Leadership is not about the people or who to lead. It is about how you govern yourself and HOW YOU MAKE DECISIONS.  DECISION is the throne of leadership.  How do you make decision?  What do you consider before you make decision?  Who influences your decision?   The answer to these questions will determine if you will become the leader God has created you to become.  You must allow the vision of your leadership capacity influence your decision making. You must also allow God who gave you the vision for your leadership capacity to influence your decision. Every decision is not about risk or safety. It is about pleasing God and leading according to Gods expectation.  Before you start making decisions for people; learn to make Decision For your self  through the influence of God's Word first.  It's begins from you.  True leadership is in you leading your self through the influence of God's word. ...

Beloved of God, I want you to understand that leadership is not for pleasure!  The beginning of you maximising your capacity as a leader is in you DISCOVERING THE PROBLEM YOU WERE BORN TO SOLVE.  Becoming an inspirational leader, is in you understanding that specific problem you were created to solve. The day you discover that problem that made your birth a necessity - that's the day the leader in you is born!  Talk the talk but do your task. It's okay to see fault but it's also necessary to be part of the solution to the fault you see. The beauty or strength of a teacher is in the ignorance of his or her student.  The strength of leader is in the problem and his or her ability to be part of the solution process.  Serving - is the true heart, culture and attitude of leadership!  Don't pursue post or title; pursue to know and understand that specific problem you were created to solve.  What kind of help are you to people? In...

Beloved of God!  I celebrate the Grace of Christ in you. I want you to know that every believer is a leader that is serving under the leadership of the Lord Jesus!  We are not asked by the Lord Jesus to bring the world into the Church. We were sent out into the world and all Nations to make disciples.  I personally, I am tried of believer's being over spiritual about their leadership capacity. We cage ourselves in the church - talking to ourselves and point out to the faults happening. Light and light are gathering in Churches without their readiness to step out into the darkness and shine.  I have being writing that every believer is a leader and every Leader needs a leader. God has not called every body to become leaders in Churches alone; God want believers as leaders in every phase of life.  In the educational system, God needs a leader there - some one who will structure the educational system of the nation in God's nature.  In...

BELOVED OF GOD We need to understand that for you to become the Leader God has created you to be, you must embrace DISCIPLINE.   What is discipline?  Discipline is you doing what you need to do even when you don't feel like doing it. It is deliberate, and specific in nature.  Discipline is you ignoring to do what you feel like doing just because you don't need it.  Discipline is not about what you desire, feel or like; its necessity. Necessity is the platform for discipline.   You might not like it but necessity is the beginning of you embracing discipline.   Discipline is specific in nature and it's progressive in nature. It brings growth and improvement. It improves you through pain some times and some times, it improves you through comfort.  Your vision  and the clarity of it is what will determine the quality of discipline that will be expected of you.  Discipline kills distraction, ignorance and lazi...

Beloved! Any leader that must fulfill purpose and destiny must cultivate a relationship with the vision and passion of their heart. This is the foundation of any true leadership. It's not about title but it's about roles and responsibilities.  The seat of roles and responsibilities in the place of leadership is the vision and passion of your heart!  You must discover the "why" you were created to lead.  Rely on the Holy Spirit and discover it!  It's all about relationship!  Shalom!

Leadership is all about you becoming the vision and expressing the vision. Vision is the understanding of what God has called you to become and do. Vision and calling is the foundation of your leadership. What's your calling? What's your vision? Every body is a leader but only few gets to discover this vision and calling? Some people discover their calling and vision but few ends up becoming the vision and calling. Leadership is all about BECOMING AND DOING. Who are you becoming? Shifting blames on people and making excuses is the fastest way of killing your chances of becoming the leader God has created you to become. In leadership, it's either your choice or fault. Be you Be the lead you were born to be Becoming a leader is who you were created to be (either you are male or female) Becoming the leader you were created to be is in you becoming responsible for your life, words, attitudes, and decision. Are you responsible? Dare to be!

Remember, every body is a leader in his or her own unique capacity. Leadership is not about roles and achievement. LEADERSHIP IS FIRST BEING - THEN DOING. You have to become your vision. You have to become the plan God has for your life; then expressing what you have become. According to God's kingdom, leadership is the ability to inspire your self and also inspire other people to become and fulfill God's given vision. The general definition of leadership includes the ability to influence, inspire, direct, encourage, induce, mobilize and activate yourself and other people to pursue a God's given vision while maintaining commitment, momentum, confidence and courage. Leadership is the organising and coordinating of resources, energies and relationships in a productive context for an intended result. In its simplest form, leadership is inspiring your self and other people toward a common goal. Leadership derives it's power from VALUES, PRIORITY, CONVICTION, and GO...

Who is a leader? A leader is any one that can get the right knowledge they need and also dare to apply the knowledge they have in other to get the result that is necessary. Every body is called into leadership but we all individually must run our own race in our own race track. Knowledge is not enough. Leadership without knowledge is frustration. It's not good enough to know, you must understand what you know AND APPLY WHAT YOU KNOW PERSONALLY IN YOUR LIFE. A Lot of people know things BUT FEW PEOPLE DARE TO SUBMIT TO WHAT THEY KNOW AND ALSO APPLY WHAT THEY KNOW. If you must become the leader God has created you to become - you must first gain freedom from a lot of things. First, you must be free from your self. Second, you must be free from people's expectation. Third, you must be free enough to fail. Not willing to fail as a leader is the greatest limitation in leadership. ATTITUDE WHAT YOU KNOW EVEN IF IT MEANS YOU WILL FAIL. The greatest goal in leadership is not succ...

To become the leader God has created you to be, you must learn to wisdom to say "no" some times. Saying "no" to things that doesn't add value and help to your vision is a necessity. This is not about pleasing or displeasing any one. This is you being honest with your self and with your God's given vision as a Leader. The quality of your leadership can be rated by the quality of your submission to the Leadership of the Holy Spirit in your lives. This is very important. The Leadership of the Holy Spirit in your life is the inspiration for saying "no" to things that are not necessary to you. How will you know your necessity as a leader? You will know through the leadership of the Holy Spirit in your life. Leadership in the kingdom of God is not all about pleasing any body or pleasing your self. This is about you pleasing the Lord! When you know what pleases the Lord and when you understand the instruction of the Lord to you, you will master ...

God's concept on leadership is you being responsible and accountable to Him (God) for how you make your choice, and decision of your life (even on tiny matters). Leadership in God's kingdom is the seat of God's idea, and intention. It's a place where the world will hate you simple because you are on God's side. The first prove of leadership in God's kingdom is REJECTION. You will be rejected by many, not because you are wrong but simple because THEY DONT UNDERSTAND THE PATTERN OF IDEA GOD HAS ENTRUSTED INTO YOUR HAND. Leaders are individuals that run with God's idea. The second thing you should expect as a leader in God's kingdom is ISOLATION. The uniqueness of the idea or plan God entrust into your hand to run with will first isolate you. People will leave your life. Your friends will be confused. Your family will doubt you. When God calls an individual into leadership - every thing about them change. Leadership in God's kingdom change...

Some marriages at which you officiate won’t make it. You pray not and work hard in premarital counseling to counter that possibility, but it happens. Some nonbelievers with whom you share the gospel won’t listen. The pain is great when nonbelievers just keep rejecting the good news. Some of the seemingly godliest people you know will fall into sin. I’ve done this work a long time, and I’m still shocked at times. The enemy leaves no one off his radar. Some church members will get mad and leave. The first time it happened in my ministry, I was defeated for weeks. It still hurts when it happens. Some spiritual heroes will let you down. No one intends for it to happen, but even our long-term heroes are still human. Some staffing situations won’t work out. That’s when you’re reminded that because you’re a leader, your decisions affect marriages and families. Letting someone go, especially in our ministry world that preaches grace, is seldom easy. Somebody related t...

Ever wonder why some people are influential, and others, well, aren’t? Take getting others to buy into your ideas, for example. Some people seem always to be able to win the day with their ideas. Others, not so much. I get asked all the time by leaders how to get their team members to take their ideas (and their leadership) more seriously. What’s fascinating to me is that the conversation almost always begins from the angle of how to pitch ideas. It’s as though most of us have convinced ourselves that we just need a better argument, point or insight and then our ideas will catch on. Sometimes that’s the case, but more often than not it’s deeper than that. It’s easy to think leaders buy (or reject) our ideas. But I’m not sure what’s what really at play most of the time. At a deeper level, it’s often a question of whether leaders buy you. As harsh as it sounds, here’s the truth: if a leader doesn’t buy you, they’ll rarely buy your idea. Leadership, as Joh...

I’ve been and always will be doggedly suspicious of pastors who rarely (or never) mention Jesus. John Piper says, “What we desperately need is help to enlarge our capacities to be moved by the immeasurable glories of Christ.” We ministers of the gospel—and Christians at large—can fumble this commission in three main ways. 1. We speak in vague spiritual generalities.  Love. Hope. Peace. Joy. Harmony. Blessings. All disembodied from the specific atoning work of the incarnate Jesus and exalted Lord. It all sounds nice. It’s all very inspirational. And it’s rubbish. He himself is our peace. He himself is love. He himself is life. He does not make life better. He is life. Any pastor who talks about the virtues of faith, hope and love, with Jesus as some implied tangential source, is not feeding his flock well. 2. We present Christ mainly as moral exemplar.  We tell people to be nice because Jesus was nice. We tell them to be sweet because Jesus was swee...

Sometimes we do the things we hate. And sometimes we get confused and begin to hate ourselves for the things we’ve done. There is a world of difference between ‘walking in the light’ while confessing our sins (1 John 1.7-10), and letting our sins define our identity. While it is appropriate to mourn our sin (Matthew 5.4), it is not appropriate to hate ourselves. In the heat of the moment of regret and shame, we can almost think that self-loathing is good and right and biblical (after all, we have offended a Holy God and become unclean!). But in truth, God never calls us to hate ourselves. The truth is that God loves us (John 3.16, 1 John 4.10). And the only one who loves our self-loathing is Satan. Why? 1. Because when I loathe myself I loathe someone created in the image of God Proverbs 17.5 says, ‘Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker.’ James writes that the tongue ‘is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with i...

Dear Pastor, I love you. I want nothing more than for you to be all who God wants you to be. So this might hurt a little. I’m writing you this letter because I have noticed a few things that we have fallen into saying or doing that don’t represent Christ well. With all due respect, please stop: 1. STOP PRETENDING YOU ARE PERFECT. Jesus is perfect. You aren’t. Let us see your humanity. Share your mistakes with us. It gives us hope to know that even the pastor doesn’t always get it right. It also gives us the courage to be honest about our faults too. 2. STOP EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY ABUSING YOUR STAFF. Although some elements of the church are like a business, church staff should not be treated just like employees. They are family. They aren’t perfect, but you need to love them anyway. When you hurt them, you hurt God’s family. I know far too many pastors who need therapy after the wounds of working for a bad boss. 3. STOP HIDING YOUR SECRET ADDICT...

Pastor, if you burnout, you have no one to blame. I know, that sounds absolutely depressing and accusatory. But for pastors it’s true. Why? Before I answer that, let’s back up. Why do leaders burnout? They burnout because they don’t get enough sleep, they say yes to too many things, they don’t eat properly, they preach too many times a year, they have too many meetings, they don’t recharge themselves well, they don’t do anything relaxing or fun, they don’t take a Sunday off, they work too many hours, and they don’t deal with the emotional side of ministry well. So, whose fault is this? Well, if you suffer from these, your first response will be to say that your church puts a lot of pressure on you (which they might), your elders have high expectations for you (which they do), so it must be them. Your kids want to be in every sport, and you and your wife want to make sure your kids get all the things you didn’t have. So if you burnout, whose fault is...

Have you been hurt by a church? If so, you’re not alone. As a pastor of a church, I’ve heard stories from people who have found church confusing, contrarian, or even damaging. Not every church hurts people, but most churches have hurt someone at some point. Some people are hurt through their own mistakes, others because of sin committed against them, and still others because of failed leadership. This reality can leave them reluctant to re-engage, afraid of being hurt again, wanting to protect themselves, and questioning the place of church in their lives. The good news for the hurting is that God has spoken to your pain in the Bible. Most of the writing in the New Testament about how to live in a church exists because the church has never been perfect. Most, if not all, of the letters were written to solve problems in the church: Galatians to solve legalism (Galatians 1:6–7, 3:1–3, 4:9, 5:1). Colossians to solve heresy (Colossians 2:4, 8). 2 Timothy to solve tension i...

Leaders often succumb to the temptation to make everything about them. It is about their goals, their career and their recognition. They become a selfish leader. But God has called us to be a different type of leader. God has called us to be stewards of people. And rather than take from our team, He has called us to give ourselves to our team. He has called us to be generous leaders. But what does that look like? Let’s look at seven of the most common sins of selfish leaders and how to overcome them: Relishing the spotlight. Instead, give credit. Point to others. A leader’s success is never about him. It is about them. While it is easy to soak in the praise of others, give credit where credit is due. Remember their success is your success. Skimping on pay. Instead, give a fair salary. Don’t intentionally underpay those you oversee. Don’t take advantage of a person’s naiveté. Do the best you can when you can. And when you can, err on generous pay. Limiting authority...

4. There Is a Spiritual Cost. The more influential you become as a leader, the greater the intensity of spiritual attack on your life. (By the way … I’ve had shots taken at me for saying this, but it’s true. I’ve experienced it personally … and in the Scriptures, we see in Acts 19 a demon literally having a conversation with seven guys … he tells them he knows Jesus and has heard about Paul, probably because he was causing such a disturbance, but then he tells the guys that he hadn’t even heard about them!!! Like it or not … the enemy doesn’t pursue everyone with the same intensity.) You will experience spiritual warfare. You will encounter temptation on a level that is greater than anything you could imagine. You have to be willing to fight the fight and pay the price if you want to be a godly leader. 5. There Is a Personal Cost All of the things listed above come around to this … there IS a personal cost when it comes to leadership. It will NEVER cease to affect ...

Jesus gave some INCREDIBLE advice in Luke 14:28-30! Today, we will dive into five areas where we need to be willing to pay the price as a leader. 1. There Is a Financial Cost. Books cost money. Conferences cost money. Putting yourself in a position to be stretched and grown cost money. AND one of the qualities that I’ve always noticed in leaders who were “getting it done” is that they were personally willing to pay a financial price. 2. There Is an Emotional Cost. Leading in the church is one of the most emotionally draining things you will EVER do. You will discover that you can go from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows with one email or phone call. Your heart and motives will be called into question. Critics who don’t know you (and don’t want to know you) will malign, misrepresent and attack you. On most days, you will feel overwhelmed and unworthy of your calling … and all of this requires that we be willing to pay the price emotionally. ...