Weakness: The Platform for Power: Pt. 2

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In leadership, weakness is often seen as a liability. A roadblock. Something to overcome. But what if weakness is actually the platform for God's power in your life?

In this episode, we continue exploring one of the most misunderstood and countercultural truths of the gospel—God’s power is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9). The world—and even much of the church—chases after strength, size, eloquence, and success. But Paul’s life and leadership tell a different story. The super-apostles of Corinth flaunted their credentials, spiritual gifts, and influence. Paul? He boasted in his suffering, his limits, his thorn in the flesh—because that was where the power of Christ rested on him.

As leaders, we often think, If only I were stronger, more gifted, more influential… But what if God’s way isn’t about making us stronger but about making us weaker, so His power can be revealed?

Join me as we dive deep into this paradox that could transform your leadership—and your life.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Cazaro.
0:07.0	I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast.
0:11.0	Our title, our theme is Weakness, God's Platform for Power.
0:17.0	It's a part two.
0:18.0	Again, Weakness, God's Platform for Power, Part 2. You'll be fine if you missed part one, but I am building a bit on last week. So there's a lot of confusion about weakness. We think of weakness in our culture, we think of someone who's wimpy, someone who's not a much backbone, not a leader, no initiative, kind of a dormant,, more of a birdwatching type of person, not that
0:38.4	birdwashing is bad. And we think of power, even in our Christian context, again, depending on
0:46.8	your stream or tradition within a Christian church, we think of power, we think of people with size
0:52.9	and numbers, for example. You have lots of people, you're having high impact, high influence. You've got an impressive, you know, ministry, size, buildings, budgets. I know in my early days, I would have done anything. Just I would do anything. I was working, you know, super hard and way beyond my limits. Because I wanted power. I wanted size, influence for Jesus.
1:14.6	And then we think of also power. We think of knowledge. I went to seminary because I wanted to
1:20.6	know more. I wanted to know the original languages and history. And I don't want to be shut down
1:24.8	by people who had a lot of other knowledge, you know, about God.
1:27.6	And I'm reading and reading and reading just, you know, not to scripture, but books,
1:32.1	because I wanted, I wanted knowledge.
1:34.1	And it was a, it was a way of, it was a way of getting power.
1:37.4	Not that knowledge is bad.
1:38.5	Of course, anointing, revelations, highly visible gifts, especially those with, you know, signs and wonders and
1:46.5	healings and prophetic gifts, visions and dreams, driving out demons, great power gifts,
1:52.4	the ability to hear God, that was power.
1:56.0	And, you know, to give a prophetic word, again, it's all good.
1:59.5	But that was, again, a way we measure power
2:02.2	in our churches, visible manifestations. It can be experiences as well. I remember going to some
2:07.9	significant, powerful meetings, revival-type meetings, where God's presence was so tangible. And there
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