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I was blessed to have my brother and fellow MMC-IV Mentor as a guest pastor at our church two Sundays ago. Here is a powerful message on transformation and renewing our minds. See you on the Mindset call Thursday at 2 pm central. Be blessed.
April 9, 2006: Guest Pastor Jerry Weinzierl
Click Here: http://www.oasischurch.tv/messages/04_09_2006.wma
In Service,
Jack
Jack M. Weinzierl Advantage Conferences, LLC 817.205.9513 direct phone http://AdvantageConferences.com/jack jack@advantageconferences.com
Private Reply to Jack Weinzierl | Apr 22, 2006 3:40 pm | | re: Are you being conformed to the mold of society or transformed by the Word? | # | Jack Weinzierl | | Millionaire Mindset Notes for April 20, 2006:
Hosted by Jack Weinzierl, Flower Mound, TX http://OneOasis.com
Welcome to our Thursday Millionaire Mindset call. My name is Jack Weinzierl and I am a representative in the field building my Advantage Conference business just like you….. one conference at a time.
This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. Praise God and I am honored to be sharing on today's Millionaire Mindset call.
I really appreciate the transparency and direct approach of Tim Darnell and the culture that he has reinforced within Advantage Conferences.
Let’s open this call properly in prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You that we do not have a spirit of fear, but that we have a spirit of power, a spirit of love and a spirit of a sound, strong, firm, safe, stable and disciplined mind. Father, I thank You that the peace of God, which surpasses all knowledge, is guarding my heart and mind. I command my mind to dwell only on that which is true, honorable, pure, lovely, excellent and worthy of praise. Help us to transform our hearts and minds today.
Father, we ask for supernatural favor and wisdom for every person on this call today. We thank you for all of your provision and encouragement as we build a business that honors and brings people to you, in Jesus name we pray, Amen.
I have a deal for you today as well--
Later today, I will provide detailed notes for everyone through the corporate office, and your part of the deal is to be ready to receive today. Leave any of your baggage and preconceptions behind, open your ears to not just hear, but to listen, and if something does not seemed aligned with the Word of God, then please check it out and spit out the bones.
I am here today to challenge you, challenge myself, and make you get a little uncomfortable as we all know that is when we grow. I am also here to reinforce the Good News.
Once again, I encourage you to not be a passive receiver of information and feel like you are working the business. Take notes and take this knowledge and take action in YOUR business.
I have a lot of information to share today so we are going to run and not walk through this call. Get your running shoes on. This is not the race, but a training run so you can run your race more effectively.
OK, what are we going to cover today?
1) We are going to cover perspective, focus and sacrifice with Your Advantage Conferences Enterprise. Did Jack just say sacrifice? You mean there is a price to pay to build a multi-million dollar business, yes there is, but there is good news.
2) We are going to cover what is near and dear to me and what Advantage Conferences is all about—transformation and renewing of the mind. The world tries to change us from the outside in—telling us what we should drive, where we should vacation, what we should look like, what religious hoops we should jump through, but we know it is about changing from the inside out through the Word of God and a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior.
3) And lastly, we are going to cover protection and an awesome promise from God that “NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER!"
What a promise from God in Isaiah 54:17! And cover how this promise becomes real in our lives.
I sure trust that you are excited and passionate about your AC business? If you are not, you may not be in the right place or it is time to get real with yourself and your commitment to YOUR business. Do you see yourself as a business owner, as an entrepreneur? Do you view your business as a marketplace ministry? Are you passionate about anything? I know when I got started with AC 14 months ago; I was not that passionate about anything. Sure I loved my wife and children, but I did not have the burning purpose that I have now. I was lukewarm in many areas of my life including sharing my faith. And what a difference a year made. I now wonder why and how I ever settled in to the mediocrity and lack of purpose that I had experienced for most of my adult life.
I am a Christian entrepreneur and I am passionate about impacting lives today and for eternity! How about you?
It is my responsibility to leave an inheritance for my children’s children and I will through Advantage Conferences. I also have a responsibility to serve and to respond to needs where I am led to respond.
OK, I am excited about our business. I am passionate about being a conduit to change lives.
I am the head and not the tail, above and not beneath and we were designed to succeed and I choose to walk toward my God given right. I am confident and not arrogant. And the prize for the race is not always given to the quick, but to those who run the entire race and persevere. You must get out of your comfort zone to grow.
And confidence without arrogance is something that every one of the Christian Millionaires possessed from the last 3 Millionaire Mindset Conferences that I have attended.
Your Advantage Conferences business is no one else’s business but yours and God’s. At the end of the day, you can make all sorts of excuses of why this or any business will not work for you and that is your choice. It’s a bad choice, but one most people or MP’s as Tim calls them, make.
You can make excuses or make money, but you cannot make both.
It pains me to see anyone who literally quits on their dreams. When I say it pains me, I mean it breaks my heart. These aren’t even folks who quit on the 1 yard line as Pastor Joe shared in Orlando. They are serial quitters. Don’t let anyone steal your dream and if you do nothing to build the business right now, focus on improving your Mindset first. For some people, that is their pre-prescription for success. Work on YOU first. And none of us are finished works. We are all growing and your business and income will grow as you grow and transform from the inside out.
Never let anyone else determine your reality and you MUST do today what others won’t, to have tomorrow what others don’t. Yes, I used the word MUST. It is critical to sow the seed to have a harvest in your business.
I encourage you to recognize that you had a peace about starting your AC business, for many on the call today, God directed your steps here, and you have to determine if you are willing to pay the price of delayed gratification, coupled with investments of time and money to build this over the next 10 years with us. If you are thinking in terms of weeks or months, you are thinking to short and too small.
We each have the potential to build a multi-million dollar business and carry yourself that way, even before the checks started. If you invest $1.5 million in a McDonald’s franchise, guess what, you are committed and you will do whatever it takes to make your business work. Well, our Advantage Conferences business is our first year netted close to what an average McDonald’s netted. I am not managing 100 employees, I did not have a large capital commitment and I have created time freedom. I now have the ability to serve our ministry, coach soccer, and go to Bible school is that is where God leads me.
I shared some of this on our team call yesterday, but it is important to reinforce on this Mindset call today.
Before individuals say—well Jack was well financed, was the president of his previous company, has his MBA—which means nothing in this business by the way, he doesn’t know what $10,000 means to me. OK, time for a reality check and for transparency.
We keep it real in this business and time to dispel any preconceived notions you may have right now. I resigned from a six figure position as the president of a company 15 months ago. I did so with a $500,000 mortgage—yikes is right, having invested approximately $100,000 in MLMs and trying my best to build those over the previous 4 years losing all of that money, I had lost our life savings a couple years prior to that on a software stock--$90,000 and my wife home schools and stays home with our kids. I was looking at a $14,000 property tax bill, had no insurance except for Cobra at $1200 a month and then I found AC less than 2 days later. Failure was not an option. Now God had not brought those challenges on us as we do a pretty good job of messing things up on our own when our priorities are out of whack, but we did turn it over to Him in prayer and He is turned it around and I grew through the experience.
I am not a fan of debt except for appreciable assets like homes, but I started as an MMC-IV with a Visa check and invested $8,000 in marketing to build my business in month one—also on my Visa. Now, do I recommend that? NOT at all, but I was at a point of DISGUST about our finances, I knew we had been faithful in our tithes and giving and we had a peace about building an Advantage Conferences business.
We did not have income testimonials and when I started, we did not even have our product in place with the first MMC coming in mid-April. Now if you are already comparing your excuses while I am sharing, then you are missing the point altogether.
So please do not focus on the limited time or finances that you have and so on. Please stop spending your energies on making excuses. Almost everyone I have ever met can share their own reasons for NOT building their business. Focus on your why for building your business, not on your excuses. In fact, get disgusted with where you are at right now.
By the way, you can shut me off today and that is your prerogative, but if you are truly looking to be mentored, you need to take good medicine and your mentor must be someone who can say no to you. True mentors will tell you what you need to hear and not what you want to hear. Without correct navigation, you will eventually crash.
Are you conforming or are you transforming?
You have to be transformed by the inside out. My brother recently used a powerful illustration about the difference between conformity and transformation. He shared that a Nerf ball is conformed when pressure is applied, but it bounces right back when that pressure is gone. It truly was not changed. This applies to mindset as well as we need to be transformed from the inside out by the word so we do not go back to our original faith. So think PlayDoh or clay vs. a Nerf ball.
You can conform all of your life and not walk in victory, because you have not transformed and you have not renewed your mind. We need to be changed and that is what so excites me about Advantage Conferences as that is what we are about. We are not some motivational program that is short-lived with some new age mumbo jumbo, we are based in truth and focus is on transformation. The world and religion will try to conform you, but a personal relationship with the Lord and getting in the Word will transform you. Now, Tim Darnell, neither your mentor, nor anyone else can transform you. They can share the Word, they can share who you are as a child of God, they can tell you about God’s promises for your life, but only you yourself can transform your mindset.
We were born (or I should say born again) to win, BUT we must choose to win!
It involves you seeing yourself as God sees you and recognizing that your inheritance of the abundant life is here and now. Working God’s system begins with you developing a prosperous image inside yourself, according to His Word.
Abundance, or prosperity, is so much more than money. God’s idea of being rich is having more than enough in every area of your life—so much you can be a blessing and give generously to others.
Do what needs to be done—Once again, you must be willing to do today what others won't to have tomorrow what other's don't.
The Apostle John wrote, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” (3 John 2). God’s way of
prospering His people is from the inside out. If you’re living below your privileges, if it seems like you’re going around the same mountain and not making any progress, don’t complain or start blaming. Get into the Word of God, allow it to change you on the inside and experience God’s best for your life.
The change begins with you.
The last section has to do with a powerful promise that has everything to do with being a Christian entrepreneur.
“NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER!"
What a promise from God in Isaiah 54:17!
This promise is more real today than it has ever been so you can walk in God’s divine protection plan in these last days.
The Bible says that the devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). And while he continues to try to bring death and destruction to your life and mine, he has no power to succeed!
Jesus says to you and I in Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.”
NOTHING means NOTHING. It is similar to the verse in Isaiah 54, where He says, “NO weapon formed against you shall prosper.” It is all-inclusive and definite! It covers every aspect of our lives: whether it be weapons of terrorism, weapons of fear, weapons of sickness and disease, weapons of debt, weapons of emotional pressure – NO weapon can prosper!
And here is how this promise becomes real in our lives.
1. First, we must understand God’s previous covenant.
In Exodus 12 the children of Israel are commanded by God to kill a lamb and put the blood over the doorposts of their houses so that when the plague of death came to strike down the first born of each house, it would PASS OVER them. “…And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you…” (Exodus 12:13). God honored the blood of a lamb. He brought divine protection to the children of Israel through the blood of the PASSOVER lamb. This is understood as a blood covenant.
2. Next, we need to understand God’s new covenant, which applies to us.
In I Corinthians 5:7, Jesus Christ is called “our Passover lamb.” So He is to us what the Passover lamb of Exodus was to the children of Israel: divine protection and deliverance from plagues, destruction, and bondage.
3. Then, we need to understand the difference between these Passover lambs, or these covenants.
In Hebrews 8:6, it says that Jesus has obtained a “more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a BETTER COVENANT, which was established on BETTER PROMISES.”
Notice, the differences here between the Old Covenant, which was very powerful and effective, versus the New Covenant:
a. The New Covenant is MORE EXCELLENT. b. It is a BETTER COVENANT. c. It has BETTER PROMISES.
This is a BETTER covenant, with BETTER Promises, established by BETTER blood; therefore, you and I can expect BETTER results!
The children of Israel enjoyed supernatural protection from the enemies of death and terror. They enjoyed supernatural deliverance from the most ferocious army in the world, the Egyptians. The children of Israel enjoyed the plundering of the Egyptian’s wealth, which was transferred into the hands of Israel. WE CAN ENJOY ALL OF THESE THINGS, and THEN SOME.
Now, how do we walk in this BETTER COVENANT with BETTER PROMISES?
1. We must declare it with our mouths. Romans 10:10 says, “…with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (deliverance, wholeness, protection). We must say that the blood of Jesus protects us, delivers us, and prospers us.
2. We must know that this covenant went into effect the day Jesus died on the cross.
3. We must come boldly to the throne of God’s grace and make our request known to Him. (Hebrews 10:19).
4. We must hold fast our confession of faith even when things don’t look good. “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:23). WOW, this is critical in our entrepreneurial walk. How many know that there are challenges and times in our walk where things may not look good?
5. We must remember this covenant by celebrating communion on a regular basis – To reinforce hat we are under God’s divine protection through the blood of Jesus.
If you are on this call today and you have bitterness, unforgiveness, or are tired of trying to jump through religious hoops, please note that it is not about jumping through religious hoops, it is about a real and personal relationship with the Lord. God sent His Son not to condemn us, but to transform and deliver us.
If you have not made Jesus the Lord of your life, I pray that you do so right now. If you believe that Jesus died for you and rose from the dead and confess him as your Lord, you are saved. I was led to give this opportunity today as this is the most important decision we each can make.
Please pray with me. I thank you that you sent your Son to die for me, that He rose from the dead and I ask you Jesus to be Lord of my life, change me from the inside out, transform me, I am a new creature in Christ Jesus, amen.
If you prayed that prayer for the very first time, I encourage you to send Tim Darnell or me an email or call us to let us know so we can pray with you and congratulate you for making the best decision of your life.
Thank you everyone and have a blessed afternoon and see you on the $7,000 call.
And remember, sorrow looks back, worry looks around, but FAITH looks up!
Let’s take action.
In Service,
Jack
Jack M. Weinzierl Advantage Conferences, LLC 817.205.9513 direct phone http://AdvantageConferences.com/jack jack@advantageconferences.com
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