The Spirit of Leadership!!! Part 12 The Restoration Of The Leadership Spirit!!

Exodus 18

We are walking in today:  The Spirit of Leadership!!!  Part 12 The Restoration Of The Leadership Spirit!!
 

Witness renew throughout the Bible:   H2318 chadash--to be new, renew, repair, make anew

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Torah:

Prophets:  1 Samuel 11:14; Isaiah 41:1, 61:4

Writings:  2 Chronicles  15:8, 24:4, 24:12; Psalm 51:10, 103:5, 104:30

Renewed:  2 Corinthians 4:16; Ephesians 4:23; Colossians 3:10

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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 Restoration of the Leadership Spirit

The Most High's purposes for mankind are permanent.

Why is leadership so difficult to develop and manifest in our generation? The answer, I believe, is not a lack of raw material or potential but the absence of right information, training, and an environment conducive to producing the mentality, mind-set, and attitudes necessary for this leadership potential to be ignited. This is the spirit of leadership. True leadership has more to do with mind-set than with methods and techniques.

Despite humanity’s declaring independence from its Source and manifesting the tragic and harmful results of its rebellion, The Most High hasn’t changed his mind about his original purposes for us. He is passionately committed to our being reconnected to him for two principal reasons:

(1) We are made in his image, and he doesn’t want his image to be distorted or disgraced in the world, and (2) his purposes are permanent; he always accomplishes what he originally sets out to do.

THE PERMANENCE OF PURPOSE

The Most High is committed to fulfilling his purposes for us, which he initiated when he first created us. In order for him to accomplish what he originally purposed for us, he first has to reconnect us to himself. His original intent for mankind is the motivation behind his plan of restoration and all his interactions with us. Man was created to be a leader and was designed with the ability to manifest his leadership nature. The past and future of mankind is leadership. Leadership is your destiny

THE CORPORATE LEADERSHIP MANDATE

Our principle is derived from the mandate established by the Creator when he said, “Let them rule [“have dominion”]...over all the earth.”

There are a number of important implications of this mandate that must be considered when discussing the purpose and assignment of mankind. Let’s review them now.

1. The word dominion means to rule, control, govern, master, and lead.

2. The dominion command specifically referred to dominion over nature, not human beings.

3. The mandate to dominate, rule, and lead was given to the entire human species (“Let them rule”) and therefore places every human in the position of leadership.

The implications of these truths are tremendous and critical. Each one a leader? How can this be? It becomes clearer when we truly come to understand that the mandate was for mankind to dominate fish, birds, plants, animals, and the entire environment of earth, but not his fellowman.

This amazing mandate was the result of the King of all kings purpose for mankind to be the reflection of a corporate leadership—in other words, a nation of kings, a company of rulers.

How does this type of leadership work?

Each human being comes to earth with a specific gift, talent, and strength of ability. Each is to serve that gift to the others through subduing the material resources of creation and thus becoming a servant to everyone else. He or she becomes a leader in that specific area of strength.

Thus, Abba's design of a corporate leadership can be summed up in the phrase “Every person a leader.” Every human being, according to the Most High's mandate, was designed by him to be a leader in an area of gifting. We must understand this truth if we’re to fulfill the Most High's purpose: The command to have dominion over the earth was given to all of humanity. It wasn’t given to a few select people, and it wasn’t given to males alone.

Both males and females are leaders, according to our Creator. Elohim is described as King of kings. He is not the king of slaves but of rulers who reign with him according to his purposes. His plan for humanity is that each one be a king—a ruler over an area of gifting in creation.

The Most High always intended that all men—male and female—become leaders in their specific areas of gifting and serve the world as a nation of rulers. Perhaps this is the notion behind the designation of Yeshia Hamshiach in his consummate relationship with mankind as the “King of kings.” He is the Ruler of rulers, the Leader of leaders. This is the essence of corporate leadership.

THE PROGRAM FOR REPAIR— RECONNECTION TO SOURCE

When humanity lost the spirit of leadership, the result was spiritual, mental, and physical decline. Human beings were disconnected from the Spirit of EL Elyon, who enabled them to know the thoughts of their Creator.  They had no other place to get their thoughts from, so they got them from themselves and their environment.

This is what man has been living on ever since—his own thoughts, the thoughts of his contemporaries, and the deceitfulness of his adversary.

What a combination to build one’s heart out of!

Abba's program for repair is to reconnect mankind to himself. We will call this reconnection “redemptive restoration.”

The Most High's prognosis of our condition is actually very different from what we usually think it is. It was not so much a “religious” problem as it is a thought problem. Therefore, he sent the Word (his thoughts) to earth to correct and redirect our thinking.

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

When someone is sick, and the doctor does a diagnosis, the result of the diagnosis dictates the medication he prescribes. Therefore, Elohim's prescription of sending his expressed thought indicates what he considered to be the source and cause of humanity’s problem: a defective thought problem.

This is why, for three-and-a-half years, Yeshia sat with his student-disciples—which included those businessmen who owned a fishing company, Peter, Andrew, James, and John—and challenged them to change their thinking by showing them the way a true leader thinks.

THE AUTHORIZED DEALER—Yeshuah

The coming of Jesus to the earth was not so much a religious activity as it was a “business” transaction. His “assignment” was to do everything necessary to reconnect mankind back to his Source. Following our earlier analogy, Jesus came to restore power to the “computer”—he restored the Spirit of the Creator to our lives and gave us a new awareness of our purpose. Now we have the power to become what we were created to be. He restored our “hard drives.”

Through the Word, we are set free from all the misconceptions and mental illnesses that resulted from our disconnection. One of the statements Jesus made numerous times before he explained something was,

“I tell you the truth.” If you want to know the truth about yourself and the attitude you should have about yourself, you have to listen to the words Jesus spoke about you. We need truth, and he is the source of it. He said, “I am the way and the truth and the life.” I read this as, “I am the way to the truth that gives you life.” Put another way, he is the source of the information that makes us come alive.

THE PROGRAM FOR REPROGRAMMING— THE RETURN OF THE SPIRIT OF THE MOST HIGH

The last thing that Jesus Christ promised mankind was not heaven but power: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.” He told his disciples, in effect, “I’m leaving to return to the Father God. My purpose on earth is completed, but I’m sending One who is just like me who will help you. I’m outside of you, and I’m demonstrating power, but he will be in you, and he’s going to enact power through you and give power to you.” Jesus knew that this power was what they were missing. It was what Adam lost. So the ultimate purpose of Christ’s death and resurrection at Calvary was to return the power of the Creator to man so that he could fulfill God’s intent for him. The return of the Spirit of God to the spirit of man is the most important moment in human history since the Creator first breathed into man the breath of life and caused him to be a living being. We have the initial reception at creation, and then the re-reception at the end of the program of restoration.

In this way, Jesus restored humanity’s connection with its Source. At the same time, man’s leadership spirit was reconnected to the Source of true leadership. The hard drive was restored, but now comes the more difficult part: the installation of the software of a renewed mind—in other words, the thinking of a leader.

THE NEED FOR A RENEWED MIND

Being a leader is a natural part of our makeup, but thinking like a leader is difficult. Although becoming reconnected is essential, it is just the start of developing into a true leader. We have to transform our thoughts and align them with those that our Abba is thinking.

Paul wrote to the church at Rome, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

Romans 12:1-2
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The only way to have a mind change is to rediscover the revelation of the truth about yourself—the reality that you were created and designed to be a leader. You must internalize the truth that leadership is your nature, your destiny, and your purpose for existence. You must capture the essence of the understanding that the purpose for your existence is to have dominion over the earth. You were born to rule—to lead. Once you capture this truth, then the work begins.

The return of the Spirit restores to us the consciousness of our leadership spirit and dominion assignment. Now comes the challenge, which is what the rest of this book deals with: the transformation of our minds as we discover and live out the attitudes of the spirit of leadership. The essence of this book is about the downloading of the leadership software.

CHAPTER PRINCIPLES

1. True leadership has more to do with mind-set than with methods and techniques.
2. The challenge of all humanity is restoration to self.
3. Despite humanity’s declaring independence from its Source, the Creator hasn’t changed his mind about his original purposes for us.
4. The Creator is passionately committed to our being reconnected to him because (1) we are made in his image, and he doesn’t want his image to be distorted or disgraced in the world, and (2) his purposes are permanent; he always accomplishes what he originally sets out to do.
5. The Creator’s ultimate purpose for humanity is to create a corporate leadership, summed up in the phrase, “Every person a leader. ”The command to have dominion over the earth was given to all of humanity, males and females.
6. Corporate leadership works through the servant leadership principle.
7.  Every human being, according to the Creator’s mandate, was designed by him to be a leader in an area of gifting.
8.The Creator’s program for reconnecting humanity with himself can be called “redemptive restoration.”
9. Humanity’s dilemma is not so much a “religious” problem as it is a thought problem.
10. God sent “the Word,” Jesus Christ, to earth to correct and redirect our thinking. He came to give us back the original thoughts that we lost when we disconnected from our Source.
11. When our thoughts are corrected, our attitudes can be transformed, and we will be able to fulfill our leadership potential.
12. The Authorized Dealer, Jesus, is “the way to the truth that gives us life.”
13. You never really live until you get true information about yourself.
14. The substitutionary death of the Authorized Dealer was to satisfy the demands of the penalty for the rebellion of man. Through his death, humanity could be fully reconnected and restored to God, and the Spirit of the Creator was made available to people of every generation.
15. The ultimate purpose of the suffering and death of Yeshua Hamashiach was to return the power of the Most High to human beings so that we could fulfill EL Elyon's original intent for us.
16. The return of the Spirit restores to us the consciousness of our leadership spirit and dominion assignment.
17. Full restoration of the spirit of leadership is a process of transforming our thoughts and aligning them with those of our Creator.
18. Mental transformation is different from repair and restoration. It is a process that takes time because it involves the changing of ingrained thoughts and habits.
19. Through the Spirit, we have the power and the access to the Creator that will enable us to effect a transformation of our attitudes.

Shema Selah, as we are having our software properly downloaded from on high by the Most High!!  Facebook LIVE video