Looking at what it takes to have the make up of a leader. We are going to look at it from the biblical perspective of Moses. Moses was a great leader that wasn't always a great leader he actually was not what most would say a leader was suppose to be. However, God set him apart and called him out as a leader and we are going to examine what qualified him for that task.
#1 A Alienation- Anytime God is going to use you in great leadership he is going to alienate you.
The very name Moses means in the Hebrew..Drawn out..
When God is reading your DNA he often times is going to lead out into a time of alienation. When God's hand is on your life and he is readying your destiny he is preparing you. When you start to feel out on that limb like no one understands you. When you are starting to feel lonely even when your around friends. Its because God is preparing you for your isolation. Doesn't mean you will always be that way, but for a time it may feel that way. When your friends are going to the party, movies, or anything else you normally would do, yet you just don't feel like your really into going. That's often the time that God is preparing you for a time of alienation. When the things that use to matter to you, don't seem so important to you then he is wanting to use that time. In these moments is when need to find him, these are the moments he is preparing our hearts to hear his voice. When all your friends are out on dates, but you find yourself at home. Its not that there is anything wrong, but God is probably trying to get your attention. Your time will come and when it does let me tell you will be so blessed. You won't always feel alienated, but those moments that you are get ready, because God is trying to raise you up. Don't worry about being single while all your friends are dating someone they most likely won't end up marrying anyway. God is probably preparing you for a moment when you actually meet the one you will end up with, because during this time of preparation God is preparing another with the same heart you have. These times we don't like because no one likes to feel alone, but its in those times if we will let him God speaks to us the clearest.
See Moses was taken to a river; let go by his mother, and ended up being in the house of Pharaoh.
#2 N- National Leadership and National Vision.
Moses ended up being found my Pharaoh's daughter, this wasn't by accident. When God is preparing a leader he will always place them somewhere that they get a Vision and are surrounded by an influential leader. Leadership is something that is learned not just immediately started. You have a leadership quality in you from birth, but everyone has to learn to cultivate that seed. You look all throughout history, whether good or bad; great leaders always learned from someone. They always got into another person's philosophy of life, and that lead them to do great or evil things.
When God is preparing you for leadership he will place in your life a teacher, coach, Pastor, Government official or someone that is doing things that God is preparing you do to yourself. You will find a person that God places you with that has a vision for the nation. This person could have national or even international impact, he just wants us to see that there is so much more than what we have always known in our box. He wants us to realize that our world isn't our four and no more. When God is preparing you for leadership and finding your true destiny, he will put the people in your life that will help you get there. You will only grow with the people you associate yourself with.
#3 D- Divine Discontent or Dissatisfaction.
Moses was upset about the way that his people were treated and was ready to get them out of that slaves mentality. He was ready to lead them out and lead them to their destiny that God had for them. He was too lead a group of slaves and build a nation out of them. Moses was dissatisfied with the way things were going for his people so he was set up to lead them out.
You will know that your assignment by what it is that bothers you. Dr. Mike Murdock in his book, "Seven signposts to your assignment." He says, "that one of the signposts to your assignment is found by what problem you are here to fix!" With that being said when you allow God to alienate you so he can speak to you, then you find yourself outside your box surrounded by people of influence, and you have a real discontent about something. Get ready because God is trying to prepare his man or his woman that he has chosen to begin to lead.
You have been prepared, by being able to hear his voice. You have been taught by people that you have surrounded yourself with and now you have a vision for being a world changer. Then you figure out the problem your hear to fix and begin piecing together a plan to fix it. God is preparing you to be a World Changer not a World Follower. You now have the DNA (or make-up) of a Christ lead leader, go and change the world.
I hope this little teaching will help you as much as it has helped me. Its impacted my life, as I am in a time right now where God is preparing me for leadership. I am called to coach/ teach and you all know that by now, but the reason I am not where I am going is because he is really teaching me how to be a leader that he wants me to be. Every week I will give a little tidbit of some of the leadership studies of I in. I want to partner with you to raise up Godly leaders, which our world truly needs. I can also say from experience that I have experienced each one to these very pieces of the recipe of a leader in my own life. Remember this, "embrace the journey, because it will be get you to the prize." You may spend most of your life in the journey but very little in the destination, but that's what its all about. Jesus himself spent thirty years preparing for a three and a half year ministry. The journey truly does make the destination even greater when we get there. The journey is where God truly molded and made us who we are.
God Bless
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