What are you rationalising today, that you'll regret tomorrow? I know in a room this size, full of men, I need to say this: stop calling her! You're rationalising it today, but tomorrow it's a disaster! But Shane, it's just a phone call - today. Tomorrow it'll be coffee, the next day it'll be lunch, the next day it'll be supper, and the next day my husband's out of town, come over. Stop calling her! If you're sitting in your seat right now, hoping that I'm not fixing to go prophetic on you - it's you! If your heart's beating right now, fast - it's you! What are you rationalising today, that you'll regret tomorrow?
Three, you do not have to fall on purpose, you just have to live without one, and destruction is imminent.
I could tell you that statistically, most of you would report in an anonymous survey, that you're dissatisfied with your life; and the issue normally isn't that you're bad, or evil, or in sin, or anything like that. For most people, it's simply: I haven't clearly defined what I intend to do, and so no matter what you're doing, it's not satisfying, because it's not meeting what you're intending. You don't have to fall on purpose, you just simply have to live without one, and destruction is just going to be a part of your life.
How about let's say it this way: When we do not have intention towards life, destruction is just an inevitable part of our experience. When we don't live with full intention, full focus; what do I intend to do with my life today? Tomorrow? In six months? In a year? Where am I intending to go?
If you don't live your life that way, I'm telling you, five years goes by, and those five years just pass by, and you're still in the exact same spot going: what's wrong with my life? It's a challenge to us.
Let's say it this way. One YES, always requires 1,000 NO's. One YES, requires 1,000 NOs.
The only being that gives you the power to say no to destructive things, is that you're saying yes. You can never beat sin, by fighting sin, ever. You only empower what you resist. You can never beat sin by fighting sin; you beat sin by empowering something else; and the power you give something else, actually overcomes the sin.
Let's say it this way: one yes requires 1,000 no's; so here's some examples: To be a yes-person on forgiveness, means no to grudges. You don't beat grudges by fighting grudges, you beat grudges by fully intending to live as a person of forgiveness. When you fully intend to live as a person of forgiveness, the grudge loses its hold. You can't possibly say yes to this, and yes to that. The power of yes is so much better than the power of no, so much easier than fighting it.
How about this: to be a yes-person on edification, means no to gossip. To be a yes-person on giving, means no to hoarding. To be a yes-person on humility, means no to powering-up. To be a yes-person on rest, means no to urgency. To be a yes-person on our profession, means no to laziness.
If you say: I fully intend to start a grass-cutting lawn-care business, great! What's your plan? Well I'm going to buy the equipment, I'm going to do this, I'm going to that, I'm going to market, I'm going to do this. If you intend to start a grass-cutting business, then that means saying no to sleeping in. If you're starting a grass-cutting business, and I call you at 9.30 and wake you up, you are not going to win. There's only so much daylight, and you've got to cut so many yards to break even. To say yes to this, means no to that.
Let's say it this way: to say yes to being a person of purity, means no to temporary pleasure; but the way to fight temporary pleasure is not to fight it. The way to fight temporary pleasure is to say yes to purity, with all your focussed intention. One yes, requires 1,000 no's.
To say yes to financial abundance, means no to frivolous spending, and $6 coffee. There's no way you can win financially, paying $6 for something that costs 30 cents - there's just no way. These guys are masters. They've figured out how to market a drink, that costs 30 cents to make, including the labour - and they sell it to you for $6. This is genius! This liquid is so amazing, if you drink it, it will give you a slightly more alert feeling, for roughly 12 minutes; and then 15 minutes later, it will turn into urine. I just drank something, and it's coming out the other end - this is so cool!
Let me just give you some math okay. It doesn't affect my life, but I can tell you this: if you were 25 years old, and you plan to retire at 67 - if you drank one $6 coffee a day, that sounds like $180 a month. The average stock market rate of return from 1919 until now, including ups and downs is 11.7 per cent. If you invest $6 a day, at 11.7 per cent, from 25 to 67, you're worth $1.1 million. I hope you liked the coffee! .