The Sonship Short Series Part 1: You Carry Greatness! Time To Live Like It!

What if the person you’ve worked so hard to become isn’t the person you were made to be? We kick off a raw, hopeful series on sonship and identity, challenging men to step into the quiet power of priest, prophet, and king—at home, at work, and in the heart. No lofty slogans here. We get practical about holiness that shows up in calendars and habits, prophetic courage that tells the hard truth with love, and kingly stewardship that brings order, justice, and care to families and communities.

We talk about the ache when a child rejects your values or when a parent’s choices stain the family name, and how to hold the line without losing your soul. You’ll hear why so many of us settle for a counterfeit self—busy, praised, but empty—and how to trade it for an authentic life aligned with purpose. Expect simple, repeatable rhythms: daily silence and intention, one courageous truth each day, and weekly planning that treats your home like a kingdom worth guarding.

Along the way, we reframe destiny and potential, drawing on wisdom about wasted gifts and the richest graveyards. The point isn’t perfection; it’s honest alignment. Call out the king, the priest, and the prophet already seeded in you, then act until your reality matches your confession. If you’ve felt the gap between who you are and who you’re called to be, this is your sign to close it.

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Chapters

• 0:28 Father, Son, and You
• 12:58 Journey to Self-Discovery
• 26:46 Discovering Destiny Through Sonship

Transcript

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Welcome back to the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life, wherever you are and however you're listening to the Call Me Mr. You the podcast. Once again, we thank you for making us a part of your morning, your day, and your week with your weekly mirror check before you change the world. We thank you so much for all of your support on all of our social media platforms. You've been holding it down for us out there, and we really, really appreciate that. Our love goes right back at you. Our YouTube channel is blowing up, and we thank you for all of the new subscribers and all of the comments and questions about our content out there, and of course, our podcasts, especially our audio lovers out there. We thank you guys for supporting us on Pandora and iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, where you can subscribe to our podcast, and I believe also Spotify too, among many others. So thank you again for continuing to move in the flow of what we're doing at our brand of podcasts and content. It's just one of many things that we're doing. But we're really, really grateful that you are a part of this and that you are supporting this effort and helping us to drive this. Because we got a lot to say and a lot to do, and we are excited about getting it done. This is not some random guy pressing record and just talking nonsense. We got something to say, and the world's gonna hear it. So we're really excited about what your part and your role is in that. Of course, we've been hearing it on some recent episodes we've been releasing to you guys, such as Casting the Vision and some other things that are going on. But thank you for your support. If you're fine, financially supporting us, we definitely appreciate that. You can find us on buzzprout.com and any of our show notes on our audio-only episodes. We'll show you how you can continue to support us. So if you guys are thinking about financially supporting us, the answers to how to do that are right there. It's pretty simple. Reach out if you have any questions for me. I'd be happy to help you out personally if I can. Uh, for those that are subscribing via Apple Podcast or the YouTube channel or both, thank you again. That really helps us out a lot, helps us move into places that we've never been before as a show. So you guys are helping us do some big things out here. It's not just pressing a button, it's definitely making an impact. So thank you for all the ways you subscribe and you help share, like, and and push our program. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much. I wanted to start talking about uh a series that I've mentioned it and discussed it on previous episodes. I will probably say that my first three seasons of this show were heavily embedded in this kind of material, in this kind of content, because it's been so close to my heart, it's been important. It still is important, it's still very much higher on my priority list. I don't care if I'm mentoring someone or being mentored by someone. This topic flows to the surface every time. I don't care if I'm serving in some kind of official capacity or I'm being served, this kind of material flows to the surface. It's definitely one of my highest priorities. And that is the idea or the understanding or the concept of sonship. If you're writing things down in your journal and taking some notes, which many of our listeners and viewers have been doing for a while and they're still doing it, the title would be Father, Son, and You. So please don't at me with where's the Holy Spirit? He's involved in this heavily. But the title is The Father, the Son, and You. And as you listen, hopefully you listen with a uh a discerning ear, you hear where that title is coming from and how it relates to what we're going to be talking about within this series. I have no idea how long the series is going to be, but thank you for riding with us to continue to be supportive. I heard from you guys, and I'm still hearing from you guys, especially regarding our first three seasons, where it was heavy teaching, and how much it impacted you. I heard from people around the world, literally, who were touched by what they were hearing. It ministered to them in ways that I can't even say thank you enough for, but I'm grateful for this kind of content. So we're definitely gonna be bringing it back with a vengeance. You're seeing a lot of stuff on our social media platforms, particularly our YouTube channel. You're seeing a lot of gardening, you're seeing a lot of sports and sports content, a lot of family and life stuff, but we're definitely gonna be bringing back these kinds of episodes, these kind of series. So thank you for riding. It's gonna be amazing, and I believe this series is gonna be impactful in ways that I probably can't even prep you for in advance. Just buckle up and get ready for the ride. It's gonna be intense. It's intense for me just by beginning this, so I know it's gonna be intense as we move forward through it. But regarding the title, Father, Son, and You, maybe you have one of each, maybe you have a father and a son. Maybe you're one of these, maybe you're a son and not yet a father. Maybe you're both, maybe you're a father to someone and you're a son. Either way, your responsibility is massive. You know, in some circles, you'll hear about being a priest, a prophet, and a king. I got nothing against those titles, their elevated levels from where we are right now, and an indicator or at least a benchmark to where we should be in our moral standards, in our code of ethics, in our spiritual development and spiritual growth, those are something that we should ascribe to because, in actuality, at the end of the day, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ paid for us to be in that position, to be on the level of a king, a priest, a prophet, to hold those mantles, to hold those levels of responsibility. We have those, we're just not seeing the manifestations of it in our lives just yet. But we know that it's the truth. It's been spoken, it's been decreed, and it is. Even if you don't feel like you're getting the job done as a father, or maybe you think you're doing a horrible job as a son. I say this without trying to speak for God because who am I to do that? But you're already a priest, a prophet, and the king already. It's been decreed, it's been set in stone that that's who you are. You have to start calling yourself by your rightful name, by your rightful position. When you look in the mirror, listen to the other voices. You begin to call yourself who you are until you can see it. Call the priest out, call the prophet out, call the king out. Because you have I'm speaking to the men today specifically, but you have that inside of you. That seed of greatness, the one that we've seen in Abraham, the one that we've seen in Moses, the one that we've seen in Isaac, the one that we've seen in the Apostle Paul. The seed of greatness is inside of you. And I don't care who's talking to you and saying otherwise, the seed of priests and prophets and kings are inside of you. I want you to understand that. Now there's a challenge in everything. There's a challenge in being a priest. What's that? Look at what's going on in the world around us. Priests don't have the very best name if we're being honest about it, right? They don't have the best reputation. Why? Because they're held to a higher standard, because they were given more responsibility than the normal everyday church folk or the normal parishioner. They were given more responsibilities, more of an obligation, more of a duty. So when that's stained or when that duty is laid down for selfish purposes, the condemnation comes in hot and heavy because the priests have such a role. They have such a responsibility. And on top of that, there were always understanding, it was always believed that they were closer to God than everybody else. Before the advent of Jesus Christ and the work that he did on the cross for us and for me and for you, the priests were the intermediaries. They were the ones assigned and the only ones that were fit, capable, and authorized to go to God on behalf of the people. So when you disrupt that delicate balance, when you bring in something foreign into the mix, or flat out just to be straight up and honest, when you soar yourself, you become not a holy, but you become degraded. You become less than what the standard is. So there's a challenge in being a priest, because the priest is supposed to be holy. And the idea, even as I speak to some of these men that are listening to us today, in your mind you may be thinking, be a priest. I don't know how to be holy. I'm I'm be I'm struggling with just being me. I don't know how to be a holy priest, someone with that level of responsibility, the kind of access to God, where I hear him, he hears me, he instructs me, I obey him. I'm still handling this other light work. I can't handle something of that weight and magnitude, and I understand. But there's a challenge of being a priest, there's a challenge in being a prophet. I mean, from what we understand of prophets, whether you believe in that or not, historically, prophets hear from God and then they speak what they hear publicly. So you got the responsibility of being close enough and sensitive enough to hear from the creator of heavens and earth, of the heavens and the earth, and then on top of that, you got to overcome your fear of public speaking and have to share publicly what you believe you heard. So there's a challenge in being a prophet. So I understand that challenge for you as well. And of course, being a king, massive responsibilities and obligations come with that. Some people who I'm speaking to today are challenged with just handling their own households, challenged with dealing with the everyday rigors of having two, three, four, five kids and a spouse, and dealing with work responsibilities or being in upper management, and then coming home, having to deal with landscaping, doing a yard, and then coming home and have to make sure that the upkeep is taken care of, the dishes are washed and things are being cleaned, the cars being serviced, and then your responsibilities in your local ministry or in your neighborhood association. There's so many responsibilities that many of us have, but men specifically have a different level of responsibility. As we get into this, you'll see more and more as we delve into this series. I understand the challenge of being a king. You have to deal with all those things in your household, but it's next level that has to deal with multiple households. How about having to be responsible for 500, 1,000, 2,500 households, 5,000 households? That's what it means to be a king. You have a kingdom that you're responsible for. So whether it be a priest, a prophet, or a king, I get, even as I said out of my mouth, decreeing it to you and encouraging you today. At least I attempted to. I understand the challenge. I get how difficult that must be in your ears to hear that. Priest, prophet, and king, I'm just trying to be a good father, man. I'm trying to be a good son, a good brother. Trying to be a good man, a good me. I totally understand this. There's a challenge in all of this. Being a father and a son isn't easy. Honestly, nobody ever said it would be. What if your child, despite all that you taught them, despite all of the encouragement you gave, all the ways that you tried to lift them up, let them know that there's nothing in this world they can't accomplish. Maybe you told them it was done through hard work. Maybe you said if you're kind to others, people be kind to you. I don't know what your your your teaching style was, your the level of instruction you gave to your child, but suppose after all you gave, all you poured into them, they decided to go into a different direction. As a matter of fact, the polar opposite to what you taught them. And instead of being a a beacon of light in a community, they represent something else. They look like something else. They've become something else. What if that was your job? Being a father or a son isn't easy. As a son, what if your parent functions publicly in a way that brings you embarrassment, that brings shame to your family? And it's contrary to what you learned while you were being raised. It wasn't a part of your upbringing. They're acting and conducting themselves in a way that is unlike the person that you remembered. What if that was your parent? What do you do with that as a son? Being a father or a son isn't easy. It's definitely not easy to be a you. I name one challenge in being a father, I name another challenge in being a son, but how difficult it must be to be you. What if the you you've grown accustomed to is not the actual authentic identity, but a manufactured one? See, I know we can ready to go to some places that's gonna be totally uncomfortable, and I d I get that, but we still gonna go here anyway because we got to. We gotta do that. But what if the you that you've grown so accustomed to, you made space for this for this you. You got all the adoration and the surroundings and all the adornments around this you, you gotten real accustomed to this you. What if you found out that it's not the actual identity, it's not the actual authentic you that God intended, but a manufactured one. What if you're not walking in purpose? I'm just asking this to give us something to think about. What if you're not walking in your purpose? What if what you're doing feeds the opposite of who you should be rather than the true person you should become? What if it looks like it's fulfilling you, but it really isn't? It's hurting you, it's hindering you, and it's pulling you away from the purpose you should be walking in, the purpose you have to be manifested, that really does change this world. What if the you you grown accustomed to is not the one you should be spending your time focusing on? And you recognize that today. What's your next step? What do you do now? How do you handle this? Some folks spend their entire lives trying to figure out who they are. They spend their entire lives trying to find out who they are. That's one of the most saddest things that I think I've ever heard. But it's a reality in our world. It's not something that's discussed on the news. You may see it played out in cinema from time to time, but it's not discussed a lot. It's definitely not really discussed in the podcast world. I know we talk about it on this show. We talk about it on my social media because I think about this kind of stuff all the time. Maybe, in the opinion of some, I think about it too much. And I talk about and post it too much. But we spend most of our lives trying to figure out who we are. And life is indeed a journey. But in this case, the journey is definitely the goal. We learn more about ourselves while we're en route to the goal than we than we do once we've actually arrived there. We learn more about ourselves while we're en route to getting to the dream or hope or the realization of a goal than we do by actually being there. We learn so much about ourselves through the tragedy and through the conflict, through the struggles and the adversity. We find out more about ourselves than than we ever do standing at the finish line with our hands raised. Like I said, a lot of us spend our lives, our entire lives, trying to figure out who we are. But some tragically never discover that. Tragically, they never even find out who they are. My old mentor, our old mentor, who we love and we miss greatly, I've quoted him so many times in the show that he probably should be getting royalties. But Dr. Miles Monroe, his books and his works and his teachings have been so impactful in my life. And one thing that one of his quotes that I love to share, and I won't quote it now because I just butcher it, it's a pretty long quote too. But the bottom line of the quote, the gist of it, is that the graveyard is the richest place on earth. It's the place where there are so many songs that haven't been written, poems that haven't been scribed yet, books that haven't been written, currents that haven't been found. They all are located in the graveyard. All of the ideas and plans and hopes and dreams and unrealized potential lies in the grave. It's Richard and Fort Knox. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Thanks again for listening to One on One with Mr. You and your inspiration station. 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Happy to shout you out on upcoming episodes. So thanks again for listening. Don't forget the link to fan mail is in the show notes. Look forward to hearing from you guys really soon. Have a great day. Thanks for making us part of your week. Hi, it's Mr. You. Hope you were inspired by what you heard today. If you enjoyed this podcast episode, please subscribe on Apple Podcasts and on our YouTube channel, and please leave a comment and a review. This episode was made possible by the support of viewers and listeners just like you. Thanks. Some tragically never discover who they are, who they really are at their core, not their first and last name, not the title they have at church or at their job. But they never locate the true person, the one that God made. That's the evidence of the thief's most deadly and egregious work to steal someone's destiny. It's probably one of the worst things I could even imagine in my mind. Describe for me this. Let's do a bit of a uh let's shoot our imagination for a second. Describe for me this. Describe a feeling of losing something important. I think all of us can step into these shoes. We've all lost something important at some point in time. Might have just been for a few hours, maybe it was for a couple of days, maybe it was for a week. But we all lost something important. It could be our keys, it could be our favorite pen. Maybe it's our wallet. We don't know where we put it. It could be some other trinket or something of inspirational or sentimental value. Where did I put it? I lost it. And you find yourself searching for hours, maybe even searching for days. But here's the scenario. You do end up finding it, but it's in a very obvious place. After hours and days of trying to find it, you find it in one of the most obvious places. Like, why didn't I look here? It was right here the whole time. And I tore the whole place apart trying to find it, and it was right here the whole time. What's your very first reaction? What's the first emotion you feel? I'm asking this for a reason. Stay with me, do not get lost. This is gonna make sense. What's the first emotion you have? What's the first emotion you have? What's the second emotion you have? After finding it in a very obvious place, and you put in so much work trying to find it. I know hindsight is 2020, of course. But I and I love mysteries, just to be honest. I'm definitely a mystery lover. But if I missed out on my destiny, I would not be able to bear God hitting the playback button. I don't want to see the playback machine and see where I left my destiny after all the years of labor and doing something else. That I called destiny, but it came very short what was actually intended for me. See, people talk about wealth and they talk about prospering and things like that. But to be honest, I know a lot of folks that they're definitely cool with being a thousandaire. They'll live their whole life being a thousandaire, and God may want them to be a billionaire. And they think that their thousandaire lifestyle pleases God. They think that he's cool with them being poor. And near destitute, one check away from being on the street. And they think they're pleasing God with that. But he wants them to be a billionaire. That's just one example of what destiny can look like for you once you tap into what it is you're here for, what's on tap for you, what's in the storehouse waiting for you. We spend so much time chasing after things that's not for us. Things that really are uh a shadow of what we really can accomplish, what we really can be, who we can really be. You know, I recently, and I say recently, but it's been off and on for quite a while. I've shared much of my story regarding my parentage. I think the first three seasons of the Call Me Mr. You the podcast, almost every other episode, you probably hear another uh tidbit around that story. It's a long one. Probably some of the most painful stuff that I've ever shared. Uh, nothing worse than being rejected by the ones that are supposed to love you most and love you the best. But I wanted to be courageous and I wanted to be bold, so I shared it. On a national and even a global stage, since this podcast is heard in Africa and Australia and South America. And even Germany, as a matter of fact. Pretty popular in Germany, it looks like. At least to a small degree, anyway. But I shared that because sonship is a big deal. Sonship and our understanding of it and our willingness to lean into it makes a big difference. It makes a big difference in everything that we do. I don't care if we're part of the neighborhood watch. I don't care if we're one of the deacons at the church, I don't care if we are assistant manager at our job. I don't care if we are just the guy in the community that cleans his yard and keeps his grass cut low and plays with his kids at the park. I don't care what the role is that you have, the position or the title you're walking with, sonship plays a part in that. The way you see yourself, the way you see your father or the father or both affects your ability to do those things and to do them on a higher level. We're talking about changing the world. That's one of our mantras on this show. With your weekly mirror check before you go change the world. Before you change the world, honestly, all the systems and methods and programs can change the world like a fully changed you can. Like a fully changed Y O U can. When you change you, then you can change your world and the world at large. But it's really gonna start with you. We can finger point all day long. I can point about all the folks in my life that let me down in the past. But the mandate is on me to change, to adjust, to grow, to learn, to heal, to forgive. It's on me. And it's on you. In order to be a father, you have to understand sonship from the standpoint of the scriptures, from the standpoint of the model that's been set, the example that's been set. To be a son, you gotta understand sonship. What does it mean to be a son? What's your role and responsibility? And what does it mean to be you? You think you got that? You think you understand that right now? I know people in their 30s, in their 50s, even in their 70s. They're still holding on to things that happened when they were 12. They don't even know who they're supposed to be, much less who they fully are right now. All they know is the imagery that they've been rehearsing over and over in their head. Or they know the identity of what somebody said they were supposed to be, or what somebody said they'll never be, and they wear that like it's a coat. And they walk around in the carrying disapproval. And carrying letdowns. Wearing them like garments. To be a father, to be a son, to be a man in America. There's no walk in the park. But to be the authentic you you're supposed to be, there's a battle and there's a conflict attached to that. Excuse me. But we're gonna talk about that as we move into this series. I think it's gonna be helpful to you. I'm gonna be pulling a lot from my experiences with sonship and growing through some fatherhood issues and things of that nature, and we're gonna talk about it in great detail. I may even pull some things from a book that I wrote on fatherhood and sonship. So maybe we'll be using that throughout the course of this series. But I am grateful that you continue to stick with us. I think you're gonna enjoy what's coming out, what's coming forth uh with this series. But I hope this episode ministered to you so far. Hope it excites you enough to hang on and hear the rest of the series. So thank you again for listening, sharing us, and subscribing to our show. We definitely appreciate it. 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