Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
CYCLES Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Overall purpose of this series on Leadership Principles To provide concepts and tools for effective leadership and management so that you can: • Be more anointed in your workplace. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Objectives • 1. Participants will learn the cycle from rebellion to restoration. • 2. Participants will evaluate their lives and make appropriate changes.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Passage to memorize Psalm 86: 9-12 Teach me your way O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you o Lord my God with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Understand how people think and behave Note the distinct patterns and how they recur.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
REPENTANCE
RESTORATION
REPRESSION
REBELLION
Understanding the pattern: Judges 2: 1-6 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
•When things go well people drop their guard. REPENTANCE RESTORATION •They relax and pay less attention to details. •In prosperous time, fallen people express their bent toward independence and REBELLION REPRESSION rebellion.
Understanding the pattern: Judges 2: 1-6 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Whether God sends REPENTANCE RESTORATION an enemy or the people cause their own misery, they endure hardship, invasion, or calamity. REPRESSION
REBELLION
Understanding the pattern: Judges 2: 1-6 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
REPENTANCE
RESTORATION
Repression serves as a wake up call. Individuals begins to refocus on what is really important and purify their motives and behaviour REBELLION REPRESSION
Understanding the pattern: Judges 2: 1-6 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
•Purification RESTORATION leads to REPENTANCE restoration. •When they obey God, peace return. •People regain the REBELLION REPRESSION blessings.
Understanding the pattern: Judges 2: 1-6 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Lead me on Holy Spirit LEAD ME ON HOLY SPIRIT FILL MY HEART COME, FLOOD MY SOUL LEAD ME ON INTO YOUR PRESENCE TOUCH ME LORD JESUS, I NEED YOU
I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU I CAN'T WALK THIS ROAD ALONE IN MY HEART I NEED YOU HOLY ONE COME TAKE MY HAND
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Learning, application and commitment • One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me ….. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Cycles