There's three wills that are at work at any one time.
There's there's your will.
There's God's will.
And then there's the devil's will.
And so all of that is happening at the same time.
And so that's why we've got to have life giving seeking after God
because I don't want the devil's will. Do you?
I don't want my will. Do you?
I mean, I want God's will.
Leaders need courage, and courage is hard to come by in leaders these days
because we're looking for the easy way and great leaders
are built through great hardship and great difficulty.
And what I'm talking about today is doing what God's doing,
is being able to recognize that the spirit is at work,
actually asking God for help.
Being able to recognize that the spirit is at work,
actually ahead of you, and that he's got something for you to do.
He's doing something right now in your job.
God's spirit is doing something in your family.
God's spirit is doing something in your sons and daughters.
God is doing something in your life.
Are you recognizing? Are you recognizing what God is doing?
You see, organic leadership is flowing naturally
into what's happening that brings life.
Inorganic leadership is manufactured leadership.
It's leadership that's built on a formula or program.
What I'm talking about, though, is flowing with God
in the direction of which the Lord is already working.
And so leaders who seek God, they find him.
And when they find God, they find his will.
And when they find his will, they set their sails
with the wind of the spirit and flow with him.
Jesus said in John 15,
No longer do I call you servants,
for a servant does not know what his master is doing.
But I have called you my friends
for all things that I heard from my father have made known to you.
Isn't that interesting?
Jesus doesn't even call us servants.
As citizens of the kingdom of God, as part of the family of God,
Jesus calls us his friends.
And he says, I want to show you what the father's up to.
I want to show you what God is doing and guide you.
Now, a few verses later, Jesus continues,
Most assuredly, I say to you,
the son can do nothing of himself,
but what he sees the father do,
for whatever he does, the son also does in like manner.
So Jesus is saying that in my leadership,
I don't want to do anything
unless my father is showing me what to do.
So that meant that, you know,
when you go through the synoptic gospels,
Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
Jesus is constantly in prayer because he's asking God,
he's asking God, what are we doing today, Lord?
Would you guide me?
Would you lead me in the direction of which you're going?
God's always up to something.
And even Jesus, the son of man, the son of God,
had to seek God to see what the father was doing.
All of the earth, every vocation, God is at work.
Abraham Kuyper, former prime minister of Netherlands
and a very godly leader once said,
there is not a square inch in the whole domain
of our human existence over which Christ,
who is sovereign over all, does not cry out, mine.
God controls it all.
That's why he's looking for leaders
who will walk with a dominion mentality
that we're gonna bring the kingdom here.
We're gonna bring what the father's doing into this arena.
So whether it's sports or media, government or church,
or your family, God's up to something.
And it takes courage.
It really does take courage to follow what God is doing.
There's three wills that are at work at any one time.
There's your will, there's God's will,
and then there's the devil's will.
And so all of that is happening at the same time.
And so that's why we've gotta have life-giving seeking
after God because I don't want the devil's will, do you?
I don't want my will, do you?
I mean, I want God's will.
To be honest, God hides his will.
He does not reveal all that he's up to
because I believe he's prodding us.
He's encouraging us to seek him,
that he might speak to us in a very quiet and gentle way
because if we didn't seek him, we wouldn't find him.
And if we didn't seek him, we'd always go with our own will.
So waiting and listening on God is crucial here.
David was this kind of a leader.
He came to the valley of Elah in 1 Samuel 17.
He heard the bellicose cry.
cries of Goliath telling him and telling the nation of Israel
that they were cowards and that they were going to serve the
Philistines. And they cried out for someone to come out and
fight him. And everybody in Israel is full of fear. Even
Saul, the king, is full of fear. Well, David comes on the
scene and David has been building the ability to hear the
voice of God on the hills of Bethlehem. Even as just a
shepherd boy, he knows God's voice. And he has fallen in love
with God. He has an intimate relationship with God. He's
worshiping God every day on the hills of Bethlehem. And has even
encountered some dangerous situations with lions and with
bears. And he has wrestled them and fought them and defeated
them. And so even as a warrior, not a military soldier, but as
a warrior for his sheep on the hills of Bethlehem, he has
become the kind of man that God's now positioning on this,
in this valley in a situation in which no one's willing to
fight Goliath. But David is. David has courage because he's
got faith, not fear, already built into his bones. So when
he hears the cry of Goliath, he doesn't hear or see his sighs.
He hears what he's saying and it really, really offends him. It
offends him because he fears God more than he fears man. And so
David, full of courage, not cowardice, is willing to go out
on that battlefield. And you know that story. It's one of the
most famous in the Bible. But David goes out and he defeats
Goliath. Well, that's an organic leader who's doing what God is
doing. So he could see in his spirit, God's going to win this
battle and I'm going to be the agent that he uses. And so he
steps out and he takes him on. And here's what's amazing about
David is that David is not, not technically scholastically or
even in any way militarily trained to be a fighter against
this seasoned mercenary, this seasoned soldier, Goliath. He
goes with faith, not with training. And so with that faith
he counters Goliath and defeats him handily. Another amazing
leader of courage in the Bible is this man named Joshua. And so
Joshua crosses the Jordan River, and in crossing the Jordan
River, he's waiting on God. He's not sure what God's got for him.
And then God comes in the form of a pre-incarnate Christ or
Messiah who's built like a warrior. Basically Joshua sees
a vision, he falls on his face. The warrior never quite
identifies himself, but Joshua comes out of that a changed man.
So through that encounter with God, he goes in, he crosses the
Jordan, and now he's facing Jericho. And then God speaks to
him to march around Jericho seven times. Each day they march
around Jericho seven times. And on the seventh day they cry out,
and when they do the walls of Jericho fall down. Now is that
the craziest military plan you've ever heard? It's
ridiculous. But that's the way God works a lot. God often does
exactly the opposite of what you would think. God often leads
you to make decisions and to lead out in ways that the world
does not understand. That's David going into the valley of
Eli with just a sling. That's Joshua going into Jericho
singing some songs and marching around this massive wall and
watching it crumble. That's craziness. But that's what
organic leadership, organic leadership is spirit empowered
leadership. It's doing what God's doing and hearing what
God's doing and listening for what God's doing and flowing in
that. So Joshua brought a victory. David brought a
victory. Jesus came to this earth and began to proclaim the
gospel of the kingdom, calling men and women to repentance.
God's ways are not man's ways. So what about you? Where are you
at today? Would you be willing to be the organic spirit
empowered leader that's doing what Jesus is doing? Because in
my opinion, it's the only way to go where you find true
righteousness, peace, and joy. So in my leadership, I bank on
being more of an organic leader than just a tactical or
strategic leader. And sometimes they
line up a lot of times they don't and some of the craziest ideas i've gotten have been through
dreams visions in a time of prayer where god speaks something and so i want to challenge you
that god has this wonderful adventure for you if you'll follow him if you'll listen for his voice
and if you're not hearing it don't do anything don't change to new orders until you've gotten
clear guidance from god for new orders the old orders are still the orders until you get new
orders some people when things get boring or things get hard want to jump ship and run and
if you get in the habit of that you're going to find yourself miles away from god's will with a
whole string of dumb decisions that you've made rather i want to challenge you don't be in a hurry
calm down don't be in a hurry do the next right thing do the next thing that god's called you to
do and i promise you as the years go by you're going to find yourself in an exciting place
a wonderful place you're going to meet the right people you're going to be in the right location
and you're going to have this peace in your heart because you waited on god you saw god you didn't
move until god spoke to you and when you did people will follow you because they will start
to recognize this guy's got authority because he seeks god and he's walking in step with the spirit
so i hope this has been helpful to you share it with someone else if it has
and i i pray you'll become the best leader god intended for you to be
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