In the last GROW Leadership Blog I left you with 5 important things that will help you in fulfilling God’s plan for your life. Fulfilling that plan and becoming the leader God wants you to become begins by you leading yourself. In this blog I want to leave you with some important thoughts concerning those steps.
1) Daily Read God’s Word
But Jesus answered and said, “It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. – Matthew 4:4
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2) Daily Meditate God’s Word
This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. – Joshua 1:8
Meditation has four main ingredients: Thinking, Envisioning, Saying and Doing.
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3) Daily Pray
There are many scriptures that exhort us to pray, consider these;
“Be devoted to prayer and keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.” – Colossians 4:2
“Pray continually.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:17
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” – James 5:16
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4) Daily Share Your Faith
“He that wins souls is wise.” – Proverbs 11:30
Sharing your faith helps keep what God had done for you real and keeps you on fire for God.
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5) Be an Active Part of a Strong Local Church
“Neglect not the assembling of ourselves together, as the habit of some is, but exhorting one another: and so much more, as you see the day approaching.” – Hebrews 10:15
“From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body, for the edifying of itself in love.” – Ephesians 4:16
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These are 5 important ingredients in leading yourself and in turn God making you into a leader.