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In this video 0:00 Unlocking the Superpower of Sacrifice5:13 Servant Leadership Like Nehemiah6:43 Building a Dangerous Dad Legacy
Unlocking the Superpower of Sacrifice 0:00 Welcome to the final session of Dangerous Dads. This is power principle number 5, and it's all about discovering your superpower. In life, it's really important to always be0:12 yourself. Unless you can be Batman, always be Batman. Well, as you can imagine with the last name Bat, it's all things bat around my house all the time.0:23 I've spent years trying to uncover my superpower as a man, as a husband, as a father, and a friend. And it wasn't until this year that I finally found my secret superpower. If you0:35 wanna win as a husband and as a father and reach your full potential, then I need you to listen to what I'm about to tell you. If your life is about losing it, you'll find it. But if it's about0:47 finding it, you will lose it. You wanna know what my superpower is? It's yours too, and you'll never guess. Your superpower, my superpower is sacrifice.1:00 Now, I don't have a golf game. I've missed out on so many countless social events over the years. I quit drinking alcohol over 4 years ago. I gave up caffeine a year ago because they were both holding me back from1:12 showing up at my best with my wife and kids. I've even changed careers multiple times to stop traveling extensive amounts and being away from my wife and my children. Because of the sacrifices above, I've1:24 invested over 500 plus Saturdays with my kids over the past 13 years. The relationship we've built and continue building and the epic memories that we have together are enough to last a1:35 lifetime. Now I'm not sharing this with you to brag, but to demonstrate the superpower of sacrifice. Maybe for you, it's getting up early in the morning to work out so you can be home on time for dinner.1:47 It could be changing jobs or geography to make more time for your family. Perhaps it's giving up a few weekends of golf with the guys in order to give your wife a break for the day, and you take the kids for an1:59 epic daddy Saturday with dad. Whatever sacrifices you make now, your wife and kids become investments that compound over over time and lead to you reaching your potential as2:11 a husband and a father. Here's the thing you need to know. The power of God can make your potential as a husband and father a possibility. Most people don't fully understand what their2:23 potential really is as a father. Your potential is all that you could be as a dad. It's 100 percent of you, fully optimized and maximized, and the only way to get there2:35 is with God. You see, the Bible says that God has come to give you life in abundance. It doesn't say you're supposed to live in a life of scarcity. But in order to receive what he has for you,2:47 you've got to be all in as a father. You've got to be all in on uncovering your potential and allowing God to do it. Well, now I'm a Clemson graduate, Clemson Tiger, die hard Clemson football2:58 fan. We have this coach named Davos Sweeney, and he brought the phrase all in to Clemson football. Coach Dabo took what started as a slogan and turned it into a movement3:10 that redefined the culture at Clemson, completely changed not only the football program, but the university and even the landscape of college football and the lives of countless fans and even non fans alike.3:23 1 of the ways Dabo took the phrase and turned it into the culture of the program was by creating all in poker chips. Each team member had to place a poker chip in a bucket before boarding the bus to head to the3:35 game. This poker chip symbolized the fact that they're all in on the game plan. They're fully committed to their teammates and the coaches, and they're ready to bring their a game to give their best.3:47 You know, the best part of Clemson's all in culture is the fact that it permeates every aspect of these young men's lives. In fact, the night before a game, they go to a movie theater and they're dressed in a suit and3:58 tie. After the movie, they pick up every piece of trash in the theater, and then the coaches take electric blowers and blow all the leftover trash from the back to the front of the theater and carry it out in trash bags.4:10 You can only imagine and see the look on the theater workers' faces. This exemplifies the all in culture of leave it better than you found it. What if you did that in your family?4:22 Clemson also has players turning down millions of dollars in NFL money to return to play their senior season just so they can be the first to graduate college in their family. This is the all in culture4:34 of delayed gratification. Wanna raise unentitled kids? Delayed gratification can do it. Well, after hearing all these examples of Clemson's all in culture, it's no wonder4:46 why they're winning national championships and competitive year in and year out. Dabo is a servant leader. His superpower is sacrifice, and he's building a culture of servant leaders who are impacting4:58 their teams and communities and building an army of men who have the superpower of sacrifice too. You can do this same thing in your own family, and we're gonna turn to some more guidance from Nehemiah, who was also a5:09 servant leader and understood the superpower of sacrifice. Nehemiah interceded on behalf of his people, the Jews, in prayer, and he served not only as a leader to the people, but heServant Leadership Like Nehemiah 5:21 got his hands dirty with the people by working on the wall. He sacrificed his cushy job as a cupbearer and traded it for rebuilding a city. Nehemiah knew how to be a servant5:33 leader and understood the superpower of sacrifice. Dads, I don't want you to miss this. The superpower of sacrifice is so powerful. The Bible says that husbands we are to5:45 love our wives as Christ loved the church. What woman would not want to submit to a husband who loves his wife that way? What children would not want to follow their5:57 dad as a spiritual leader by offering that form of sacrifice. You can do this. Engage your superpower. Here's your next dangerous dad action step. Determine the areas in your6:08 life that are holding you back from reaching your full potential. List them out in order of importance and begin praying over how to overcome them as hard as it is to be vulnerable. And also solicit help from6:20 others where it's needed. Look at that list that you've made and identify the other men, your pastors, other individuals in your life who can help you overcome those areas. Well, that's6:32 the end of session number 5. That's your action step. We hope that you go and understand your superpower of sacrifice and implement that in your daily life with your family and your kids. It's alsoBuilding a Dangerous Dad Legacy 6:44 important that you go to daddy Saturday dot com to get more information on how to do that. In conclusion, we spent our time now examining the 5 power principles of becoming a6:56 dangerous dad. I hope you've enjoyed the series. It's been amazing, and I've really enjoyed my time here with you. We're so thankful for every man for providing this platform and giving away for7:07 men to get great content like this that allows them to become dangerous dads. In closing, I'd like to say a couple of things. The first is, I feel you. I'm a dad of 4 kids. I'm7:19 in this, doing it just like you are. I recognize that the days can be so long when you're raising kids, but the years really are so short. We think that we have time on our side as dads, but7:31 the time our kids have at home is racing by. Think of this for a minute. The average child has just over 900 weeks in the home. At 9 years old, your child is halfway7:43 out of the home. 9 years old. You have the power to reach your potential as a husband and a father and to help your kids identify their calling and reach their full potential too.7:55 The 1 thing I know is you can't get there alone. The number 1 thing a father can do for his family is to serve as the spiritual leader in the home. This starts, dads, by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and8:07 Savior. If you haven't yet made that decision, I encourage you to act today, because it's the most important decision of your life and your kids' lives. You also need to win your8:19 battles spiritually before you try to win them physically. This starts by reading God's word daily and spending time with him in prayer. Finally, it's helping your kids come to know Jesus as their Lord and savior too8:31 and teaching them to spend time in God's word and also in prayer. If you're not a member of a local church, I would encourage you to find the local church in your area and get plugged in and get involved.8:43 This is how you build that community of fathers around you, of great strong men who could support you in this journey of fatherhood. Remember, fatherhood is not meant to be done in isolation. It's meant to be done in8:53 community, and your local church is the best place to find that. If you're already a member of a local church, then step up, serve, lead a men's group, lead a fatherhood group, especially for the younger men who9:05 really need this information. And start a Daddy Saturday chapter in your local area and use your church as the building block to create an amazing, epic experience for the kids in your church and in your9:17 community through Daddy Saturday. And you can find out more about that at DaddySaturday dot com. Let me say this. If this is your framework for fatherhood, if your framework for fatherhood is9:29 being a spiritual leader in the home, you will build a legacy like none other. And if you implement the power principles, I promise you, you will become a dangerous9:40 dad.Comments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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