Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
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: Authority
Objectives • 1. Participants will understand that authority is earned. • 2. Participants will become aware of the authority test. • 3. Participants will evaluate their lives and make appropriate changes re the way they fulfil their authority role.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
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: Authority
The Rod of God Leaders earn their authority, few individuals just give it to someone.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
When leaders possesses authority, their words carry their weight How much weight do your words carry? Who listens to you? Matt. 8: 5-13
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
The authority test: submitting to God-Given authority • Before we will ever become leaders of integrity, we must learn to follow other leaders regardless of differences. • The acid test of character comes when we disagree with legitimate authorities. • Romans 13: 1-7 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
Authority and Submission: Everyone is responsible to someone • Everyone and everything exists in submission to someone else. • God has called parents to assume responsibility for the health and growth of the family.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
Authority and Submission: Everyone is responsible to someone • Those in authority do not necessarily have greater intelligence or gifts, but they do have greater responsibility. • Titus 3: 1,2
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
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: Authority
Give thanks with a grateful heart Give thanks to the Holy One Give thanks because He’s given Jesus Christ His Son (repeat) And now let the weak say I am strong Let the poor say I am rich Because of what the Lord has done for us (repeat) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
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: Authority
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: Authority
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority