WE ARE ([ALL]) TO GROW UP AS SPIRITUAL EXAMPLES AND MATURE LEADERS. SCRIPTURE INSTRUCTS LEADERS TO BE SELF-CONTROLLED. Writing to his companion and fellow leader, Titus, the apostle Paul said a leader MUST BE BLAMELESS---NOT OVERBEARING, NOT QUICK-TEMPERED, NOT GIVEN TO DRUNKENNESS, NOT VIOLENT, NOT PURSUING DISHONEST GAIN. RATHER HE MUST BE HOSPITABLE, ONE WHO LOVES WHAT IS GOOD, WHO IS SELF-CONTROLLED, UPRIGHT, HOLY AND DISCIPLINED (Titus 1:7-8). To Timothy, Paul wrote that leaders must FIRST BE TESTED; AND THEN IF THERE IS NOTHING AGAINST THEM, LET THEM SERVE (1 Tim. 3:10). (SELF-CONTROL IS AN ATTRIBUTE IN FREEDOM, THAT SLAVERY KNOWS LITTLE ABOUT.) The IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT mentality of the modern world is going to have to be PURGED from the twenty-first-century citizen as we PUT OUR FEET IN THE JORDAN IN THE YEARS TO COME. I know, we would just love to be TWANGED with a HOLY STAFF like Moses carried at SALVATION, and live our lives COMPLETELY CONTROLLED FROM ABOVE. BUT IT DOESNT HAPPEN THAT WAY. ([FREEDOM HAPPENS WHEN WE ALLOW GOD TO LEAD US OUT OF THE WILDERNESS INTO THE FRUITFUL WORK OF CANAAN---FROM DEPENDENCY TO RESPONSIBILITY.]) I expect to see millions of MATURE BELIVERS WHO ARE NOT AFRAID OF A GOOD FIGHT before I die. Im talking about people who will TAKE ON THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES, QUITE AWARE OF (WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN.) I long to see a generation who will EMBRACE THE SPIRIT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND INDUSTRY. A generation that can HANDLE FAILURE AND SUCCESS EFFECTIVELY.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:45:23 +0000
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