It's very important never to lose sight of what God delivers you from, very important. If you ever lose sight of what God delivered you from you'll look down on people who haven't been delivered from that thing yet. I'll give you an example of this from my personal life. I am - how can I say this? I am follicly endowed okay, I'm hairy okay so [laughter] and look, I tried to deal with this. I've confronted my mother on it okay. [Laughter] [unclear 00.51.18] Yeah, I know. I said mum seriously, seriously, what was my dad? Not who, what? [Laughter] I mean if I took my shirt off it looks like my mum shopped for men in a zoo okay. [Laughter] I was like you know, mum, I mean did you have a one night stand with an orang-utan? I mean what happened? [Laughter] What happened to me, seriously, because my brother's not hairy and my dad's not hairy and I've got this right, so I'm going - you know. And I missed it totally when in the late '80s a hairy chest was cool and of course in the late '80s I was in the sixth grade so I didn't have a hairy chest.
Then it got uncool and then this happened [laughter] and then now by the time it's cool again I'll be old and no one will care. It's just weird. I just got a bad deck of cards with it, so anyway I was getting my hair cut one day and I was wearing a t-shirt. I don't have a whole lot of hair on my back per se but I had some at the top right here and then at the bottom. At the bottom it looked like an upside down Christmas tree going into my pants. [Laughter] It was weird, so anyway the girl who was cutting my hair, she's a friend of mine and she's cutting my hair and she says oh Shane please. I said what? She said you are far too good looking to have this. I said what are you talking about? She said there's hair on the top of your back coming up out of your shirt. [Laughter] I said that is not the top of my back, that's the bottom of my neck. [Laughter] She said no, it's the top of your back. I said no, it's the bottom of my neck. Now if you ever struggled with being hairy you understand there's a huge difference between the bottom of your neck and the top of your back. [Laughter]
She says please let me take care of it, please? Shane, please? I said whatever. She said I'll do it for free. I said yeah, whatever, so I was expecting a bzzz-bzzz kind of thing. Next thing I know I feel this warm sensation going across. [Laughter] And once it's on there's only one way to get it off! [Laughter] So she rips it and then I've got this bare spot, so she goes oh this is going to look stupid. Now I've got to do all of it. [Laughter] So she does the whole thing, including the Christmas tree right [laughter] and for the first time since I was like 16 I felt the feeling of cotton on my back. It was weird. So like three days later I was going on vacation, so three days later I'm sitting around by a pool and this guy walks by. This is only three days later. This guy walks by and he gets by me, he's got hair on his back and I went that's disgusting! [Laughter] You ought to take care of that! [Laughter]
Now what happened? In three days I had forgotten what I'd been delivered from. [Laughter] Once you go through that once you've got to keep it up. Now I get it done all the time right and my back is hair free which is really quite nice. [Laughter] But I always remember what God delivered me from. [Laughter] Listen - [unclear 00.54.54] No, no, no, I got it. [Laughter] There's no Christmas tree there. [Laughter] Now listen, in your leadership it's very important that on a regular basis because you will never arrive at this, on a regular basis that you stop and become aware of this question: where would my life be if God hadn't touched my life? [Yeah, that's right.] Where would my life be? If you ever lose an awareness of where your life would be had God not touched your life, then you will take away from other people their right to fail with a good heart.
Now listen, you should never put up with someone purposely sabotaging ahad, and the reason is because your organisation cannot handle it. It can't - but someone making honest mistakes, as good leaders we have to give people the freedom to fail. That's the only way to grow people okay. Listen, this is so important. This is so important. Private grudges always result in corporate chaos. [Wow.] Anything you do in secret always manifests in public. Private grudges always result in corporate chaos. Jesus said it this way about your prayer life. He said when you pray go to your Father who is in secret and say this: My Father, who's as close to me as the air that I'm breathing, hallowed be Your name, okay. Later, in John 17, He said Father, I have manifested Your name, so what Jesus hallowed in secret He manifested in public. Anything you hallow in secret - to hallow means to render, acknowledge or become aware of. If you want to know what you're hallowing in secret, if you want to know what you're hallowing period, ask yourself this question: when you're alone where does your imagination go?