Governing God's Way with Dorothy Burton

Outranked. Why humility, not hubris is one of the most key and important characteristics of leadership.

Hubris is a dangerous thing, causing not only embarrassing downfalls, but it will make a fool of us.

No matter how popular, smart, good-looking we are - how many and what degrees we have, races we've won, how high we rank on the political scale; or what our title is, there will always be someone who outranks us.

Get a new view of humility. Get a new view of you.

What is the key to promotion? Discover the major characteristic God looks for in us before He will promote us.

David went from shepherding sheep to shepherding a nation. From the sheep pen to the palace. What distinguished David from his brothers? What will distinguish you from your peers?

Reposition yourself so that you will be positioned for promotion!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. understood what I hope this podcast help people to better understand, that justice and righteous and equity are all of God. And God will not share his glory with government and certainly not with people who leave him out of the equation.

What is the key to promotion? Discover the major characteristic God looks for in us before He will promote us.

David went from shepherding sheep to shepherding a nation. From the sheep pen to the palace. What distinguished David from his brothers?  What will distinguish you from your peers?

Reposition yourself so that you will be positioned for promotion!

If there is no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm. - African Proverb

Three leaders. Three heads of state. Three kings. King Solomon, King Rehoboam and King Jeroboam.

Powerful. Influential. Blessed. As a leader, so are you. The big three - three kings. But as we learn from the life of these leaders, power, influence and blessings are no match for the big three internal enemies of every leader - disobedience, arrogance and insecurity.

These three enemies brought down the most powerful public servant leaders of their generation. And if left unchecked, they will do the same to all who lead.

If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm. The kicker is, most of us don't even realize we are enemy carriers.

Listen and learn about the big three from the lives and lessons of the Big Three.

A lot of times, the question for public servant leaders is not, "can I, but will I?" We are blessed to be a blessing - doing for others what is within our power and means to do. Leaders should be givers. Our leader, Jesus the Christ, was a giver. He gave the ultimate, his life; paying a debt that we owed but could not pay. Obviously for most of us, it would never be that we would have to pay with our life a debt of another, but God will always bring about a situation, circumstance or need in the life of another in our charge, on our team, or a colleague that He has blessed us to easily meet or make better - if we would. The question though is, would we do that?

As a public servant leader, you have to be careful with whom you align and you must have the courage to surround yourself with staff and advisors who will tell you the truth, even when truth is the last thing you want to hear. This episode explores a point in time in the life of the two most powerful leaders of their day - King Jehoshaphat and King Ahab. Two leaders, two philosophies in leadership, and two strikingly different outcomes. As a leader, your people aren’t doing you any favors by lying to you.

After every public victory, there will be private envy. Don’t think for one moment just because you’re the head the tail will wag when you win. It won’t. They won’t. As a public servant leader, there always will be someone envious of your success. But what do you do when it's the boss? Learn from David how to succeed when you work for an envious and insecure boss.

Surely, if Jesus was who John thought He was, had faith to believe He was, and had proclaimed to the world who He was, he and others wouldn’t be going through all of this. Don’t we at times feel this way?

When we become exhausted, both physically and emotionally, we become like Elijah, discouraged, and depressed. When we become discouraged, and depressed because of fatigue, we become ineffective and fearful. And all the wrong and negative “what ifs” flood our mind and shut us down. That’s what the enemy wants.  God’s remedy?  As we near the end of a very exhausting and brutal year, God’s remedy for you and for me is the same as it was for Elijah... rest.