Leadership in Context

Praising is one of the greatest character demonstrations of a leader. Leaders must be praisers. Praisers are God-reflectors. Praisers reflect what God is doing. The first thing a leader has to do is reflect the heart, character, majesty, and person of God. When you are a praiser, you see the possibilities. When you are not a praiser, you don’t see the possibilities because you don’t see God. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

The old saying goes: There is no success without a successor. Throughout the book of Judges, people are sporadically raised up, and they do great for a season. Yet there is no successor. The leadership lesson here is that without a successor, there is no sustained legacy. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

If you do not have a job that is bigger than you, you need a bigger job. The job, when you are leading in the storm, is always bigger than you. Your greatest strength is to know that you need strength. Whatever situation you are leading people in, though God might not have chosen the circumstances, He has chosen you to be the leader. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

From time to time, we have storms in our lives. Currently, we are facing a storm with COVID-19 that impacts every area of our lives. The temptation is to come up with a quick answer because, after all, leaders give answers. However, a quick answer may not be the right answer or may only be a partial answer. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

REPETITIVE. When I have listened to business gurus, the one thing I have discerned from them is the need to take repetitive actions. When something happens, we sink down into our training. REDEMPTIVE. There will be actions you take that will not be perfect, and you will fail, and then you will have to take redemptive action. Things will go wrong and you will have to fix them. RENEWED. If you are going to do the first two, you are going to have to have some gas in your tank. What I’ve noticed about most good leaders is that they know how to resource themselves. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

If you take responsibility for getting on the road, I can help push you up the hill. You must be the responsible party. When you lose responsibility, you lose the ability to respond. When you lose responsibility, you lose the vision for your life. You lose the ability to steer that vehicle. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

If we are going to go forward, we must be committed to a sequence of action. Ready, aim, fire. Not ready, fire, aim. Not ready, aim, aim, aim. You don’t have to have an elaborate plan. You know you have to take action, and you know there is going to be follow-up action. Very few things in life happen because of one act. Commit to a sequence, not just an action. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

You have to know where you are to get where you are going. Some people have a good idea of where they want to go, but don’t understand where they currently are. Good leaders have vision because they’ve been able to define reality. God wants to help you clearly identify where you are so that you don’t have to stay there. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Waiting for things to change is usually not a good plan. You must determine that the place you are in is not the place where you will stay. Get an exit strategy, and begin to move forward. Listen to God. Bow your knee. Be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. But pack your bags so you can move forward. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Forward is not a place. Forward is a motion. Forward is a commitment. If we are going to go somewhere, God wants us to go forward. We must be committed to forward action, not just as an idea or a theory. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.