Ryan's takeaway

Your conviction must transcend into your countenance. It is the very thing that will not only win sales but win souls.

A man who waivers in his conviction of the product or the purpose to which he was assigned, will submit to the hijackers of life. What you have is valuable and should be treated as so. If a leader does not believe in what he has to give, he will always be directed by others. We give not what they want but what they need. Have the boldness to stand behind your product and purpose. This is what drives profit naturally and spiritually.

James 1:8

Your battles will only be won by the strategies and discipline you have for today. Preparation is what births praise. It is what produces peace that invades the mind and situation at hand. Your mentality must be that of a warrior in battle. Always focused, always ready, fed, and fed up with what takes place around you that is the opposite of God's promises. If you carry this in your heart it will transcend into your mind. The moment it enters the mind, the body will follow through. Holy order brings forth holy battles. Holy battles mean God will show up. The God who protects will provide every time.

Lord help us in our ignorance. Forgive us for having too much faith for tomorrow that we don’t have enough for today. I am told to not worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself, and also I am not promised tomorrow. I am promised bread for today. Bring my faith to focus on today through your word. Help me focus on what is needed for today. Provide the bread for today, and I will eat in the middle of my enemies, in the middle of my worries, doubts, and temptations. I sit at the table that you have invited me to. I ask for wisdom and practice discipline for this very thing today.

Can Jesus help me in my leadership? He can’t help you at all if you are unwilling to first lead yourself to the altar of humility and sacrifice. Once dead then He can do something of your life. Death will always be the beginning of something that will lead you onward and over. Your leadership can only go as far as your knees will take you. The lower the posture the deeper the impact.

To know Christ is to drink of the same cup from which He drank. To have eyes in which sees nothing else but the will of the Father. To know Christ goes beyond knowledge alone. It enters into an experience from which only God's power could raise again. To know Christ is to be a suffering servant. To know Christ is to understand that position can never supersede posture. Christ conquered all and yet He still prays for me. To be a servant is to be a king. A man's privilege is to know Christ and not only reign with Him but suffer with Him and for Him until He returns.

Philippians 3:10-11

Profession without practice, words without deeds, is the death of a leader's legacy. It inverts his leadership and makes him a slave to his own ignorance. What use is sympathy without some attempt to turn it into something beautiful? Every time a leader violates his conscience, he becomes more calloused. He becomes less likely to ever take action in the future. A leader has no right to feel sympathy unless it becomes the byproduct of what He has been given through salvation. Emotion is not a luxury, it is something that must bring us to our knees in complete sacrifice to do something.

James 2:14-17

My leadership will stop where my devotion does not begin. The moment I negotiate divine principles I revert back to the dust of the earth from which I came. Holy order demands holy posture. Each moment that I spend in devotion is one more step towards maturing into the work of creation I was always meant to be. Leadership in its purest form is preparing the way first for myself and then inviting others to join. I cannot invite unless I have invited myself through devotion and dedication.

1 Corinthians 9:27

I have learned that Christian conduct within the church and in the marketplace must clarify our character, not conceal it. We were never meant to live under a basket of privacy and secrecy; keeping the demons and desires in the closet. We were meant to live in the light, where nothing can be hidden, and all can be examined by God's holiness and divine order. Your leadership starts and ends here, daily.

Matthew 5:15

Your conduct is your crown. The life of a leader is faced with the daily decision to die or survive. One will bring glory the other shame. This choice can be made only by the one who has been entrusted to carry the responsibility. Conduct comes from consecration and consistency and cannot be attained any other way.

James 1:12

Wise men speak slowly. They understand that speaking too quickly can invite sin to supersede progress and unity. A true leader will be more anxious to listen to God's one word than to shout at God with thousands more. A man who hates speaking quickly will never fall into error. It does me no good to have talent if I cannot control my ability to speak or hear. The manner in which I train the tongue and the ear will determine the outcome of investment in myself and other people. I will either have a treasure overflowing abundance or a dry well of debt to be paid for eternity. My legacy hangs on each word that comes from my mouth for it is the seed of my future.

James 1:19-20