Twenty-Four: A Devotional for Leaders

By Perry Fletcher

Twenty-Four is a powerful devotional game plan for every individual in any leadership role. As a life coach, this blueprint will aid in preventing you from becoming exhausted while in leadership. There are some key nuggets within the pages that will provide revelation for your moments of frustration as a leader. You will be allowed direct access to real-life encounters where exhaustion almost annihilated passion and purpose, but the power of the Word proved to outlast the moment.

As you journey through this devotional, you will be given the opportunities to self evaluate and reflect. No leader is effective without an internal examination. Twenty-Four provides you with messages of encouragement and inspiration, but it also allows you to journal about your revelations. Each devotional entry has it’s tailored journal entry for you.

Exhaustion in Leadership is a silent predator, but Twenty-Four will encourage you to be the best even when you don’t feel like you are the best.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jun 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781663203243

Perry Fletcher

Perry M. Fletcher is a current resident of Brandon, MS, but was proudly born and raised in Gulde, MS. He is employed with Hinds County School District as the Boys’ Basketball Coach. In, 1996, he found his good thing, Mrs. DaVida Monya, and in 2005, he made her his wife. In 2007, he was chosen to be the father of Perry Monta Fletcher, II (affectionately known as PJ). Perry is an Honor Graduate of Jackson State University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Alcorn State University with a M.S. in Health, Physical Education and Recreation. In 2014, Pastor Fletcher accepted the divine assignment and is currently serving the Greater New Friendship M. B. Church in Brandon, MS. Perry enjoys family, fellowship, food, sports, the Word and Worship. He has a passion for writing and has published another book entitled, A Glance at Life from Spiritual Eyes. He realizes that he is who he is because GOD is who HE is. 1 Corinthians 9:22

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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

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CONTENTS

Book Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Day 1   What Really Matters

Day 1   What Really Matters

Day 2   Facing the giants

Day 2   Facing the giants

Day 3   Keep your eyes on the prize

Day 3   Keep your eyes on the prize

Day 4   It’s not about me

Day 4   It’s not about me

Day 5   I’m living to live again

Day 5   I’m living to live again

Day 6   Don’t quit

Day 6   Don’t quit

Day 7   Renew me

Day 7   Renew me

Day 8   Who’s your daddy?

Day 8   Who’s your daddy?

Day 9   I ain’t scared

Day 9   I ain’t scared

Day 10   For your glory

Day 10   For your glory

Day 11   Peace giver

Day 11   Peace giver

Day 12   Enduring the test

Day 12   Enduring the test

Day 13   Balancing act

Day 13   Balancing act

Day 14   Use your gift

Day 14   Use your gift

Day 15   You are the example

Day 15   You are the example

Day 16   Suit up

Day 16   Suit up

Day 17   Lord, I look to you

Day 17   Lord, I look to you

Day 18   Created to do good things

Day 18   Created to do good things

Day 19   Hope

Day 19   Hope

Day 20   Believe

Day 20   Believe

Day 21   Your life is not only for you

Day 21   Your life is not only for you

Day 22   Are you dull or sharp?

Day 22   Are you dull or sharp?

Day 23   Jehovah shalom

Day 23   Jehovah shalom

Day 24   I’ve got to have faith

Day 24   I’ve got to have faith

BOOK DEDICATION

All my life I have stood on the foundation that my mother laid for me as a very young boy. That foundation is defined from the premise that in whatever you do, make sure you do you very best. In the profession that God allowed me to serve, for 19 years and counting, I’ve always tried to do my very best. That profession, although it’s how I make a living, has never been a job for me. Every day that I have been blessed to be a coach has been a day of fulfilling my purpose.

Because God has given me the insight to pen these thoughts, I want to dedicate this devotional to every athlete I ever coached in the game of basketball. Starting with the Alcorn State Lady Braves, who gave me confidence as a coach; the Alcorn Braves, who gave me courage as a coach; the Morton Lady Panthers, who showed me how to be a father as a coach; the Morton Panthers, who showed me how to be a mentor as a coach; the Forest Bearcats, who showed me how to be successful as a coach; the Murrah Mustangs, who showed me that I belong as a coach; the Newton Lady Tigers, who showed me how to be a champion as a coach; and lastly, the Terry Bulldogs, who showed me it’s nothing more important than family as a coach.

It’s impossible for me to list every athlete I have ever coached, but that does not mean your name is not listed in my heart. It’s because of you that I’m the leader that I am. I know I was far from what you