WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Good day everyone. It is day 17. It is called Life-Giving Leadership. 2 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:15.000 Restful one, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, listen with your spirit to the word of God for you. 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:24.000 Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, 4 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:31.000 because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews, Esther 10.3. 5 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:39.000 Remember, restful one, that peace is largely found in completeness and wholeness, which necessitates relationships. 6 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.000 It is a blessing to have a life-giving leader. 7 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:52.000 I bless you, restful one, with many life-giving leaders and with experiencing different flavors of wisdom that come from the different men and women. 8 00:00:52.000 --> 00:01:00.000 I bless you with having a variety of life-giving leaders so that they can equip you and prepare you for the days to come. 9 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:07.000 I bless you with leaders who give life by showing you favor and opening doors for you. 10 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:14.000 I also bless you with leaders who give life by being firm in requiring you to learn disciplines and demonstrate diligence. 11 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:22.000 I bless you, restful one, with life-giving leaders who minister to your spirit and bring you into a deep knowledge of the Most High God. 12 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:31.000 I bless you with life-giving leaders who teach you to love the word of God, who lead you to meditate on the word of God so that your wisdom continually grows. 13 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:36.000 I bless you with life-giving leaders who will teach you how to relate to other people, 14 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:44.000 who model for you the joys of relationship and bring you into a high level of celebration in your family and your community of faith, 15 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:49.000 where people live together in unity and experience anointing from God. 16 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:56.000 I bless you with life-giving leaders in difficult times who can make a path for you where there seems to be no way. 17 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:01.000 I bless you with life-giving leaders who give you perspective in difficult situations. 18 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:13.000 I bless you, restful one, with a spirit that takes advantage of the blessing of life-giving leaders and learns from them so that you, in turn, will become a life-giving leader, 19 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:24.000 so that you and your generation will widen and deepen the stream of generational blessings from which your natural children and spiritual children will draw. 20 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.000 I bless you with far greater skill than your parents. 21 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.000 I bless you with learning how to minister to your children in a wiser, richer way. 22 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:37.000 I bless you with a good husband or a good wife. 23 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:48.000 I bless you with bringing wholeness and life-giving skills into your marriage so that you, as a couple, can bring the kingdom of God to bear on the society around you. 24 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:58.000 I bless you, restful one, with being a leader in your community of faith so that other people spontaneously come to you when they have needs. 25 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:07.000 I bless you to be a wiser life-giver, not an enabler who inappropriately meets needs that people should take care of for themselves. 26 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:18.000 I bless you with having a huge reservoir of peace within you so that when you speak blessings of peace, peace becomes a reality in the lives of others. 27 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:25.000 I bless you with an anointing on your speech so that you can speak peace to those around you. 28 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:33.000 I bless you with being such a life-giving leader that you are welcomed into a community that has been hostile to you. 29 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:52.000 I pray for such an anointing of wisdom and life-giving and peace upon you that you will be sought out and placed in positions of influence so that your life-giving may flow out from you like a river and peace may envelop the social settings where God places you. 30 00:03:52.000 --> 00:04:06.000 I bless you, restful one, with life-giving leaders to mentor you throughout your life, and I bless you with becoming a life-giving leader who blesses the next generation of life-giving mentors. 31 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.000 I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 32 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.000 Lord, I lift every single person to you today. 33 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:27.000 It is without a shadow of a doubt that each one of them are called into a place of leadership. 34 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:49.000 Sure, it could be said that we are all leaders and we are all called to some form of leadership, but, Lord, it has been my observation in my time alone when I hold them in my heart that each one has a larger call to leadership than they are aware. 35 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:56.000 That they are in the midst of a great upward progression, challenge after challenge. 36 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.000 That though it may not feel like it, that they are being raised up. 37 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.160 up and elevated to a place, well let me rephrase that, that their station is being elevated 38 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.560 though they may not feel like it or have been released into it, that they are in an ever 39 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:24.520 escalating elevated place of preparation in anticipation of their actual promotion that's 40 00:05:24.520 --> 00:05:34.160 come. It is as if it is in the mail but it has not arrived. Lord I pray Lord for each 41 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:44.000 of these leaders that Lord that they would be drawn to see and to be around and to note 42 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:53.320 the leaders Lord that just aren't good leaders but are emulations in aspects of you, emulations 43 00:05:53.320 --> 00:05:59.840 of what it is that they're called to do that would inspire and enliven them in places that 44 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:08.720 are supposed to be of kin of a similar, I want to say vibration, but it's like when 45 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:16.960 one guitar string is plucked, the E string, the other E strings start to vibrate. So that 46 00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:23.200 Lord that there would be people around each and every person that I am I'm speaking over 47 00:06:23.200 --> 00:06:31.040 now that would inspire them to a place in a channel and a direction and that they would 48 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:37.040 also have leaders that are functioning in ways that they are not used to to stretch 49 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:42.380 them into the places that they have yet to entertain that Lord that there are talents 50 00:06:42.380 --> 00:06:51.100 and aspects of who they are that they haven't even imagined that in some respects at least 51 00:06:51.100 --> 00:06:57.100 some of them haven't even scratched the surface or explored what they're truly good at and 52 00:06:57.100 --> 00:07:08.460 ultimately called to. I also pray Lord that all of us have had know what it's like when 53 00:07:08.460 --> 00:07:16.020 we have run into people with bad days or maybe we're all too aware of where our parents 54 00:07:16.020 --> 00:07:23.420 have fallen short and no matter how good they are we know that they're not you or leaders 55 00:07:23.420 --> 00:07:32.100 in particular Lord where there have been people here that have been hurt or where leaders 56 00:07:32.100 --> 00:07:44.180 in particular spiritual or paternal in a sense leaders have hurt and misused them rejected 57 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:50.520 them or where they have been seemingly invisible. Today Lord I pray that that place where people 58 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:55.260 have been shrouded in a way where it is like their whole life they've not been able to 59 00:07:55.260 --> 00:08:01.180 be seen that Lord every place where that has happened that you yourself are not the one 60 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:08.060 that is concealing them Lord in this season that you would remove it today and that Lord 61 00:08:08.060 --> 00:08:15.300 for each one of those that you are intentionally keeping hidden at least for right now that 62 00:08:15.300 --> 00:08:19.780 Lord that you would give them peace and knowing that it's true but in all cases Lord where 63 00:08:19.780 --> 00:08:27.500 we have been under people that we will just say maybe fell short of the ultimate goal 64 00:08:27.500 --> 00:08:34.740 of what a leader should be whether relationally or vocationally or whatever the case may be 65 00:08:34.740 --> 00:08:45.340 teachers that Lord that you would breathe on those things for us to pull from it wisdom. 66 00:08:45.340 --> 00:08:54.340 I've heard it said Lord that it's not sometimes we're put under poor leaders to learn what 67 00:08:54.340 --> 00:09:02.700 not to do. Many have said that David would never have become the king that he became 68 00:09:02.700 --> 00:09:16.300 if he were not under Saul. Lord there seems to be a challenge and we would call it a vacuum 69 00:09:16.300 --> 00:09:21.580 of real leadership and there are new leaders you're raising up in a new style we'll call 70 00:09:21.620 --> 00:09:27.740 it of leadership especially leadership as defined by you and what the kingdom of God 71 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:40.180 in its advancement is supposed to reflect that there's a new culture like a corporate culture 72 00:09:40.180 --> 00:09:45.100 every corporation has a certain culture to it and some of them we just don't fit to but Lord 73 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:54.860 there's a culture that we were born out of that maybe we are just we can't remember. I pray for 74 00:09:54.860 --> 00:09:59.540 all of us Lord to come to a remembrance of knowing the origins. 75 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.360 of our culture, of who we are. 76 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:25.760 Lord, I also pray for those that don't believe or question their ability to 77 00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:34.080 lead. That, Lord, you would give them, whether it's in their dreams, in their quiet time, 78 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:41.040 that, Lord, you would kind of like reels through a movie, 79 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:48.400 but in this case of their lifetime, of all the ways in which you've been preparing them 80 00:10:51.920 --> 00:10:52.880 and honing them 81 00:10:52.880 --> 00:10:58.240 and even in places where they led that they did not know. 82 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.480 It isn't a question as to whether they are leaders, it's what kind of leader they're 83 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:09.760 called to be. And, of course, the great question that everyone has is what they're supposed to 84 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:16.880 lead in. What are they supposed to lead? What are they supposed to do? Well, Lord, I truly pray today 85 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.880 that every blessing about drawing life-giving leaders, 86 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:32.640 shepherds, mothers and fathers, into their lives to support all the good that is there, 87 00:11:33.920 --> 00:11:39.920 to help extract and identify the things that need to be removed and that would be rewritten, 88 00:11:40.800 --> 00:11:48.160 almost, to contradict some of the history of what they've experienced and what and who leaders are. 89 00:11:52.400 --> 00:11:54.960 We're leading into confusing times 90 00:11:57.520 --> 00:12:04.320 of when to stand up and how to stand up. As Christians, we can be very acquiescent, 91 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:14.000 and sometimes we have too much of our environment to seem to seep into or out of 92 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:19.920 us. Our humanity leaks, as they say. It's like 93 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:31.040 Jeremiah saying that he was a man of unclean lips in a society that was not clean. 94 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:52.560 I truly pray, Lord, that today it looks like, I know this is going to sound a little funny, Lord, 95 00:12:52.560 --> 00:13:00.560 that there is a brush, sometimes it's a toothbrush and sometimes it's a huge brush, to clean away 96 00:13:01.520 --> 00:13:07.600 some of the things that have caked on over the years, especially that we've received from others. 97 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:16.880 It can just take one ill-placed word at the wrong time in a formative time of our lives 98 00:13:16.880 --> 00:13:20.880 that can seem to hang over us is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Lord, 99 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:24.880 we break the power of those words today in Jesus' name. 100 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:34.640 Lord, I pray today that you and all of heaven will join, Lord, in reading aloud and speaking 101 00:13:34.640 --> 00:13:46.320 words over these beautiful ones, Lord, these restful ones, and that they can receive through 102 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:52.080 osmosis the matriculation of your word that is like water into the soil of their soul. 103 00:13:54.880 --> 00:13:58.080 To remove today, Lord, and loosen all the blockages. 104 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:06.880 I bless the leaders and their lives, Lord. I bless their marriages. I bless their parents. 105 00:14:06.880 --> 00:14:11.600 I bless their children. I bless their friends. I bless their workplace, Lord God. 106 00:14:12.400 --> 00:14:16.800 If it were possible, Lord, I would pray that they would almost be put into a place 107 00:14:16.800 --> 00:14:21.040 of suspended animation where everything falls away, 108 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:32.240 and all they can hear and experience in a brand new way is your voice, your heartbeat, 109 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:38.880 and all they can hear and experience in a brand new way is your voice, your heartbeat. 110 00:14:46.880 --> 00:14:51.200 Lord, I pray there be an unspecial anointing upon their sleep, and there being a tugging, 111 00:14:51.920 --> 00:14:57.040 a gentle nudge, a pulling, Lord, of you into arenas that they never would have imagined to 112 00:14:57.040 --> 00:14:58.000 step out of. 113 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:09.320 and to trust Lord with unfailing unfathomable you know peace and a rest 114 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:14.400 and a trust in you to step out and know that you know what you're doing and 115 00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:19.960 you're never going to leave us or forsake us. We bless you in Jesus name.