Os Hillman's teaching on the 7 stages of a call presented at Hubb Nation conference in Bend Oregon, June 22, 2108

1. 6 Stages
6 Stages to Discovering, Navigating & Fulfilling Your Purpose
Os Hillman

3. What is a Christian entrepreneur?

4. 1. Hear God.
2. Discern new opportunities.

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9. How does God
prepare a
Change Agent
?

11. Recruitment

12. 1
Recruitment through
Divine Circumstances

13. My Story

14. “You have a Joseph Calling.”
Spiritual and physical provider earmarked by adversity

15. 18 Books. 26 Countries
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16. Personal
crisis is
often the
door to the
LARGER
story of our
lives.

17. Apostle Paul
David

18. Martin Luther

19. Joseph

20. Esther

21. David

22. Rosa Parks
decided in 1955
not to give up her
seat on a bus in
Montgomery,
Alabama

23. Martin Luther King

24. Change agents are rarely
looking to be change agents.

25. Henry Blackaby
“You never find God asking persons to
dream up what they want to do for Him.
When God starts to do something in the
world, He takes the initiative to come and
talk to somebody. For some divine reason,
He has chosen to involve His people in
accomplishing His purposes."

27. 2
Character
Development
Adversity, betrayal,
waiting, perseverance

28. Rom 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of
this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind.

29. Romans 12:2 (MSG)
Don’t become so well–adjusted to your culture that you fit
into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on
God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily
recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to
it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you
down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of
you, develops well–formed maturity in you.

30. Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass
through the Valley of Baca, (weeping) they make
it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools.
They go from strength to strength. Ps 84:5-7

31. Joseph
had
4
Tests
Betrayal Sexual
Perseverance Stewardship

32. Only Jesus ever made plan
God makes our and
His A.

33. 2 Cor 4:8-12
We are hard-pressed on every side,
yet not crushed;
we are perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not forsaken;

34. 2 Cor 4:8-12
struck down, but not destroyed—
always carrying about in the body the dying of the
Lord Jesus,
that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our
body.
for LIFE in YOU!

35. The depth and width of the adversity
corresponds to the level of call and the
ministry He plans through your life.
i.e. Moses, Paul, Joseph

36. Fruit of My 7 Year Character Development Process
• Removal of stronghold of
insecurity & fear -control
• Intimacy with God
Fruit
• Help others navigate
difficult seasons –
writer/speaker - 18 books
• Catalyst FW movement

38. God initiates a time of separation from past
dependencies to realign values
“
David therefore departed from there and
escaped to the cave of Adallum.” - I Samuel 22:1
David: Ps 34, 57, and 142

39. Isaiah
And He has made
My mouth like a
sharp sword;
in the shadow of
His hand He has
hidden Me,
and made Me a
polished shaft;
in His quiver He
has hidden Me.”
Isa 49:2

40. God said He would never leave us or forsake us, however,
He never said it might not feel like He did.
Black Hole

41. “I cried out to God for
help; I cried out to God to hear me.
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;
at night I stretched out untiring hands,
and I would not be comforted.” Ps 77:1,2
“Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself.”
Isaiah 45:15

42. Spiritual Deposits
Messes into Messages and Messengers
I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places,
that you may know that I, the Lord, Who calls you by your name, Am the God
of Israel (Isa 45:3).
Paul Elijah Jeremiah Isaiah Nelson Mandella Jonah

43. Jesus preparation before His public ministry?

44. “You shall hide them in the secret place of
Your presence.”
Ps 31:20
• John Bunyan, Pilgrims Progress
• Apostle John, wrote the book of
Revelation

45. He who dwells in the secret place of the
Most High shall abide under the shadow of
the almighty. Psalm 91.1

46. Dark Places = Revelation
• “He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and
brings the shadow of death to light.” Job 12:22
• “He reveals deep and secret things; He knows
what is in the darkness, and light dwells with
Him.” Dan 2:22
•

47. 104 Countries

48. If God calls us into darkness in
order to enter His presence,
then that darkness will
become an entry to new
levels of relationship with a
God who longs for fellowship
with you and me.

49. Steinway soundboard rims remain in the
conditioning room between 10 and 16 weeks
depending on the thickness and size.

50. Wait, Wait, Wait
Joseph waited 13 years
until he was freed from
captivity into his 81
year destiny
Elijah waited beside
the Brook of Cherith.
Abraham
had to wait
for Isaac.
Moses
waited 40
years
before God
spoke to
him.
But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord;
I say, "You are my God." My times are in Your
hand; Ps 31:14-15

52. The Cross
I am crucified with
Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me:
and the life which
I now live in the flesh
I live by the
faith of the Son of
God, who loved me,
and gave himself for
me. Gal. 2:20

53. 4.
Personal Cross
God’s graduate level test
for leaders.

54. 3 Nails
For Jesus, it was
Judas.
For David, it was
Absalom.
For Joseph, it was
his brothers.
Crucifixion usually
requires a third party.

55. Ps 55:12-14
For it is not an enemy who reproaches me;
Then I could bear it. Nor is it one
who hates me who has exalted himself
against me; Then I could hide from him.
But it was you, a man my equal,
My companion and my acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together,
And walked to the house of
God in the throng.

56. 4 Betrayals

57. Pamela’s Betrayal
& Cross

58. Whatever God sets you free from He automatically gives you an anointing to set
other people free from the very thing you were a victim of.

59. Pamela now is a catalyst
for freedom and
restoration for others
ChebarMinistries.org

60. God Has to Disqualify You
God has to disqualify you
from thinking you are
qualified for the mission He
has for you. i.e. Moses,
Joseph
“Moses spent his first 40 years thinking he
was somebody.
He spent his next 40 years learning he was
nobody
He spent his third 40 years discovering what
God can do with a nobody.”
-- D.L. Moody

61. Sometimes a man finds his destiny
on the road he most seeks to avoid.
“God gives us the cross, and the cross gives us
God.” – Jeanne Guyon

62. The Singer
“She’ll really know how to sing that song
when someone breaks her heart.”
63

63. Crisis and pain leads to
greater commitment,
obedience and intimacy
Loosens our grip on cares of this world.

64. God’s spiritual manure
for greater obedience and influence.
It’s the beginnings of an upgrade with God.

65. "In that day," says the Lord, "I will assemble
the lame, I will gather the outcast and those
whom I have afflicted; I will make the lame a
remnant, and the outcast a strong nation; So
the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion
from now on, even forever.
Mic 4:6-7

66. Suffering is designed to encourage obedience
Hebrews 5:8-9 “Though He was a Son,
yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.”
“Hardships often prepare people for an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. Lewis

67. The higher you go on the mountain
of influence, the greater the scrutiny.

68. And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met
him and sought to kill him.— because of the circumcision (Ex 4:24-26).

70. Problem Solving

71. Change agents are often "problem solvers”
through invention and entrepreneurship.
Problem Solvers

72. Billy Graham
“Back when we did the big crusades in football
stadiums and arenas, the Holy Spirit was really
moving—and people were coming to Christ as
we preached the Word of God. But today, I sense
something different is happening. I see evidence
that the Holy Spirit is working in a new way.
He’s moving through people where they work
and through one-on-one relationships to
accomplish great things. They are
demonstrating God’s love to those around them,
not just with words, but in deed.”

73. God has determined our purpose
“For we are God’s workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do.”
– Ephesians 2:10

74. God is looking for those He can entrust a problem to who will
manifest a God-given solution to that problem..

75. God is waiting for his change agents
to step into their destiny.
The creation waits in eager expectation for the
sons of God to be revealed-Romans 8:19

76. ...the people who know their God shall be
strong, and carry out great exploits.
- Daniel 11:32

77. Why was Jesus
Influential?
He solved
Problems!!

78. • He solved Peter’s fishing problem
• He solved Peter’s tax problem
• He fed 5,000 people when there was no
food
• He solved the blind man’s seeing problem
• He solved the prostitute’s problem & kept
her from being stoned

79. Becoming a Change Agent
“Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the
spirit of God?”
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘Since God has made all this
known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as
you. You shall be in charge…” Gen 41:38, 39

80. Joseph, a Change Agent
You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled
according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater
than you." And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over
all the land of Egypt" (Gen 41:38-41).

81. Johannes Gutenberg
inventor of the printing
press 1455
60 years later - Protestant
Reformation 1517

82. Johannes Gutenberg
“Let us give wings to Truth in order that she may win every
god that comes into the world by her word, no longer
written at vast expense, but multiplied everlastingly by a
machine which never wearies.”

83. Johannes Gutenberg
“It is a press, certainly, but through it, God will spread His
Word; a spring of pure truth shall flow from like a new star
it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light
hitherto fore unknown to shine among men.”

84. George Washington
Carver
• 300 marketable products – peanut
• 100 sweet potato
• Transformed southern economy

85. “Man, who needed a purpose, a
mission, to keep him alive,
had one. He could be God’s coworker.
My purpose alone must be God’s
purpose. As I worked on projects
which fulfilled a real human need,
forces were working through me which
amazed me. I would often go to sleep
with an apparently insoluble problem.
When I woke the answer was there.”

86. Visions & Witty Inventions

87. Lynne Ruhle
Reclaiming the Gymnastics
Mountain – Sports
1996 Olympic Champions

88. People don’t care who solves
their problem; they just want
their problem solved.
Result?

89. LIFE OF JESUS
Influence is a result of our love, humility
and obedience to God; not a goal to be
achieved. It is the fruit of our obedience.

90. How one man transformed a
community by solving a problem.

93. Networking

94. Networks - Change happens by a small number
of change agents banding together

95. England’s William
Wilberforce
The Clapham Group

96. God believes in teams
Father
Son
Holy
Spirit
Each
member
has a role
to play

97. “The key actor in history
is not individual
genius but rather the network
and the new institutions
that are created out of these
networks. And the more
'dense' the network
- that is, the more active and
interactive the network-the more
influential it could be.”

98. And the Lord said,
“Indeed the people are one
and they all have
one language, and this
is what they begin to do;
now nothing that they
propose to do will
be withheld from them.
-Genesis 11:6

99. "I do not pray for these alone, but
also for those who will believe in Me
through their word; that they all
may be one, as You, Father, are in
Me, and I in You; that they also may
be one in Us, that the world may
believe that You sent Me.”
John 17:20-22

101. LOGO
David’s 6 Stages
2. Character
flee Saul’s sword
3. Isolation
Cave of Adullam
4. Cross betrayal
By Saul and own son
Absalom
1. 1. Recruitment
Anointed by Samuel-
Goliath
6. Network
David’s mighty men
5. Solve Problem
King of Israel,
Built temple thru
Solomon
LOGO

102. LOGO
Daniel’s 6 Stages
Daniel 2
2. Character
serve ungodly king
3. Isolation
Babylon
4. Cross reveal &
interpret dream or die
1. Recruitment
taken to Babylon
6. Network
3 friends
5. Solve Problem
revealed dream &
Interpreted –
miracle!
LOGO

103. LOGO
Joseph’s 6 Stages
2. Character
13 years slavery/jail
3. Isolation
Egypt/prison
4. Cross thought he
would die in prison,
cupbearer forgot him
1. Recruitment
thrown in the pit
6. Network
brothers
5. Solve Problem
interpreted dream.
famine strategy to
save nation
LOGO

104. LOGO
Each leader was an answer to
something God had in mind He
wanted to do on the earth.

105. There is always a “trumpet call” opportunity
• Moses - deliver a nation
• Gideon - destroy the idols.
• Esther - save the nation
• Peter - lead the Church.
• William Wilberforce - abolish
slavery
• Martin Luther King – racial
discrimination

106. LOGO
What should you do with this message?
• What has God called you to do in your life?
• Do you see the processes of God in your
journey?
• Are you embracing the process?
• Are you God’s man or woman to mentor
someone else?
Have you said “YES” to God?

107. LOGO
Be a Catalyst for Someone
• Write down the name of one person you can support to help them be more
successful. i.e., Pamela, James and Anna
• Write down one person you could collaborate with that would make both your
projects more successful.

108. Is your name known in Hell?
Dead or Alive!
Wanted!
And the evil
spirit
answered
and said,
“Jesus I
know, and
Paul I know;
but who are
you?”
Acts 19:15

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