1 Vision
This is a
fundamental requirement of leadership knowing where you are going is
called the wisdom of direction. Until
you identify your field, you have no future in leadership. Prov.29:18 Where
there is no vision the people perish. Vision is the foundation upon which
leadership is built. You discover your purpose and stay on with it. God has a
plan for every one of us. Your journey of leadership begins with discovery of
God’s plan for you. Once you do this and abide by it, you have secured your
future. To miss vision is to lose value, and to be stripped of honor and dignity.
Your future is in God’s plan not in your plan. Until your task on earth is
defined, your leadership, your leadership will not find expression. Whatever
comes to your mind, check it in line with God, so you don’t misinvest your
energy. There are three ways to discover God’s plan for your life;
(i)
It
may come to you as a heavenly vision, like Moses and the burning bush, Paul on his
way to Damascus Acts 26: 19 or 1st
May, 1981 (my encounter God)
(ii)
It can come to you by a burning passion like
Nehemiah, check on your inside, you may have God’s plan inside.
(iii)
By
discovery of the divine gifting God has given you. They may be pointers to your
God-given plan. The gift can help define where you belong. So locate your field
for the leadership potential in you to come alive.
2 Wisdom
Eccl. 10: 15x The labor of the foolish weareth every
one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. He knows the city to
go to, but he doesn’t know how to get there. Prov. 8:15 By me (wisdom) kings
reign and princess decree justice. Even though you are destined to reign,
wisdom is a requirement or ascending to the throne. Unfortunately many have
mistaken common sense for wisdom.
Wisdom is an intelligible application of
acquired knowledge. Commonsense will beget common results, Matt 7:24-28 wisdom
is acquired and applied sense, not common sense. Many are grounded today
because they mistake commonsense for wisdom. The principal raw material for
wisdom is knowledge. Covenant University is emerging as the leading university
In Africa in 7 years! But before she was founded, I engaged in an exhaustive study
of nine world class universities like Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Yales etc.
How they started, their growth pace, how they developed their programs.
Universities that were hundreds of years old. I needed an understanding of how
these great universities had acquired their greatness, so as to lay out our
administrative structure. That’s how wisdom is cultivated. Many people in
Africa are weary because they have no value for wisdom. They mistake native
intelligence for wisdom. God called me to ministry in an 18-hour long vision.
But before I started off, I studied 39 selected biographies of great
ministries.
So when speaking as a full time minister, I was speaking with 39
borrowers senses which goes on to enhance the quality of our decision making.
Am therefore not surprised where we area today. There are people in business who
have not read even one book on the business they are doing in their life.
Common-sense! Poor leadership in African politics is a result of having too
many empty headed politicians, who don’t belong to any school of thought. There
is no president in America who doesn’t belong to a particular school of thought
in politics.
There are ministers of the gospel who may not have read any book
of ministry, or some even can’t define ministry. Careful acquisition of facts
is what guarantees you a step into practical leadership. Don’t stop learning
.Keep your mind young. Wisdom is a growing virtue. Luke 2:52 Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, favor with God and
man. Prov 1:5 A wise man will hear, and
increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. Wisdom
shall attain unto wise counsels.
Wisdom has unlimited capacity for growth.
Never forget that wisdom demands
acquisition of knowledge and applying intelligibly. There is a common saying in
the West; that if you want to hide anything from a black man, write it in a
book. He may never find it! Anything you engage in without acquiring adequate
knowledge and applying that knowledge you get ordinary results at best.
(3 Discipline
Eccl. 10:16-17Woe to thee o land, when thy king is a
child and thy princes eat in the morning. Blessed art thou, o land, when thy
king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength and
not for drunkenness! This
statement defines self-discipline. Every truly distinguished person must be
highly-disciplined. 1 Cor 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things
are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought
under the power of any. 1 Cor. 9:24-27
Race runners are many, but the winner is only one. We keep our bodies under
subjection. Discipline is operating as commanded. Not as convenient. Whatever
demand your envisioned future places on
you, you subscribe to it.
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