What Is Leadership?

I.         What Is Leadership?

A.    Nicholas Murray Butler

There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who don’t know what’s happening, those who watch what’s happening, those who make things happen

Although leadership is not easy to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is: The ability to make things happen

1.     Leadership is not MANIPULATION.

2.     Leadership is not.  DICTATION.

3.     Leadership is The ability to motivate people to act decisively to accomplish mutually desired results.

You have to make them want what you want for them

II.     Leadership Traits

A trait is:  habitual, instinctive, internal paradigm, ones initial response to situations or people

A.    Enthusiasm

o   Enthusiasm includes OPTIMISM and HOPE.

o   A leader is an. OPTIMIST: he thinks. POSITIVELY

B.    Trustworthiness

·        A true leader is HONEST and TRANSPARENT in his dealings and relationships.

·        A true leader is. WORTHY OF FOLLOWING: A PERSON OF INTEGRITY: A PERSON OF THEIR WORD

C.    Disciplined

·        A leader is able to lead others because HE HAS CONQUERED HIMSELF

·         LEADERS WORK WHILE OTHERS WASTE TIME,  LEADER WILL STUDY WHILE OTHERS SLEEP, LEADER WILL PRAY WHILE OTHERS PLAY

D.   Confidence

·        If a leader does not KEEP SECRET, No one else will.

E.    Decisiveness

·        When he has all the FACTS, a leader makes, and CLEAR DECISIONS.

·        He resists PROCRASTINATION and VACILLATION.

F.     Courage

·        Courage is “ THE CAPACITY TO STAY IN THERE FIVE MINUTES LONGER

·        God’s leaders know and experience FEAR, but they refuse to TO GIVE INTO IT.

G.    Humor

·        Humor is THE ABILITY TO SEE THE BRIGHT FUNNY AND BRIGHT side of life.

·        A leader knows THE VALUE OF A CONTAGIOUS SMILE            

H.   Loyalty

·        Loyalty does not  make one a LEADER but DISLOYALTY will prevent one from WILL PREVENT ONE From becoming

III. Unselfishness

1.     The true leader Forgets his own interest in the interest of   others  

2.     Remember:  Self-preservation is the first law of nature

3.     Self -development is the first law of success

4.     Self-sacrifice is the first law of leadership

IV. CONCLUSION (1):  Leadership is Learned Behavior.

1.     “Leaders are. MADE not BORN.”

2.     Therefore we must LEARN THE TECHNIQUES and  

3.     DEVELOP THE TRAITS of leadership if we would lead.

4.     EMULATING someone else is not enough.

5.     We must KNOW OUR OWN WEAKNESSES, EVALUATE HINDERANCES TO CHANGE IN HIS LIFE, DEVELOP STRENGTHS OF LEADERSHIP

6.     People are more important than POLICY grows out of filling PEOPLES REAL NEEDS

POLICIES ARE MEANT TO SERVE PEOPLE NOT PEOPLE POLICIES

7.     Our GOALS must never arise out of our policy, but out of. A DESIRE TO MEET THE REAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE meeting the people.

V.     LEADERSHIP IS APPLIED THROUGH MANAGEMENT.

A.    Leadership at management are two ends of the same continuum 

1.     Einstein: vision without execution is a hallucination

2.     For best leadership results one must MANAGE well.

3.     Management brings leadership to the point of OPPORTUNITY.

B.    Good management consists of three things: THE NECESSITIES OF MANAGEMENT

1.     Setting goals and objectives

2.     Determining the best way of accomplishing

3.     Valuation of how well whether they are accomplished

C.    The CLEARER THE IDEA one has of what he is trying to ACCOMPLISHED, the greater his chances of ACCOMPLISHED it.

·        Clear OBJECTIVES provide the basis for establishing mutually satisfying

·        SUCCESSFUL and UNSUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS AND RESULTS

D.   Ten Ingredients of Successful Leadership Management.

1.     Determining your OBJECTIVES

§  PUT THEM IN WRITING

2.     Decide which Major activities need to be performed in order to achieve the objectives

§  General objective, specific, long range and immediate

§  Questions: is this one necessary? Is it important? Why?

3.     Organizing your PROGRAM

§  Make a checklist of the important things that must be done

§  Arrange The important things in priority

4.     Make a breakdown of EACH ACTIVITY.

§  Identify ESSENTIAL STEPS in the sequence of IMPORTANCE.

5.      Preparing a TIMETABLE.

a) Prepare a work schedule

b)  Set a time for the completion of each step in your program

c)  Stick to your schedule or if something happens reset your schedule

d)                        Don’t let time slip by without definite action

e)  Follow through

6.      Establishing CONTROL POINTS.

a)    Determine where in win you will review progress

b)    Establish your benchmarks

c)      Make the necessary adjustments on the way

d)   Determine if remedial work is required

7.     Clarifying RESPONSIBILITIES and ACCOUNTABILITY. a. Clarify for delegated responsibilities authorities and relationships

·        See to it that they are coordinated and controlled

8.     Maintaining channels of COMMUNICATION.

·        Keep your associates fully informed

·        Be sure to make it easy for them to keep you advised

9.     Developing COOPERATION.

·        Realize that successful achievement depends on GROUPS OF PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER.

·         Clarify THE RESULTS to be ACCOMPLISHED.

10. Identify what is EXPECTED of each individual affected.

E.    Resolving PROBLEMS.

§  Group thinking MULTIPLIES individual thinking and

§  COORDINATES capacities of members of the team.

§  Build MORAL through PARTICIPATION.

§  An operating problem is Any interference to desired results. Anything problematic needs to be dealt with.

VI. Spot the Problem and Clarify it.

Tackle one problem at a time. Analyze underlying causes and Contributing solutions

1.     Develop possible solutions And select the best one

2.     Determine a plan of action and put it into effect

3.     Check results in terms of improvements and objectives

4.     Giving CREDIT where CREDIT is due.

5.     Recognize And acknowledge all who assist in the attainment of your objectives

6.     The  LAW OF RECOGNITION is as fundamental as the

7.     LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION

VII.            CONCLUSION II

James Russell Lowell

Life is a leaf of paper white where on each of us may write his word or two and then comes night. Greatly begin though they’ll have time for a line be that sublime. Not failure but low Amy is a crime

THE EAGLE

(Part V)

Eagle Training

Isaiah 40:28-31

²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. ²⁹ He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. ³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, ³¹       But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

1 John 2:12-14

¹² I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. ¹³ I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father. ¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

I.                   STAGES OF EAGLE DEVELOPMENT

1.     Hatching Stage / Little Children Stage

·         Incubation Period: 34–36 days

1John 2:12-14

¹² I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.

Little Children (teknion) - Little child, newborn infants “Little children” is teknion (τεκνιον), “little born

means "born ones," without regard for age.

Romans 8:15

¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father

Galatians 4:6

⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

v. 13 Little Children (paidion)

“Little children” is paidion (παιδιον

One could translate paidion (παιδιον), “little child under instruction.”

Paidia is a word that means a little child, someone still under parental instruction, paidia. paidia, simply refers to a child who needs to be trained...he needs to be taught, who needs to be instructed.

a.      Little children are more affected by their emotions and feeling rather than fact or principal

b.     This stage is about love, security, fun, knowing parents etc.

c.       Little Children often attach to spiritual heroes

1 Corinthians 3:1-4

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; ³ for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? ⁴ For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

d.     Little Children can sometimes be easily swayed.

Ephesians 4:13-14

¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,

 

GOD WANTS US TO GROW

Ephesians 4:15

¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—

1 Peter 2:2

² as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, ³ if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

2 Peter 3:18

¹⁸ but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

                       

2.     Training Stage / Young Man Stage

I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.

I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

v.13 (neaniskos) - Youth

“Strong” is ischuros (ἰσχυρος), which refers to power as an endowment. Strength to overcome Satan is part of the salvation given the believer. It takes the form of the spiritual energy supplied the yielded saint by the Holy Spirit. “Abide” is menō (μενω), “to dwell in as a home.” The word of God, residing in their hearts in an unhindered, welcome state, was that which, together with the power of the Holy Spirit, gave these young men victory over Satan, the Pernicious One

Satan is into false doctrine or lies that lead us into sin....

This has connotation of spiritual warfare but not in the way we think...

It’s about having enough of the Word of God in us

HOW-

Devotional Bible Reading and Personal Study Daily

3.     Mature Stage / Father Stage

1John 2:13

¹³ I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning

¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning

v. 13 (pater) Father

“Ye have known” is egnōkate (ἐγνωκατε), the verb ginōskō (γινωσκω) referring to experiential knowledge, knowledge gained by experience, and it is in the perfect tense. These fathers were the older men, mature in the Christian life, having lived in fellowship with the Lord Jesus for many years, and thus having gained much personal knowledge of Him by experience. The perfect tense shows that this knowledge was a well-rounded matured knowledge, the results of which were a permanent possession of these men grown old in the Christian life.

Maturity has to do with how much you know HIM and truly internalize who He is

That’s Why Jesus kept upbraiding His Disciples about not getting it:

Matthew 16:6-12

⁶ Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” ⁷ And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have taken no bread. ⁸ But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? ⁹ Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? ¹⁰ Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? ¹¹ How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ¹² Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Mark 4:35-40

³⁵ On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” ³⁶ Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. ³⁷ And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. ³⁸ But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” ³⁹ Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”

Answer Key: Development, Grow, Mature

THE EAGLE

Eagles Soar

(Part 4)

Isaiah 40:1-31

I.                 BACKGROUND

Introduction of a New Season. Isaiah 40:1-5

The revelation of Weakness of Humanity

(Behold your God.)  Isaiah 40:6-11

·        His Might.  Isaiah 40:12-18

·        Futility of Idols.  Isaiah 40:19-20

·        God’s Swag.  Isaiah 40:21-26

Why do You Doubt Me

^{Isaiah 40:27-31}

²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob, And speak, O Israel: “My way is hidden from the Lord, And my just claim is passed over by my God”? ²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. ²⁹ He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might, He increases strength. ³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, ³¹ But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

II.               EAGLES SOAR

An eagle learns to soar by using thermal currents of air. These warm air patterns are created by the surrounding terrain. They will spread their wings and their tail feathers and let the wind carry them to new heights, then glide down to catch another upward thermal. Soaring saves eagle energy because it does not have to flap its wings as often.

1.     The Wind is the Holy Spirit

John 3:8

⁸ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

John 14:16-17

¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

III.            WE MUST CHOOSE TO SOAR

1.     Many Are Neglecting Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

³ Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

2.     It’s Impossible To Successfully Live The Christian Life In Our Own Strength

3.     Jesus Depended On The Father For Everything

·        John 8:28   “…I do nothing of myself…”

·        John 5:19 “...The Son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the Father do…”

IV.             HOW TO SOAR

1.     Remember what we are made of

1 Corinthians 3:16

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

                        1 Corinthians 6:19-20

¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? ²⁰ For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

2.     Trust in the Spirit’s Ability

Ephesian 3:20

²⁰ Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

1 John 4:4

“…greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.”

3.     Keep the Wind on the Inside

Ephesians 5:18

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; ¹⁹ Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

4.     Feel What the Spirit Feels

Galatians 5:22-23

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control.

5.     Keep the Gifts of the Spirit Strong

1 Corinthians 12:7-11

⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: ⁸ for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

2 Timothy 1:6

⁶ Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands?

a.     It Helps our Weaknesses

Romans 8:26-27

²⁶ Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. ²⁷ Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

b.     It Builds our Faith

Jude 1:20

²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 14:4

⁴ He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself….

6.     Ask the Wind Questions

1 Corinthians 2:16

¹⁶ For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

1 Corinthians 2:12

7.     Don’t Fight Against the Wind

a.     Don’t grieve Him

Ephesians 4:30

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

b.     Don’t quench Him

1 Thessalonians 5:19

¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit.

Answer Key: Wind, Neglecting, abilities, Questions, Fight