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Hey, have you ever wondered how to grow your influence? Have you ever wondered, man, how do I grow in my place and in my space, in my line of work, in my world and what I do? How can my world get bigger? How can my influence get bigger? How can I help more people? How can I reach more people? How can more people hear about what I'm doing? Well, today I want to try to answer that, because I do think that there are some practical things that every person can do to make their world get bigger. I believe that you don't have to stay at the same level you're at. And yes, there is a spiritual side to it, but there's a lot of practical things that people can do, too. And I think sometimes we just are kind of waiting on maybe, you know, if God wants it to happen, God will do it. And I think a lot of times God is looking back at us like, well, I want to help you, but it's going to take your agreement, it's going to take your creativity, it's going to take your will coming into alignment with my will, and then may we can do everything that God has called us to do. And so today on the podcast, we're going to talk about it. Welcome again to the Jabin Chavez Leadership Podcast. My name is Jabin, and I'm praying that today will be a blessing to you, a blessing to your organization, to your world, to your church, wherever, whatever you're leading, wherever you're leading. I think that today can help, and I think that today can be a big part of just really moving your world forward. So I want to talk about how my world got bigger, how my influence was able to grow, how I was able to help more people, serve more people, and how more people have been able to hear the unique message and the unique grace that's on my life. And that's what I want for you. I want whatever God has put on the inside of you. I want people to be exposed to that. And I remember Joyce Meyer saying this years ago. I've never forgotten it. She said, you can't do everything, but you can do anything God has called you to do. So I think when we're talking about growth, when we're talking about getting bigger, when we're talking about influencing more people, we're not talking about being this person or that person or this person or that. That's not what we're doing. We're not talking about being everyone. We're not talking about doing everything. We're not talking about, well, I want exactly what they've done. That's not it. But it is doing anything that God's promised you. I think that's the key. It's. It's John the Baptist, who had one group of people to reach, and Peter, who had one group of people to reach, and John the Beloved, who had one group of people to reach, and Paul, who had one group of people to reach. It's us doing what we're called to do and then reaching our maximum potential. And I'm not saying that I've reached my maximum potential yet. I sure hope I haven't. I have a lot more that's in my heart. But it is doing anything and everything God's promised me. That's what we're required to do, and that's what we're going to be accountable to God to do. So I want to talk a little bit about how my world got bigger and some simple things that you can do as well, things to make your world get bigger. Here's the first. We're just going to start right here. It all starts. I'm telling you, this is the foundation. It starts with generosity. It starts by breaking a poverty mentality. It starts by breaking a spirit of lack. Watch this. With a spirit of generosity, it goes all the way back to Jacob, who did what? Stole his brother's birthright, stole his brother's blessing. There was this small, stinking thinking that was in Jacob that said, there cannot be enough blessing for me and Esau, so I'm going to steal his. And Jacob had to wrestle with that. So we go to Genesis 32, and Jacob wrestles with God. And you know what God tells him? God tells him, you've wrestled, you've struggled, you've. You've confronted, you fought with two people. He says, you've wrestled with God and man and have overcome. Jacob had to deal with the human element and the God element to break that thing off of him. And God said, I no longer call you Jacob. I call you Israel. You're now a prince of God. You're now an overcomer. And every leader has to break stingy, greedy, small, thieving kind of attitudes, because whatever you have will never be enough. If you have a small spirit, you could run an organization of a million dollars or $100 million. It'll never be enough. You could make $100,000 a year or $100 million a year, or a billion dollars a year. It'll never be enough. Because until you overcome, until you wrestle and overcome that thing, it's never going to Be enough. And the way you break it is you don't pray it out. You don't read your way out of it. You don't fast your way out of it. You don't speak in tongues your way out of it. You don't. You give your way out of lack and poverty. You give your way out. So what happened with Jacob? He wrestles with God. And now we go fast forward to Genesis, chapter 11. And the scripture says that Jacob, at the very end of his life, the Bible said he's leaning on his staff and he's worshiping God and he begins to bless the sons. Jacob went from stealing blessings to giving blessings. Jacob went from. There could not be enough blessing for me and my brother to now blessing a generation. The old saying is, is that we're born looking like our parents, but will die looking like our decisions. It doesn't matter how you started, it matters what you do now. That ultimately your future is not decided by what has happened to you. It's going to. It's going to be decided by what you do. And because Jacob wrestled with God and because Jacob confronted these issues, he was able supernaturally to now give. He. He was born a taker. He was born a thief. He died a giver. And if your world is ever going to get bigger, you're going to have to embrace generosity, generous giving, hard work, and wise stewardship. Those. That combo, that's the combo. That's the trinity of prosperity. Generosity, hard work and wise stewardship leads to prosperity. But here's what I want to say. The foundation of that, though, is generosity. So I, I work hard and I. And I'm a wise steward. But the gen. But the generosity is the foundation because I'm. I'm going to be generous at whatever level I'm at. I'm just choosing to become a generous person. I said that. How did my, My world get bigger? Well, you. You. You got to go to Proverbs 11, right? And in Proverbs 11, the. The writer says this. The world of the generous is getting what? Larger and larger. The world of the stingy. It's getting smaller and smaller. Listen, big faith, a big spirit, a big mentality, a big heart, a big legacy, a big life will require big generosity. You cannot grow past your level of generosity. You can't. And I see a lot of. A lot of preachers who want big ministries, big influence, big Instagram accounts, big YouTube views, big churches. They don't give big. And so really, all that stuff, who cares? We want big ministries, but we're not big people. So how did my world get bigger? I had to increase on the inside. I had to increase on the inside. You know that the testimony of the giver is always the same. If you've ever met a giver, the story is always the same. Here's the. Here's the testimony. We're so blessed. So blessed. I didn't say we're so rich. I didn't say we're multi millionaires. I didn't say we drive a Bentley. I didn't say no, we're so blessed. God is our source, and he keeps showing up and showing off in our life. We're so blessed. And listen, the testimony of the greedy, the testimony of the stingy, the testimony of the person who refuses to give. It's always the same. You ready? I can't afford it, y'. All. I know multi millionaires that refuse to tithe because in their mind, they go, I can't afford it. Millionaires who could give big, but we can't afford it. My CPA said we can't afford it. My financial advisor said we can't. No, I'm telling you, it's always the same story. And, you know, we even. We even joke about things like. Not joke. We preach things like, you know, it's not about equal giving. It's about equal sacrifice. But do you do that? Like, do you really sacrifice? I'm talking to leaders. I remember 2010. 2010. I'm filming this in 2014, so 14 years ago, from when I'm filming, I remember listening to Pastor Chad Veach, you know, Pastor Zoe La in Los Angeles. But back then, we were both youth pastors, and we were doing a youth conference, and Chad was doing a leadership lesson. And I'll never forget, it was like, you know, classic Chad Veach. It was like 15 things every leader does or 15 things every leader needs to do. I forgot what it was. It was brilliant. And he said, you got to give an ouch offering. Give an ouch offering. I never forgot that. Said, every once in a while, leader just needs to give an offering that gets your attention, that makes you go, whoo. Okay, Now, I'm not saying give what you don't have. You can't give what you don't have. But I am saying, every once in a while, there. There must be something in you that says, I will lead my church in generosity. Maybe not in the number, but I will lead in sacrifice. I am where I am today because of generosity. Number two, you have to follow the favor. Follow the favor. I Want to bring balance to a statement because I. I believe in it, but it needs balance. But I. But I do like it. People say, go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated. Now there's some balance there. Okay? You can't just like, yeah, I feel tolerated in this marriage. I'm out. Or I, you know, I don't like my job anymore. I quit. That's not what I'm talking about. But I do think that if you find favor. I'm talking to leaders. Especially if you find favor, I'd follow that. I'd follow the favor. If there seems to be doors that are opening, and if you're praying, God, shut the wrong doors and open the right doors, and then doors start opening, why don't you trust the Holy Spirit? Yeah, I think God's opening that door now. You'll make some mistakes along the way. You'll miss it sometimes. But I'm just saying, in general, in general, I think follow the favor. In general, I say yes to the favor. A few years ago, my. My best friend in the world, David hall, he pastors in Adelaide, Australia. David text me and he said, can you do lunch today with me and Pastor Brian Houston? And I, you know what? I didn't think about it. I didn't pray about it. I didn't check my schedule. I said, yes, because you follow the favor. Pastor Brian at that time was. He is the founder of Hillsong Church, the largest church in the history of Australia, and at the time was the senior pastor of Hillsong, Australia, and of Hillsong. And David said, do you want to have lunch? I said, of course. So we went to lunch, and we're talking and we're having lunch, and Pastor Brian looks at me and he goes, we're talking about preaching somewhere. And he goes, have you ever preached for me? And I went, well, yeah. I mean, I've preached in South Africa. I've preached in New York. I've preached in London. I've preached in some of your other locations. And he goes, but have you preached in Sydney? Hillsong, Sydney, the mothership, you know, the home base? And I said, I have not. And he goes, why not? You know, like. Like it's my choice, right? And he goes. He goes, why not? I go, well, Pastor, you. You know, you'd have to invite me. If you invite me, I'll say yes. And he just pulls out his phone and he looks at a date. I did not have my phone open. He looks at a date. It was June something. This is June 2019, back then he looks at a date, June 2019. He goes, can you do this date? And I said, yes. And he goes, how do you know you can do it? I said, because I can do it. He goes, what if you have something? I go, it's cancelled. He said, yeah, but are you really free? I said, I'm free. And he just started laughing. He said, check, check your dates. I said, I don't have to check my dates. It's done. I'm coming. Because you don't look at that guy and go, well, let me check the calendar. Let me pray about it. You know, let me think. No, you follow the favor. You say yes. You know, the first time I ever got invited, I'm not, I hope I'm not name dropping. First time I ever got invited to Elevation Church. October 2019. So that same year, October 2019, on a Tuesday, I got a text. What are you doing Sunday? Well, I was preaching. I have a church. I wrote back nothing. Really? Yeah. Can you preach Sunday? Yes. What are you going to do at home? I don't know. Do you have someone who can fill in for you? We'll figure it out. Because you don't, don't be a big shot, don't act important, just follow the favor invite. Yes, I'm coming. Of course. So he got off the phone and we figured out who was going to preach for us that Sunday. You do you go through the open door? I just think so often we, we want to kind of look important or over spiritualize things, you know. For me, I'll never forget Craig Groeschel teaching a group of us pastors one day. He said, I wake up every morning and I have a time with God and I read the word and I pray and I give that day to God. And then I go through the open doors and I work really hard and I, and I believe God is leading and guiding me through the day. Not everything needs to be a 40 day prayer and fasting. Just surrender your day to God and then go follow the favor. See, favor requires a favorable disposition. Favor requires a favorable disposition. Don't be difficult. Don't be difficult. Like if every answer is a him and a haw and ah, we'll see. And I'm really busy and I got a lot going. There's no favor for that. People get tired of that. The favorable disposition is like, yeah, it's, it's honestly it's more like I live like it's yes unless God says no. There's just, there's a yes about me. There's an interest about me. There's a. I'm. I'm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's a yes. That's just kind of how I live. Follow the favor. If God gives you open doors of opportunities to go down certain situations, go do it. Don't argue about it, do it. And figure out the details later. But I just think we make things too difficult. Follow the favor. Here's another one. Number three. Grow your gift. Grow your gift. Big shout out pastor Dr. John Maxwell for his book Talent is Never Enough. If you've never read that book, you got to read that book. Talent is never enough. There are so many talented people in the world that that's not what's going to distinguish you. It's going to be your ability to grow that gift, grow that talent. Increase that. Does. Did. Did Michael Jordan have a obvious ease and gift and freak talent for basketball? Of course. Did LeBron? Yeah, of course. Steph Curry? Of course. Tiger Woods. Of course. I mean, there's obviously something there, but you've got to work it. These guys aren't. They. They don't just walk on the court. They don't just walk on the golf course. They don't just. There's work. If you've ever heard a really great public speaker, it's. I promise you, there is a talent there. There's a charisma there. There's a weird gift there. But. But I promise you, they're working at it. I promise you. I promise you, you've got to work the gift. There's a gift. There's a God thing. There's a unique thing that God puts on you. And then you have to work that. There's things about you that should never change. But there's some things about you that must change. We're in an ever changing world. Here's what I say about this. The world is changing. I need to be growing. So it's not necessarily the world's changing. I need to be changing. It's the world's changing. I need to be growing. Because if I'm growing faster than the world is changing, I'll always have a relevant voice. If I'm growing faster than the world is changing, always have relevant, always, always be relevant. You'll always be relevant if you're growing. Not. Not necessarily changing, but growing. Because as you're growing, you'll discern what needs to change, what needs to morph, what needs to. Yeah. I think one of the greatest compliments I get is that the people who have followed me for a Long time they knew me as an evangelist. They knew me as a evangelist, preacher, traveling preacher, and now they see me as a pastor. And there's always a really great compliment that guys give me where they go, man, we've. We've seen you morph. It's not really that I've changed. It's just that I've grown and matured with pastoring because I can't. I can't preach hard three or four services a Sunday to the same people the way that I do for a revival service on a Friday night. See, it's just, you've got to be pliable. And as long as you're growing, you'll be pliable. As long as you're growing, you'll be. You'll be liquid enough to be able to move. You know, I think of Matthew 25. The, the men are given treasure, they're given these talents, they're given these pieces of gold, but then they had to multiply it, they had to work it, they had to do something with it. Talent is never enough. You've got to grow your gift, preachers. You've got to get better. You got to get better. You've got to get better. Let me. I'm going to give you three ways to grow your, Your communication gift really quick, and we'll keep it moving. Number one, preach shorter. I mean, unless you're really good, you need to stop preaching so long unless you're great. And I, and I know friends who are great, who. I'm like, I could listen to you for an hour, hour and a half. You, you do you. But I mean, unless you're like world class, you need to preach shorter, you need to say less. You need to cut out the fat out of your sermon. You need to cut out all that and laser focus for 30 seconds, 35, 40 minutes, and focus and get a thought across. Preach shorter. Another one is listen to a hero. Find inspiration. Find some communicators that really inspire you. And while you're developing your own voice, listen to their voice. Don't listen to everybody, but listen to a few that can help shape your voice. And then, of course, watch yourself. Go back and watch it. Watch the mannerisms, watch the volume, watch the changes. Watch the humor. Make critiques. Make critiques grow. Continue to grow. Be a critic to yourself and get better. Don't just assume even how you dress, how you look on stage. Man, I need it. You know, it's like, what got. Man, I always think, I always look at guys and I go, go get that Shirt tailored. Go get those pants hemmed. Like, get things sitting right on your body. Whether, whether you're in good shape or not, it doesn't matter. Go get, go get things cut up to your, to your body type and shape. If you're a guy that probably should be a medium, but because of maybe your weight, you have to wear a large. Well, then go get the large, but then get it hemmed up and cut up so that it, it lands on you, right? Your pants, get them, get them hemmed so that they, they sit right perfect with your shoes. All those kind of things are little things that you can do. Think, think about those things. Think about ways where you could grow. You know, some guys, they just love, man, they love their hair or they love, they love a weird thing about themselves or they love, you know, but it's capping your ministry. I just, I'd give yourself a second look. Number four, communication. My world got better as I became a better communicator. When I, when I talk about communicating, I'm talking about how I talk to people. Here's my challenge. Talk up to people. Stop talking down to people and start talking up to people. Start being interested. I've talked a lot about this, so I'm going to, I'm going to keep it moving, but refuse entitlement, Just refuse it. Conversations means, it's a two way conversation. It means you're listening. You're not just talking. You're interested, you're interesting, you're, you're, you're up to date on things. You know, like if you want to be good at conversation, like you should know a little bit about the stock market, a little bit about what's happening in news, a little bit about sports. You know, like I'm not a sports fanatic, but I can, I can hold a conversation about what's happening in sports. I'm a little too obsessed with politics. I have to back down because I can get a little weird. I like to, I like to be a little in the know on economy and money and things like that. Like just know something so that you're, you're just a little more aware. Level up your communication. People like to talk to you. People will be drawn to you. Let me just give you three points very quickly. You got to know how to talk to a father, a brother and a son. You have to know how to talk to a father, a brother and a son. So you got to know how to speak to authority, ask questions, be interested, learn, absorb information, come with a plan. You got to Know how to talk to a father. Remember that when Paul talked to Agrippa and when the Hebrew boys talked to Nebuchadnezzar, they both addressed them as king. King Agrippa. King Nebuchadnezzar. There's a way to show honor. Speak with respect. Speak with honor. Nebuchadnezzar is warning the boys, I'm going to kill you. And they go, oh, King Nebuchadnezzar. They showed respect. Agrippa's got Paul under house arrest. And he goes, oh, King Agrippa, Learn how to talk to a father. Learn how to show respect. Here's another one. You got to know how to talk to brothers. Joseph didn't know how to talk to his brothers. He knew how to talk to mom and dad, but he didn't know how to talk to his brothers, and it almost got him killed. Learn how to talk to peers. You. You. A lot of guys are. All they do is lead. Like, I'll talk to preachers. Sometimes they don't know how to talk. They just preach. You sit down at lunch, you pick up the phone, they just preach to you. They don't know how to talk. And I don't. I'm not judging them. I'm not mad at them. They just. They don't even know how to talk anymore. You got to learn how to talk to brothers. You've got to have friends. Not everything can be a preaching contest where you're sharing your latest revelation. There's got to be. You got to be bigger than that. You got to be. You got to be better than that. You got to have some hobbies. You got to have some interests. You got to like some things or not everything is just a rev who's got the best revelation. But it's like. It's all you do. And you just. You think you're Elijah. You got to calm down. You've got to learn how to talk to brothers. Because if you're only sharing your dream and how favored you are and how spirit you are, spiritual you are, people are going to want to do to you what they did to Joseph. You got to chill. And it's like, oh, yeah, Joseph ended up in the palace. That's true. But in his immaturity as a young man, he did not steward well the gift that was on his life. You've got to be careful. Number three. You got to know how to talk to sons. You got to know how to speak life, give wisdom, be open, be transparent. You got to learn how to show love and encouragement and you know, don't speak to a son like you speak to a father. Don't. Don't speak to a father like you speak to a son. Don't speak to a son like you speak to a brother. Brother like a son. Don't do that. Don't overshare with sons. Don't get too real and too honest with sons, because sometimes they can't handle that side of your humanity. So you got to be careful not, you know, don't. Sometimes pastors can get too comfortable with their team and they just start opening up too much, and, you know, their team's looking at them like, I didn't know you were human. I thought you were an angel. I can't hear this from you. So you do have to, like, you have to be careful not to overshare with sons. With sons, we speak life. With sons, we give wisdom. With sons, we just. We help them grow. We give advice, unsolicited advice. Yeah, I don't ask Goldie if she wants to hear my advice. I. I give her my advice, my daughter. Okay. With staff. I don't. Hey, can I. Can I help you with this? No, I say, hey, I see this in you. I want to help you. Here, let me help you. Speak to sons like sons. Now, you don't talk down to them. You talk up to them. But you do, you know, with a brother, it's solicited advice. Excuse me. With a brother, you're going, hey, can I share this? I see this. With fathers, you never rebuke up, ever. You never correct upwards, ever. But with sons, you can bring correction and wisdom and, hey, let me help you here, I see this. Let me help you. I got a couple of years on you. Let me help you. And that's very important. This is how you grow, the likability factor in your life. What happens is people will start to know you like you, trust you again. These things are built over years and decades, and they can be broken in seconds. So we got to take these things very serious, very seriously. And you watch what God will do through your life. I've been saying this a lot over the last few weeks, and I just. It's a theme in me right now. Remember, we're spirit, soul and body, not just spirit. We're in the people business. We're in soul and body as well. We're helping people on every area, and that means that we have to grow in every area. All right, well, I love you. We'll see you next week. Big thank you. To Launch Sunday, launchsunday.com they handle all of our printing and signage needs. They are the best. Make sure to check them out. Make sure you like and subscribe to this channel so that you're up to date on all that we're doing. And we'll see you next Wednesday.