Spirit of Leadership

WHAT IS A TRUE LEADER? How do you discover your own purpose and passion— your personal “divine deposit of destiny”? A very impor tant way is to ask yourself, “What is my gifting?” What you are gifted in often reveals the type of leadership you are meant to exercise and what domain you are to operate in. 15 True leaders discover keys to the nature of leadership from the examples of others, but they never try to become these other leaders. They must use their own gifts and abilities to do what they are individually called to do. THE VITAL NEED FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP If you do not discover your personal leadership poten tial, this means that you will not be able to fulfill your life’s assignment. The result is that you will deprive your generation and succeeding generations of your unique and vital contribution to the world. I believe that the Creator has given each one of us life in order to accomplish some thing in our generation. The great king Solomon wrote that there is “a time to be born and a time to die.” This means that the timing of your birth was essential to some need in the world that you’re supposed to meet. Suppose Moses had refused to go to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to set the Hebrews free. Consider what the world would be like if Winston Churchill had said, “The survival of Great Britain and the rest of the free world is someone else’s problem. I’m going to let the Nazis do whatever they want.” Suppose Corrie ten Boom had decided that hiding Jews was too risky a proposition. What if Martin Luther King Jr. had not thought civil rights were worth dying for? What would have happened if Mother Teresa had ignored the poor and sick on the streets of Calcutta?

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