The DNA of a Supernatural Leader
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DNA carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms.
Acts 3: 1-5 NIV
One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 4 Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” 5 So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.
Acts 3: 6-10 NIV
6 Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” 7 Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong. 8 He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. 9 When all the people saw him walking and praising God, 10 they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Acts 3: 11-12 NIV
11 While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade. 12 When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
Acts 3: 19 NIV
19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord
Supernatural leaders are ones who consistently do ordinary things
Natural leaders carry you outside the temple
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Supernatural leaders pull you into the temple
Lame leadership leaves people lame, while supernatural leadership leads people to surrendered living
"If God is your partner, make your plans big!"
D.L Moody
The DNA Blueprint of a Supernatural Leader:
-They don't sprint to prayer, they walk with it everyday
- Their strength is in Jesus' name not their own
- They Only Give what they have faithfully lived
- They don't bypass brokenness, they behold it
- They lead by the hand, not from behind a desk
- They still preach repentance of sin
Definition of Lame:
- A person who is lame is crippled or disabled in a limb, they are injured in such a way as to lack strength and proper function- A spiritually lame person can see and hear the truth of God, and may even confess it, but is paralyzed from acting or applying it to their life.
Signs you are becoming a LAME Christian:
1. Lack of Zeal - Rev 3:15-16
2. Neglect reading your bible and prayer - 1 Thess 5:17
3. Compromising with Sin - 1 John 3:19
4. No Spiritual fruit - Gal 5:22-23
5. Isolated from church community - Heb 10:24-25
6. No Concern for the lost - Mark 16:17
7. Greater Desire for Self-Sufficiency - Proverbs 16:18
8. Indifference to Suffering - Proverbs 31:8-9
9. No desire for spiritual growth - 1 Peter 2:2
10. Materialism/ Becoming more like the world - 1 John 2:15
The beggar wants a hand out, God wants to give you a hand up
Acts:419
19 But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!
Supernatural Leaders Listen to the Lord, not the crowd
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get up get out your seat live out your Desy get out hi my name is Jesse and I serve here at Real Life Church as one of the pastors and I want to take a moment before we jump into the message to say thank you for engaging with us we believe that this message is going to lift up your faith and lead you to encounter God through his word if you haven't already we would love for you to take a second and subscribe to our YouTube channel this way you can stay engaged and upto-date on the latest message and it helps us get the message
of the Gospel out to others again thank you so much for joining us from Sacramento and Beyond and we trust that you will be blessed by the message today the word we got a lot of word and a little bit of time so we're going to get into it if you have your Bibles you can go to Acts chapter 3 uh as always want to greet our online audience those who are worshiping online if you want the notes for today's message you can go to the Bible app select events Real Life Church and you will see the notes there for this message we are continuing our
series on Supernatural leadership Supernatural leadership uh you know if I got to be honest with you leadership is kind of a word I'm I'm like I'm done with like it's just like man this word is we use it so much in our culture uh everyone has a podcast about how great their leadership is and how terrible everyone else's leadership is leadership is like the buzzword I feel like of the last 15 years uh especially in the church but the reality is we could all uh tell a story about a poor leader that
we have encountered a bad leadership experience that we have had and I'm not saying just outside of the church but probably even in the church and so we cannot deny this principle of leadership and so today my assignment is for us as we look at Supernatural leadership that we would be able to see what does it look like to identify but also to be a leader that operates in the Supernatural a leader who is not operating off their own intellect wisdom and knowledge but that is opter operating through only what can come from having an intimate
relationship with the Holy Spirit a leader that is operating based on the Revelation that can only come from God I want to ask you uh has anyone ever learned something from somebody else that you didn't have to experience yourself you learn from somebody else's life like how many of you could raise your hand right now where you've never had to put your hand on a hot stove can you raise your hand you never had to put your hand on a hot stove you know why because you learn from somebody else's
mistake that that stove is hot you might not even know who you need to thank cuz it might not be your parents it might have been their random Uncle from years ago who taught them the wisdom you should not put your hand on the hot stove anyone got any older siblings in the house your younger sibling yeah you learned from your older siblings on how not to talk to Mom or Dad you learned very quickly hopefully you learned that lesson and applied it that that is not the way I should talk to Mom unless I'm trying to be crazy what we're going to
do today is we're going to look at a supernatural leader in Peter in Acts chapter 3 and my hope is that we would be able to learn from his life and Leadership so that we don't have to experience something or go the long route but in fact learning from someone else's life can be a shortcut for you and I and I believe God gave us people in the Bible to help us in our growth and development and today it's in the context of leadership Acts chapter 3 starting in verse one it says this one day Peter and John were going up to the
temple uh at the time of prayer it about 3 in the afternoon please make note at 3 in the afternoon now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the Temple Gate called Beautiful where he was put every day to beg for those going into the temple courts when he saw Peter and John about to enter he asked them for money Peter looked straight at him as did John and then Peter said look at us so the man gave him his attention expecting to get something from them can I just pause and say this the beggar always wants a hand out but God wants to
give you a hand up go going to verse 6 then Peter said silver and gold I do not have but what I do have I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth walk taking him by the hand and they helped him in uh helped him up and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong he jumped to his feet and began to walk then he went with them into the temple courts walking and jumping around and praising God when all of the people saw him walking and praising God they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the
Temple Gate called beautiful and they were filled with wonder and amazement of what had happened to him verse 11 while the man held on Peter and John all people were astonished and came running to them in this place called Solomon's colonade when Peter saw this he said to them fellow Israelites why does this surprise you why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we have made this man walk going down a little bit in verse 19 when Peter's addressing the crowd he would go on to say repent
then and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out that times of refreshing may come from the Lord Holy Spirit we just pray and ask that you would be with us we pray that you would help us to learn from the life of Peter we help that as we dive into your word that you would give us Revelation and you would give us courage and strength to apply that revelation to our lives help us God despite whatever our history with leaders and Leadership is help us today to understand what it is to be a supernatural leader and all God's people
said amen title of this message is the DNA of a supernatural leader the DNA of a supernatural leader now what is the function of DNA I have a definition for us for today DNA is that which carries the genetic instructions used in growth development functioning reproduction of all known living organisms in other words DNA is the vehicle that is bringing all the information that is going to put together all living organisms DNA is that thing that is going to say this child is going to have brown eyes and wavy hair or it's going
to be this tall or this short it is DNA that is the vessel that is carrying all the information needed for growth for development for functioning and for reproduction so we are going to be investing instigating the DNA of a supernatural leader hopefully that we can glean from that DNA and apply it to our lives that we can apply that Supernatural DNA to you and I on the regular now you might be here and say well Pastor I'm not a leader so I don't why do I need to listen to this well let me just give you a simple definition
leadership is just responsibility if you have responsibility in life you're a leader if you have children at home you're a leader if you have a spouse you're a leader if you have a job you're a leader we have have responsibility everywhere we go if you are a believer in Christ you have a responsibility to care for the disenfranchised you have a responsibility to make disciples you have a responsibility to preach the gospel so therefore we are all qualified to now be leaders the question is what
kind of leader will we be so let's just look at this story of what is taking place and and I I'll kind of put it in a modern context to help us but Peter and John are on their way to the temple to pray now this is the the birth of the early church uh Jesus has ascended the Holy Spirit has come and there were thousands added to their number the the Believers are all in unison they're in one Accord they're selling their possessions they're saying man what we want to be unified in this and it's a beautiful thing and we see
that they are on their way to go to the temple to pray we're seeing this first miracle actually is the first miracle recorded uh after uh what happens in Acts chapter 2 and the Holy Spirit coming and so the church is an Abus beautiful place but there's opposition obviously there's the Jewish leaders and all those who have rejected Jesus Christ and so they are on their way and it says that they are at the gate called beautiful now if you were to understand how the temple was constructed there would be nine entrances and this gate
was unique and that all the others were made out of gold but this one was made out of Corinthian bronze and the reason why it was called the gate called Beautiful is because that bronze over time with weathering and being exposed to the air it would actually have this really beautiful uh array of colors on it because of the wear and tear that would happen to that gate and so at this gate called Beautiful there is Brokenness there is a man there who is dealing with some hard things he's dealing with some struggle and the way I
see it like this is that man's situation is ugly and there's this tension of he's a he's having an ugly situation but in a place that should be called beautiful see it's hard for me and sometimes for you uh to digest that like we can deal with like that's an ugly place an ugly situation where ugly things happen and we can kind of reconcile that in our minds a little bit easier but when we're saying that's an ugly situation in a beautiful place wait wait hold on I thought they said it was a beautiful
place why is there ugly happening but this is the dissonance that that man is living in and in fact I think this is where a lot of Believers are living in they come to church and they hear the pastor Brandon and the worship team singing out a song called the good news and how God loves them and they hear about the beauty of God through the word but yet they feel like in their life it's an ugly situation but thank God there's some new Supernatural leaders who decided to go to the house of God and pray that day so
they are going through this ugly situation to the gate called Beautiful to see about a man's situation to see about what he is going through see now here's the difference this what can happen with us is that we think that the man was isolated or lonely or that he didn't have people in his life but he actually had somebody to carry him to the temple every day but here's the difference between having a supernatural leader and a natural leader in your life see natural leaders can only carry you to outside the temple but
Supernatural leaders can pull you inside the temple so you might have people in your life you say no Pastor I'm good I got people in my life who care about me but if they can only get you outside of the house of God and not inside of the house of God are they really a supernatural leader in other words imagine as you came into church today there was a man who was bound to a mat who sat right outside those doors and every single Sunday you saw him sitting there and he was asking you for money and maybe you gave him some money maybe
you said I don't have any money but I I at least looked at him or maybe you ignored him completely you wouldn't even look at his situation and we have to ask ourselves is anyone going to actually bring him in does anyone have the power to say man you need to get up and you need to come into the temple you need to come into the house of God natural leaders carry you outside the temple because they're only operating on their own strength Supernatural leaders can pull you into the temple because they're operating
with the partnership of the Holy Spirit speaking of Partnerships we quickly see this beautiful partnership with Peter and John now if you study the disciples you'll only see Peter and John together by themselves four times in the Bible but this is one of those times we're seeing the beauty of who it is that we are walking with who's your partnership today today Jesus modeled this for us even with the inner three yes he had the disciples but he got real real when it was only Peter James and John he
understood the need for partnership he sent out the laborers to go out in two by two he sent them out as partners and so it's very important that we are in the right Partnerships DL Moody said it this way if God is your partner make your plans big if you are partnering with God you better have some big plans because we serve a big God so the supernatural leader has key Kingdom Partnerships I'm going to give them to you the first one is this a the supernatural leader has a key partnership with God you cannot be a
leader for God and neglect your relationship with God you have to have partnership with God and the Holy Spirit if you're going to be a supernatural leader secondly you have to have a partnership with spiritual Community the church the people in the church this is why it's so important that we talk about going small and getting plugged into a small group or or walking with people in discipleship or having a Bible study with people it's important that we are partnering with other believers there should be no lone wolves in the
kingdom thirdly is this if you're married then you should have a partnership with your spouse you should have a partnership with your spouse with the things that you're doing for God don't compartmentalize your spirituality with who you are married to don't compartmentalize it you're having a part partnership with them as you have a partnership with God fourthly is if you have children that is a key Kingdom partnership to leverage your relationship with your children maybe the way God is using your season of Life
of having little kids is that when you go to the park and they're playing on the swing you get to talk to their parent as their little kids on the swing too you're partnering with your children lastly is you got to have friends Supernatural leaders got friends in their life who don't care that they're a leader there have people in their life who are like yeah you got a title so what I know you and I love you despite I know you I love you and I care about you I'm going to encourage you when you're down and I'm going humble
you when you're getting a little too high it's important that we would have Kingdom friendships Kingdom Partnerships in our lives so Peter and John got the right partnership they're on their way to the temple and they encounter a lame man they encounter a man that the Bible says has been in this condition since he was born can you imagine dealing with some kind kind of chronic illness for your whole life and the weight that that would have on you just the agony the stress the pain of that the frustration of that they
stumble upon a man's life that he has been bound unable to walk unable to carry himself his entire life but there is some things that this man does has he has he has his mind he's able to articulate things and talk to them he has the ability to speak he has some community of people now we might think oh that's great he's got people people in his life no I think he just had some enablers in his life you know he had people who were okay seeing him go to the same situation day after day after day after day after day he had enablers
in his life who were who were cool carrying him somewhere but they're not going to take him to the place he needs to be just a place that's convenient for them but he had this weakness with his ankles and his feet we know that because when he was restored and healed that's what got strength his ankles and his feet and often times we can be like this lame man and that in fact we think well I got this part of my life figured out I got this life going this part of my life going really well and I read my Bible
and I go to church every Sunday and I do this but we can have one area in our life that can still lead us to paralysis that could still lead us to being crippled we can't just say well let me just examine my role real quick because this is what we do we oh my life ain't bad as that person I'm doing better than them I'm more disciplined than them oh sister so and so ain't been to church for a while I a she don't even come to Revival nights is she really saved and we say oh I'm good
but the truth is it can only be one area of your life that is the thing that is holding you back to the fullness that God's hat that's why it's so important that we're doing this digital fast and can I tell you maturity is not needing other people to tell us to do something now it's a beautiful thing to have the community for us to say hey we're going to do this fast together but we're doing a digital fast but allow the Lord to still speak to you because he might say son daughter I also want you to give
this thing up I also Al want you to no longer hold on to this thing I also want you to give space in this area so that I can speak to you here so we have to understand that it's important that we don't just check a box and think well I'm good because I I looked at what other people are doing instead saying God what is it you want to do in my life what is it you want to say to me during this fast please hear me during this 40-day fast don't get left behind don't get left at the train station a train is
taken off not I'm not just talking about the fast in Real Life Church a a train is taking off God is doing things things are happening things are moving and we had our highest tendance uh last Sunday ever maybe almost 1400 people in just in person like God is moving the train is departing I would hate for you to come back after this fast and you still in the same spot and everyone else is at the next stop like really give God the space to speak to you to help you you might have all these things figured out
and checked off but you lack discipline with that little brick that we carry in our Pock ETS use this opportunity for God to get a hold of you and to help us to grow and to mature and to become more disciplined so there's a lame man let me give us a definition of this of what it is to be lame in the natural the physical lame person is a person who is crippled or disabled in a limb they are injured in such a way that they lack strength and proper function but I thought I would give us the spiritual application as well a spiritually lame
person can see and hear the truth of God and may even confess it but is paralyzed from acting on it or applying it in their life so you might not have a physical ailment today but do you have a spiritual element that's leaving you bound and lame in paralysis unable to actually apply what God wants for your life I say it this way we got a lame man sitting outside of a lame church because the synagogue at this time were the leaders of religion who were rejecting Christ they just had him crucified Peter and John were not going into a a a great
prayer meeting where everyone was going to welcome their message no they were going into a hostile territory they were going into a place with people who wanted to kill and did successfully did kill their Savior and so we have to understand lame leaders lame leadership leaves people lame while Supernatural leadership leaves people to surrendered living lame leadership when we we we cannot we cannot say well you know he he's outside the temple and these people are they don't have what he needs they can't give
him what he needs to get well it wasn't until a supernatural leader came that had what he needed to be able to get up and to be able to walk and to be able to go into the temple lame leadership leaves people lame but Supernatural leadership leads people to surrendered living there's this phrase that's been going around the last 15 years maybe 5 to 10 years maybe not 15 but it's just like caught so much theme and and uh it's just so popular now and that is the phrase Church hurt come on how many of y'all heard church
hurt some of y'all might have used that phrase I'm Church hurt it's like an epidemic you know it's like Co all over again where it's just like everyone's getting contagious with church hurt and they got every reason this that and the third why they should not go to church or participate in church or they can all these terrible things to say can I tell you I don't think people are actually Church hurt I think you're just leadership hurt I think your leader hurt I think you were genuinely hurt by a leader you
were genuinely hurt by a person who was supposed to represent God but by saying and claiming your new identity as Church hurt what you are actually doing is you are allowing the enemy to put you in the perfect position of isolation of saying I don't need spiritual leadership in my life I don't need people I'm surrendered to in my life I am the judge jwy and uh jury and the prosecutor I am the final say that's exactly where the enemy wants you because he knows he's got you duped he wants you to not think that
there's a value in having leadership in your life he wants you to think that there's not a value in having people who give you wise counsel who speak into your life who you are submitted to I know I use the sword but if we're going to do so responsibly we can't be lame leaders we have to be Supernatural leaders not leaders that would perpetuate people becoming hurt but leaders who would lead people in healthy integrous relationships people who would lead people by the hand let me just tell you this
again if you're still like well I'm not a leader I don't see myself as a leader lame Believers will become lame leaders if you are a lame believer and yes I'm using the word lame like that's lame you are lame believer I'm using it in both contexts if you got any complaints you can email Pastor Jesse Armstrong that's Jesse rlc.
com lame Believers will become lame leaders if we don't deal with our stuff in the developmental phase of our walk with God we will everyone else will have to pay for it when we're in a position of leadership everyone else will have to pay for all the mistakes because we were unwilling to get healthy or allow the Lord to do the work he wanted to do in our life so I've come up with a list a friend of mine sent this to me I changed the title a little bit but I think it's so fitting signs you are becoming a lame
Christian if you don't like the word lame you can put lukewarm on there here we go you could take a picture of this so you have it for later I'm not I don't have time to go through all of them number one signs you're becoming a lame leader you have a lack of zeal You've Lost Your Zeal for God and the things of God number two you neglect reading your Bible and prayer sometimes it really is that simple of you are you are stuck and you are in a hurdle and someone's asked you for theth time are you reading your
Bible we know okay let's start there compromising with SIN number three you are now just telling yourself you're justifying yourself well it's just a little bit it's okay it's not a lot it's just a little bit it's not too much like I got it under control I could stop whenever I want to stop you're compromising with sin you're getting ready to become a lame Christian number four there's no spiritual fruit to your life Jesus says that we should judge a tree by its fruit the Bible says that
God would want us to bear fruit and that we would have fruit that would remain we are called to be fruitful people if there's no fruit in our lives there's something going on number five you're isolated from church Community you're not a part of any type of of faith Community I'm not saying just church on a Sunday because you could be out of community and still come to church on Sunday I'm talking about integrated into the life of other believers that like your people you go to eat lunch with
like the people you hang out with the people you do fun activities with and play sports with are believers you're integrated or you're I'm sorry you're opposite you're isolated from church Community is a big warning sign number five no concern for the lost you have no concern for the lost you can go out every single day and you could see horrible TR tragic things and there's nothing that even stir your heart you can hear the news of a report of something that happened and you're like
yeah sounds about right go to the next show having a a a response that your heart is moved your heart is grieved at seeing the enemy have his way in other people's lives is a sign of being close and connected to the vine it's a sign that we are we are staying close to the Heart of Jesus because we want our heart to Echo his heart and his heart cares for the broken his heart cares for the marginalized his heart cares for those who have been ostracized number seven a greater desire for self-sufficiency now this one is
interesting um you know because we get it confused in our culture we call it man that person is just a hustler they're just a go-getter they're just driven they have ambition no you might just be trying to be self-sufficient so that you can go and get everything you want and you don't need God anymore anymore self-sufficiency can be a sign or or I don't need anybody in my life really you don't need people in your life it's a warning sign you're becoming a lame Christian number eight
indifference to suffering number nine no desire for spiritual growth are you in a position where you could be like man I I don't read my Bible you can admit something I'm just using that as an example but you're like but I don't want to do anything about it like there there's there's no actual desire to want to grow to want to be different you know I love it when Jesus heals another man he asks him the question do you actually want to be made well right we have to actually have the desire to want to
partner with the Holy Spirit in this and lastly is you're starting to see an uptick or an increase in materialism and becoming more like the world come on we got to tell the truth has anyone ever had a bad day I mean a bad day and you thought you know what I need to do I need to go hit up the mall I'm going to go buy these new shoes I'm going to get the these new clothes for me it's not what clothes as much it's like a steak I'm like what's where's the good where is the steakhous at I'mma yes put the
mushrooms and onions on put all of it on there I want the whole thing it's been a hard day and what do we tell ourselves I deserve it when there is an increase for a desire for material things in our heart that is a warning sign that's the the red light is flashing it's telling us that there's something probably a little off that needs to be adjusted and we're trying to compensate with things materialism can be a warning sign that we're becoming a lame Christian let me tell you if this list describes you
today you need to hear something very importantly do not feel called out and get offended feel that God is calling you up and wants to help you change do not let offense do not let me as a person who is broken don't let my tone or what I look like or whatever be something that would cause you to be offended but rather take this opportunity to know that this is God wanting to call you up not call you out he wants to pull you up not pull you out he wants to bring you closer to him not push you further away from him so if
there's any level of conviction that the holy spirit is giving you you should praise God because that means he loves you that means he cares for you that means your heart is not a Heart of Stone but it is a heart of Flesh conviction from God is a good thing it's how he orchestrated it to help us to know a son or daughter I just need to we got to bring this in here it's get a little out of hand and he'll bring people in your life he'll bring leaders in your life to help Echo that same thing so use this digital
fast as a time to prioritize the right stuff what are the things you got to you got to give up what are the things you got to be able to say hey I I can't do that anymore you know for some of you it might be social media I said it in the first service I'm going to say it again because clearly people you might have to give up whatever favorite game you like to play on your phone Clash of Clans got to go Candy Crush got to go I don't know if that's still the game that might be I don't know I know for
me chess has got to go my wife's back there like yes I love to play chess I play chess all day you love to play chess too yeah we gonna have to play after the fast but you know what I'm saying I'm like man I'm like I try to justify it like I'm increasing my intellect no I'm not I'm spending time on my phone playing chess I don't know what it is for you but what do you got to give up what do you have to get out of your life so that you don't become a lame Christian so that you don't become
a lame leader so that people who are actually lame are stuck there because of it like what is that thing and asking the Lord to truly help us okay now actually I'm going to get to the actual message here we go uh what is the DNA blueprint of a supernatural leader that's what we came here to do how can I be a supernatural leader I need a blueprint I need a framework I need to understand Peter is showing us some things let's glean from them the first thing if we are going to be a supernatural leader that we should
possess possess is that Supernatural leaders don't Sprint to prayer they walk with it every day they don't Sprint to prayer they walk with it every day meaning they don't have a crisis and say ah I gotta pray but instead sorry Rudy they have a consistent prayer time every day they have a consistent conversation with God every day now we've all had something bad happen and we text all the saints and we're like you need to pray you need to pray you need to pray and praise God for those people but we cannot people
who just Sprint to prayer when the urgency comes but we should be people that walk with prayer daily every day a part of our lives every day Peter and John were going to prayer at 3 p.m. I told you it's very important that they're going to prayer at 3 pm. you guys this was not Easter Sunday this was not Christmas this was not the little children's recital that they were going to perform at church it was a regular normal day at 300 p.m.
see we often are trying to look for the super natural and special events but the Supernatural is normally an ordinary it was an ordinary day where they decided to remain faithful and go to pray at 3 p.m. now Jewish custom would that would be that there was three prayer times they would have a prayer time in the morning they would have a prayer time
at 3 p.m. both of which they would need to bring a sacrifice and then they'd have a prayer time in the evening how many you know this lame man is praising God that Peter and John decided to come to church at 300 p.m. I wonder how many people would show up if we decided to have church at 300 p.m. seriously it was just an ordinary day in the middle of the day but they were committed to going to prayer are you in love with the consistent mundane regular things because Supernatural leaders are the consistency of it hasn't changed yet
but I'm still going to go to church today I'm still believing God for it I'm going to go to my small group I'm still believing God for it I'm going to go serve in the Outreach at Joy's Food Locker whatever it might be it's just consistently mundane thing God ain't really speaking to me I'm going still read the Bible today I'm not hearing nothing I'mma still press in and believe that God is going to do something so you might find yourself and say man I want to see God use my life I hear this all
time I want to be a leader I want to be used by God but because your team is playing at 3 pm. you choose your team over your lord if you can't do anything on Thursday night because well the game's on on Thursday night and then you can't do anything on Monday night well because the game's on on Monday night and then Sunday morning from when the game start to where the game's end you can't do anything because the game is on can I tell you you have a problem it's a problem I'm not anti Sports I love
sports I played sports but if you make your calendar based on what is the sports calendar you are so far off if you are saying yes and no to to being and fellowshipping with Believers if you're saying yes and no to what church service if you're going to go to church or not because of that you got to check your heart you got to say what's what's really more important to me is it my idol or is it my God because Sports Not Just Sports a lot of things I'm using that because football starts next
week can be really hard and we I mean so many of us especially this half we can all talk to people just saying like yeah sorry I can't the game's coming on for real like did he save you he forgive you of your sins this ain't a pun this isn't trying to guilt people to serve I'm not talking about serving I'm just talking about worshiping like did he not forgive you of your sins and give you eternal life but because the Lakers are playing sorry Taylor you ain't going to go because the 49ers got a game you're
not going to go you going to say no to people made in the image of God that loved you and were there with you through all these Seasons because who knows is on the TV like we got to get this recalibrated I'm not GNA say get it right we got to get it recalibrated I'll never forget not here because this will never happened here but Chelsea and I were at another church and we had a very very key volunteer like if homeg girl didn't show up I was that much closer to having a lead worship because we had a very thin bench
and that would have been a problem and I remember she came to me she gave me notice but but she still came to me and she said hey Pastor I want you know I can't I can't serve on the worship team for like the next two months 3 months and I was like oh no what are we going to do you know I'm freaking out in my mind and I'm like are you burnt out do you feel like you need rest and she's like oh no uh you know uh Johnny is he's got soccer and baseball and so I got to go to all the practices so I can't do
rehearsals and then he has games on all Sundays so I can't sing on Sundays I was like dang you're not going to go to church for three months because little Johnny and Timmy got soccer and baseball and he's 5 years old what is that showing your kid of what's the priority now hear me I'm not against little leagues and all I'm not against kids sports I played all that I'm not against all that but what I'm saying is if we allow these things we're teaching our kids something we're
showing them what's the priority like your your your five-year-old soccer practice is more important than being in the house of the Lord with God's people I'm not trying to be legalistic about this I'm trying to cause you to have a little bit of discomfort so that you would ask the Lord what does he want for you to do for your family this last couple of weeks uh have been hard for us and our family and um so our kids haven't been able to go to church uh because just haven't been able to go to
church and so our our oldest son Apollo uh grandma was getting him up and he was asking Grandma like he normally does ask every morning what's what's the day today what's today what's today and she's like well it's Sunday he's like no it's not and she and she's like no it's Sunday he's said no it's not because we go to church on Sunday see kids know and they pick up very quickly what's important to us and so we want to make sure that we don't just Sprint to the
prayer place but that we walk with it every day that was just point one here we go let me keep moving Supernatural leaders let me just say I forgot to say this are ones who consistently do the ordinary thing they consistently do the ordinary thing their strength here's second one is in Jesus's name not their own name their strength of a supernatural leader is in Jesus's name name not in their own name a supernatural leader understands their name holds no weight only the name of Jesus holds weight a key sign to know if
a supernatural leader is Supernatural is Jesus the hero in their story or are they the hero in their story moving on the supernatural leader they only give what they have Faithfully lived Peter and John are asked for money and he tells them I can't give you what I do not have but what I do have I say in the name of Jesus get up he is giving something that he has he has Authority that has been given through Jesus he is giving what he has lived and experienced himself that Jesus can do a restorative and Redemptive work in your life the
Temptation for young leaders old leaders any leader is to try to give something that you have not lived you cannot give what you have not lived and you cannot live what you have not learned that is wisdom's order you have to learn something apply it to your life before you could tell somebody else to do it so Supernatural leaders they only give what they have Faithfully lived they do not compare to what other people's gifts are and talents are they're saying this is what God has given me this is what I give you I know
that person can give you that I can't give you that I can give you encouragement because that's what God has given me I can give you compassion because that's what God has given me I can give you wisdom because that is what God has been God has given me it's about giving what God has given to us they don't bypass the broken they behold it Supernatural leaders don't just blow past people's Brokenness and are not changed by it in fact they will stop and pause and look at what is going on in
that person's life this man asked them for money and Peter's response is hey hey hey look at me he was on autopilot he was living life like just in shame probably like hey you got anything you got anything not even looking at people probably because people have disregarded him so long he doesn't even look up anymore but Peter says hey look at me I'm looking at you I see your mess I see the hardship I see the stink I see the struggle but I'm here because I care and I know that Jesus can take broken things
and make it beautiful and I know Jesus can take ugly things and restore it and make it brand new I like he is he is saying I see your Brokenness I'm taking it all in and I'm here for it and I'm here with you through that Supernatural leaders don't see people's Brokenness and say ooh that's that's too messy or they don't walk up to the situation and just be like oh man and then keep walking but they're willing to behold it they're willing to look at what other people have going on in their life Supernatural
leaders they lead by the hand and not from behind a desk they don't lead back here hey you know you should do that better and and Lisa can we make sure that we get this fixed over here and you really didn't clean that too well over there Mike can you make sure you handle that that's not a supernatural leader a supernatural leader says oh no no no you you've been on the ground how long okay tell me about your story who hurt you who is the person that oh man let me tell you about what God can do in your
life let me grab you by the hand you trying to get in there let me take you there with me let me let you come with me let me hold on to you so that you can get your strength back let me lead you by the hand let me walk with you by the hand they don't walk and say oo that that's you know what you need to do is you need to get your life right what you need to do is you need to start praying to Jesus what you need to do is you need to stop doing that they said no no no I'm gonna get in here where you're at
and I'm going to grab you by the hand and I'm going to pull you out of that and now we're going to walk together into the newness that God has that's what a supernatural leader does man I'm running out of time here we go the last thing they still preach repentance of sin the message of repentance of sin is still for today can I tell somebody we can't just love on people and tell them God is love and and everyone love you still got to get to the place where you're telling them that repentance is
needed for sin now that shouldn't be your first conversation with them you should tell them the good news before they got to hear the bad news but the reality is we got to tell people you need to repent for the sin that's in your life a supernatural leader is not scared to point that out it's not scared to say you know what you know I love you I've been walking with you we've been talking for about five weeks hey when are you going to start doing this when are you going to put that aside it's
time to repent for your behavior you got pride in your life you got to stop lying at work you got to stop whatever filling the blank a supernatural leader preaches repentance the crowd is coming they see the miracle they're in amazement they're in awe and wonder and Peter does not hesitate he uses the opportunity to say let me tell all you Israelites in here that rejected Jesus that had him hung on the cross you need to repent of your sin so that you can encounter the refreshing of God we have to have repentance of sin
as part of our leadership tool belt as part of what we do when we're ministering to people and with people people see they were all amazed and sometimes I think that's what we contend for we say God I just want to be amazed by you God I just want to be blown away by you God I just want to be shocked by you but we really should say God I just want to be surrendered to you the miracle was so that the message could go forth not the other way around the miracle was so that people's hearts would be opened up to hear hey you know
what you got to repent for that sin but Jesus Paid the price for that sin this is good good news let me just paraphrase Peter would go on they would get upset at what he was saying the religious leaders would come and would arrest him in John and they would question him about what he was doing and they told him this they told him you are not to go out and preach the gospel anymore and telling people about Jesus and I love what he says in Acts chap 4: 19 one day I'm just praying God gives me like the perfect moment to say this but
this is what he says Peter and John replied to him which is right in God's eyes to listen to you or to listen to him you be the judge Mike drop like what do you want me to do would you rather I listen to you or listen to what God says go ahead and tell me Supernatural leaders listen to the Lord not to the crowd Supernatural leaders listen to the Lord not to what the crowd is saying it's not about all the noise of what other people are doing this is why the digital fast is so important what you're
doing is you're canceling out the crowd so that you can hear from the Lord You're reducing all the different avenues that the world has access to your mind and to your heart you're shutting all the doors and windows and saying okay God you're the only one now who can download something into my spirit Supernatural leaders listen to the Lord not to the crowd I don't know about you but I want to learn from the life of Peter I want to be able to apply this to my life but the reality is we can't be a
supernatural leader until we've been a a follower we can't be a follower until we enter into a relationship earlier today we took communion which is the example and the embodiment of entering into a covenant with God it's us symbolically remembering the Covenant God made with us by saying hey take up this bread my body was broken for you my blood was shed so that you could have the remission of your sins that is what we're talking about right now in this moment maybe you're here today and you've been leader hurt
and it's LED you spiraling down a hill it's LED you running away from from God or maybe you're just in here today and you don't have a relationship with God but you feel a knocking on your heart you feel God pressing upon your heart and you want to enter into that relationship I want to give you an opportunity would you close your eyes and bow your heads you're here today very quickly you want to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior would you just lift your hand so I know who I'm
praying for we had four people in the first service give their hands uh give their life to Jesus thank you I see that hand I see that hand thank you my brother anybody else thank you I see that hand anybody else thank you I see that hand you want to give your life to Jesus thank you I see that hand our ushers are going to be coming by they're going to place something in your hand anybody else want to join these thank you I see that hand right here Hallelujah Jesus thank you there's a sister right here this is what we're going to do you
can open your eyes we're going to pray this prayer together it's up here on the screen we're going to pray this as a family and I'm going to give you a few instructions we can uh we're going to pray this on the count of three here we go 1 two 3 dear Lord Jesus I know that I am a sinner and I ask for your forgiveness I believe you died for my sins and rose from the dead right now I turn for my sins and invite you to come into my heart and life I want to trust you and follow you from this day forward
I confess you as my personal Lord and Savior thank you for saving me in Jesus name amen can we celebrate with those who put their faith in Jesus today Hallelujah if you made that decision we celebrate with you we want to place something in your hand we have a team in the back of the sanctuary with the eye of decided Banner they would love to connect with you pray with you and let you know about the next steps of what God has for your life for the rest of us can we all just stand to our feet this uh this morning here as we conclude I
want to pray for you our prayer team is going to be making their way down to the altar now our worship team is going to come out and lead us but I just going to pray a general prayer for us that if you're here today you're getting ready for this fast maybe the Lord's been still trying to press upon you what it is and how you should participate here's the reality this world World our community where God has you working where your children go to school all of these places need Supernatural leaders
and God has revealed himself to us so that we can grow and mature and we can be those Supernatural leaders in our community in our neighborhoods maybe even just on your block maybe just in your apartment complex he's positioned you there to be a supernatural leader to carry the DNA of the holy spirit that people would encounter the love of God and so if you need prayer for any kind you can come down for prayer for that but I'm going to pray for all of us that God would truly move in us anything that
needs to be removed to remove it but that he would fan into flame what he has placed inside of us for this season Lord we thank you that you are good we thank you that you are faithful despite storms and Seasons God you never waver Lord I pray for this room and everyone under the sound of my voice that you would help us God to learn from the life of Peter but that you would help us even more to apply that knowledge to our lives that would not live and operate out of the natural but the supernatural that we would have an understanding that
we are living under an open Heaven that you are our source God and so Lord I pray Holy Spirit you would convict us but you would also encourage us you would challenge us but you would give us strength you would reveal to us and you would give us the plans for our lives and the way that you are guiding and leading us God cover us help us we trust you in Jesus name amen and amen God bless you church family if you need hey everybody I want to take a moment again and say thank you for joining us real life Church's mission is to engage real
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