Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
Obedience to God Mario Denton Module 403 C Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
What do you see?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Passage to memorize Psalm 119: 97 101 “….. I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
God, tell me Your will, and I will repeat it back to you. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Obedience to God: I Samuel 15: 1-23 • God will blessed your obedience. • Gods requirements to us is quite simple: Fear him, walk in his ways, love him, serve him and obey his commands. • Disobedience to God always produces more pain than obedience to God. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
To what degree are the choices you make: • Based on right thinking (a biblical world view) • On wrong thinking ( a temporal view of the world) • On emotions (the subjective tensions in your life)
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Daniel 3: 16-18 • Periodically the leader finds himself or herself backed into a corner. • Obey God and loose the chance for a promotion. • There will be times when obedience to God means saying no to your personal desires. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
• Jesus Christ ultimately fulfilled his glorious purpose only through obedience to his father • Matthew 26:39 Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-UP Questions to start off the meeting: • How has God blessed you in the last month? (What went right?) • What problem has consumed your thoughts in the last month? (What went wrong?) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-UP: Spiritual life • Have you read God’s Word daily? (For how long? Why not? Will you do so next week?) • Describe your prayers. (For yourself, for others, praise, confession, gratitude.) • How is your relationship with Christ changing? • How have you been tempted this week? How did you respond? • Do you have any unconfessed sin in your life? • Are you walking in the Spirit? • Did you worship in church this week? (Was your faith in Jesus strengthened? Was He honoured?) • Have you shared your faith? In what ways? How can you improve? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-UP: Home Life • How are things going with your husband/ wife? (Attitudes, time, irritations, disappointments, progress, her relationship with Christ.) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-UP: Home Life • How are things going with the kids? (Quantity and quality of time, values and beliefs, education, spiritual welfare). • How are your finances doing? (Debt, sharing, saving, stewardship).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-UP: Work life How are things going at work? (Career progress, relationships, temptations, workload, stress, problems, working too much).
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-UP: Other critical issues • • •
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Do you feel in the centre of God’s will? Do you sense His peace? What are you wrestling with in your thought life? What have you done for someone else this week? (The poor, encouragement, service). Are your priorities in the right order?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK-UP: Other critical issues • Is your moral and ethical behaviour what it should be? • How are you doing in your personal high-risk area? • Is the “visible” you and the “real” you consistent in this relationship?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
See your life as a tree. 1.What kind of tree are you? 2. Are you deciduous or not? 3. Do you have fruit or flowers or both? 4. What are your branches and leaves like? 5. Do you have to be pruned? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
See your life as a tree. 6. Have you been pruned already? 7. What kind of root system do you have? 8. How often do you need water, sun and fertiliser? 9. Do you have birds nesting in your branches? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
See your life as a tree. 10. Do you have insects in your bark, which are destroying you? 11. Are your leaves, fruit or flowers poisonous? 12. Do you have thorns? 13. What is your function? Do you provide shade or are you a fruit tree? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
A Butterfly’s Lesson ”One day, a small oppening appeared on a cocoon; a man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Then, it seems to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could not go any further. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
So the man decided to help the butterfly: he took a pair of scissors and opened the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a withered body, it was tiny and shrivelled wings.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
The man continued to watch because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would open, enlarge and expand, to be able to support the butterfly’s body, and become firm. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a withered body and shrivelled wings. It never was able to fly. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
What the man, in his kindness and his goodwill did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening, were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. Never been able to fly. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
I asked for Strength... And God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for Wisdom... And God gave me Problems to solve. I asked for prosperity... And God gave me a Brain and Brawn to work. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
I asked for Courage‌.. And God gave me obstacles to overcome. I asked for Love... And God gave me Troubled people to help. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
I asked for Favors... And God gave me Opportunities. “I received nothing I wanted... But I received everything I needed." Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
The people with whom we have contact are the chisels and hammers that craft what we will become. Our life’s journey is an ever-unfolding work of art that tells the story of where we have been and with whom we have travelled. - Iyanla van Zant Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
When you break your word, you break the one thing that cannot be mended. - Unknown
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
• "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." --Mother Teresa • "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross • "People are like stained-glass windows They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Your life will always push you beyond your own limits, but be careful that it doesn’t push you over the edge. A life out of balance will eventually erupt in an explosion of blame, excuses and frustration. Bob Briner
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Prayer Focus • Father, I ask you to give me a complete understanding of what you want to do in my life, and I ask you to make me wise with spiritual wisdom. • I roll my works upon You, and You make my thoughts agreeable to your will and so my plans are established and succeed. • I have the mind of Christ and hold the thoughts, feelings and purposes of His heart. Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
Open the eyes of my heart lord OPEN THE EYES OF MY HEART LORD OPEN THE EYES OF MY HEART I WANT TO SEE YOU I WANT TO SEE YOU TO SEE YOU HIGH AND LIFTED UP SHINING IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR GLORY POUR OUT YOUR POWER AND LOVE AS WE SING HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
TO SEE YOU HIGH AND LIFTED UP SHINING IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR GLORY POUR OUT YOUR POWER AND LOVE AS WE SING HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY HOLY, HOLY, HOLY HOLY, HOLY, HOLY I WANT TO SEE YOU
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
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: Obedience to God
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: Obedience to God
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Obedience to God