Prep Before Promise - Bishop T.D. Jakes

foreign [Music] [Applause] Witness that we are in the right place at the right time on the precipice on the precipice of an absolute Revolution [Applause] it's time out for doing events just to do events if they're not Purpose Driven if they're not revelational if they're not empowering if they're not relevant we don't have time to waste our energy in things that are not congruent with our destiny [Applause] because the Holy Spirit has confirmed to us it's going to be big it's it's going to be big every farmer knows when he plants a seed that he

does not expect to reap a seed from a seed whatever went in the ground is going to come out bigger when it comes out than it was when it went in if it's in good soil it's going to flourish lay your hands on yourself and say I am good soil yeah anybody who invested me is going to be blessed anybody who loves me is going to be blessed anybody who befriends me is going to be blessed I am good sore if you plan an idea in me I'll create a product around it come on if

you're playing a seed in me I'll produce a harvest behind it anybody who invests in me lay your hands on yourself I am good soil that's why God made Adam from the dust of the Earth because he wanted to make sure that he used good soil it's going to be big it's going to be big y'all [Applause] it's gonna be big let me go to work Joshua chapter 1 verse 9 through 17 there you will find my assignment for this morning I asked God what would you have me share with your people after 46 years

of preaching I am blind without your leadership incompetent without your direction insufficient without your instructions incapable without your anointing Floyd for thy servant here what would you have me say to this people at this time in their lives and he drove me to Joshua chapter 1. verse 9 I said Joshua yeah go to Joshua chapter 1 verse 9. I said Lord but Joshua is is a tempestuous book at a transitional time with transformative leadership with the fierce urgency of altercation so that there might be infiltration listen closely at me altercation so that there might be

infiltration should I use Joshua Lord Joshua is not a book for wimps [Applause] Joshua is not a book for those who are faint of heart Joshua is a book that is designed for people who have to who have survived the desert made it through the dry places and still have enough strength to embark on what it's about to happen in their life Joshua is for the remnants of people that the Desert tried to take out and it didn't work Joshua it is the beginning of a beginning again it is a fresh start it is the

recycling of a covenant people who have been recycled in the midst of transition it is the place of discomfort it is a place of disruption you want me to take them to Joshua Lord yes take them to Joshua Joshua is the place where old things are passed away the Book of Joshua is the repast after the funeral of Moses foreign it is the the closing of one door and the opening of the next the Book of Joshua is synergistic with a total transformation of the way the people think who have been trained in 40 years

of survival training but have not been taught in success for the last 40 years they have developed the techniques that the techniques that were necessary to sustain them in dry places but the drought is over [Applause] the trout is over and now they are stepping into a new transformative experience with a new leader requiring new skills which means that they must be Shameless plug disruptive [Applause] in their thinking because if they hold on to their old thinking if you go into new places with old thinking the wineskins burst because they don't have the flexibility to

deal with expansion it's going to be big yeah and if it's going to be big I've got to be pliable I'm in the Book of Joshua let me read it to you I'm excited here God speaks to Joshua having just eulogized Moses he opens his mouth and clears his throat and says now Moses my servant is dead as I was with Moses so shall I be was and shall was and shall we are right in between was and shall as I was with Moses so shall I be with Joshua now we eavesdrop on God commanding

his General teaching him how to lead not as though he is not LED before he has led in a subordinate level up under a leader but he has never LED where he is fully in charge and the buck stops with them and so even though he has some experience and Preparatory resolution that abides in him based on that past experience deal he's not ready for this so God says to him be strong and I want to say that to you be strong don't confuse strong with angry I've seen a lot of people who were angry

but not strong who talk tough but cracked easy and God says for what I'm getting ready to do you must be strong have not I commanded thee I command you to be strong I'm not asking you I command thee to be strong and of good courage be not afraid neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee yeah that settles it right there the Lord thy God is with thee whether so ever thou growest now when God commanded Joshua then Joshua commanded the officers see we have people commanding people who have not

been commanded we have people leading people who have not been LED then Joshua commanded the officers he didn't bring it to the officers until God brought it to him the officers of the people saying passed through the hosts go through the crowd and command the people you cannot command people until you can be commanded you can't give orders if you can't take them pass through the hosts and command the people saying prepare your victuals hmm prepare your victuals prepare your food your sustenance your Necessities your needs the equipment that is necessary for sustainability I charge

you I know I command you to prepare your virtuals for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan to go into a land to go into possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it he he gave it to you but you got to possess it [Applause] and and plus in addition to the rubinites and the getites and the half tribe of manessa spake Joshua saying here's the challenge to you remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you saying the Lord your God hath given you rest

and have given you this land meaning this land on this side of the Jordan your wives your little ones and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan but you cannot sit comfortably in what has already been allocated to you while your brothers remain in lack ye shall pass before your brethren armed all the Mighty Men of Valor and help them question who are you helping [Music] I know you've been blessed I know you got knowledge I know you got degrees I know you got opportunities I know

you got influence I know you got a nice car I know you got a Gucci bag I know you're wearing Louis Vuitton excuse me who are you helping until the Lord has given your brethren rest as he hath given you and they also have possessed the land with the Lord your God have given them then ye shall return unto the land of your possessions and enjoy it you might be partying at the wrong time you can't celebrate while your brothers suffer [Applause] which Moses the Lord's servant gave you on this side of Jordan toward the

Sun rising and they answered Joshua saying all that thou command is us we will do and whether so ever thou sendeth us we will go we will not sit down on the land that we've already possessed and build our houses and sit up under shade trees and drink Tall Glasses of iced tea with mint leaves on the top while our brother's skin is throat is parched and skin is burnt and they are wandering trying to figure out how to figure out how to figure out how to get in according as we hearken unto Moses and

all things so will we hearken unto thee only the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses my subject this morning is prepped before the promise prep before the problem why did you use it prepare your victuals for in three days we will cross this Jordan you may be seated thank you very much Spirit of the Lord God Falls fresh on us as we break into the word of God today I thank you for the word of God being made flesh thank you for what you're about to do thank you for all

that you've invested in us I believe you for a blessing in Jesus name amen I just concluded on yesterday my annual strategy meeting where various influencers companies corporations and our entire staff surrounded the room just to ruminate in the possibilities of what our combined strength could achieve I have come to learn that we are better together then we are apart I have come to learn that if you can fulfill your dream on your own it is too small for you so we Galvanize the best of the best from every Walk of Life from all types

of business from travel and Leisure to Wells Fargo to Bank of America they were all in the room to McDonald's they were all in the room to learn and glean and and to contemplate how we could increase our force and our impact not on our church our church has received its Promised Land but our Brethren and our community have not and so we deliberated on it with great contemplation of strategic Alliance that was necessary in order to fulfill the closing of the gap of equity of home ownership of job creation of the kinds of things

that are necessary to reduce crime and frustration and murder and mental health because the truth of the matter some of us have worried ourselves to death over survival we have not possessed the land God commanded us to possess land the command of God is to possess land not money possess land they are printing money while I'm talking to you but they ain't making no more land so when you start talking about the risk of the market you must understand that the market has its risk but if the land is well bought it is absolute distinct

and completely Irreplaceable artificial intelligence were not created it will not replace it it is in a category all by itself and so as we prepared for our leadership conference and for our good soil initiatives for our foundation for our future we spent hours and hours and hours with bright Minds in preparation and the preparation didn't just start two days ago the preparation has been going on for years so we prepped for the prep to prep for what's next preparation is underrated in a world raised by the click of a button and touching on an icon

and a whole world opens up we expect life to work like Apple just touch it and it opens face recognition it's me and it opens for you but there are certain doors set in order to be ready for them you have to be prepared for them I cook and many of you know that I like to cook and I have been cooking for since I was about 13 years old but I cook the old-fashioned way often where you prep and cook on the same day my son has a tendency to prep ahead okay he talks

about brining and soaking and saturating and so I have adapted a new methodology to Old School cooking because I found out that when you prep it when you don't prep in advance you flavor the food now my goal is to flavor the bone whoa so when I cook my ribs I'm not interested in flavoring the meat I I think ribs are best when the bone tastes as good as the meat and if you're going to get the flavoring to escape the exterior facade and the elusiveness of sauce then you must permeate it with seasoning early

enough that the seasoning can saturate down past the exterior skin through the meat down to the bone and you won't really know that you've done it right until you're eating it and the bone is as flavored as meat this text that I want after all that I read is really summed up in a few words prepare your rituals and to a novice reader this is a footnote an incidental irrelevant not specific not important after all they have survived the desert and the walls of Jericho are in front of them walls so high that they could

not scale them and so wide the Chariots rode across the top of them and why would we not talk about the magnitude of the walls the fierceness of the obstacle in front of them or maybe perhaps talk about the grief of the dying Moses who went up in the mountain like he had off gone before only this time he did not return and there was no closure they had to reckon him to be dead no wonder the Apostle Paul in the New Testament says reckoned your flesh to be dead it will not confirm it for

you you just have to reckon it to be dead they had to reckon Moses to be dead having only God's word as an absolution Moses my servant is dead they they all they knew is that he didn't come down he had often gone up on the mountain but this time he did not come down now to lose people they had been losing millions of people as they traveled and sojourned through the Wilderness they were used to the Wilderness being littered with bodies along the way but this time was different because you could lose people but

when you lose Moses you know me to Moses every day Moses was God sent and God breathed and God equipped and every single solitary Miracle they had witnessed since slavery had been achieved through his hands and his hands they would see no more and the Wailing sounded like thunder at the bottom of the because to lose Moses is to lose direction Moses was the guide who guided them through the wilderness and it wasn't just so they lost leaders they lost their compass one that had been tried and true and absolute that had proven himself to

be effective at leading them forward is now dead just when they were almost there just when they were on the precipice of a new beginning just when they were about to step into the Promised Land man lost Moses and it seems appropriate that if we were going to talk about something we would talk about the loss of Moses or maybe the gaining of Jericho that a 400 plus promise was about to come to pass that God had promised to a dead man named Abram and many times along the way God had made up his mind

I will destroy them but then he remembered his promise to a corpse and stop justice for from executing judgment though they were deserving of judgment because God kept his word to a corpse hence Canaan is called Promised Land now God is saying to them as they are wrestling with the intermediate place of not quite being in the desert and not quite being in the Promised Land he disrupts their pattern as they had survived the desert off of the food that fell from heaven called manna let's talk about food in Egypt they had eaten from the

hands of pharaoh for 400 years they had eaten out of the hand of a slave master once liberated from the slave master they were freed from the whip but they were also void of the food and they missed the leeks and onions of Egypt they didn't miss the whip but they missed the food so God catered for them in the wilderness manna that fell from heaven every morning not wheat they beat but Manna prepared for them that all they had to do was reach out and get it and it was easy fell every day like

clockwork early in the morning with the Dew the Manna appeared also each man according to his house God does not give equally but God responds to appetite where there is little appetite there were small loaves where there were huge appetite there were large loaves don't compare yourself with one another because God only supplies according to your appetite if you don't want much he won't drop much but if you've got a great need and a great void he will drop according to your need so don't look over at your neighbor's tent and worry about what God

has given them because they may have the capacity to absorb more provision than you do and God doesn't want his provision to be wasted God gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater God does not give blessings to people that will not consume it whereas you want blessings just so you can brag about that you got them God gives blessings to people who will take action and if you're not going to use it why would God give it to you and so he designed it that if you didn't use it by a certain

time the worms would eat it up because you were forbidden from hoarding yesterday's bread for today's battle [Applause] and as they were joining through Wilderness the closer they got to the promised land there is a small minute phrase in the text that I started to pull up but you can look it up whenever you want to it's a simple little sentence but it has great impact it has the force of a sledgehammer it says and then the manna ceased what do you do when what used to work doesn't work anymore what do what do abruptly

halted [Applause] there was no warning there was no prophecy there was no preparation without any warning at all it just stopped and some of us think that we have lost the favor of God because what used to work isn't working anymore and the man of ceased and Moses there died and they cried at the bottom of the mountain because everything that they had become accustomed to had been disrupted I would have reach to somebody in this room that everything that you were custom to has been disrupted and now you have to move forward without any

Playbook without any rules without any guarantees without any certainties if you take another step you got to take it by faith because the manner has ceased and the Moses is dead but the movement continues what do you know well you got to keep movement you got to keep movement but Moses is dead you got to keep moving it but the manna has ceased and Joshua almost as if it were a footnote at the bottom of an elaborate literary work that says prayer your rituals this is a revolutionary idea to people who only had to gather

their food now God says I won't make it happen anymore without you I will require your investment in your provision you have gone as far as you can go off of my charity your next meal is going to require your involvement oh I don't I don't know if you're ready for this I don't know if you're ready for this I don't know if you're ready for this I am taking you you've been to being interdependent [Applause] I'm really I'm winning you from Easy [Applause] I know you wrote books on how it works I know you

wrote 12 steps to a blessing in a dry place I know you've grown all kinds of books about water coming out of rocks I know you wrote books about me lifting up serpents in the wilderness I know you wrote a lot of books about a lot of stuff but I'm changing the Playbook and I don't know who I'm preaching to today but the Lord sent me here to tell you he has changed the Playbook what used to work will not work right now he told me to tell you what brought you here or will not

take you there the systems the structures there's going to be a massive paradigm shift and if you don't have liquidity and if you don't have dexterity and if you don't have pliability and if you don't have intellectuality you will not be able to evolve into the next Dimension because the manner has ceased and the Moses is dead and the movement continues and right nestled cradled in this beautiful text is the command to prepare your virtuous so Dexter when he could see he Cuts up all his onions and grapes all his cheeses and and Flash balls

all his food and brines all this meat and does all of that a couple of days ahead of time because the prep time is more important than the cook time now I know this is a hard message to preach because I'm preaching about prep time to a microwave it's difficult to talk to you about really good dining because what you eat is not really food it's just it's it's it's a biological experiment it's it's a it's it's something that if you looked at it with a microscope it would be crawling because you took it out

of the freezer you popped it into the microwave and you heated it up for five minutes and you lifted the lid and it almost scalded your hand and you eat it and you call it food but that's not food that's not food that's bacteria real food requires prep time [Laughter] look at your neighbor and say I'm in the prep time I'm not I'm not acting funny I'm in prep time I'm not ignoring your phone calls I'm in prep time I'm not disregarding our relationship I'm in prep time I I haven't got the big head I'm

in prep time I'm not arrogant I'm in prep time I know I seem distracted and I don't seem like the person I used to be but I'm the same person but I'm in a different place I'm in prep time I'm getting ready for something and more is required of me in this season than what was required of me in my last season in my last season we could play around we could fool around we could mess around we could date around but I got to break up with you in this season because I'm in prep

time in my last season we could breathe on the phone for an hour and a half but in this season in order to get where I gotta go I'm in prep time and yes I still appreciate everything that you used to be but I recognize your Manna has ceased in other words you are not the source of my sustenance you are no longer the place where I eat and I love you and I appreciate you but I can't be on the phone for hours and hours talking about people because I've been prep time people who

can spend hours on the phone talking about people aren't going anywhere and I can't afford to spend another year talking about what other people are doing while I'm not doing anything at all I'm in prep and I'm wondering if there's anybody in this room in this place I'm wondering if there's anybody streaming online who's on being prep time you're chopping up stuff and dice and stuff and preparing stuff and wrapping it it ain't happening yet but you in prep time the door hasn't opened yet but you're in prep time the way it hasn't been made

yet but you're in prep time if I am preaching to the right people Set It Off in here all right Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah I proved by faith because I'm prepping for something that hadn't even happened yet I haven't mixed it together it hadn't come together I haven't placed it in the oven I didn't put it in the crock pot I haven't put it on the smoker yet but I'm in prep time I'm laying it out I'm getting it

ready I'm bringing structure to what I believe I'm not just believing it I'm bringing structure to it because without structure and strategy I won't be prepared to succeed in the area of my destination I'm in prep time nurse three people in Salmon prep time I'm in prep time I'm in prep time I'm in prep time I'm in prep time I'm in prep time I'm in prep time I'm in prep time I got to get it in prep time I got to get it in the right shape I gotta get it in the right form I

gotta get it in the right size I gotta get it at the right temperature I gotta get it in the right order because I'm in prep time I can't put cold butter into a pound cake because it won't cream I gotta get it room temperature everything's got to be right because I'm in prep time and when I'm in prep time I have to do stuff that don't make sense to you why you got the buttermilk sitting on the stove why you got the butter just laying out why don't you go ahead and use it no

it's not the right temperature yet but I'm in prep time I'm calling things that are not as though they were because I'm in prep time I'm getting my outfit ready I'm getting my wardrobe ready I'm getting my language ready I'm getting my speech ready I'm learning the right terminologies not for the room I'm in but for the room I'm about to walk in I'm learning the language of my future I'm preparing myself for what God is about to do in my life I'm in prep time you don't understand it because you don't have enough Faith

you say when I get there I'm gonna prepare the vigil it's gonna be too late when you get there you got to prepare for it before you get there you got to prepare three days in advance cause in the next three days things are about to change in your life in a radical way this is prep time this word is a prophetic word going out to somebody you're in prep time there's about to be a release in your life if God is talking to you right here right now make some noise in this place any

kind of noise any kind of noise any kind of noise [Applause] foreign [Applause] at you saying what are you doing going through a leadership conference you ain't even a leader shut your mouth I'm in prep time I'm calling those things that are not as though they were I'm getting ready for what's next I want to learn the language of the rule I want to be in the place where people are thinking forward I can't keep hanging out with desert babies I got to get with somebody that's ready to go into the promised land and I

gotta get into the room that I'm gonna be in one day no they don't know me right now but I'm prepping for the future you can't understand that if you're not a product of Faith but faith will make you get ready for something that hadn't happened yet faith will make you borrow vessels when you're broke faith will make you take a lunch and tell everybody to sit down some kind of way God is going to turn it into a smorgasbord faith will make you get ready for a child when the doctor said you can't have

no baby faith will make you call those things that are not as though they were faith gets into your attitude and your disposition faith will make you rebuild a room on a house for a prophet that hadn't come by yet faith will make you get ready for something that hasn't even there yet faith will make you start laying out plans and diagrams and getting ready and setting up situation for some of you can't even pay for faith will make you move out on something that makes you look like a full faith will make you build

an ark and it hasn't been a drop of rain faith will get you ready for something that had even started to break loose in your life I want to talk through some radical people in this room that are willing to build a boat in your backyard and it hadn't even rained yet and all your neighbors are laughing at you but you are in prep time if you're in prep time holler at your boy [Applause] foreign [Applause] this basically is not just a change of how you cook this is a change of how you think you

were raised by people who didn't have to prepare so you cannot take your parents mindset into your moment because your fathers did eat Banner in the wilderness but the Manna has ceased so that means you have to have a different mindset you might have the moral equivalent the equivalency I can't say it but you cannot have the same mindset because if you have the mindset of your fathers you will be looking up every morning waiting on something to fall down that is never going to fall down again and you will be waiting on something to

happen so you can move nothing else is going to happen prep time means mindsets determine assets if I cannot get it in your mind I cannot get it in your life if your mindset is still looking up for manna then your hands won't prepare your eventuals and prep time it's dangerous dubious task of challenging how you think it's not that the preparation for the food is not available to you but if you don't have the mindset you won't have the asset if you have a mindset of waiting on something to fall in the morning you

won't prepare your rituals in the day every time there's a major change in your life or move in your life or you move into a new region or a new occupation or a new situation or you become a single parent or you get married it's not enough to get a new ring if you have an old mindset come on with me come on with me come on with me don't jump off now don't jump off with me you can't be a married woman with a single woman's mindset because all of your single girlfriends will mess

up your marriage with their advice about what they would do if they was you and they don't have nobody and you listening at them and carrying that Spirit home and it's tearing up your house brother you can't be a husband with a single man's mindset because you will be physically present but emotionally unavailable because you are physically and legally married but not emotionally present or connected and because you have not developed language for anything beyond anger your wife becomes a sparring partner [Applause] because you are better at expressing anger than you are anything else and

God is prepping you with a change of mindset can I go just a little bit deeper I know I'm taking up some time but I want to show you how powerful mindset is the prodigal son is down in the whole pen he has estranged himself from his father and his brother he has gradually lost the dissipation of friendship the erosion of connectivity he is in a place of total isolation surrounded by swine he is out of money he is out of friends he is out of family he is out of identity he has no name

in the text he is a nameless person in a deplorable situation and the only thing that changed no Angels Came no visitations from God came no Bible dropped down out the sky the only thing that changed the Hawks were still the Hogs the slop was still the slop the Gentiles were still the Gentiles his family was still as strange his friends had all ran away the only thing chained to mine his mind changed the Bible said that with mud in between his toes and gnats around his head he came to himself the only thing you

have to do to get out of the situation you're in right now is change your mind you don't need her to come back you don't need him to come back you don't need them to pay your way you don't need anything else but to change your mind as a mind thinketh in his heart so is he and the moment you change your mind Can't Nobody Hold You Down this is a change of mindset I'm not gonna keep standing out here in the morning waiting on something to fall it ain't falling no more what used to

work is not working anymore I'm changing my mindset if I got to get my hands messy if I got to get up early in the morning if I gotta beat the wheat till it turns to flower I will beat whatever I've got to weep until I make it turn into what has got to turn to because my hands are a reflection of my mindset if you want to know what I'm thinking watch what I'm doing and if I'm if you see me out here doing it it means I'm not waiting anymore I came here to

tell you tonight that God said stop waiting on somebody to come rescue you from your situation they're not coming you need to change your mindset and start beating that wheat up until you see bread there will be no more bread falling from Heaven you're in a prep season for a promise that's about to take your life if I'm preaching right at you if I'm preaching right to you if I'm preaching about where you at right now if you know you got to change the game if you know you got to shift the strategy if you

know you got to get a new playbook if you know you got to break out of the box if you know you gotta disrupt something if you know God is challenging you that if you've always done what you've always done you will always be where you've always been if you're ready to be radical Reckless and break loose and break out if you're ready to break some rules and do something you've never done before if you read it a beep wait till it comes out as loaves of bread Make some noise in this place just annoyed

[Applause] because somebody saying it's yours but you gotta take it I'm gonna move from preparation to possession it's yours but you got to take it it's not gonna come up on your front porch it's not gonna ring the doorbell it's not going to respond to you the way you expected it to respond to you ain't no more manner coming down to your door ain't nobody coming to your house begging you for a position you got to possess it it's yours but you got to take it you gotta take it you gotta take it because it's

yours it's yours but you got to take it you got to take it while somebody else is living in it you got to take it while somebody else thinks it's there there's going to be an altercation but you got to take it by four so that I ever said that the kingdom suffered violence and the violent taken by force I want to raise up some radical people I'm sick of church people I need some radical people the Bible said that the kingdom suffered violence and the violence taken by force is everybody anybody in here that's

ready to take it by force God told Joshua I have given you the land but you still got fight for it slap three people and say fight for it don't just pray for it but fight for it don't just ask for it but fight for it you gotta fight for it I've given you the land to possess it you gotta drive out the Canaanites and the ammonites and the jeopard sites and the garroshites because that's yours somebody is living in your house driving your car somebody is sitting at your desk I heard the Bible say

I'll give you houses that you didn't build and then you said you didn't grow but you gotta take it by force you gotta come out of your passive little quiet sit back wait and Johnny come lately Smith and you gotta take whack what God gave you take back what the enemy stole from you take back what they said what yours take back what they said what happened in your life you gotta possess it huh is there anybody in here that's getting rid of them possess something I'm ready to move people out call U-Haul I want

my staff to call U-Haul so I can move out all of these vagrant people that are living on my territory give me a U-Haul truck huh cause I'm gonna move you out of my job out of my position and out of my place because I'm gonna possess what God promised me [Applause] walk up to somebody and slap him and say possess it stop praying for it and possess it stop crying about it and possess it stop worrying about it and possess it stop fretting about it and possess it stop asking for it and possess it

stop waiting on it by possess it if you don't hire me I'll hire myself if you don't give me a job I'll make a job if you won't give me a seat I'll create a table I'm ready to possess the promise of God this ain't for everybody this is for radical people huh this is for people who've suffered enough I've been through enough hell in the wilderness that if you don't make a way for me I'll make a way for myself God said I've given you the land to possess it I shake your name and

say take it back [Applause] foreign take it take us take it take it I don't think we gotta take night classes I don't care if you gotta fix your credit score I don't care if you gotta turn around and do double time to get where you're trying to go take it before you lose respect for yourself take it why you got enough strength to go after your dream take it while your talent is in place you gotta take it by force how can I take it somebody else is in it God said it's yours foreign

[Applause] I want all you people that don't normally say nothing in church run over about it and look at somebody and say I'm getting ready to take it now I know you don't expect me to be one of the kind of people that'll take it I know I'm normally quiet and I haven't said nothing to you all service but I'm getting ready to take it by force I'm getting ready to bust a move I'm getting ready to go into another dimension I'm getting ready to make 2023 count since Kobe it didn't kill me since the

flu didn't kill me since the cancer didn't take me out since the car wreck didn't destroy me since I made it out of the hospital I'm gonna redeem the time I'm getting ready to take it back if I had died I couldn't take it out but I'm still here I'm gonna let hell know that I'm still here because I'm taking give me my stuff back give me my stuff back give me my stuff again foreign [Music]