I’m Just A GOAL Digger

1:17 saying, Now the Lord has given us room, and we will flourish in the land. Climb back to verse number 19, Genesis 26. Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and discovered a well of fresh water. You may be seated. I want to preach for a little while today using as a subject, I'm a gold digger. I'm a... G-O-A-L. I'm a gold. You got to help Negroes with phonics. Amen. I'm a gold. Speak it out. I'm a gold. digger look at the person beside say I don't know what you heard about me but I'm a gold digger Here's the ugly truth.

2:22 92% of people don't achieve their goals. Most people don't achieve their goals because they only envision the prize but never consider the process. think about your own journey for a second you want to get back to your ideal weight but you don't want to drink a gallon of water a day You want to read more, but you never realize how tired you are. You want to get married, but you don't have the energy to meet new people.

3:17 So now the very thing you want to complete feels like a chore. I want you to hear this. If you are not careful, your habits will defeat your goals. If you're not careful, your habits will defeat your goals. I want to prophesy over you this morning. Would you just lift that right hand? I declare over every person with lifted hands that this month, God is going to get you closer to your goals. everything that used to be an obstacle will now provide an opportunity and those of you who have goals that you want to reach before this year is over and with the grace of God you think that you will conquer them will you give God glory now for all of your goals Let's do this.

4:18 Your goals will never be obtained if you aim for perfection and have no regard for progress. E. Joseph Crossman once said, your goals should be able to have the system work for you instead of you working for the system. You are the hammer and not the nail. I want you to look at your neighbor and carriage him and tell him you about to nail it you gonna nail the interview you gonna nail the proposal you gonna nail the presentation you gonna nail the project you gonna nail the idea come on you are about to nail it whatever you go after because the wind of God is to your back you are about to nail it don't you scared don't you get scared don't you get afraid don't you get backed up don't you question yourself move out of your own way you are about to nail it That was Isaac's affliction.

5:38 Isaac's problem, if you can imagine it, Isaac's problem is he kept nailing it. Verse 12 says, the same year he sowed the seed, he reaped a hundredfold. I think I read that too fast. I better say it slower for the people in the back. the same year whatever you sow in the offering today a hundred fold is coming to you before the year is over Look at verse number 13. I'm still in Genesis 26. Verse number 13. He continued to grow until he became wealthy. Not rich. Wealthy. You cannot stop growing.

6:34 Your business can't stop growing. Your 401k can't stop growing. God never has in mind for you to become rich. It is his goal for you to become wealthy. But when he began to flourish, other people got jealous. They got jealous and every well he opened, they filled it with dirt. confirmation that you are going in the right direction is when people start throwing dirt at you when people put dirt on your name and on your reputation and on your character it is because they think you are growing too much and growing too far and growing too fast he was used to be a hammer Isaac was but now he's reaching for a shovel being a gold digger is just as risky as being a snow shoveler because it puts a significant strain on your heart on your cardiovascular system When you are shoveling, it will many times exceed a safe heart rate.

8:02 When you start digging for your goals, it will impact your heart. I want you to lay hands on your heart because a lot of people don't understand why you go so hard. They don't know you go so hard because it's in your heart. I can't stop now. I done seen my mama struggle. It's in my heart. I want more for my children. I want more for what my life used to be. It's in my heart. God done promised me some stuff and what I'm looking at right now does not match the vision that he's given me for my life. Why do you stay up all night working on the computer, writing out ideas? Why are you daydreaming on a job? You know you've already outgrown. It's in my heart. The spirit of Jabez is on me. What I got is too small and small 90 people will never understand why I go hard in the paint because I'm trusting God for something bigger than what it is that eyes have seen and what ears have heard. Some of y'all are shouting because of what you got, but others of us are giving God glory for what's in my heart. I don't have it yet, but I'm trusting God for what other folk don't think I'm going to be able to get. But God promised goodness to me. It's in my heart.

9:36 It's in my heart. This business is in my heart. This idea is in my heart. This burden is in. Am I talking to any dreamers in the room? This is in my heart. You may be seated. Dr. Willie Jolly, the host of the number one wealth building show on Sirius Radio, has an incredible book that I want to recommend to you. I want you to get this book. The book is entitled Rich is Good, Wealthy is Better. rich is good wealthy is better and in that book he asserts that there are four types of goals you need to dig for there are four types of goals that you need to dig for and for the time that is allotted to me i only want to talk about three of them the first goal is uh the goal that most of us present company included probably don't have. I want you to write this down. The first goal that you should have is a giving goal.

10:48 a giving goal most people's goals are set around getting what i want to get very few are focused on giving what's my goal that i want to give for the month of october that i want to give before this year is out john 3 16 for god so loved the world that he did what? He gave. He had a goal. I want to give my best to the earth. And so I'm going to give my only begotten son. This doesn't happen by accident. It happens with intention. It happens with focus. Proverbs 13 and 22. Proverbs 13 and 22. A good man, a good woman leaves an inheritance. You got to be mindful. I want to leave something for the generation that's coming behind me. I don't want my children to know my struggle. I don't want them to know my pain.

11:53 I don't want them worried about the stuff that I have had to go through. I want to give my children houses and insurance. I want to give my wife and my family insurance. Y'all ain't saying nothing to me. I want to give something in this earth. Muhammad Ali said service is the rent that you pay for your time on the earth. Have you thought about what I want to give? I remember when I was just starting out in ministry, I heard a prophetess Juanita Bynum say she wanted to tithe a thousand dollars a week. My mind couldn't even conceptualize what that meant, that she had a mind to give at that level. I began a prayer in my former church that I want to unleash into this room right here. I want every person in the room to repeat this after me. Every person in the room, every person online, I want you to type it. Here's a simple prayer that I want you to have.

12:55 every person repeat after me, Lord, make me the biggest giver at my church. Now, yes. That was a good warm up. Let's clear our throat. Let's try it again. Come on, everybody. Lord, make me the biggest giver at my church. That was good. Let's do it the third time. Put the Holy Ghost on it. Come on. Here's the third one. I want you to say it not so your neighbor can hear you, but so heaven can hear you. I want you to declare it out loud. Lord, make me the biggest giver at my church. Now I want you to know why God would answer that prayer. He'll answer that prayer. Here's the catch, because nobody prays it. People only want wealth for themselves.

13:50 They don't want wealth to advance the kingdom. But can you imagine that God will put you in such a position that he gives seed to the sower, that God, I want to see your name made great. I can't hear nobody. I want it said that God delivered somebody out of abject poverty that didn't have two nickels to rub together. But at the end of the day, the church was able to move into the future because of what God put in my hands. God can't trust some of you because you're just waiting for Birkin bags and red bottom shoes and trips to the Bahamas. But God, I want you to bless me so that the ministry can go into the next level. Lord, make me the biggest gift.

14:41 You need to have a giving goal. If you're married, I want you to come together with your spouse. Say, have we figured out what is our giving goal? I don't mean just to your church. What's your giving goal to your HBCU? what's your giving goal to your community what is your giving goal here it is back to your family what is your giving goal for your unborn grandchildren what is your giving goal number two is your getting goal. Your getting goal. 1 Samuel 30 and 8. And David inquired to the Lord, shall I pursue? Will I overtake?

15:37 And the Lord said to David, what I'm saying to the people in this church today, whatever you go after, you're going to be able to get it. This is the slow class. I better try it again. Whatever you go for in 2025, if you got enough audacity to go after it, you ain't going to lose. Some of y'all are sitting beside somebody that's going to drop the baton. Tell your neighbor you better go after it. Go after the scholarship. Go after the promotion. Go after the grant. Go after the property. Go after the job. Y'all still ain't saying nothing. Whatever you go after, you gonna get it. And some of you got your arms folded and your legs crossed because you don't got faith enough to believe that if you got faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell mountains to get out of your way.

16:42 How would you act in church today? if you knew whatever you go after you gonna get you sitting there like you're not sure you gonna get it david said shall i pursue and god said if you go after it it's yours some of y'all don't want nothing sit down but if there's some stuff you trying to get in life some stuff you trying to accomplish and conquer. God said go after it.

17:17 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Hey. Hey! Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Be seated. I feel something. Get ready to break. Hey. She can I. Hey. Oh. Hey. I need you to grab somebody by the hand and say, you ought to be honored. You ought to be honored to be sitting next to me. When is the last time you shook the hand? of a billionaire when's the last time you shook the hand of somebody that was debt free when was the last time you sat next to somebody that blessed their whole family bloodline this is my year

18:19 hey hey hey Hush, hush. You may be seated. Thank you, Holy God. Everything you went through in the last six weeks, the enemy was trying to talk you out of it. But the devil is a liar. On your mark, get sex. Go. Go after it. Go after it. Go after it. Sir, yeah.

18:57 Hey. Give me the green light. I'm ready to go right now. You may be seated. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. forget your neighbor talk to yourself i'm gonna go after it i'm gonna go and get it they didn't think i had what it took but they didn't know i'm one of god's favorites every time they throw me in a pit god put a trampoline this is the year that i bounce back This is the year that I get everything the enemy stole. I gotta go after it. Hallelujah. Go after it. Be seated.

19:48 Go after it. Go after it. I know you ain't qualified. Go after it. I know you ain't got a degree. Go after it. I know you don't know nobody important. go after it hallelujah shall I pursue he said if you go after it then you gonna get it be seated please Number one is your giving goal. Your giving goal. What is number two? Come on, talk back to me, class. What's number two? Your getting goal. Here's the third one. Change the font. I want you to type this a little bit bigger.

20:41 Here's the third one. Your being goal. Your being goal. The prodigal son went to his father. When he went to his father, you know what he said? He said, give me my inheritance. Now you understand that you ain't supposed to get the inheritance until somebody die. So he was saying to his dad, I can't wait for you to die. give me my inheritance now and you already remember that uh he spent all that money up in the club he was making it rain dollar bills y'all he was everywhere then uh he woke up in a pig pen had hit rock bottom and his language changed when he started he said give me but after he went through some stuff he said make me god help me i i can tell the difference between immature believers and those who have been through some stuff see some of y'all shouting just won't give me but when you realize i need god to make me make me better than who i used to be make me different than everybody else in my circle.

22:12 I don't need you to give me, make me. when uh when i first got married when i first got married i was trying to give dr carrie everything trying to give everything until i realized the better gift was to become something better I done set somebody free right there. You can give them all the bags, but if you're still a liar, if you can give them all of the trips, but if you're still cheating, it don't mean nothing. Don't give me. Make me. Now don't shout on that.

23:05 Now don't shout on that. Don't give me. Make me. You got to begin to pray in a different kind of way. Lord, I need you to make me. I, don't nobody pray this no more. I want to be a good person.

23:26 I want to be decent. I want my name to mean something. I want my word to mean something, Lord. make me above and not beneath make me a lender and not a borrower make me the head and not the tail make me but when God is getting ready to make somebody he doesn't make them out of silk he doesn't make them out of diamonds according to Genesis he makes them out of the dirt some of y'all ain't ever going to be nothing because you ain't come out the dirt. God, but I need some people in the room that if I look back over my life and see what God brought me out of, I shouldn't even be here today.

24:22 But look at me. I'm a testimony. Lay your hands on yourself, make me. I want God to make me the kind of person that he can trust me with wealth.

24:43 Make me the kind of person that when he elevates me, I won't lose my compassion and lose my heart, lose my spirit and lose my mind. Lord, make me. Make me different than the examples I saw growing up. make me better than the stuff that social media celebrates make me courageous enough to speak to injustice and stuff that's out of order make me lay your hands on your chest right where you are Jonathan, it may just be me, you, and Tiffany. I don't know, but I want the kind of people that before I get filled with wealth, I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost.

25:46 I want you to notice who didn't scream right through there Hallelujah Fill my cup Lord Let me overflow I know some of y'all can only scream for tangible and material stuff But Jeremiah said it feels like fire Shut up in my bones Lord if you gonna make me Fill me if there's anybody that wants to be filled with the precious Holy Ghost. I dare you to cry out loud and spare not. Lord, fill me, fill me, fill me. Fill me, fill me, fill me so I can treat people right. Fill me, fill me, fill me so I can pray all night. Fill me, fill me, fill me so I can read your word and not get weary.

26:44 Feel me, feel me, feel me So I can lay hands on the sick And they can recover all Feel me Fill my cup, Lord. Let it overflow.

27:05 I want to be filled with signs and wonders to follow. I want to be filled. I need your Holy Spirit. I need your Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Fill me. Feel me Feel me Come on lift up that hand Feel me Hallelujah Hallelujah Feel me I hope you are energized that you don't need An energy drink What you just heard should have you off And running chasing your dreams Pursuing your purpose And answering your call If this was a blessing, share it with somebody else. Don't be selfish. This is what God gave you so that you can be a blessing to somebody who needs it worse.