Joshua Study - 2026-04-15

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It's good to be in church. It's beautiful weather, so I'm just happy it's sunny now.

You know, we left Nashville and it's 80 degrees in February sometimes,

so we're like looking at the forecast and it's like snowing again in March like,

but I'm glad it's warming up here and the church looks great.

Everybody, who was out for the church work the other day?

Yes, great turnout. Great work. It looks amazing.

So who here was, who was here for Joshua 7 last week? Yeah, cool.

Awesome. So it was about, you know, the Israelites' defeat against AI,

which I've always thought was weird when we started learning about artificial intelligence.

So I don't know if there's some hidden messages that they knew about back then, probably not.

But anyway, AI is the name of this city. And we heard about how they lost the battle

because of disobedience of this one guy, Aiken, and now they're going to go and fight them again.

So the title for this message is Simple Leadership.

Now, if you're like me, as soon as you start talking about leadership,

I get bored and also kind of stressed at the same exact time because I picture like,

whenever I hear about leadership, I picture like a seminar that's just like,

here's what you have to do. You know, or I picture, you know, I worked in a cubicle before

and I just pictured those, those sad little posters of the one red guy going this way

and all the blue guys going this way. And it's like leadership and it's just so,

I don't know, so corporate and boring. But as I was reading this passage,

I realized I'm like, you know, obviously leadership is very important.

And it doesn't have to look like, you know, leadership in your life doesn't have to look

like the corporate strategy of all the manipulation of people to make them perform better. You know

what I mean? There is leadership that qualities that we all have, and there's areas of leadership

that every single person has that God has put them in areas of influence. It could be a bubble

of one person that you are called to be a leader of, or maybe like a thousand people,

whatever it is, there's an area in your life, whether it's in your family, your friends,

at work, there's someone in your life that is looking to you in some way as a leader.

And the type of leadership that every Christian is given is amazing. It's in 2 Corinthians 5.19.

Does anyone know this verse? It says, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself,

not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us. We implore

you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. So everywhere we go in our life, we are on this

mission of reconciliation. We are leaders leading people to Jesus. And the most important thing

is if we are leading people to Jesus, we better make sure we're being led by Jesus, right?

There's too many churches and too many Christians and people out there that are obviously not

following Jesus, but then they try to do the things that look like they are, right? So it's

really important that we know we are being led by Jesus. He is the head of the church,

and we also have earthly leaders in our lives. You know, like Paul says in the letters, he says,

you know, follow me as I follow Christ. So there are earthly leaders. We are leaders in different

areas, but ultimately there is one leader, Jesus Christ, the forerunner of our faith.

So there are some just topics in here that some points I'll give you them to you upfront

for why I think, I guess a method for being led by God and being a good leader that is here in

chapter eight. So first one is obedience. Okay. Obedience is the first step. You got to make

sure you're obeying God. You're doing the things he says to do. You're not doing the things he

says to not do like really clear Christianity 101. Obedience matters because if you're not obeying

him, you're not allowing him to lead you. You're not going to really be a good leader of

reconciling people to God. Number two, we'll see, it is important to be encouraged and validated

by God to find that thing inside of our hearts that needs to be approved of and needs to find

acceptance. Don't be searching for it in the world and in people, make sure you're finding it in God.

Number three, seek his wisdom. Like he has great plans for your life. He also has great

plans for very specific things that you need to do today even. So seek his wisdom.

Number four is pretty cool. Show no mercy to the enemy. There's an enemy, the devil, who wants to

like steal, kill, and destroy everything about your life. Show no mercy. Just crush him under

your foot like the Bible tells us to do. And finally, dedicate yourself to God and read his word.

So that's what we'll get, go through tonight. So I'm just going to run through them one more

time. Obedience, be encouraged and validated by God. Seek his wisdom. Show no mercy to the enemy

and dedicate yourself to God. So like I said, the last chapter was a loss, a defeat, 35, I think it

was, 36 people died because of this guy Aiken because God said don't take any of the spoil

of Jericho and he did anyway and he hid it in his tent. And then they went to battle against AI

and 36 people died. And then finally God whittled down the group of Israelites down to just him and

he finally confessed. He's like, yeah, I did it. Yep. Eight. And so now they ended up, you know,

the wrath of God, they killed him, his family, all this stuff. They wiped out and now the sin

is removed. Like he had blood on his hands. 36 people died. That's pretty bad. So now

Joshua and the people of Israel are back in obedience with God. And that is the very first

step because again, obedience makes you actually aware that you're following God. You're not doing

just what you want to do. You're not being led by your flesh. You're being led by the Holy Spirit

and you're doing what he tells you to do. So these are really simple things like these are black

and white things, right? You know, the Bible says like sexual immorality, drunkenness, greed,

stealing, hatred, lust, gossip, lying, all those things. It is really good to get them out of your

life. Like straight up, just get them out of your life. And God gives you the power to do that.

Next is do what he does say to do, right? It says, love the Lord your God with all your heart,

soul, mind and strength to love him and love your neighbor as yourself to love people around

you. It tells the Bible tells us to meditate on his word and it renews our mind. We start to

think like God. We see things the way he sees them. And then we also have really simple, go to

church, Christianity 101, right? We got to be around the brethren and then other things too,

you know, they all come to mind. But that's a really important first step. If you're

walking in disobedience to God, a lot of bad stuff happens. You start having doubts.

It's, you start having insecurities, fears. You're not leading anybody. You're led by

every little word someone says to you, like, does this person like me today? Like,

am I going to lose my job? It's just, you're reacting constantly. But if you're walking

in obedience, it says you have confidence towards God and you can have strength,

like essentially everywhere you go, because you know, all right, I'm actually choosing

to the best of my ability to follow God in my daily life. So number two,

be encouraged by God. So this is, let's, let's read verse one. Now the Lord said to Joshua,

do not be afraid nor be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise and go to AI.

So it's very important too, as Christians, like we need to be coming to God. It says right here,

the Lord spoke to Joshua. Number one, Joshua has to be available and listening. I don't know

what it looked like, but if we look at people in the Bible elsewhere, that looks like them getting

alone, maybe going on a mountain, just being there quiet and praying and maybe reading the

law back then, reading the word and just praying and listening to God. And could you imagine

hearing that voice speaking to you? Do not be afraid or discouraged. Like, I'm going to

be with you. You're going to win this battle, like feeling God's presence speaking to us.

And we have the Holy Spirit. He does do that. He does speak to us. And if you don't feel like you

hear from God, I promise you it's just a matter of time. And it's a matter of, of getting away

from the distraction and hearing from Him. And I know because I've gone through times of insecurity

and anxiety and fear, and I felt like, you know, a different version of myself. And I remember like

one of these times lasted for months and I'm like, what is wrong with me? I feel like, you know,

like I used to be just so lighthearted and like confident. I feel the exact opposite now.

And it took a moment with God that I realized what was off. I was distracted. I was distant.

I started disobeying God in areas and trying to justify it. All these things started to seep in

and I was seeking to find purpose and validation from people. And that's a recipe for disaster.

But in that moment when I came to God and I allowed Him to correct me and to love me,

I suddenly, my soul felt like I like drank water for the first time. Like it was like,

oh my gosh, this is what I needed. Like, I felt like, you know, everything I was searching for

around me, suddenly like I was satisfied. This is what I truly wanted. I wanted to

hear God's voice. I wanted to be close to Him. And I wanted to be encouraged and validated by Him.

And that's true for every single person. And I love this because in Romans, it kind of talks about it.

Romans 8 says, for you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the

spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. What Jesus said on the cross, Abba,

Father. And the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

And if children then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. So when you get time with God,

His Spirit speaks to your spirit in ways that you can't explain. Like He speaks to you and says,

you are my son, you're my daughter. Like, and you've suddenly realized who you are and you're

strong. And when you know who you are in Christ, that is when you can truly start leading people

to Him because you hear from Him. You know who, what He says about you. You can say

what Jesus feels for people. Like He loves you so much. And I love, my dad had this cool analogy.

So he had, he preached at church like years ago and he had this big jar,

probably like this big, and then all these little cups. And then he had a much bigger jar

that he then started filling the one in the middle. So again, the one in the middle is

bigger than all these little cups surrounding it. And then he just started dumping water into it

and it filled up the big jar to overflowing. And it ran down the sides into all these little cups.

And then he picked up the jug of water again and dumped more water and it flowed over into

the smaller cups and then they filled up and they started overflowing. And what he was saying

is it's crucial. You cannot pour into anyone's life around you, your husband, your wife, your

kids, your friends, whatever area that you're called to be a leader and to be strong and

pointing people to Jesus. If you're not being filled with the Holy Spirit, you can't fill anybody else.

Like you can't do that in your own strength. But when you are filled with the Spirit of God,

it is freedom and liberating and God uses you in ways that you didn't know you could be used

and the people around you suddenly are changing. They're being filled up and they're pursuing God

as well. So we have obedience and then being encouraged and strengthened by God.

Let's jump down to verse two now again.

And you shall do to AI and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its

cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it. So Joshua

rose and all the people of war to go against AI. Joshua chose 30,000 men of valor and sent them

away by night. And he commanded them saying, behold, you shall lie an ambush against the city

behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. Then I and all

the people who are with me will approach the city and it will come about when they have gone

out against us at the first that we shall flee before them because that's what happened last

time. They ran away because they're being killed for they will come out after us till

we have drawn them from the city for they will say they are fleeing before us as at the time

at the first time. Therefore we will flee before them. Then you shall rise from the ambush and

seize the city for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand and it will be when you have

taken the city that you shall set the city on fire according to the commandment of the Lord

you shall do see I have commanded you. So this plan works out perfectly, which we'll jump down

and read about. But Joshua, this is the second battle that he got direct insight from God on

how to win it. And it's interesting that this first time they went against the city of AI,

it doesn't say anything about God's direction. It says Joshua sent out spies. They came back

and they're like, hey, we got this. These guys are tiny. We can wipe them out. Just send like

two or 3000 people as soldiers to kill them and we'll win. And Joshua was like, yeah, sure.

It sounds like a good plan. Well, that's when he chose they chose one of the bad guys, Aiken,

who messed everything up. But it doesn't say that he really unless I misread it. I'm like 99% sure

he just had this plan. They went and did it and they lost. But the battle before this with

Jericho, you know, it was the seven times marching around the stomping the blowing your

horns. This was a plan from God. The walls fell down and they won the battle. Then they had a

plan of their own. It failed. And now God's giving them a plan and they're going to win.

And it's important to realize that like God has specific plans. He has wisdom for our life,

literally like that you need to hear that I need to hear today for our, my life, your life. We

need to know what he says, because if he has intricate plans like this for a battle,

like how much more does he have plans to prosper you and not to harm you in your life,

in your marriage, in your friendships, in your business or, you know, your work, whatever you do,

God wants you. He does want you to point people to him. And that is lots of times through success,

but also it's times through trials and how you respond. But I mean, I think some of those

soldiers, if they didn't know this was God's plan to run away, they could be like, oh no,

I'm like, I'm on the defense again. I'm running away. We're going to get killed.

But they were aware of the fact that this is what God wanted. Jericho told them.

And so even when you feel like things aren't going your way and you feel like you're retreating

or you're in a trial or a persecution, remember God has a plan and everything.

And don't suddenly lose heart and don't, you know, misrepresent God because things

aren't going your way, but always like remember he has a plan and ask him for the answer

in that the hard times you're in as well. So I have some examples. Honestly,

sorry, I have a lot of allergies. I'm okay. Sorry. Yeah, I got bad allergies. I'm on like,

I know I'm on like 10 different things, which isn't good. No, it's not. So I have a couple

examples of that. I mean, honestly, like I had a business in Nashville that I Maria and I were

praying about and there's so many confirmations and we did it and it was great. You know,

we did it for five years and it did awesome. And then we sold it. But during that time,

I became like a Joshua where I was like, Oh, like, okay, this works out. God blesses things

I do. Now I have this idea. I'm going to do it. And it was like some, it was a shipping

business for Amazon. And if you buy a box truck, you can have someone drive and do all these

deliveries. I'm like, yeah. So like, I just went for it and like, you know, I prayed about it and

I like didn't really pray long enough to get real direction. And I was just like, I got it.

And Maria's like, do you think you should really be doing that now? Like might be better to wait.

And I was like, no, watch. Like it'll be good. It'll work its way out.

We didn't even end up doing one delivery for Amazon. It did not go well. I was overwhelmed

and the box truck that I had bought, I ended up using it for my other business,

doing deliveries. And this college kid drove it under a bridge and just destroyed the entire box.

And it was like $9,000 in damage. And again, I didn't pray about this next thing. But I'm like,

Oh, this business, I can't have the hit my insurance. I'll pay out of pocket the nine grand.

So I pay out of pocket. And a few months later, we dissolved the business and I could have had

it under insurance. Like it was just so many things that I'm like, I got to make this work

because you know, I can do it. And then I look back and like, that was a lot of stress,

a lot of money, a lot of wasted time that had I really prayed and listened to my wife.

If I just waited, like none of that would have happened. And so there are areas in your life

that are just really simple, sometimes like decisions and choices that if you pray about,

you can be saved from a lot of pain and heartache. And you can actually walk into

much better things for you. I love Proverbs three, five through six,

everyone should know this one. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own

understanding and all your ways submit to him and he will make your path straight.

I love that. If you just trust him, trust him. He has a plan for you. And if you submit to him,

again, obedience, he will make your path straight. He won't make your path become a

truck under a bridge. Okay, that won't happen. And if it does glorify a minute,

I had some good conversations with my employee after that. And, you know,

I'm believing he will walk with the Lord after that. All right. So the points again, we had

obedience, be encouraged by God and seek his wisdom and his plan.

Let's jump down from verse eight to 18. Then the Lord said to Joshua,

stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward AI for I will give it into your hand.

And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city.

So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place. They ran as soon as he had stretched it

out and they entered the city and took it and hurried to set the city on fire.

And when the men of AI looked behind them and they saw behold the smoke of the city ascended to

heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way. And the people who had fled to the

wilderness turned back on the pursuers. Now, when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had

taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the

men of AI. Then the others came out of the city against them so that they were caught in

the midst of Israel. Some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down

so they let none of them remain or escape. But the king of AI they took alive and brought him

to Joshua and it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of AI

in the field and the wilderness where they pursued them. And when they all had fallen by

the edge of the sword until they were consumed that all the Israelites returned AI and struck

it with the edge of the sword. So it was that all who fell that day both men and women were 12,000

all the people of AI for Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the spear

until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of AI. Only the livestock and the spoil of that

city Israel took as booty for themselves according to the word of the Lord which he had commanded

Joshua. So Joshua burned AI and made it a heap forever a desolation to this day. And the king

of AI hanged on a tree until evening and as soon as the sun was down Joshua commanded that they

should take his corpse down from the tree cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city raise over

it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Pretty brutal like he did not allow anything

anyone at all to escape. And there's a lot of good commentaries like you know obviously

there's parts of us that are immediately like everyone had to die like couldn't it just be like

the really bad people. That's the thing though like the people all the people in here were really

bad like kind of like at the level that we saw pre-flood where the bible says that every single

thought and intention of their heart was always evil all the time. That makes today seem like

you know we're living a perfect life and also like the amount of stuff that I don't even

open and accept it is just so disgusting. Like we don't even see anything like that today on that

on that level that um you know wiping these people out was needed like this could not continue.

So if you have some concerns and questions about that there's a lot of good videos and

commentaries on that I would totally recommend. But there is a message to us today and I love

let me find my verse

yeah I don't know if I had that one but what it's showing us is we cannot give the enemy a foothold

in our lives. This was the land of Israel it was God said take it and don't leave anyone and if

we give if they gave the enemy a foothold which they actually did they became a thorn in their side

they were tempted drawn away and they ended up losing the land like they were out for a really

long time and a lot of people died and there was so much sin and sickness and awful stuff because

they let the enemy still live in their land and what that says to me is I don't want to let

the enemy have a square inch of my house. I don't want to let the enemy have a single moment

of my day because if I start allowing sin in my life and trying to hide it and justify it and say

it's okay it grows like hidden sin just grows it doesn't get better on its own and we see like

Jesus like in Galatians it says those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions

and desires crucifixion was brutal and it was both like total like you're killing this person

as well as it's a spectacle like look this person did something horrible which we I love that Jesus

never did a single thing a single sin and yet he took our sin and went through that kind of

humiliation and pain but this for us like we need to realize like we need to crucify

the passions that we have the desires that we have that are not of God and we can't allow it

to continue and live because it will start to thrive um I remember uh growing up my

grandma I remember when we were at uh Langhorne Terrace Baptist Church and we had the pews and

you had the little two dogs that were like magnetic and one was black one was white and

they like magnetized to their faces like they're opposed I just remember we still remember I think

Zach uses that analogy you have them here tonight okay that would be awesome

yeah but she said like you have these two dogs and you know it's the one white dog obviously

is like you know this you're you know the new man the new nature that the spirit-filled man

that talks about in the bio then you have the flesh which which is the black dog and if you

feed the white dog it grows and grows and the black dog starves and starves until it's

non-existent and the white dog you know crushes it you feed the black dog it grows and grows

and the white dog you know withers away and the black dog defeats it and so I think that's

essentially what you said but that's true for us if we feed our flesh which the bible says

technically is dead like it's it died like our flesh died with Christ and we're risen in new life

with him but if we doubt that and we feed the our old ways like well those desires will grow

we need to crucify the flesh and we need to also push the enemy push Satan out and rebuke him in

every area of our life and I love Romans 16 20 the God of peace will soon crush Satan

under your feet the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you God makes peace in our life

it is him that does it the God of peace makes peace in our life by crushing Satan under our

feet and grace which is essentially God's power and ability to do what he's called us to

the grace of the Lord will be with you and he enables you to do it

Ephesians 6 let's actually turn there

all right

verse 10

finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might

put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil

for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against

the rulers of the darkness of this age against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the high places

therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day

and having done all to stand stand therefore having girded your waist with truth having put on the

breastplate of righteousness having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace

above all taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts

of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of

God praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit be watchful to this end with all

perseverance and supplication for all the saints what a powerful passage like we go through our life

sometimes and we forget we're in the middle of a battlefield like there's a war raging around us

that we need to be aware of and it's not the people you know so many people are like it's the

libs you know it's like obviously you know and people will say it on the other side whatever

there are spiritual hosts of wickedness like in the high places of government on both sides

there is evil stuff at play and we need to be aware that the only hill we want to die on

is the hill of the cross right that is the hill we die on and obviously things flow from there

we stand for truth we stand to protect those who are oppressed all of that but we don't hitch our

you know i heard this say like sometimes people hitch their cart to like a political party and

they'll like ride or die with this political party like we only do that with Jesus that's

that's who is our ride and die right ride or die like it is Jesus he is the one that we

we follow with that kind of fervor so we wrestle against evil things but we have so many great

promises here like number one being aware of the truth of the word of God makes you aware of the

truth and all the deceptions around you we need to know what the truth is i love the breastplate

of righteousness because this has spoken to me so much because in your own works you'll never

be good enough you're gonna fail if you start condemning yourself because of your own righteousness

that you're wearing your own like breastplate like you will be fall into despair but if you

realize you're wearing the righteousness of God that protects your heart that's why we wear the

breastplate of righteousness his righteousness protects our heart from condemnation and from

puts out the attacks of the enemy if you lack faith guess what you can just ask God and he

gives it to you but if you're constantly doubting that God is in control and has a plan for you

and wants to turn things around and wants to glorify his name in your life and you start to

doubt that and you have no faith the attacks of the enemy hit you and they're fiery and they

start burning but if you have faith you can put out every single attack of the enemy

obviously the helmet of salvation being aware that heaven is coming Jesus is returning and

the sword of the spirit which is the word of God we we kill the things of the flesh and the enemy

and all of it by knowing the word of God and you know you don't have to have a memorize but it

helps but knowing the truth and using it as a weapon like Jesus did when he was tempted in the

wilderness so leave no room for the enemy show no mercy push him out of your life by the power of

God finally yeah we're doing good let's go back to joshua joshua 8 verse 30

now joshua built an altar to the Lord God of israel in mount yball

as moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of israel as it is written in the book

of the law of moses an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool

i like that God essentially built his own altar they are undefiled objects from the earth that

he created at creation and so he didn't want people working on them with tools that's pretty

cool and they offered on at burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and there in

the presence of the children of israel he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of moses which he

had written then all israel with their elders and officers and judges stood on either side of

the ark before the priests the leviets who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord

the stranger as well as he who was born among them half of them were in front of the mount of

garizim and the and half of them were in front of mount yball as moses the servant of the Lord had

commanded before that they should bless the people of israel and afterward he read all the words of

the law the blessings and the cursings according to all that is written in the book of the law

there was not a word of all that moses had commanded which joshua did not read

before all the assembly of israel which the with the women the little ones and the strangers who

were living among them man it took us months to get through leviticus numbers all that

and he read that whole thing right then that must have been a long worship service and sometimes

people complain about an hour and a half that was a long worship service but these people were

dedicated right they were dedicated to God and he reviewed the law to remind them that they were

a holy people that they and they renewed their dedication to this covenant to God

and in this dedication right there was worship there was praising him there was sacrifice

and they read the word of God and it's important for us all these steps of what it looks like

to truly be led by God and to be a good leader this is a huge one to dedicate yourself we need

to dedicate ourselves to God both in practice which looks like worshiping him it looks like

reading his word studying it marinating on it daily um but also like it's not just actions

it's our heart do we realize like in first peter says you are a chosen people a royal priesthood a

holy nation God's special possession that you may declare the praises of him who called you

out of darkness into his wonderful light he calls us a holy nation and a royal priesthood

that is some new covenant dedication to God like we are so separated from all of our old life

and everything that is evil in this world that were so separated that we're like priests like

priests back then they were so holy and separate from like the the common things and the dirty

things and like so are we like we need to be walking in our daily life dedicated to him

both in actions but especially like we need to be doing it in our hearts

and that looks like worshiping him that looks like praising him that looks like thanking him

always like that looks like meditating on his word and when you realize the bar to which you're called

i found it makes me want to rise to the occasion right when you realize you are a royal priesthood

you are an ambassador of Christ suddenly you're motivated you're not just some random wandering

Christian what just waiting around for Jesus to come back if you think about him like you are

literally sent on a mission to proclaim the word of reconciliation because there's a heaven and

a hell and Jesus is coming back soon and he's empowered you to do amazing things that

eternally change people's lives and that is being an ambassador and a minister someone who just

simply is led by Jesus and points people to Jesus and he does the rest so i want to pray us out i

have some questions but i hope i hope you guys are encouraged i know i was studying this like

it's so important on a daily basis i feel like i'm just reminding myself like what i'm a part of

you know someone oh maria asked me yeah someone my wife asked me she's like she heard a question

and it was great she's like what are you thankful for uh for God apart from like the

obvious sins forgiven and salvation and you know obviously all the blessings of family and stuff but

like what's something that you're thankful for and for me i immediately thought like i'm just

so thankful that i'm a part of something so much bigger than myself i'm so thankful that i have

so much purpose that is like wrapped up in him like if i'm truly an ambassador of Christ

if i truly have good works that he's called me to walk in that he had planned since the beginning

of time then this is a pretty big deal like each day of my life is a pretty big deal and it's the

truth and that's the truth for you too like if you feel like like depressed or bored or like

confused about the meaning of life like this is it you are part of something massive you the

random people you walk by are people and callings on your life that you can point them to him and

like they can be saved and it's just amazing like we need to remind ourselves the helmet of

salvation we need to be constantly thinking about this amazing thing that we're a part of

and live as if he's coming back today so let's pray Lord i just thank you so much um

that you are our head Lord you are our forerunner you are the greatest leader Lord you are king your

God Lord and i just thank you so much um that we have you to look to God you're not a distant God

Lord but you are right here so close you're in this place right now Lord and when we go home

Lords you say we can find you in the secret place that the father is in the secret place

and so Lord i pray that we would prioritize the secret place Lord that we would take time out in

the morning or the evening or wherever it is Lord to get alone with you so that we can

find your wisdom Lord we can find your acceptance and your encouragement that we can be led by you

Lord and in turn we could lead people to know you as well i just thank you so much uh for your

love for us God your grace and your mercy and i pray that you would bless these conversations

tonight Jesus name amen so i do have some questions there we go take a picture um

so who has been a leader in your life and what did you love about them

what areas of your life do you see yourself as a leader are you allowing God to use you

that's a double right there and how aware are you lately of God's hand in your life

and the last one let's just be honest like there's no judgment if you feel like you've been distracted

lately because all of us have gone through that it's best to just be like yeah i've been distracted

and i'm not really aware of God moving me and like guiding me and it'll be a good thing to pray about

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