Leading All the Time

Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Introduction

· In Genesis 8, Moses communicates about four reoccurring cycles which are constants in life. God through Moses was giving us the template for life.

·  Each of these cyclical events requires specific life skills which must be mastered.

· These cycles are where leaders must lead both   Type a label   and collectively.

Overview

·     Seedtime and harvest: Growth times

·     Cold and heat:   Type a label   times

·     Summer and winter: Changing times

·     Day and night:   Type a label   times

Growth times

·     It is not   Type a label   that growth times begin the list.

·     If you lead, you must grow.

·     How   Type a label   do you grow? As long as the earth remains, or as long as you remain on the earth.

Keys to growing:

Grow where you are at.

Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Grow where it   Type a label   .

Luke 2:52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

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2.   Physically

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4.   Relationally

Grow where it   Type a label   

Luke 9:1 Then He called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.

Luke 10:1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place, whither He Himself would come.

Extreme times

· As leaders, life is filled with ups and downs, twists and turns; the leadership journey is never   Type a label   or straight.

·  The changing terrain is why leaders are needed; leaders are used to the unknown and unexpected.

·   Extreme leadership

• Type a label   : understand the seasons
• Emotionally: weep and rejoice
• Type a label   : Mo and No Mo
• Personally: Good and bad days

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·     Change is the norm.

·     Change is vividly illustrated in   Type a label   areas:

Culture – what happens around us

Type a label   – what happens in us

Crisis – what happens to us

·     Each of these require   Type a label   

Culture: Can you be relevant?

Commitment: Can you stay   Type a label   ?

Crisis: Can you stay focused?

·     Can you do all of them without the exclusion of one of them?

·     Type a label   of change

1.   It’s personal.

Change   Type a label   before you try to change others.

2.   Motivation

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4.   Communication

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Daily times

·     It is easy to raise our   Type a label   for a moment than to live by a standard each day.

• Leaders can be adrenaline junkies; give me a problem and I’m great, but without one, I struggle to get through the day.
• Daily leadership is difficult because it doesn’t require your wisdom, creativity, or strength; it needs your personal   Type a label   .

·     Dynamic leadership doesn’t require individual discipline.

• This is the answer to the question people ask when they see a well-known leader   Type a label   : “How did this happen?”
• Leadership giftedness is not a substitute for personal discipline.
• Being   Type a label   at something doesn’t mean you are good.

·     Discipline defined

• Disciplines are the   Type a label   you make about yourself when no one else is in the room.
• Disciplines are immune to emotional outburst. They are not subject to your feelings.
• Disciplines are the life   Type a label   you’ve created over extended periods of time.
• Disciplines are what you do when you don’t know what to do.
• Discipline is how you win on the   Type a label   .

·     Areas of discipline

• Type a label   : belief
• Mentally: attitude
• Type a label   : habits