I want to talk through this particular Kingdom Leadership Routine concept.
So if we take the idea that Kingdom Leadership Routines is just a habit with the soul, it
means that our way of being with the Lord comes from the way He wants to be with us.
And I think for many of us, we're just discovering, maybe for the first time, what that actually
means.
What does it actually mean?
How does God want to be with me?
And when we get out of the performance Christianity game and we get out of that space and we're
truly set free, suddenly we realize that all along He's wanted to be in with us.
He's not interested in stepping into our reality.
He's interested in uplifting us up into His reality, into His world.
And we don't have a perception that His world includes our business, that His world includes
my relationships, that His world includes my finance, that His world includes all of
this because you and He are one.
It would be a bit like how weird would it be if a spouse, you know, if a husband said
to his wife, well, those are your problems.
But it's our marriage.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's you.
You're the problem.
But when you get sorted out, I'll be there for you.
That's what religion teaches the bride who she is.
When you get your act together, then I'll be a husband to you.
What kind of husband would do that, just saying, you know?
And so you've got the bride pleading, calling it prayer, you know, Lord, give me your favor.
He said, I gave you all the favor of heaven, everything that's, if I didn't withhold my
own son, how much more will I not give you all things?
So what's happening is we're entering into a time of revelation worldwide in which kingdom
leaders have to lead in a completely new way because they're now empowered to walk
with God in a new way because of how He wants to be with each of us.
So I put together something that I hoped will help.
If you think of each routine, I said it has four elements.
It has a prompt or a cure or a trigger, whatever you want to call that.
But to make them all P's, I called it the prompt, the permission, the practice, and
the person you're becoming.
So what's the prompt?
What causes this routine to be triggered?
Then what's the permission?
We want as believers to know that we have permission from the Lord.
We have scriptural permission of how He wants to be with us, permission that He's binding
Himself to this permission.
So when He says, consider yourself dead to sin and alive to me, He's binding Himself
to that promise.
That means He considers you dead to sin and alive to Him.
So therefore, He's only talking to you about how to be alive to Him.
He's talking to you about your righteousness.
He's not dealing with sin because He already dealt with it at the cross.
And then what's the practice?
What's the practice that we're going to do until it becomes automatic?
We've talked about the example of driving a car.
When you first learn, every single piece seems very mechanical and stiff and unnatural.
And now you put the car in gear and where's the brake and how hard do I have to brake
before the traffic light?
And then after a while, after some practice, it becomes so in autopilot, you don't even
think about driving.
You just think about, I've got to go from here to there and your mind's actually on
something else and you just arrive where you were meant to go because it now became part.
Now that's what it is.
You have a new nature.
You're not practicing something to become someone.
You're practicing it because you are someone.
You have a new nature already.
Christ in you is your new nature and you're practicing that to make it permanent.
Why?
Because old nature taught you bad habits and bad routines and now you're learning new
nature routines.
That's all.
So that's what we're putting off, those old nature routines.
And so you don't have, you can't say, well, I have a sin nature.
No, you just have a sin habit.
That's all.
You don't have a sin nature.
Jesus dealt with that old nature.
It died.
When Christ died, you died.
When Christ was raised, you were raised in newness of life and God didn't raise the
old man.
He only raised the new man in Jesus.
And so when that becomes permanent, we're learning these routines, but now we're picking
it up a level into a leadership role.
So that's why these 12 kingdom leadership routines that we're going to go through together
is to bring us to that level of leadership.
And then the question is, well, then what person am I becoming?
Well, I'm becoming all, I'm being made in His image and likeness.
So there are the four Ps.
What's the prompt?
What causes the trigger?
It's like I pick up my keys.
That's the prompt.
And the automated, the automated routine of I can drive comes from a permission.
I have a driver's license.
I have the permission.
And the automatic response is I drive and now I'm a person who's mobile.
So all of these elements have elements of that.
So I'll try to make it really simple.
So let's go through what does that mean?
So I've put these together.
together. And already, as you know, we covered the first one, reset to rest. What was the
prompt there? When I have stress, worry, anxiety, trying to gain access to my life. What's the
permission? Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you, Jesus said. Do not let your hearts
be troubled and do not be afraid. That is your permission. Okay, well, your permission
is a bound contract from the Father to you, from Jesus to you. And what's the practice?
I let the peace of Christ reign. I don't pray for peace. I let the fact that the Prince
of Peace lives in me, I let his peace reign. Because peace is now a ruling power in my
life. What does ruling power mean? Permanent. It's not Tuesdays and Fridays, then he's king,
and then he forgets to be king on Wednesday because you forgot. He doesn't lose his reign
because you don't remember. So, it's okay. You get to practice in his grace, right? Now,
what person would you become if peace was permanent? Well, I am untroubled. I'm a calm
leader who lives in permanent peace. So, knowing that stress and worry are unnecessary when
I have so much rest available, that's who you're becoming. Now, I don't know about you,
but that makes me super excited. And I'm hearing that in your voices. I'm hearing that in your
learning that many of you are finding that place of peace and rest, which is beautiful.
The next one we looked at is new every morning. This kills the enemy, man. This is the killer.
This is why it sucks to be the enemy, because he has to start new every single day with
you, as long as you don't let him compound yesterday's negatives into today. So, what's
the prompt? When compounding negatives and yesterday's issues are weighing on me, whoa,
whoa, whoa, cancel, hit the big red button, reset. So, the steadfast of the Lord never
ceases. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. So, that's my permission.
That's why God's bound himself to make this a reality to you. What's the practice? I close
each day with him. Go to sleep at night in peace. For those of you that are on the Brilliant
Plus app, you must be loving Brilliant Sleep. Brilliant for sleep is fantastic. You just
go to sleep with all those prophetic. Go to sleep in peace. Wake up in peace. And you
start every day fresh. So, you set an expectation. Lord, I know you're going to be good to me
today. Yeah, well, what about all the stuff from yesterday? Yeah, well, yesterday's gone
now, isn't it? I'm starting fresh. I'm only focused on today. What kind of person would
you become if new every morning was permanent in your life? It means I'm becoming a kingdom
leader by starting every day fresh in the Lord, upgrading my expectation of his goodness.
Hey, guys, I want to say something about this. You know, it occurred to me recently that
your brain, which is just like having a computer in your bag, except you've got it on top of
your shoulders, your brain is doing nothing more than trying to serve you. So, your brain
knows that, hey, there's a rustle there in the bushes. Is that the wind? Or is that a
lion? So, what does the brain do? It's there to serve you. What would it do? It's going
to exaggerate the negativity. Why? Because if it says, oh, it's only the wind and it's
a lion, not good. But if it says it's a lion but it's only the wind, okay, well, at least
you were safe. You can see how the brain thinks, right? Because that's how the brain's designed
to serve you. Now, the renewed mind doesn't do any of that because it has no response
to the negative. It responds to the Lord, not to the negative situation. So, now there's
this rewiring. So, what your brain learns over time is to give you the highest negative possible
response to save you. And it knows that you've expected certain things in the past and they
didn't work out. So, lower your expectation to the lowest possible expectation of what
God may or may not do. This is what worldliness does to our thinking. Well, what new every
morning does is we start every morning expecting God to be spectacular every day. And our expectations
get higher and higher because expectation is, Lord, I know that you are faithful. I
know that you are good. So, I love... And so, today we're hitting this third one. We've
covered the other two before. That was just a quick reminder. And by the way, when we
finish, we're going to be giving you these in groups of four. And when you finish, you'll
have all 12. And these are the ones that... By the way, I'm not sharing anything I don't
actually use in my own life. So, please, I didn't pull this... I didn't go to chat GPT
and say, make this up. All right. So, new creation. When my old self tries to remind
me of who I used to be or who I'm not, the Lord says, hey, we're going to do this. Oh,
Lord, I don't know if I'm up to that. I don't know, you know. And the Lord says, hey, if
anyone is in Christ, he has your permission, he's a new creation. The oldest passed away.
Behold, all things have...
become new. So what's the practice? I only work on my new self, because the old self
is dead. We've used the illustration many, many times. We don't go to the graveyard,
stand there and shout at the tombstone about how it should behave. Or worse, dig it up,
put some makeup on it, take it to the dance. That's gross. No need to patch up the old
self. The way you deal with the old self is you ignore it. Consider it dead, because God
does. And you're only working on your new nature in Christ. Isn't that the most freeing
thing ever? No need to fix the old me, because it's dead. All right, what kind of leader
do you become? I'm becoming like Jesus, living in His nature. And I love that Paul said he's
no longer I that live, but Christ who lives in me. I love that. You know, when you're
thinking about that for a second, and you're only working on the new, so much of trying
to fix me is out the door, because He is the architect of your salvation. While I've been
learning this, I discovered an unusual issue around this. It's not just that the old man
tries to, you know, demand your attention or wants you to focus on the old, but there's
something even more vicious. And that is the old man tries to sabotage you, because you
learn these sabotage techniques, these self-sabotaging mechanisms. And I love the way, I've forgotten
exactly who it says, equated it to the idea of dropping grenades. So perhaps, you know,
I think, you know, there's so much research around this that's been going on that I'm
really fascinated by from a Kingdom perspective, because many of us are preventing ourselves,
perhaps you are preventing yourselves from achieving your goals without even realizing
it. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this in Kingdom leaders. They'll grow to a
point and it's almost like they don't believe they deserve more, and then they sabotage
it from that point on. And it appears in like really sneaky ways, like, you know, not accepting
a promotion, or hindering your own efforts to take your business to the next level, or
feeling like you're inadequate, or you're not that good, or you're not that, or you're...
Listen, just ordinary people throughout Scripture change the course of history because they
walked with God. That's the criteria. Are you in Christ? Yes. Are you in new creation?
Yes. So there is an old habit for many of us. Maybe you grew up or inherited chaos.
Maybe you grew up in chaos. Maybe you came home to chaos at home and you developed a
whole pile of chaos skills. I was surprised to learn, I think it was actually from Dan
Martell's, one of his trainings, around the idea that something like 90-something percent
of entrepreneurs come from a chaos environment. And what happens is you become sort of addicted
to the chaos because it feels normal to you. What Jesus is offering you is a new normal
in Him. This idea of being at rest, and trust, and letting Him take you to the level He wants,
this is what makes a new creation kingdom leader so extraordinary. You know, and I've
seen this before. It's like you're just about to have that breakthrough and then the leader
throws a grenade. They just blow it up. They just blow up the deal. You know, they blow
up the opportunity. They blow up the potential because somewhere deep in their inner self
their brain told them they're not worthy. Here's a quick way around all that. What if
Jesus deserves for you to be blessed? Didn't He pay for that? You know, was there anything
more He could pay for? If the Father didn't withhold His own Son, how much more will He
not give you all things? Now you have the Holy Spirit, your guide, your coach, your
teacher, and Jesus offers a yoke, a partnership, and pull the load with you. How much does
He deserve? So my new question to the Lord is when I suspect the grenade thing, maybe
some of you are recognizing some of yourself in this, is to say, Lord, what does this mean
for you, number one? And number two is, Lord, you deserve to have this. How do you see me
in this relationship? I start with the fact that Jesus deserves. So what happens is we
stop trying to sabotage ourselves. We stop procrastinating. We stop putting off things
we know we ought to do to move the organization forward because we know that He deserves this.
So I wanted to talk just briefly about what's helped me personally exchange the chaos for
peace. You know, the Kingdom Solution is I don't need to only have a set of spiritual
Skills that survive in chaos.
Look, when you're an entrepreneur, there is chaos to what you're doing.
There's chaos to the process of of going through this,
you know, giving birth to something, starting something new, building a business.
There is a certain chaos to it.
And we and if we grew up in chaos, we have skills to cope with that.
But now we need to add to those skills a whole new set of skills
to take a business not just into a steady state mode,
but now for it to scale and have impact.
It's that we're usually afraid of.
You know, what if this company went public?
And now I'm a CEO of a public company.
Or what if this idea, you know, went viral?
What if I'm suddenly known?
You know, am I enough?
And the point is, Jesus is enough in you.
So I love what Jesus said.
John 16, 33.
These things I've spoken to you
that in me, you will have peace in the world.
You will have tribulation.
Hey, but be of good cheer.
Be happy because I've overcome the world.
He is the overcomer in you.
And you and he are one that makes you an overcomer in Christ.
He's an overcomer in you.
You're an overcomer in him.
Don't you just love that double relationship that you have?
So when you have trouble, kingdom solution, be of good cheer,
not because bad stuff's happening, not because of the trouble,
but because of the overcoming you and the fact that you're becoming like him,
i.e. an overcomer.
So I love this.
You know, in Matthew 14, 27, Jesus said,
but immediately Jesus spoke to them saying, be of good cheer.
Do not be afraid.
I love that.
He just wants you to saying, don't be afraid.
The idea that you can simply not be afraid.
Did you? This is like turning the switch.
It's not a process of becoming less and less afraid.
It's just don't be afraid. Why?
Because in the kingdom, we don't work on stopping stuff.
That's a religious idea.
Stop sinning. Stop this. Stop that.
And the kingdom works on a replacement mechanism.
Replace chaos with peace.
Replace faith.
Replace fear with faith.
You don't need to have fear because you have faith
and you have perfect love.
We know perfect love casts out fear.
So when we do this exchange.
So the question then is, Lord, I'm done with self-sabotage.
Show me how we can walk together in what's next for the business.
What's next for the family?
What's next for me?
And what does it mean to you?
I love I love that there are two biblical models for leadership.
There's an old covenant model and there's a new covenant model.
In the old covenant model, there was a standard to live up to.
You were here. Here was the standard. Here was the gap.
If you use this old covenant model in your organization,
your people will always feel like they're falling short
because you'll be saying to him, this is my standard.
You've not met my standard. See the gap.
So on your so your employees on their best day, they have a small gap
and on their worst days, they have a huge gap, but there's a gap.
And so what we're always focusing on problem solving
and we're always calling people out on their mistakes.
And there's always the gap, the gap, the gap, the gap.
Now, when Jesus came, he fully fulfilled the law on your behalf.
In Christ, the law has been fully fulfilled in you.
So when you're reading the Old Testament, the Old Covenant, Old Testament,
all those promises that were conditional have now been made.
Yes. And a man in Christ in you.
So what's the second biblical option?
What is a new covenant biblical kingdom leadership look like?
And that is possibilities to live into.
So while the law was a standard to live up to,
the kingdom is a possibility to live into.
You see, it starts with I'm fully accepted in the beloved.
Therefore, this is a new possibility for me
because in Christ, all things are possible.
And even with my team, I'm calling them out to call them up.
I'm not just calling them out.
And so we speak to them one level above where they actually are
because we always calling them up because that's what the Lord does for us.
God is always speaking to you at the next level
of your understanding of who you are in him.
So I love for us as kingdom leaders that we can bypass this whole
I'm not enough thing or I don't deserve it.
And therefore your brain, your unrenewed part of your brain
is saying to you, well, you can't pull that off.
You're not enough. What if it doesn't work?
Let's put that aside because that's just a form of fear and self sabotage.
Let's replace it with, Jesus, you deserve this.
All things are possible in you.
And I love this for us because that
means where your business can go, there is no limit set.
So it would be very interesting to ask the Lord,
what does this business mean for you?
What does this product mean to you?
And I love asking the Lord that question
because it takes the pressure off me where
I feel I have to be someone.
Hope that was helpful.
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