[Music] there are two animals on Earth that God identified himself with these two animals are both leaders the first one is the eagle if you read the constitution of Heaven you call it the Bible you will find a throat that document God keeps identifying himself with the eagle he never says that I am the bird of paradise he never said that I am a pigeon he only identified himself but this massive powerful bird called The Eagle he will find in the text of the Constitution words like this I will pay you up on wings like
an eagle in another place God says of himself I like an eagle will stir my nest and I shall put you on my opinions like an eagle in another place God says and just like an eagle only gathers around fresh blood even so the Lord will stir you he never identifies with the pigeon [Music] the second animal that God identified himself with is divided the lion is also the leader of the animal kingdom so the eagle is the bird kingdom the lion is the leader of the animal kingdom even though the lion is not the
largest animal the jungle he's not the most powerful he's not the most intelligent he's not the the biggest animal and yet the lion rules the jungle the lion is important because the lion destroys all of your excuses for not being the leader you don't need to be the biggest to be the leader you don't need to be the strongest or the heaviest or the most powerful or even the most intelligent and yet you can be the leader so the lion defies everything that they taught you about leadership foreign God himself identifies with the lion he
says I am the lion of Judah not the dog of Judah not the giraffe not the elephant of Judah he identified with this creature that he created and my question is why did God identify himself with these two animals so much the answer is because he put in these two animals certain qualities that make them different from the others and those qualities are identified as leadership characteristics that's why it's important to study the lion and to study the eagle as a matter of fact these two animals became my personal friends because it is these two
animals that helped me to understand myself and to understand God's plan for my life and to understand how I'm supposed to live and there are two words I want you to identify with these two animals the first one the lion is the word attitude the lion is the leader of the animal kingdom because of his attitude [Music] the lion has a deep sense of confidence and courage he's not afraid of the elephant or the giraffe he he eats the hippopotamusi he destroys the Bulls he he somehow has this confidence that he can eat any animal
no matter how big they are no matter how strong they are the lion has an attitude of self-confidence the ego identify with the word vision everybody say vision what makes the ego dangerous is God placed in the ego a capacity in his eyes to see from a distance in detail the eagle is the only bird on earth as a matter of fact it's the only animal on Earth who can see 50 times better than a human the eagle can see five miles away total detail it's called optica vision and that's why the eagle is the
king of birds he he doesn't have to sneak up on his prey to destroy he can see the prey five miles away rather pray don't even know he's being seen foreign discovers he was being seen it's too late because the eagle shoots like a bullet the power of vision is the success of the eagle [Music] I want to talk to you and about the ego he's the king of birds because of vision and if you are going to become the leader that you were created to be not only do you need the I come the
leader that you were born to be [Music] you're going to have to have an understanding of the qualities and the power of vision first let me define leadership again for you so that you will have a working definition of what a leader is because you were born to be one young man leadership is defined as the capacity to influence others through inspiration generated by a passion motivated by a vision which is birth from a conviction produced by a purpose it's a long sentence but each word is important leadership it's a capacity to influence other people
through inspiration not manipulation so truly this never manipulate people they inspire if anyone tries to control you they are not a leader that includes your husband [Music] oh anyone who has to control you is not a leader it might be your boss might be your teacher in the class it might be your pastor they are not leaders anyone who tries to control another human is not a leader they are dictated and insecure whimper true leaders never controlled people they inspire people [Music] people and how do they inspire people because of their passion foreign [Music] comes
from what it comes from a vision that they have they believe in their vision so it creates a passion in their lives where does the vision come from the vision comes from a deep conviction that the person has about why they were born they believed they were born to do something important that's called conviction [Music] foreign comes from it comes from a discovery of a purpose for your life that you are not a mistake that you were not just born to make a living and pay bills and die that's why leaders don't think about paying
bills and worrying about money the leaders are are people who've discovered something more important than a paycheck leaders are driven by a sense of purpose and Destiny they believe that they were born to correct the problem to bring healing to humanity to change a community to transform a society to impact their country that's leadership that's why most people today are not leaders they just want to make a living foreign [Music] some of you bastards are not leaders because you entered the ministry to make a living [Music] you call it a call we know it's the
cash you gotta ask yourself a question today why am I in the ministry why is there a passion for what I'm doing am I willing to die for what I'm doing [Music] leadership is about a conviction [Music] you can be a preacher all your life and be useless [Music] leadership is not about personal ambition it's not about private advancement leadership it's about a deep conviction about your own purpose in life that I was born to fix something I was born to deliver people from something I was born to make a difference in the world not
just make a living are you a leader or do you just have a career let me say something very interesting you may want to remember this leaders can never retire foreign if you can stop doing what you're doing and still be happy you are not a leader because you cannot retire from yourself and a leader is one who have discovered herself she has discovered who she was born to be he had discovered what he was born to do and you cannot retire from yourself conviction [Music] passion [Music] Vision [Music] I could talk about each one
of these components for the next 10 years and never go home wouldn't you like that [Music]
