Better Yesterdays directors cut

The speaker, Darian Jones, is grateful for his platform and wants to use it to uplift his community and discuss various topics. He believes that it is important to remember and learn from our past experiences in order to move forward. He talks about the significance of yesterday and how it can shape our present and future. He emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit in bringing back memories and using them as tools for growth. Darian encourages listeners to create better yesterdays and highlights the importance of knowledge, practice, consistency, and willingness in achieving victories. He also discusses the role of emotions and how they can affect success, emphasizing the need to have power over them. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank you for being here. This is Honor Kings and Sons TV by your host Darian Jones, founder and CEO of Honor Kings and Sons Apparel and Honor Kings and Sons TV. This podcast is the place to be. Welcome everybody. So here's a few things I want to talk about this morning. I am so excited. We are trailblazing right now. I am working on trying to make sure I keep you guys updated with so much that I want to talk about, so much I want to do to uplift my community and create positivity, but also continue to push the envelope of a biblical worldview on social injustice, on relationships, on family, on generational wealth, on inheritance, on all these different things that a lot of us have on our minds as we live our life. All right. So I just want to be able to let you guys know what it is I'm doing. And I'm just so happy to have this platform. I don't take it lightly. And I just really hope that people are being blessed every episode. So anyways, it's 956 July 19th, 2022. So let's get into it. So today I want to talk about a few things. I won't be a long one here today, but I want to talk about a few things. So here's one thing I would like to talk about. It is so amazing to me how every day we wake up, we don't realize the value of waking up. We don't realize the value of the fact that we get a brand new 24 hours, a brand new 24 hours. Sometimes I ask myself, why do I get a brand new day, but I carry yesterday's garbage or the feeling of yesterday? Why can't I get a brand new day and a brand new mindset and a brand new everything? Well, the reason why we don't get that as human beings is because I personally believe based on studying how the human works, the human mind works in a practical sense, just paying attention, just evaluating myself every single day and collaborating that with what the word of God says. I want to say this. We need to remember. We need to remember yesterday. Yesterday has to exist. Why? See, for some people, yesterday was good. Yesterday was impacting. Yesterday was a day of overcoming. So you would have to understand that God would be not fair if he took away some people's yesterdays and he kept other people's yesterdays. It wouldn't be fair. So he wired all of us to have a brand new day, have brand new energy, brand new optimism, brand new hope. Everything's brand new, fresh. But at some point, we have to tap into yesterday in order to continue for today. So, you know, some people may have had a bad day yesterday. Like, legit, you had a bad day while somebody else was winning. They bought a house, they bought a car, they paid off debt, they cleaned their driving record, they cleaned their criminal record, you know, families got restored, all types of stuff. Right? People got justice for a crime on their friend or family. There's all kinds of stuff that was good that happened yesterday. Just like there was all kinds of stuff that was bad that happened yesterday. We need yesterday. Yesterday is what pushes us We need yesterday. Yesterday is what pushes us for today. Right? The Word of God says, forget not the things of old. As a matter of fact, there is a passage in the Bible, and what I'm going to start doing is putting all my scriptures in my description link so that you guys can follow through and not just think I'm mouthing off. There's a scripture in the Bible that talks about after this place that you have come to, leave a stone so that everybody from your family, from your generation that walks past this place will see it as a landmark. Right? You need your yesterdays. So what am I talking about? I think today I want to talk about making sure you make use of your yesterdays. You want to make sure you make use of your yesterdays. You know, think ahead. If you know you're going through, create better yesterdays. Because why? You have something to pull on. You'll have something to pull on. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit being the comforter, he will bring things back to our remembrance. And one day I was having a devotion with my family, and I really believe that this came to me, that I don't think remembrance is a mental mechanism as much as it is a spiritual tool. Like, I think it's something that is connected to everybody's spirit. And what remembrance is, is remembrance is almost like a delivery boy. So something you did in your past, right? Remembrance collects all of it. And then at the time that you're going to need what you did, what you said, what you learned, what you escaped, what you saw, at the right time that you're going to need that experience or need the details in that day or need the information from that moment to help you with your future, remembrance goes and grabs it. Or in accordance to the word, the Holy Spirit goes to remembrance. I mean, the Holy Spirit goes and grabs that information and brings it back to you, right? So I think the place, I'll clarify. So I think the place inside of our spirit, where we need to access our yesterdays, we need to access things from the past to help us with things of the present and the future, the Holy Spirit goes, grabs those things that we don't remember, brings it to our remembrance, and then boom, we're able to activate on it and use it. Your yesterdays are important. They're very important. Some people, the reason why they can't use their yesterdays is because they're in a blur. I woke up many mornings like that. Things I did that were not right, that were not smart, that were not wise, that were not thoroughly thought out, I wallowed in how that made me feel. So when God gave me a brand new day to wake up, that's what happened. I did not maximize on my yesterday. I did not take what was good, what I accomplished, what would help me to stay consistent. I did not take it and apply it to my today. So that is why I will continue to be treated or I will continue to be delayed. And even as I talk to you about this, understand that life is not theoretical. Life is not one, two, three. Life within itself is dice. Life can throw you anything it wants. The only thing that's constant, the only thing that is consistent in keeping you consistent is your faith in God and your willingness to do what he says, and your willingness to be practical after you've had a spiritual experience. So what am I telling you all today is not only make use of your yesterday, but actually create better yesterdays. That's something that you can do. You can create a better yesterday than you've done in the past. Victories are a combination of a few things. Victories are a combination of knowledge, or a combination of practice, or a combination of consistency, or a combination of willingness, and a combination of failure. You need all of those to be victorious. There's no way that you can start off with victories. It's impossible. Nobody who has ever walked this planet started off with victories. Nobody who has ever walked this planet started off with victories. Nobody. Because victories are not a thing that are connected to perfect people. Victories don't connect themselves to perfect people. Victories are not even something that's connected to holiness. There's nothing holy or righteous about a victory. Why? Because victories can be celebrated and won by the enemy, the devil, evil people, wicked people, people who do bad things, people who mean harm. Victories can be won by those people. So victories aren't attached to something holy or righteous. Victories are attached to strategies that comprise of knowledge, consistency, failures, and I can't remember the other two I said at this present moment. But I'm just telling you, victories are something that if we really, really, really want them, we got to plan better. Can I tell you something? I am a very emotional person. I've been like that since I was a kid. I went through that phase of being raised, you got to be tough, you got to keep your emotions in, you got to do all of this, because you're a man. But from a little kid, I was emotional. I don't think I had emotional deficiency. My emotions never led me to do crazy things in my parents' house, manifest behaviors at school. My emotions never led me down a path like that. What my emotions did do is my emotions allowed me to debate success. My emotions, and when I say allowed, it probably doesn't even fit if you think about how I'm talking about it in this manner. But, you know, the gist and synopsis of it is kind of there, you can think it through. But my emotions, how I would handle them would make it challenging for me to see success. And what that would do is that will cause me to sit there and actually fight with my emotions and try to overcome them first, and then overcome everything else in my life. And I always have this constant battle. Sometimes I'm like, man, I can't go be successful until I get my emotions down pat. But let me tell you something. This is what I've experienced wrestling with my emotions. It's very impossible that you can put your emotions to the side and go be successful. I think the mindset that we all should have when it comes to our emotions is know that we have power over them. Emotions are like fans in a stadium. And I discovered this analogy years ago. I only told it to probably one or two people. I don't ever remember, I don't ever remember saying it to a lot of people. But I did say this years ago. Emotions are like fans in a stadium. Let's just use football. Right? So football game, let's just say it's a championship. Right? It's a good scoring game. And the quarterback of the offense, you know, he sets up, the ball is tied to him. And he has three receivers, three wide receivers. He has a choice to throw it to three different wide receivers. He has what his coach is telling him to do. He has what the playbook says. He has what the receivers are signaling him. And he has the fans. All of those represent your emotions. Your emotions are signals. Your emotions are suggestions. Your emotions are indicators. But at the end of the day, it's you who throws the football. Or it's you who makes the decision to connect to what you're going to connect to, to score the winning touchdown of your life, or of your day. So if the quarterback decides that he's going to throw it to a person, and that person doesn't catch it, or he throws it too early, so the person can't catch it, or he throws it too late, so the defender gets there and intercepts the ball. Whatever the case may be that happens, it's the quarterback that has to live with the decision that he threw it. The fans are going to sit there and say, oh man, you should have listened to me. But the fans never do the football. So that's how we have to treat our emotions. We have to treat our emotions with the truth and realize that they're just suggesting things to us, no matter how much is swelling up inside of us. And that is where you need to tap into something greater than yourself to control your emotions. I'm guilty. I let my emotions get the best of me sometimes. I legit let my emotions get the best of me sometimes. And does it cause delay? Yeah, it causes delay. And I have to come back to the fact that I have 24 hours that I possibly could get, because nothing's promised to us. Nothing's promised to us. But because I have in the back of my mind that I have another 24 hours, by the grace of God, I have the power to make a better day for myself. And God is so good that he will give you the power, along with a brand new day, to discern what you did yesterday, how you did it, when you did it. Use those strategies to implement into today to make you victorious for today. And then through his grace, he would empower you to keep following that system so that you don't fall over and over and over. That, my friends, is a good God, a merciful God, a great God, a powerful God, a sovereign God. And I think we should all take the time to say thank you that we're always being provided with what we don't have to conquer what we can't conquer to receive what we don't deserve. So, as I depart today, my advice to you all is analyze the last couple of yesterdays you've been having. See where you dropped the ball. See where you stopped communicating effectively. See where you stopped being diligent. And find a strategy with the help of wise counsel, good friends, good leaders, good mentors, right, good spiritual figures, good counselors. With the help of them, of course, prayer, of course, the Holy Spirit, of course, the grace of God and his mercy, and carve out how you can be victorious moving forward. This is Darion Jones, CEO and founder of Art of Kings and Sons TV. I want to thank all of you for listening in today. Please join my mailing list. Please follow me on all my streaming platforms. Tell somebody about the podcast. Have them tune in and give a listen. Maybe even leave me a message on how I can be better or what you like, what you didn't like. I'm always here to help you. Or what you like, what you didn't like. You know, it's all good conversation. I love you all. God bless you. And I will see you another time on this platform, Art of Kings and Sons TV. Take care.