Kingdom Leadership Workshop | April 2025
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“Ask God to lead you.” That simple but powerful invitation lies at the heart of Kingdom leadership. In this raw and honest message, Cal Zant, President of Betenbough Homes, shares personal stories of risk, obedience, and divine provision—offering a blueprint for what it means to lead in business God’s way. From praying for competitors to choosing faith over fear in times of crisis, Cal challenges leaders to exchange the natural for the supernatural and to reframe success through an eternal lens.
all right wow you’re good-look group uh you
know there’s probably a lot of high performing leaders in this room you guys are probably hard to
schedule meetings with is that true lord’s so pleased that you took
time out of this week to come think about him and how uh you can get involved in
what he’s doing i feel like he wants us to make this shift from being organizational
leaders into being kingdom leaders what the heck does that mean so
I’m a very practical guy i’m about to rapid fire like a hundred stories at you of what that how that’s played out in
the dayto day for for me uh while I’ve been here
first and foremost I’ll say uh a kingdom leader establishes God’s kingdom as the
highest priority that’s what kingdom leaders do you do that for your company or your
church or your nonprofit or your organization um did you know of the first
108 colleges in the United States 106 of them were established as
Bible colleges that includes almost all of the Ivy League schools so 106 of the 108 were Bible
colleges they were equipping people academically but also biblically for
life beyond college but how many of those colleges is that still their highest
priority almost zero right so what happened
there was a kingdom leader that established that as the highest priority but then that leader or or the
group of leaders stepped back or sat down or fell down and allowed something else to rise
above that as the highest priority what was it was it beautiful buildings
academics tolerance and maybe growing the student base like what was it that
found its way above it so the first truth of kingdom
leadership is that a kingdom leader is committed to God’s kingdom being the highest priority in the territory that
they have authority over that they have responsibility for and I’m going to ask why does your
organization exist why does your organization
exist answer that in your
head not what does your organization do that’s different why does it
exist is it for profit was that like part of your answer
here’s how we think about prophet here it’s kind of like breathing necessary you know uh breathing as a
person if you can’t breathe for very long it all of a sudden becomes very important but if your purpose in life is
breathing that is a pretty pointless life and as a business you need profit to exist you
you you need to fund yourself it has to be sustainable but if that’s your whole purpose it’s a pretty pointless
existence as well um really in God’s kingdom we also can’t
be tribal god’s kingdom is bigger than our business or or our organization the
kingdom must be a higher priority than me than my family than my company and
we’ve learned that here um just a couple years ago we heard that
Dr horton uh was going to come to Love uh they had been talking to some developers about buying some home sites
and so we knew they were coming um for those of you that don’t know Dr horton
is the largest home builder in the United States they build about 90,000 homes a year they’ll they’ll build more
homes like in the first five days of the year than we will the rest of the year they’re like a $40 billion company and
uh they had come to love a long time ago and then left but Don Horton the founder
Donald R horton his his name is in the name he came to love a few years ago and
said “We’re going to make it work this time.” He personally wanted to make it work in this market and for
context you know how much cash they have on hand $5 billion in
cash if they want to make something work they can make it work they can hold their breath for a really long time
and we heard they were coming and then one day Corey Cisco one of our senior leaders came into my office and he said
“Uh hey I wanted to let you know that Brock resigned because he accepted the
position as division president of Dr horton here in
Luk.” Brock was one of the most veteran GMs of our largest operation in
Luk brody he knew all of our secrets he knew our pricing he knew our plans he He
had personal relationships with all of our trade partners all of our suppliers there’s nothing he didn’t know honestly
if you if if you are going to expand into this market like recruiting Brock
might be the best strategy you could have but when Corey told me Brock is
going to be the new division president of Dr horton here in love i can honestly say that within 5 seconds I sincerely
responded “Good for him.” That’s probably a really good opportunity for
him now I feel like God has specifically asked me to try to describe what this
feels like on the inside so I don’t know who that’s for but it is for somebody uh so I’m just
going to tell you some of my inner dialogue to every one of these stories when he first said this I I’ll say in my
mind it was a combination of oh crap and how dare
he like why would he want to do that like we’re the best how how could he do
that but God has taught me so many times here that the goal shouldn’t be to keep
everyone here and I should not take offense when somebody wants to leave his kingdom is
bigger than beating B homes you know Brad said uh uh that the
kingdom and the church they’re not the same thing the church is one part of the kingdom beat homes is one part of the kingdom but it’s not all of the kingdom
the kingdom is way bigger than us so we shouldn’t try to keep people
here and while in the natural it might look like something’s being taken from
us the Lord withholds no good things from his kids that’s what I’ve
learned that is the supernatural view so I chose to exchange the natural
for the supernatural and literally within a couple of seconds I arrived at good for
him those were the first words out of my mouth uh but then do you know what the
Lord asked me to do within an hour of that oh man to start praying for Brock’s
early success oh
man i mean wasn’t it enough to be happy for the
guy think about that you You are praying for a fierce competitor to be successful
in your own backyard to take market share from you you want him to be
successful at your expense that’s what it felt like he was asking me to
do but I did it i am happy to say I did it i did it the same day i don’t think
it was the same minute i I don’t think it was within five minutes i had to think about it for a minute but I did it the same
day in fact in the very next meeting with all of my senior leaders the next time we got together I told him that
that I felt like God asked me to start praying for his early success and together we did
that okay think about this brock is a kingdom leader he actually has been in
workshops like this over a dozen times as a table coach helping other people he was a practitioner
himself and you know now he’s division president
and at Dr horton a massive company and he has a ton of influence
what could the Lord do with that what if Brock used what he learned here about being a kingdom leader and
his new role there and they noticed that his territory was healthier and higher performing than any other one and they
came here and said “Hey dude what’s going on here?” And he told him and this thing spread through the whole
company wouldn’t we want that if the kingdom is the highest
priority we would want that if our financials are the highest
priority we would not want that you have to choose it though and
you know what dr horton has now been building in Leach for four years and they are successful here they’re
building a ton of homes here also today we’re selling more homes in Lev than any time in our 33y year history in fact
right before they came we were building about 500 homes a year in Lev now over the past 12 months we’ve been closer to
a thousand homes a year in Lev the Lord didn’t take anything from us although it
looked like it at the time it felt like it at the time in fact we didn’t even know who we we’d have to replace him
like we didn’t think we had somebody you know what we did we just didn’t see it yet in fact I wouldn’t exchange it back
the Lord had something more for us too but we couldn’t see
it at the same time we believed in faith the Lord withholds no good things from his kids even when the circumstances
didn’t look that way and that doesn’t mean it will always be pleasant or every chart will go up into the right
uh or even it’ll turn out like we hope for but we do believe making his kingdom
the highest priority is the best way in the kingdom there’s not a there’s not
scarcity there’s abundance like Brad was talking about and we can’t be tribal or
fearful the question kind of comes down to is this all God’s stuff or your
stuff and it’s easy to go well you know we use all this stuff to like glorify
God or something like that but really it’s my stuff and that is not a kingdom mindset
uh and really what we’re talking about here is spiritual leadership what if I told
you that you’ve been designated by God to be a spiritual
leader often we talk to other leaders uh and we say something like that and they’re like “Oh not me you don’t know
me i I don’t know enough Bible or if you knew my story you wouldn’t say that.” Or “I’ll hire a preacher to do that like I
need a pastor guy and then he could do that part and I’ll lead the business
nope you know who God typically picks to be spiritual leaders the most unlikely
people in fact he went out into the marketplace to get almost all of his apostles and he’s still doing that
today and I bet every single one of them had that same reaction me not me i
couldn’t I don’t even I don’t know enough scripture and in fact Peter when
when he realized this man standing in front of him is Jesus the son of God he
he fell on his face and he said “Please get away from me for I’m a sinful
man.” And Jesus said “No Peter that’s not who you are if you’d come walk with me I would teach you who you are.” And
that’s how that works i want to communicate this really clearly you are a spiritual
leader and actually all leadership is spiritual you know Adolf Hitler Hitler
was a pretty effective leader he was he uh had opportunity he had an aligned
leadership team and he had quite the impact now he was a spiritual leader he he was
led by spirits other than the spirit of God and he was very effective killed
over six million Jews and millions of others and evil spirits had their way in
him but that was a spiritual thing sometimes when we’re leading the
spirit leading us might not be as evil as murder or or domination but it can be
greed or a lust for more or I will just share what mine is
progress i can get so tangled up in that when I don’t see
progress i’ll just say what comes out of me is not
okay that is not from God like that is not being a spiritual leader
but the truth is as kingdom leaders we must be led by God’s spirit and none of us do does this
perfectly i don’t do it perfectly you don’t do it perfectly rick Beatenbo didn’t do it perfectly nobody does well
one guy did and it killed him so the the Lord
uh still invites us into it even though he knows we’ll make mistakes here and how Rick always said it is we need to
keep those seasons where we’re not being led by God’s spirit short and that’s what can happen in the power of a team
which I’ll talk about here in a minute um but one of the keys to staying more
focused and allowing the Lord to work through you is spending time with the King and honestly how can we lead in
God’s kingdom if we don’t spend time with the
King and honestly this might be the primary message that God wants to talk to you about over the next couple of
days is how can you have a relationship with somebody if you you never spend time with them you don’t know them they
It’s critical for every leader to find time every single day every kingdom leader needs to find time every single
day to spend time in the presence of God and ask him what he’s thinking about things
just sit in front of him uh and hear from him so that you can be led by his spirit as you
go and honestly if you’re not spending time with the king and hearing from him
then whose kingdom are you
building can I be honest with you for a second the reason I used to avoid doing
that is because I was afraid of what he would tell me when I asked him
i was afraid he was going to bring up all the ways that I fall short you know what that wasn’t what he
said you know what he said he told me all all of the things
that he created inside me that I had inside me he told me who my identity was
he helped me stand up in that he never talked down to me
if you’re afraid of asking God if just sitting with him just know he’s not
going to bring up all the ways you screwed up that doesn’t condemnation does not come from him and that’s what I
was afraid of so if that’s what’s holding you back please don’t believe that he will fill you up he will tell
you the most amazing things about yourself those other things come from the
enemy you’ll be able to discern those things when you spend time with him
hey and there’s a a lot of different backgrounds and religious traditions in this room and uh there’s probably a lot
of things that people would disagree about but one thing we can probably all agree about is Jesus is king and we’ll
just sidestep all the rest of that crap that we oftenimes get hung up on but I do think if we believed
anything Jesus said we should believe all of it or he’s just a crazy man so one of the things he said is uh in in
John uh he says the Holy Spirit is given to us to help us to teach us to counsel in
those verses so if if you believe that Jesus is king you scripture
teaches us that the spirit of God now resides inside of us and he’ll equip
you he’ll he’ll give you insight and wisdom into situations and actually
we’re gonna help equip you at this workshop which is such a powerful thing um he’s speaking and oftentimes we can’t
hear him because we aren’t listening for him it’s not he’s not speaking but we’re not watching for him
we’re not listening but many of us might not have a hearing problem we might have an
obeying problem i have a friend that’s that way just let me tell you
uh often we know God is what God’s trying to say to us we just explain it
away we logic it away or ignore it and fundamentally a
kingdom leader not only listens but obeys so let me tell you a story about a
time it was really hard for us to be obedient to something i’m going to take you back carrie already mentioned this but March 2020 y’all remember that i’m
not saying like back in COVID times i’m saying like right at the start where like schools were starting to shut down
they they canceled March Madness like what in the
world but there was like so much uncertainty businesses had to close more uncertainty worldwide than any time in
recent history and mayors and the presidents they were like constantly having those press conferences trying to
figure out what they’re supposed to do and we were trying to watch them all uh we build in multiple cities and we’re like “What are we supposed to do there
what are we supposed to do there?” I got so tired of watching those press conferences and for us at Bebo Homes we
were facing the same uncertainty everybody else did we we weren’t sure if we’d be able be forced to shut down for
months or if we’d be considered what became known as an essential business still that word kind of makes
me cringe like PTSD uh here’s what we did
know we had record cancellations this is uh one of those
charts you don’t want to go up and to the right honestly we had more
cancellations in the first couple months than we would have for entire years
before and many of our customers were losing their jobs or they them or their spouses being put on furlow and they no
longer qualified for a mortgage but lots of people were just fearful they didn’t know what the future held and so they
didn’t want to make such a big decision they were in conserve cash mode or they were trying to buy toilet paper remember
when everybody was like buying the storage out of toilet paper that is the weirdest thing
uh and I’d been praying for God’s leading in our business i became the president in 2016 so I’d been praying
for God’s leading in our business for years but my prayers became a little more intense in that season uh however I
can honestly say I never felt anxious or worried i really can i had a strange sense of peace through that whole thing
i remember first praying for our team because I saw so much fear in them
wondering what was going to happen and I so in our
company if profit is not the highest priority what is and God’s people is one
of those priorities we our our goal wasn’t how can we make profit through this it was
how how can we take care of the people God has given to us through this and so
my first thought was could we give them some assurance like that that we’re not just going to cut them all that to to
save money or something like that and I have learned don’t just say
that i went to God and said “Hey can we say that?” And after praying for a couple
days I felt like he gave me peace to do that and so I talked to the rest of our board we all had peace so on March 30th
I sent out a video saying “Hey even if we don’t have closings for up to six months we will continue to pay every
single employee we’re not going to let anybody go.” Because that’s what a king how a kingdom leader would think about
that after a couple days uh the the the truth is we kept seeing more and more
cancellations and sales and the big question became should we continue to start homes
the largest and the smartest home builders in the country had already started pulling back or completely stopped starting new homes but we
believe the Lord is the answer so we asked him and I asked the senior leaders on my team at the time Gina and Corey if
they’d join me in praying about this what what does wisdom say here what what
would the Lord We have no idea what the future holds but the Lord does so what would he lead us to do in this season
and we didn’t want to pull back out of fear or what seemed to us to be the best
thing and all three of us somehow had peace that we were supposed to continue starting homes even without buyers
attached to them so by the end of April US housing starts had already dropped by
at least 35% from just 60 days prior and that’s the time of the year normally housing
starts would go up and at Beimbo Homes our spec inventory had grown to over $18
million already because we had customers who were cancelling and we were continuing to start another 40 homes
every week just Ron used to say “We’re losing
money but we’re going to make it up in volume.” We were just piling them up
and a couple of the the top 10 home builders had already stopped starting homes for a full month some of them went
on for three months didn’t start a single home and that’s likely what the Harvard uh business school would teach
was the right thing right then conserve cash with so much uncertainty conserve
cash definitely don’t blindly keep going into the future when you have no
idea what’s going to happen so we continue to pray lord are you sure about this and I admit the
words that often would come out of my mouth were “Lord are you sure about this i know you’re in control and I feel like
you’ve given us direction and peace but if this doesn’t work out this could sink
the ship and guess what all of these people when they lose their job aren’t
going to be looking at you they’re going to be looking at me are you sure?”
I’ve seen him deliver in the past provide for us in certain times in the past and so I said ‘Lord I’ve seen that
and I believe you’re going to do it again here but just please let me know if I’m supposed to do something else and
we all had peace we’re supposed to keep starting homes kept doing it it felt like walking in the dark and so that’s what we did and that
also means day by day we continue to write checks to trade partners every day
for working on our homes but cash was not coming in from closings at the same
rate and so over a few weeks our cash reserves started going down down down we
run a very cash intensive uh business but eventually it worked its
way down to where we wouldn’t be able to fulfill that promise we made to the employees we no longer had six months of
payroll so I went back to the Lord and said “Hey
remember when we talked about this?” Because I do I I did ask you back there
you remember when I asked you about that lord if the music stopped right now we wouldn’t be able to do that we couldn’t
fulfill what you told us we could commit to i couldn’t make sense of how both of
those things could be true at the same time probably not unlike Abraham
who the Lord said “Your descendants will become as numerous as the stars in the
sky through your son Isaac.” He said that here and then over here he said
“Abraham I’m going to need you to kill your son Isaac.” And Abraham had to step back and
go “Uh and it says the next morning he got
up and left he took Isaac and he went to the mountain.” the Lord told him to go to and I just have to think that night
was wrestling he didn’t sleep because how can those both those things could be
be true but Abraham believed the Lord could do it anyway he was just going to be faithful to the last word he heard
and then he took him up on the mountain and it says the angel of the Lord cried out and said
“Stop.” What if Abraham had listened to the first word and not the last word you have to keep listening that’s
what I’ve learned too so that’s why we kept going back to him kept going back to him and we tried to
be faithful to the last word and you know uh I actually want to
show you a chart just so you know this isn’t a preacher story this is uh US housing starts the green is US housing
starts the black I overlaid bow home starts and you can see how sharply it fell off in March April and May and how
our line continues there that line looks really short that is 90 days in the
desert that is 90 days of us looking
crazy and by the end of May our cash reserve was extremely low up into the
till this point we had averaged about 15 to 20 million in cash which is wise because in any single week we could pay
out $6 million or even more than that to our trade partners in a single week and there was times in May where our cash
dipped below five uhoh that means if some of the homes
didn’t close that were scheduled we wouldn’t be able to pay the trade partners much less our
employees that’s how real this got in fact I remember a board conversation Holly and Carrie y’all were both there
where we said “If somebody doesn’t get paid this week it will be us first
that’s how real it got my prayers in that season were “Lord
we’ve been trying to follow your plan here we’ve been trying to be faithful to this whole thing but look we’ve gone too
past too far to pull the parachute now we need a miracle
you know everybody wants to see a miracle but nobody wants to be in a position where they need
one and of course today we know the rest of the story and here’s what happened over the next couple of months turned
into the largest housing boom in US history and guess who one of the only
homebuilders was in the country who had a ton of spec inventory ready to sell
it looked like we called it but we had no idea honestly we felt naked and crazy
most days uh we didn’t know it was coming but in less than 12 months our
cash balance was over 50 million which was more than double the
peak before it it honestly was hard to believe it’s like one of those miracles you read about in the
Bible here’s the thing
i feel like in retrospect the Lord was telling me “Cal if you can just trust
me if you can just trust me through this I’m going to provide i’m going to provide not just
for you not just for your team i’m going to provide for all of the people around y’all the trade partners the suppliers.”
And he wouldn’t have been mad if fear would have overcome me and I wasn’t able to do
that he wouldn’t have been mad at me but I feel like heartache would have
entered the world what that would have resulted in even if we’d have kept paying our people is over th honestly
thousands of people losing their jobs it being hard for them to feed
their families and the Lord didn’t want that but he said “Son this is going to be so hard for you to walk
out but I have a way and it’s not going to look good to
you but I’m going to take care of you i’m going to take care of everybody through you if you if you’ll take a risk
and you’ll follow me.” That’s what being a kingdom leader looks like but honestly it felt reckless
at the time it felt like it was all going to go down around us but it didn’t and I have like
hundreds of stories like that i won’t I won’t tell you all of them uh I will tell you a couple more but
uh I feel like God was in inviting me to be part of a miracle it it felt like
sacrifice and like I was crazy at the time but it was like out of that
desperation and dependence that God was able to do something
supernatural but for heaven to come to earth he invited me to exchange the natural for the
supernatural and I’m sure glad we didn’t just listen but we obeyed even when it was hard this is what I learned in that
season increased trust is more important and more valuable than a divine blueprint of what
to do the fact is uh there were moments of
doubt and questioning God through that and here’s what I feel like the Lord has told me many of you feel like when you
have doubt or you’re wrestling or you you’re mad at
God that that is somehow the absence of faith it’s not that means you’re
actually doing it us wrestling with God through that season are you sure Lord
because it looks like everything’s telling us not to do this but if you say we should I’m going to trust you help me
trust you and then again oh oh my gosh
we’re out of cash lord how are we going to pay all these what are we doing are you sure that wasn’t the absence of
faith that was faith emerging when you’re wrestling that
actually means faith is present it’s in that uncertainty david in the Psalms did this
so much lord where are you my enemies surround
me and you are nowhere to be seen god just wants us to be honest with
him and through that David found faith that’s what faith and action looks
like there are two things I want to talk about to share with you first one is this ask God to lead
you ask God to lead you
choose to exchange that natural for the supernatural there’s a couple ways you can ask God to lead you like one is like
in general hey God lead my life i want you to be in charge just in general i
hope all of you have done that but the second one that doesn’t get talked about a lot is on Tuesday at 3:00 when you’re
in that meeting or about to send that email saying “Lord would you lead me
right now what what would you do here what am I supposed to do while you’re
driving the car that the practical tactical decisions in the everyday and honestly Moses is right
there in in that kind of mo moment here in Exodus and he says “If you are
pleased with me teach me your ways so that I may know you and continue to find favor with you.” Moses here in the story
he had gone up on the mountain and some crazy stuff happened so God wrote down the Ten Commandments but when he came
down all of the Israelites were worshiping idols and Moses got pretty upset but he did not get as upset as God
got in fact Moses went back up to talk to him and God said “Moses take these people of
yours and leave right now go now I’m still going to give you the land I
promised your ancestors because I keep my promises but I’m not going with you
because I might kill you on the way i might kill you on the
way that’s kind of tough there you know I I’ve gotten mad at my kids on some
trips before but I never worried that I was like going to kill them on the way
moses was just a shepherd he wasn’t qualified to lead what what people say is like two million Israelites through
the desert so he fell to his knees and this is what he
said i get emotional because I’ve been here if you are pleased with me teach me
your ways so that I might know you and continue to find favor with you
later in the same passage Moses begs begs God that his if his presence isn’t
going to go with him please don’t send him away the Lord’s presence is his
provision it’s not separate he doesn’t need to send it it is
him let me tell you another quick example of how this has played out there’s a section of land just a couple
miles uh from here and I used to see it every time I drive back from Midland
there’s a stop sign and I would look and I could I could almost see there’s a little contour to the land which is rare
here in Leach and I just thought that’s such a beautiful place to build homes i could almost see the rooftops i didn’t get I don’t think I
coveted it but it like got into that gray area of like I I I just desired it
maybe uh anyway we were looking for another piece of land in Southwest Lockach and
that one had come onto the market so we contacted the buyer and we tried to make a deal and we’ve made deals with lots of
people in the past hundreds uh this one was weird
uh you know we would offer something and even if we offered exactly what he had
proposed he’d be like “Nah never mind.” And then like it’d feel like we’d make
traction and then he would just go silent for like two months and then like it was the weirdest thing even the realtor who represented him who had uh
just apologized profusely multiple times like I’m so sorry i I don’t know what’s going on this lasted for I think just
over 12 months and honestly we were
tired it was frustrating and one day me Rick and and another guy we jumped in
the truck and we were going to go around and look for land and we started by going there and we got out of the truck
and we went and stood on the land and we prayed together we actually held hands the three of us in a circle i always
think if somebody was like driving by like what what is that uh but we all
held hands and prayed Lord if this is what you have for us would you give it
to us and if it’s not would you release us from it because we’re
tired that was about 9:30 in the morning before
noon somebody called our front desk and said they were actually the owners of
that piece of land and they were ready to sell it and probably like you I was just as
confused because I’d been talking to the owner of the land except it turns out he wasn’t
his wife owned a minority interest in it but actually the majority owner was
the one who called our front desk and we called them back we asked if they could
meet and the next day we made a deal why did it take us so long to
ask because it’s not in our nature to ask we don’t even like asking for directions like lots of us are you know
strong type A personalities we’ll make a way i don’t need directions i’ll make a
way you know I have a daughter who uh plays volleyball and after a game I have
so much good advice do you ever have good advice for your daughter Michael so much so much and I I used to tell her
all the things just give her the tips you know trying to help and all of y’all are laughing our parents because you
know that is not a good idea here here’s a here’s a parenting tip don’t give
unsolicited advice so now she doesn’t ask me for
advice i don’t I keep it to myself and she’s done that once and I tried not to overdo it but uh that was once in the
past 12 months so that’s how that’s going uh you know what the Lord does that with
us he’s not going to force himself on us he doesn’t give unsolicited advice but
as soon as we ask him for help he wants to help us but we have to
ask because he’s not going to force himself on us he’s a good
parent you know really there’s nothing off the table who am I supposed to hire for this position what should I offer in
this negotiation do you have a solution to this problem or what software should I buy all of those questions he can give
you insight into god holds the keys to all wisdom not just spiritual wisdom all
wisdom if it is wisdom it’s from God one time I did remember to ask God
there was a situation in Midland where we bought land but only a portion of it could be serviced by the city’s existing
water infrastructure city staff had told us we could develop the whole thing so we closed on it started developing it
and then they go “Oh no there’s actually not enough water pressure in that area so we’ll give you 150 permits which last
all of us.” It usually takes about 18 months to
to get I bought this land to the first phase is
done and we had like less than eight and so immediately not going to
give me again although sometimes I do still forget it’s like Lord you know we need land in Midland so where should I
go who should I talk to now I heard nothing so the next day same thing lord this is
pretty urgent here uh I don’t I don’t know if you heard what the city said i’ll just let me tell you again we need
land and I don’t want to go kick down doors lord I I don’t want to go make my own way i don’t want to do this the hard
way so would you just tell me who I should go talk to would you lead that just tell me nothing nothing over two
months went by and I’m praying this every day every day and so one day uh early is probably
7 o’clock in the morning i’m walking out the back door of this office into the garden because that’s a good place to spend quiet time in the morning uh and I
start I’m I’m already talking about it be like I’m walking out the door with my coffee and I’m like “Lord you know we
need land in Midland where am I?” Before the door shut I I heard crystal clear uh
do you and I say crystal clear that was the thought that was in my head but it wasn’t what I was thinking
first of all do you doesn’t make sense so I’m supposed to explain what it feels
like on the inside i was pissed off with that
comment i had prayed that prayer over a hundred times by
then do you yeah Lord i don’t Have you not been
paying attention this whole time yes we freaking need land in
Midland if you don’t deliver all these people are going to lose their jobs is
that what you want not another
word i told Rick that about that that afternoon i was like I feel like the
Lord said ‘D do you and yeah we do and he was like yeah we
do you know what it turned out we
didn’t turned out we didn’t right Chris chris was in the middle of that
with me uh now the city even director mayor
level people were saying we did you know the water pressure never dropped
we built through the whole thing 1,140 homes straight
through and I could have went and bought more land but it wouldn’t have been the right thing it turned out the Lord
knew what I should have started with is Lord do we need land in Midland because
it seems to me we do but what do you have to say about that
he’s been so patient with me he’s been so patient with me and he
will be with you too he was never mad for me not asking the right question he loved that I was coming to him he loved
it i just wasn’t asking the right question so he eventually tried to help
steer me in that way
you know I thought we knew what we needed but it turns out I didn’t it seems
like more land would be good but it wasn’t and here is what God has been
talking to me about very recently which I I don’t think I’ve ever actually shared from the stage uh this thing is
progressive for a lot of people this starts off in like I believe in God and
I’m going to run my business or do my job in a way that honors God i’m going
to try to do it with Christian values i’m gonna I’m not going to cheat people i’m not going to lie to people i’m not
going to steal money i’m going to try to do things in an honorable way i’m going to try to care about people and God is
so pleased with that god is so pleased with that
there’s a deeper level where it’s like Lord would you open doors and close
doors and it’s like would you use the circumstances around me to guide me to let me know where I should go or
sometimes when you don’t have a clue what you’re supposed to do like 2020 you go to him and say “Lord what am I
supposed to do here i’m lost.” That’s like this level and what he’s shown me is there is
this level where you think you know the answer
already and you go “But Lord is that the best
thing do you have something else that’s even better?” And that’s
where you exchange that natural way of thinking for the supernatural and honestly there’s deeper
the Lord hasn’t taken me there so I can’t tell you what the next level is out i if I ever figure it out I’ll let
you know but that’s what he’s shown me that really real submission isn’t when
you don’t know what to do you go to him that’s not submission submission is here i think I know what to do but I trust
that you know the best way and so I want to exchange what I think with for what
you think that is real submission and that’s where the power comes from god
can do so many things so many things with that here’s what happened in the Garden
of Eden we ate the fruit and we all ate the fruit and now things look
sweet that actually aren’t good for us and then the things that would truly
be the best for us oftentimes look bitter and we get confused and the only
way to know is the spirit of God inside of us helping us see
it we have to exchange our natural eyes for supernatural eyes um I believe Moses is on his knees
asking the Lord to go with him and the Lord had mercy on a kingdom
leader and the Lord replied “My presence will go with you and I will give you rest.”
That’s his answer every time we stop and ask about
everything you know lots of times people ask us like “Okay you’re saying the Lord
speaks to you what does that really feel like?” First it’s different for everybody but great news we’re going to
have a whole breakout session we’re going to equip you on how to do that super powerful maybe the most powerful
thing you’ll do while you’re here uh but often the Lord doesn’t answer
immediately it’s not like he’s some magic eightball you can shake and get the answer for
okay right now I’ve been praying for two specific things for uh I I’ll say more
than six months and he has not answered and so I’m resisting being a
door kicker i’m naturally a door kicker i could go make things happen but I really believe he has a
better way and that he’s not withholding good things from his
kids okay the Lord can speak to you and confirm things in a variety of ways but a big way he does that is through the
team around you and so that brings us to the second key of being a kingdom leader
number one was ask God to lead you number two is ask uh build an aligned
leadership team ask others to lead alongside you you know when I say a leadership team that’s
like the group of people who make major decisions the ones who decide if you’re going to turn left or right here uh some
people might call it a board other people like an executive team for smaller organizations it might be a management team for even smaller
organizations it might be husband and wife the only rule is it has to be more than one um has to be two people ron and
Rick were the ones when they started this uh today the board of Bemo companies consists of four people and my
leadership team in in Beimbo homes is seven people uh the only rule is it
can’t just be one has to be a team you can’t do this alone and you shouldn’t
you need a team that can protect you from having to bear all the weight
rick told me when God first started talking to him about this he felt like God said,”Rick if you keep going like
this this thing is going to crush you and I don’t want that for you.” And also
if you keep going like this you’re going to kill my ministry disguised as a
homebuilding company and I can’t let you do that
so having a team that’s all committed to hear from God also creates safety one
day if God is trying to get in touch with me and I’m not picking up the phone he might can get in touch with Corey and
Corey could come over and go “Hey Cal God was saying he needed to talk to you and I’ll be like
“Okay it really does.” And honestly there’s a boldness that comes from that it i could not have followed that
leading to continue to start homes if these two guys didn’t also hear the same thing and because all three of us did
there’s power in that i literally wouldn’t have done it if it was me
alone there’s power in multiple people coming together and saying “I feel the same
thing let’s follow it.”
You know when Rick first started getting the vision of this he said he felt like the Lord gave him a couple ground rules
for how this should work and this is what he said a senior leader is accountable to the
team i am accountable to my team gina is the CEO of Beanbo Companies and she is
accountable to us that’s how it has to be the team is invited to weigh in on
all decisions and we really mean all there not just the ones in their
territory all decisions and then the last one this is
a critical one this is not a democracy we’re not asking for a vote we don’t do things by consensus
really a leader’s job is to make sure all the ideas are heard and the best one
wins it’s not their job to come up with all the ideas it’s to make sure everyone
has the ability to voice their ideas and everyone is truly considered and then the best one wins but it’s not taking a
vote at the end of it that’s how it often works for us like
Cy might come up with an idea or I come up with an idea but we arrive at like this third idea that maybe somebody else
brought or maybe it’s a new one that we came up with while we were talking or it’s like a combination of the two that’s how that works
um and we’ll do a breakout session for a deeper dive into building a a a team
building healthy teams uh but here’s what’s really critical for you to understand you have to get to the place
where you’re really submitted and accountable to the team you lead it falls to me to be submitted to
the leaders on my team and around me honestly without humility what can we
do i feel like a leader’s authority can never surpass their level of humility or
it’s a recipe for disaster
so here’s what we believe a kingdom leader does ask God to lead you build an aligned leadership team and
commit to a relational style don’t worry I’m not going to go into the third one tomorrow Tai is going to break that one open for
us but those two things are ask God to lead you if you take one thing away from
this please don’t let it be a practical tactical well they do this so we should start ask God to lead
you say Lord what should I do next if you hear nothing else that will change your life lord what should I do next
what do you have to say about what’s going on here that one is super
powerful okay lord thank you for inviting us to become leaders in your
kingdom thank you that you want to help us thank you that you’ll lead us we ask
for that i ask that for every single person in this room and that you open their heart to asking you for direction
and insight more regularly i ask that for me too Lord i also pray that you knit together align leadership teams
that submit to one another and advance your kingdom lord help us all on this
journey in Jesus name amen amen
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