great.

Abram said, O Lord, what will you give me since I am childless and the heir of my house, Eleazar of Damascus? And Abram said, Since you have giving no offspring to me.

One born in my house is my heir.

Then behold, the word of the Lord came to him saying, this man will not be your heir, but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.

He took him outside and said, now look towards the heavens.

And count the stars if you are able to count them.

God is funny.

That's goo.gle slash workspace with Gemini.

I count not myself to have apprehended,

but this one thing I do.

I'm forgetting those things which are behind and reaching to those things which are before.

I press toward it.

I haven't got it yet, but I press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus means, I want to see progress in my process.

The goal is not completion or perfection.

Perfection is not my aim.

Priceline.

Yeah,

I get to sleep better.

I didn't even know I was carrying the weight.

You don't realize the weight of a no when you're walking in it.

Sometimes it's so comfortable, the no.

You fall asleep with the no, and then you start being in the will of God, and it changes things.

your trajectory all the way.

Do you and be you.

Yes.

But then I caved in.

I ran from the call.

I signed up for ministry school twice, and I quit twice.

[laughs] I did.

I have to be honest.

I'm not gonna lie to you.

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These are my friends.

They're not just my brother and my sister.

You don't get to pick your brother and sister.

They're also my friends.

And I love you right back.

Aren't you glad you're in here today? Aren't you happy to be here? How many people are happy to be here? Make some noise if you're happy to be here.

Okay, I

You've got a whole network.

Yeah, I got a whole network.

And piece by piece, I'm going to launch that network starting this fall.

And I'm going to start it with my podcast.

It's going to be called My Next Chapter.

I think everybody's trying to figure out what their next chapter is.

Everything's being uprooted.

Tell this audience what your magic sauce is, where you are now, where you're going that's important to you for them to know, and what they should do.