Pulpit Message Notes Courageous Leadership
My Pulpit Message Notes are extracted from the sermon preached at the Nairobi Baptist Church (NBC) Ngong Road on Sunday 24th July 2022. Preacher: Rev. Majid Ochieng’, NBC Deputy Senior Pastor . Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:1-58. Topic: Courageous Leadership
Leadership has been defined by John Maxwell as influence. To be able to influence others to move from one place to the other. Bill Hybles says that it is influence to be able to move people from here to there, where here, is a place that people are dissatisfied and there is a place that people desire to be at. Here is a place where people are not so happy, but there, is a place where people see some kind of hope. When that influence happens it is not forcing or coercing people but to work in such a way that people will be enthusiastically involved out of their own volition.
where the war was and David was left at home and his father sends him and packs some meal for him to take to his brothers.
While there he hears what is going on and what Goliath was saying and he kept asking, who is this man and what is he saying? At some point Saul had said, ‘whoever will beat this man will be able to get so much wealth and the king’s daughter’s hand in marriage’. So David asked and his older brother kept telling him to keep quiet, and the young David said, ‘What is wrong, can’t I even ask just speak and understand what is happening? And he asked then question, and he was told what has Therefore the misconception that leadership is a position should been said and what will be given. And some of the intelligence not apply. Leadership is not a position. It means primarily that that Saul had, heard him speaking and he was sent to Saul and wherever we are we are able to influence, meaning that all of us King Saul asked, what did you say?’ at any given point in time life there is someone that we are able to influence. We pray that it will be positive influence because David said, ‘please give me a chance’. Saul also almost dismisses that is what God desires. him and says, ‘you are just but a young boy and are not able to fight. And one of the things Positions should just come to afthat David says is that, ‘I will go firm the leadership abilities and in the name of the LORD. I will qualities that the Lord has given slay this giant in the name of Courageous leadership takes into to each of us. the LORD.’
consideration; the God of the leader, the goal of Courageous leadership: David the leader, the garments of the leader. and Goliath
One dictionary defines courage as a mental, or moral strength to venture, or to persevere, or to withstand danger, fear, or diffi- 1. culty. Another one says it is the ability to control your fear in a 2. dangerous, or difficult situation. 3.
Three points on courageous leadership
The God of the Leader: 1 Samuel 17:28-37, 45-47 The Goal of the Leader: 1 Samuel 17:25-30 The Garments of the Leader: 1 Samuel 17:37-44
This means fear, or the anxious moments may be there, but somehow we are able to overcome that. The context we are goThe God of the Leader: ing to look at it, for we Christians, something is already happening inside of us that when it is expressed it is an affirmation 1 Samuel 17:28-37, 45-47 of the work that has happened inside of us so that fears are still there, but we are able to overcome. 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul
sent for him. 32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.” 33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” 34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The Lord who rescued me A young boy by the name of David, who was not following his from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from brothers. He had seven brothers the first being Eliab, the sec- the hand of this Philistine.” ond Abinadab, the third Shammah and the others and as peo- Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”
The context here is the war between the Israelites and the Philistines. The Philistines had this huge giant in the name of Goliath. 1 Samuel 17:4 “4 A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.” This is equivalent of nine feet six inches. He was a towering giant. He was in this valley where the Israelites were on one side and the Philistines were on the other side. He kept terrifying/taunting the Israelites, ‘Bring your strongest man so that I can fight him then willwe know who your God is.”
ple were preparing for the war, these first three had followed to
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