1. Stronger Leadership
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Q) What kept Israel out of the promised land?
Session One: Stronger ‘Leadership’
Session One: Stronger ‘Leadership’
Stronger Leadership
Stronger Leadership
In all of these sessions there are slides, there are handout notes, even filling in some blanks and of course there are group questions.
Most Importantly we desire that you allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you. Please write down anything that he says .
Q) What kept Israel out of the promised land?
Q) What kept Israel out of the promised land?
6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” b 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9 We should not test Christ, d as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. 10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel. 1 Corinthians 10:6-10
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What keeps a man out of his promised land?
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Are any of these Five things keeping you out of your Promised Land?
Leaving and Entering Crisis
Encourage = to put courage in. Courage for your marriage, children, ministry, job, giving, serving, life
Duet 6:23
23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors.
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But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors.
Crisis ( change ) is normal to life.
Crisis takes you to a higher level of life
Life is lived on levels but arrived at in stages.
More permanent relationship
More permanent relationship
Pattern for maintaining integrity in the midst of crisis.
1/ Forgiveness opens - U closes. , ,
2/ Recognise that God is your source.
3/ Don’t panic ( Hitchhiker’s Guide logo )
4/ Admit God’s sovereignty - he will deliver you. ,
5/ Don’t limit God. Don’t limit .
6/ Obey God - Obedience is God’s only method of protection. , , ,
7/ Let God vindicate you.
8/ Live a normal life - Keep communicating. Give to God and be positive.
9/ Get counsel from God’s word.
10/ Praise God and pray in agreement with someone.
Never quit!
Lessons from John Mark
- Barnabas
He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
24 He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered
Have faith in God - God has faith in you.
- Identity in Christ
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
Paul meets Barnabas
Barnabas to Tarsus - Antioch preached for a year
- John Mark’s house where the church was praying for Peter
- Eyewitnesses
- Nephew of Barnabas
, , - John Mark FAILED in his faith.
Barnabas who had faith in Paul - now did so in John Mark.
Barnabas laid down his life for John Mark
Barnabas saw value in those for whom he laid down his life.
Faith in John Mark = Gospel of Mark.
Paul later recognised John Mark
Philemon - Paul calls John Mark a ‘fellow labourer’.
God never quits on you - Don’t quit on God.
Don’t quit on yourself
Failing is not the worst thing - Quitting is.
Don’t quit on a failing brother - God doesn’t.
Don’t quit on sons/ daughters or young people.
Have faith in God working in men.
Talk Time: Like John Mark have you ever failed? How did you overcome? Was there someone who picked you up? Are you in a position to pick up a fallen brother?
The Buck stops here:
The Buck stops here:
- Dominion over entire earth but responsibility over garden.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Faithfulness in little - then big.
Adam passed the buck.
Unless you are willing to take responsibility for your words, thoughts, deeds - you will never be a man.
Acceptance of responsibility makes you a man. Acceptance of responsibility IS Leadership.
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Sin promises to serve and please but it enslaves and dominates.
Cannot have authority without responsibility.
Strength is demonstrated in gentleness ( fruit of the spirit )
God is looking for 3 qualities in men - Decisiveness - Consistency and Strength.
Women are looking for 3 qualities in men - Decisiveness - Consistency and Strength.
3 qualities that men struggle with - Decisiveness - Consistency and Strength.
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.”
— Edwin Louis Cole
— QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION — What are some things about which you struggle to be decisive?
So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
What can you do to find some clarity?
How are you spending the majority of your time and money?
Are there ways you can improve?
Write out how you spend time and money and see if you can make some changes—do you think this will allow you more clarity to make decisions?
Buck Stops Here!
Building an Indestructible marriage:
1. Set your personal calendar first, Ministry second - don’t make family second best.
2. Do not let your business or ministry become an idol or your mistress.
3. Have a honeymoon - wives wants a holiday with you not without.
4. Devotional life - personally vital. Private philosophy determines public performance.
5. Give your family love and value.
Watch over your word to perform it.
Trust is extended to the limit of truth and no more.
Word is your bond.
6. Set time for family council. Imitate you.
7. Never disagree in front of the kids.
Agreement is a place of power.
Disagree = powerlessness.
8. Continue your education - both of you.
9. Recreation vital to inspiration. A rested mind is receptive to new ideas.
10. Wives - make your home a castle - You get to be Queen.
Becoming Scripturally Literate:
Illiterate - Having no or little education - Unable to read or write.
Scripture must be understood in depth not by acquaintance. Understand the bible in whole context - not isolated texts. Understand the Word for purpose of obedience.
Scripture must be understood in depth not by acquaintance.
Understand the bible in whole context - not isolated texts. Understand the Word for purpose of obedience.
Understand the Word for purpose of obedience.
Understand the bible in whole context - not isolated texts.
Understand the Word for purpose of obedience.
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.
You can develop talent alone but you develop character with someone else.
Mediocre men want authority but not accountability
Read the book - not the phone
Read cross references
Read commentaries
Use a bible plan - accountable.
Pattern of the Prodigal:
Give me / make me
Rebellion Ruin Repentance Reconciliation Restoration
Ruin Reconciliation
Pivotal point is repentance
Pivotal point is repentance
Sin - denial of God’s right of possession
Rebellion - refusal to obey
God’s creative pattern - Word releases spirit.
Pride - always brings you into bondage.
Humility always brings you into freedom.
Prayer :