Charismatic
qualities and talents are great to possess, but the anointing always comes from
God.
July’s Awakening, Day 17
Although potential leaders are born,
effective leaders are made.
—Bennie E. Goodwin
Spiritual power is the outpouring of
spiritual life, and like all life, from that of the moss and lichen on the wall
to that of the archangel before the throne, is from God. Therefore those who
aspire to leadership must pay the price, and seek it from God.
—Samuel Brengle
Leadership develops daily,
not in a day.
—John C. Maxwell
But
Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the
Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be
the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the
people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to the
Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the
past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and
tongue.” The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes
them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the
Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.” Exodus
3:11–12; 4:10–12 NIV
Despite being born with innate
leadership talents and abilities, you are not a leader until proven so. The
proving ground is that of people willing to follow you—even when they do not
fully know where they are going, but they are trusting you to take them to a
better place. Moses was God’s chosen vessel to remove an entire nation out of
bondage and bring them into the very presence of God and initiate a whole new
system for the worship of our God. Moses was miraculously saved at birth and
grew up learning in the courts of Egypt, yet he was hindered by “slow speech
and tongue.”
Ineloquence of speech was not a
problem for God, and with the help of others, Moses became the deliverer and
leader of a new nation, a judge over all the people, a bringer of the Law of
God, the instrument of a whole new system of life and worship of the Lord, and
the author of the first five books of the Bible. Whatever inadequacies Moses
had, he overcame them with the anointing of God. Leadership qualities may be
from birth, but anointed leaders are directed by the very finger of God.
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