Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
EQUIPPING Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
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: Equipping
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: Equipping
Objectives • 1. Participants will learn how to be fruitful as a leader. • 2. Participants will learn how to equip others. • 3. Participants will learn how to be a provider for other people. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Fruitfulness is fun: John 15: 1-16
• Jesus taught His staff how to be fruitful so that their joy might be full. • Jesus said that He chose us and appointed us in order to go and bear fruit. • As leaders we must be more than faithful; we must be fruitful. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
We have great potential for fruitful leadership because of our… Purpose. God created us to glorify Him by bearing much fruit.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
We have great potential for fruitful leadership because of our‌ Source. Jesus is the true vine. If we stay connected to Him, we naturally bear fruit.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
We have great potential for fruitful leadership because of our‌ Care. Our heavenly Father is the Vinedresser: He owns us and cares for us.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
We have great potential for fruitful leadership because of our‌ Pruning. God removes anything that hinders our usefulness. He trims our weaknesses.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
We have great potential for fruitful leadership because of our… Partnership. Our job isn’t to artificially push fruit out, but to stay connected to the Vine.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
We have great potential for fruitful leadership because of our‌ Obedience. We must obey God. We are to remain in Him, receive from Him, and reproduce for him.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
We have great potential for fruitful leadership because of our‌ Promise. If we let His word abide in us, He promises He will do what we ask.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Equipping: Paul gives the tools to do the job. Eph. 2: 8-22 • You are saved by grace. • You are created to do good works. • You have been delivered from darkness and transformed into new persons. • Be prepared for service.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Embrace the following assumptions • People wants to feel worthwhile and needs and responds to encouragement. • People buy into the leader before they buy into the plan. • Most people don’t know how to be successful. • People are naturally motivated. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Most people will move once they receive permission and equipping
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Equipping: The leader’s job Equipping is a tough job It is much harder than shepherding.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Equipping people by • Caring for them (communication, affirmation, recognition and setting an example). • Give them your time, energy and focus. • Give them ownership. • Be a resource in terms of atmosphere, training, support. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Equipping people by • Making your expectations clear. • Eliminating unnecessary burdens. • Catching them doing something good and then reward them. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Equip others to realize their God-given potential Taught others so that they can reproduce themselves in others.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Be a provider for the people in your life Paul was a provider: Col. 1: 28, 29
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Providers are • Purposeful. They approach others with a purpose and to add value. • Relational: They are warm and inviting and work at relationships. • Objective: They assess strengths and weaknesses objectively.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Providers are • Vunerable. They model self – disclosure and honesty. • Incarnational: They are examples of what they teach. • Dependable: They are consistent and responsible for their promises.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Providers are • Empowering. They give power away and facilitate growth in others. Resourceful: They use every tool they have to grow people.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
The scripture is a thorough equipping tool, providing doctrine, reproof correction and instruction so that everyone may be equipped for every good work. 2 Tim. 3: 16,17
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Using scripture, the leader is to lay the foundation, provide direction, confront others when they err, correct their behaviour, and help them progress again.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
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: Equipping
Let the weak say I am strong Let the weak say I am strong Let the poor say I am rich Let the blind say I can see It's what the Lord has done in me Hosanna Hosanna To the Lamb that was slain Hosanna Hosanna Jesus died but He rose again Into the river I will wade Where my sins are washed away From the heavens mercy streams Of my Saviours love for me I will rise from rivers deep Into the saving arms of God I will sing salvation songs Jesus Christ has set me free  Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
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: Equipping
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: Equipping
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Equipping