Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
EMOTIONS Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
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: Emotions
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
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: Emotions
Objectives • 1. Participants will become aware of burnout and its consequences. • 2. Participants will evaluate their lives and make appropriate changes re issues that may cause burnout in their personal lives. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Burnout • Elijah and Jezebel . 1 Kings 19: 1-3. • How could it happen? • Leaders burn out when they pay out huge emotional expenses without replenishing the inner person.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Emotional Expense • Predicted a drought to King Ahab. • Supernaturally receives food from a widow and the birds. • Announces the end of the drought. • Mobilizes people to eliminate idols.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Challenges the 450 prophets of Baal
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Emotional Expense • Prays down torrential rain in Judah. • Outruns the storm and Ahab’s chariot. • Confronted by Jezebel; leaves his servant. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences Isolation: He cut himself off from friends.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences Paranoia: He felt totally alone in serving God.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Paranoia
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences Exhaustion: He felt famished and lay down.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences
Hiding: He got lost in a cave.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences Depression: He prayed that he might die.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences Self-pity: He complained of no reward.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Self-pity
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences Messiah Complex: He alone remained as God’s prophet.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Elijah’s Eventual consequences Empty: He had no fresh word from the Lord.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
The difference between problems and facts • Problems are things we can do something about; we can solve problems.
• Facts are things we can do nothing about; therefore we do well not to worry about them.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Apply energy to those things you can change Psalm 23 reminds us of what God alone can control and what we can control.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Psalm 23 defines God as our …. • • • • • • • •
Possession Provision Peace Pardon Partner Preparation Praise Paradise Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Be Relaxed • I now let go of all tension, I am relaxed. • I now see life as a wondrous journey. • I am now at peace with myself and my surroundings. • I now focus on thoughts of love and peace. • I am now emotional at peace with myself. • I now feel relaxed and at ease in what I do. • I am at ease with those who I meet. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
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: Emotions
Lord, I want to know you more
LORD, I WANT TO KNOW YOU MORE DEEP WITHIN MY SOUL I WANT TO KNOW YOU LORD, I WANT TO KNOW YOU AND I WOULD GIVE MY FINAL BREATH TO KNOW YOU IN YOUR DEATH AND RESSURECTION LORD, I WANT TO KNOW YOU MORE LORD, I WANT TO KNOW YOU MORE Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
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: Emotions
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: Emotions
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Emotions