The Character And Personality of The Leader: Leading God's people, #10

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Spiritual leadership is not automatically maintained!

The leader is the one who pays the greatest price increasingly. You cannot neglect that which raised you to leadership and expect to remain as the leader. You became the leader because you loved and sought God. You were constantly in His presence. You were loyal to the leadership above you.

• If any of these things are now history, then you have lost the things that matter.
• If you are moving on today by virtue of the price you paid in the past, then you may have been demoted within the years from spiritual leadership.
• If your input now is regrettably smaller, then it could be that you are no longer God's leader.

There are leaders who have lost their position before God and before man. Physically, they may still stand before man, but the leadership has moved hands. Some have moved aside even physically.

With vivid examples from Scripture—such as Reuben, Eli, Moses, King Saul, David, Barnabas, etc.—the author shows clearly that talents, spiritual gifts, and a fine personality are no guarantee that a spiritual position will be retained.

In the end, the author paints a portrait of how to jealously guard one's position and place in God's heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Feb 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215480212

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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The Character And Personality of The Leader

THE CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY OF THE LEADER

LEADING GOD’S PEOPLE

BOOK 10

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

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Copyright © 2016 by Zacharias Tanee Fomum

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Unless stated otherwise, all scripture quotations are from the New International version of the Bible, 1984

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CONTENTS

Foreword

1. Leadership: Not Automatically Maintained

2. Some Examples

3. Peter’s Leadership

4. Stars Shine Together

5. The Self-Emptying Of The Leader

6. A Heart For War—1

7. A Heart For War—2

8. A Watchword

9. The Weapons of Our Warfare

Back Matter

FOREWORD

Spiritual leadership is not automatically maintained!

The leader is the one who pays the greatest price increasingly. You cannot neglect that which raised you to leadership and expect to remain as the leader. You became the leader because you loved and sought God. You were constantly in His presence. You were loyal to the leadership above you.

If any of these things are now history, then you have lost the things that matter.

If you are moving on today by virtue of the price you paid in the past, then you may have been demoted within the years from spiritual leadership.

If your input now is regrettably smaller, then it could be that you are no longer God's leader.

There are leaders who have lost their position before God and before man. Physically, they may still stand before man, but the leadership has moved hands. Some have moved aside even physically.

With vivid examples from Scripture—such as Reuben, Eli, Moses, King Saul, David, Barnabas, etc.—the author shows clearly that talents, spiritual gifts, and a fine personality are no guarantee that a spiritual position will be retained.

In the end, the author paints a portrait of how to jealously guard one's position and place in God's heart.

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LEADERSHIP: NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAINTAINED

THE PRICE PAID

Spiritual leadership is not automatically retained. If the leader today does not pay the price, he may not be the leader for tomorrow.

Spiritual leadership is not automatically retained. We have seen over the past years that primary leaders could become secondary and even tertiary leaders. A leader’s progress could be presented below:

Loss in leadership with decrease in the price paid

In general, we can say that spiritual leadership is directly proportional to the heart’s condition and to the price paid. We could present it below:

Left: C.Heart’s attitude and spiritual leadership; right: The price paid and spiritual leadership

There are leaders who have lost their position before God and before man. Physically, they may still stand before man, but their leadership has changed hands. They are no longer God’s leaders. Some have been relegated aside even physically. They were leaders in fasting, giving, service and in other areas but things are no longer the same.

Even in the body of elders in a locality, there is an order, a hierarchy, which is physical. There is also a spiritual order or hierarchy. There are those who took the decisions five years ago, but who no longer hold that office. There have been changes, changes, changes. For some, their ministry has dwindled, and for others, their ministry has expanded qualitatively and quantitatively. This happened in conformity with their heart’s attitude towards man, and in accordance with the price paid.

Have you been demoted over the years from spiritual leadership? Are you going on today by virtue of the price which you paid in the past? Is your input now regrettably smaller?