Some Thoughts About Leaders Who Lasts

Matthew 9:17 – Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”   NIV

Things we must renew to go the distance.

1. Renew our relationship with Jesus Christ.  Keep your first love alive.  Never be too busy to seek God’s face.
2. Renew our mind.  Wash your mind daily with the water of the word.
3. Renewed strength.  The joy of the Lord is our strength.  Keep your joy alive.  Bless the Lord O my soul.  Wait upon the Lord to renew your strength.
4. Renewal of the anointing daily.  Get close to the source.  Yesterday’s manna will be spoiled for today.
5. Renewed vision and purpose.  We must be motivated by the vision and purpose of God.  It is the vision and the purpose that allows us to stand during adversity.

Joshua

Principles and choices that Joshua made to make him a leader who lasted.

1. 1. He chose service over success.  Joshua son of Nun servant of the Lord.  You must be a good follower to be a good leader.  Must first serve another man’s ministry before you can get your own ministry.  Numbers 32:11-12 – ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob– not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.’ NIV
2. He chose God’s presence over position.  Ex 33  The young man Joshua did not depart from the tabernacle.
3. He chose God’s plan over popular opinion.  Joshua and Caleb chose to follow the Word of God even when the majority was against them.
4. He chose destiny over doubt.  Joshua decided to obey God rather than question the direction his life was going.  Joshua knew that if God was with him he could not fail.
5. 5. He chose born sons over hired help.  Joshua 5:7  So he raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way. NIV  Hebrews 3:4-6 – For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be said in the future. But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. NIV

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