your family You're not too too shattered to make a difference in your culture You're not too too too messed up to make a difference in your school You just have to make a choice to say that I'm going against this current of this of this world I'm gonna go with the against this current of parting around I'm gonna go against this current of cussing of dating before Marriage is just going to and trying everything before I choose the right one You have to make a choice that I'm going to stand out and I'm gonna make a difference. Amen church Somebody tell your neighbor you're not too small To make a difference Look a little look at your other neighbor and look at him in the eyes telling me you're not too small To make a difference. Amen You have to tell it to yourself that I refuse to be stuck when other people are making a difference You know that right now in this in this day and age the biggest influence to our world are brought by young people If you look at social media, who's changing social media right now, isn't it the young people? Young people are leading the way that so many young million years and billionaires are rising up out of not people Who are are educated actually out of school dropouts? People who didn't finish college and then dog. Oh, I'm gonna drop out. Why I want to make a difference No, just first get your grades up and get a mind and then you can drop out. No, don't drop out stay in school But just to tell you that certain the people that are making waves in our generation are Unqualified if you look at them you'll you you see them. They aren't qualified. They're the ones that have a past They're the ones that have issues But they the ones that made a choice that you know what I am tired of living the life the same way I want to make a difference in my finances. I want to make a difference in my health I want to make a difference in my family tree I want to stand out why because I am tired to be stuck when everybody else is moving forward It is the young people right now if you look at the athletes right now the second and the highest paid You know Neymar he's he's like the second highest paid athlete in the world and he's just he's just a young man Why because he chose to be different What makes you any different than the people who'd made history? It's not that you have to be you know educated have to be you know experienced You have to have this you just have to make a choice that you know what I'm tired I'm saving the worst in my family I'm gonna make a difference in that area of marriage and relationships you have to say you know I'm tired. I've seen cancer ruin my family. I'm gonna be the one that's gonna make a difference I'm gonna believe that Jesus Christ is my killer whether he heals me or not and that Cancer is gonna stop with me. I'm gonna make a difference I'm gonna make a difference in my family when it comes to college when it comes to opening a business when it comes to having respect and popularity in music and sport that you have to make that choice To say you know what I'm tired of fitting in I'm gonna be standing out in my church Many times we begin to mix Who we are and what we are Why don't let me explain to you about that many times when people see like and Seeing you know an athlete. They're like, oh, wow. He's an awesome soccer player You know, I want to be like him. You should never be be jealous of a what people are but of who they are It's you have to always wanting to have their character instead of the gift that God has given them because we have to Understand that gift will take you so far, but character will keep you there Gift will take you so far by character will keep you there We've seen many people who you know, you know, they they're skillful in one area or you when we've seen in the Basketball world where the gifts begin to take them so far. They earn millions They become stars, but yet they cannot keep their millions because they character the way they are Ruins their life they begin to spend, you know money on things that they don't need to buy things You know that you know just to please themselves and sooner or later they begin to work, you know McDonald's and there's actually one NBA star that you know the Sign with I think was with Celtic some late died in like four or five years He said he lost everything and he was so embarrassed that he had to go work at McDonald's because he didn't have enough money to supply for his kids Talent and gift will take you so far, but character will only keep you there First point I want to talk to you guys about is when you want to make a difference you have to concentrate on manners somebody say manners Manners are our one thing is that bad manners Retards once progress. I like that word retards it with holds corrupt. So so bad manners corrupt good behavior We have to understand that God will bless you. We have to understand that part God is a faithful God God will give you a time in your life where God will will bring a breakthrough in your life We'll bring that relationship that you're praying for will bring you that health But if you do not have manners if you do not have that that character, you will not be able to maintain it You will not be able to maintain it Your your manners are how are you with your temper? How are you when it comes to talking? How are you when it comes to you know your punctuality? How are you when it comes to you know when somebody comes it comes to you tells you you're a fool? How do you respond to that your manners? You know when when Jesus begins to say God begins to say that David is a man after my own heart What he met was by that is that David has the manners He has that the character in the heart of God The when Saul begins to to chase him wants to kill him And you know and Saul comes into the same cave as David was and David when he saw man He had a chance to wipe away everything from Saul's life But he said you know I will never raise my hand against that 91. He had manners He had the dignity he had the the the thing to say, you know, it's God has put him in a place and God's going to be the one to remove him I have manners. I have character. I'm not going to be repaying somebody's evil I'm not going to be begin to to somebody, you know, did me bad. I'm not going to repay bad with bad I'm going to repay bad with good How's how's your manners? You know, we know many people who begin to rise up in life But then when you look at them it would look at that character is just it's so bad That it's just a matter of time that the character begins to decay and the gifts begins to withdraw from them You know, just because God has given you a talent doesn't mean you are you know, that that's the only thing that's holding you Your character has to be that, you know, if I have this talent or I don't have this talent You shouldn't respect me because of my talent, but because of who I am a man church You shouldn't look at me and begin to to to praise me because God is using me using me in the gift of healing Or the gift of prophecy or because you know, I can play the piano good I have you know a good, you know a drumming skills or I can make you laugh You shouldn't respect me towards that you shouldn't order me towards that but by my character that God has given me a man church Your manners you have to build that Your manners are not built in the good times, but it's built in the tough times when you begin to serve When you begin to do things that you do not like when your parents begin to tell you hey clean your room like who do you think you are? You know Go to school You know how many millions just dropped out of school? And you know, you begin to build this thing but but you know, even if you get a million dollars Nobody's gonna want to be around you. Why because your character stinks That's what we have to understand God will always bless you and God will give you times and season in your life Where the blessing will come through but if you cannot maintain it the blessing will turn into curse is just a matter of time It's just a matter of time Your character has to be the things that that draws people not your money Your character has to be the thing that persuades and shows people that you got christ living you Not the car that you drive not the looks that you have because it only takes one Unfortunate incident and that all can be wiped away How you talk how you associate with people, you know, some people who talk So many miles a minute. It's just insane, you know In just a minute, you know, their mom's name their name the grandfather's name and everything about them But it's it's just manners that the god is looking for people that will begin to build through that And how you build manners is through serving I want to challenge people, you know, we have host groups I want to challenge people we have places in in usher team. We have we have uh, you know, nursery We have Sunday school where you can build your character and through that you can see that God can elevate you you know that, um What's the billionaire that was working at a church at a nurse here? I'll forget his name So remember that exactly you preached about it forgot to Rockefeller Rockefeller I was he was the richest man, you know At his time still had the time to come back and never miss a Sunday church because he was serving at a Sunday school That is that is manners That is to show that i'm not too high. I'm not too elevated, you know to to be able to serve just because I got a gift If somebody sees you and says, oh, no, he shouldn't be doing that. Why well because he's up there No, you have to have the the character of jesus christ We're right before his greatest mission. So you know what? I'm gonna wash you guys's feet I'm gonna begin to serve you why to show you that if you want to be up top You have to conquer and get a phd at serving You got to get a phd You got to to master the gift of loving people the mastering gift of you know Serving people when everybody says give up on that person But you have the love and the compassion. So you know what? I want to see till they succeed a man church you know, um I've helped about seven or eight people at church already I think to get a driver's license and some of them killed me almost Others I give up on life call on to Jesus say, you know, I'm ready And others, you know, they're just like, you know, I'm proud of myself And sometimes and some people came up to me say, hey, you know what? Just how long can you do this for that person? You know, it's not working out things like that And for me was you know, I'm like if I can do and pour out my love for the least of them I made god happy When god looks at me, you know, not before man because I know before men if people like I'm like, oh, you know, that person was succeed in that area or that person achieved this goal They're like, oh, who cares? But I know before god when I stand before god and say, you know god with the least I made the best God is proud And that is what when you want to make a difference It's not the high places that you should be looking for Is if you can graduate the low places of their life Why david was named the man after god's own heart because in the cave Where everybody didn't see where he could took a revenge on soul and wipe him out simply he said I will never raise my hand against the anointed one He had the the manners and the characters to say and to begin to honor god to say that, you know In the darkest times the lowest point of my life I'll still be faithful. I'll still be true to god, you know When everybody else is partying around a Friday night, I'll be battling for my city You know, I'm morning prayers with nobody and nobody else is here. I'm going to be here praying You know on Sunday school when everybody else up there I'm going to be serving ministry in Sunday school ministry. I believe god's going to raise somebody mighty from Sunday school ministry I'm going to be in the usher team. I'm going to be, you know doing this I'm going to have my own host group with the people nobody cares about I want to reach out and I want to love them and that's the kind of heart that god is looking for you man church somebody say manners number two develop the dues and the don'ts somebody say develop the dues and the don'ts Many times because we do not have the dues and the don'ts. We find ourselves in the awkward situations And you guys ever found yourself in the situation like how did I get here? And you can't say no and you can't say yes because both of them makes you look bad, you know You're like in that situation like oh crap, man. I don't know what I'm going to do You know, they're going to hate me. But if I say no, they're going to be mad at me So I lose in both worlds and you're like, oh, I'm just going to go along with it And you find yourself in the situation where where you cannot get out It's simply because you do not have the dues and you have you don't have the don'ts I know some some guys are like, well, why is you know, uh, drinking not bad Why is drinking bad? You know, it says that only if you get drunk, you know So if I take a sip or two, you know, it's not bad But then you find yourself in an awkward situation Where you had a little bit too much and you got a doi and you're like, how did I get myself here? Well, because you didn't have the dues and the don'ts You know, you caught yourself first time lying one time. You're like, well, it's a small lie But then you find yourself in a situation where such a big lie that the jeopardizes your character what you stand for You're like, well, I can't now say that I'm lying because now everybody's going to think I'm a slyer and going to ruin everything is because you don't have the dues and then you don't have the don'ts The certain things you got to tell yourself. I will not go to parties simply why because I'll find myself in a situation I can't get out of I don't want to go, you know, I'd rather go to a night prayer while I would be battling for my city I'm not going to even be have a chance to be tempted Some people like I'm always tempted the devil's after me. He's chasing me. I'm like, what are you doing? Oh, my friends are smoking. I'm just I feel have the urge. I'm like, well come to night prayer Nobody's smoking here. Everybody's high in the spirit. So you you'll get addicted to something else And you won't have to battle the addiction You don't have the dues and don'ts You don't have the clear lines of to say no and when to say yes When there's, you know, the pastor says no, I need you to serve in this area I need you to do in this area and you're like, well, you know, if I have the time I'll say yes I'll serve on Wednesday to the youth if I'll get out of work on time. You just can't say yes Or no, you're just in the middle sooner or later. You find yourself in the time that you won't have time to go Wednesdays and to Sundays Dedication is just a choice That's it. It's just a choice you choose to be dedicated in that and then that area And you have to understand if you say that, you know, what if my friends are going to be going to a party I'm just not going there. I'm not going to be. Oh, I'm gonna, you know, I'll I'll try to slip in Uh, some gospel while they're drunk or you know, I'm gonna try to witness to them while they're, you know Hi, it's not going to work like that. Evangelism happens on Sundays. Not on a Friday night at the club just so, you know And that's something you have to understand. You have to you clearly have to outline your do's and your don'ts What can you do when it comes to for guys when it comes to texting? You know texting girls you have to you have to make it and make a decision for yourself I'm talking to the young teens for those who are not still not in a relationship Develops the do's and the don'ts don't find yourself in such a position awkward position that you're like How did I get here because you did not have a do and you did not have a don't for your life, you man Many times I remember when I was in uh, when I was in high school a long time ago Um, I remember one person came up to me and said, why aren't you not going? Uh, I just wanted to have a party like hey, why didn't you want to go to this party with us? You know, you're always lame, you know, you're you know, I'm gonna introduce you to the real life And actually I think a few days ago. He was the one that came to Came to buy a car and I saw him. He's like, oh weren't you that that guy At school. I remember you, you know, and I looked at his life and I'm like, yeah, what's that guy? It's like, well, how did you how did you get here? How did you have all this? How did you get here? And I literally this is exactly how I told him I said it's because of the things I didn't do that you did And we were we were we were good friends then but then like eight years eight years past and we We didn't have that communication So and I'm like, there's certain things that you did do and there's certain things I didn't do And that will outline your tomorrow Your whatever you decide to do will not change it today, but it will change tomorrow You might not see see it in this season, but the season that is coming you'll be able to see the rewards Amen church You can only be greater tomorrow if you be a better person today Only a better person today influences influences us Greater tomorrow amen church people who prepare their now People who prepare their now their their today moment. They can only be something great then Only who prepare their now can be something great then We have to understand with that Being different is hard Making a difference in your generation standing and praying for souls You know when others people are doing nonsense out there to be able to believe for healing when everybody says, you know You're crazy god doesn't heal, you know look so many people died there You know this this doesn't work to be able to stand to believe for that today will make you greater tomorrow You might not see the results today. You might not see the immediate situation take place today But because of your choices that you do now will influence tomorrow We live in the generation that what that's like that they want like like my hot pockets one and a half minutes That's way too long. I want a minute that's as long as i'm giving the hot pockets If it comes out cold i'm like i'm mad My wife is like it's two minutes and ten seconds. I'm like we turn it I don't like this thing. It's too slow I want it now. I'm telling him like I go somewhere. I'm like, you know, sometimes I drive and I eat You know, that's how I'm like I get in there if if they're taking their time I'm like babe 20 tip is just went down to 10 and if they came they don't give me refill I'm like this is five and then if they don't do something else. I'm like, that's it. No tips for them I want everything now, but we have to understand that that's not how God works God's begins to speak things into existence and as it comes it begins to happen in your life If you want to begin to make a difference in your family some people like man, I'm tired of my family, you know They're always broke. They're always these things and and you yourself are spending money on the things that you do not need You just want them That's not going to make a difference While everybody's spending learn to invest Well, everybody's partying around learn how to build yourself Great people are not the people who have you know, big resources. They just have a great Mind that has full of resources Rich people are not who are surrounded with great, you know, monies that they have a great mind They have a they have much resources in the mind take away the millions sooner or later. They'll gain it gain it back Take away a millions from give it give a million to a poor person. Give it time. You still be a poor person Why because of their mind? You have to begin to invest in yourself You got to begin to create a do and a don't in my life to begin to say, you know Well, everybody else is wasting their time. I'm going to invest my time into knowledge Now nowadays knowledge is basically everywhere. It's free. You can learn things You know, you can learn how to cook learn to speak for free on youtube google whatever it is It's it's literally it's that it's that available information for us is is free right now It's available everywhere. You can be able to make a difference in your world Only if you choose and you make a choice that I'm going to make a difference in my family and men church And the last last person at last point is developing principles Developing principles and the scripture from first john 213 if we can put up the scripture and says this I am writing to you Fathers because you know him who's from the beginning. I'm writing to you and this is what he says young men Because you have overcome the evil one Young men because you have overcome the evil one He's speaking to with a young generation. He says you have overcome the evil one how but making a choice I'm knowing who you are in christ jesus You are able to overcome the calamities of this world and in daniel 18 in the scripture I really like and says this that but daniel proposed in his heart That he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat nor with the wine which he drank Therefore he requested the prince of the inox that he might not defile himself But daniel proposed in his heart It's a choice that daniel begins to make to stand out and only then daniel was able to shake The kingdom that he was in Daniel was a small boy daniel was was was basically nobody and to begin with to influence the kingdom It's like saying you right now you As insignificant small that we think that we are By making a choice to influence the presidential place That's that that's he was But because he proposed he made a decision in his heart to make a difference God begin to honor that and begin to elevate him Number three is a developing principle begin to set up a guidelines for your life That this is the rules and regulations i'm gonna live Develop begin to develop the guidelines of you know, it's nothing comes before god The bible is my guideline that and holy spirits is my reference That is your principle that you should live by not what my parents is gonna say Not what my co-workers are thinking of me not what my friends are saying But the guidelines that you live by the same god you i'm putting you ahead of everyone I know my family might not understand it now, but i'm trusting and i'm believing you You know my my wife is coming out of a catholic background She made it she made a principle by her life In her in her own life that you know what i'm gonna stand for what i believe even though in the beginning they didn't support it And today the whole the whole family tree is being influenced by one Decision decision not not a great act, but a decision Some of you are coming out out of a different religious background You say you know what you might be even this in this place You might be even hiding because they're like oh my parents don't even know that i'm here Your decision will make a difference in your family tree Some of you might be coming out of a out of a poor background where where things you never had enough You never started you didn't even know what business says you didn't even know how to spell business You know anything you look at your bank accounts always negative withdraw fees and an nsf. That's your middle name You know a not sufficient account or whatever it means, you know And but you have to make a difference in your life while everybody's spending their money. I'm gonna learn how to invest When everybody's buying, you know nice cars and all these nice clothes I'm gonna learn a thing or two about money because I want to make a difference in my life because one day I believe i'll be known by my giving than my receiving You know one of the things that and one of the principles in my life that um That I live by is that never give up Never give up doesn't matter how bad How hard does it get? Keep fighting keep going forward You know one thing that I'm new in that the god is faithful God is faithful god will always and always Bring you through doesn't matter how hard things might get with Relationships how hard things might get with with finances how hard that things will get with your health Make a principle that god is by my side and if he's not giving up on me. I'm not giving up on myself Make a principle in the guideline for yourself that you know I'm not gonna betray god my relationship with god for anything There's any relationships guys girls that come popularity job offers I'm gonna stick to god through thick or through thin let that be a guideline that you live by For me it was you know, what's this sunday's i'm gonna serve Till this day till this day i come and i'm like if i sit down and i'm not doing nothing in the service I feel weird I feel like a sinner first i'm coming uh feel like latimer's like come up son god is calling you I Chose to serve god till till the day i die that i'm gonna pour on my heart To the people that nobody cares about i'm gonna serve them if i might not might not be standing here holding a mic I'm gonna pray for someone i might assist somebody with finances I'm gonna help somebody with support with encouragement till the day i die I'm gonna stand with god and know that god is my everything that's a principle that i live by And i'll tell you one thing church god is faithful God is faithful not because not because i've been faithful but i but through the thicker thin as a god, you know i'm sticking with you i'm sticking with you I want us to be to be a people that that will begin to look at us At yourself and begin to say i'm not too small to make a difference in my family And just be tired of normal be tired of average be tired of brokenness be tired of just you know Things falling apart and begin to crowd that god i want to make a difference in my generation and god It will tell you this that i'm not looking for perfect but available Just available those don't say god i'm ready to use me And it took a man like david Who's young russik? an experience with sheep one day Somehow that when he said god i'm available for you to use me whatever area that i always serve ship here ship here But i'll go out and i'll battle with the goliath tomorrow and after even he defeated goliath He still went back to the sheep to serve wine Because he said i'm not too big and i'm not too small for any position But god i'm available to make a difference and i keep watching this content I hope this was a blessing to you if you're like me and you like to click on things Click on this subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it and remember The best is yet to come