Clarity Sunday - Touré Roberts

1:04 I want to get right into our conversation tonight. And I want to level set and frame this entire conversation, this entire masterclass, with an understanding about the moment that we're standing in right now. I think that we're living in one of the most exciting moments in history. I mean, opportunity is literally everywhere. You can have a vision, and that vision can move forward faster now than ever before. When you think about things like technology, and because of what I have phrased as the democratization of influence and impact, right, if you've got access, and we all do, to technology and various things, you can do more with less. What it would take people, teams and money and all these expensive tools to do, it is right at your fingertips.

2:02 If we would go back generations, this would be unimaginable to the generation ahead of us. Everything is moving. It is a powerful time. And at the same time, it's also a very dangerous time because the same systems that amplify opportunity also amplify noise. and if I might be unprofessional for a moment, it also amplifies the cray-cray. Are you tracking with me? The same speed that's creating this momentum that we're in right now that allows vision to be carried out and executed quickly is also creating confusion in many places. And this is why we have to be clear. And so this is a time that I would call, it's like the best of times and also the worst of times. But the good news is the people that are going to win in this season are not the most gifted. They're not the most connected.

2:56 They're not the most talented. And quite frankly, they're not even the most resources. The people who are going to win in these times are the people who are clear. Are you hearing me? Clear. And so the clearer you are, the farther you will go. And that's what tonight is all about. Now, before we go any further, I want us to slow down for a minute. I don't know what you're coming into this moment with, caring. I don't know. But what we're going to do before we do anything is we're going to just slow down for a moment because clarity, you're going to get a lot of information. There are going to be a lot of answers. Clarity doesn't begin with answers. It doesn't begin with information or answers. Clarity begins with awareness. You're being tapped into this moment. So right now, wherever you are, I want you to take a breath. I want you to breathe.

3:53 And I want you to take out your pen and something to write on. If you cannot use your phone, that would be great because sometimes the devil will be in the phone with distractions popping up. And I want you to write down one sentence in response to this question. You ready? I want you to write down one sentence in response to this question. What feels the most accelerated or demanding in my life right now? You're asking yourself this question. What feels most accelerated or demanding in my life right now? And I don't want you to explain it. I don't want you to try to justify it.

4:54 I just want you to name it. What feels most accelerated or demanding in my life right now? Let me give you about 30, 45 more seconds. It feels demanding. It feels accelerating. Give me just a few more seconds here. Now, now, what you just wrote down, it's not good or bad, it's not a problem, it's not any of that. But the reason why I had you write that down is because this is the context that clarity has to speak into.

6:02 I wanted to show you. I wanted you to be aware of the speed of things because I want you to understand how clarity has to move and how to navigate. When you slow down, you realize how fast things are. And that's okay because we're going to get clear. clarity is what I like to call the definer in accelerated seasons you can't keep the season from slowing down in fact to be honest with you you don't want the season to slow down you just want to be able to move accurately in that season you want to be able to move you want to be able to move with discernment in the midst of that and when things are moving slowly you can afford to hesitate, right? Things are moving slow. You can take your time, but when things are moving fast, hesitation costs you this thing called timing.

6:59 And timing is everything. I talk about timing a lot. You know, even in Ecclesiastes, it talks about how there are times and seasons for everything underhand. When God created everything that he created, he created times and seasons. So in this realm that we live in, we will always be in the realm of timing. And this is why knowing and clarity is so important, is because we want to be aligned with the timing. And the good news is you don't have to be guessing about the timing. If you can get still enough and clear enough, God will, and we'll talk about it, he will show you the timing. And so people who are consistently clear in the seasons are the people who are going to end up leading instead of following. the clearer you are the more position you will be to lead and not follow to lend and not borrow can I just throw that promise there some of you have been your whole life and your whole experience has been about borrowing but I believe that as you get clear and as you get aligned because of that clarity you're not going to be the borrower you're literally going to be the lender hello somebody and that might sound radical for some of you but we are in radical times and this is why it is so important. This message of clarity for me is going to be one of my key messages for this year, because I believe that this is a year where God's people in particular are going to literally come from the shadows. They're going to come from the back of the line into the front of the line, because people are going to be looking for clarity, and you will carry it. You will possess it in this accelerated time. I'm thinking about Daniel chapter 11 and verse 32, and I want you study it when you get a chance, but it talks about how, actually, I think that might be Daniel chapter 12 and 4 is what I'm looking for, but it talks about how knowledge, how knowledge is going to be increasing, like it literally, and there it is, it says, many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall increase, so think about that, running to and fro, that means that things are

9:06 accelerated, right? And they're accelerated because knowledge is increasing. This is the speed, the tone, and the rhythm, and this is everything. But here's the thing. Speed without clarity is dangerous, okay? Ain't nothing wrong with speed, right? We need speed, right? There's some breakthroughs that you can't even experience unless there is a certain velocity on your journey. but speed without clarity is dangerous. So knowledge is increasing. Movement is accelerating. Things are moving to and fro. You know, we see technology taking off, right? And then there's another passage in Daniel as well, and I believe it's in Daniel chapter 11 and 32. And this is, if this year had a theme, if this season had a theme, it would be this. It says the people who know their God shall be strong and shall carry out exploits.

10:08 And if you look at Daniel, if you think about Daniel, Daniel speaks of the end times. People marvel at the book of Daniel because the things that people are seeing today were written in the book of Daniel. It's crazy. And so so so the prophecy is those who know their God. This means that there's going to be this is this coming to me right now. This means that there's going to be a grace to know in these times unlike ever before. Oh, my goodness. It doesn't say those who know all the algorithms. It doesn't say those who know all the trends or those who know all the systems, right? You know, like we all sell. You know, if you have this system now and you have that system now, it doesn't say that, right? And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with systems and studying patterns and all. I do all that kind of stuff. But that's not what the scripture says. The scripture says those who know, those that know their God. So there's going to be a grace from heaven as everything is moving quickly, right?

11:07 A grace for us to know so that we can come into alignment with that pace and with that. Oh, man, I feel this so strongly. It's going to be a quick work. I feel like this is not my preaching platform, right? You know, but it's going to be a quick work. It's going to be an accelerated work. That that's that that that that Joe to twenty five, which talks about I'm going to restore the years that the locusts have eaten. He says, I'm going to restore the years. He's talking about timing. I'm going to do an accelerated thing in one month. It talks about the latter rain and the former former rain in the first month. Some of you are getting ready to be overwhelmed with what God does in and through your life because of the knowing that's coming to you. You're going to come into alignment and it is going to be crazy. If that's you, just take a minute, put it in the chat right there and just say, I receive that right now, sir. I receive that right now.

12:00 That's your word. That's your word. That's your word. That's your word. Hallelujah. But it's going to take clarity. You're not going to get this in confusion. You're not going to get this being rushed and hurried. You are going to have to be clearer than you've ever been before. And I believe that this is going to be the clearest year of your life. And if it's the clearest year of your life, you're going to be aligned. And if you're aligned, you're going to make decisions. And you're going to make decisions that literally change not only the trajectory of your life, but the trajectory of the lives of your children's children. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? I am so glad you're tuned in here. This is so much more than a master class. This is a master shaping. You're on the potter's wheel right now. Some of you, it was difficult for you to get to this class, but you pressed your way and you got here.

12:57 If I was your enemy, if I was against you, I would have tried to keep everything in my power. I would have had the technology messing up. Some of you are just getting in, right? You missed the front, but now you're in right now and you're here for a reason. God's for you. He's got you and the gates of hell themselves cannot prevail against you. Clarity, clarity. Just put clarity in the chat, clarity. Clarity.

13:22 Because clarity determines who wins in accelerated seasons. Clarity is going to crown and announce the winners. Because when everything outside of you is moving fast, this is important, only what is settled within you can keep you aligned. When everything outside of you is moving fast, only that which is settled, settled within you can keep you aligned, right? Everyone is facing the same speed. Everyone is navigating the same noise. Everyone has access to similar tools. But what separates outcomes is not what's happening around you. It's what's settled within you. So clarity begins internally, and whatever is settled internally determines how you move externally.

14:24 In my second book, Wholeness, it was about winning in life from the inside out. You don't win in life from the outside in. You win in life from the inside out. If your identity is unclear, then the speed is going to pull you off course. If your purpose is unclear, then opportunity is going to distract you because you're not going to be able to decipher between a good thing and a God thing. If your inner life is unclear, then external momentum is going to exhaust you because you're not in alignment. Now, I want you to get your pen out again, and I want you to put your pen to the page one more time. And I want you to respond to this question honestly. Don't over-spiritualize it. I don't want you, don't try to impress me or yourself or anybody else, right? Just be truthful. Just be honest in this moment.

15:16 We've got another pause moment here. Here is the question that I want you to respond to, and this is a question to yourself. What do I know about myself in this season that I've been ignoring? What do I know about myself in this season that I've been ignoring? write one sentence, just one, just one. I'm going to give you a couple minutes to do that. What do I know about myself in this season that I've been ignoring? Thank you. Give it another 30 seconds or so.

16:23 What do I know about myself in this season that I've been ignoring? Now, here's the thing. That sentence didn't come from effort. It came from clarity. And the reality of it is, is we can know things, but most people talk themselves out of that knowing. You can know something. You can know something deep down within, but here comes noise. And the next thing you know, you're talking yourself out of it. And clarity will begin when you stop doing that. When you stop talking, it's for somebody. When you stop talking yourself out of what you already know.

17:23 And getting clear helps you to do it. You would be surprised when you just silence the noise, how the truth emerges. when you just get in a place and shut it all down, and sometimes I'm waiting for a word from God, I'm looking for the truth, I'm trying to find, God, will you please give me a chance? And I hear you guys saying, just be still. Get clear. Silence the noise. Breathe. And you'll look up, and the truth is already there. Are you tracking with me? Now, here's the first thing that we have to understand about clarity, and this is super important. Clarity is not just about being clear about your ambitions, your goals, your vision board, and all that kind of stuff. And I'm not saying that those things don't matter or they're not important, but I'm talking about something on another level. This is not about simply your ambitions and your goals.

18:21 It is possible for you and God to be in disagreement about your vision board. Hey, you're like, I'm ready to log off now. it is possible but here's the good news about that reality god's dreams are bigger than yours ephesians 3 20 you know now unto him who's able to do watch this exceedingly abundantly far above what you can ask for or even imagine which means that i don't care how big your dream is even if it's a god dream if you could see it it's just the beginning of what god can do are you tracking with me. I feel this for somebody, and I actually put this in my threads recently. Whatever you're thinking is too small. Think bigger. I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue it. I'm not saying you throw it away. I'm just saying it's bigger than what you think, right? Now unto him who's able to do. It's our capacity. We have a limited capacity. God says something in Psalms once. He says, open your mouth wide and I will feel it. It's almost like he's saying, open your mouth wide so I can fill it. To the degree that you can believe, expect, and open up and create capacity for me is the degree in which I will pour. So sometimes we're living on the level of not God's capacity, but our own capacity, right? Supersize it right now, wherever you are, I want you to supersize it. But anyway, we have to understand as it relates to clarity, this is bigger than your goals. This is bigger than your ambitions. This is bigger than your whiteboard. It's bigger than your dream is bigger than the house you've always wanted to have and the husband or the wife that you've always wanted to have your puppy dog or your Mercedes. All that's cute. I don't have a problem with any of that, but I'm talking about something bigger, something deeper, something that is connected to your purpose, identity, and quite frankly, even the legacy that you will leave.

20:10 There's a divine flow at work in your life, right? You're not random. If you've been around me any length of time, you know, I talk about this all the time. Before God formed you in your mother's womb, he knew you, right? But not only did God know you, he also ordained you for something. That's powerful. That means that God has, in his creation of the universe, he has anointed something for you that only you can do. And the revelation of what that is and the opportunities that are connected to what that is is not out here in randomness. It's in the flow, right? It's in the flow. And so that means that there's something designed to work for you. If your life isn't working, it might be because you're not clear enough.

21:08 If you're saying, I just don't feel like my life is working the way it's supposed to, you're actually supposed to feel discontent. I wish I could say this the way I see it. You're actually supposed to feel like, like if you're not in alignment, you're actually supposed to feel like, man, I feel like something's wrong because this should be right. God wants that tension because that tension will put you in a position to seek alignment, to seek his way, to get clear. Are you tracking with me? And so to the point that I'm making earlier, clarity is not forcing your way forward. It's not forcing your way forward according to your own thoughts or your own ways. Isaiah 55, he says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways are not your ways. As high as the heavens are from the earth, the distance, the delta between the heavens and the earth literally is the difference between my thoughts and your thoughts, says God, right?

22:04 That's why you gotta trust me. That old passage that my mama used to say to me, they used to drive me crazy, and I would want to do my own thing, and she would say, Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, trust in the Lord with all your heart. And then this is the part I couldn't stand. And lean not into your own understanding and all your ways acknowledge him. And he would direct your path. I didn't understand it at the time because I wanted what I wanted. I had a good strategy for my life. And she was absolutely right. I don't care how good your plan is for your life. God is bigger. For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They're good and not evil. plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and hope. Clarity is not about forcing your way forward. It is about getting in alignment so that you can move forward. It's about finding the flow that God has already ordained for your life. There's a flow. There's a river. There is a current. There is a currency.

23:00 And when you get in the flow, things start happening. When you get in the flow, all of a sudden resources start showing up. When you get in the flow, you start meeting the right people and not the wrong people. Hello. When you get in the flow, opportunities will chase you. You won't have to chase opportunities. Opportunities will chase you. That's why I've got to get clear. That's why I've got to get aligned. That's why I've got to stop being random. That's why I've got to stop playing. I've got to stop playing with my life. I've got to stop playing with God. God has already worked out what I'm trying to figure out. It is settled. It is finished. It was ordained before I got here. And I'm excited because somebody is about to get a hold of clarity. Unlike ever before, somebody is about to get aligned. And I feel acceleration coming. Get ready. Get ready. You're about to blow some people out of the water. And let me tell you something. Don't be trying to drag people with you. I'm not saying that you're better than anybody else. It's not like that.

23:51 But sometimes the momentum, the velocity for your purpose and your calling will not make space and create room for you to drag dead weight into it. You need to go. You are a rocket ship. You're not a car. You're not a motorcycle. You're a rocket ship. You're getting ready to move at the speed of light. I feel it. If that's you, put it in the chat. That is me, sir. Put it right there in the chat. That's sure enough me. I've got to get a line because my steps have been ordered. But here is the tricky thing, and here is the part that many people misunderstand.

24:31 Yes, your steps are ordered, but God doesn't give you the full direction all at once. Let me sip some water on that part. God doesn't give direction all at once. God, and I won't even get into why. That's not what this is about. I'm just telling you it's not going to happen. He's not going to show you the whole movie. He might show you a glimpse of the end, but he's not going to show you the journey. Right? He's not going to show us the whole thing. He gives it to us in increments. the unfolding happens in increments, right? And it probably has something to do with what we can handle, to be honest with you. And so let's talk about how God leads us. It's this thing called unction, unction.

25:26 God leads us through what I and the scripture call unctions, right? What are unctions? What is an unction? Impressions, right? desires. I'll come back to that word in just a second. Promptings, nudges, subtle inner movements, right? But that desire one is interesting. There's a passage in Philippians 2 and 13. It's really powerful. And Philippians 2 and 13 tells us that God works in us. Watch this. God works in us to will that word means to desire. So God puts things in us that causes us to desire and then to follow that desire by action according to his good pleasure. Right. For God is working in you right now. God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. OK, so and you say, well, that was what pleases him. You know, what about what pleases me? But Here's the thing.

26:27 The scripture says that God delights in the prosperity of his children, so he delights in you doing well. God is not sitting in heaven saying, I just want you to be toe up from the floor up and unhappy and no joy and broke, busted, and disgusted and miserable. There's nothing in scripture that speaks to that, right? He delights in the prosperity of his children. Now, look at this divine setup. The fight is already fixed. it says that God causes you to desire ultimately what he wants to give you. So he gives you desire and he gives you power. And I cannot wait to unpack. Oh, God, I'm going to do something with the men around Deuteronomy 818 where it talks about God gives you the ability to create wealth. In that ability is desire and power.

27:16 Desire. Man, what a setup. What a God. He gives us desire and the power to do what he wants to do for us and through us. That's crazy. So you've got God on the outside working. In fact, God has already worked it out. But you've got God on the outside with everything figured out. Then he starts moving on the inside, causing us to desire. And then when we desire and we get out of our head and when we overcome our personal constraints and all of our issues and our mental bondage and all that other kind of stuff, then that activates into power. And so everybody's happy. You happy. God's happy. Life is happy. Your kid's happy. Everybody around you happy. The community is happy. Are you tracking the words that are coming out of my mouth? Oh, this is good. This is good to me. And so that means that you got to pay attention to desire because desire often is direction in seed form.

28:14 desire is often direction and seed form are you tracking with me so so so let's go deeper so god places impressions inside of us that are meant to be perceived this is important recorded, very important, stewarded, and eventually acted upon. I'm going to say that again. God puts these impressions inside of us that are meant to be perceived,

28:52 recorded, stewarded, and eventually acted upon, right? But here's the key. You have to be still enough to perceive it. In other words, there's some things that are right there. That flow is right there. The reason why you're not tapped into the flow is because you're not still enough. There's a scripture in Psalm 46 and 10. It says, be still and know. So my knowing, the flow of knowing is tapped into my stealing. Sometimes I can't know because I'm not still. It's not that knowing is out of reach. It's just I'm not still enough. Be still and know, right? So I have to be still enough to perceive it. Watch this.

29:44 Clear enough to recognize it. In other words, I've got to deal with the noise, right? Because even though I might get still enough to perceive it, right? I perceive it. But there's a difference between perception and recognition. I perceive it, right? Okay, I sense. That's a nudging, right? But now I have to be clear so that I can begin to recognize what that nudge is. Man, I feel this for somebody. You're about to be so clear. Ooh. Many are fasting right now. You're about to be so clear. Isn't it interesting? And I didn't set this up that way, where the fast would be during the same time. This is a calendar thing, right? Isn't it interesting? But you're about to be clear. You're about to be dangerously clear. You're about to perceive. you're about to recognize, right? I'm getting too excited. I need to move through this, right?

30:36 You have to be still enough to perceive it, clear enough to recognize it. Watch this. Consecrated enough to honor it. To honor it, right? In other words, I'm not playing with what God is showing me. I'm not playing with what God is causing me to see, right? And when I consecrate myself, when I say I am a temple, When I say I am yours, we're going to unpack it even further. When I say I am yours, then I honor what clarity is bringing my way. It is not trivial to me. I'm serious about it. Still enough to perceive it. Clear enough to recognize it. Consecrated enough to honor it. Watch this. This is hyper important, super important. And consistent enough to follow it. consistency is everything.

31:34 Sometimes we do well for a minute. Oh, shit. I love the spirit. What God is getting ready to do in your life is not going to happen with one wave. It's going to happen in waves. In waves. And as you are still enough and clear enough and consecrated enough and consistent enough, it's going to happen in waves. And the waves, and let me tell you something, this is by the Spirit of the Lord. I'm trying to contain it, but I can't. Don't be discouraged when it all doesn't happen in one wave.

32:15 In one wave. Because with the wave, what's coming is a new version of you. It's going to come in waves, so you have to be consistent. See, sometimes, this is prophetic, Sometimes what happens is at the first wave, you think that you have arrived and you stop doing what you did. Surfer, you stop doing what you did to position yourself to ride that wave and you stop because you think you've arrived. And God does that to keep you hungry. And he does that. He doesn't give you all the waves at one time. Even the sea is speaking prophetically to your destiny. The wave doesn't just come one time and that's it. It comes one time and it goes back out and it comes one time and it goes back out and it comes one time and it goes back out. It's almost like breath, right? It comes and it goes and it comes and it goes. And as you are consistent, you're going to begin to see consistent waves hit your life.

33:11 Don't be discouraged when everything that God promised you doesn't come in the first wave. If you're faithful over a little, God is going to make you a ruler over much. Keep being consistent. It's going to happen in waves. But if you're inconsistent, you're going to miss the next wave. Are we tracking? So I have to be still enough to perceive it. I have to be clear enough to recognize it. I have to be consecrated enough to honor it. And I have to be consistent enough to follow it. And we're going to tap more into consistency in a moment. But I need all of this. And I'll say this, God's voice is his clarity. It's his clarity. And so we're going to shift into talking about how clarity gets lost. But before we do that, we're going to have another pause exercise. And I want to help you to recognize how clarity actually arrives.

34:06 Right. So I want you to get your pen and paper out again. And I want you to write this at the top of your page. Right. And I want you to fill this in. Right now, I feel drawn toward whatever that is. Right now, right now, I feel drawn toward. And I want you to finish that sentence without judging it. This is not commitment. You don't have to worry about committing to it. This is not commitment. This is not instruction. This is awareness. This is awareness. And I'm going to sip my water. give you 90 seconds to do this right now i feel drawn toward What? What?

34:57 What?

35:58 Right now I feel drawn toward... Now, I just want you to notice without overthinking, without getting in your head, does this feel peaceful, pressured, or neutral? what you just wrote down, does it feel peaceful? When you think about it, does it feel pressured, or does it feel neutral? And you don't need to resolve it, right? I just want you to notice, does it feel peaceful, pressured, or neutral?

36:57 And I'm going to tell you why I'm asking you to notice this and why I don't want you to resolve it yet. Peace, pressure, and neutrality, these are not answers. These are signals. They're signals. They're not answers. They're signals. Peace is often God's confirmation. Not comfort, but alignment. Peace is not always comfortable per se, but it's alignment. It's God's confirmation. Peace doesn't always mean easy. It just means that it's settled. You understand what I'm saying? It's settled. pressure usually is is urgency without clarity right it pushes you pressure it pushes you to move before you've discerned okay neutrality is different from them both neutrality doesn't mean that nothing is happening right it just means that the timing hasn't been revealed yet. Does that make sense? And so neutral moments are moments to wait. They're not invitations to force meaning. You know what I mean? Sometimes because we just have a desire to know, you know what I mean? And neutrality, it doesn't feel peaceful or pressured. It just feels like feels.

38:19 And we want to try to convert that into something. No, that means wait, right? So clarity comes when you learn to listen to these signals without letting them rush or rule you. Are you tracking with me? I'm trying to develop your spirit in such a way that you can get clear, discern, qualify things without being impulsive. Are you tracking with me? And when you learn to tell the difference between peaceful and pressured and neutrality, When you learn to tell the difference, clarity, it stops being this mysterious thing and it starts becoming something which is repeatable. Does that make sense?

39:04 Unction, unction always precedes clarity and clarity always precedes action. I need clarity. Now, let's talk about clarity being lost and how that happens. Here's the thing. Most people don't lose clarity because God stopped speaking. It's not that. They lose clarity because noise increased. You know what I'm saying? Right? God, he didn't stop speaking. What God said to you is still true, but it's the noise. The noise got loud. And when the noise gets loud, you know, things start moving fast or whatever. Then I begin, I'm not clear anymore. And the longer, watch this, the longer I stay unclear, I went from clarity to confused. That ever happened to you before where there was something that was just so clear, but, man, you just kept living and you kept walking. The next thing you know, you looked up and, wait, wait, is that even true anymore?

40:01 Right? Right? Speed in those types of moments, oftentimes speed will replace stillness. You're tracking with me. It's going so fast. Listen, I'm completely guilty. Sometimes, man, things will be moving fast and we are in an accelerated time. And I'm an entrepreneur. Like, I build stuff. I seize those moments. I ride those waves, and sometimes I'll look up, and because I'm so caught up in the speed and producing things, I'll look up, and I'm like, oh, my God, I need to be still because I need to qualify what's going on. Every good thing is not a God thing, right? We used to say in Domino's, all money ain't. Put it right there in the chat. Put it right there in the chat. All money ain't, and if you can't answer that, you need to spend a little bit of time with PT. You can come over to Dallas for a barbecue. Are you tracking with me? But in those seasons, speed, for me, I know, speed replaces stillness. Pressure replaces perception.

40:57 I feel the pressure, and now all of a sudden the pressure is clouding me, and I can't perceive properly. And sometimes just being movement, watch this, sometimes movement replaces alignment. I assume because I'm moving that I'm still on the tracks, especially when you're moving at a high rate of speed. Every once in a while, I've got to stop to make sure that the wheels of my train are still on the tracks of alignment. Are you hearing me?

41:28 So clarity is not a one-time revelation. Clarity is a discipline. It's a discipline. And the people who will win in this season are not the ones, watch this, this is important, are not the ones who never lose clarity. They're the ones who know how to get it back. hey they're the ones that know how to get it back they know how to slow down they know how to listen again right they know how to return to the first unction right you're going to get all of us are going to lose it for a second that's okay if we know how to come back if we know the disciplines to employ to bring us back so so let's let's let's talk about the disciplines of staying clear And I'll tell you right now, I'm going to name, but I'm going to name what we've already been doing tonight already. We've already been moving in it.

42:21 Because clarity is not accidental. It's intentional. And it has to be cultivated. Are you hearing me? You've got to be intentional about clarity. It's not just going to roll up on you. You have to say, you know what? I'm going to keep my focus scripturally. Turn not to the left nor to the right. Right. I mean, you have to you, you have to make up your mind that I'm going to be clear. And sometimes we have been so used to being cloudy.

42:53 That we put off the passionate pursuit of clarity because we've learned how to live in a cloudy life. Well, if you're living in a cloudy life, you're not going anywhere. In a time, in a season where the opportunities are plenteous, God is moving and he wants to move through you. Now, there are disciplines that help you to stay clear, and there are disciplines that will help you to get back to clarity when your clarity fades. And tonight, you've already practiced four of them. Right here tonight in the time that we spent together. First one is stillness. We practice stillness tonight, right? Because clarity doesn't compete with noise. The two don't coexist, right? Clarity, as we talked about earlier, it emerges when the noise quiets. Right. And stillness is how you learn to hear again. Get still. Some of you are just one stillness away from getting back on track. You think that God's got to write you a dissertation. You think you've got to go and see a prophet or some soothsayer or something like that to get your life together, which is crazy.

44:00 No, no. Some of you, you're going to steal your way into clarity, literally. So we've been practicing that. Discipline number one is stillness. The second one is, this is valuable, is recording the unction. That's why I got you to get your pens and your paper out. You got to record the unction, right? Because clarity that is not written is clarity that will eventually be forgotten. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? Clarity that is not written is clarity that will eventually be forgotten. revelation that is not written is revelation that will be forgotten if i was preaching at church i would tell you i would talk to you about the parable of the source and when the person who receives the word and they don't understand it and or they don't have deep enough root to receive that word what does it say he says the enemy comes immediately to take up that word right and so so writing recording the unction writing it is how you honor what god is saying watch this before noise tries to come and steal it or worse, reinterpret it.

45:11 Did God really say? Right? See, if he can't steal it because you didn't write it down when it was clear, he will reinterpret it. It will cause you to begin to question it or maybe he didn't mean it like that or maybe it wasn't as big as he said it was or maybe it, no, no, no, no, no, no. When it is clear, baby, write it down. So we've already been moving in this. Stillness, I was intentional about having you write it down. I was intentional about you being still because I wanted to model before us these disciplines. One is stillness. Two is recording the unction. Watch this. Three is having discernment over impulse. Remember what I said, write it down? And then how do you feel when you look at it, right? Did you feel peaceful? Did it feel pressure? Did it feel neutral?

46:04 and then I told you not to judge it, not to resolve it. I'm teaching you how to sit with something so that you don't move impulsively. Are you tracking with me, right? This is discernment over impulse, right? See, not every strong feeling is clear direction. Sometimes because we feel it strong, we feel like it must be clarity. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to sit with it, right? Because the wrong thing, come on, somebody, can feel strong. Come on. The old song, if loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right. Y'all know nothing about that. Some of y'all do. You understand what I'm saying? So I have to have discernment. I have to discern these things that are coming, right? Are you tracking with me?

46:55 So learning the difference between peace and pressure and neutrality keeps you from moving too soon. or moving too slow and missing timing all together, right? That's the third one. So recap really quickly, those four things, stillness, recording unction, discernment over impulse, and then watch this, re-clarifying the rhythms. That's the fourth one. Because clarity is not something you have once. It's something that you always have to return to, right? The people who win in this season are not the ones who never lose clarity. They're the ones that know how to get it back. and some of you haven't been clear, but right now, even tonight, you're getting it back, right? And so all those things can be broken down to these four thoughts, these four frameworks. Hear, remember, interpret, and return. Stillness is about hearing.

47:49 Hear, okay? Remember. Remember is about writing it down, recording the unction, right? I have all sorts. Every time God gives me a word, I write it down. I have every prophetic word that God has spoken to me for years. I have it down. And what's amazing is I will see it come to pass. It can either be a prophetic word. It can be an insight about something that's coming, right? Something that God wants to do, right? So you have to hear that stillness. You have to remember that's recording the unction. You have to interpret, right? Interpret is having that discernment over impulse. And then you have to return. That's re-clarifying your rhythms. That's getting back in the rhythm. I need to hear, I need to remember, I need to interpret, and I need to return. Put that in the chat. Hear, remember, interpret, return. Hear, remember, interpret, return.

48:47 If you can hear and you can remember and you can interpret and you can return, you are going to be not just a person who taps into clarity, but someone who moves in the flow of clarity. What I've given you is the foundation of clarity. You can tell, we can go on and on and on with questions and various things, but I wanted to give you a foundation. I wanted you to be able to walk away with some tools. This is a taste of the discipline of clarity. But before we close, I want to tell you, I want to do something important. And here's what I've learned about clarity. Clarity moments are powerful, but clarity, it has to be supported if it's going to last. I've learned that if you really want to do something, you have to build a whole system, a whole environment about what you're committed to. You understand what I'm saying? And what I have done, and if you know me, if you've known me for five minutes, my passion is to build people.

49:54 When I was building our community in LA, and yes, it grew big, but I was never desirous of building a big movement. I wanted to build big people. And as I began to build big people, it became a movement. It's the same here in Dallas. It's the same here with called leaders, what I'm getting ready to do with men. I am passionate about building big people. And what I understand about building big people is that you can't just give them one thing. You have to give them a whole ecosystem. You have to give them an entire environment that supports what they're committing to. And so I want to show you what that looks like. I want to tell you about a few resources that I believe is going to create an environment for you to stay clear. And as you stay clear, as you remain clear, you're going to be a part of what I believe are those who know their God. You're going to be strong and you're going to do great exploits. I believe you're tapped in here because that's your story. That's your testimony. If you're connected to me, I already know there's greatness on your life. I'm called literally to massive people. I can't help it. I didn't choose it. If you're connected to me and I don't care where you are, where this moment finds yourself, It's because there's something massive on your life.

51:05 If you resonate with me, it's because of the greatness that's on your life. And so I want to tell you about a few resources. The first one is my book, Knowing. Let me tell you, this book is the most powerful and anointed book I've ever read. And I'm proud of everything that God has allowed to come through me. But there's something timely about this book. It's called Knowing the Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World. I'm going to tell you something that I haven't told a lot of people. So I wrote this in my pool house. I wrote the book in my pool house. And I would be up all night writing this book. And one day I did an all-nighter, and I walked out, and it was about 5 in the morning. And I looked up, and there was a cloud. And I was drawn to the cloud. The cloud was in the form of a hand. And I looked up, and God said, because I couldn't understand why. First of all, I had the energy, the strength to do it, to stay up all night doing it. And the revelation that was coming was next dimensional.

51:59 And God put that hand up there to tell me my hand, the reason why it's happened the way it's happened in the accelerated fashion and the power and the revelation is because my hand is on you. That's what this book is. And so it's not a book about information, but it will be a book of transformation. It's about cultivating an inner certainty in a world where everything is uncertain, where everything is constantly trying to rush you or trying to manipulate your emotions or your feelings. Everything right now is pulling and tugging at you, trying to distract you. And knowing, I'll tell you right now, knowing gives language to what you felt tonight. And it teaches you how to live from a place of consistency. And so if you haven't preordered knowing, I encourage you to preorder knowing. And right now, and this is only for the next 24 hours, resource number two is the 90-Day Clarity Guide. This is where the disciplines that we name tonight, this is where they become daily practices.

53:00 We just scratch the surface. Stillness, recording unction, discernment over impulse, re-clarifying rhythms. This is not a workbook that you're going to rush through. It's a journey that literally will reshape how you move. And for 24 hours only, that's it because I have to move on to the next thing. I have to move on to the next. For 24 hours only, when you pre-order Knowing, you'll receive the full 90-Day Clarity Guide as a gift. You can go to my website right now, toreroberts.com. There's a link called Knowing. You can go to books and find it. Pre-order it, and we'll send you the 90-Day Clarity Guide tonight. You'll have it tonight. And make sure you check your spam because sometimes it will go to your spam. But I want you to start it tonight. It's got practices in it. It's got things that you can write down. It's just, I'm telling you, it is a blessing. And I'm excited about it because it's a tool because I want God's people to be the clearest people on the planet.

53:57 Why? Because you're called to be clear. That's resource number two. Resource number three is the knowing journal, right? I want you to have your knowing journal. This is the container that's going to hold all of your revelation. If the book is the foundation, if the 90-day clarity guide is the training, this is the container. It's going to hold your revelation. It's going to hold your unkind. It's going to hold your insight. because clarity, watch this, clarity needs a place to land. It needs a place to land. And I know you take notes on your phone, and all that's wonderful, but listen, let me tell you something. We don't know where things are headed. I'm not trying to scare you, but anybody that just takes a cursory review at the type of warfare that might come to us, the grids will be one of the first things that they attack, the power grids. And that's a whole other teaching, and maybe I'll get into it at some point. You know, I don't know, but I'm saying get something where you can write it down.

54:53 There's something about that. And then you can pass it down to your children, right? But this is for you. This is your container. Clarity needs a place to land, right? And listen, journaling isn't busy work. I'm not trying to keep you busy, right? It's how you honor what God is saying. It's how you honor God before life and noise talks you out of it, right? So write that down. It's designed for you to record your unction, track your alignment. You need this. And then the last one that I think is the last one that I'm most excited about, or it's actually one that I'm excited about, is I design clarity cards. And it's a deck of 36 cards, 36 cards. And you can look at this as like your daily reset, right? So these are for moments in your life where life is loud and you need to quickly return to center. You ever been there before where you're just like, I don't know what to do.

55:47 Well, now you know. Pick up one of these clarity cards. They're not affirmations. It's not about affirmations. They're prompts. They're prompts. And they're prompts designed to help you pause, ask the right questions so that you can recalibrate. And so think of them as your daily reset. I'm going to read you some of the cards. There are 36. I can't read all of them to you, but I'm just going to read you some. So just imagine you're at your desk, you're at work. I was going to say you're in your car, but no, you need to stay focused, right, when you're in your car. or you're at home and you kind of, you just, you don't feel clear, right? And you just pick up this deck, 36 cards in this deck. And I'm going to read, I think I got seven or eight written down here. And you pick up a card, you're trying to figure out what's going on. You feel like you're being pressured to do something, but you don't really know. And then you pick up the card and it says, your hesitation may be wisdom asking for space.

56:40 You're giving God an opportunity to speak to you, right? Or, you know, there's a big, big, like, there's a big opportunity in front of you. It's a big deal, right? And you're like, well, should I do it or should I not? This is an opportunity. And you pick up the card, and it says not every opportunity deserves a yes. Some of you are like, shucks, I don't want that card. You're going to shuffle the deck. But I'm telling you, and if you pray, I'm telling you, if you see, I'm about to ship it up. The Bible says in Proverbs that we cast lots, but God determines the outcome. So when you commit your works and your plans and your heart and your vision to God, I believe that you'll use these cards and he'll speak to you through these cards. I'm not talking about no terror. There's no hanky panky, right? This is God. And you're committing to him, to the Lord, Jesus, right? And saying, speak to me. I'm after you. Speak to me, right? And this is a tool that I didn't just rush through.

57:33 I'm not playing when it comes to you because I know what's in you. God already showed me what's in you. I already know what's in you. You might not know what's in you. I know what's in you, and I am set on getting it out of you. Let me give you a couple more. So, you know, maybe you feel like, man, somebody, you're about to purchase something, and the salesperson is trying to push you real hard on it, you know, and then you're like, hold on, what should I do? And then you flip the card over, and it says, don't rush what deserves reflection.

58:01 Okay? Okay? Or a whole bunch of people texting you, you know, and you've got a decision to make, and everybody's in your ear, family members, kids, whoever's in your ear, and you just can't. You're like, look, I just need my own space. And then you pick up the card, and it says, not every voice deserves your attention. I mean, on and on. Let peace validate your choice. Right? You're in a moment of decision. Take a breath before you choose. Right? All these things assigned to reset you. This moment deserves your attention, so if you're distracted, wait, let me pick this up. Oh, this moment deserves your attention. oh wait, wait, I'm on the cusp of something, I'm on the brink of something, right? I love this one. Calm is a legitimate strategy.

58:46 Calling you to calmness. That not being, you know, because some people teach you, if you're not lit, You ain't moving. No, calm is a strategy. Read your body. So these clarity cards, again, they're resets. Those are available. If you go to terayroberts.com forward slash shop, those are there. And then I even created, watch this. This is the fifth resource, and it might seem simple. It might seem simple, but it's actually very intentional. I created this line called the undistracted line. and I've learned that what you what you wear oftentimes it reflects what you're reinforcing it really does like your chain you know you cross whatever it is or it reflects what you're reinforcing sometimes clarity isn't just practice it's worn so I've got some cool hats um they're they're they're showing them there you guys may not be able to see them I don't know if you can see them but it's called undistracted so you're wearing your hat boom undistracted hoodies It's undistracted, right?

59:48 You know, all this sort of stuff. That's what I'm talking about. What's your name? Undistracted? You know, at first I was going to make it unfocused, but I like, I mean, I'm focused, but I like undistracted, right? That's who I am, my identity. I'm undistracted, right? And so these pieces are reminders to stay present, to stay focused, to stay aligned in a world that's like super, super, super distracted. Oh, we thank God for all that you received. So much enlightenment, so much richness, and I believe it's designed to change your life. We love you. God bless you. Thank you for tuning in. Join us on Wednesday night in person. We believe in God that the storm will pass and we'll be able to come together in person as we always do. So without further ado, I just want to speak this blessing on you before we go. May the Lord bless and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious towards you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom, shalom in Jesus name.

1:00:48 God bless you. May you be clearer than ever before on this Clarity Sunday. We're so grateful we've been fasting. You know, we'll be coming off the fast pretty soon. But let's just finish this fast strong so that God can do what he wants to do both in and through your life.