Leadership in Context

Don’t let people’s problems become your problems. When you do this, you lose your objectivity.

When you hold on to offense, you are allowing someone else’s sin to dictate the flow of your heart and ultimately your obedience to the Lord. We are in the forgiving business. The fragrance of forgiveness is what helps keep our hearts healthy.

You will lose your leadership equity if you lose heart.

When you are tested, you find out what you believe. We can lose heart as we look at outward circumstances. Speak what you believe, not just what you see or feel. This is how you maintain hope, how you don’t lose heart in what you are doing.

The mind of a leader is that they are accountable to God and accountable to themselves.

1 Timothy 4 outlines God’s prescription to leaders: Be in the Word, do not neglect your spiritual gifts, be inconvenienced, pay close attention to yourself, and persevere. As you do, you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you. 

Self-leadership is leading the most important person in your life—you.

Show yourself an example to those who believe. A model is better than a message. Great leaders are good models in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. Eventually people will not hear what you say but will see what you do.

When you are leading something, you are trying to change something in order to change someone.

If you are not changing something, improving something, then you probably aren’t leading but managing. Good leaders hear direction from God, they see what it looks like, and then they show it to others. 

Every human soul needs the possibility that what they are doing is not in vain. Hope says it’s possible. Hope doesn’t just say that God loves you, but that He wants you to experience that love and walk in that love. We are ambassadors of hope. It is an honor to stir hope in someone. Be a hope spreader today.

Today Keith gives a recap on his most recent trip to Ukraine. He had a team of 16 medical missionaries, 8 Romanian’s assisting in translation and trip logistics, plus a few more. The team spent time preaching, giving medical assistance to those in need, feeding over 1,000 people, and sharing the hope of the gospel.

We have not forgotten the people of Ukraine; we are committed to make history into His-Story.

The Holy Spirit dwells inside us and gives us power to overcome being led by the flesh. We should be believers living our lives based on what we believe, not on what we feel. In order to do that, we need the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.

You are the steward of your feelings. We have to be led by what we believe and not what we feel. There are times in life when what you are feeling doesn’t line up with the Truth. You have to choose what will you believe–feelings or Truth. You have to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Just as we have had passions for the world or our flesh to have its own way, the Holy Spirit that dwells in us has His holy passion to have His way with us. The Holy Spirit is jealous for our attention. When we humble ourselves and allow the Holy Spirit to reign in us, we will have victory over our own passion for our own way in our heart.