Your Formula to Bring the Future into the Present | Level 10 Living

Intro:                Do you know what I’ve learned over the course of my life? A destiny that is unfulfilled becomes your greatest argument with premature death. When God has a purpose in your life, it’s the Psalm 91 formula, it literally causes a thousand to fall on your side, and ten thousand in your left.

But it doesn’t come nigh you because God’s vows his purpose, his anointing is on you. For the purpose of God, in your life to be clear, could be the greatest secret to going through the next six months or year of your life. We have a special guest with us today, who’s been practicing these principles.

Actually, by practicing what we’re covering today, he believes it saved him from death, and he’s living in convergence with the purpose and passion of God for his life, because he got clear on what his assignment was. This broadcast I was going to break it up into two parts, because it’s got so much content. I just don’t want to overwhelm you; I’m going to let the team overrule me.

They say you’re going to get in one big chunk, but you’re going to hear about how to identify your passions, how to clarify your purpose, and how to put it together with prayer, so that it actually becomes a formula for manifesting your future, regardless of what the devil throws at you in the present. You don’t want to miss this broadcast.

Lance:              Boy oh boy, my favorite show that we do, this is the one that pulls me out of the despair of circumstances all the time, and focuses me again on what God is doing. It’s this broadcast right now.

Because this is where we focus on you, the viewer, you, the person who’s got the call of God in your life, and you’re saying in the midst of all the information, the swirl of activity, what are you called to do, because your future, your destiny, your assignment is not subject to current events. It is fulfilled in the midst of them. God knew exactly when he was putting on the earth, he knew what time of history, he knew what country.

So no matter where you are, you have this promise from God that if you’ll seek first the kingdom, then all the things that you need are going to be added unto you. So we’re focusing on seeking first what needs to be sought first right now. What are the elements of the call of God on you? And that’s the reason why we do this Leveltenliving.com special broadcast.

It’s the leadership curriculum for people serious about fulfilling their destiny in any season of time. And Paul said I know how to be a base and abound in times that are good and times that are bad, I can do all things through the anointing, through Christ that strengthens me. We’ve got Carl, my son over here, with his marvel comics shirt of many colors, Joseph’s coat of many colors.

Carl:                 That’s it.

Lance:              We have Chad Holly, a special guest, and practitioner and student of these things, and we’ve got people that have been practicing this material, and they come along and they join our show and they share well, how did it work for them? What did they do with it? And you need to hear that.

And we have the always lovely and effervescent Mercedes Sparks, who I remind you those of you that on occasion love those little grenades of discontent, she’s actually like part of the family here, she’s not trying to take over my ministry and move me out as.

Carl:                 Well, it remains to be seen.

Lance:              At least we keep talking to her, and say don’t do that, but she’s not doing that. So just stop telling her she’s doing it. But so, I want to start with a great verse, and it’s a verse which I think goes right to the level 10 formula for those who are watching for the first time. We’re discussing our content from the world’s most powerful personal development program for Christians, I believe that, because it is so dang inclusive of so much information.

We’re working with becoming unstoppable module here. We’ve got four of them, and we kind of like, we keep stopping on this one, the mountain of me, carl’s holding it up. It’s about if you want to take your mount, whether it’s the mountain of media, the mountain of business, the mountain of government, you got the family mountain it’s your legacy.

If it’s ministry, you take the mountain when you’ve mastered the call on your life that’s managing you. You manage you and the mountain takes care of itself, that’s what we found out in our research. But I want to take you to a bible verse, a signature verse that helped me in putting together this material, and it comes from Psalm 79 verse 70. This is so cool.

It says that, HE, God, verse 70-79, Psalm 79 verse 70, he chose David, also his servant and took him from the sheepfolds. So catch this, God chose this little shepherd boy, and separated him from the mundane task on a hillside that was insignificant in world events, but God saw where he was, he shaped him in the circumstances he was in, and in his father’s small business, which is part of what he was, a small business kid, with a dad that had a larger business and brothers that evidently didn’t like him that much.

David handled a few sheep, but he took that job to heart and God used his faithfulness with that little task to groom him to become a king. So he chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep’s folds, I got the old king James here, so you’re going to hear the classic English language. From following the use, great with young, and he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

God will separate you from the mundane circumstances of life, to serve his purpose connected to his inheritance, and the inheritance of Jesus is souls and nations. So he fed them, here’s the key, this is what our whole theory is based upon this concept. We’re going to cover this idea real quickly here, that’s found on page 46 if you’ve got your manual with you. He fed them, David fed them, according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Integrity of heart has to do with your management of your emotions, your values, your motivation, your passions, your heart, that’s where the fountain of life is. The issues of life come out of the heart. God’s always looking at the heart. But he has integrity of heart, which means that he managed to get God infused into his motivation, into his passions, into his way that he handled his vicissitudes.

His ups and downs in his emotional life, which was significant. Integrity of heart, and skillfulness of hand. That has to do with your aptitude, your skills, your talents, your abilities. God gives you the heart of someone who is a follower of Christ, letting God do the deep work and under the surface that he’s got to do in you. But the skillfulness of hands we often forget.

David was a skillful musician, that’s what enabled him to play the harp that got him promoted to go into Saul’s house to deliver Saul from demons as a political leader. David was an artist, and the artist was summoned by the executive branch, because he was a therapist that helped give relief to the king. Interesting insight if you look at the seven mountains. He was a therapist with an instrument. It was skillful playing the harp, the bible says.

But he also had a secondary skill, it was skill with a slingshot. He learned it while he was doing the mundane work of taking care of a few sheep, that’s where he played around with that slingshot, and while away the time, developing the skill that later on, God would use to take down a giant. So this is the beauty and the elegance of the way that the bible describes this stuff, and that’s why this material is my favorite material.

I’m going to throw it over to you guys, but then I’m going to go to page 46, because I’ve got a little white board. Like Karl Rove, Karl gave me the white board, we’re experimenting with it today. And I want to show you my little whiteboard illustration of how this works. But just off hand, integrity of heart, skillfulness of hands and how we work with that the level 10, is as you work on you, your motivation, your heart, your ability to be unstoppable, developing that internal resistance ability.

And you also focus on what you do well, your talents and gifts and abilities, and sometimes you may not know what they are. But if you pursue your passion, you might find that your passion is a clue to a talent or an ability that you have.

So God wired you, so that your skills and talents and abilities would be connected to your passion, because that’s all part of the intrinsic wiring. So let me get some feedback from you guys, what are your thoughts on what I just said?

Carl:                 I think since Chad, this is your first time on the level 10 broadcast, I would love to hear your initial thoughts, if you wouldn’t mind kicking us off.

Chad:               Sure. Well, first of all, it’s an honor to be here. Not only am I a student of the material, I’ve lived it out. And so to be able to speak from that perspective is really important to me. I think that this topic of becoming unstoppable is really important, especially when you’re heading in a direction where you’re taking territory.

If you are taking this territory like David is, you’re going to run across the enemy, an enemy is going to try to take you out. And when that happens, the floods come in like in Luke chapter six. It will beat against your house vehemently says the bible. And if you’re not equipped with the mountain of me, this type of material, you could fail. And what this does, it lays a foundation so when the storms come, you can stand.

That doesn’t mean the walls don’t come down, but the foundation is there for you to stand. And in those moments, so to speak to your question, Carl, in those moments even in my life where honestly, I didn’t know if I was going to live. I had a diagnosis of cancer, and I thought it was simple initially, and it got worse and it got worse and it got worse.

But what came to the surface lance to your point about the passion, is I had to decide in that moment and work with God why I was going to live. And then and in that moment what you guys teach is called the passion list. I literally sat down on my computer, and I drew out what looked like similar to a business plan, and I drew out the future according to the passion that I had within me. I’ll give you that list.

I gave one, not the list, I’ll give you one example. And that is to my passion list in that moment was to join people with a common goal of achieving God’s purposes in the seven spheres of influence. And that’s how it resonated with me.

Lance:              So for those of you that are kind of catching up on this, we talk about seven spheres of influence, or seven mountains, because it’s a way in which we identify what area of assignment and work and ministry are you working in? When I grew up, I was in ministry, I thought the only assignment you have is church.

But then I realized there’s the business, I was also a businessman before I went in, then we’re doing media now. Media, family, church or religion or ministry, government, education, entertainment and arts.

There are seven spheres, and the practicality of what you’re hearing right now is, how you can apply this regardless of what sphere you’re in, to go to the top of that and even open up doors to others. In your case, your background is pharmaceutical. So to be specific, you’re a really successful pharmaceutical rep, right?

Chad:               Yes. I’ve had quite a bit of experience in sales, marketing, training and management in pharmaceutical industry.

Lance:              Okay. And you’re a young guy too, so getting a diagnosis of cancer is kind of like a shocking thing for a young man.

Chad:               Yes. Especially when you have four children, and you’re happily married and you’re right at that moment.

And you have to decide you have to decide with the lord. I have that package, I have that kit, and it just so happened you guys were also there for me, to allow me to walk me through, because you also saw the other side, and that’s where the mentorship and having people around you who are mature in their walk with God, to help pull you through.

And these are tools that can help you do it. I’m not trying to just sell something, this really worked and it really worked for me in my life. So I’m trying to help others with that too.

Lance:              So when we come to the passion list, which we’ll cover probably again in an episode. But what do you have as your top three?

Chad:               Well, I had one, because I had to have one to focus too.

Lance:              Okay, you had one, because of all the emotional turmoil, that one.

Chad:               I was lucky to have one, but that one was powerful and that one I hold on to and it gave me hope. And so, I held on to one.

Lance:              So say it again, what was it that gave you focus and hope?

Chad:               And the focus was to join people together, to achieve God’s purposes within the seven spheres of influence.

Lance:              Beautiful, all right. So that became your big why, and one of the things that we really can’t emphasize enough, is that, and it’s really where we start off this whole series, is finding your why, that’s like right here. Finding your why, page three. Because your why is what helps you attract into your life the how. So many people focus on what they want, I want to make money.

Well, okay, so a lot of people want to make money. Then how are you going to do it? You got to find the mechanism. But if your why is strong enough, so that it’s that I really am seeking to answer and serve and fulfill the call of God and you make that your priority, then you put the spirit of God on you, it draws to you the instruments and the opportunities to be able to accelerate your journey.

I really think that to a great extent, the great thing is going to happen in our generation is that Christians are going to break out of a spiritually disengaged kind of, I don’t know, kind of devotional mysticism into a practical journey of how do you go into the world with the anointing and fulfill the call of God when you’re not in full-time ministry. Because 90% of my audience is not ministers.

I’m not leading a church movement, I’m leading a workplace, a marketplace movement. So finding the why that makes you cry is what I recommend, it’s a great quote I heard and so we talk about Jesus and what his why was, and it’s a very powerful message, and I believe it was a revelation I got.

When Jesus was in Gethsemane, he reveals his why. His why is revealed by the fact that three times he gets up and goes back to check on his disciples, and he gets back to check on them. I used to think that that he was going there because he was looking for some camaraderie or support. But what he says three times is why are you sleeping? Your spirit is willing, your flesh is weak, pray.

Wake up so that you don’t get overtaken by the test or the temptation that’s coming tonight, he was concerned for their welfare. So what you see for the why with Jesus is so beautiful. He would go back in and wrestle with taking the cup, and doing the passion of the Christ. His desire was not to do it, it’s interesting. He wasn’t looking forward to it, in the sense of a masochist, he says father if it’d be possible, take this from me.

Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done, and he goes and looks at them and comes back, and he resolves to press in. Each time, he presses in further. The bible says till an angel is manifest, strengthening him physically for the ordeal that he’s going through, and then he rises up and he says it’s done and they come to arrest him.

But that’s a beautiful picture as to finding the why that enables you to pay the price, to work your way through the contradiction, through the pain, to be able to manifest what God calls you to manifest.

Chad:               I would just add like another twist on that would be in my cry, I found my why. So if there’s people out there right now that are just crying, and they can’t find their why, this is the time to find it. You guys have talked about your personal history map, and it’s usually in those places, you think about even the biblical examples of like Joseph for example, it’s in those moments of despair that you can also find your why.

It’s not just at the top of the mountain, and oftentimes you learn the most at the bottom, and that was true for me and that’s where I found my why is in my cry.

Lance:              I love this. So Chad’s talking about what’s on page 19, once again you go to Leveltenliving.com and order this module or order all four of them, and I guess you use the code ”podcast” I keep saying you get 10% off, but my team keeps reminding me.

Carl:                 It’s too much, it’s 20% off.

Lance:              20, okay. So you use the code podcast, you get 20% off. If you’re watching this show, you know the secret word. But we have that map as part of the strategy, where you can look at where you’ve been to get a trajectory on where you’re going. Mercedes, what?

Mercedes:        Oh no, Carl and I were just having a conversation behind Chad while you were talking. But no, I think that’s good. I wanted to come back to the passion process then before we go on to a timeline or anything like that. Because I don’t even think we’ve explained what it is, and I just want to clarify that it’s Chad’s story is so unique.

But the way that the passion process is supposed to work is that you write out all of the things that you feel like you have an interest in, that you think could be your passion, right? So it’s like maybe working at a pregnancy center, it could be adopting cats or something, random things. I mean we had one girl, Lance has this great story one girl, who discovered that she really wanted to be an MMA fighter.

And so, it’s such unique stories. And what’s so crazy about the passion process is if it, and what’s neat about the material is we Lance does this live. A lot of times at our dream trips, he’ll take people on stage, people write their that whole list out and then he’ll process it with people.

And the way that the processing works and I want you to tell these stories, but they’re on stage, they read out their passion, and they like read the first one, read the second one, read the third one. And you can actually hear it in the audience, what their actual passion is.

Because it’s a little monotone on a handful of them, and then all of a sudden, the real one kind of pops up to the surface and you can hear the excitement in the voice, you can hear the energy in the voice. And then Lance says okay, well which one do you think it is? And a lot of times, you think it’s your first one, you think it’s that first, the second one you wrote down, but that’s not the one that has the juice on it. Sometimes, it’s buried four or five down.

Lance:              Not sometimes, the odd thing what we learned, is that most people will not list yours is exceptional Chad because you were in a crisis, you needed one clear sign to go for. The average person will not list their passion, their primary one in their first, second or third spot and it was a mystery to me, why I had to go down four, five or six levels deep.

And I realized something, that many of you have a particular desire, and you’re so afraid of saying it that people will misunderstand you, or that it’s not going to be achievable, that to face the fact that you articulate it and it’s not achievable is really distressing, because it’s your passion.

And so people bury it lower in order to avoid either the criticism other people have against them, or to avoid the disappointment of being clear and going for it and not achieving it.

Carl:                 Okay. The one thing I do want to interject here when we’re talking about passions, we’re not talking about goals, we’re talking about passions.

Lance:              That’s an important distinction. So by the way, those you there with the manual once again, it’s page 39 and 40 is where we have it in being unstoppable. So what does that mean, Carl?

Carl:                 Well, when you’re writing out your passions, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re talking about goals or aspirations. We’re talking about things that give you energy when you do them, when you participate in those activities. And they become self-rewarding, and you end up being motivated to continue to do those activities simply because of how passionate you are about them. One thing I did want to say to Mercedes, it is true that more often than not, when people are doing the passion statements in front of other people, you can hear the juice, you can hear the electricity coming out of them, but that’s not always the case.

Specific for instance is when we were doing a 7m gen camp, and we had all these young adults. There were some teenagers there too some young kids, but we had people writing out their passion statement and some of the mentors going around were like okay, but we need you to sit with more juice, we need you to really come alive when you say.

We need to hear and feel your passion when you talk about it, and they got to join my younger sister, and she made her passion statement, they were like we need more juice, and she was like do I have to cry when I say it? Like I know it’s true for me, I don’t need you to confirm it for me.

And like so that’s how it is for different people, different strokes for different folks. It’s worth acknowledging, like if you’re a high C temperament, and you have your passion list, it might sound monotone to a high I.

Lance:              This is going to sound terribly racist, which my staff will cringe now with anxiety, clinching their butt cheeks wondering what he’s going to say.

Carl:                 Buckle up.

Mercedes:        We just edited that out.

Lance:              You I just edited it out, you and Chelsea. I wonder how much of my brilliance gets edited out by Chelsea and Mercedes without my knowledge.

Carl:                 For what it’s worth, not enough.

Mercedes:        That’s a good response.

Lance:              I will continue to give my illustration. So I’m at Peter Wagner leadership institute out in Colorado Springs, and I’m doing the passion process with a room full of students. It just so happens, Peter being a Dr. Peter Wagner, and having the academic credentials that he had with Fuller theological seminary.

He attracts a lot of intellectual types. Now what I’ve learned working like with Heidi Baker and with other folks, is that Germans, for instance, are very tight-lipped and disciplined. So the Nordic, Scandinavian personality is not necessarily giving you all of the excitability, because they’re cerebral, they’re a thinking culture, they’re not the amen corner for preachers. Anyone who travels knows that, you’re not getting shouted down by Germans.

But Asians are even more culturally trained to kind of like be honoring others by not being openly emotional and gregarious like the rude American right who’s just out there tells you what he’s thinking. So I picked the lady out of the audience wanted the passion process who happened to be from Korea, and she was an academic student of Dr. Peter Wagner. Going down the passion list, it was the most difficult struggle I had, because she was trained to stay in her head and not let her heart influence how she was showing up.

So I had to dig extra hard, I realized something, cultural conditioning, family conditioning, temperament, can in a sense, tamp down the passion process for some of you, that it’s difficult for you to get clear on this. However, if you’re able to ask yourself what makes you the most alive, what gives you energy every time you do it? What excites you regardless of the season, the timing.

There are certain questions we give you, that will help you identify, and then here’s the key, it’s not that you say your passion statement when we do a group exercise, it’s not that you have to say it with all the emotional friends you like joy complained about, why do I have to put on emotional? What you want to look for is, does the person believe what they’re saying? Because it’s one thing to speak out of a desire for something, it’s another thing to speak out of certainty.

And when it comes to the operation of faith, and that’s a big factor for a Christian. Abraham was fully persuaded the bible says, regarding what God had promised him. So there’s an element we’re looking for where you could say it enough, so that you’re fully persuaded that this is who you are and what you want, and you give yourself permission to go for it. So if you were to say, like I had a young lady do this in Orlando at Mark Cirona’s church, and she wanted to be rich.

She was a young African-American lady who I think went on to have a clothing line or a fashion line of some sort. And she wanted to do a ministry to women and deliverance for people and evangelists all like the things you would think in a passion listed a good Christian would want.

And then around four or five, I had this moment of breakthrough. She said, and watch this in the camera, look at me, here’s what she says. I said read number four, it goes well, I want to make a lot of money. And for that moment, her eyebrows went up and came back down I want to make a lot of money, that was all she had to do.

The audience kind of like whoo. What she did was subliminally her face gave away the fact that something excited and engaged her at a different level than the spiritual stuff that she thought she should be saying. And I found out something about Christians, I found out that Christians have a hard time doing the passion process.

Because a secular person, a heathen who doesn’t have any sense of trying to sound spiritual, they just go ahead and write whatever they want. But if you’re a Christian, you have your values get in the way of your passion process, and this is a big distinction we came up with. In that your values is what you do with fame, notoriety, money or significance.

But your desire for fame or for wealth or for notoriety or for significance is a passion, you don’t have to edit it in order for yourself to see it. Because Christians actually confuse themselves by trying to sanctify stuff, so that it loses all of its juice. So what I’m saying is your passion is something that is in you as a person, your values modify how you do it and what you do with it.

But if you’re called to make a lot of money, typically, what a Christian says is, I want to really be able to master a lot of money and wealth so I could help other people, they always add the reason why. I said forget about the reason why, your values will modify what you do with it, but your goal is, if you weren’t a Christian, you would want to be able to build buildings, dominate a certain field, I want to get to that. Because your Christianity will sanctify it, but I need to get clear on what it is you’re created to do. God is not as religious as you think he is.

Carl:                 Well, it’s also having a strong healthy relationship with the almighty, more so than just succumbing to the dogma of Christianity. I think that’s an important distinction too. Like just because you commit yourself to God do the sinner’s prayer, doesn’t mean automatically all of the passions that you’ve had previously or up until this point are going to be suddenly sanctified. For what it’s worth.

Mercedes:        A lot of times, he makes you get all that stuff out of your life. Like I remember when I was first saved, one of the first things God had me do is throw all my music away, like legit.

Carl:                 I refuse to believe that was the lord.

Mercedes:        No, it definitely was. Because the stuff that’s in that, it’s like Aerosmith, Corn, all that stuff of like when I was in the 90s, 1999, right? It’s a throwback right there.

Carl:                 How old are you? Aerosmith to Corn?

Mercedes:        I know, like the oldies. But anyways, but that was one of the first things he does, where it’s like not everything, not every desire you have is sanctified, you’re right. I mean, and that’s part of becoming a Christian, right?

Chad:               I think it limits God too when you have that mindset. I was born on August 18th, and so my number that God gave me was 8-18 from Deuteronomy 8-18 that God gives you the power to create wealth. It so happens that you actually played a role in this at a DC trip. And you got up, I was there on 8-18-18 and my wife said you need to go.

I was like I don’t know, and I went and on 8-18 you got up, and you said the verse of the word today, the lord says that God gives you the ability to create wealth. It was like you stood on stage, he looked right at me and boom, it was like I hit me. And I hit me so hard I was vibrating.

And I remember that I wasn’t going to limit God, because God calls people. And we talk about seven mountains, there’s a business mountain, one of the primary drivers of business mountain is a great wealth for the kingdom’s purposes. And so, God will use people I believe that won’t restrict him, and so I think it’s an important principle to get over.

Mercedes:        I do too. I think Lance, you should probably talk on that, because sometimes I think some Christians, some people kind of cringe at the idea of making money and like is that even sanctified? You like her eyebrows going up like oh well, is that even appropriate that she should have that, or want that or desire that, right.

So I think if you could speak to that for a minute, of what you think is it sanctified, is it okay to pursue wealth and like Chad’s verse is a great example, God gives you the ability to create wealth. So just love your opinion on it.

Lance:              And well, we should talk about this, because well, we are lamenting, look at Zuckerberg he’s got Facebook, and then Jack Dorsey with Twitter, and then these guys up there in Google, look at the tech billionaires. And how unfortunate in a way, that their values, their spiritual formation, their discipleship and culture didn’t include the values that you have as a believer.

And what I’m saying is how do we know that God didn’t have these inventions, these novelties, these enterprises there for anyone to seize, but Christians wouldn’t go after them. Because if the devil can get you to opt out of having influence in the earth, in order to be more spiritual, he wins. Because then that vacuum gets filled by someone who doesn’t have Christ in their heart. And I often think about this, and it’s a bit of a mystery and an agitation to me, because I really believe faith comes by hearing.

And if we would teach our young people, our future generation, that God has called you, with a covenant to get wealth that you might establish the covenant. And that wealth is going to be in the form of assets and money and property, and resources, and that wealth might be an abundance of creativity. Like an artist, like a musician, like a playwright, like an author.

Or it could be the wealth of influence, you’re someone who’s going to be able to have a platform that can move, it’s the wealth of influence, the wealth of assets, the wealth of ability. And God gave to you one of those three, your job is to go plunder hell and accumulate as much of that as possible for the kingdom of God.

It would make a big difference. But our people, you ask an average kid going to bible school, and they’re like the ten percent out of the hundred percent that actually make the commitment to go to bible school, and their goal is ministry, because that’s all they’re talking about or maybe being a musician and a worship leader.

I think we’ve done ourselves a disservice, by letting the devil convince us that God doesn’t have a passion list or a world work for you while you’re on planet earth. In a sense, we’ve created a disconnected generation and culture.

Mercedes:        Yes. It was one of the things I love about seven mountains, and I think sometimes what you struggle with, like I was saved in a presbyterian church, I loved that. It rooted me in the sufficiency of the cross, and the blood of Christ.

And so, it’s such a great grounding, but you are kind of left with this feeling of like well, what next? So outside of leading other people to the lord and being a witness in this earth like now what? Am I just supposed to go like women’s bible study? Am I supposed to be part of, they call it mops, right? Like moms, whatever that is.

Lance:              What?

Mercedes:        There’s like there’s a church organization for women, and it’s called like mops, which is kind of like a weird term for like the women’s ministry.

Lance:              Mothers of preschoolers.

Mercedes:        Yes, exactly. It’s kind of weird right, anyways, let’s aside. My point is, what I love about seven mountains is that it’s a bigger vision, it’s kingdom vision, which is let’s go after all of these different places of influence and bring the mind of Christ and the heart of Christ to those places. I know it kind of freaks some people out, with the other side, some people that I talk to or I see where it’s like oh, the idea of seven mountains and dominionism.

But it’s not that at all. I mean, we can see that the progressive left has their own ideology that they’re after. So it’s like we have to go into this place, we have to move towards those places, and bring heaven solutions to them. Because what I think we miss is that every single product that’s for sale solves a problem, it doesn’t matter what it is.

You could be cold outside and so somebody invented an outdoor heater. You want tighter skin, somebody’s going to create a certain moisturizer for it. So every single product you buy, you’re solving a problem. And we should be, Christians should be heaven’s problem solvers on the earth.

Wherever there’s a problem, we should be trying to create a solution for it. Whether you figure out how to monetize it or not, is a totally different topic, but we should be looking at those things. Because where you started also is that Israel 10% were the Levites, 10% were the priests.

Lance:              10% were in full-time ministry, 90% were in the business of the marketplace.

Mercedes:        Exactly.

Lance:              So I want to read to you Jack Canfield’s list, because this became for me a revelation of here’s a guy that doesn’t make any pretense about being a Christian, he’s not saying he is. But he’s got a healthier, better defined, more ambitious list than 90% of what I run across when I’m doing my seminar.

So I give people the list after they write theirs and say here’s what a secular guy wrote, and it gives you permission to maybe go where he is. So here’s what he says, he says his list is being part of a dynamic team, having a leadership role on a dynamic team. Helping people live their vision, speaking to large groups of people. Having an impact through television and media and podcasting.

Mercedes:        There’s a lot of emphasis on that one, did you notice? As you were reading them.

Lance:              As I was reading them, yes. That was me revealing my passion. That’s the problem in all you amateur psychologists, you’re all reading me now. Being a multi-millionaire with a world-class headquarters and support team. Mercedes, why don’t you read that one? Page 39, you want to hear it was a passion with a passion statement [Inaudible 00:36:14.03] being a multi-millionaire, how would we say that?

Mercedes:        You want me to actually read it?

Lance:              Just read being a multi-millionaire.

Mercedes:        Being a multi-millionaire with world-class headquarters and support team.

Lance:              There it is, see the eyebrows go up, your eyebrows did go up, your eyebrows went right up, I saw it. Having lots of free time, studying with the spirit.

Chad:               I’m waiting for it.

Lance:              Studying with the spiritual masters regularly. So you see he’s got this thing he wants to all sit down with the Zen Buddhist or somebody. Being part of a spiritual leadership network, mostly new age. Creating a core group of ongoing trainers who feel identified with my organization, and then I love this last one. Having fun while I do it.

Now, I’m telling you guys something, when I read this list, I got so convicted, because I thought about, and I’m even getting convicted right now, because part of the thing I want to do is infuse more hope into my analysis of things that’s going on in the world. If the kingdom of heaven is righteousness, peace and joy in the holy ghost, then that’s the word for joy, it’s fun.

And we have to find out, if you make that part of your passion statement, then it becomes part of the ingredients it comes into the alchemy of your state. This is where your emotions come, your heart, remember with integrity of heart and skillfulness of hands, David led them.

And when Canfield did this, he saw that some things were missing on the list, he didn’t think it was, but as he did his list, he realized that he really wanted to have an international impact and enjoy celebrity status, and he wanted to put that in there because he wasn’t really being honest even with what he wrote.

But how many believers secretly, everyone is a preacher and a pulpit or as an audience wants to enjoy celebrities, they want to be celebrated because it’s part of being visible, it’s part of having impact. And you say well, that’s not very spiritual.

Well, I’m going to tell you that you’re rather incongruent. Because if you’re meant to be seen, you ought to have as a child a desire to be seen. And you sanctify that desire, when to be hidden and when to withdraw, that’s where spiritual maturity comes from.

Carl:                 I think that’s really neat, because I was thinking about the business and when you think about business, when I did a study of wealth? Because I was like should I aspire to be wealthy.

And it came down to two principles for me is how did you get it? And what did you do with it when you got it? Just came out of those two things in the bible. And then I heard you say about someone wanting to be, was it well known? Or I think that you mentioned well-known.

Lance:              Celebrities status.

Chad:               Celebrity status. I was like same thing, how did you become a celebrity? And what did you do with it when you became one.

Mercedes:        That’s good.

Chad:               I’m thinking there could be some core principles on how you respond to that.

Lance:              I think it is. Carl, got any thoughts on that before we decided, we already got 38 minutes here and I didn’t get to my whiteboard yet.

Carl:                 One thing I do want to mention is that passion will actually spike norepinephrine and dopamine in your brain, to increase focus on whatever you’re doing. So there’s this natural connection between acting on your passions, and then continuing to focus on those passions, which will then lend itself towards engaging in microflow experiences. So that was just a little tidbit.

Lance:              No, that’s very good. Yes, Mercedes?

Mercedes:        I’m just wondering, because I know we’re coming up on 40 minutes here. Where do you land with the passion process? So what happens, now that you’ve listed them out, maybe you can ident, maybe read your list.

So if people try to do this at home, they read their list to their friend or their kids or their spouse or whatever, and they’re like oh, I think it’s probably that one for you. Where do you go from there? What’s the next step? And maybe that’s the next podcast. But I just want to know what’s the next step.

Lance:              What we do is when you get this process done, we make you do the horse race. The horse race is how you’re going to find out what your top three are, because they could be spread out there. And then we collapse them into a statement, and this is where I particularly the live group is the only place, I can do this.

Where we work with you to get you to wordsmith the statement that actually captures like a cellular level, the articulation of what you’re called to do, and who you’re called to be. And one of the tools we use is we do the three years from now I’m living my passion; I’m living the dream that God gave me, and here’s what I’m doing.

And we force you to have to kind of like improvise what are the elements of that? Once you get your passion statement down, you go back and do that three years from now living my passion, you’d be surprised as to how when you’re clear on what it is that you’re called to do, what you desire to do, what you want to do.

How if you could see the future, then you can move towards it through the chaos of all these other things going on in the world. That’s why this subject is so important in terms of you right now not getting lost in world events. So Carl gave me a white board, like Carl Rove’s style, put this over here.

Carl:                 Poor Scott.

Lance:              All right. So anyway, so here we got this, and here’s what we have. In the level 10 model, level 10, remember skillfulness of hand for David, integrity of heart. Having the principles of God in your heart, and being in touch with the passion that God gave you, what is it God put in you to do, what brings you the most alive.

This area up here deals with clarity and your calling and your passion list, down here it’s what is emotionally driving you, and managing that emotional drive, and preserving it. Because you’re not always going to be able to do what you want to do, but there’s a way you could still live in your passion even when you’re not in the ideal job or ideal relationship, we talk about that.

But once you really clear, the cloud there, I’ll just do a little illustration here, that cloud there is what we would call your face in the future. It’s what God called you to do, give you a little crown there, a little hair for this person. So you’ve got a divine destiny that the lord has for you. Once you get like to a level 10 clarity on what it is you desire, guess what that does? I’ll move it over here, what that does is that gives you a real insight into where your face is in the future.

How are you going to get there? You got clarity on what it looks like, but your skills and your talents and abilities were the tool that God gave you. So you want to be able to discern what is your temperament? What is your design? Because God made you for that purpose. This helps the talents, ability, skills or things you need to acquire in order to live that, what knowledge will you have to have in order to do that. But this helps you get a fix in terms of like where that that is.

So here you are down here, this law of intentionality is very powerful. Most people do not live with intentionality, they live in a sense distracted from what their actual purpose is, because it’s like spiritual ADHD. World events and circumstances will constantly cause you to zig and zag off of the trajectory, but if you’re clear here, and you’re clear here, and as a statement, you could always bring yourself back every day to what do I do?

What are my priorities? What am I here for? Does this serve that purpose or doesn’t that serve that purpose? And you get to make choices. It helps you stay intentional on what you’re trying to go for. But then the part where we talk about where’s the place for prayer, Lance? Where’s the place for the word? Where’s the place for faith? This is the accelerator as far as I’m concerned, the accelerator is the anointing.

The anointing of the holy spirit should put us ahead of the world. This is why I’m jealous that we don’t have more influence. Because once you’re clear as to where God wants you to go, you’re able to pray whatsoever things you desire. When you pray, believe that you receive. And so this arrow going up his desire pulls you towards where God is putting in your heart what he wants you to do.

God gives you the desire in your heart, you get clear about what the desire is. You look at what skills, talents and abilities you have that he’s given you as the slingshot that will enable you to go there are the harp, that’ll take you there. And then your desire begins to pray for the lord to do certain things, and here’s where a lot of Christians miss it, and it’s the word expectation.

Expectation pulls back to you, open doors and choices. God will give you an idea, a contact, a person. Every day, you’ll see that moment when you have a choice you can make to move towards your destiny or not towards it, and what the lord does is your expectation pulls back towards you, the answer to your prayer. What sort of things you pray for, believe that you receive them and you shall have them.

You could say this is the believe cycle, most believers don’t really think about what believing is, but believing is expecting something. So desire helps you connect with your prayer for what you desire to see happen, expectation pulls back, you’re asking God to guide you and lead you.

And then on a day-to-day basis, I mean any day that I’ve done this process, I realize there’s a call I can make, there’s a meeting I can have, there’s a conversation. It’s just one, two or three things you do on a daily basis, and that accumulates over the course of a month that’s 90 to 100 divine steps you took that are going to increase your clarity, your ability, your skill or it’s going to expand you here. You had your hand up?

Carl:                 Yes. One thing I want to say is in regards to the intentionality line, is faith that works is dead. So it’s not enough to just have this mindset, you actually have to act in accordance with that mindset. And likewise in the bible, it says pray on these things. I think Christians get it wrong often by using an A instead of an E in the word pray.

Where they’re saying okay, I’m just going to pray for it, the lord will provide, fully rely on God. But again, if faith without works is dead, then you’re expected to act in accordance. In a previous recording, Mercedes, you were talking about, oh man, what was the word?

Mercedes:        I was going to talk about faith, I did a whole thing on faith. But how every, to your point, in Hebrews 11 when it talks about faith, and it says like moved with fear, Noah prepared, Abraham offered. Every single word is an action word, like if you’re writing a resume, right? It’s like distributed, like it’s action words.

And so that was a huge revelation I feel like God just gave me this download on to your point, it’s not good enough just to pray for the thing to happen, you actually moved by that God vision, moved by that idea that he’s put in your heart, take a corresponding action, and that action is faith. It’s like that joy, that hope that God vision gives you produces the corresponding action, which in turn is faith.

And if we’re really talking about like sanctified and not sanctified, if it’s God’s vision for you to build a business, if it’s God’s vision for you to build some sort of network, right? And it’s got a strategy, a monetization strategy behind it, building it is faith still and is sanctified and is doing God’s work.

Carl:                 And that answers your question, you said what do you do next with your passion list? That’s your answer, it’s like action.

Mercedes:        Yes.

Lance:              You take action on, and before we close out. I want to see if I can come back to that very powerful story, Chad, you’re telling us. All right, so you got the cancer diagnosis, you sit down you say I’ve got to get my, Val will keep him in perfect peace his mind has stayed on thee, so you had to fix your mind on a purpose.

And it’s interesting that your focus wasn’t on the healing, which is a very important concept. Because I can remember I was with Graham Cook once, a prophet friend of mine, and the young lady said please pray for this, child he’s like 10 or 11 years old or 12 years old, but he’s drowning and now he’s in a coma and we’re praying for him.

And now a healing evangelist would where is he? What’s his name? Let’s go pray for him, they want to get their hands on, that how their gift operates. But as a prophet, Graham said something rather interesting. He said tell me about him, has his parents or anyone ever heard any words about what he’s called to do? It seems like well that’s a strange thing to be talking about now, I mean, we’re trying to keep the kid alive.

But then he said no, the prophetic purpose of his life will pull him through the contradiction of the moment. I need to know what has God told the parents or told him about his future, because that’s the basis of the argument. It’s not the healing that focuses on today, it’s the unfulfilled destiny, and the purpose that is going to pull him through this, so that he can do what God’s called him to do.

And that strikes me as being essentially Chad what you did, you clarified a living purpose, that was bigger than obviously getting healed is the prerequisite. But focusing on the healing puts you in the battle now, focusing on the purpose and the passion, and the divine sense of this is what my mission is, caused everything in your body, soul and spirit to have to align with I’m not done yet.

Chad:               That’s huge. I’ll give credit, a lot of credit to our friend Kimmy, and that was one of the things that she did, hey Kimmy, I love you.

Carl:                 Love you, Kimmy.

Chad:               And she made me write down, I’d wrote out all the prophecies, and special experiences that were highlights of my life, that would speak to my future. And then I submitted that to authority, spiritual authority and said this is what I’m going to do, and so that others could agree with me, and pray with me, whether it comes out exactly the way I designed it, but I took my creativity and I put it to, I actually made a promo video, a real one on my computer.

I made a one-minute promotional video about my future, so that my focus was on the creativity about the future, and as a result of it, I had what the bible calls peace that passed all understanding, where I was sleeping at night. I didn’t even like have a hard time sleeping, which is amazing knowing that the doctor said oh, over and over again. And so that really shifted my mind, which allowed me to have peace.

So it was a really powerful thing, and it does work. I just say to anyone that might be watching this, that wow, you might be going through it. If there’s anything of my story that you can take with you, take it and build upon it, and may it bless you, because others blessed me with it.

Lance:              You could buy this for somebody by the way, somebody else, because this is a survival guide. This kind of material is your tribulation survival pack, to be honest with you. It’s how you get through life.

Mercedes:        It’s great for everybody. But I definitely think people that are in transition, either maybe a younger person, who’s either graduating high school, graduating college, either going into college, I think it’s very helpful.

I think my daughter’s calling me at the same time. I think also if you’re retired or you’re getting to an age where you’re kind of like okay, I’ve done this with the first half of my life, what am I going to do with the next half? I think it’s perfect for things like that. And then I was going to say too, you have such a great story about Kim Clement, because I remember being on the airplane with Lance, when I first started traveling with Lance and Annabelle, I had a little bit of a plane fear.

And so I remember being on the plane and I was like Lance, like what do you do with that? Do you ever get scared? Like does anything ever happen to you? And he’s like well, I just remember this one time when I was traveling with Kim, and I don’t know if you want to tell the story. But it has to do with prophetic destiny and getting you through difficult situations.

Lance:              Yes. Basically, he said to me, he said look, he said if God’s called you to go preach around the world, then you have to accept the fact that flying and traveling is part of God’s calling. And if you’re in the calling of God, then you have a supernatural deliverance that’s working with you, regardless of what’s happening.

So the one place you could rest in the will of God is when you’re doing the will of God. So I had the most anxiety flying, but then I had the least anxiety flying, so at least then I knew I was doing what I was supposed to do. I’ll tell you a story, when I first started out, I was on air Italia, and he said I was in Europe, he’s South African.

The plane hit some kind of a cell it’s called, where the air pressure drops, and the plane just suddenly plummeted like a thousand feet, just dropped and you could literally feel the plane dropping out of the sky. It had lost lift; it had hit a weird kind of cell. He said, and I never had that happen since then, he said oh my gosh, you know it’s in people when they think they’re going to die.

Because people everywhere were screaming and some of them were crying out to God, oh God, save me, they’re a catholic, they’re praying from Mary mother of God, Mary God save me. And he said others were cursing, they were cursing, angry, they were angry at death and what was happening. He said, but I jumped down on the aisle, and I shouted every nation I haven’t been to yet.

He said from the United States, to Brazil, China, Japan he’s yelling countries, and so everybody’s yelling something and he’s yelling countries, and then the plane gets back and stabilized. Oh, all the cabin things are open, things are on the floor, the pilot comes on and says I am so sorry, that very seldom happens to a pilot. The plane is stable, we have it under control, we hit and he described what it was.

And it’s an area where you just really don’t have any, you don’t have the ability to maintain altitude. He said, but we’re fine and I believe we’re not going to have to run into that again. So everybody sits down he said it’s a little embarrassing, because people that are crying out to God are all getting composed and people are dabbing their eyes and their tears and children are being muffled back into comfort, getting comfortable and the person sitting next to Kim says what were you doing?

Because here is cursing or praying, and one guys and he said, and he said well, he says I’m just beginning my ministry and I must tell you that I’m a musician and a prophet, and I was simply decreeing every country that God told me I must go to that I haven’t been to yet, because I cannot die until I do what God’s called me to do. He was proclaiming what he hadn’t yet done.

And to clarify, Kimmy, is an intercessor in Great Britain, who is friends of ours. And so intercessors play their part, everyone plays their part. My encouragement to you is to get unstoppable, be unstoppable, it could it could save your life, it could certainly rearrange your life, and I encourage you to go through the workbook. Imagine, every module we talked about today, and we didn’t even cover half of what’s in that little thin group of 60 pages.

But it’s all facets of a diamond, that’s how I designed it. So every piece is a facet. But back to this, as confusing as this may look, you’ve got to see where your nations are that you’re going to. Kim saw the future, and he was able to, therefore, when the contradiction came, he just continued to proclaim and believe that God was going to take him into that future. So that the future and he were connected, and premature death wouldn’t take him.

Mercedes:        Amen. Speaking of planes, let’s lay on this one.

Lance:              We’re going to land it right now. Leveltenliving.com, go there use the promotion code ”Lance” get 20% off I’m told. You can get it here by the way, use the code ”podcast” not Lance. This isn’t mike Lindell’s pillows, this is podcast.

By the way, you say well, what’s the difference between this and the other three modules? Nothing. The H module is going to go around that sequence, and cover different aspects of the diamond, so that there’s different content that all converges together, into giving you a blueprint for convergence for living your calling. And we’ll see you again in our next episode, thank you Chad for joining us.

Chad:               Thanks for having me.

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