Leadership in Context

Increase your capacity with your convictions, competency, curiosity, and connection. Today we are pulling an episode from the archives on increasing your capacity. Convictions override feelings. Increasing your competency will increase your capacity. Curiosity is part of a learning venue. And connection multiplies your capacity.

If you are going to increase your capacity, you have to take advantage of what you already have. Today we are pulling an episode from the archives on increasing your capacity. People tend to complain about what they don’t have, but they don’t fill up what they do have. The greatest mark of a leader is that a leader leads himself.

Capacity is what you can take hold of, what you can handle. Today we are pulling an episode from the archives. Increasing your capacity doesn’t mean you have to get a new talent. It means you have to use the talents you have more effectively. For leaders, the key way to drill down is learning the power of “yes” and “no.” If you say no to the right things, you’ll be able to say yes to the right things—that increases your capacity.

How can we say that love never fails? True love, godly love, is always representing Christ. It is being like Jesus. Love never fails because love always honors God. 

There is a pattern in Scripture of a baptizing of the Holy Spirit after salvation through the laying on of hands. In the majority of those times, the evidence of that happening is that they spoke in tongues. We are edified and emboldened when we pray in the Spirit. When we are praying in the Holy Spirit, our spiritual antenna gets pointed in the right direction. 

Angels are still active beings, creative for the purpose of worshiping God. They are not to be used to authenticate spiritual experiences. But they are part of the supernatural and we need to not forget about them. We can call on the Lord to send them to minister to us.

In everything we do, there’s this one thing we should always do—forget what’s behind us and look forward. Today we are pulling an episode from the archives, the Prize of Leadership. When we look forward and not behind, we can press toward the goal of the prize. If we are pressing forward, the prize is that God will always be calling us to greater things. The prize is God trusting you. The prize is peace, knowing you are obeying God. 

You get stronger when you lift weights. If you run away from any of the pain points in leadership, you won’t get stronger in them. You will only get stronger when you press through them. Today we are pulling an episode from the archives, the Pain of Leadership.

Leadership is ministry; it’s serving. Today we are pulling an episode from the archives, the Privilege of Leadership. The God of Heaven, the God that spoke the galaxies into existence, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the sender of the Holy Spirit trusts you to do great things in His Name. We need to treat that like it is a privilege all the time.

God wants to release the Holy Spirit through His Church–not just when we are gathered together, but when we are out and about throughout the week. Scripture promises that “these signs shall follow those who believe.” But if there is no believing, there is nothing to follow. When there is nothing to follow, there will be no signs and wonders. Who is the person in your life who is waving their arms because they are open? Pray. Be aware. And then act in the power of the Holy Spirit.