If a leader is manipulating for his own good, or pressuring people to do things they don't want to do, that leader is failing his position. John C. Maxwell says, "The true measure of leadership is influence. Nothing more and nothing less." If we are leaders, we are...
Leadership must be able to convince people to follow them. In the Body of Christ this can't be accomplished with threats, manipulation or fear. Who wants to follow someone whose down on his knees washing someone's feet? It's a different way of thinking. Leadership...
We all have things in our lives that we do not wish to reproduce in the lives of our children, some things we don't want to multiply or spread. When we recognize them, it's weed-pulling time. This principle of reproduction is seen in 1 Samuel 17. Goliath, the...
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Rom. 8:32 KJV) God didn't even hold back His own Son in His effort to save us. He gave everything He had for us. God didn't even spare His...
(Editor's Note: Parts 1 and 2 of this series may be found by using "Author Archives.") Equipped for the Assignment Headship and submission are roles that have been assigned to us by God. Those roles operate correctly when we fulfill them "even as" Christ and His...
(Editor's Note: Part 1 of this series may be found by using "Author Archives.") Respecting God's Assignments God demands respect for every position He's created. There must be respect for the head of a relationship whether that relationship is with Jesus, in the...
As human beings, we all must deal with relationships. Whether we are married, divorced, separated or never married, relationships are the key to everything God has established for us. They affect every area of our lives. Whenever something starts to go wrong, it is...
Through the years of ministry, I have witnessed Christians struggle with and in their role as leaders. Frustrated or impatient, they cry out to God in prayer asking Him for a supernatural endowment of leadership ability, as though leadership was a supernatural gift...
Most everyone knows that leaders aren't born—they're developed. Even Jesus wasn't born with leadership skills; He too had to learn and develop them. If you study the life of Jesus, you will see seven steps He went through that developed His leadership capacity,...
The way to success is always upstream; you can't float there. To reach success, we must make decisions. We can't just "float" there. Numbers 13 and 14 relates the story of the twelve spies reporting to Moses what they saw in the Promised Land. All twelve saw the...
In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (1 Thess. 5:18 KJV) We are instructed to give thanks to God "in" everything, not "for" everything. Not all things that happen to us are the will of God. Sickness, disease, fear,...
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