Latest / Prayer Before Work / S01E13-How You Lead When You're Stretched Thin
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- Sean Graver: Hey, welcome back. My name is Sean. I'm glad to be your prayer partner today. And if you lead people, this one is especially for you. And if today is already feeling a little heavy before it's even started, I'm glad you're here. So let's take a few minutes and bring it all to God. And we're going to start in first Peter five, two, it says, be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them, not because you must, but because you are willing. So Peter is writing to leaders under serious pressure, people leading communities through real suffering and uncertainty. And the standard he holds up isn't results. It's not even efficiency, it's willingness. Lead because you genuinely want to care for the people in front of you, not just because it's your job description. I pressure reveals what's underneath. ⁓ When the margins are low and the demands are high, leadership defaults tend to surface. So they're not always pretty and the impulse to control tends to tighten and oftentimes patience gets short. The not because you must part gets harder to hold on to. But here's what I've noticed about the best leaders, especially when they're under pressure, they somehow stay curious about their people instead of just managing them. They still ask how someone's doing and they actually mean it. And that's not a technique, it's character really that's formed over time. But who on your team needs to be that leader today? Not the efficient version, but the willing one. So let's pray. God, the pressure is real today and I wanna lead well in spite of it, but not because of my own. reserves, but because you're replenishing something I cannot manufacture on my own. Would you help me to lead willingly today to stay curious about the people that you've entrusted me with to not get so locked in on the outcome that I stopped seeing the people that are producing them and remind me that the people on my team are your flock first. I'm just the shepherd for the season here. And help me to take that very seriously and help me to take it humbly and give me what I need to lead well today, Amen. All right. Now go make today count.