Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
DECISION MAKING Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
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: Decision Making
Objectives • 1. Participants will understand sowing and reaping in decision making. • 2. Participants will learn the principles of decision making. • 3. Participants will become aware of the guidelines of making tough calls. • 4. Participants will identify how to make decisions in the grey areas. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
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: Decision Making
Sowing and reaping: decisions and consequences • Leadership, like life, is the sum total of the decisions we make. • God lists the blessings He offers to those who obey Him and the punishment they’ll receive for disobedience. Lev. 26:3-39 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Leaders who fail to make good decisions • Lack commitment • Suffer from a scattered focus • Look for excuses • Forget the big picture • Go public with private thoughts • Avoid change
• Adapt the motto, “That’s good enough.” • Behave inconsistently • Create poor relationships • Don’t take God’s direction seriously
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Confidence and decisiveness: Joshua distributes the land. Joshua 13: 1-19: 51
• 1. Evaluation. Joshua developed a clear picture of the land remaining to be conquered. 13: 1-14:5) • 2. Imitation. Joshua blessed Caleb and pointed to him a model of attitude and determination. 14: 6-15
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Confidence and decisiveness: Joshua distributes the land. Joshua 13: 1-19: 51
• 3. Communication. Joshua clearly articulated the boundaries of each tribe’s land and what they needed to do. 15: 1-17:18 • 4. Exhortation. Joshua challenged the tribes to take the land God had promised them. 18:1-4 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Confidence and decisiveness: Joshua distributes the land. Joshua 13: 1-19: 51
• 5. Investigation. Joshua appointed teams to survey the scope of the remaining land and report back to him. 18:4-10 • 6. Determination. Once he received the commissioned report, Joshua determined who should get what land Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17 1. Good decisions influence the decisions of others.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17 2. Good decision makers want God in the centre of the process.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17 3. Good decision making respects the power of God.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17
4. Good decision foster joy and celebration. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17 5. Good leaders place God’s agenda ahead of their own. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17 6. Good decision makers listen to others.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17 7. Good leaders positively affect future generations. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Consider the following principles we can learn from David. 2 Sam. 6: 1-7:17 8. Present decisions determine future conditions.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Many leaders fail because of an inability to make tough decisions Consider the following guidelines for making a tough call.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 1. Accept tough calls as requirement of leadership.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 2. Do your homework. Research can make or break a decision.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 3. Set a deadline.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 4. Make sure the timing is right.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 5. Seek counsel from the right people.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 6. Make your decisions on the principles and values you believe in. Test it against the word of God.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 7. Develop systems that enable you to make the tough call.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13
8. Understand the emotional expense of making the tough call. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 9. Recognise your part and God’s part.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Guidelines for making tough calls. Jeremiah 42: 1-43:13 10. Pray for discernment and courage.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Decision making in the grey areas Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 10:24-33 a system for making decisions that is not black and white but grey.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Decision making in the grey areas 1. Prioritise God’s people. Put others first. Ask yourself: Who will benefit most from this decision? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Decision making in the grey areas 2. Pursue God’s glory. Does this decision glorify God or someone else. Does this decision give a better picture who God is?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
Decision making in the grey areas 3. Perceive God’s purpose. The ultimate purpose for our being on earth is to bring others to Christ. Ask yourself: Will this decision please God and fulfil His purpose?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
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: Decision Making
Lord we are the ones LORD WE ARE THE ONES CALLED BY YOUR NAME WE HUMBLE OURSELVES NOW AS WE PRAY RENOUNCING EVERY SIN AND WICKED WAY WE LIFT OUR VOICE SEEK YOUR FACE AND SAY LORD SEND YOUR RAIN POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT LET THE FIRE FALL HEAL US ONE AND ALL FALL AFRESH ON ME WE SING HOLY HOLY SPIRIT LET THE FIRE FALL HEAL US ONE AND ALL FALL AFRESH ON ME
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
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: Decision Making
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: Decision Making
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Decision Making