King sher Leadership
1st February 2022
Kingfisher Leadership news Equipping leaders for 2022 and beyond Resilience is NOT: We have just released our Vision for 2022, which focusses on us being in our 30th year this year, and how signi cant that is as a milestone in the Bible. • Just carrying on regardless (‘It is useless for you to work so hard om early morning until late at night, anxiously It is the year in a person’s life when that person is working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved deemed to have come of age and is expected to move into adult responsibility and when he or she ones.’ (Psalm 127:2) moves into the ministry that they have been •Refusing to change to a new mode of prepared for. That step is not ministry (‘Forget the former things…’ completely out of the blue, but rather makes sense of all that has Isaiah 43:18-20) happened before.
Bearing this in mind, what do we really need to transition into whatever God has for us as we pass that 30-year mark? One particular word seems to be very signi cant. The word is: RESILIENCE. We need to be encouraging people in our groups and ministries and churches to grow in resilience.
Resilience is the capacity to recover from life’s dif culties.
Of course we cannot lead to a place where we have not been - we need to grow in resilience rst of all. Consequently this is very much a ‘right now’ word. Jesus spoke about resilience when He told His disciples: “In this world you wi have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)
•Sacri cing an intimacy with the Lord (‘You have lost your rst love’ Revelation 2;4) Resilience IS:
•Having a sense of purpose that will sustain you when tiredness or opposition or discouragement shout to you to give up.
•‘He who has a why can bear almost any how’. For Paul, every step he took had purpose…was leading towards his overall purpose in life. Each step was hard, but each step was worth it because each step took him closer to the ful lment of that purpose. Each step was seen in the context of that purpose.
“So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. 27 I discipline my body like an athlete, What is resilience? It is the capacity to recover training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that a er from life’s di culties. Resilience gives you the preaching to others I myself might be disquali ed.” (1 ability to nd meaning in the challenges life brings Corinthians 9:26-17, NLT) your way and to recover. If the purpose is really worthwhile then the cost is
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King sher Leadership
1st February 2022
worth it too. When we take our eyes o the purpose then all we can see are the hardships and the cost and there is no motivation to continue paying the price. Our ability to get up and keep going - in other words, to be resilient - is not based on ‘bloody-mindedness’ or on human grit and determination. It’s based on having a purpose that sustains us and compels us to carry on. “No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don’t stay down long; Soon they’re up on their feet, while the wicked end up at on their faces.” (Proverbs 24:16, MSG).
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The Location: Resilience focusses on the strength we need for The Events Room, King sher Family 2022Gloucester. talk, available to today, not for tomorrow Westgate StreetVision Building, listen to on our YouTube channel (https:// Having a purpose needs to walk hand-in-hand with www.youtube.com/King sherChurch) not being overwhelmed by looking at all of the obstacles that stand between us and the goal. To ful l our purpose takes lots and lots of individual steps. It means ghting and overcoming lots of individual battles with the desire to give up. We need to know what the purpose is, but we also need to know that we don’t need to ful l the whole of that purpose today. Today, we just need to overcome today’s challenges. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8–9). “The Lord makes rm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he wi not fa , for the Lord upholds him with his hand” (Psalm 37:23–24). Questions to ponder: • Do you feel more or less resilient than you did two years ago? In other words, how has the pandemic a ected your approach to the challenges of life? • ‘Become reacquainted with the purposes that God has called us to.’ What does that mean for you? How clear are those purposes for you right now?
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Updates on the progress of our 2022 Harvest Appeal to build a Rural Community Hospital in Malawi can be fond on our King sher Family • Romans 8:38 talks about ‘our fears for today and our Facebook page (King sherfamily) worries about tomorrow.’ - of all the things that you are worried about, how many of those things are genuinely to do with today, In truth, are you feeling defeated because you do not have the resilience to cope with things that you don’t actually need to cope with right now? Are you previewing tomorrow’s worries today? God gives you nourishment (‘daily bread’) for today, not for 2 tomorrow. Do you need to readjust your focus here?
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