All right, so welcome, welcome, welcome Prosper Leader members.
This is the starting of the month call that we do.
We do two calls every month, and this is to kick off the month.
And for those of you listening live, it's the month of June, which means that we are
finishing off the first half of the year.
How amazing and how fast it goes, and how good that we can stay focused and be together
a couple times a month.
So I'm going to start with prayer, and I'm going to share the screen here real quick,
and we are going to be talking about a concept that I believe is going to be so important
for you as you're growing, and you're growing your business.
And so we're going to be talking about stewardship and how it applies to your business, to your
clients, to your prospecting.
So let's start with prayer.
Father God, I thank you that this is a new day, a new month with so much opportunity.
Open our eyes, open our mind, open our heart to see your goodness, your abundance, all
that you have for us.
I ask that on this call that you open our spiritual senses to hear what you are saying.
May each woman who is here live or listening to the recording, may these words contain
the power of your Holy Spirit, may they contain life, may they nourish her mind, her soul,
her body, may they encourage her, may they inspire her, may they uplift her to rise into
the fullness of what you have for her.
Speak, Lord, we ask.
Let the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight.
I ask in Jesus' name, amen and amen.
All right, I'm sharing a concept that's been rising up in me, and for a lot of reasons.
There were some conversations that really came up in coaching that I saw really needed
to be shared that could make a huge difference, I believe, for you, for your business.
It's late spring, almost summer, and I've been planting a garden.
There's no place that you really see the miracles of God, the abundance of God, the laws of
God that you do, like in a garden.
You take a small seed, and you put it in the ground, and contained in that seed is the
total blueprint for something.
If it's an eggplant plant, or a zucchini plant, or a cucumber, in that tiny seed is
the blueprint for a plant, and in that are many, many, many more seeds.
I like to say how many orchards are in one apple tree.
The multiplication of God, the abundance of God.
I've got zucchini and yellow squash, and these things just in a matter of so little time
just take over the garden.
Already I've got dozens of squash, and I think one little tiny seed that can multiply.
Jesus used the concept of seeds and sowing for teaching often, teaching many, many principles
of life.
I want to use it as it relates to you as coaches, and for you in business, those of you that
are in real estate, those of you that are in the different businesses that you're in.
I want to use it in a way that it really relates to your life, and I pray that you really get
an aha like some of my clients got this week.
The concept of stewardship, that's not a word that we usually, outside of church or the
Bible, is not a word we usually walk around going, oh, I really want to be a good steward
of my life.
But when you get the depth of this concept,
it changes how we look at life.
So let's dig into it.
And so the noun stewardship means conducting, supervising,
managing of something, especially
the careful and responsible management of something
entrusted to one's care.
In other words, stewardship of natural resources.
Now, let me give you my definition.
It means the employment and enjoyment.
Employment and enjoyment of what is entrusted to us.
The employment and the enjoyment of what is entrusted.
Now, we're going to spend some time in Matthew.
I'm going to share more scripture than I normally
do in these calls, because it's just rich.
And I just pray that this word gets in you,
and it just sets your heart on fire, and it encourages,
and it inspires.
So Matthew 25 has a verse where it says,
his master said to him, well done, you upright,
honorable, admirable, and faithful steward.
I mean, I think, I know for me, that's the cry of my heart.
I think we all want the Lord to look at us and say,
hey, well done.
You've been faithful.
And it says a principle here.
You've been faithful and trustworthy over a little.
I will put you in charge of much.
Enter into and share the joy, the delight, the blessedness
which your master enjoys.
Now, this thing has so many principles.
It's got a principle of being faithful,
and it has principle of being faithful over a little,
and then we're made ruler over much.
Now, this is a really powerful concept
I want you to think about.
So often we think, when I get really rich,
when I get that big deal, man, I'm going to be a giver.
I'm going to totally be a giver.
And the truth is, no, if you don't give out of $100,
you won't give out of a million, I promise you.
And so are you faithful?
And maybe you go, man, when I've got this huge coaching
practice, I'm going to serve.
I'm going to do so much.
Are you doing that with one client?
Are you doing that with your practice client?
Are you doing it with your first 10 clients?
So there's this principle that when
we're faithful with a little.
So it's so easy to negate that.
You might say, well, I only have one prospect.
I only have one call this month.
I only have five prospects.
I only have 10 leads.
I only have four leads.
I only have three leads.
And we tend to minimize.
And we look at how little we have.
Instead of looking at this concept of stewardship,
I have been trusted with three leads, three people
that God has allowed me to have a phone conversation,
a Zoom call with.
And so it's this idea of being faithful and trustworthy
over a little.
And then we're put in charge of much.
And with this faithfulness comes joy, comes delight,
comes satisfaction.
When you get this concept, you have whole new joy,
whole new delight, which your master,
you enter into your master, you enter into the delight
that God feels, the death of the light.
You enter into the light because scripture
says we are the light of the world.
Now, this stewardship is often put together
with sowing, with the concept of sowing.
So let me read.
It's a little bit of a long scripture.
But I want to read it and just maybe close your eyes,
maybe just let it soak in, maybe feel it,
maybe ask the Holy Spirit to let you hear it
in a brand new way.
I've emphasized certain words in there
to help you just get this.
And looking at it, not just financially.
Often stewardship, sowing, reaping,
you've heard it in church.
It's tied in with tithing or giving.
And so we've relegated it to only one area of our life.
But that's not how life is.
How you do one thing is how you do all things.
And so the more that you're a steward of your garden,
the more you're a steward of your home,
the more you're a steward of your children,
the more you're a steward of your body and your family.
physical health, the more you're steward, it crosses all areas.
And I see this.
I have clients that the more they
started doing the things I taught them, it bled over.
And so maybe they're starting to get prospects
and they're getting clients, and now they're in the gym
and they've got a personal trainer.
And now they're booking family vacations.
And now it's like it spreads.
How you do one thing is how you do all things.
Let me read this.
It says, it's just like a man.
He's telling a parable.
It's like a man who was about to take a journey
and he called his servants together
and he entrusted them with his possessions.
So there's this trust.
Everything that you have has been entrusted to you.
Your gifts, your talents, your skills, your home,
your resources, your children, there's this trust.
They've been entrusted.
And it says, to one, he gave five talents.
It's a measure of money, in this case, of gold.
To another one, each according to his own ability.
And then he went on his journey.
So God has given to each of us based
on what we are able to handle.
And the more we grow, the more we're able to handle,
the more that is entrusted to us.
Another principle there.
It says, the one who had received the five talents
went at once and traded with them and he made a profit
and he gained five more.
Another principle.
God is into multiplication.
He wants us to take everything and multiply it,
to be faithful with it, and made a profit.
And it says, likewise, the one who had two made a profit
and gathered two more.
And the one who had received the one
did something a little different.
He dug a hole in the ground and hid his talents,
hid his master's money.
So the one that only had one hid it.
Now, after a long time, the master of those servants
returned and settled accounts with them.
And the one who had received the five talents
came and brought them five more, saying, master,
you entrusted me with five.
See, I've made a profit and I've gained five more.
And the master says, well done, good and faithful servant.
You've been faithful and trustworthy over a little.
I will put you in charge of many things,
sharing the joy of your master.
Also, the one that had two talents
came forth saying, see, I've made a profit
and I've gained two more talents.
And this master said, well done, good and faithful servant.
You've been faithful and trustworthy over a little.
I'll put you in charge of many things.
Share in the joy of your master.
The one who had received one talent
also came forward and said, master,
I knew you to be a harsh and demanding man,
reaping the harvest where you did not sow
and gathering where you did not scatter seed.
So I was afraid.
I was afraid to lose.
I only had one little talent.
I was afraid to lose it.
So I hung on to it.
I clung to it.
I went and I hid it where it would be safe.
And I know I could find it.
I buried it.
But here it is.
See, I kept it.
Here it is.
And his master answered, you wicked, lazy servant.
Is that right?
You knew I reap the harvest where I didn't sow and gather
what I did?
You knew that?
Then you ought to put my money, at least with the bankers,
and get a return.
I would have received my money back, at least with interest.
Take the talent away from him and give it
to the one who has 10.
For to everyone who has and values his blessings
and gifts from God and has used them wisely, more will be given.
Have you been asking God for more?
And he will be richly supplied so that he
will have an abundance.
But from the one who does not have,
because he's ignored or disregarded his blessings
and gift from God, even what he does have
will be taken away.
A sobering thought.
How often do we think we can't give because we have too little?
We can't build a big business because we only have.
We can't serve in the way that we want.
We can't.
You know, we have all these ideas.
And I have learned over the years that the most powerful thing we can do is to live as if.
So, how can we, whatever the vision that God has, how can we step into that and begin living that now?
Not later, not waiting until we have more.
How can we take what we have and begin to live it and use it powerfully right now?
You see, our business and our money mindset is shaped by three things.
Our view of God, our view of money and our view of ourselves.
By the way, you're going to get all of this to be able to work on this worksheet.
So, I'm going to go a little fast.
I want to share a story and I want us to have time to really mastermind this and talk about it together.
So, here's what I want you to think about.
I got to thinking about this particular subject when I was on a call and I sent some of you a video.
I was on a call with a real estate broker and no, not Crystal who's on this one.
It's another one of my clients.
And she was really struggling with following up on her leads.
It's like she just didn't have the intention to do it and she wouldn't do it and she put it off and she put it off.
And then she'd feel bad that it's been too long and she'd have guilt that she didn't follow up.
And then she'd feel embarrassed to call later.
And by the way, a little tip and then I'll get to the story.
Those of you that maybe feel that, just pick up the phone.
It doesn't matter if it's been three months or six months.
The fact that you're thinking about them and you say, hey, you're really on my mind.
I wanted to reach out.
It's been a minute.
I wanted to catch back up.
Nothing will be lost.
Get rid of the shame.
I'm talking to someone that has been carrying shame so they don't and they're beating up on themselves or it might be showing up on Facebook live and they're afraid to show up because it's been weeks or it's about posting but it's been months.
Forget, do what Paul said, forgetting what is behind and press on toward the mark.
Get back on track.
Whatever you did or didn't do yesterday, yesterday's gone.
It's only a memory in your mind.
You only have now.
Get back on track.
So anyway, I was talking with her and I was sharing and I said, here's what I need you to focus on for a second.
You have been given stewardship of these leads.
They were brought to you.
They're seeds.
They're seeds that can be left in the pack, they're seeds that can be left in your pocket.
If they're not put in the ground they can stay in the packet for years.
They contain the blueprint, the power for so much greatness.
But if they don't have the environment.
They haven't been put in the ground and watered.
Then they're just potential.
You are just potential.
And you have to take and invest what's been given you and put it in the ground so it can multiply.
Those leads that you've been given are your seeds.
I said write this down right now.
Your leads are your seeds.
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians that God provides a seed for the sower.
And food and the seed it says he multiplies in 2 Corinthians.
And food for us to eat.
So we're not supposed to eat our seed.
We're supposed to sow our seed and create multiplication.
And so you've been given these clients, you've been given these leads.
Now you reach out to them, I said.
And I said now I want you to look at what you do, the gifts that are in you.
How do you help your seed?
If you're called to nurture your seed, to help it become more.
And so you're watering, you're fertilizing.
What do you do for your seed?
In other words, how is your client transformed because of working with you?
In other words, what is the problem that you solve?
You must have this in your mind.
What is the problem that you solve?
What is the question that the answer?
What is the question that God has given you the answer for?
And I said, so what do you do?
What transformation do they get when they work with you?
And she said, I get them their dream home.
I said, okay, land there for a second.
Land there.
You get them their dream home.
For some of you it might be I help them restore their health.
For some of you it might be I help them get their confidence back.
For some of them it might be,
I help them heal from their trauma so they can start a life.
For some of you, you each have something different.
I help them discover their identity and who they are.
I help them discover who they are and whose they are.
I don't know what it is for you,
but you need to know what transformation do you bring?
What has God gifted you to help that after you work with someone,
you help them calm their nervous system,
you help them get a vision,
you help them grow their business.
What transformation do you bring?
Hey, that's what you're called to steward.
It says here, I gave you a couple of verses that we are stewards of His grace.
We carry God's grace and we're called to steward that.
We're carriers of God's peace.
It says we can release God's peace into a situation.
We're carriers of God's love.
It says we can release that.
We're carriers of God's abundance.
We can release that.
What are you releasing to your seed?
How are you nurturing?
What transformation?
The seed is for each other.
I love 1 Peter 4.10.
It says, just as each one of you has received a special gift,
just like the parable of the talents,
the Bible says you have that.
You have that.
Each one of us has received a special gift,
a special talent, an ability that is graciously given by God,
and it says employ it in serving one another.
Plant that seed, use that gift,
release those talents so there can be multiplication,
there can be a harvest,
there can be healing,
there can be abundance,
there can be prosperity.
Each of you has been giving it,
employ it in serving one another.
For good stewards of God's multifaceted grace.
Are you a good steward of God's grace or are you like
the one who viewed God as harsh and hard and so you have fear?
Are you one that has a view of God that is lack and so you hide?
Are you one that has a view of God as a taker and not as a giver and so you hide?
Are you one that God can't be trusted and so there's no increase?
Do you see this?
She thought about this and I said to her,
I said, my little doggy is barking at me,
getting excited over here and so I said,
how and she says,
I helped them get at home.
I said, I want you to think about something.
I want you to think about,
come here, you're going to be noisy,
I'll let everybody see you.
There, everybody can see you.
Your audience is watching you,
they're going to fall in love with you.
I said, if you help them get in their dream home,
how does that and so whatever it is for you,
if you heal their nervous system,
if you bring their family back together,
if you help them to take care of their elderly better,
if you help them,
whatever it is that you're called to do,
the gifts that have been entrusted to you that you're called to employ and serve one another,
how does that change their family?
How does that change their legacy?
How does it change their finances?
How does it change their health?
I said, now you've got to,
as a steward,
help them be a carrier of the vision for them.
In other words,
seeing them what maybe they can't even see in themselves,
see them.
This is what Jesus did.
This is a very powerful,
powerful point.
See the person as God sees them.
See them from the place of potential.
See them from a place of healed and whole,
shalom, nothing missing,
nothing broken.
Hold that vision for them.
Speak it.
Encourage them with it.
Inspire them.
Hold that vision for them.
Communicate the transformation in advance.
Say, here's what we're going.
We're going to get you in a house.
Here's what's going to happen.
We're going to get that trauma healed.
Here's what's going to happen.
We're going to get you stepping into your confidence
so you can fully be what God has called you to be.
You see how that works?
And so we're holding that vision for them.
We're stewarding.
that. And she says, Oh, I see. I've been withholding, because
I was afraid that it's been too long or being rejected or
whatever. I've been withholding. And I said, Sister, I want you
to write down these two laws. And each one of you know this,
write these down two laws. Number one, the law of giving
and receiving. Give, and you will receive, and you'll receive
multiplied give and you'll receive what does it say, press
down, measure together, spilling over what God does always has
overflow, you plant one seed, you get back 100 seeds, you
nurture one client, you get back 10 clients in abundance and joy
and love. You see, it always comes back and multiply give and
it's given unto you. Principle number one, number two, withhold
and it's withheld from you. Whatever you're not receiving is
what you're withholding either from others or from yourself. So
it says that if we sow sparingly, we reap sparingly, if
we withhold, we get back little. But if we if we so lavishly, we
get back lavishly. So I pray that, you know, this little
teaching, whether you're a gardener or or not, I pray that
you're really thinking about this idea of sowing and reaping
and of stewardship. So we're going to get together and talk
about it collectively right now and let it go deeper in. So I'm
going to stop the recording and let's talk about this.