We are walking in today: The Spirit of Leadership!!! Part 5--Leadership comes down to two things. Who You Are and How You Think !!!!
Witness servant throughout the Bible: H2896 ebed--slave, servant, slave, servant, subjects, bondman
1 Samuel 25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, H5650 and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants H5650 now a days that break away every man from his master.
Torah: Genesis 9:25, 18:3, 26:19, 41:12; Exodus 32:13; Numbers 12:7; Deuteronomy 23:15, 34:11
Prophets: 1 Samuel 16:16, 17:9, 22:7; Isaiah 49:5, 54:17, 65:14, 65:15
Writings: Joshua 1:13, 24:29; 1 Kings 2:38; 3:9; Psalm 19:11; Psalm 19:13, 89:39
Jeremiah 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants H5650 the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Exodus 18:20-25 20 You should also teach them the laws and the teachings, and show them how to live their lives and what work they should do. 21 But you should choose from among all the people competent men who are God-fearing, honest and incorruptible to be their leaders, in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. 22 Normally, they will settle the people’s disputes. They should bring you the difficult cases; but ordinary matters they should decide themselves. In this way, they will make it easier for you and share the load with you. 23 If you do this — and God is directing you to do it — you will be able to endure; and all these people too will arrive at their destination peacefully.” 24 Moshe paid attention to his father-in-law’s counsel and did everything he said. 25 Moshe chose competent men from all Isra’el and made them heads over the people, in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
The Leadership Spirit
To exercise leadership, you must believe that you are inherently a leader. Leadership really comes down to two things: who you are and how you think. It is about discovering your identity as a born leader and then understanding the way true leaders think so that you can fulfill your inherent calling. If you don’t first establish your leadership nature, it will be very difficult to have the mind-set of leadership. True leadership is first concerned with who you are, as opposed to what you do. Leadership action flows naturally from a personal leadership revelation. To exercise leadership, you must believe that you are inherently a leader.
The leadership spirit is the inherent leadership capacity and potential that is the essential nature of human beings. The spirit of leadership, which is what most of this book focuses on, is the mind-set or attitudes that accompany a true leadership spirit and allow the dormant leadership potential to be fully manifested and maximized.
WHAT IS THE LEADERSHIP SPIRIT?
“Trapped within every follower is a hidden leader.” However, the above statement contains the essence of what the original philosophy of leadership was intended to be. It is upon this premise that I propose the belief that leadership is inherent in the human spirit of every person, This leadership capacity is buried under social, cultural, and ideological perceptions that restrict, discourage, and hinder its manifestation.
If trapped in every follower is a hidden leader, then from where did this inherent leadership potential come? And if it exists, why do so many never seem to exhibit it or show some evidence of its presence?
The inherent capacity of the human spirit to lead, manage, and dominate, which was placed there at the point of creation and made necessary by the purpose and assignment for which man (humanity) was created. Again, leadership is not something that human beings should strive for; it is something that we already have been given because of our purpose and design.
Man doesn’t have a spirit; man is a spirit, and that spirit is an expression of God’s Spirit. The essential nature of his Spirit is in our spirits because of the Source from which we come. Leadership is really a discovery of who we truly are and the application of that discovery to our lives. Simply put, true leadership is self-discovery and self-manifestation.
1.The Creator first established the purpose of whatever he desired to make.
2.The Creator identified the material from which each product in creation was to be made.
3.The Creator directed his creative speech to the material from which he desired the product to be made.
4. The product possessed the same components as the source from which it was derived, and therefore possessed the same potential.
From the following creation Scriptures, we quickly notice that everything that lives on the Earth was somehow sourced by the Earth and thus consists of the Earth’s elements:
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Vegetation, birds, and animals, in essence, came from the soil. Fish and other sea creatures were created from the waters, and the stars were produced out of the firmament. All the wonderful products of creation that we have on Earth consist of whatever their source is, and when they die, they, in effect, return to the components of that source. In the case of plants and animals, they return to the dust from which they came. Why is this principle so important to understanding the leadership spirit? The answer in found in the Creator’s process of creating mankind. When the above aspects of nature were made, the Creator directed his creative speech to the soil, water, or firmament. But when it came to creating the human species, his focus changed. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule [“have dominion”] over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” The most amazing distinction here is that, in his creation of mankind, the Creator did not speak to the soil, the water, or the firmament. He spoke to himself.
Many of us miss the essential point here. Humans were not just made by God, but they were also drawn out of his own nature. The word “image” used in this verse means the following in the original Hebrew text: selem (6754), “statue; image; copy.”...The word...means “image” in the sense of essential nature....Human nature in its internal and external characteristics.... So, too, God made man in His own “image,” reflecting some of His own perfections: perfect in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, and with dominion over the creatures....in Gen. 1:26
(The first occurrence of the word) the “image” of God is represented by two Hebrew words (selem and demut).” The word for likeness is akin to image but embraces an additional meaning: “demut (1823), ‘likeness; shape; figure; form; pattern.’...First, the word means ‘pattern,’ in the sense of the specifications from which an actual item is made.”17 The verb form of likeness is the following: “damah (1819), ‘to be like, resemble, be or act like, liken or compare, devise, balance or ponder.’”
These are the words that define and describe the essence of your composition, capacity ability, potential, and value. They also confirm and reveal how the Creator designed you and why.
According to the above definitions and meanings, to be made in God’s image and likeness means that you possess the spiritual nature, characteristics, essential specifications, and “substances” of God and are a reflection of his spiritual qualities. It also denotes that you were designed to be like, act like, and function like the Creator. In essence, God created you from his own substance and released you from his own Spirit, and therefore, as far as species go, you are in the “god class” in the sense that you are considered his “son” or offspring.
REDISCOVERING YOUR LEADERSHIP PURPOSE
Remember that everything God does is motivated by his purpose, and therefore the original purpose for a product determines its design, composition, capacity, and potential. Purpose may be defined as “original intent” or “reason for creation.”
“Why, then, did the Creator create mankind?” The answer is found in his declaration of his purpose and original intent for humanity: “Let them rule [“have dominion”]...over all the earth.” He created us out of himself because of his intent that we rule over the earth.
1.Purpose determines design.
2. Purpose determines potential.
3.Purpose determines natural abilities.
4. Purpose determines capacity and ability.
5. Purpose determines natural talents.
6. Purpose determines natural desires.
7. Purpose determines fulfillment and personal satisfaction.
8. Purpose is the source of passion.
9. Purpose gives existence meaning.
10. Purpose is the measure of success and failure.
If we were created to be leaders, then we must all possess the capacity, inherent desire, natural talents, potential, and abilities that correspond to being a leader. The Creator is a leader-maker. Being designed in the image and likeness of God means that we were ordained by him to be leaders. He did not produce us and then decide that he would develop us into leaders. We were designed with that in mind. Because he created us to be leaders and dominators, he had to use leadership and dominion “material.” This material originates only in him, so he made us out of his own nature.
DESIGNED TO DOMINATE
Every manufacturer designs his product with the right components, engineered to fulfill the function that the product is created to perform. In essence, the purpose of the product dictates the mechanical and engineering components required to fulfill the manufacturer’s intent. Its “circuits” are right for the job. This principle holds true for all creation, including human beings. The Creator caused to be inherent in each created entity—including the apex of his creation, mankind— everything it needs to fulfill its original purpose. The original purpose for mankind, defined and established by the Creator, was to “rule [“have dominion”]...over all the earth.” God’s requirement that we dominate is evidence that the ability to lead is inherent in every human spirit. This is the leadership spirit.
THE LEADERSHIP SECRET TO GREATNESS
In the New Testament book of Matthew, one of Jesus’s students wrote this account of a request that was made by two of his fellow students who were in the leadership training school. He recorded it like this: Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. “What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.” When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you.”
Next, Jesus made an amazing statement. Please first note that he did not rebuke the brothers for desiring to be great and seeking leadership positions. As a matter of fact, with the following statement, he went even further and showed them how to become great. Why did he not rebuke them?
Because he knew and understood the nature and inherent passion of the human creature. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
I believe that this story contains the greatest secret of true leadership, as well as the process necessary for becoming a genuine leader. With his answer to this question of greatness, Jesus expressed the key, the nature, and the process for you to discover and manifest your true leadership spirit.
If you find your unique gift or special talent and commit to serving it to the world of mankind, then your significance will cause people to seek you out. You will become an influence through exercising your gift, rather than through manipulation. The more you become a person whose gift is valued, the greater your influence will be.
The Shortest Distance To Leadership Is Service.
Shema Selah let us hear and obey the teachings of the Most High as He walks us through this leadership conference!! Facebook LIVE video
Exodus 18:20-25 20 You should also teach them the laws and the teachings, and show them how to live their lives and what work they should do. 21 But you should choose from among all the people competent men who are God-fearing, honest and incorruptible to be their leaders, in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. 22 Normally, they will settle the people’s disputes. They should bring you the difficult cases; but ordinary matters they should decide themselves. In this way, they will make it easier for you and share the load with you. 23 If you do this — and God is directing you to do it — you will be able to endure; and all these people too will arrive at their destination peacefully.” 24 Moshe paid attention to his father-in-law’s counsel and did everything he said. 25 Moshe chose competent men from all Isra’el and made them heads over the people, in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
The Leadership Spirit
To exercise leadership, you must believe that you are inherently a leader. Leadership really comes down to two things: who you are and how you think. It is about discovering your identity as a born leader and then understanding the way true leaders think so that you can fulfill your inherent calling. If you don’t first establish your leadership nature, it will be very difficult to have the mind-set of leadership. True leadership is first concerned with who you are, as opposed to what you do. Leadership action flows naturally from a personal leadership revelation. To exercise leadership, you must believe that you are inherently a leader.
The leadership spirit is the inherent leadership capacity and potential that is the essential nature of human beings. The spirit of leadership, which is what most of this book focuses on, is the mind-set or attitudes that accompany a true leadership spirit and allow the dormant leadership potential to be fully manifested and maximized.
WHAT IS THE LEADERSHIP SPIRIT?
“Trapped within every follower is a hidden leader.” However, the above statement contains the essence of what the original philosophy of leadership was intended to be. It is upon this premise that I propose the belief that leadership is inherent in the human spirit of every person, This leadership capacity is buried under social, cultural, and ideological perceptions that restrict, discourage, and hinder its manifestation.
If trapped in every follower is a hidden leader, then from where did this inherent leadership potential come? And if it exists, why do so many never seem to exhibit it or show some evidence of its presence?
The inherent capacity of the human spirit to lead, manage, and dominate, which was placed there at the point of creation and made necessary by the purpose and assignment for which man (humanity) was created. Again, leadership is not something that human beings should strive for; it is something that we already have been given because of our purpose and design.
Man doesn’t have a spirit; man is a spirit, and that spirit is an expression of God’s Spirit. The essential nature of his Spirit is in our spirits because of the Source from which we come. Leadership is really a discovery of who we truly are and the application of that discovery to our lives. Simply put, true leadership is self-discovery and self-manifestation.
1.The Creator first established the purpose of whatever he desired to make.
2.The Creator identified the material from which each product in creation was to be made.
3.The Creator directed his creative speech to the material from which he desired the product to be made.
4. The product possessed the same components as the source from which it was derived, and therefore possessed the same potential.
From the following creation Scriptures, we quickly notice that everything that lives on the Earth was somehow sourced by the Earth and thus consists of the Earth’s elements:
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Vegetation, birds, and animals, in essence, came from the soil. Fish and other sea creatures were created from the waters, and the stars were produced out of the firmament. All the wonderful products of creation that we have on Earth consist of whatever their source is, and when they die, they, in effect, return to the components of that source. In the case of plants and animals, they return to the dust from which they came. Why is this principle so important to understanding the leadership spirit? The answer in found in the Creator’s process of creating mankind. When the above aspects of nature were made, the Creator directed his creative speech to the soil, water, or firmament. But when it came to creating the human species, his focus changed. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule [“have dominion”] over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” The most amazing distinction here is that, in his creation of mankind, the Creator did not speak to the soil, the water, or the firmament. He spoke to himself.
Many of us miss the essential point here. Humans were not just made by God, but they were also drawn out of his own nature. The word “image” used in this verse means the following in the original Hebrew text: selem (6754), “statue; image; copy.”...The word...means “image” in the sense of essential nature....Human nature in its internal and external characteristics.... So, too, God made man in His own “image,” reflecting some of His own perfections: perfect in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, and with dominion over the creatures....in Gen. 1:26
(The first occurrence of the word) the “image” of God is represented by two Hebrew words (selem and demut).” The word for likeness is akin to image but embraces an additional meaning: “demut (1823), ‘likeness; shape; figure; form; pattern.’...First, the word means ‘pattern,’ in the sense of the specifications from which an actual item is made.”17 The verb form of likeness is the following: “damah (1819), ‘to be like, resemble, be or act like, liken or compare, devise, balance or ponder.’”
These are the words that define and describe the essence of your composition, capacity ability, potential, and value. They also confirm and reveal how the Creator designed you and why.
According to the above definitions and meanings, to be made in God’s image and likeness means that you possess the spiritual nature, characteristics, essential specifications, and “substances” of God and are a reflection of his spiritual qualities. It also denotes that you were designed to be like, act like, and function like the Creator. In essence, God created you from his own substance and released you from his own Spirit, and therefore, as far as species go, you are in the “god class” in the sense that you are considered his “son” or offspring.
REDISCOVERING YOUR LEADERSHIP PURPOSE
Remember that everything God does is motivated by his purpose, and therefore the original purpose for a product determines its design, composition, capacity, and potential. Purpose may be defined as “original intent” or “reason for creation.”
“Why, then, did the Creator create mankind?” The answer is found in his declaration of his purpose and original intent for humanity: “Let them rule [“have dominion”]...over all the earth.” He created us out of himself because of his intent that we rule over the earth.
1.Purpose determines design.
2. Purpose determines potential.
3.Purpose determines natural abilities.
4. Purpose determines capacity and ability.
5. Purpose determines natural talents.
6. Purpose determines natural desires.
7. Purpose determines fulfillment and personal satisfaction.
8. Purpose is the source of passion.
9. Purpose gives existence meaning.
10. Purpose is the measure of success and failure.
If we were created to be leaders, then we must all possess the capacity, inherent desire, natural talents, potential, and abilities that correspond to being a leader. The Creator is a leader-maker. Being designed in the image and likeness of God means that we were ordained by him to be leaders. He did not produce us and then decide that he would develop us into leaders. We were designed with that in mind. Because he created us to be leaders and dominators, he had to use leadership and dominion “material.” This material originates only in him, so he made us out of his own nature.
DESIGNED TO DOMINATE
Every manufacturer designs his product with the right components, engineered to fulfill the function that the product is created to perform. In essence, the purpose of the product dictates the mechanical and engineering components required to fulfill the manufacturer’s intent. Its “circuits” are right for the job. This principle holds true for all creation, including human beings. The Creator caused to be inherent in each created entity—including the apex of his creation, mankind— everything it needs to fulfill its original purpose. The original purpose for mankind, defined and established by the Creator, was to “rule [“have dominion”]...over all the earth.” God’s requirement that we dominate is evidence that the ability to lead is inherent in every human spirit. This is the leadership spirit.
THE LEADERSHIP SECRET TO GREATNESS
In the New Testament book of Matthew, one of Jesus’s students wrote this account of a request that was made by two of his fellow students who were in the leadership training school. He recorded it like this: Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. “What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.” When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you.”
Next, Jesus made an amazing statement. Please first note that he did not rebuke the brothers for desiring to be great and seeking leadership positions. As a matter of fact, with the following statement, he went even further and showed them how to become great. Why did he not rebuke them?
Because he knew and understood the nature and inherent passion of the human creature. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
I believe that this story contains the greatest secret of true leadership, as well as the process necessary for becoming a genuine leader. With his answer to this question of greatness, Jesus expressed the key, the nature, and the process for you to discover and manifest your true leadership spirit.
If you find your unique gift or special talent and commit to serving it to the world of mankind, then your significance will cause people to seek you out. You will become an influence through exercising your gift, rather than through manipulation. The more you become a person whose gift is valued, the greater your influence will be.
The Shortest Distance To Leadership Is Service.
Shema Selah let us hear and obey the teachings of the Most High as He walks us through this leadership conference!! Facebook LIVE video
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