Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader podcast.

So good to be with you. Our theme today is five ways to avoid the trap of false power. It is a part two of this podcast.

So the reason this is so important that we avoid the traps of false power is because when we do so,

when we're leading or living out of a place that's really not true power, we end up living

out of a pretend self, a false self.

We make poor decisions.

We're investing our time and energy, our resources in the wrong direction.

We're thinking in the wrong way.

We're taking engagements. We're thinking in the wrong way. We're taking

engagements. We're initiating ministries and programs. We're launching events prematurely or out of

God's desire. We're hiring people or putting people in place that really are not probably the right

people. And we end up hurting the people that we love and are seeking to serve in it

overtly. We and on top of all that, when we live out of a false power, we actually lose our

joy. We end up in anxiety. It just, it's, there's not joy. There's not peace. There's not a piece

of Jesus. It just feels lousy. And on the inside, we're not congruent living out of who God uniquely made us to be.

And we actually, we think we're progressing sometimes, but we don't realize we're actually

going backwards.

And it perpetuates a worldliness, not simply in ourselves, but in those around us, our

teams, our ministries, our churches.

And we just have a vision that's cloudy in all the wrong, in all kinds of ways.

And we end up measuring the wrong things. And so we actually fall into the temptations of the

desert that Jesus confronted in Matthew chapter four, in Luke chapter four, where he was

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