Video Transcript: See Interesting Possibilities

So number six, see interesting possibilities. I have a verse, Proverbs 11:8, in the morning, sow you're seed and at evening withhold not your hand for you do not  know which will prosper this or that, or whether both alike will be good. That's  one of my, one of my favorites. And you quoted that many times because it's so  stinking optimistic. It's not only might this one thing I'm trying succeed, like, what are the two things, but everything that I do might succeed? I mean, it's like, you  know, most people are wondering if anything will work at all. So be you know,  when you're around people that are optimistic. That see possibilities out of all  the problem. It's fun to be around people, right? It's interesting, it's like people,  people are more interested in, in how to solve a problem than just analyzing and sitting in a problem. That just becomes, you know, people gravitate towards  problems, right. Woe is me, woe is me. So we have a school system where we  pay people to give our kids problems. Most of our work is problems. And when  we get home from work, we end up playing a sport, which is just another make  believe or play a video game or whatever it is, which is just another problem you golf. That's just a problem, like, how are we going to get this out? We can hit it  around the tree? How are we going to get it out of here that we find ourselves in  here? You know, you're just inventing more problems in your life as if you don't  have enough of your own? Right? So, so how can you become interesting,  become more interesting by being a possibility to other persons, I remember  when we taking golf that way, we got to get out of that way, or I get trapped by  men, yes, and sand trap all of that I remember, you know, when we would take  various trips, sometimes just for fun, we would try to pick out a problem in life,  and then try to find products that we would invent to solve the problems. And  these were just, you know, we're not doing any of these things. It was just for  fun. We created an entire funeral industry, green funeral industry, that was way  less cost, because we you know, we were we don't really go for cremation and  all that. I mean, a lot of people do that. We're not judging anybody, but we just  love that thought of that you bury the body of what's so imperishable is raised  inperishable. But then we hear the problem. If you're going to do that, it's very  expensive. funeral costs are going up. So will the church get exed out of this?  So we talked about all those long things, a revolution in funeral industry where  green burials within 24 hours or 48, because every state? So, you know, one of  the many things I, you know, I thought of ties, you know, we're on a trip. Yeah.  That ladies, you know, they have so many options and what they wear and men  at that time. Basically, the only flair we had was a tie, right? To suit was plain,  your parents your shirt. Your tie was your flair. I thought your tie should say  where you're from, right. So I went home and I took a tie apart and I may have  found some cloth and had my wife figure that out. And then I water painted this  sort of a scene, I was in Vancouver at that time, but that kind of, you know, that  kind of art, the Indian art for that area. And I made that tie. I started wearing that  tie and revolution in the whole tie world. Yeah. And that was but it was just for, 

for fun for the for seeing the possibilities of what could be in the possibilities for  you. I'm giving the example for you. You know, we have our clergy shirt on. And  the early church. They saw men, women, married single. They saw them as the  

potential of them being ministers. Volunteer part time, full time. By about the  third century. There was a huge Clergy Laity distinction. For the clergy. The full  timers were the real ministers, the priests and the volunteer people were the lay  people, and then that sort of kept going, kept going, kept going until now in  recent times, the one obstacle for volunteers. And part time to be full ministers  was education, that has always been the problem. And lo and behold, the  internet come through in 2006, we started Christian Leaders Institute for one  purpose, to free more people to also join the clergy ranks. They get all the  training they need, you get all the training, you need to go as far as your call to  go to reach people for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because there are  possibilities, yet we have not yet seen what still can happen, right? For those  eye has not seen ear has not heard what is in store for those who trust the Lord, but Christian leaders would not exist. I mean, what it starts out, okay, there's six  students. And the students, most of them are homeschoolers. We had no idea  where they're gonna go with all the work all the effort for six students. Right? So  how do you? How do you keep going forward, you have to be someone who  sees the possibility Yeah, there's 6 students now but there's 600, maybe in a few years, who knows, maybe now there'll be 100,000s. Right? But, but you have to  have a vision of what's possible, not what you see in front of you, right? And,  and that then attracts people that are going to help you right? Because there's  not going to happen on your own, you're going to need, you're going to have to  enlist a team of people that are going to work towards something. But they're not going to be inspired by six students. But they're going to be inspired by the  possibilities. And so you have to create that's what vision is, vision is creating a  picture of what could be not what is right. And so, you know, like as a pastor and you're trying to build a church, if all you're doing is reflecting back to your people what is, they already know what is and it's just a dumpy little church, that's got a  few things. But you know, what I mean is, it's not you feel like it's, it's like in the  big scheme of things, that the buildings of business are bigger, the schools have more money, the people and all these other industries are getting overpaid by  then you are, you have one good leader in this area, but you have no good  leader in that area, you have a dysfunctional leader this other area. You have to  be able to see the possibilities. And that inspires the leaders to step up to the  plate that inspires new people to come on and start shouldering some of the  things and it makes everything interesting, right? And then pretty soon what  starts happening is they also join you because you model it and they start  seeing the possibility. So I guess if I remember one of the prayers that when we  started out when we had a daily walk and we had a journal we would write  things down. I remember I I did it so often that I made a shorthand for it was 

PMA positive mental attitude. Like I need today Lord give me a positive you  know, when something negative happens, don't let me focus on the downside of  it. Let me see it as a possibility. What ever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is crazy, Think about such things. It's a game changer.