SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

Leadership

PROPHETIC JOURNEY TO YOUR SPIRITUAL DESTINY

Success is not the destination, but rather the journey.  I need to clearly know where I am going but I also need to rightly identify who I am in Christ and where I am at in this journey.  I believe that there are 5 cycles or passages to our spiritual destiny and many different phases even within those passages.

LEADERSHIP

To these at the leadership level, suddenly the achiever/over-achiever has finally reached their personal goals and now their heart turns to multiplication and duplication because they have come to the reality they are producing all they can from their own efforts.  So, in order to be more productive, they now step into a place of management and leadership. 

They have no problem managing themselves and have proved that at the achievement level, now they have to refocus their energy with equipping and empowering others.  Now the focus is not on how well they do it, but how well can they teach and coach others to do it.  At the Leadership level a person begins to mentor others in their gifting and calling. The purpose of the five-fold leader in the church described in Ephesians 4: 11, 12 is to perfect the saints to do the work of the ministry for the edification of the body.

At the achievement level, they are so focused on their own results, they have no time left or desire to sow into that next generation.  It requires different personality skills, motivational skills, and conflict resolution skills at this level, because it is about preparing, perfecting, equipping and motivating others toward their peak performance.

Now the goal is no longer what I can do, but what we can do.  Everything is no longer my vision, but our vision.  There is also a great turn in the heart of the man or woman, out of the heart of the lion and ministry of the ox, to the heart of the father, and the vision of the eagle seeing the potential of others, and deriving personal satisfaction, from the achievement of others rather than self.

In this phase of my personal journey I instruct others. Here is the progression as I instruct:

1.    I do, and you watch;
2.    Then we do together;
3.    Then you do and I watch. 

Many times the best leaders; the best coaches are not always the highest achiever.  But it is the one that has patience to walk with and work with others.