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The Seven Bible Words of Leadership | Jabin Chavez Leadership Podcast
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What's going on, leaders? Today I want to talk about seven Bible words that will dramatically impact you and impact your organization, impact your leadership structure and your culture. That I really do believe that if we will embrace these ideas today, our ministries will be unrecognizable in the next year. So I'm fired up. Let's jump in. Hey. Well, welcome to this week's podcast. I am praying that it's going to be a blessing to you. And I just want to quickly remind all of our senior pastors who are watching, who are listening. We've got Senior pastors roundtable happening November 2nd and 3rd of 2026. It's going to be incredible. I'll be teaching Monday the 2nd and Tuesday the 3rd, and then that evening, Tuesday night, November 3rd, we have Pastor Chad Veach bring an incredible word to us as well. So it's just going to be an awesome time. DM me on Instagram and tell me you want to be a part of it. And we will send you the link, get you registered, and it's going to be an incredible time. All right, I want to talk about seven Bible words that every leader needs to know. Now, whether you are leading a church, whether you are an entrepreneur, whether you're leading a large business or a small business, I believe these things. Are you just leading your family? I believe these things are going to be incredibly important to you. And the first is blessed, blessed. Bless God's smile on your life. God's hand on your life, God's. Amen. On your life. God's. God's empowerment on your life. The blessing of God. Psalm 1 says, Blessed is the man. That. That isn't going to go the way of the sinner and the way of the mocker. It's not going to go sit down with the ungodly. But. But he's going to build his entire life on the things of God. Blessed man, God bless them. Genesis chapter 2 and said to them, God blessed them and said, man, the blessing of God on a ministry. You can't buy it, you can't earn it, you can't deserve it. But you can definitely align your life with what God is doing and that blessing comes upon you. Remember when the Holy Spirit was being poured out in the book of Acts and Simon the sorcerer says, can I, can I buy the Holy Spirit? Can I buy this thing that is happening? Peter said, you cannot buy this thing. You can't buy the spirit of God and you can't buy blessing, but you can align with and get under the spout where the glory is coming out and the blessing of God begins to be manifest in our life. As the word of God is heard and obeyed. As the word of God is heard and obeyed. Think about that. In Genesis, God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth. All Adam and Eve had to do is do the thing they heard, obey the thing they heard, act on the thing they heard. As God speaks to you through the written word, and as God speaks to you about your own personal individual destiny, and as God speaks to you about his plan for your ministry, if you will just do that, that's the blessing. The blessing is obedience. And obedience produces the blessing. So God blesses obedience because he has a plan, he has a will, he has an opinion, he has an idea, he has a destiny. And he will bless that. And so when you hear and then do and obey the thing God called you to do and obey, like. Like a river, a flow begins. Blessing. Bless. Number two is excellence. Excellence. Daniel, chapter five. Daniel had. The Bible says Daniel, chapter five, verse 12. An excellent spirit. Knowledge, understanding, interpretation, solving, explaining. Man, I love this. Daniel had an excellent spirit. He had knowledge, he had understanding, he had. Interpreting dreams, solving riddles, explaining enigmas were all found in Daniel. He. He had this ability to understand difficult things. And he had an excellent spirit. The Bible goes on to say Daniel 6, verse 3. Daniel distinguished himself above the other governors and satraps because of the excellent spirit that was within him. Man, this is powerful. Excellence is doing the best with what we have. It's not. Excellence is not obsessing over what we don't have and what we wish we could do. Excellence is simply doing the best with what we have. That's excellence. You know, when people walked in to our little middle school setup, they were blown away from the pipe and drape, to the signage, to the umbrellas, to the LED wall, to the. To the state. They were floored with what we did in a little middle school cafeteria. It's called excellence. You know what? When we then got into a high school, people were floored. When we got into our little storefront, people were floor floored. When we got back into high school after Covid, people were amazed. And let me say something. People walk into this church now and they see all that woodwork and they see the stone and they see the. The beautiful lighting and the unbelievable LED walls and the lighting and the sound and the. And people are floor. We've always been excellent at different budgets. We were excellent on a few hundred thousand dollars a Year, we were excellent at a million dollars a year. We're excellent now at, at millions of dollars. Why we. Because we've always done the best with what we had. Excellence is a spirit. It's deep. It's. It's. It's a value system. Excellence looks like joyful responsibility. Excellence looks like joyful responsibility. I'm not trying to pass excellence on to anyone else. I. I am joyfully responsible for making this the best it can be. Number three is generations. Every great leader is thinking about generations. As one person said, there is no success without a successor. Remember Exodus 3. God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He's the God of three generations. He's the God of threes. He's the God of next. He's the God of new. Let each generation. Psalm 145. 4. Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts. Let them proclaim your power. A church is not a church without children, without babies in Christ. I'm not just talking about age. Without souls. And yes, without the next generation, literally the next generation. We there. There should be new people. There should be growth, there should be salvations. There should be discipleship. There should be. There should be children, youth, young adults. Jesus said, let the children come to me. The disciples are trying to push him away. But Jesus is thinking about the next generation. The disciples are thinking about themselves. Jesus is thinking about them now. Think about this. The disciples were young. The disciples to Jesus were the next generation. Jesus 30, the disciples, older teenagers. And yet Jesus is already thinking about threes. The next generation, the little four year olds, the little five year olds, the little six year olds. Always be thinking next, Always be thinking next generations. Number number four is eternity. What are you doing in your ministry that will matter in a million years? What are you spending money on today that will matter in a million years? Brother, you. If you'll spend money, if you'll steward the tithe and the offering with eternity in mind, I promise you, God will give you more. So we fix our eyes. 2nd Corinthians 4:18. Not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. Since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Make sure that the things you really care about will make it to the other side of the river of death and into eternity. Number five is prayer, man. The Bible is a closed book to a hard heart. The Bible is a closed book to a hard heart. And what prayer will do is it will soften your heart, presence, power, anointing, praise, worship, prayer. And it will open up your Spirit to the things of God. If you are willing and obedient. Isaiah 1. You'll eat the good of the land. Become a man of prayer. Become a woman of prayer. Commit your life to prayer. May the words of my mouth. Psalm 19:14. May the words of my mouth, the meditations of my heart, be pleasing in your sight. O Lord, my rock, my redeemer. Commit to prayer. Have you prayed about it? Are you praying? Is your staff praying? Pray, pray, pray. Number six, Forgive. Man. You got. As a leader. You got to forgive. Because the more. The more you grow, the more people leave. The average American will experience seven major relational transitions in their life. The average American will experience seven major relational transitions in their life. The average senior pastor in America will experience seven major relational changes in a year. This job is painful. We had a family. Just leave our church. No email, no phone call, no text. Won't respond. Just gone. It just hurts. It just makes you want to hate people. Staff who will. Just. Just gone. Just gone. Just see you. I mean, you know how it is. You have to keep a soft heart. You got to stay prayed up. You've got to pray for your people and love your people, and you have to forgive your people. I wrote this down. Forgiving doesn't really get easier, but it can happen quicker if you'll just be committed. I let them go. I release them. God, they're your. They're your kids. You love them. You care about them. I give them to you. Father, forgive. No one decides your destiny but you. No one decides your future but you. Don't live your life with a grudge. Don't preach with a grudge. Don't lead a church with a grudge, because you will end up preaching to people who have left to the people that are right in front of you. You'll yell at the people in front of you. You'll be mad at the people in front of you. You'll be berating the people in front of you about. About. People don't. And the people in front of you are going, we didn't leave. We love. You gotta forgive. Number seven. Purity. Purity. This is a Bible where. Purity, motive, private life, attitude, values. Purity. Stay pure. Stay innocent. If you're. If you're hooked on porn right now, you need to call a friend. Man, you need to get help. Are you drinking too much? You need it. You need to get help. Rocky, rocky moment right now with your. With your spouse. You need to get help. Reach out. Addicted to shopping, addicted to drugs, addicted to gambling. Do you find yourself addicted to Addicted to food substances. Get help. Get help. Get pure. I think there is a level of purity that can't happen on our own. I think there's a level of purity that will require community if. If they've sinned. This is. This is amazing. In James 5, he says, if you're in trouble, pray. If you're happy, sing. If you've sinned, confess. Not just to God, that's first. John 1:9. Confess your sins to the Lord. He'll be faithful and just. Forgive you of all your sins, cleanse you of all unrighteousness. Amen. Only God can ultimately judge and forgive us. But James says, if you'll. If you'll confess your sins to one another, you'll be healed. There's a level of purity that requires community, that requires friendship, that requires accountability, that requires. How you doing with that? What's up with that? How you. What's going on? Purity. Seven Bible words that'll change your life, change your ministry, change your future, change your organization. And the opposite of all these words, boy, you'll wreck your life quick. I love you senior pastors. I'm expecting to see you at our round table November 2nd and 3rd. I love you guys so much.