Daily Devotions On Leadership

John 4:37-38 – The Long Haul

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For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
(John 4:37-38 ESV)

It’s very easy to get caught up in the “go big, go fast, or go home” mentality.  This can also creep into the church and our Christian walk.  Almost every story you hear of church planting success is of how a gifted leader started with almost nothing, and then the congregation just blew up overnight.  Seldom do we hear a leader share about long years of faithful labor with little initial fruit, but how God was still at work regardless of the numbers. Continue Reading →

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Exodus 33:13 – Moses’ Prayer Part 3 – Humility

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Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” (Exodus 33:13 ESV)

As we reread Moses’ prayer today, we are struck with the humility with which Moses asks God to continue revealing His ways.  If anyone had first hand experience of watching God work, it was Moses.  Here are a few examples:

-God speaks to him through a burning bush (Exodus 3).

-God uses Moses to prophesy 10 plagues on Egypt (Exodus 7-11).

-God works through Moses to split the Red Sea (Exodus 14).

-God gives Moses the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai (Exodus 20).

-God speaks to Moses as a man speaks to a friend (Exodus 34:34).

Moses had seen God do some amazing miracles. Continue Reading →

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Exodus 33:12 – Moses’ Prayer Part 2 – The People

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Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ (Exodus 33:12 ESV)

We are continuing our series on the prayer of Moses in Exodus 33:12-13.

Moses knew God had called him to lead the people into the promised land, but he also knew he could not do it alone. Moses is pleading with God, let me know who you will send with me. As Moses is praying this prayer he probably remembers his father-in-law, Jethro’s, advice in Exodus 18:18-27. Jethro sees Moses trying to lead all the people by himself and says, What you are doing is not good. You and the people will wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. His father-in-law wisely knew Moses needed a team of capable, trustworthy, Godly leaders around him. Continue Reading →

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Daniel 1:8 – Favor of God

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But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
(Daniel 1:8 ESV)

There are two things we can learn from Daniel’s response to the king’s decree that they eat a certain food and drink wine (Daniel 1:5). First, we learn that Daniel remained faithful to God when it seemed as though God was not faithful to him. Daniel  just had his home destroyed by the king of Babylon and was subsequently taken into captivity (Daniel 1:1-4). To many of us, it may seem as though God had not taken care of Daniel and his fellow Israelites. Even though it appeared that way from a human perspective, Daniel stayed faithful to God and his commandments; even when it came to food. Continue Reading →

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