Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
MENTORING Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
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: Mentoring
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: Mentoring
Choose your mentors well • Every leader needs mentor • Elisha ask Elijah for a double portion of his spirit. • Scripture records that Elisha performed twice as many miracles as did his mentor. • See the several principles as outlined in 1 Kings 19 and 2 Kings 2. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Elisha’s preparation and the leadership principle behind that 1. He was anointed to replace Elijah. This means that leaders must understand their call and role.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Elisha’s preparation and the leadership principle behind that 2. Elijah found him ploughing a field. This means that leaders must have a servant’s heart.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Elisha’s preparation and the leadership principle behind that 3. Elisha touched Elijah’s mantle long before he entered his ministry. This means that leaders must wait patiently on God’s perfect timing for their authority.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Elisha’s preparation and the leadership principle behind that 4. He asked to kiss his parents good-bye. This means that leaders must respect parental authority.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Elisha’s preparation 5. He burned his farming tools. This means leaders must surrender former ambitions.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Elisha’s preparation 6. He stuck with Elijah wherever he went. This means that leaders must pursue good mentors.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Elisha’s preparation 7. He absorbed all he could from Elijah. This means that leaders must hunger to grow and develop.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus assess and holds his disciples accountable. Matt 17: 14-21 • Jesus find nine of his disciples attempting to cast a demon out of a boy • He becomes a mentor for his men • Commits Himself to train the twelve
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
What we can learn from Jesus the leadership mentor • 1. He feels angry that His disciples can’t do the job of casting a demon out of a boy. • 2. He assumes responsibility to model for them what they should do. • 3. He evaluate their performance and assess why they failed. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
What we can learn from Jesus the leadership mentor 4. He affirms the truth and holds them accountable to embrace it.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus the master Mentor • Jesus' methods include instruction, demonstration, experience and assessment. • He teaches them, shows them, allows them to try it themselves and then processed what happened. • Jesus is the master Mentor in developing leaders Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus the master Mentor • Jesus spent the bulk of his time with his disciples • More time with less people equals greater kingdom impact • His disciples progressed from ignorant labourers to bold spiritual leaders Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus the master Mentor provided: 1. Handles. He simplified truth into something his men could grasp. He took complex theology and made it usable
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus the master Mentor provided: 2. Roadmaps. Roadmaps give you the big picture, they tell you where you are, what roads to take and avoid.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus the master Mentor provided: 3. Laboratories. Labs are places for experimentation. Jesus didn’t lecture but provided labs for his disciples to practice what they have learned.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus the master Mentor provided: 4. Roots. Jesus give his followers a firm foundation and a sense of heritage. They sunk their roots into solid ground.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
Jesus the master Mentor provided: 5. Wings. Jesus empowered his men to soar beyond where He went Himself. He pushed them and cheer them on in their victories.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
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: Mentoring
I walk by faith
I WALK BY FAITH EACH STEP BY FAITH TO LIVE BY FAITH I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU
EVERY STEP I TAKE IS A STEP OF FAITH NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER EVERY PRAYER I PRAY IS A PRAYER OF FAITH IF MY GOD IS FOR ME THEN WHO CAN BE AGAINST ME? Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
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: Mentoring
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: Mentoring
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Mentoring