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There's three wills that are at work at any one time.

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There's there's your will.

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There's God's will.

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And then there's the devil's will.

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And so all of that is happening at the same time.

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And so that's why we've got to have life giving seeking after God

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because I don't want the devil's will. Do you?

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I don't want my will. Do you?

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I mean, I want God's will.

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Leaders need courage, and courage is hard to come by in leaders these days

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because we're looking for the easy way and great leaders

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are built through great hardship and great difficulty.

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And what I'm talking about today is doing what God's doing,

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is being able to recognize that the spirit is at work,

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actually asking God for help.

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Being able to recognize that the spirit is at work,

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actually ahead of you, and that he's got something for you to do.

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He's doing something right now in your job.

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God's spirit is doing something in your family.

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God's spirit is doing something in your sons and daughters.

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God is doing something in your life.

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Are you recognizing? Are you recognizing what God is doing?

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You see, organic leadership is flowing naturally

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into what's happening that brings life.

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Inorganic leadership is manufactured leadership.

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It's leadership that's built on a formula or program.

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What I'm talking about, though, is flowing with God

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in the direction of which the Lord is already working.

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And so leaders who seek God, they find him.

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And when they find God, they find his will.

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And when they find his will, they set their sails

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with the wind of the spirit and flow with him.

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Jesus said in John 15,

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No longer do I call you servants,

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for a servant does not know what his master is doing.

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But I have called you my friends

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for all things that I heard from my father have made known to you.

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Isn't that interesting?

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Jesus doesn't even call us servants.

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As citizens of the kingdom of God, as part of the family of God,

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Jesus calls us his friends.

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And he says, I want to show you what the father's up to.

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I want to show you what God is doing and guide you.

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Now, a few verses later, Jesus continues,

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Most assuredly, I say to you,

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the son can do nothing of himself,

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but what he sees the father do,

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for whatever he does, the son also does in like manner.

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So Jesus is saying that in my leadership,

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I don't want to do anything

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unless my father is showing me what to do.

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So that meant that, you know,

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when you go through the synoptic gospels,

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Matthew, Mark, and Luke,

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Jesus is constantly in prayer because he's asking God,

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he's asking God, what are we doing today, Lord?

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Would you guide me?

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Would you lead me in the direction of which you're going?

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God's always up to something.

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And even Jesus, the son of man, the son of God,

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had to seek God to see what the father was doing.

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All of the earth, every vocation, God is at work.

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Abraham Kuyper, former prime minister of Netherlands

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and a very godly leader once said,

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there is not a square inch in the whole domain

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of our human existence over which Christ,

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who is sovereign over all, does not cry out, mine.

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God controls it all.

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That's why he's looking for leaders

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who will walk with a dominion mentality

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that we're gonna bring the kingdom here.

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We're gonna bring what the father's doing into this arena.

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So whether it's sports or media, government or church,

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or your family, God's up to something.

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And it takes courage.

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It really does take courage to follow what God is doing.

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There's three wills that are at work at any one time.

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There's your will, there's God's will,

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and then there's the devil's will.

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And so all of that is happening at the same time.

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And so that's why we've gotta have life-giving seeking

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after God because I don't want the devil's will, do you?

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I don't want my will, do you?

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I mean, I want God's will.

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To be honest, God hides his will.

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He does not reveal all that he's up to

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because I believe he's prodding us.

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He's encouraging us to seek him,

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that he might speak to us in a very quiet and gentle way

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because if we didn't seek him, we wouldn't find him.

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And if we didn't seek him, we'd always go with our own will.

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So waiting and listening on God is crucial here.

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David was this kind of a leader.

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He came to the valley of Elah in 1 Samuel 17.

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He heard the bellicose cry.

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cries of Goliath telling him and telling the nation of Israel

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that they were cowards and that they were going to serve the

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Philistines. And they cried out for someone to come out and

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fight him. And everybody in Israel is full of fear. Even

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Saul, the king, is full of fear. Well, David comes on the

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scene and David has been building the ability to hear the

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voice of God on the hills of Bethlehem. Even as just a

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shepherd boy, he knows God's voice. And he has fallen in love

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with God. He has an intimate relationship with God. He's

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worshiping God every day on the hills of Bethlehem. And has even

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encountered some dangerous situations with lions and with

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bears. And he has wrestled them and fought them and defeated

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them. And so even as a warrior, not a military soldier, but as

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a warrior for his sheep on the hills of Bethlehem, he has

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become the kind of man that God's now positioning on this,

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in this valley in a situation in which no one's willing to

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fight Goliath. But David is. David has courage because he's

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got faith, not fear, already built into his bones. So when

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he hears the cry of Goliath, he doesn't hear or see his sighs.

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He hears what he's saying and it really, really offends him. It

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offends him because he fears God more than he fears man. And so

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David, full of courage, not cowardice, is willing to go out

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on that battlefield. And you know that story. It's one of the

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most famous in the Bible. But David goes out and he defeats

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Goliath. Well, that's an organic leader who's doing what God is

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doing. So he could see in his spirit, God's going to win this

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battle and I'm going to be the agent that he uses. And so he

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steps out and he takes him on. And here's what's amazing about

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David is that David is not, not technically scholastically or

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even in any way militarily trained to be a fighter against

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this seasoned mercenary, this seasoned soldier, Goliath. He

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goes with faith, not with training. And so with that faith

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he counters Goliath and defeats him handily. Another amazing

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leader of courage in the Bible is this man named Joshua. And so

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Joshua crosses the Jordan River, and in crossing the Jordan

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River, he's waiting on God. He's not sure what God's got for him.

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And then God comes in the form of a pre-incarnate Christ or

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Messiah who's built like a warrior. Basically Joshua sees

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a vision, he falls on his face. The warrior never quite

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identifies himself, but Joshua comes out of that a changed man.

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So through that encounter with God, he goes in, he crosses the

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Jordan, and now he's facing Jericho. And then God speaks to

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him to march around Jericho seven times. Each day they march

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around Jericho seven times. And on the seventh day they cry out,

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and when they do the walls of Jericho fall down. Now is that

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the craziest military plan you've ever heard? It's

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ridiculous. But that's the way God works a lot. God often does

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exactly the opposite of what you would think. God often leads

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you to make decisions and to lead out in ways that the world

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does not understand. That's David going into the valley of

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Eli with just a sling. That's Joshua going into Jericho

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singing some songs and marching around this massive wall and

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watching it crumble. That's craziness. But that's what

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organic leadership, organic leadership is spirit empowered

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leadership. It's doing what God's doing and hearing what

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God's doing and listening for what God's doing and flowing in

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that. So Joshua brought a victory. David brought a

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victory. Jesus came to this earth and began to proclaim the

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gospel of the kingdom, calling men and women to repentance.

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God's ways are not man's ways. So what about you? Where are you

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at today? Would you be willing to be the organic spirit

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empowered leader that's doing what Jesus is doing? Because in

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my opinion, it's the only way to go where you find true

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righteousness, peace, and joy. So in my leadership, I bank on

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being more of an organic leader than just a tactical or

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strategic leader. And sometimes they

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line up a lot of times they don't and some of the craziest ideas i've gotten have been through

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dreams visions in a time of prayer where god speaks something and so i want to challenge you

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that god has this wonderful adventure for you if you'll follow him if you'll listen for his voice

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and if you're not hearing it don't do anything don't change to new orders until you've gotten

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clear guidance from god for new orders the old orders are still the orders until you get new

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orders some people when things get boring or things get hard want to jump ship and run and

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if you get in the habit of that you're going to find yourself miles away from god's will with a

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whole string of dumb decisions that you've made rather i want to challenge you don't be in a hurry

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calm down don't be in a hurry do the next right thing do the next thing that god's called you to

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do and i promise you as the years go by you're going to find yourself in an exciting place

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a wonderful place you're going to meet the right people you're going to be in the right location

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and you're going to have this peace in your heart because you waited on god you saw god you didn't

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move until god spoke to you and when you did people will follow you because they will start

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to recognize this guy's got authority because he seeks god and he's walking in step with the spirit

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so i hope this has been helpful to you share it with someone else if it has

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and i i pray you'll become the best leader god intended for you to be

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you