You Are a Leader (Part 2): Qualified by JesusYou do not need a degree or a perfect past to be used by God. In Part 2 of our You Are a Leader series, we look at Peter and Paul, two men with opposite disqualifiers, and discover that Jesus alone makes us qualified to lead.📖 IN THIS EPISODEWe continue our You Are a Leader series by asking what actually qualifies someone to lead. Using the stories of Peter (Matthew 4:19-20, Acts 4:13-14) and Paul (Acts 8-9), we see that neither education nor a clean past ever qualified anyone. Jesus does.—🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYSJesus is our qualification. Mark 3:13-14 shows Jesus appointing the twelve so they could simply be with Him, that closeness was and still is the training.Not disqualified by a lack of education. Peter was an uneducated fisherman, yet Acts 4:13-14 says people recognized his boldness because he had been with Jesus.Not disqualified by sin. Paul persecuted and killed God's people, yet Jesus met him on the road to Damascus and transformed him into history's greatest missionary (Acts 8-9).We step out, He calls us forward. God's preparation for your calling may look nothing like the preparation you think you need.Empowered and qualified by Jesus. Knowing Him, following Him, and abiding in Him is what qualifies you, not what the world calls credentials.—📜 SCRIPTURE REFERENCEDMark 3:13-14 · Matthew 4:19-20 · Acts 4:13-14 · Acts 8-9—💛 ONE LINE TO HOLD ONTO"You are not disqualified. Jesus is your qualification."—🏡 TAKE IT TO YOUR FAMILYRead the full blog for the kid-friendly translation, dinner table questions, and a family challenge:https://www.theriseupculture.com/blog—🌱 WANT TO GO DEEPERFreedom Coaching: https://www.theriseupculture.com/freedom-coachingKingdom Calling Assessment: https://www.theriseupculture.com/grow—CONNECT WITH RISE UP CULTURE🌐 Website: https://www.theriseupculture.com⛪ Rise Up Culture Church: https://www.riseupculture.church🕊️ Freedom Coaching: https://www.theriseupculture.com/freedom-coaching📚 Courses, Assessments & Resources: https://www.theriseupculture.com/growFOLLOW US▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@TheRiseUpCulture📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/theriseupculture👍 Facebook: https://facebook.com/theriseupculture—🙏 NEED PRAYER?We would love to pray with you. Leave a comment below or connect with us through our website.—💝 GIVEWebsite: https://www.theriseupculture.com/giveVenmo: @theriseupculture—✨ EXPLORE MOREFreedom Coaching, Leadership Development, Kingdom Calling Assessment, Biblical Courses, Books and Resourceshttps://www.theriseupculture.com/grow—DON'T FORGET TO👍 Like this video🔔 Subscribe to our channel💬 Share this message with someone who needs encouragement today🔕 Turn on notifications so you never miss a new message💛 When we rise in Christ, our families rise.

You Are a Leader: The Identity God Already Gave YouBefore God ever asks you to lead anything, He already calls you one. In Part 1 of our new series "You Are a Leader", we unpack what the Bible really says about your identity, and why leadership starts with believing what God says about you before you ever do anything to prove it.📖 IN THIS EPISODEWe start a new series by asking one question: if God introduced you to a room, what would He say? We walk through Matthew 5:13-14, Matthew 16:18, Ephesians 2:10, and 1 Samuel 10:6-7 to see how Jesus redefines leadership around identity instead of performance, and what it means to let Him lead your life so fully that you become part of transforming the world around you.—🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYSYou are what God says you are, not what you've done. Like an apple tree that is still an apple tree before it grows a single apple, your identity was declared over you, not earned by you.You are salt of the earth. Matthew 5:13 shows salt heals, preserves, and brings flavor into the ordinary, dry places of everyday life.You are light of the world. Matthew 5:14 uses the word kosmos, meaning you were made to help transform culture, not just inspire a room.You are His workmanship, with a destiny already prepared. Ephesians 2:10 puts identity before purpose, the good works were already set in place for you to walk into.You are part of His ekklesia. Matthew 16:18 reminds us the church was built to be a launchpad, not a bunker, meant to shape culture with Heaven's humility.—📜 SCRIPTURE REFERENCEDMatthew 5:13-14Matthew 16:18Ephesians 2:102 Corinthians 5:171 Samuel 10:6-7—🏡 TAKE IT TO YOUR FAMILYRead the full blog for kid-friendly translations, dinner table prompts, and a family challenge:https://www.theriseupculture.com/blog—🌱 WANT TO GO DEEPERFreedom Coaching: https://www.theriseupculture.com/freedom-coachingKingdom Calling Assessment: https://www.theriseupculture.com/grow—CONNECT WITH RISE UP CULTURE🌐 Website: https://www.theriseupculture.com⛪ Rise Up Culture Church: https://www.riseupculture.church🕊️ Freedom Coaching: https://www.theriseupculture.com/freedom-coaching📚 Courses, Assessments & Resources: https://www.theriseupculture.com/growFOLLOW US▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@TheRiseUpCulture📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/theriseupculture👍 Facebook: https://facebook.com/theriseupculture—🙏 NEED PRAYER?We would love to pray with you. Leave a comment below or connect with us through our website.—💝 GIVEWebsite: https://www.theriseupculture.com/giveVenmo: @theriseupculture—✨ EXPLORE MOREFreedom Coaching, Leadership Development, Kingdom Calling Assessment, Biblical Courses, Books and Resourceshttps://www.theriseupculture.com/grow—DON'T FORGET TO👍 Like this video🔔 Subscribe to our channel💬 Share this message with someone who needs encouragement today🔕 Turn on notifications so you never miss a new message💛 When we rise in Christ, our families rise.

God gave you the next step, so why does it still feel like you're stuck at red? This week Pastor Drew shares an honest look at what keeps us parked in our calling: the endless search for certainty. Learn why waiting on God isn't the same as waiting to feel sure, and how learning to walk with Jesus means learning to wobble.📖 IN THIS EPISODEWe dig into Exodus 3, Genesis 12, Matthew 14, and Joshua 3 to see how God actually leads His people: one step at a time, not a full itinerary up front. We talk about the trap of chasing certainty, what it means to redefine success as celebrating the wobble, and why God isn't looking for perfection, He's looking for relationship.—🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYSGod gives the next step, not the whole map. Abraham, Peter, and Joshua all moved before they had certainty, and God led them as they went.Certainty is a trap, not a virtue. Waiting on God is not the same as waiting to feel 1000% sure.Shame teaches us to hide, often behind the need for certainty. God is inviting us out of hiding and into motion.Learning to walk means learning to wobble. Babies don't learn by studying walking, they learn by standing up and falling down.Success isn't perfection, it's willingness. God isn't looking for flawless steps, He's looking for a heart willing to take His hand.—📜 SCRIPTURE REFERENCEDExodus 3Genesis 12:1Matthew 14:28-29Joshua 3:9-13Isaiah 30:21—💛 ONE LINE TO HOLD ONTO"God can't steer parked cars."—🏡 TAKE IT TO YOUR FAMILYRead the full blog for a kid-friendly translation, dinner table prompts, and a family challenge:https://www.theriseupculture.com/blog—🌱 WANT TO GO DEEPERFreedom Coaching: https://www.theriseupculture.com/freedom-coachingKingdom Calling Assessment: https://www.theriseupculture.com/grow—CONNECT WITH RISE UP CULTURE🌐 Website: https://www.theriseupculture.com⛪ Rise Up Culture Church: https://www.riseupculture.church🕊️ Freedom Coaching: https://www.theriseupculture.com/freedom-coaching📚 Courses, Assessments & Resources: https://www.theriseupculture.com/growFOLLOW US▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@TheRiseUpCulture📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/theriseupculture👍 Facebook: https://facebook.com/theriseupculture—🙏 NEED PRAYER?We would love to pray with you. Leave a comment below or connect with us through our website.—💝 GIVE

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