hey there um have you ever wondered why some businesses boom and other businesses like disappear into the ether well I'm going to show you why it's amazing to me how many businesses they make promises and they don't keep them and it's mind-blowing and I'm going to show you like a foolproof way to have people banging your door down to do business with you um and it's it's it's it's literally fullprof I'm going to read you a passage of scripture from one of my favorite passages in the entire Bible um and it's in First Kings chapter 10 and you've heard me read about this before but I'm going today I'm going to talk to you about this subject an ounce of proof is worth 10,000 pounds of Promise like what does that mean it means don't tell me what you're going to do show me what you did right so it says when the Queen of Sheba had had heard this is in verse one First Kings chapter 10 and when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord she came to prove him with hard questions now she heard she heard right and so she came she came because of what she heard but she didn't come because she believed what she heard she came because she didn't believe what she heard and she wanted to find out if it was true okay she came to prove him with hard questions and by the way the reason monarchs kings and queens came to pay King Solomon back in the day and when they came they brought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of payments for him wrap your mind around that hundreds of millions of peace and the scripture says that all the kings of the earth came to him and paid him and then after they got done paying they sent their people to come and pay him this dude had it going on he was like the man for real he wasn't playing like he was the man he wasn't pretending to be the man King Solomon was the man now what happened well King Solomon was the rising tide that lifted all boats God gave him wisdom exceeding much more than any of the Kings who had ever walked before him more than any of the Kings who would ever walk after him and the scripture says Solomon had peace on all sides for his entire Reign the scripture says when Solomon was King that silver was as stones in Israel what in other words be King Solomon was so wise he didn't just Elevate his own Prosperity he elevated the prosperity of the entire nation see God doesn't want to just bless you to be blessed he wants to bless you to be a blessing don't miss that that part and so his reputation preceded him but Watch What Happens she came um oh why did monarchs come monarchs came to King Solomon to pay him so they could run out of learn how to run Their Kingdoms as smoothly as he ran his H what does that sound like that sounds like a consultant to me King Solomon's business was he was a consultant to the kings and queens of the earth huh do you understand that modern day our entrepreneurs are like kings and queens that's what modern day entrepreneurs are that's why I love Consulting I literally built my entire business this entire Studio exists because I read this one day the seven figure monthly Revenue that we generate right now H is here because I said I'm going to do what he did and see if it works see if it still works okay y'all tracking here we go here's what it says and she came to Jerusalem with a very great train and camels that bear spices and very much gold and precious stones and when she came to Solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart do you know how hard it is to run a business imagine how much harder it would be to run an entire country like I get dizzy thinking about it how you going to run a whole country right okay and she communed with him of all that was in her heart and Solomon told her all her questions what does that mean he answered her questions there was not anything hid from the King which he told her not in other words she did not have a single question that stumped him and then it says and when the Queen of Sheba had seen all of solom first she heard it now she's seen it when she had seen all of Solomon's wisdom how do you see somebody's wisdom well here's how you see wisdom you have to understand what the Old Testament word wisdom means see we think wisdom means intelligence am I telling the truth we think it means smarts we think think it means high IQ we think it means big Education wisdom doesn't mean any of those things the Old Testament word wisdom would be our translated into our modern day word skill when she had seen the skill of Solomon well how does your skill show up it shows up in everything you do okay y'all tracking so she communed of him with all that was in her of all that was in her heart he told her our questions and when Queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom and the house that he built so some people wonder like we bought this building last year for $625,000 I have put at least half of that in renovations in just this room and those two bathrooms some people why you put all that money in there because I want I do not have a desire for our space to misrepresent our mission everything has to match like you can't be singing a song in B flat major and playing it in C it don't work I'm anyway y'all picking up what I'm putting down and so the queen of shiva's wisdom the house that he built and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel and his cup bearers and the ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord there was no more breath in her she was like child please right he took her breath away there's no more spirit in her and she said to the king it was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom see Solomon he didn't just have a reputation he could back it up let me ask you a question does your lifestyle back up your reputation or does your reputation have to back up because of your lifestyle up in here it was a true report that I heard in my own land wrap your mind around that she's in her own land Solomon's reputation came to her myin where do I find people to sell my stuff to you're asking the wrong question the right question would be how do I make myself more findable for people who already want to buy what I already want to sell okay y'all track it th it was a true report I heard my own land of my thy ACC of thy wisdom how be it I believe not the words I didn't believe what I heard until I came and mine eyes have seen it and behold the half was not told me thy wisdom and thy Prosperity exceeded the fame which I heard what when people experience you like when they hear about you yeah I heard about I heard I heard about them yeah they just oh yeah I heard that oh yeah yeah yeah everybody talking about okay whatever and then they come and experience you see your reputation is always going to precede you but danger Will Robinson danger if your reputation exceeds you like is the experience of you anticlimactic from what people heard about you when they experience you are you less than your reputation or are you more than your reputation up in here up in here like when people meet you when people experience the Brilliance of your assignment it should be so much better than anything anybody could have described because you become you are a person of your word that when they experience you they're like I I heard it was going to be good but it's so much better than that P said I'm talking about an ounce of proof is worth more than 10,000 lb of Promise Solomon said I got 10,000 lb of promise and a couple million dollars worth of pounds of Proof come check it out then it says happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom Blessed Be th the Lord thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because the Lord loved Israel forever therefore made he the king to do judgment and Justice God loved the people you serve so much he sent you that's what she said what let me ask you a question does God love your children so much that he gave them you as a parent does God love your clients so much that he gave them to you to be their provider of the service or the product you provide the Queen of Sheba said God didn't give you this wisdom cuz he loved you that much he gave you this wisdom cuz he loved the people you going to serve that much do you look at your mission as a demonstration of God's love to the people you serve that's a good question did God give you your spouse as a demonstration of his love for them am I talking too fast the people who work with you in your business or work for you in your business did God give you them as an employer give them you as an employer because he loved them see here's the problem here's the problem we make the mistake of thinking God brings people into our lives to show us how much he loves us but he's bringing those people into our lives to show them how much we love them and by the way if everybody had that perspective everybody would win if everybody came into the relationship business relationship marriage relationship friend relationship entrepreneurial relationship every other Rel if everybody came into the relationship looking for a way to serve and demonstrate God's love it would change the world in a minute blessed be the Lord which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because the Lord loved Israel forever therefore made he the king to do judgment and Justice and she gave the king 120 talents of gold see want we want to skip all the rest of that stuff we want to get to that part just pay me okay no no no she gave him 120 talents now I researched this and a talent depending on where it was from what country it was from weighed somewhere between 68 and 74 pounds one Talent somewhere between 68 and 74 pounds now when I after I did that calculation I I wanted to find out somebody somebody do the math for me so she paid him 128 talents a gold so imagine let's just call it 70 pounds let's go in the middle call it 70 pounds 70 time 120 is how much 8,96 8,960 pounds of gold multiply that time 16 ounces because there's 16 ounces in every pound multiply that time 16 ounces how much 134 13436 let's just call it 134,000 we'll round down okay now the current price of gold is about $1,900 I think $1,800 ,900 so so let's multiply that number whatever that was $134,000 times $1,900 one client one Consulting session the Queen of Sheba paid King Solomon in today's dollars $286,000 million $286 million in gold by the way that's one client all the kings of the earth came to King Solomon and paid him to learn his wisdom all of them and by the way that wasn't everything she paid him that was just the gold but wait there's more okay uh 100 verse 10 and she gave the king 120 12 talents of gold and spices very great in store a very great store precious stones that's like diamonds and emeralds and rubies and okay so she ain't to pay any right and there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Shima gave to King Solomon and then it starts talking about who who else brought him gold and the Navy of hyram brought gold from ofer and brought from ofer great plenty and on and on and on all these people you can go read it on your own time I'm about to show you something that's going to blow your mind mind a man's gift maketh room for him bringeth him before the great man the gift that go see God put a gift in you so you could be a gift and then people would pay you for that gift watch this verse 23 King solom so King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the Earth for riches and for wisdom and all the Earth sought to King Solomon to hear the wisdom that God has put in his heart Watch What Happens Next and they brought every man his present vessels of silver and vessels of gold and garments and armor and spices and horses and mules a rate year by year here's three things we see Solomon did Solomon's proof was so great that he became the king of Consulting to the Kings he was the king of he was the king of Consulting to the Kings that's so crazy and and and okay y y' y' ain't feeling y'all ain't feeling it okay let's go back to chapter 4 let's go back to chapter 4 okay after God gave Solomon wisdom let's go back to First Kings chapter 4 watch this watch this this is this is so amazing here's what it says uh in verse number 29 and God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much and largess of heart even as the sand that is on the seashore and Solomon's wisdom excelled all the wisdom of the children of the East Country and all the wisdom of Egypt he was wiser than all men now you could have ended the sentence there but God's going to emphasize it he was wiser than all men men which I would think includes all men then Ethan the ezrahite then Hanan and K and d and the sons of Mahal these were the guys who were like these these were the people who thought they were his [Music] competition and his Fame was in all nations round about and he spake 3,000 Proverbs and his songs were 1,5 and he spake of the tree of the the trees the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even the hsip that springeth out of the wall and he spake also of beasts and of foul and of creeping things and of fishes and there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon from all from all the kings of the earth so the kings of the earth sent their people why because Solomon was going to show them a different way to run a kingdom and the Kings wanted to make sure their C their their citizens didn't Revolt when they started running this new government running this new play they got from Solomon so they sent the people to go learn from Solomon why it's in their best interest to do the new things the King was going to show them how to do so King Solomon was the king he was the king of Consulting his contemporaries but he was also the king of communicating to crowds cuz if all the people on the Earth are coming to King Solomon to learn his wisdom he ain't sitting down talking to him one-onone that's why I don't do oneon-one coaching unless I'm Consulting a king and they're paying me $40,000 an hour but Mar but Mar what if they don't have $40,000 an hour they want to go get consulted from somebody else and it's okay are you tracking so what happens is in the scripture says he was a king he was a king he was a king of Consulting the his contemporaries but he was also the king of communicating to crowds I've been to Ephesus the ancient city of Ephesus they have a Coliseum that will hold 25,000 people 25,000 people they have coliseums in Jerusalem that hold 13,000 people 18,000 people like that were built thousands of years ago and these big old ginormous stones that are bigger than this state it's CRA it's just mind-blowing right well King Solomon was a communicator to crowds you thought Tony Robbins was the first person to do a seminar Solomon was doing seminars thousands of years ago before Tony Robbins even knew he was even thought about his granddaddy thought about being born King Solomon was a communicator to crowds and guess what he was also the king of continuity cash flow it says they came and they paid him a rate year by year he didn't charge him once he charged him every time they showed up every time see in in our modern day Society we we think we're doing people a favor when we don't make them pay but all we're doing is letting them off the hook for paying attention cuz people who pay pay attention people who don't pay don't pay attention and people who pay little pay a little attention and people who pay a lot pay a lot of attention an ounce of proof is worth seven million pounds of promise you know that's true in business but it's not just true in business it's true in every relationship it's true in friendship I mean that's why the scripture says he that have friends must show himself friendly it didn't say he that have friends must believe that he's friendly it didn't say he that have friends must think that he's friendly it didn't even say he that hath friends must say that he's friendly it says he that hath friends must show himself friendly did you did you I like what James said James said show me me your faith without your works I'll show you my faith by my Works don't tell me what you're going to do show me what you did show me what you did I don't want to know what you going oh I promise I prove it here's what's interesting I think about Russell Brunson I think about Russell Brunson Russell Brunson is a good friend of mine he's business coach of mine Russell built a multi million software business on three case studies he found found three people whose businesses he could fix he fixed their businesses for free and broadcast their story everywhere wow what are you saying I'm saying let your doing do the talking here's what it says in John 1 in the beginning was the word and the Word was God and the Word was with God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him without him was not anything made that was made H that's cool and in him was the life and the life was the light of men and the line sh light shined in Darkness Darkness comprehended not guess what it says in for verse 14 and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the father let me ask you a question does your word become your flesh when you say you're going to do something do you do it do you prove it or do you just promise it do you walk about it or do you just talk about it the word became flesh and dwelt Among Us the interpretation of that is exactly what it says Jesus Christ who was the Living Word I mean who was the word became the Living Word and walked among us but guess what an application of that is when my word becomes my flesh I can dwell among the people I gave it to when it doesn't I have to hide from those same people how many you all tracking and so what we want to do is we want to make sure that if we can't do it we don't say we're going to do it and if we say we're going to do it we do it even if it inconveniences us even if it's hard even if it cost us more money even if it cost us a lost sleep even if it C like become a person of your word if your word means nothing to you don't expect it to mean something to me because you speak a bunch of Christian e or some other reason well Marin bless you brother okay that's fine but you didn't do what you said you were going to do all the bless you brother and I that ain't that's fine but that ain't that's not you keeping your word all you're doing is telling me you you think not keeping your word word is okay CU you talk spiritual language do what you say you going to do or don't say you going to do it period did you notice how King Solomon's reputation got out there he wrote 3,000 Proverbs his songs were a th5 let me ask you a question have you in today's language that would be 3,000 Instagram posts 3,000 threads 3,000 tweets his songs were 1,5 1,000 YouTube videos do you realize if you did 3,000 posts I mean post that had impact post that made a difference posts that mattered not just some this is what I had for breakfast today nobody cares posts that help other people posts that shine a light on somebody else's path not a post that shines a light on your Fame people if people know that you can help them they will beat a path to your door when I look at like I don't even I don't have a thousand you I don't have a thousand YouTube posts yet keyword yet got 400 and something a February last year I had 40 February last year I had 40 maybe 46 post 10,500 subscribers and guess what I did I started showing up for the people it wasn't showing up for me I I want to get a bunch of subscribers I couldn't have imagined having this many subscribers just fast I couldn't have imagined it I didn't care though I am going to go on YouTube and I'm going to disseminate content that people value and I'm going to do that once a week for 10 years and see how it turns out we're a year and a half into the journey it's going fairly well his song songs were 1,5 King Solomon put out content that mattered to people not that mattered to him that mattered to people and here's what he did he took everyday things that people understood and showed them uncommon lessons in everyday things he wrote about trees and about animals and about birds and about insects how could that be interesting go to the anth house Slugger consider her ways and be wise which having no guide or overseer or ruler provided her meet in the summer and gather the food in the Harvest what do we learn from the ant well we learn all kinds of things from the ant the we learn the go to the ant thou Slugger ant's not lazy okay that's cool consider her ways and be wise having no guide an ant is selftaught they don't they're not waiting for somebody to come by and read the library book to they're self-taught they're like I'm going to go find what I need I'm going to go learn what I need to learn they have no guide they have no overseer so not only are they self-taught but they're self-motivated they have no ruler which means they're self-disciplined they do what they're supposed to do when they're supposed to do it the way they're supposed to do it and they do it that way every time they do it guess what gather her food in the summer provide their meat in gather food in the Harvest provide their meat in the summer what does that mean an ant thinks winter all summer when things are good ants think NE when things are positive ants think negative yeah it's summertime now but I'm not going to party now that it's summertime I'm G to plan and prepare for winter because Winter's coming but guess what they think winter they think summer all winter yeah it's bad now but it's going to be good come summertime and see human beings do the exact opposite we think winter all winter and we think summer all summer he just all he did was took something that he observe he he just sat there one day and watched some ants he said you know what I think I'm goingon to go my next seminar going to be on these ants like you his life his experiences in his life became the lessons from his for his audience he just taught them the stuff he knew who could do that all of us can if we care enough like my goal at goal my goal is I'm going to have 100,000 YouTube subscribers in six months I wouldn't have I wouldn't have had the I wouldn't have understood how to think that wouldn't have known how to believe that was possible I just said I'm going to show up and I'm going to I'm going to do the thing and I'm going to do it consistently so people know when they can find me and so we started doing a video a week then we started doing two videos a week then we started doing three videos a week then we started doing shorts on off days then we backed off to two long form and then five short forms and man is it working like Gang Busters and see here's what I know I'm no King Solomon by any stretch of imagination but when I get to 5 million subscribers I'm pretty much going to be able to fill an arena with a thousand to 10,000 people anywhere in the world any day of the week I want to so guess what I'm going to keep on going I'm just 10 years 10 I was thinking 10 years I I could probably be to a million subscribers that's what I was thinking last year so now I'm thinking 10 years I can be 5 million subscribers it might be more but I'm going to keep on going regardless I'm not doing it for the immediate payoff it's my longtail strategy I'm going to write my 3,000 Proverbs and my thousand and5 songs and I'm going to keep on posting content that helps people why because that is how you give them the ounce of proof you give them for free something that helps them this YouTube channel I've had so many people make this com comment on my YouTube channel it's my favorite comment of all comments I can't believe he's teaching us all this stuff for free makes me so happy and then they go do it and it works and people come to my challenge they say they say they say man I used something you did on your you you gave on your free YouTube channel and I thought if you helped me that much I can't even imagine how much you'll help me if I pay you an ounce of proof is worth 10,000 pounds of Promise show up for the people with something that's valuable to them and watch how your life changes period it's a wrap so um my recommendation would be don't talk about what you're going to do show me what you did and if you will do that in the marketplace and it's something the marketplace values the world will beat a path to your door cash at hand so good go get you some new bags what kind of bags bags to put all that money in because you showed up with an ounce of proof instead of 10,000 lb of promise I hope this blesses you and I'll look forward to seeing you on the next video bye for now