Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.
If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.
Thank you for joining us today.
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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