Leadership Principles from God’s Word: AuthorityLeadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority

Leadership Principles from God’s Word:

AUTHORITY

Mario Denton

Leadership Principles from God’s Word: AuthorityLeadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority

Leadership Principles from God’s Word: AuthorityLeadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority

Overall purpose of this series on Leadership

PrinciplesTo provide concepts and tools for effective leadership and management so that you can: • Be more anointed in your workplace.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.

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Objectives

• 1. Participants will understand that authority is earned.

• 2. Participants will become aware of the authority test.

• 3. Participants will evaluate their lives and make appropriate changes re the way they fulfil their authority role.

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Passage to memorizePsalm 86:9-12

Teach me your way O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart,

that I may fear your name. I will praise you o Lord my God with all my heart; I will glorify

your name forever.

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The Rod of GodLeaders earn their authority, few individuals just give it to

someone.

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When leaders possesses authority, their words carry their

weightHow much weight do your words

carry? Who listens to you?Matt. 8: 5-13

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The authority test: submitting to God-Given authority

• Before we will ever become leaders of integrity, we must learn to follow other leaders regardless of differences.

• The acid test of character comes when we disagree with legitimate authorities.

• Romans 13: 1-7

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Authority and Submission: Everyone is responsible to someone

• Everyone and everything exists in submission to someone else.

• God has called parents to assume responsibility for the health and growth of the family.

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Authority and Submission: Everyone is responsible to someone

• Those in authority do not necessarily have greater intelligence or gifts, but they do have greater responsibility.

• Titus 3: 1,2

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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: AuthorityLeadership Principles from God’s Word: Authority

Prayer Focus• Father, In the name of Jesus, I

surrender myself to walk in the Word. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world.

• The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me.

• I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen

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Give thanks with a grateful heartGive thanks with a grateful heart

Give thanks to the Holy OneGive thanks to the Holy One

Give thanks because He’s given Give thanks because He’s given

Jesus Christ His Son (repeat)Jesus Christ His Son (repeat)

And now let the weak say I am strongAnd now let the weak say I am strong

Let the poor say I am richLet the poor say I am rich

Because of what the Lord has done for us Because of what the Lord has done for us (repeat)(repeat)

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Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25

• “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do

what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)

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Learning, application and commitment

• One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me …..

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Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!

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Blessings from Mario Denton 

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