Okay, so today we're talking about how possibility works in the kingdom.
I tell you, I've been really focused on this and I'm excited about this because it's opening
up new territory.
Ever since we had Brilliance event, it felt like we took those first steps into a new
space and I can feel and I can see it in our own team where our thinking is expanding rapidly
and we're going into a new place in the Lord.
And I particularly noticed that we've got various, you know, as we've been going through
those training on the kingdom leadership elective, I've noticed that there's a whole different
space that our team has gone into and our community.
And so one of the things I wanted to share was something that I've really seen helps
us as kingdom leaders move the people we're leading into kingdom leadership.
And so I've been working on this kingdom leadership framework and this kingdom leadership framework
has three upstairs parts and three downstairs parts.
And I found that this has been very helpful.
And you know, even when we've been doing laser coaching and so forth with leaders and people
doing the kingdom leadership elective in the school, I've noticed that you can tell
them about this framework, but only when you apply it again and again and again, do they
get it.
So I found that, so I'm just going to tell you what the framework is.
I'm going to branch it out a little bit, but then I'm going to take it up a level.
So it's more sort of an executive approach on how to use the framework in training other
kingdom leaders.
And if they're not kingdom, you can skip the upstairs part and go straight to the downstairs
part.
And there's a variant I've got for people who are not kingdom leaders.
And here's the framework that has really moved people into something new.
And so as we step into this idea of how does, you know, Matthew 11, 28 through 30 work properly
in terms of yoke, how does that yoke partnership work?
A new word we've been really working a lot is oneness.
Your primary purpose is oneness.
And then that oneness has a purpose.
And what that language is fixing in the kingdom, it's fixing this idea that we go and do things
for God.
We skip the oneness part.
We just check in with him regularly and we do this visitational thing and then we go
straight to purpose.
And the problem with that is you will kill the purpose of God in you if that's the way
you think about it.
So for me, I've seen that what shifted a lot of people when we say your primary purpose
is your oneness with the Lord and rest is the doorway into that space.
That's why we come to him.
We do the exchange of being heavy laden and worried and concerned and all that stuff.
We have to let worry and concern go in order to step into that oneness because it doesn't
belong in the kingdom.
It's not normal to worry.
It's not normal to be concerned.
You know, and Jesus told us that Paul told us that that, you know, that we're not allowed
because it's not normal in the kingdom to worry, be concerned, be feel heavy laden,
feel stressed, feel anxious.
It's completely unnecessary because rest is overcomes all of that.
And so what that sets us up in the yoke into the oneness thing is it sets us up into a
different modality, a different thinking.
Okay, so with that as our background, it's been a year's worth of exploration together
as we've gone through this.
And here's the framework, three upstairs things, three downstairs things.
The three upstairs things is all about getting God's heart.
And the three downstairs things is all about how to take bold action that's really effective
and moves the needle.
So the three upstairs things are, number one, what possibility do you see, Father?
Because when we're facing problems, we know it's like flipping a coin.
The tails of the coin, which is the problem side, is facing up.
We flip it heads up because now we're going straight into possibility.
So we flip the coin and we say, Father, what possibility do you see?
Because now the conversation moves not from what we used to do, what our current problem
is, the challenge we're facing, all that stuff gets put to the side, that we put a pause
on the problem and we put play on the possibility.
So we hit play and we say, what's the possibility?
Second question is, how do you want me to partner with you in this?
I'm going to talk a little bit about how the Lord, how the Father selects that possibility,
which is mind-blowing to me about how He does that because it's so beautiful.
And so how do you want me to partner with you in this?
The reason I raise that up is because God is selecting possibilities for your highest
good.
With every problem, the possibility attaches isn't just to resolve the downstairs problem,
but to upgrade you.
The possibility is designed to bring beauty into your life.
It's designed to bring redemption.
It's designed to create something because you walk with the Creator.
It's designed to redeem something because of Jesus, the Redeemer.
And it's designed to resolve the problem because the Holy Spirit is the genius executive of
the God.
He's the one who knows how to execute exactly.
So how do you want me to partner with you is really opening up your mindset to an upgrade
in what this possibility that He's saying.
So that has usually a lot more to do with you than it has to do with the circumstances.
And then the third question is, how do you want me to be with my team in this?
So I want you to be calm.
I want you to be enthusiastic.
I want you to be bold.
I want you to be... and He usually gives... for me, it's usually a single word.
It's like I want you to be... and then there's something peaceful.
All this chaos.
I want you to be relaxed.
I want you to be...
I want you to be like super excited, right?
Like I'm super excited about this right now.
And I'm super excited because I've seen how much this is opening up for people.
So those are the three upstairs questions.
Number one, what possibility do you see, Father?
Number two, how do you want me to partner with you in this?
And number three, how do you want me to be with my team in this?
I suppose one could say with our team since we're one with Him, right?
Okay, well, how do we do our team?
The downstairs, three things that I've seen really helps.
The three things that really help on the downstairs that help us take bold action.
And the reason now that we're equipped with those three upstairs things, there's a boldness
because our confidence is we're right in the middle of God's plan.
We're right in the middle of His will.
We're right in the middle of what it is He wants.
And we're really clear about how He wants us to be in that.
And so because of that, now we can do three things.
We can face the facts, commit to the possibility, empower our team.
Let's go through that.
Face the facts means look, upstairs we have the truth.
Downstairs we have the facts.
Now we can face the facts because we have the upstairs truth.
We see the possibility.
We see what the Lord is doing.
Now we can be really bold.
I love the way it says, I think it's in Romans 4, that Abraham faced the facts of the age
of his body, the age of his wife's body.
I mean, he's 100, she's 90.
He's looking at the facts.
The fact is there's no way we're having a son.
But the scripture says he faced the facts while not diminishing his faith.
And so when we come from the upstairs, we can face the facts much more boldly.
Because the first job of a leader and a downstairs job of a leader is to face the facts as they
are, clear, unvarnished, not dressed up, because it helps people focus, no sugarcoating, no
watering down the situation.
Because what it does is it brings people into the actual facts of the situation so that
it acts as a baseline to see what God can do.
Because if we pretend that the problems are two, but really it's a nine, then what happens
is when the Lord solves a nine, we thank him for the two.
So we have to face the facts stated, maybe even a little overstated, I would do, just
while we're practicing.
Because as believers, a lot of times we think we're not allowed to be negative.
We're not allowed to call things out.
But you have to call things out before you can call them up.
And so for me, I've made the mistake of not calling things out exactly as they are.
And when I face the facts, it's a hard thing.
Sometimes you have to, sometimes they're huge.
Sometimes you have to let a business die.
Sometimes you have to let a product die.
Sometimes you have to let a key customer go.
Sometimes you have to let a key employee go.
You have to face the facts.
It's hard.
It's tough.
But here's what it is.
We're not becoming concerned, worried, anxious about that because we already started in the
upstairs.
We started in God's heart.
And then we commit to the possibility.
And when we commit to the possibility, because now we're saying to our team, and I found
that coming up with a single phrase that really encapsulate, but what if, I love that.
team what if we pull this off what if we 10x our our revenue in the next 12 months what if and
suddenly possibility opens up people are inspired by possibility they're inspired by okay so those
are the facts but what if we actually pull this off and i love when we when we do the what if
possibility is when the lord steps in and we see that acceleration effect you know it gets into
your boat suddenly you're on the other side stuff starts to happen because he is a quickening
spirit i love that um so i want to i'm going to spend a minute around uh part of doing this
committing to the possibilities not just you committing you have to be all in but then call
your team into committing to the possibility that we're going to do this this could happen
where now if there are you know believers you can explain what the upstairs stuff is if they don't
know about that they'll just know that you're very bold and very confident about this and your
confidence is because you have upstairs permission and upstairs permission leads to bold downstairs
action because your your confidence isn't based in your own ability it's based in your permission
it's based on whose you are who you in partnership with so i hope that was really a helpful little
introduction and then the last step is we empower the team and this really comes down
to creating euros you know i i love some of the things that we've been saying and teaching
you know that when we when we make somebody the hero of the story um brian robinson's made this
brian robinson wrote extensively about the problem of the heroic leader where i have to be
the one who can predict the future and control and i'm the source of all wisdom and knowledge
and the fate of the enterprise is in my hands and that's becoming ever increasingly more impossible
so in the world of expanding complexity ai technology movements you know political change
um i mean he argues that the concept is now becoming actually unachievable unattainable
and so here's what true leaders do especially kingdom leaders they're not the heroes true
leaders create heroes so if you can create not just a team of leaders but a team of heroes people
who feel like heroes that means you know look life is short so few people get their moment in
the spotlight if we can put them in the spotlight you know then what happens is you have a strong
team who can pivot in difficult times when you're facing the facts of what you're doing
you're moving the entire team with a group who know what it's like to take on something they've
never tried before and be successful and be made the ear of the story so i think it's a huge relief
for leaders to back this trend like we have to be you know we have to be this being a main leader
it's like in you know lord of the rings and you know aragorn sword and then charge and then we
all charge behind you know i think that modality is a is a poor one and so that's why we've
introduced the analogy of the leader as a conductor of the orchestra you don't have to make
a sound you just have to point who's up next okay now we have this person now we have that person
you know and getting that you're just conducting you're convening if you like the the environment
so i love for us that this takes the pressure off because we're in partnership with the lord and so
we can start creating heroes and i think here's the thing that this does when you use every
problem in your business as a leadership opportunity not just to upgrade you but to upgrade
them i think we often say at brilliant things like okay let's let's make this a leadership
opportunity let's make this a leadership training moment because you use every problem challenge
ups downs whatever in the business as a way for their benefit you're teaching them how the lord
is with us whether they know him or not okay let me invest in you let me make this work for you so
it encourages people to go beyond their limits beyond their boundaries to do what they thought
they couldn't do and so this what this does is it makes space for new leadership to arise people who
we may not have seen as leaders and as i've been doing this i've been noticing another trend
there was a fantastic ted talk on this why we promote the wrong people and
this whole thing of empowering your team
team is we often promote the people who are loudest, who are good at creating
profiles for themselves, who are talkative, who, you know, who always have opinions,
etc. But many times the organization is actually moved forward and built on the
quiet leaders, the ones who just quietly get on with it and execute.
And it's it's really important that we
don't get caught up in this trap that we're promoting the loud, the self
promoters. So I found some of the best leaders are not good at creating profiles
for themselves, especially if they believe is because it's the whole it's all the
Lord, it's not me. We were doing some laser coaching
yesterday in the Kingdom Leadership Group.
And and this one lady's talked about how
she got given a job to train all these banking people in her job.
And she'd never done that before.
And in the process, she took all the training we did.
She took these three upstairs things, three downstairs things.
And she said and she partnered with the Lord throughout October.
So it's really a recent story.
And in the process of doing that, she said they said it was the best training
they'd ever had. And then and then to us, she said, well,
you know, it was all the Lord. It wasn't me.
And so I said, no, it was you.
If he's amazing, you have to become amazing.
Jesus said, I do what I see the father do and it will amaze you.
The downstairs execution has to be
amazing to the world and people have to become amazing.
So let's not gloss over the people who naturally kind of just execute well,
smile politely and then get on with it, because some of the best CEOs in the world
are not the celebrity CEOs you and I think of.
So when we do this, when we create euros,
we really just unleash innovation and growth on scale in our business.
So so here's the here's a couple of things I've learned about doing this.
And then and then we're going to stop and have a chat.
So two leaders let the heroes in their team learn,
because I think the hardest thing for a leader is to accept that our team
members will make different mistakes than we will.
We see their flaws too easily.
We see how they could mess up.
We could see how they miss things in certain
areas or stuff they didn't handle well.
So we create these strict systems designed so that they don't fail.
It's the worst possible thing.
Yes, we can put boundaries in place, but if they cannot fail, they cannot learn.
If they cannot learn, they cannot grow.
If they cannot grow, we're not innovating.
So it's a horrible way to train people to fulfill a mission for sure.
So because in my experience, euros are born out of the chaos,
out of the courage that it takes in the middle of the chaos to get up again
and say, we can do this, I mean, I'm committing to the possibility.
And there are people who commit quietly to the possibility in your team.
But if you draw them out, say, how are you?
I'm all in. I'm all in.
I'm all in. Often the naysayers in the team are just used to having the stage.
They're used to having the mic.
So don't let them manage the the team's
commitment to possibility just because they're loud.
And sometimes you actually have to stop them.
I've had to stop and say, OK, we'll get to all the black hat stuff another day.
Right now we're committing to the possibility.
Are you in?
And when you put that when you put it that straight, that helps.
So, again, great leaders aren't trying to be the heroes.
They're inspiring and empowering others to be the hero.
So they create this clear sense of the possibility.
We're doing this.
They allow people to make mistakes in committing to the possibility,
but they teach them to get up and go again.
Come on, you can do this.
All right, I'm going to take a breather there and we can chat a bit.
So since we're such a tiny group today,
hey, Ben, how are you doing?
Welcome.
I'm honored to join the brilliant team today.
That's what's good. It's not even the whole team.
That's a crazy bit.
Yeah, well, thank you.
I know a lot of people accepted and then, you know, obviously stuff came up,
but it really is us for no more today and good, good stuff.
What I I'm sorry I was late.
We're actually just had a flurry of, you know, activity, you know,
that we're trying to to get ready, lots of commercial jobs that are people
are moving on that we're trying to get kind of figured out, empowering the team
right to get the the estimates completed, but providing the technical,
you know, know how, I guess, as as necessary.
But it's good to see you guys.
Yeah, good for you.
Well, we're going through.
We're going through such a transition here at Brilliant.
At Brilliance three weeks ago, whatever,
Brilliance event.
You know, we had three times more people register than we had in the spring.
And we saw the Lord do something, because for the first time, it wasn't all Graham or
Graham and me, it was the whole team were teaching, and training and hearing that in
lots of voices, it felt to us like we stepped into a new space.
And so I've been asking the Lord, how does that transition or translate into kingdom
leadership?
What's our advantage here?
Right?
And if you think about it, the ups, you know, upstairs advantage is that it settles us down
internally, it stops that internal noise, the chaos where you can't think.
And I've realized that rest, why rest is so genius, is because you're, you're most present
to the situation, you're most present to his presence, you're most creative, you're most
in the moment, you can you can think clearly, because you're at rest.
And I think often, the chaos of the problem is worse than the problem itself.
The internal noise that a problem creates is the distraction, it's the disability,
if you like.
And so in the kingdom, we remove that disability, because we come to rest because we can.
Because our confidence is Lord, you're in this with me, right?
You know, thank you that you're with me.
Thank you that you will never leave me.
Thank you that you're protecting me.
Thank you that you're fashioning this thing.
I'm so glad we're in this together.
And so what's the possibility, Lord, what do you see?
I'm always amazed at the stuff he says, you know, I can, I rarely can predict what he's
gonna say next.
So because he just sees the world so beautifully.
Yeah, he knows, he sees it from the end, right?
And man, the enemy is so focused on making sure he can convince us of, like, you know,
our disaster that's unfolding.
I think you're spot on.
Because he's a disaster that's unfolding.
Yeah, right.
That's the narrative he knows, right?
No, it was all he knows.
I laughed so hard a few weeks ago, Graham and I were preparing something.
He said, I don't know what all the fuss about the enemy's doing this, enemy's doing that.
Let's be fascinated by what Jesus is doing.
Look, the enemy is such a loser.
He couldn't even make it in heaven.
Just saying.
And when he said that, I don't know why I laughed so hard and just like, how, what an
idiot do you have to be that you can't even make it in heaven, people, with the presence
of the Lord and all the creative power of the Creator and, you know, but here's what
I want to, I want to dig deeper into this for us.
And maybe it's great that we're just a few folks here today, but I know many will catch
up on the recording.
I want to dig into this thing of possibility.
How does, because that was the title of the topic today.
How does possibility work in the kingdom specifically?
Now I went through the quick model upstairs, Father, what's the possibility?
How do you want me to be in that?
How do you want me as a team?
Because then, okay, I got it.
Face the facts.
State them as they are.
Don't sugarcoat it.
Number two, commit to the possibility and get your team to commit.
The number three, empower them to go and execute, be the conductor and make heroes.
Okay.
Well, that is the framework.
Let's put that aside for a second.
Let's build on that because we've more or less talked through that sort of thing before,
but this time I've hopefully made it simple and clear in steps.
I'm trying to make it simple and clear.
So the question is, how does God select possibility?
And how does he see it?
And so I realized that there are a couple of assumptions he makes.
And if they're his assumptions, then they're absolutes because he's not just assuming
and hoping he's right.
He knows what it is.
And here's the first thing.
In the kingdom, there is no negative.
There are no negatives in the kingdom.
There are no upstairs negatives.
And you say, well, that's obvious.
But is it?
I think we often find ourselves stuck in the downstairs negative.
And then we try to bring that negative upstairs to the Lord.
And he says, no, no, I don't want that plan.
I'm not trying because we try to persuade the Lord through prayer and our stuff and
fasting, whatever it is we think we have to do to get him to come and intervene in
our downstairs problem.
What if that's not at all what the plan is?
What if the plan is for you to join him upstairs in his life in this, that he has a life with
you in your.
He has a life with you in your family, a life with you in your life, but he's wanting you
to join his life.
That's why Paul said, it is no longer I that live, but Christ who lives in me.
In other words, what if that is an actual physical space?
So if you think about all a negative is, is the absence of something.
We've talked a great deal about this in the past.
You know, we just use the word light and dark because it's a long worded thing in English
to say light in the absence of light, light.
And can you, can you fix the absence of light and put on the light switch, please?
That's a hard, that's a lot of words.
So we just call the absence of something.
We gave it a name.
We called it darkness, but doesn't mean darkness is a thing.
Darkness is the absence.
So all the enemy has is the absence of stuff.
The absence of revelation, the absence of joy, the absence of peace, because he doesn't
have any of this.
He doesn't have peace.
He doesn't have patience.
He doesn't have joy.
He doesn't have goodness.
He doesn't have kindness.
He doesn't have anything.
He doesn't have anything to do.
The only one thing he can do is take what is and degenerate it to nothing.
That's all he's got.
So he's got to lie, cheat, you know, and that's why he's so boring.
He's a defeated foe.
Jesus catastrophically destroyed him at the cross, done.
So the enemy has nothing of his own.
He can only corrupt what is.
Now if you know that, you realize that his only thing he can do in the corruption to
deceive is to give nothingness cool names.
Oh, it's freedom to sleep around.
Now that's just freedom for depression.
There's no freedom.
It's bondage to depression.
You can literally take his words and flip them to the opposite, and that's actually
the truth of what he's offering.
So what he's doing is he's got a system of wrapping papers where he gives cool names
to nothingness, and then he packages up nothingness and then threatens us with it.
You know, what if this fails?
What if you can't do payroll?
What if you can't?
All he can do is give the condition of nothingness.
So what if we just completely, this is a mind boggling idea as business leaders.
What if we can turn off internally and completely reject all negatives?
Is it even possible?
Because negativity lives downstairs, can't live in the kingdom.
No one in the kingdom is running around going, oh, what if we can't do this?
No one in heaven is having panic moments about, oh no, we never thought of AI in the 21st
century and impact on this business.
There is no just possibility, glorious possibility.
And so what negativity does is it keeps people downstairs, but more importantly, it offers
them very meager possibilities.
The possibilities downstairs are always small because they're born in the mind, not in the
heart.
Think about this.
As a leader, I've noticed this in other leaders too, and myself.
If you try to think it through straight out of your mind, then what happens is your mind
will set up a small option.
Why?
Because it's protecting you, right?
We've used the analogy of, you know, the lion in the bush.
You're walking through the bush and you're rustling.
Is that the wind?
Is that a lion?
Well, your mind will choose the worst case condition because it's protecting you.
Because if you think it's the wind and it is a lion, you're in trouble.
So it says, okay, it's a lion, even if it isn't.
Because at least if you ran and it was just the wind, you're still safe either way.
So your mind always sets up, it uses your history to set up the lowest possible expectation
to keep you the safest place.
And it gives you the smallest option, unless it's your renewed mind in Jesus, but I'm just
talking about your mind.
Because your mind is just an instrument serving you.
But when your mind knows what your heart believes, it goes to a whole different level.
It just scales up.
Oh, we believe God is opening this up.
Oh, well, in that case, we could call this person.
We could do this.
It goes into a creative state.
So the heart has to lead.
So that means upstairs, we have to catch what God is doing.
This negativity thing really destroys us.
So here's what I've learned as I've asked the Lord, you know, Jesus introduced his father
as the God where all things are possible, not all things are probable, or probably unlikely
because you know, you probably have done something to screw it up.
So you know, maybe that is not what Jesus introduced.
All things are possible.
And so, but here's what shocked me.
What if, and I believe this is true, God is the ultimate whole that envelops all possibilities
and all actuality.
In other words, anything that's possible outside of him, there is nothing that's possible.
There are no possibilities outside of him.
So what does that mean? Well, that's a very big space because all things are possible in Him.
You can also, if it's possible, it's in Him.
So in the kingdom, nothing exists outside of relationship. That's why everything with God is
relational. How does this upgrade you? How does this upgrade your team? How does this make our
relationship more sweet, more beautiful, more intimate? How can you be more present to my
presence in the midst of challenging situations? So we have to understand that God is not only
deeply relational, but His whole mechanism of creativity is based out of this relational
concept, the space. So His love does a lot more than just, oh, I affirm your being, I love you,
and so on. It draws you out and beyond your present circumstances into a possibility He's
offering. So this is how it is. What if we're co-creating with God in the universe? What if
He hasn't stopped creating? What if every time there's a possibility He goes, oh, there's something
new we can create? And here's the mind-blowing part I want to share with you. When you think
of the three plus me, the Creator, the Redeemer, and the Helper, then think of every possibility.
The three of them have optimized it for your highest good, like this. Father says, you know,
if I can partner with Dion in this, we could create this new thing that never existed before.
He's still creating. So now we're way past the problem. Now we're taking a possibility
and I add my partnership, now something new is created. So it takes our partnership,
He set it up that way. It takes our partnership to take that possibility and make it a reality.
So when you think of creativity in that sense,
because He's got this huge treasure trove of new possibilities for you, but He partners with us
in yoke for the very best possibilities in that situation. So that situation
could have hundreds of possibilities, right? And He does attach a possibility to a situation.
The question is, which one does He choose?
When I saw this, I realized God's valuation of possibilities is based on beauty and goodness,
because the whole creative process with Him begins with His vision of beauty and goodness.
Meaning, He's looking at you and He's saying, okay, how can I give Ben the highest amount
of goodness out of this situation? And how can I bring goodness to others through this thing we
create together? And then Jesus pops in and says, hey, the Redeemer, I want to redeem Ben back to
where he was before he got dinged. We all live life, we all got dinged. Some of us wasn't just
a ding, it was like an anvil fell on us or maybe a house. I mean, some of the dings are pretty bad.
You can't be alive in this world and not get dinged. But redemption is not restoration.
Restoring is restoring to what was. Redemption is taking you up to original design as though you
were never dinged in the first place. Wow. So now God sets up that possibility with so much
goodness and beauty is, let's bring them up to here, to their full stature in the kingdom. Let's
bring him up to that. So Jesus says, let's use this situation, build his confidence, overcome all
that stuff in his past, in his history, that one time he failed, as many times he failed, whatever,
redeem you fully back. And then the help says, I want to help. Because that's where all the
creativity, the know-how, the helper, the spirit of wisdom, revelation, knowledge, how to do this,
how to pull this off, where to go, the steps to take, how to empower the team, genius Holy Spirit.
Now that is a different idea in the kingdom, in my view, as to what possibility looks like.
What do you guys think? Let me be there for a minute.
Glenn. Hey guys, apologies for not being on camera.
Something you said Dion, I've been pondering, so you made the comment there, optimized for
our highest good. That's what the Lord is doing. I love that. Something I've been pondering
is being, that is like the anchor, that is the thing that's sure,
but the possibilities are infinite to the accomplishment of that goal.
Because I was kind of thinking, because a lot of the, it's almost like a simultaneous equation
that the Lord is working. Because there's many variables, it could be other people,
situations, circumstances that could, could happen or occur and all of this type of stuff.
But if that happens,
The Lord has an infinite number of ways to resolve that.
He'll always accomplish that purpose
of our highest good, always.
That won't vary.
And that gives incredible confidence
because it doesn't matter what's happening in the world.
It doesn't matter what's going on downstairs.
It doesn't matter what.
He will accomplish his good purpose in our life.
It won't change.
The path to get there could change.
We could see him go in one direction
and then start taking a right turn.
And you're like, well, what happened?
I thought we were going there.
He said, no, no, no.
We're doing this now.
But the perfect confidence we can have
is that he will accomplish his good purpose in our life.
He's optimizing for our highest good
no matter what the path is.
Exactly, Glenn.
In fact, it occurred to me
that we can take the long route or the short route
to that possibility.
That's why we pay for mentors.
That's why we hang out, why we ask for wisdom.
Because where we are in our learning
opens us up to the short route or the long route.
Either way, he gives us this promise.
Don't worry, I'm gonna get you there.
Why?
He's totally committed to his purposes
and his kind intentions towards you.
To such a degree, he gives you a promise.
All things work together for the good of them
that love God and are called according to his purpose.
He's so confident.
Even if you take...
So I think people make decisions into our lives
and then he has to work around it.
So it's not always our problems.
Sometimes we get dinged, right?
Really badly.
Yeah, exactly.
That happens.
And when we get dinged like that,
when we go through that,
the Lord says, I'll work through that.
I'll work around it.
Because he cannot violate free will,
which brings back the fact that he is in control of,
he is in control of heaven
and put us in charge of the earth.
But ultimately, regardless of all that free will stuff
and all the mess,
because we can tell we're in charge, right?
It doesn't take a lot.
People say, why did God allow?
Because he had no choice.
What choice would he have,
but override people's free will?
And so it goes back to why we can't,
for instance, legislate morality.
We can't say, okay, we need to put in the laws this.
Because if you forced people,
like if you made it a law,
everyone has to go to church,
how do you know they're repenting?
Or they're just not wanting to go to jail.
So in the end, in a simpler thing,
the possibility God is opening up to in your life
is that it doesn't really matter if it takes longer,
because he doesn't measure time, he measures growth.
We measure, I'm writing a whole paper
on what does kingdom time look like.
The time in the kingdom is very different
from time downstairs.
Time downstairs is based on the planetary motion.
We call that a day, it goes around the sun,
we call that a year.
Or we're born on this day, we die on that day,
and we do these little plucked up little day slots.
And so we measure time.
Oh, well, I've got 30 years experience.
Well, you've gone through 30 days.
Whether you have one years of experience 30 times,
that's another conversation.
You know, because a lot of people,
just because you've lived long doesn't mean you've grown.
And that's the deception downstairs is,
if you've lived long and you know a lot of stuff,
it doesn't matter in the kingdom,
it only matters who you're becoming.
It doesn't matter what you know.
You can have 16 PhDs in theology and philosophy
and whatever else you want.
It's just downstairs knowing about.
That doesn't open up possibilities.
What opens up possibilities is walking with the Lord,
knowing what He's like, knowing who He is,
knowing the vast beauty of Jesus
and the exceptional amount of goodness
that He intends to bring,
not just to our lives, but to the world.
That's why I think He just gives gifts
to people who don't even serve Him,
because He wants the world to have it anyway.
You know, if all good gifts come from the Father above,
then if it's a good thing, let's call it medicine
or some innovation, then that came from heaven, right?
So we can't say, oh, it's just about healing.
And if you go to the doctor, you have no faith,
because both came from heaven.
So God just wants you well.
So I think He's optimizing for our house good.
Well, I'd like to say, I think it gets even better
if I might push it a little here.
And I just want to bring out this.
The reason why there are no negatives in the kingdom
is because negativity is designed to disqualify you
from the creative process.
Negativity reminds you of who you're not.
Negativity, you know, it brings God's nature in question.
Why didn't the Lord help you?
Why did that happen?
Negativity.
So what negativity does, it sets, it's designed to pull you out of possibility and lock you
into limitation.
That's what it's designed to do.
So it keeps you in the downstairs, but worse, it keeps you into a small space downstairs.
It makes us passive.
We don't want to partner with God because I'm waiting for God to do it.
It's the classic thing you see, well, I've got, you know, 10 prophetic words, nothing's
ever happened.
I've sat on them for 20 years because I never partnered with him.
I just passively waited.
Great delusion.
What we just did there is we took, we took the prophetic out of its relational space
and we stuck it into a transactional space.
So the question is, did you become the person that, that brings that word into effect?
And it's not even up to you, quote, to become the person is, did you discover who the Lord
is in you and you and him, and did your relationship with him move into your becoming in his likeness
and being in the prophetic word was a wonderful compliment.
The Lord says, you can be this person up here.
So let's grow you here.
And so as you're growing there, it's why it takes patience, faith and patience.
We inherit because the Lord, the Lord sets us up, but he's not just quote, giving us
tools to go get on with it.
So much of the stuff I hear is here, all the tools, yell the principles, go and do them.
And a few weeks ago, somebody was bringing up, Hey, no, I just want to build this on
kingdom principles.
And I said, well, I'm very sad to hear that.
And the guy said, what?
No, no, no.
I meant, I am going to build on.
He thought I misheard him.
I said, no, I heard you exactly.
You want to build on a kingdom principle.
Principle is the lowest form of truth there is.
It's taking it out of its relational space upstairs and bringing it to a downstairs knowledge,
to an activity, to a transaction.
I'm going to build it on Christian principles, meaning I don't need him.
I just need to know the principle.
And that's the thing he's not into.
I know what we mean when we say Christian principles.
I'm just pointing out this has horrible implications because it makes it non-relational.
Which means by default, it takes us out of the upstairs space and puts us into a downstairs
where I can control the parameters.
So I hate that word.
Oh, I'm becoming to hate that word because I know what's meant by it.
In its strictest sense, it is a principle in the kingdom that is relational, fine.
But to me, it shrinks us into small possibilities.
So here's the thing.
We talked a few months ago about how does God 10X your business?
Well, what if we went to, when we go and ask that first question, Father, what possibility
do you see?
The answer we will engage in has got to do with how big we think he is, how good we think
he is, how much he's trusting us, how far he wants to go.
But if we were trying to do it, quote, on principles or do the small downstairs stuff,
then what we're going to hear is a small thing because that's as much as we will receive.
So what if we can abandon that?
And the question is, can we?
Can we get past?
We absolutely can, because it's your mind doing that.
And your mind needs to be led.
When your mind leads, you get back to the small space.
When your heart leads, you go into the kingdom, into a big space.
So Father, I'm just going to put pause on all this stuff.
I don't care if I failed before at this.
I don't care.
That's not what defines me.
So tell me about this beautiful, big possibility you see in which you're optimizing goodness
and beauty in my life and in my team and my family.
Tell me about that.
Now I learned already from that.
That's not a sit down for 20 minutes with your journal and write that down.
That's a conversation that he starts and it and it unfolds.
And the Lord says, higher expectation, more expectation, more expect.
No, no, more, more.
No, you're still small.
No small.
OK, tell your mind to be quiet, receive and believe.
So I realized we can say, what possibility do you see?
And the answer we will receive, small or big, has got to do with whether we're receiving
that from our spirit man, from our heart.
And so we so can you exaggerate?
Can you expect too much from God?
Well, the mind can exaggerate.
We're not talking that's believerism when the mind exaggerates.
God's told me I'm an intergalactic pastor, you know, you know, to all spirits.
pieces of the universe and all you can just exaggerate nonsense right you can do that's
believerism I'm talking about what is it you've received and therefore what have you believed
we receive Jesus we believed on his name that mechanism is exactly how we do this so Lord
what is it you want me to receive into expectation I'm open to it I what do you want me to receive
and I realized huh now that's big because it doesn't mean it's all gonna land on one
shot it means we're going on this process this journey together let me breathe there
Jenny Bridget let me bring you guys into the conversation here
um I think that it is very much about around expectations as Glenn just says elevated expectations
and I think when one is in a crawl space it's all about expectations and knowing who Jesus
is going to be and I think that you know looking back at our crawl space seven years ago I'm
so thankful that Graham kept telling us to look up to Jesus and look ahead and look forward
where we're going to be coming out because we could have actually got stuck there and
I wonder if many believers don't get stuck in the crawl space or they move a little bit
forward and then you know get stuck and maybe even move back a little bit but I think that
you know crawl space is a time for us to get into a upgrade but it is about whether we're
going to actually partner with him and move forward in what he's offering to us and I
think that in our crawl space my expectation seven years ago of the Lord were very different
to what it is today because of you know if he had told us then where we're going to land
today I don't think we'd have been in so much pain because we're like oh this is just
a stepping stone into something else which you know between Graham and Teresa encouraging
us and us you know stepping into that I think we did get out of it well but I've watched
other people in their crawl space and I think they just you know they have such a low expectation
of the Lord because they still go to the self-condemnation and you know God's not happy with me I didn't
do this right they beat up on my therapist yeah yeah and that is you know that's exactly
so not that I'm against therapy no no it's small yeah it's small and it's limited I think
therapists I mean unless it's a spiritual limit a spiritual therapist that's partnering
with the Holy Spirit I think they are limited to what they can really help you with and
so I think in you know I think this is such a wonderful tool for leaders to to use on
the with themselves and definitely in their team in terms of pulling people up to what
the Lord's really got and what is offering them and not getting stuck in small possibilities
and getting stuck with the worldly what the world has to offer do we have do you do you
feel like you have more recent conversation more recent because I'm thinking of Monday
for you right where so let's do something recent that's not necessarily seven years
old but that was a good point I'm just saying that this the learning then and the learning
now is very different because like when you're teaching people are to step into their third
act yes and you you know and what we taught in January is even different to what we're
teaching now yes exactly I think that I feel like I'm empowering them in such a different
way because I know I know what the Lord wants to offer them and there's a there's an excitement
because I know who Jesus is and I know who Jesus wants to be for them and helping them
get his perspective in their situation using those three questions as exactly the three
questions I asked them you know how does the Lord see your situation how does he want you
to be and then how you're going to move forward obviously not so much with their team but
with themselves or their spouse or maybe you know in their children a lot of the people
in that stage are stuck with the relationships with their children and the children on following
the Lord therefore I don't feel I have anything to offer and you know I'm in a crisis with
my children and they can't get out of that so helping them see all the other possibilities
and his perspective definitely empowered them to get out of the you know these this situation
thinking well I'm in my third act I'm you know there's nothing more I can really do
here I just need to stay healthy until it's my time to go or survive and what I was trying
to empower them that no this isn't a time to survive it's a time to really thrive in
all that the Lord has been preparing you for for the season and I honestly saw the
lights coming on like oh I don't have to just go quietly die and die someday go die quietly
and don't bother people and also realizing that they you know that's not their responsibility
what their children's choices are and I know that it's hard watching your children struggling
but then that's bad enough that the children are struggling but now that you you compromising
what he's called you to it's almost like you're getting a double blow the Lord's getting in
a double bag deal.
And so that will all the enemies had a victory in two areas, not
that he's just got your kids, but he's also got your amazing
ability that you could be bringing to the world, whether
it's, you know, teaching or doing something else. And that's
where I really felt a difference in teaching on Monday, because
I was teaching from this perspective, rather than just,
you know, mega possibilities that I think I may have done. I
mean, not that we did that in January, but I definitely feel
that even in the 10 months since then, we've elevated our
language about helping people in this situation.
Yeah, that's, that's really helpful. Because you painted a
possibility that's born out of God's heart, not one that's born
out of our mental imagination.
Yeah, or what they can see at the moment, because some of them
are seeing their kids with no money and no, you know, no, they
struck either spiritually or emotionally or physically. And
so they they're focusing on that rather than all the other things
the Lord's wanting to do and use them for
I think what you set them free from in that conversation, and
what we've been learning as a team, as leading kingdom
leadership is, when you when you take them up into God's
possibility, you free them from their history. Because otherwise
they go to their past and look for permission. Well, I've tried
this before I've, you know, I had this dream before I had
this. And so it all that's designed to disqualify you. It's
the same thing that, you know, Dan Sullivan brings up that if I
say to you, I want you to 2x your business versus 10x your
business, remember, the psychology of that is really
interesting, because the psychology of the kingdom is so
different. So for instance, if I say you have to 2x your
business, you go, my goodness, it took 100 effort, units of
effort to get to this and you want me to do 200. I was already
working long hours and weekends, and I don't know how to double
that. And so what are you doing there, you're looking to your
past to give you permission for your future. So you scale that's
the mind at work scales trying to help you it's not evil. It's
just because you consulted the weakest part of yourself, your
mind. And so you went to your mind and you got the small
possibility, well, maybe we can get 15% growth, right? But if I
said 10x, then you have to ignore all that you have to go
well, we need different business, we need to rethink our
whole value proposition, what good are we bringing to the
world? Well, in the kingdom, it goes one step further, because
it's not up to you to come up with the 10x. It's, it's the
Lord sharing his 10x with you,
in the partnership,
pressures off, I can rest. So Father, what's the big thing
here? The problem is we go and ask for the most of us are
trained by religion to ask for rescue and escape. Not for 10x.
Lord, can you get me out of the situation? Can you heal me so my
body doesn't hurt? I get that. That's, that's, those are real,
very real things. The question is, what's the possibility in
this? That's the thing he sees that is so different. Because
God, I think makes himself the object of our desire, as we
experience his beauty, we want more of him. Because beauty is
compelling. Here's the interesting thing, the Harvard
study I read last week, the Harvard study on the
neuroscience says that we are literally wired for beauty. And
if we see a beautiful painting or a wonderful landscape, it
neurologically rewires our minds, we literally change.
That's why going on a walk or seeing something of going to
beautiful places. I have the advantage, I have a beautiful
wife, just saying. So anyway, that all those points, anyway. I
didn't mean to embarrass you. But here's the thing. The beauty
of what the Lord is doing in our lives compels now what they what
they discovered just in the neuroscience of it is the thing
that most rewires our minds is when we see goodness. When we're
seeing one person being good to another, our brains are rewired
by that there was a caveat, however, only for the people who
are looking for it. I think people are now wired into so
much negativity, that what they expect is for the other shoe to
drop this whole idea of what has been going well for now don't
jinx it. Don't mess it up. You know, because I'm just waiting
because all good things must come to an end. Yes, if you live
in the world. But all good things have to get a whole lot
better if you're in the kingdom.
So I was going to just add one thing that my topic on Monday
was all about the permission slip. And that the that's the
permission to do all that the Lord's prepared you for. And the
permission also to let your children go. And that's what
really connected with a lot of the parents that they felt that
they had, you know, they, especially the moms, their
responsibilities around their children and taking care of them
and, you know, being the
the babysitter for the grandchildren, et cetera.
And so it was about permission to let go
and permission to explore.
And that really helped them.
And I think sometimes we're so used to doing everything
out of routine and out of duty and discipline,
especially in parenting, but as well in a business,
you just feel like this has got to be hard.
I've got to be disciplined.
I've got to work harder.
But that's not the way we partner with the Lord.
His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
And so that really, that's that analogy
of the permission slip really helped them, so.
Yeah.
Jenny, let's bring you into the chat.
I know you have a lot of thoughts on this.
High expectations, speaking of.
It's a fun conversation, I think.
And I could pick so many things out of here.
And what I'm really landing on is,
there are no negatives in the kingdom.
And there's not, just talking about the absence.
Dark is the absence of light.
It's not a thing.
And so a negative is just the absence of God's possibilities.
But even taking it further and saying,
the negative is just the absence of God.
And so when we bring Him into that situation,
then everything becomes possible.
And so can you expect too much of God?
No, and so I think just what that does
is that's really a doorway into a greater expression
of how He wants to be with us here on the earth
and how we get to walk with Him.
And I like how that translates over into the team
with committing to the possibilities
and empowering the team, creating heroes.
And also, how do you want me to be with our team in this?
Because you can only give
what you're experiencing yourself.
And so it's really that dual action growth.
Your team is growing and you're growing as well.
So you're growing together.
So, I mean, there's so much there, I think, to unpack.
And just the implications,
the implications not only for us,
but the implications for God,
if we take Him at His word,
and we believe that with Him, all things are possible,
and that we can't expect too much of Him,
to continually expect Him to show up
and to prove Himself good, right?
So then that's where the good comes in to every situation.
So I think it's a lovely conversation.
So as a coach who trains coaches,
as a trainer of coaches, using the Brilliant Framework,
what have you found moves or helps people the most,
or helps coaches the most
of moving people out of negativity?
That's a really good question.
It's what you've said.
It's the beauty, it's the goodness.
Once you encounter the goodness of God,
you have a baseline with which
to measure every other instance through.
So you can't go below that, right?
So that it's beyond the redemption,
or beyond the restoration and to the redemption.
So you have a baseline with which
to measure every situation through.
You don't measure God through it,
you measure every situation through it.
And we minimize who He is based on our circumstances.
And you referenced that with everyone gets deemed.
And so we downgrade God
to match our circumstances a lot of times.
And so when we have that goodness there,
we have that baseline, then we stop downgrading Him.
And instead we minimize our circumstances
and make Him bigger than that.
And that's really, and we call that the exchange store.
And so it is the idea that His goodness is bigger
than anything that we can face, and it's present.
And it doesn't mean that the challenge,
the difficulty is not happening, we don't ignore it.
We just put it in its proper perspective,
its proper place and say His goodness
is much bigger than that circumstances.
So how's that gonna show up for me here?
Yeah, I like that.
I think what we're learning to do
is connect people to God's goodness in the circumstances
so that they're pulled out, so they live above their,
they don't mean to be an overcomer,
you're living over your circumstance,
you're not under the circumstance.
Well, how are you doing?
Well, under the circumstances,
what are you doing down there?
So you need to pull them up.
And I think we underestimate, hugely underestimate
how enthusiastic we are in God's goodness.
enthusiastic God is about our lives. And how excited he gets
when we ran into a new problem, problems like upgrade, right,
let's go to it. And I think there's this, you know, on these
rare occasions, I have these moments when I can hear the
three of them talking to each other, like, let me in. And I
can hear Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I can always tell them
apart. Sometimes I can. But sometimes they're having a
conversation about me, and they let me listen in. And it's
hilarious. You know, shall we tell them? Yeah, we should tell
them. I don't know. You think you can take that big thing? I
don't know. Well, let's let him listen in. And I've had
conversations. And it's like, almost like the father said,
well, we're going to create this the creator, you know, and then
the Redeemer Jesus like, Oh, but I want them to come into
fullness. I want them all I paid for. I want this. You know, the
same way you did this for me, Father, can we do it for him?
And and the Holy Spirit says, I know how to teach him that I can
teach him that I, you know, it's God thought therapy was so
important. He gave you a member of the Godhead, you know, called
the Holy Spirit, your primary therapist, he's your primary
coach teacher, I'm not against the the human side of that,
that's fine. But it only works if the human side starts in the
prophetic, because that's the future, it makes you present
future. So in other words, if you're sitting, if you're
coaching someone, and you say, Okay, well, here's all the
yellow, let's talk about all my stuff I got dinged on. Yep,
they're there, they're real, we can process them. But before we
do that, we need a starting point is, how does the Lord see
you? This is who you are, this is where he's taking you now,
you're stuck in the past, because ding, ding things
happen, and they can be very brutal. So we're not being
unkind, we're not saying the dings don't matter, or they
don't count. Yes, they matter. Yes, they count. But the healing
of the heart process to get you there is knowing the starting
point isn't your ding and your pain. The starting point is who
you are in him, who he is. And so goodness and mercy can then
come and bring you into the present so that you can move
into your future with him. And so when I see all this, we've
now it's there's a danger going on in the world in the King
Church world where we're making ministry, the Redeemer. And if
the ministry is the Redeemer, Jesus isn't. That's right. If
ministry is the rescuer, Jesus isn't. Yeah. And it sounds
subtle. Because, oh, it's my ministry, you know, and I know
we've been pushing it brilliant to get rid of that language.
It's the yoke partnership, what is my togetherness with the Lord
doing for them? Well, if you're coaching someone, you have to
get them into oneness before you can get them into purpose. We're
trying to just purpose purpose, what's my ministry? What's my
calling? What's my gift? We want to skip the oneness part of the
growing up in Jesus into fullness. And you don't have to
get to fullness to start, you just have to be in the mindset
of oneness. God's giving you to practice your oneness, you can
get saved in the morning and start in the afternoon. But I
think what we've done is religion has taught us we got to
do this for God, we were designed. Because it's born in
the mind, religion is born in the mind, what happens is it's
designed to make it transactional. It's about
knowledge or special knowledge, man, if we had the special
knowledge, if you knew my special framework, my three
steps to whatever, that it was the pursuit of special
knowledge got us kicked out of the Garden of Eden, the tree of
knowledge. It's the so how do we teach them the tree of life? I
am the way the truth and the life so we have to go back to
oneness and make it relational. What I think we're talking about
in addition to what you just said, Jenny is we're talking
about how do we upscale that? How do we ask God permission?
Well, how do we ask? It's like if a little kid comes to me and
says, Dad, for Christmas, can I just have a little bit of water
and some dry bread? And I'm so shocked by the low grade
question and the low grade expectation I go and then he
goes, Okay, okay, forget the bread. Went exactly the wrong
way. So but if my little kid came to me, Dad, can I have a
Ferrari? I love that you think you can ask that. But no, you
can't have a Ferrari until you're older. And when you're
there, you'll get a little Honda. So but because it's for
my good, it's for my highest good. He'll optimize good
giving an 18 year old Ferrari is a bad idea. But the fact that
I that I thought my kid, I love that my kid, we just are so
little. So I've been asking the Lord. I'm just I think I'm just
done with the bride being small, told her she's not the
billionaire bride living under the bridge. And anything she
tries, she's not enough. She doesn't count. She didn't. So
somebody, you know, recently came, she said, Oh, I've got a
new program.
program for brilliant we should I just saw this great line I think we could use
it and it's called peace through prayer I said what a terrible idea is that that
just sets the bride up for more accusation again oh well you don't have
peace because you didn't pray you didn't pray long enough and pray the right
thing and if you don't have peace it's all your fault we just set up five new
ways you can why would you pray for peace when the prince of peace lives in
you you don't have to earn it through prayer just another con job and and when
I was finished they were like yeah I can see why you hate that statement it just
makes the bride small again something else she has to go and earn to get some
benefit but she's paid for that so I mean as a coach Jenny how do you break
that barrier I mean it takes so much language on our part to move this it
does take a lot of language but it's really simple because a lot of people
come to God in acute situations and they want that instant relief and they
don't recognize that the dream in his heart is just to live with you and your
everyday situation those difficult circumstances are just an outcome to how
you're walking with God in a day-to-day basis that he enjoys the fellowship he
enjoys the oneness day-to-day he doesn't get bored he doesn't get tired of it he
doesn't think to us hmm you know I'm gonna go over here and do something
exciting he wants us to invite him in to those mundane repetitive tasks in our
life and those lead us those prepare us for the challenges and the obstacles and
the purpose right to go and to become even more than overcomers not just an
overcomer but to become more than an overcomer in our life in our situation
and I really do think that it is that I think that people have such a small
opinion of not just God but of themselves in Christ they don't
recognize beauty as you said it goodness and beauty it's such a key thing they
don't recognize their own beauty that God made them beautiful Jesus made them
beautiful you were meant to be loved you were meant to be delighted in you
were meant to be enjoyed and in fellowship you're not something he has
to tolerate because you're terrible you are something worth his time if you
never did anything you know huge in the world he would still want to be with you
in exactly the same way and the outcome of being well loved in that relationship
is that you would then of course we do live in Dominion right over the earth
with that we are meant to be in Dominion over the earth and to rule here on the
earth and we can only do that when we are reflecting who he is for us yeah we
can't rain if you can't relate yeah you can't relate if you can't receive you
can't receive if you don't believe so there it is believing receiving relating
raining the four functions for power functions of the human spirit our heart
has these massive capabilities they're eternal they engage an eternal beautiful
being who's who's perfectly good for with who we're gonna spend eternity with
him so we're really learning to live like we're gonna live in in heaven
that's why we on earth as it is in heaven so if we're gonna be kingdom
leaders we have to be bringing on earth as it is in heaven well how's it in
heaven no negativity you're fully loved as you said fully accepted in the
beloved he knows exactly who you are it's we who don't know us because we
don't know the new you we keep describing the dead me to Jesus the part
that's dead you're dead to sin but Lord you don't know I'm so frustrated with
your son no well you don't have to be frustrated with dead people imagine
being frustrated with my dad who's passed away you'd seriously think I need
therapy if I came up with that plan you we do that to the Lord our Lord I'm so
fed up with myself I mean that's parts dead because we've been taught that
repentance keeps us in right standing with God no repentance is just you
agreeing with God about you the new you so it's all these elements are the
beauty of Jesus in us so I was thinking about God draws you into himself through
the beauty of what the possibilities are opening up because when you see oh
Lord that is so beautiful that you would be that good and kind to me I see him as
beautiful because our minds are wired to recognize goodness as beauty that's why
we were saying goodness and beauty go together I was so excited when I found
this research because I came to the conclusion of goodness and beauty
through
you know, through this, this whole process myself. And so he's
selecting what would be most beautiful, most good in your
circumstances. I love that for us. And when we and so I said,
Lord, so is it okay that I hold actuality and possibility in my
hands at the same time? And the difference? Yes, what's actually
is the case? Here's the possibility you're offering
Lord, and it's the gap creates desire in us. I want that. Oh,
I want that possibly. So we feel sometimes we feel in Christian
circles, we may not call the actuality what it actually is
called the reality what it is face the facts, hold the
actuality, hold the possibility, but let the gap create desire to
partner. And it was this simple mechanism. So the possibility
can't be small, because if the possibly small doesn't create
desire, who wants a small thing? You know, yay, I'm going to give
you a half eaten ice cream. Yay, what a possibility, you know, so
buddy for the Lord is opening up a new territory for us. And we
go, Lord, wow, that is so beautiful that you would offer
me that. And then we become overwhelmed by his goodness, not
overwhelmed by our circumstances, circumstances of
nothingness packaged up, just problems, people solving
problems. And then life upgrades as a leader from just solving
one miserable problem after another. But it's now learning
to enjoy and walk in the beauty of Jesus. So I love this. So I
think this desire creates in us this that we're designed to co
create with him. And so the greatest human desire is to
participate in his beauty and participate in the purposes of
God, because we find them beautiful, because we find them
deeply attractive. And so when we focus on, you know, God's
desire for us, we just drawn towards him. That's how love
works. That's how lovers fall in love, like how people fall in
love and become lovers. You know, if you if you think about
it, when what you first fell in love with wasn't so much the
person, but what that person thought about you, that sounds
deeply selfish. But it's true, though, isn't it? I like to I, I
like to Bridget thought I was. And I like to she, I like to she
liked, and then I liked her for it. And then we fell in love. If
you understand the mechanism, when we see how God sees us, we
fall in love with the person he sees, and then we fall in love
with him for seeing us that way. So, his love becomes that
source of our affection. Because, you know, Jesus
demonstrate this, look exactly what worked for Jesus designed
to work for us. And I, and if you think about this, we mimic
what we what we admire. So if you think about, I know that
there's an incredible amount of biological research that
supports the idea that imitation is a fundamentally biological
mechanism. In other words, we learn, we, we learn by
mimicking. Right, so a little kid mimics, dad mimics, mom, and
it's the mimicry, you know, that, you know, Paul said,
follow me as I follow Christ, copy me, until you can follow
Christ by yourself. That wasn't an invitation to permanently
only look to me, we have to disciple people to direct
learning at some point, where they take the yoke and learn
from him. But while they're learning, we can teach them to
me. And that's what Jesus said, I'll teach you the same way. The
Father taught me, I no longer call you servants, I call you
friends, because servants do not know the master's business. And
I will teach you everything the Father taught me. What an offer.
It's the same thing as if you don't respect a leader, you
won't mimic them. Right? So you only mimic what you respect. And
Jesus knows that. So I think the other thing we massively
underestimate, not just God's enthusiasm for our lives, for
our businesses, for our families, for our relationship,
but he's also fully present in every circumstances. But he's
chosen not to be in control, but to be in partnership, he's in
control of heaven, and his purposes ultimately will be
fulfilled, he'll rework, he's so confident he can work through
all of humanity's dumb decisions, and good decisions
and evil decisions and behaviors and all that stuff and still
land on his purposes. So he shares in our experience.
He is actively participating in his experience.
So I think the best thing we can do to open up this world of expectation, this world of
possibility, is to be present to his presence, you know, because it's in that mechanism,
we see actuality, God sees possibility.
And then the desire, if the possibility is big enough, to the extent the possibility
is born in his heart, not just an exaggeration of our imagination, but it's truly born out
of God's heart, it draws us in, it builds desire.
Small possibilities will give small desire, big possibilities will create big desire.
So I think the reason we don't see desire in our team is we haven't given them a great
possibility.
You know who's remarkably good at this as a leader, strangely enough, in just terms
of downstairs leadership is Elon.
I love that he says, we're going to Mars.
And it was like, hang on, we haven't even got a ship big enough to leave the earth,
you know, no, we'll build that.
And then they were like, well, you know, NASA takes $4 billion for NASA to do a launch,
and they can do one every three years.
What does Elon say?
No, we've got to get it down to one a week.
You see, the possibility of that is so massive, then the desire is that you either in or you're out.
So there are people on your team who should be out because they can't commit to the possibility,
or they won't commit to the possibility, because the possibility is a matter of believing in
the possibility.
I believe Lord, because you said this is possible for me, I'm in.
So I don't want to do, oh, is it three a day?
Glenn says he wants to launch three a day.
Sorry, not one.
Well, I know we're trying to get to one a week now, I think they've got like the next
whole bunch already built, right?
Well, the idea of self-driving two, three, four years ago seemed ridiculous.
And now this newest version is getting so close of self-driving.
Robo taxis, cyber cab, a car with no steering wheel and no brakes, no pedals.
They're going to production Q2 next year.
And I'm looking at that and I'm going, people still don't believe the possibility.
And they're actually building them already.
So let me simplify this down to its simplest, simple base form as you're thinking about
this time today.
Face the actuality of what is, but take the possibility, take that to possibility, spend
most of your time making sure you've upscaled the possibility in God's heart big enough
that it creates a desire in you to commit to that possibility.
Then you will naturally enthuse your team because your enthusiasm will be infectious.
By the way, enthusiasm comes from the word to be enthused means to be in God, just saying
to be full of God, to be enthused, theos, to be in theos.
So my challenge that the Lord has given me, which I wanted to share with you today was
what's the possibility?
Don't let circumstances, the economy, all that downstairs stuff.
That's not the foundation of possibility.
That's just the foundation of actuality.
And we have to face actuality.
It's not nonsense.
It's real.
But we can hold actuality downstairs in possibility upstairs, and then we can take that upstairs
possibility on earth as it is in heaven.
We can take that heaven thing and pull it into the earth and bring goodness to the world
regardless of what the actuality.
I don't have the team.
I don't have the capital.
The economy is bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
These are actualities that are worth looking at and writing down, but they're small.
I think if we can flip this and make God's possibility, and we don't have to have a major
possibility every day, every week, every month.
We just need one big possibility to work on for several years.
Maybe some smaller ones we work on in between.
So what I've done is once that possibility starts to get there is write a crafted prayer
for that possibility.
And I want to end, if I may, and I know I've done a lot of the talking today, I wanted
to be more conversational, but this is such a big topic.
I'm so consumed by this.
So, thanks for giving me the chance to share with you because you know you get clearer
when you tell others, right?
So thanks for hearing this out, but I do want to end with something the Lord gave me earlier.
Earlier in the week I had a prophetic dream.
I don't get them very often.
often. And in this prophetic dream, in this prophetic dream,
and I felt to share it with you today, and I want to end with
this. From this prophetic dream, I crafted a prayer called
kingdom financial beauty. And so in my dream, I was in a very
poor country reminded me of certain parts of Africa, maybe,
Malaysia, whatever. And it ended up with certain poor parts of
Malaysia, it ended up in a valley where poor people all
living in this very deplorable, desperate state, it was actually
a dried out riverbed. And they had carved out like little
landing place where they could lie. And I was looking down this
valley, I was a little further up. And I was there, looking at
this, and my host was a woman who was there to translate and
it was very clear that I didn't understand the people I didn't
understand the language, I didn't understand what was going
on. And, and in that, you know, in that situation, my, my host
started pointing out that this area had gone through like an
economic tsunami, it gone through economic ruin. And she
pointed out different people to me, this person over that guy
over there was a banker, this person over there, this lady
over there, she lost all her family wealth. And I looked at
them. And I mean, they were in a hideous state, you know, like
not just homeless, but just poor and homeless in mud. And they
were hardly recognizable as human, all these people. And I
became aware that this town was sort of rife, this economic
disaster, the tsunami had come because it was rife with
demonic activity, which can only exist in the absence, because
it's the absence of something, the absence absence of kingdom
leaders bringing heaven to earth, the absence of kingdom
leaders bringing economic health and life. And I remember
thinking, you know, in this activity, I wasn't threatened at
all, because it was very rife and obvious the king, the
demonic activity, maybe you've experienced that before. I have
and I remember thinking it really sucks to be that to be
them, the demons, because I was here with the three. So sucks to
be them. Because this stuff's gonna stop working, this stuff
will stop being active, because we're going to reduce, we're
going to, we're going to dispel this nothingness and replace it.
And at that moment, as I thought that two demonic beings that
looked like overgrown dogs, or even they were crawling on,
they were hideous creatures, like oversized mutilated dogs,
maybe the size of a bear started moving towards me in a very
threatening, snarling way down this riverbed towards me. And
the people were obviously used to them. And they started
cowering, and obviously deeply fearful that they were, this was
a common thing that we're used to seeing. And I remember in my
dream, I stood up. And I shouted in an ancient heavenly language
in tongues, just one word, a very power, I knew it was
powerful. You know, it found like my Gandalf moment on the
bridge, you shall not pass it at that kind of, you know,
cinematic impact in my dream. And everybody was shocked
because I shouted this word. And for some reason, the word I
shouted was a language they understood, they knew exactly
what it meant, even though I didn't know it by the words, but
I knew my spirit by interpretation, what I was, I
was ending something, I was saying this stops. And I started
to walk steps down as these beasts came towards me. And I
started to shout aloud in this very ancient heavenly language,
which I knew was a battle language. And the beast stopped.
And as they stopped, there was fear in their eyes, and they
turned to stone because it's fake. And a visible shockwave.
And I had raised my arms up like this. And I shouted in my dream
this, this language. And it was like a visual visual shockwave
left, you know, almost like you've maybe seen Star Wars,
like room, you know, that sort of idea in my dream. And the
play, the shockwave traveled right down the valley and
throughout the town. And, and it changed. And immediately, there
were these dark gray clouds, they lifted and fresh air came
in and sunlight entered. It felt like people were feeling the sun
on their skin for the first time in a very, very, very long while.
And there were gasps and joyful sounds everywhere. So I was in
this moment. And I turned and there was the banker and he was
standing in a fresh suit, perfectly groomed. I didn't
recognize him. And he was astonished. He was shocked. He
was looking at his clothes. He was feeling his face shaven,
great haircut, perfectly groomed, fresh, showered, clean,
instantly. And I told him you're a banker again. And your job is
now
restored, not going to be, is.
And I looked at that elderly lady
and she was elegantly dressed.
And I said, your family fortune has been fully restored.
She began to cry.
And the host asked me, who are you?
I mean, how is this even possible?
No one's done this.
And I replied loudly for all to hear,
who I am is not important.
It's whose I am that matters.
And so she said, well, then whose are you?
And I started to answer that I belong to the creative father,
to the redeemer son.
And I started talking about the powerful restorer
of the Holy Spirit.
And I was blown away by it.
And I started to share the gospel.
And I woke up.
It was 3 AM in the morning.
And the Lord said, this is worth getting up for.
And I woke up.
And I knew it was related to what
we were doing at Brilliant.
But I felt also it was related to what we're doing here
at the NSO Corps.
We're opening up new space.
We're doing more than just helping people
with their business and practical business,
downstairs stuff and upstairs views and perspectives.
We were crafting something in God's heart,
a new possibility that mattered to Him.
So I went to pray.
The presence of the Lord was so powerful.
It's just my whole body felt like it was glowing.
I think glory would be a good word to describe it.
And I continued to pray in the Spirit in that language.
And it felt like a new yoke language.
I've talked about having the yoke voice.
He sounds like what I sound like.
But when we're together, what we sound like together.
And I prayed for the team, our family,
prayed for Inner Circle, for you guys.
And the Lord said to me, remember this place
will come here often.
And we'll use this yoke voice.
And then He started to explain, this
is what financial beauty looks like.
When I restore desolate inheritances,
which if you don't know, is the prophetic word
of our family, is I-49, restore of desolate inheritances.
And so He wanted me to create a crafted prayer about finance,
about money, and about restoring financial inheritances.
So here's my prayer for you.
Here's the crafted prayer that I wrote directly after that.
Father, for people listening to this
and to those listening to the replay,
I pray for found money, for unexpected income,
for checks in the mail, and unexpected returns
on investments.
I pray, Lord, for new customers, new sources of income,
new products and new services.
I pray for new discoveries and inventions.
I pray, Lord, for innovative business models
and new capital sources that come from heaven to earth.
I pray for the team members we have, Lord,
to discover new abilities they didn't know they had,
new methods, new processes, new innovations, new breakthroughs.
I pray for new members for our team, Lord,
with unexpected contributions we never even
saw when we hired them.
I pray for a team cohesion and unity
that has huge effect on our customers
and brings life to our team members and their families.
I pray for profitable businesses that can fund their own growth
and be generous on every occasion.
I pray for economic engines that can power development,
innovation, growth, and capital and can move the business
into its full stature in the kingdom.
I pray for kingdom leadership that partners with you,
builds life-giving cultures, creates teams
that are fully alive with purpose,
and brings real value to the world.
I pray for resolution of legal disputes, lawsuits, mediations,
and the ending of long legal battles.
I pray for favorable outcomes and peaceful resolutions.
I pray for businesses operated on earth as it is in heaven.
Bring a new era of enterprise to the earth, Lord.
Release heaven's resources to restore
the desolate inheritances and redeem that which was lost.
Raise kingdom leaders who are fully reconciled to you,
Father, in yoke with you, Jesus, and in step with you,
Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thanks, everybody.
Appreciate you joining us today.
Have a great day.