How do you wrangle yourself back into flow as a leader who knows the call on your life is huge, yet somewhere along the way you feel like you stopped knowing how to be you?
1) I believe the first step here is recognising that this is a GOOD thing, and an opportunity to go deeper into what your true identity really looks like when played out in your business or ministry for THIS season.
We so easily freak out when the ground doesn’t feel stable beneath our feet, but by definition if your eyes are on Christ and your desire is truly to walk in right assignment EVERY time you think you got it all figured out it’s gonna need to shift! Either because you’ll stagnate. Or because you now started to put your faith into what you do. Or who you are. Rather than who is leading you, and why.
Ouch. GOOD ouch.
2) Look around. I mean, really take some time to look around. Until the dust settles in your emotions and intellect. Until you stop wanting to default back to building up structures which make sense to you or look like some kind of tangible success or direction again.
Look around until bit by bit you begin to catch the beat.
Of who you are now.
Of what God is stirring in you now.
What He is speaking to you about.
What it would be about if you allowed it to unfold without rush, or panic, or ‘have to’.
Look around until the part of you desperate to be or do again has been stilled, and until you’re actually LOVING the fact that you get to look around, take stock, and wait on what it now is.
3) DREAM.
Oh my gosh do we need to DREAM as leaders. If we’re not dreaming, not visioning, not looking and believing higher, we are DYING stuck in the miry clay of the natural realm.
How boring!
Maybe the reason you – and SO many people these last few years – have lost a little footing and are sensing it’s time for something really new – is that you don’t stop and imagine anymore! You dreamt your way into something which worked, which even had the heartbeat of heaven, then you got married to it and now you’re acting like you’re in a holy covenant when in actual fact you probably have a demonic altar to self and performance and counterfeit identity which needs to be kicked over!
What do you think might actually happen next if you make space for dreaming?
If you prioritise it?
If you allow things to flow supernaturally with the Spirit of God, rather than productively from the checklist of the world?
4) DECIDE.
At a certain point it is time to decide again to walk forward, to do the things, to expect growth, expect multiplication even! In fact we can always expect these things in God. Just sometimes our definition of what that looks like isn’t matching His and it’s more about what He’s multiplying and growing in our character.
But yes. Eventually it IS time to show up, to be that leader at the forefront, or to do so with determination to bring a new thing.
You have to decide where you’re going to lay track now.
What your focus is going into now.
What you are building or creating, and where, and how, and with whom.
You gotta get your game plan on then WALK ONTO THE FIELD.
Do this PRAYERFULLY. But do it, and don’t dilly dally once you get that sense from God that He’s calling you back to the frontlines.
5) The wrangle.
This is the sticky bit. This is the we HATE it bit. Although this is also the very quickly we LOVE it bit, because we do love to be held to the fire, don’t we?!
The wrangle is with your will. Your excuses. Resistance. Endless alternative possibilities to whatever you decided (IN GOD!) to decide. The literal lack of habit around some of the things it’s now time for. The quieting whatever else has been taking up the time you’ll now need to go to that next place. And the very real need to discipline your butt into being the version of you God has revealed to you whether or not you think you know how!
The wrangle is NOT, however, and this is the secret to know, to try and coerce yourself into something which is not in every way FOR you.
It is to overcome what would try to ROB you of what is for you, and also for you to let through you.
When you look at it that way, it becomes easier to go to that quiet still knowing He is God place again and just sigh out all the can’ts and don’t wanna’s and don’t know how.
Because in the end it really is as simple as ‘what would it look like to be me today, but fully?’
And then?
You just do.
You call on God. You bind up whatever needs binding. You decree and declare living word over you, and your work.
And then you just do.
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