Kingdom 1st Business Alliance - October 2025 with Rev. Randy Clay

Father, we do thank you for the opportunity just once a month to

come together and and take a look at some things as we're

getting ready to, you know, wrap up another year, which seems

gone by quickly. But we want to make sure that,

you know, we're bringing the value that you want to add to

our time together through the things that we talked about.

I'm excited about tonight's topic and how we're going to,

you know, define that for each of us and and spend some time

there. So we just want to praise you in

advance for the outcome of what we'll be visiting about.

And we thank you and praise you for the opportunity again to get

together. And we thank you in Jesus name,

Amen. Amen.

Well, I want to remind you that tonight we're going to be

talking about 2-2 words. And I've got it titled vision

plus mission equals the road map to your destiny.

OK, Vision plus mission, is that your road map to destiny?

And I want to start with jot down Psalms 127 Psalms 127 one

first scripture. All right, and I I thought it

was interesting. Anybody know it by heart?

Anybody know that one by heart? Psalms 127 It said except the

Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.

And so when we talk about, you know, vision, you know, I want

us to make sure we know where we're getting our vision from

and not just something that we're coming up with with our

own head. OK?

Because we've had enough teaching here at Anchor Faith to

let us know that we were all born with a purpose and that God

does have something each of us that he wants to accomplish, not

in the not only in the natural realm, but in the spiritual

realm, OK. And changing the lives of

people. But when we talk about the word

vision and, and in the words vision and mission are really

big buzzwords in, in business and sometimes a little bit

higher up than maybe your personal owned business.

A lot of corporations want to have a vision and there's

reasons that they have it. But I want to break down those 2

words tonight, if we can, that when we talk about vision, the

first question I always ask is what does the word vision mean?

Jot that down. What does vision mean?

Because when we talk about vision, there's a lot of

different definitions that we can.

I've got three or four of them down here.

You know, the first one is the act or the power of using your

eyes or the word sight. OK, what is vision?

It is, it is sight and it and it deals with the two eyes God gave

us all right to be able to see. OK.

The second definition that I've got is an act or a power of

anticipating that which will or come to be or a prophetic

vision. OK.

It's not so much we've heard about visions in the Bible that

different ministers had, you know, different prophets,

different ones would have visions.

They would see things. We've heard, you know, Apostle

Earl, when he talked about the vision that he had when he was

driving his little truck and he and he said the windshield went

away and he saw a vision of him standing before people.

OK. It didn't actually, it wasn't

really stopping the car and looking out at that.

It was, it was a vision, but it was seen with something

different than the natural eyes. OK, so that's another

definition. 1/3 definition is an experience which a person, a

thing, or an event appears vividly to the mind, although

may not actually be present, often under the influence of a

divine agency, like a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision.

We see that all through the Bible, OK, that the heavenly

messer came and, and began to talk to people and began to put

an impression in their mind, just like your eyesight does.

And when they visited, if you think about it, you know, if

you'll remember in Judges, I believe 6, it talks about

Gideon. And you know, Gideon is, they

said the Midianites are all over the place and he's, you know,

hidden down in a winepress winnowing wheat because they

were stealing everything that they had.

And an Angel appeared to him and called him a mighty man of

valor. OK, so the vision he was trying

to put into Gideon was the one of what he could be and one he's

destined to be and not necessarily is at this moment.

OK, All right. And then the last one that I

have is something seen or otherwise perceived during a

such the experience, like the vision revealed its message.

OK. So in other words, when he told

him, hey, you're great, a great man of valor, mighty man of

valor, you know, he had to receive that message and he had

to began to begin to take and see himself in that vision, even

though it was it hadn't come to pass.

There's nothing tangible out there to, to to do it, which we

find when we talk about vision, There needs to be an

understanding that there is the vision that we see, but there's

also a vision that can be seen in the spirit, in our spirit

man, where we want things to go. I think it's interesting because

we talk in some of the classes that I teach on death and

getting an understanding of the definition of the word death,

that the word death means separation.

All right. When God told Adam, don't eat of

the fruit of the tree on in the middle of the garden, the day

you eat it, you will surely die. We have no record that they even

understood what that word meant. It wasn't like, you know, he, he

sat down and sat him down and explained to him, when you die,

this is what happens. We have no record of that.

We just let him know, don't eat the fruit.

The day you eat it, you will surely die.

Well, we know he ate the fruit, but the first death that we

thought should happen was that he would die physically, but he

didn't. So there was another death that

he was talking about because he lived to be, according to

Genesis 5, five, 930 years old. After that time, to me, that's

when time started, when we wanted to look at a clock in a

day and a year and a month and and years after that.

That was after the fall. There was no time, I don't

believe before the fall. It was just we use in eternity

and here we go. So we had an interruption.

But The thing is, is understanding that he was

talking about a spiritual death, not a physical death.

Physical death did come eventually, 930 years later for

him, all right. But when we talk about, you

know, the vision now from the above definitions, I think that

we need to realize the majority of the visions in our lives

probably should not just come from our intellect, OK, or the

five physical senses, because we get a lot of teaching on faith

to let us know there's something that can be seen beyond what we

can see with our natural eyes. OK, One of the greatest

definitions I'd heard and and I'd heard, I heard one of the

minister say this and kind of got me, OK.

He said, you know, the opposite of faith is not fear.

The opposite of faith is sight. Cause what does Hebrews 11/1

say? Hebrews 11/1 said that is the

substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not

seen. So it is something all right.

And, and, and as we were going through some classes just

recently, I, I let them know you can take the word faith and

replace it with quote the word of God.

So every place that you see the word faith, if you'll just

replace it with the word of God. The word of God has the ability

to not only let you see a vision of what is possible, but can't

bring that vision to pass. All right, 'cause that's the

goal. I mean, and the goal is once you

have a vision of something from the word and, and in the, in the

Greek it is apocalyptus, which means a revealing or removing of

the curtain so that you can actually see it.

But you, you didn't know it was out there until they removed the

curtain. That's what revelation is.

That is the word for revelation. OK, so when we see that it said,

you know, for us as believers, the vision needs to come, and

this is the key, write this down, is that when we talk about

vision, OK, for our families, for our life, for our business,

that vision really needs to come from God.

That's why I started with that verse.

You know, except the Lord build a house, they labor in vain that

build it. OK?

So the plans and the visions of what this thing will look like

needs to come from the Lord and you need to spend enough time

with the Lord to make sure that you've got the accurate,

accurate picture. Now we talk a lot about vision

here, OK, that the vision of our church and, and most of y'all

should have it memorized. All right, because I want to

break it down and, and, and take a look at that.

You know, every vision that you have for your business or your

family, it can it should be able to paint a picture of what it

could look like. OK, does that make sense?

Is that if you have a vision of, you know, your your kids obeying

you have a vision of, you know, your marriage flourishing.

If you have a vision of the fact that, hey, that your business is

is is moving along the road of prosperity.

All right, as we have defined so many time is having help on the

road. If you're seeing your you, you

can see and visualize those things.

All right. When you go to the Lord, you

know he's, he wants to put it into reality for you.

He wants to bring it into the context of being able to contact

it with your 5 physical senses. I mean, if you think about it,

we're not just have visions and and stuff, imagination and stuff

in our head not to see it come to pass in our lives.

That's never a biblical principle.

OK, so let's take a look at the the church.

All right, I'm going to ask some questions.

All right, and about this because we're going to talk.

The first one is what what is the first first vision of our

church starts with an I Yeah. Ignite the city.

OK, here's here's question number one.

We need to think about what does igniting the city look like?

What picture of this element can we paint?

Because here's the deal. If you've got a vision and you

can't articulate the vision in something that people will be

able to form a picture of, you're going to be in trouble.

Because if you, if you remember, I think I did a teaching on

communication and I gave you the definition of the communication

was basically the first part of it was the ability to paint

pictures in the mind that brings clarity to what we're discussing

and will give us a desired result.

If we're at work and we're just, you know, talking to people and

whatever and the end product that comes down the line is not

what the vision painted. We're in trouble.

So we want to know what is it that we can paint in a picture

of what igniting the city? See it say I the third one, I

said, how do we know if we're accomplishing it?

I mean, you may have, you may have a, you may have a great

vision of what you're doing. But the, the fact of the matter

is in order to prove that we have a vision for what we're

doing, there has got to be a manifestation of something that

brings credence to what you saw. It's just like a word of

prophecy. It's like a word of knowledge.

You know, I've had people come up and give me some of the

strangest stuff, you know, and I knew right out of the gate that

that's just an emotion talking. But you know, there's been

people that have have given me a word or the Lord had a word for

you, or I got called out of the service to get a word and it was

right on, you know, I was sharing.

I guess it was maybe with you, you know, when in back in 80?

No, it was 80 back in 2008, OK, it was our four year anniversary

and we flew down here. Melanie and I did.

We hadn't, you know, I, you know, Lord started dealing with

me on some stuff and, and I didn't tell her about it.

I didn't tell Pastor David in Oklahoma about it.

But the Lord started talking to me about moving down here and I

thought he was talking to somebody else because I was not

paying attention. All right?

I just kind of like looking around.

Who could he be talking to you? I'm not, that's not me, you

know, about moving down here. Well, when, you know, he kept on

me about it and I still didn't say anything.

And we go to this meeting and we're over at 312.

And, and, and Kevin and Annie Durant were the guest speakers

at that time. And they had a word for Pastor

Earl. And that's rare.

I mean, how many guest speakers that we had that they called,

you know, we've had a few. But, you know, it's not like

every time they come, they have a word for him.

And so anyway, he gets up and starts, you know, speaking in

tongues over Pastor Earl and he's, and he lays his hands,

well, his wife Annie, and they're all Raymograds.

And Annie starts interpreting. And that's where we get the

prophecy that Pastor reads often about, you know, it's going to

it's going to take you don't have 20 years to build it was

one of them. And he said, you'll think see

things springing up and the word exponential was in there and all

the different things. Well, I was and I'm watching

him. I'm on the front row.

He said, Randy, you and Melanie are sitting on the front row.

I said, OK, and so he's down at the other end.

I'm at one end. He's at the other end and he's

on his knees and getting prayed for and just falls over.

And, and my thought was get him, Holy Ghost, get him.

That's what I was saying to myself.

And I was watching him, you know, because Amanda, you know,

I don't know, with all that was going on, he'd start levitating

or something. I, I was, you know, like, wow.

And, and, and so I would, I would, he yelled at him, you

know, the minister yelled at him and said everything I've said

double and he said double. And he comes walking, you know,

he's walking back and forth and I'm watching, I'm watching him

like a hawk. He's laid out there and I'm

wondering, oh man, you know, this is quite the word.

And I just turned up to see, you know, what was going on and and

Kevin's standing right in front of me and he says, as he said,

it's about time, isn't it? Whap And just slapped me right

in the bald head. And he began to prophecy.

Well, his wife comes up and she goes first thing out of her

mouth. It's time to move.

Oh my gosh. You know, and, and I'd already

created the vision of what moving it looked like, and it

wasn't a pleasant vision, OK. It's like, I got this business

in Oklahoma. I've got this house that isn't

that old, you know, it's a big house.

And, you know, we got to sell that, you know, what's going to

happen to the inlaws, You know, the whole bit.

I mean, all that presentation was going through my mind like,

you know, and it was so funny. After the service, they were

trying to interpret the interpretation for me.

And I already knew. I already knew what what was

coming down. I said, Oh my gosh, you know,

And Melanie goes that was an interesting.

That was an interesting, yeah, yeah, it was interesting, you

know, and I knew, you know, I knew.

So, you know, being able to, you know, take a look and said, how

do we know we're accomplishing this?

OK. You know, she says it's time to

move. And then that's really when I

submitted to, OK, I've got to follow your leading because

there are way too many things that I'm going to be involved in

here now that I'm not real comfortable with, OK.

And it took us a year and one month to move down here.

And, and I was frustrated all 12 months because I thought, how

come it hadn't happened? How come it hadn't happened?

This was a vision. Lord, you had somebody get up

there, slap me in the head and tell me about it.

I said, just what are we going to do?

You know? And and but it was so funny

because we were having dinner one night with a couple and I

just I, I was sitting there telling them.

They said, well, tell us, tell us the story of, you know, how

you do. The Lord wanted you to come down

there. And I was telling the story and

all of a sudden I started crying and Melanie was going, what's

the matter? I go.

And this is after we'd moved down here, OK?

They wanted to hear the story. I said, May, we got down here

the first week of May. Do you remember that?

I said it seemed like everything that has ever happened to us

substantially to this point has been in the month of May Josh

moved down here in April to be here May 1st in 2006, you know,

to start what he had for the Lord, for him.

And then I said we struggled to get here.

Pastor keeps asking, what's the deal, man?

I said, well, one, our house hadn't sold and we moved down

here without the house being sold and didn't sell for another

five years. So, you know, I didn't envision

that. OK, you're thinking, oh, it's

all going to be no, no, no, no. There.

Sometimes when you're doing the will of God, there comes things

that you, you know, attack the vision and you got to be real

careful. All right, let's talk about

what's the next one. Starts with an I impact the

nation. Let's ask some questions.

How about the same ones? What does impact in the nation

look like? I mean, we're talking about

vision. What does it look like?

How about what picture of this element can we paint?

All right. And said, how do we know we're

accomplishing it? Don't worry, I won't leave you

hanging. We do have answers to these

questions. OK, what's the next one?

Number three is the world influence the world?

All right, What does influence in the world look like?

What picture of this element can we print or paint or print?

Hey, how do we know we're accomplishing it?

See with every vision, those three questions.

Any vision, your vision, My vision, business vision.

OK, we need to ask those three questions.

You know, what does the vision of this company look like?

What does you know, what picture can we paint to give you an

idea? This is how we do it.

All right, Because, you know, most people, they'll start a

business, company ministry without being able to paint the

full picture of what their journey should actually look

like. Here's a here's a here's a

point. There are a few common reasons

why people want to start their own business organization.

I got 5 here. Let's see if you can get any of

them. Why do people want to start

their own business or their organization?

Give me, give me something to make more money.

Let me see what number that was. That's number four #4 give me

one Gina. Hello.

Let's see, where did I have that number 5?

Yeah, mine says this. It says just simply a tired of

working for the other guy. They want to be their own boss.

OK, give me another one. Yeah.

Yeah, we we could do that one. I have one down here.

Huh. Time management.

I don't know. That would be unless your job is

taking you out of what you want to really do.

OK, but here, how about this one?

They don't like their current employment.

They hate their job, which blows my mind because I can't even

imagine working at a place that I didn't like, because what does

that tell you? If you're working at a place

that you didn't like, what are you there for?

Just the money. That's it.

The paycheck, that's it. All right, So I don't want to be

that miserable for the money. I mean, you know, you're paying

me to be miserable. Doesn't make sense to me.

OK, here's number 2. They they don't like their

bosses. They're superior.

Yeah. All right.

Don't like, don't like, don't not out loud.

OK, the bosses are free. You just don't like not, not

much less the company, but those that you're working with, even

even Co workers is another one. All right, how about this one?

They don't like the products they are selling and they think

they can make them better. Now, I can't tell you how many

people I've talked to about that.

You know, they said we found out how much it cost to make the

product and we think we can make it and we can make it better and

for less money and charge less money.

Have a seat. We sit down.

I said, OK. I said let me talk to you about

the cost of producing something because in your mind, all you're

thinking is the cost of the products.

You're not thinking about the phone bill, you're not thinking

about the electric bill. You're not thinking about are

you going to do this all on your own?

Because that product is not a one man show.

All right, So you are, you know, you're, you're trying to create

a vision where you can do something different.

But you know, with the taxes, with everything involved, there

may be a reason that they came up with that price point.

And just because you think you can do it, you know, cheaper and

better may not be the truth. It's a myth.

So you want to make sure that you're not, you know, you're not

part of that because we're going to talk about myths here in a

second. All right, how about this one?

Let's see. They want to do it better.

They want to do it cheaper, and they're just tired of working

for the other guy. Any, any other ones?

Those were my 5, huh? You said that Miss Dorothy said

something there, there there is something that you like doing

and you may have figured out how to make money on it.

OK. Which a lot of people do.

They get a trade and they become very good at it and they can

turn that into a money making opportunity.

All right. And depending on a skill, you

know, very few people that I've, you know, ever seen that have

come up with a product. I came up, I told the kids the

other day, I said, I don't know if you guys have ever seen this.

They have a dog, OK. And now that rubber gloves have

been invented, you can pick up dog stuff, you know, with the

rubber glove and put it in the trash.

But before rubber gloves were invented, I invented something

in junior high called the pooper scooper.

And they go, you did. I said yeah, and didn't do

nothing with it, but I made one in metal shop.

This is around 19, probably 7234.

And I had, you know, created this thing.

It had two little shovels on the on the on the front and it

looked like a not like a pair of scissors.

It had another layer. So it was kind of like an

accordion, but it was made out of steel.

I formed it in the forge. I bend it, I made it, I attached

everything. And when my dad said you need to

get out there and get that stuff picked up, I went out there with

that thing and it was a breeze. Well, you know, there's 19,000

versions of that now. I mean, now someone, we got a

little broom, you know, that is attached to the, you know, for

the, for, for, for that. And I said never did anything

with it. But what, you know, I had a

buddy, he, he one time he said, listen, he said, I am tired of

leaving Coke in the fridge and it, you know, losing its fizz.

I said, well, that man, that's, that's kind of like life, right?

I mean, that's just what happened.

And so he started doing testing in his garage, trying to find

out why these caps won't hold on to it enough to the fist.

So he made a little screw on cap with a pump, pumped air into it,

let it sit for two weeks and came back and he said it was

perfect. The the Coke tasted exactly the

same. And I said that makes sense

because what is the physics coming out?

So it's leaking out somewhere, but what you've done is

pressurized it so it can't come out.

He says I ought to do something with that.

Well, he waited long enough. Somebody did, but it wasn't him.

And you see it, you know, it was hanging on the hanging on the

the shelf at next to the register at Walmart, right?

And I thought, man, that's crazy.

Well, now they figured it out that if you take and screw a lid

on it that has a wide stand, you can flip your bottle upside down

and it can't escape out of the top because it it doesn't have a

loose lid. You know, I've seen one of

those. So you know, when you, you think

about the products and what it's got, you got a vision of it.

You create this thing, you make a prototype, the different

things. But the question is, what do you

do next to to see something like happen?

Now, I had AI had another friend and he came up with an idea.

Has anybody been snowskin Ever been snowskin?

OK, you got snowskin and and you have poles, right?

If you're over 2 foot tall, OK, the kids, none of my kids used

poles. Man, it was amazing.

I just thought you don't have a pole.

I don't need a pole. What do you need a pole for?

I said, because my rear end is further from the ground than you

are tall. And I said, I don't want to

fall. And he said, but at the bottom

of everyone is called a basket and everybody stands in line at

the at the, you know, getting on the lift and they and they're

just sitting there poking the hole.

This guy came up with a logo at the bottom and started out with

college football. So his first one was Colorado

University. And when you stamped it in the

ground, it was a logo of Colorado.

And he had one for Budweiser and he had one for Coca-Cola.

And he had one. And, and this is just as digital

printers were coming out, 3D printers.

And he had these made. And then he found an investor

and the investor took off with him.

And, you know, they began to put them in all the ski shops in

Colorado and all the different places they could say.

And so he knew what to do. And I've always been impressed

with him. He comes up with some of the

craziest stuff. Come up with a golf tee on a

swivel. So it would show you how you're

swinging. If it if it broke, you know, it,

it, it hit, it showed you were swinging this way.

If it, if it went straight, it showed you were swinging right.

And if it's, you know, it was amazing.

And he had them made out of plastic and you know, you put

them down there. So there are going to be people

that will come up with a small vision and then figure out how

to turn that into, you know, finances for them.

But for most of us, we had a skill that we liked.

I did, I had screen printing. I knew you could make money on

screen printing and learn that early on.

And not only did I go work for a screen printer, but then the

time came and I didn't have a problem with my boss, the first

one that taught me everything, but I had this problem with the

second one and I didn't want to compete with him anyway.

I wanted to go back to what I'd learned from the other guy.

And I had such a good relationship with him after I

left him that he employed me to come and do some things in his

shop for him and gave me jobs to do at my shop.

So you know when, when you take a look at that and you know your

vision. Now this is interesting because

I want to give you 3 myths that people use to start these

organizations. And, and here's what they sound

like. See if like this, all right, it

says I can do my, I can be my own boss and not have someone

always telling me what to do. OK, we kind of mentioned that.

That's a myth. OK, here's the next one.

I can make my own hours and now I have the freedom, freedom to

do what I want to do. Here's another myth.

Everybody will want what I'm selling.

OK, so let's look at reality. OK, can we get a vision for

reality? You ready?

Here's visual reality number one.

Depending on what type of business you envision yourself

in, you will more likely have dozens of new bosses.

Not only that will tell you what they want, when they want it.

And if they're not satisfied by your response to their wants,

you may not get paid. Everybody shout.

I mean, you know, that's I had I visited with a young man just

not too long ago. He said I just don't like

working for the other guy. I don't like somebody looking

over my shoulder and tell me what to do.

I'll go. Really.

He goes. Yeah.

I think I'm going to start my own business.

Oh, really? OK, So you're having a hard time

with one boss. OK, let's take a look at about

1/2 a dozen bosses and that you know, you're, you're charging

more than what they're probably going to have to pay at dinner.

All right? And you're going to, you're

going to deal with that. I said you're not going to make

it. I just told him that flat out.

I said you're not going to make it.

I said your motivation's all wrong, man.

You can't do it because you don't like somebody bossing over

you. Until you submit to the other

guy, God cannot promote you. I mean, he will not give you

your own business first. All right, right, Because you,

you know, you, you, you won't last, all right.

But if you think about it, it's a if they're not satisfied with

what they've done. I've got, you know, several

friends that you know, have experienced the fact that you

know, they didn't like what you did and they aren't going to pay

you for it. And then you might have to go to

court to collect, but that's going to cost you more money out

of the money you should have made anyway.

So you got to be real careful on how you know, it's an art in

itself dealing with people under that.

Now let's talk about visual reality #2 all right.

In most cases, business startups may be many excited

entrepreneurs miscalculate the time it'll take to accomplish

what they have envisioned in their business, he said.

Especially when you are the person that turns the key to

open the door, close the business every day, take care of

the accounting, the bank runs, business account reconciliation.

Everybody loves that, right? Don't y'all love reconciling

your checkbooks? No, you don't.

I know how people are, all right?

Bill paying, sales appointments, marketing, special events, trade

shows, etcetera. They're only 24 hours in a day.

The only question is how many hours in this day will it take

to get these things done? You know, I heard a guy say one

time he said, listen, man, I got it made.

I only work half days. And I thought, wow, that's

awesome. He said, I get to determine

which 12 hours that's going to be.

Because, you know, everybody thinks, Oh yeah, man, I ain't

kind of not when you're doing everything.

I mean, they're you're going to find all those things that I

just mentioned there, you know, are things that that just they

take time. They take time.

They take time. All right, now here's visual

reality #3 what was what was the the myth #3 was what everybody's

going to want what I'm selling. OK, so here's my one word

answer. No, not everyone is going to

want your product or service. Your main job moving toward is

moving forward is letting those that actually do want to buy

your service or what you have to offer.

All right, how can they get it? That's your job.

How can they? How can they get it?

It says when you hear the words. Wow, I didn't even know you were

here. Remember, it's not their fault.

It's yours. I mean, that that was the

biggest struggle that I had, and hearing it just drove me nuts.

Wow, we didn't even know you guys were here.

We didn't even know you guys existed.

We didn't. And it ain't their fault.

I mean, you know, it's mine. I didn't, I didn't get the right

channels or the right people that I was wanting to to get in

touch with. So, you know, and here's what I

found out. Not everybody wants my stuff.

And I thought, yeah, surely, no, it's not true.

All right, now let's talk about the next question that I that I

want to discuss is how do we know the vision is being

accomplished? So I've wrote down, wrote,

wrote, I've wrote down here, written down here.

The next part of fulfilling the vision is deciding what missions

you will employ that will lead you in the right direction.

So when we talk about vision, it's what we can see, whether

it's there or not, OK, but what we desire to see.

But we have to understand that we're going to have to go on a

mission to be able to bring that to pass, All right?

So the question you have to ask yourself is what mission?

All right, what missions will we employ that will head us in the

right direction? Vision is what we, what you are

seeing can be accomplished. Vision is what you can see, what

you can see being accomplished. But mission is what you are

doing to see it accomplished. That's a paraphrase, all right.

But let's go back to anchor faith vision.

All right? What missions can we implement

to bring the vision into reality?

I've got 3 for each one. Just like I had three questions.

OK. Ignite the city.

What are some things that we can do?

And what are we doing to ignite the city?

You guys hear them every week? What is it?

What are we doing? Huh.

No. How are we going to that ain't

going to ignite the city. Right?

That's going to let them know. Yeah, we're here.

But how about this one? W Augustine, is that what you

said? I didn't hear you say it.

I didn't. I was concentrating.

W Augustine is exactly right. Did you hear it?

Did you hear him say that? OK.

OK, So I know I'm not I'm not the only one that's not paying

attention. But quit talking like a girl and

get you need to tell me what it is.

All right. OK.

You know, W Augustine, how do we know that?

That we're, you know, remember instead, how do we know we're

accomplishing the vision? We go to West Augustine as a

mission, but when we have people show up in the church, we're we

know we're accomplishing it, right?

So we're we're seeing that vision come to pass.

All right. Did you have any more?

How about this one? Town hall meetings with local

government. OK, Are we igniting?

Are we igniting the city? Yeah.

When we have those officials come and they get up here and

they tell what we're doing and then, you know, we hear things.

I'll tell you, one of the funnest ones is that the last

one we had, guy gets up and he says something and I go, you're

the one. And I went down and thanked him

because what has happened? And I don't know if you know

this, but the state and these were these were state people,

these weren't local people, OK. And I probably probably probably

should have used this illustration for the next one,

but but they have eliminated sales tax on commercial property

rentals. OK.

So you saved that much money. And the guy up here talking, he

said we met and we said, you know, that just seems like we're

taxing the small business person to death.

I, you didn't hear me say it, but inside I'm saying you're

right, you are. Because I mean, you think about

it when he gets up into the thousands, you know, And then,

and so it was it eventually it started when Melanie and I took

over the mall, it was 6 1/2 percent, 6%, OK, half a percent

went to the county, the surtax, OK.

Then we got a drop to 4% for for a year.

The last time they dropped it was 2.5%.

And we just got the letter. Effective October 1st, 2025.

They've repealed that there is no more taxes related to

commercial property rental. That's substantial for some

people, you know, but you know, just to take, you know, part and

have that kind of knowledge, we can ignite the city.

You know, we can let them know, Hey, it's tax free zone now, you

know, come, you know, come and and and rent something from us,

Right, All right, here's the third one I got.

How about feeding first responder and the homeless?

How do you ignite the city? We got the homeless.

We got, you know, we fed the police officers, we fed the

firefighters, we fed and how do we impact?

You know, that's how we, I mean, that's how we ignite the city,

all right. And we can tell when it comes to

pass and we've got people making comments.

Hey, this is this is the anchor Faith bunch.

Hey, they did this. They did this the the working

that we have with Flagler, you know, yeah, on the basketball

and, and we go into games and cheering for them 'cause it

doesn't look like a lot of their students are, you know, but you

think about that's how we impact.

OK, let's talk about the next one.

I mean, how we ignite, how do we impact the nation?

OK, give me something there. What are we doing to impact the

nation? Well, that that would be in, you

know, in the United States. Yes.

And that is going to be a focus, you know, building other

churches. We have the orphanage.

That's the influence. And I have that.

I would categorize that under the influence of the world.

How about this one? Participate in East Coast camp.

OK, We send our youth to a camp that is not in our city and they

are going to the nation, another part of the nation and they're

being they're being influenced. I mean, what is the second one?

Impact, impact, OK, impacting their lives, all right.

And those that they bring with them.

That's always been the kind of fun is that I never see.

And you know, and as a kid growing up when we were going to

church camp, you know, I've never seen any kids, But all of

a sudden the grandparents that went to our church would always

get them kids in there, you know, and you're trying to, you

know, impact their lives, you know, with the gospel and the

different things like that. And to see and, and we had we

had results. I mean, we could see it.

How about this, how the ministry teams assist other ministries in

in in training, OK, as far as such as pastors talked about it

or Apostle Earl has talked about it so many times that you know,

he's forming groups, OK. And you know, when it comes to

doing a jail ministry, guess who he's sending Habla Espanol.

All right, we got a bilingual right here.

He can do it all right, But that's what he's talking about.

That's how you impact the different.

How do you how do you start that?

Whatever ministries that we have, you know, we're looking

at, you know, Lord, what can you know, what can we do and who can

send us to impact the nation? How about how about provide a

nationwide university? Can we make any impact?

I think we will with the plans that we have and the students

that we have that are in the country, but they're taking

things online and we're redoing that online.

I think that our reach for impacting them is going to be

very, very strong. OK, here's the third one.

Influence the world. OK, give me something else.

You, you gave me. We're going to start, you know,

we're starting churches in other parts of the world.

You know, we have one in India, obviously.

What's another one? Give me another one.

How can we? How can we, what mission do we

have to get in on to show that we're going to be influencing

the world? What is it?

Set financial support. How about I have the same

supporting dozens of missionaries?

That's what we're doing right now.

We have an impact in all those nations, you know, and we're

influencing all those nations. Would you?

Yeah, yeah, no doubt. All right.

And and, and, and and because it's online, it'll it'll be

worldwide. There's no doubt.

OK. And and I said influence the

world is exactly what you said I had down here starting anchor

faith churches in other countries, OK.

And we've got Nicaragua and that's what you said, is that So

how about this print books and other languages?

I mean, if we're printing them in other languages, what are we

going to do? How can we?

How can we do that? So let's talk about a second.

I'm on implementing strategies in our own business because I'm

going to wrap it up and then we've got an announcement that

we're going to make. All right, as far as let me give

you mine. Let me give you what US safety

sign in decal. I just I went down the vision

and and we worked on this years ago and and as far as you know,

because, you know, vision and mission basically were, you

know, buzzwords years ago. And I think they're coming back

because a lot of churches are using them.

But the vision for my company at USA design and Decal.

Here's here's what our desire and vision that we could

envision. It said that to be a top

manufacturer or and supplier of workplace safety communications

by manufacturing reminders that will get employees home safely

at the end of the day. OK, So my goal was not.

So just say my goal in my vision is to get everybody in the world

to buy my signs. All right?

Problem is, is that I'm late in the game.

OK, I showed up late. They were manufacturers of

safety signs and safety communications before I ever

showed up. All right?

So, But when I took a look at, you know, the top manufacturer

supply to supply workplace safety communications by

manufacturing reminders, and those signs are reminders, They

don't stop you from doing anything.

They're to remind you don't do this or you'll be stupid.

OK? I have a lot of humorous signs,

all right, such as danger. It's Monday.

Talk to me at your own risk. You probably need one of those

for that office. All right, now here's a mission.

This is how we were going to pull it off.

All right. That's that's what we wanted to

do. We want to be known in the

industry. I had one of my sales ladies one

day and went to a trade show and she said, do you know how close

you are to that? Amongst the, the industry that

we were supplying to was oil and gas industry.

I want to be #1 that they came to.

She goes, you are so close right now.

The problem you have in that industry is it has ups and downs

like nothing you've ever seen. OK.

So it ain't like everybody you know in the world is going to

buy a safety sign for their house.

All right? These are specific signs geared

for these particular industries. But my mission was this is to

position ourselves in the oil and gas industry as a leader, a

leading provider of safety communication by providing signs

and decals that assist our customers comply with OSHA

safety standards and turn and in turn protects their employees

from injury. So that's what we communicated

through them. The reason that we want you to

you know, you to purchase from us is that we have an

understanding of what you're trying to protect.

I understand that it could go deeper into liability.

All right, you, you want to the signs keep the liability lower.

If you had a sign there, you know, and and I was involved in

many, many particular groups of the International Drilling

Association that, you know, we got called into meetings in

Oklahoma when somebody lost their life on a rig.

And we were all part of that. And you know, when they're

telling you that, you know, 23 year old boy, you know, didn't

pay attention to the instructions that were posted.

And he got on a man riding lift up to the top of the rig and

didn't secure in. And when he pushed off to go to

the other side, he came off. And that's sad to go to the

meetings. I mean, you know, it's like, and

and you know, so the question was, and it changes the industry

because they'll say, you know, Randy, could you make a sign

that says this? Absolutely.

I mean, we always were creating the signs for them, you know, to

be able to communicate better, communicate better.

You just have you have one fatality and it changes your

whole world. All right.

And so I think that it, it's interesting that when we're in

the business and we see what we want to do, sometimes we we need

to and that's what I want to form in, in the alliance here is

to be able to take a look at it. What are you doing in marketing

and would you be interested anything from outside sources?

OK, I'm not a chiropractor. I like chiropractors.

So, OK, they can help thee for sure.

But you know, when it comes to the, there is the business of

chiropractic. It's not just I, I know how I

know how to adjust here or manipulate here.

There's the business side of it. OK, you got to pay bills.

You got to, you know, you have to have your insurance for

liability. You have to have, you know, all

the, all the different things that the equipment, you know

what it costs if it's released or owned or whatever the case

may be. So every business has the

business side of what's being able.

One of the funnest times I ever have, Dad was going with Pastor

David Derrama and he said, I said, what am I going for?

He said, you're going to speak to the third year pastors about

what? I mean, haven't they learned

everything? They're third year man.

And he goes, no, you're going to tell them and, and, and, and

tell them about understanding the business of ministry, you

know, And so I had a four point, you know, presentation and it

was before I knew anything about PowerPoint.

I made a sign and I've done it here.

I pulled a sign out of there and set it on an easel.

All right. And it tells you the point.

And then if you didn't get the point, I'll flip the sign over

and it gives you another point. It's just never ending.

It's awesome. OK, so we'd go.

And the funniest thing I did it, I did it two years and same, you

know, as far as the same presentation.

And every time they would applaud.

And you never hear applause in a school, OK, like, here's your,

you know, revelation of the day. And, you know, the bell rings

and you leave and they would all just applaud.

And I get in the truck with him and I said, listen, what is all

the applause about? He said, Randy, they have never

heard anything like that, not in this school.

And I said that's sad because how many of them are going to

get out there and not know how to run their ministry business

side and get discouraged. But you know what?

It just isn't in the ministry. We got people starting

businesses that get into financial problems or business

problems and they have nowhere to go, right.

So you know, when we, when we talk about, you know, learning

that is getting somebody from the outside.

I did it myself. I, I just was confused on what I

needed to do to market. And I had AI had a friend that

worked for an oil and gas company.

He worked for a drilling company really.

And he was their marketing strategist.

Well, he started a little something on the side and I

said, hey, just come down here and tell me how much it's going

to cost me to have you do an analysis of my whole company and

tell me what the best marketing is going to be for me.

You know, is it mail out? Is it, you know, do a newsletter

every month? What is it?

So he comes back and he said, I've looked at everything.

And he said, your number one way to market is going to be trade

shows. All the people you want to see

will be there. And so that just got me clicking

on. OK, so when I do a giveaway, do

I want to do an ink pen to be next to all the other ink pens

they received? Do I want to give a staple

remover to all the other staple removers that they're going to

receive? Do I want to get, you know, do I

want to give them a coaster with all the coasters that they and

and what we came up with was the phone funny OSHA series and and

I designed safety signs that were, I thought pretty funny.

I just gave you one. It's Monday.

I had one that said this restroom is a confined space

area. You may need protection,

breathing protection. You know, I have pictures with a

gas mask on a guy. All right, this is the restroom.

And they loved them. They would come whether they

needed us or not. They go.

Are you guys one of the ones with the funny stickers?

Yeah, I have a pack and we did series of them and they'd come

and they'd come specifically for that 'cause I knew what, they're

not going to throw them away, you know, and they're not going

to say, huh, that's another PIN or whatever.

They're going to put them around the office had our name, phone

number, e-mail, everything at the bottom.

So they didn't have to hang on to a business card and figure

out where that's at. They just go look at one of the

signs they put on their file cabinet or whatever the case may

be. So when you talk about that,

how, how do you fulfill that mission?

What ideas can you come up with that fulfill the mission that

you know basically is going to be the the legs to your vision.

You want to do that? So I'm going to have Seth come

up and, and tell us one of the, the visions and a mission that

we're going to have and that we're going to, we're going to

start, you know, implementing I, I say sooner, better.

OK, I know we could wait till the 1st year, but I don't think

that's going to be necessary. So have a minute.

All right. Yeah, I'm sorry.

So the biggest thing, you know, these, the biggest thing we miss

sometimes is the implementation of everything we're learning,

everything we're talking about, everything we discuss here.

And I'm really hoping too that we can continue to grow the

group here. So I'm going to hand out a, a

sheet for all of you to fill out and hand back to me tomorrow.

It's a company profile. It's really kind of a real

brief, just kind of some questions to get you thinking

about your company. And then from that, I want you

to schedule a one to one with Randy and I.

So we're going to sit down, we're going to go over this.

Yep, right. It's a one to two.

It's just a mean to go over where's your business at?

What are some questions you have in your business?

And from there we can help with strategy.

We can help with ideal customers.

I mean, there's so many things that can come out of that

conversation really to help navigate these things in

business. We don't want to just have these

conversations and then just leave you to your own devices.

We want to help you actually grow.

That's the whole point of the alliance, right?

We're here together to work together so that we can grow

together. I want to give you 4 scriptures

that really line up with that, that we need to make sure we

keep in front of us. And this is very important.

This is something in this last year that has really hit home

with me that we just need to keep in front of us.

Proverbs 1/5. A wise man will hear an increase

in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise

counsel. Proverbs 15.

Proverbs 11/14. Where there is no guidance, the

people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 1522. Without consultation plans are

frustrated, but with many counselors they succeed.

And then Proverbs 24/6 For by wise guidance we will wage, you

will wage war and an abundance of counsellors.

There's victory too often in business as entrepreneurs, we

get in this mentality that we're by ourselves.

We have to do this, we have to figure this or that out.

When a lot of us have gone through things, we know people

or we have dealt with situations that honestly, we could get

through things a lot faster and a lot easier.

So again, it's an alliance. We're here as a network.

We work together and how much more in the body of Christ where

we're joint and fitted together to go wage war on the

marketplace. So that's where I really believe

we're going to build this alliance a lot better.

We're going to continue to grow and there's things coming that

we're going to keep rolling out. But this is something that needs

to happen I think soon later. So I'm going to hand this out,

fill it out, please get it back to me tomorrow and let's

schedule a meeting. My emails on the bottom.

So if you could save that before you hand it back to me, e-mail

me and we can get that scheduled.

All right, that's it, That's all I got.

All right. What you just said, that's

great. The thing about every one of the

scriptures that he had is out of Proverbs.

And one thing that I've taught for years is you, you break down

what a proverb is. OK, when you talk about pro,

PRO, most of the time you go to a list.

And even in business, pros and cons.

So pros or what? Yeah, positive things.

OK, good things, Absolutely. So, you know, you're, you're

weighing out decisions, things like that.

So you let your pro pros or cons and you want to have more pros

obviously than cons, right. OK.

But think about the word verbs. What is verb action?

So you put the two together and you have positive actions, OK,

So that's what we learn from Proverbs is the positive actions

that will get us the results that he tells us that he told

us, he said multiple in in King James, multiple multitude,

multitude of counselors. There is safety, OK, who don't

want safety, right. So, you know, take a look, take

a look at that. Do fill it out, let us know, you

know, whatever on there and then let's get together and and talk

about that. I want to grow it to the point

and we're going into 2026. There's some other things that

we're going to implement. We've already, you know, kind of

dropped, dropped some thoughts in Pastor's mind and he was very

positive because, you know, we were given a vision when we

first started this back in O 8, OK?

We haven't seen all the vision that we want, you know, taking

place all right in that. But one of the ones that we saw

is what Seth was discussing is the one-on-one.

I've been more successful in this ministry getting one-on-one

with people because I can give you something like what we

talked about tonight that might hit everybody, OK.

But the needs you have in your business are different from each

other. And so we want to take that

one-on-one to hear what you've got.

There may be a book that we have read that says, and we have read

a lot of books. OK, there may be a book

somewhere that we have read that could answer that question for

you. And all you have to do is

diligent. We'll be glad to, you know,

we'll make the recommendation. We'll follow up with you on

how's it going? What chapter are you on?

You know what? What is it that that you need to

know to get you to the next level?

I want us to begin. Pastor Marcy and Apostle Marcy

said it. She made a comment the other day

and a prophecy and said you need to think bigger than you are and

you need to get ready for expansion.

OK, Now expansion is relative to everybody.

You'll know when you need to hire more people.

We want to get you to that place to recognize that, you know,

finding out what it is that you're able to do.

What can we do to work with the customers You had to get new

customers, you know those different things.

So that's all that that we're wanting to do in that networking

part. But then, you know, we've got

some ideas on networking and what we want to do to make it

where more people know what you're doing other than taking a

chance them going by the board out there and looking to see the

one of many business cards. And that business card doesn't

tell us what you do. It might tell us what you are OK

and what realm you're in. But, you know, we want people to

know, hey, we've got people in the church to do these different

things. All right, let's have a word of

prayer. We'll be dismissed.

Thank you guys for coming tonight.

Father, we thank you and praise you that as we get into the next

weeks and and and months, as we close out this year and getting

into some things for next year, we're grateful that you can take

us on this journey together and that we can build each other up,

help each other, counsel each other, pray for each other and

their and their businesses. Hear what your goals, hear what

your vision, hear what your mission is.

And that we can be in agreement because you promised us in your

word that if any 2 on earth agree concerning anything that

they ask, Father, you said that that what they've asked is it'll

be done. So we just needed a couple more

people to agree with us maybe and have some ideas on how we

can implement things in the natural that you give us to be

able to accomplish all that you have.

And we want to give you praise and Thanksgiving for the things

that we do learn and that we will put them to practice,

Father God. And we won't just be hearers,

but we'll be doers. And we thank you for it in Jesus

name, Amen.