TCMMY Inspiration Station: A Lifestyle of Sacrifice

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The difference between hand-out and hand-up mentalities reveals how we've lost our understanding of sacrificial living and the perspective needed to find true purpose. 

• Complaining about sleep, pay, and respect shows our loss of perspective
• We've become a hand-out generation instead of a hand-up generation
• Sacrificial living is vanishing despite being the pathway to purpose
• The olive and precious metals must undergo painful processes to become valuable
• Finding purpose requires total surrender and sacrifice
• Biblical examples like the three men in the fiery furnace show the power of standing by convictions
• Pioneers sacrificed for the freedoms and rights we enjoy today
• Romans 12:1-2 teaches us to remember God's mercy, present ourselves as living sacrifices, and renew our minds
• We all have the seed of greatness inside us (2 Corinthians 4:7)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Thank you very much.
Welcome back to the all-purposepod for an all-purpose life.
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Uh, you know the routine I geton inspiration station,

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specifically most of our shows,but specifically here, and I
just share things that on myheart.
I don't really always have aplan, it's just something that I
kind of deep and powerful to me, maybe relevant to you as well.
I just share those.
It seems to be received prettywell.
So I appreciate this.
I appreciate the opportunity todo this.

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I know that it doesn't have tobe this way.
It's a privilege.
So I thank you for listening tothis and I hope this lands well
.
But you know, I gotta be alittle bit tougher today.
Honestly, people are complainingabout so many things and it's
like what?
We don't have perspective, andthat's probably going to be a

(02:14):
key word in this entire podcast.
It's perspective.
That's all you get.
Seek that every day.
It'll help out in so manydifferent areas.
But people complain about notgetting enough sleep.
They complain about not gettingenough sleep.
They complain about not gettingenough pay.
They complain about not gettingenough invites to the cool kids
party.
They complain about not gettingenough respect.
And somewhere along the way welost our desire to sacrifice for

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what we believe in.
We want everything handed to us.
Honestly, we've become ahand-out generation instead of a
hand-up generation.
I'd say it again for those wayin the back that may not be
paying any attention right now,but I hope they hear this We've
become a hand-out generationinstead of a hand-up generation.

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We want somebody to give ussomething for nothing in a lot
of cases when we have theopportunity to have abundance
and we have more than what wepersonally need, we're hesitant
to give a hand up to somebodyelse who may be in a place we
used to be in.
We become a hand out generationrather than a hand up
generation.

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The idea of sacrificial livingis kind of what this episode is
all about.
Hopefully I stay on track.
So many thoughts going on inthis mind, but the idea of
sacrificial living it seemed tobe escaping us.
Matter of fact, it seemed to bedrifting away with each passing
day the idea of sacrificing foryour faith and sacrificing
yourself in service.

(03:38):
I know there's a lot of peoplewho are believers of Jesus
Christ and they're religiousfolks and people who are and
have served in the military.
So you understand faith andservice, you understand the
sacrifices that come with that,but it seems like, generally
speaking, we seem to have lostthe understanding of sacrificial
living and what it means.

(03:59):
Every day I was sharing with acouple that we are mentoring and
walking with through somediscipleship practices, and I
shared about how my entire lifehas changed.
I'm at a place now where mymorning starts at two or three
in the morning sometimes and myreading is doubled.

(04:21):
My listening and my intake ofinspirational books and
teachings is doubled.
My TV watching has been cut bya third.
A lot has changed and, you know, in order to have the kind of
thing that we want to have inlife, we need to sacrifice some

(04:41):
things that we like to do, thatwe think are important in the
moment.
You know the idea of the olivethat we like to do, that we
think are important in themoment.
You know the idea of the olive.
We always talk about that,especially on this show, about
the process of getting olive oilfrom an olive.
We talk about that because theprocess is rough.
The process isn't great forthat olive to produce the olive

(05:02):
oil that we like to use incooking or whether we like to
use it when it comes to somearea of anointing, but the
process is hard.
The process is hard for goldand silver to be refined.
There's intense heat, there'slabor, there's pains to create
the kind of gold and silver thatwe enjoy wearing on our fingers

(05:25):
and around our necks.
But for some reason in our life,the idea of total surrender, it
doesn't appeal to us and eventhough these are things that are
rough and not easy to take.
I don't expect us to go runningtowards it, but we should at
least be accepting of it becausewe understand that out of that
process we come out better, weaccomplish more of the things

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that we labor in our life to tryto accomplish.
But if we don't have that ideaof total surrender, we can't
accomplish those things.
We need to have a heartfeltdesire to tap into the creator
as his creation, and we justdon't want to do that.
You know how many people livetheir whole lives struggling to
locate purpose.
I talk to them on a regularbasis, I talk to them almost on

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a daily basis.
The idea of finding purpose, itseems to be lost on people and
they spend 30, 40, 50 years oftheir life never being able to
accomplish it.
That's not an over-exaggeration, that's really happening.
And the reason why it'shappening, in my opinion, in my

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estimation, is because the ideaof sacrificing and surrendering
excuse me people are avoiding itrather than running into it and
saying you know what I'm goingto do whatever needs to be done.
There was a story of three menin the Bible that were thrown
into a fiery furnace.
Why?
Because they loved intense heat?
No, because they recognizedthat what their stance was in

(07:02):
life.
Their value system was moreimportant than the laws of the
land, more important than themandates and more important than
the threats.
And they said you know what, ifI have to die for this belief,
this cause, it's more importantthan the mandates and more
important than the threats.
And they say you know what, ifI have to die for this belief,
this cause, it's worth it.
I will.
And right now they're beingread to our children as bedtime
stories or Sunday school stories.

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But these are exact examples ofwhere we should be in our life,
that we are willing tosacrifice the minute things in
life for the greater good, forwhat matters the most as it
pertains to our life, oursalvation, our wholeness, our
mental health.

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Somewhere, a sacrifice was madefor you to be able to have the
choices that you enjoy today, tohave the ability to have rights
and benefits and privileges ascitizens of a country.
Now we use those, but we nevereven think about the cost.
Does the cost even matter toyou?
Is my next question.
The people who are pioneers inthis country, even around the

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world, around the globe, pouredout their lives for something
they believe in, even if itcosts them everything.
Are you willing to accept thecost for what you believe in?
What do you even believe inthat could cost you everything?
Have you assessed that?
Have you even located that?

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Yet, at this stage of your life, and even if you have found it
every day, you still live outyour life or pour your life out
into that mission because youknow it's worth it.
I'm just asking because it'stime for some really big boy
questions.
We don't spend time looking atthe obituaries.
That's not really healthy, sowe shouldn't.
That's great, but there is anaccounting for all of us that's

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going to take place.
It's an accounting for everysingle person who lives and
breathes and walks this planet.
We should all want to be on theright side of eternity.
The very best sacrifice that wecan give is the one that we
give of our own, free will.
That's what separates us fromthe animals, even though
sometimes we may act likeanimals in certain settings.
That's what separates us fromthe animals that we can make a

(09:13):
decision based on free will,make a choice.
Forcing somebody to be nice andrespectful to you isn't the same
, or it's not even better, thansomebody deciding.
You know, I see value in thisperson.
I'm going to be nice andrespectful to them on my own.
Which one is stronger, whichone is greater?

(09:35):
There's a passage in Romans 12,1 and 2.
I love this.
I talk about it very often, soyou guys might know it by heart
by now, but it's one of myfavorite passages of scripture
because it reminds me of whatthis episode is really all about
.
I'll break it down real quickbefore we closed out today.
One of the first points in thispassage Romans 12, 1-2,.

(09:58):
It says the first point is thatthere's a need for a reminder
of the mercy that you've seen.
Remind you of how blessedyou've been.
We talk about how blessed weare in certain contexts and
certain areas of life, but do wereally recognize how blessed we

(10:19):
are?
Do we recognize how good wehave it?
Do we complain so much that wealmost forget how good we
actually have it than the otherperson or the person next to us?
That passage, one of the firstthings it talks about, is
reminding us of the mercy thatwe've seen.
The next point is, excuse me,that we present our bodies while

(10:41):
we're alive.
What does that mean?
In Old Testament, the sacrificesthat were spotted and blemished
and broken and bruised in anyway were considered unacceptable
because it was not the bestsacrifice that could be given.
Cain and Abel they had achallenge with each other, but
they were both to give anoffering to God.

(11:02):
One was accepted, one was wasnot, because one was given out
of the best of what he had.
The other one gave haphazardly,from whatever, thinking it
would be acceptable.
It doesn't.
If it doesn't cost you anything, the sacrifice doesn't mean
anything.
I'll say that part again if itdoesn't cost you anything, the

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sacrifice doesn't mean anything.
So presenting your bodies whileyou're alive is the same thing
as a sacrifice.
I'm not talking about humansacrifices.
Don't go there.
It's not what we're talkingabout.
What I'm talking about is thatevery day of your life, while
you live and breathe in thisbody that you were given, with
the breath that you're borrowingright now, you have a

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responsibility, in a way, togive back, not to people who are
downtrodden only, not peoplewho are destitute only, but to
give back to this world that welive in, that we profit from,

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that we benefit from living in.
We be the best version ofourselves and produce something
that benefits everyone.
Put yourself in a position likepresent your bodies, put
yourself in a position to do thebest you can do and get the
best output that you can giveout of what you've been given,
because you've seen that mercyon your life.
The last thing, the last point,is the daily process of
self-evaluation, aspiring forholiness, saying you know what

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my mind is not right.
I need to transform my mind,change it into what it needs to
be.
And it says we do that byrenewing our minds on the word
of God.
That's how we do it.
Self-help books are fine.
I read some of those.
It's fine, but it can't be thebe-all and the end-all, not the
panacea for what we all dealwith in life, in this world.
We need something greater andmore consistent and more stable

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than that Daily process ofself-evaluation, aspiring for
wholeness, aspiring for betterthan what we've been used to or
better than quote-unquote goodenough.
We're saying you know what wecan do better.
We have the seed of greatnessinside of us.
If you don't know that,understand that today.
You have the seed of greatnessinside of you.
We have better in us than whatour parents have told us, our

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grandparents, television, media,even our best friends.
We're greater and better thanwhat they've even said about us.
We have a seed of greatnessinside of us.
Check out 2 Corinthians, 4 and7.
We have a treasure inside eachearthen vessels.
We have greatness inside ofthese vessels.
I just want to encourage youguys that we don't have to be a

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handout generation.
We can be a hand up generation.
We can do better than complainabout everything that is not
going right in our life.
We have the power to change it.
At the end of the day.
I don't know about you.
I want to be on the right sideof eternity.
Whoever you are and howeveryou're listening today I'm
calling Mr U in the InspirationStation.

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