Thursday, April 3, 2008
Leadership and Strong Spiritual Life
Many people fail to grasp this concept. Leadership and strong spiritual life comes hand in hand. You can't have leadership and yet have no strong spiritual life. Likewise, you can't have strong spiritual life without leadership. They come hand in hand, like in a marriage, a communion.
1) Leadership without Strong Spiritual Life
Many people nowadays desire greater position, greater influence and greater p0wer. Be it in their companies, their studies or in church, people are hungering for many power. They long for the recognition and fame that comes along with it. All I can say is, these people will not stay there in high places for long.
Let's take things closer to our hearts, being a cell group leader. Very often you might have heard these phrases like, "I want to be a cell group leader." or "I want to be a usher I/C". Yes, it is very good to desire these positions as stated in the bible, but one must be connected to God in the very first place. In the ten commandments, God listed that you shall have no other gods besides Him. In the new convenant, Jesus stated once again that you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
After all, in order for God to use you, you need to get closer to God! Only through this, will your life be changed and so that He can use you. My goodness!! How can people nowadays fail to grasp this concept? Is it so hard to understand this point? As you get closer to Him, He will will draw near to you. As this happens, you will begin the surrender all that you have and learn humility from Him, the greatest Servant of all.
2) Strong Spiritual Life without Leadership
It is totally rubbish when I hear people talk about having a great spiritual walk with God when they do not desire to rise up and be counted for. That is boulogne! The closer you walk with God, the more you will want to lay down your life for His cause. God has called us to do the Great Commission, not the Great Omission. We are called to made disciples of this world. And very often, this will lead us to higher position of authority and power.
As you start to lay down your life, God will start to give you dreams and visions as stated in the bible. Remember that men without vision are dead! Dead as a fish on land.
Then why do still people still say that they have great spiritual life and yet not serve? Reason is simple. They do not desire more of God, they are satisfied with where they are. Let us be like Moses, Joseph, Jacob and David, men after God's heart. People who are not satisfied with what they have. People who desire to seek the face of God.
(I written about how to encounter God in the previous post.)
When this happens, not only will they not encounter God in a stronger manner, but instead they will backslide. They simply do not have FAITH.
FAITH stands for:
Forsaking
All
I
Trust in
Him
Today, will you trust God to change you, mould you, and transform you. Challenges may come. Storms may come. Fears may come. But surrender all of these, in exchange of all of Him.
Conclusion
At this moment, will you make a decision to surrender all that you have, in exchange of all of Him. Will you be like Aaron, and say today I will stand between the living and the dead.
1) Leadership without Strong Spiritual Life
Many people nowadays desire greater position, greater influence and greater p0wer. Be it in their companies, their studies or in church, people are hungering for many power. They long for the recognition and fame that comes along with it. All I can say is, these people will not stay there in high places for long.
Let's take things closer to our hearts, being a cell group leader. Very often you might have heard these phrases like, "I want to be a cell group leader." or "I want to be a usher I/C". Yes, it is very good to desire these positions as stated in the bible, but one must be connected to God in the very first place. In the ten commandments, God listed that you shall have no other gods besides Him. In the new convenant, Jesus stated once again that you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
After all, in order for God to use you, you need to get closer to God! Only through this, will your life be changed and so that He can use you. My goodness!! How can people nowadays fail to grasp this concept? Is it so hard to understand this point? As you get closer to Him, He will will draw near to you. As this happens, you will begin the surrender all that you have and learn humility from Him, the greatest Servant of all.
2) Strong Spiritual Life without Leadership
It is totally rubbish when I hear people talk about having a great spiritual walk with God when they do not desire to rise up and be counted for. That is boulogne! The closer you walk with God, the more you will want to lay down your life for His cause. God has called us to do the Great Commission, not the Great Omission. We are called to made disciples of this world. And very often, this will lead us to higher position of authority and power.
As you start to lay down your life, God will start to give you dreams and visions as stated in the bible. Remember that men without vision are dead! Dead as a fish on land.
Then why do still people still say that they have great spiritual life and yet not serve? Reason is simple. They do not desire more of God, they are satisfied with where they are. Let us be like Moses, Joseph, Jacob and David, men after God's heart. People who are not satisfied with what they have. People who desire to seek the face of God.
(I written about how to encounter God in the previous post.)
When this happens, not only will they not encounter God in a stronger manner, but instead they will backslide. They simply do not have FAITH.
FAITH stands for:
Forsaking
All
I
Trust in
Him
Today, will you trust God to change you, mould you, and transform you. Challenges may come. Storms may come. Fears may come. But surrender all of these, in exchange of all of Him.
Conclusion
At this moment, will you make a decision to surrender all that you have, in exchange of all of Him. Will you be like Aaron, and say today I will stand between the living and the dead.
Labels: Revelations, Words
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