Realise and Embrace

Leaders need to realize and embrace these fundamental truths...
#1 – As long as we are listening to God…we will always have a word to speak! STOP worrying about the sermon!
#2 – Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please Him…and it takes faith to make adjustments that He leads us to make, both personally and in the church. (Hebrews 11:6)
#3 – He saved us, called us and PROMISED to never leave us! HE IS WITH YOU…RIGHT NOW…TODAY (see Jeremiah 46:28!) If He is with us…what do we have to fear.
#4 – We should find our identity in Christ and NOT in our ministry! HE called, equipped and will sustain us!
#5 – NOTHING is too hard for Him (Jeremiah 32:27)
#6 – We should STRIVE to be the person that Isaiah 66:2 describes!!!
#7 – We should learn to rest and catch our breath instead of being compulsive and controlling…for in resting in Him our strength is renewed! (See Isaiah 30:15)
#8 – We’ve got to learn to follow the model of Jesus when we are unjustly attacked and criticized. (See I Peter 2:21-24!)
#9 – We’ve GOT to learn to receive the grace we so often tell others about…but secretly have a hard time receiving for ourselves. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
#10 – We’ve got to stop listening to the voices in our heads that are telling us that we suck, are no good and will never amount to anything! (Romans 8:1, II Corinthians 10:5)
#11 – We’ve GOT to keep going back to Joshua 1:9
#12 – We’ve GOT to have people around us who WILL speak TRUTH into our lives…even if it hurts. (Proverbs 27:6) We can’t listen to EVERYBODY…but if we listen to NOBODY then we (and the people we lead) are in trouble!

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