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LEADING AND RESPONSIBILITY!


TEXT: 1 Samuel 12:23

 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

While God has pronounced the dominion mandate upon every man, He has also orchestrated leadership amongst human system. 

To occupy a leadership position is not equivalent to exercising dominion over the followers, rather it is to lead the followers into their dominion mandate in God.

A father leads a family, a Pastor leads a congregation, a President leads a nation- all these leaders are to lead their followers into  dominion and not to exercise dominion over them.

Any father or husband that does not know this will simply be a dictator, any Pastor who has not understood this simple truth will be missing out a very important point. 

 Leadership, as far as God is concerned is the discharge of the responsibility of leading  followers into their God given dominion mandate.

Often than not, the enemy mix things up in the head of a leader. Hence, such ends up becoming a bad leaders rather than standing in for God.

As a leader, God does not want you to exercise dominion over your followers but to lead them into their dominion mandate. 

Now let's begin to look into our study text. Samuel as a prophet and Judge over the nation of Israel knew quite well that leadership is responsibility. He knew that if he refused to pray  for the people and teach them, he has sinned against the Lord. 

As a leader, you have a great responsibility of  standing in Gap between  God and your followers. You must talk to God about them, and also talk to them about God. This is the true responsibility of any leader. When God is not the focus in leadership, then such leadership cannot lead the followers into their dominion mandate.

In whatever leadership capacity you are serving, you must ensure that you are truly standing in for God. Anything less than that is simply a share waste of time. 

 Bible reading :

1 Samuel 12:3-5.

 PRAYER FOCUS

1.) Father Lord, please give me the grace to lead with great skill and integrity of heart in Jesus name.

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