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What's up friend? And welcome to the Jabon Chavis Leadership Podcast where man, I'm just here to serve you, here to help you and hopefully in doing so I can help your organization, help your church, help your business, whatever it is that you are putting your hand to. I know that as you get better, your organization is going to get better. As you get bigger on the inside, your organization is going to get bigger on the outside. As we get stronger and smarter. Our organization is far following us. Why? Because we reproduce who we are. Not what we want to be, not what we project to be, but who we are. That's what Genesis 1:11 tells us. We're reproducing after our own kind. And so I'm praying this is a blessing to you. Make sure to like subscribe, do all the things that will help us. We're right here on the City Life Vegas YouTube page where we're live streaming our service every Sunday. Sunday we are bringing you a fresh sermon every Sunday night. I'm bringing you a leadership talk every Wednesday and then every Friday we're dropping fresh worship as well as a lot of shorts that we're releasing as well. So we're praying that this page becomes a resource for you and a blessing for you and for your teams. And today I want to talk about leading like the ant. Leading like the ant. Not a u n T, not your aunt, not your aunt Kathy. I'm talking about the ant, the A n T, the little bug, the ant. Proverbs chapter 6 says we can learn from the ant. He said learn these things from the ant. Here's the first thing he says learn from. He says they don't have a prince, they don't have a ruler, they don't have a king and yet they get to work. What I learned first from an aunt is that I have to be a self starter. This is the difference between being a manager and being a leader and I'm going to talk a lot about that today. The difference between management and leadership. A manager can be given a job and do it, but a leader doesn't need someone constantly pushing them. What do I learn from the ant? The scripture says he has no prince, he has no direct oversight and yet he's able to do the job. Your ability to be a self starter will affect your success. It will affect the amount of money you can make. It will affect your future if you need to be led and that's okay. Just know you've capped yourself if you need to be motivated and that's okay. You've capped yourself. If you need to be started, that's okay. But just know you've, you've kept yourself. What we learn from the ant is that the ant doesn't need permission to take initiative. The ant just moves. The ant goes. There's this thing in him, in her that just says I'm going to get it done. Now again, if you need 20 reminders a day, that's okay that that's your level. But, but it's, but it's going to affect you. It's going to affect your future and it's going to affect where you can go. A true leader doesn't need constant supervision nor does it need outside motivation. The true leader, the great leader, has learned how to stir up motivation. This is what Paul told Timothy, right? Stir up the gift that's on you to do. No one else can do it for you. You have to do it. The person who always needs to be pushed will slow down the team. What can I learn from the ant? I have to be a self starter. Great leaders are self starters. Great leaders can manufacture motivation. It doesn't mean that we don't all love appreciation and don't love people recognizing and don't love ideas and collaboration. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying I don't need direct supervision to get a job done and I don't have to always be told what to do. I have the instinct to get it done. Learn from the ant. Here's another thing about the ant. The ant is not just a a self starter. The ant is also a strategic thinker. He's always ahead. Look what it said here in Proverbs 6. They're storing up food in the summer, gathering food in the harvest. That means that in every season they have a plan for the next season. Every season they have a plan for the next season. In every season they're thinking they're doing something today because they know the next season is coming. Ants are able to plan for today and work today while also thinking about and planning for tomorrow. This is what happened to Joseph, right? He stored up for seven years in fat times, plenty times. Why? For skinny times, for drought, for famine. He was able to go ahead. He was able to think ahead. Jesus said I go ahead to prepare a place for you. Think about that. I will go ahead. What a leader. To prepare what a leader. A place for you. What a leader. How incredible is that? I'm going ahead of you and I'm going to prepare something for the people that are coming. Behind me. That's what an ant does, by the way. That's what Jesus did. This is what we can learn from the ant. What are you preparing for? What are you waiting for that you should be preparing for? Oh, let's go there for a second. What are you waiting for right now that you actually. Well, you know, if the church grows, you know, I'm just waiting on my breakthrough. What are you waiting for that you need to be preparing for? Well, people. If people start coming. No, no. What are you waiting for that you should be preparing for? Planning for, thinking about the ant works in summer, stores up food in summer because he knows harvest is coming. Ants think ahead. Such a key. Why are you shocked every Sunday that it's Sunday again? Why are you shocked every Tuesday for that meeting? Why are you surprised every time someone calls you out on your stuff? Plan ahead. Leaders who do not plan, plan to fail. You got to get ahead. You don't want to live under the gun of constantly, oh, my gosh, here it comes. No, get ahead. Begin to strategically think. Like, hey, as I'm filming this, this is September. Like, Christmas is coming. Do you know that? Like, Christmas is coming. Anything about Christmas? And then December is coming and you're going to have an influx of people. Are you thinking about that? Hello? And then March is coming. And I've been pastoring seven years now, coming up on my eighth year. March is awful for us. So I know that. So I need to make plans for March. Daylight saving signs coming in March. I ain't going to be here. I ain't going to be preaching. Come on, somebody. No, thank you. Then April's coming. We got Easter. You thinking about Easter? And then we got Mother's Day. Then you're going to hit a lull. Are you planning rhythms around that? Or are you just going to be shocked and depressed in June when your numbers drop? No, you should be on vacation. Dumb. Dumb. Come on, somebody. I'm not calling you dumb. I'm actually calling myself dumb because I end up end up preaching at the wrong times. Okay, they're strategic thinkers. Here's the last one. They live with discipline. He says, why do you love sleep so much? When will you get up from your sleep, you sluggard? I'll just end with this. You have strength and you have weaknesses. And there are a lot of guys that will teach you. Just keep working on your strengths. And I'm not totally against that. I remember a guy saying this one time, and I loved the thought. He said, you know when your child has an A in math and a C in English. We get them a tutor for English. And he said, you ought to get him a tutor for math because they obviously have a strength there. And I like that thinking. So as it comes to strength and weaknesses, I get it. But where it comes to character, where it comes to major weaknesses in your character and fix it. Do you love to sleep? Get over that. Do you need to get your diet under control? Do it. Do you need to get in the gym three days a week? Do it. Are you hooked on alcohol? Quit it. Are you looking at porn? Stop it. Like I'd get real serious about it. Because God says in that area, destruction will overcome you see, because it's not just that area. It opens the door to more areas. So you got to live disciplined. Discipline is the gift we give back to God. God gives us mercy. God gives us grace. God gives us so much. God gives us gifting. God gives us so many beautiful things. We give him back a life of holiness, a life of discipline, a life of structure. The writer of proverbs goes on to say in another proverb, he says, he says, don't love honey. Don't eat too much of it. Have a little, but not too much. Anytime you get into excess about anything, you're going to get in trouble. Anytime you get into excess about anything, you're going to get in trouble. So don't fall in love with that. Don't fall in love with honey. Don't fall in love with money. Don't fall in love with sex. Don't fall in love with rest. Don't fall in love with holiness, you know, to the point that you become a legalist. Don't fall any man. Anytime I see a preacher in an extreme, they always blow up their life. So learn the discipline of balance and rhythm and of not getting obsessed about things that could destroy you. Fall in love with honey. Don't fall in love with some of this stuff that you can so easily fall in love with. And you stop loving God. Learn from the ant. Well, I love you so much and I pray this was a blessing to you. I pray you can take some of this, digest it with your teams, work on how you can plan better, work on how you can think better, work on how. On how you can work better. And I know God will honor it again, make sure you're liking and subscribing, doing all the things to this channel that will help us get this message out to more people, more leaders. And again, I pray it's a blessing to you. I will see you next Wednesday.