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Greetings,
Leaders create pathways that others can walk in. Leaders take footsteps for the sake of those they lead. Leaders are a gift to those they lead but it is important that each believer is able to find their own footprints in the pathways that leaders create. In a sense, proper leadership creates footsteps that others can find their footprints within. In other words, God gives us leaders so that each of us can find our role in a corporate plan of God.
The apostle Paul addressed the fact that those in his sphere of influence were the fruit of a spiritual letter written whin his heart by God. What God put in his heart was not for himself but for something that God was doing in a greater way by His Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
Paul confirmed that the purpose of a spiritual letter is to express Christ, its source is the Spirit of the living God, and the parchment of the letter is the corporate heart of divinely joined believers. He professed a dependency upon Holy Spirit to participate in the administration of this letter to see the corporate expression of this letter become a living reality.
A key to leadership is a submission to Holy Spirit in all that God desires to write as a corporate expression of Chist identity, testimony, and purpose. For this reason, the identity, testimony, and purpose of every leader is connected to those they lead. They lead for the sake of those that God divinely joins them to in life. God is not merely interested in us leading some generic Christian ministry. God is prophetic and every expression that He creates is meant to influence the world in a prophetic way.
I believe that God has many spiritual letters to fulfill His prophetic purposes in our world. A spiritual letter is not the fruit of leadership skill. It is the fruit of a personal relationship with God that empowers and inspires each one to be a part of something greater than themselves. For this reason, Holy Spirit has the supreme authority in the life of every leader and every believer. The direction of Holy Spirit in our lives is more important than learned methods or practices of ministry. Not knowing what we are doing as leaders is a requirement for our dependency upon Holy Spirit in every season of our leading others in being expressions of the body of Christ in specific ways.
We need God’s plan in every situation of our lives. Turning to the Lord is the secret to becoming what the Lord desires. Turning to the Lord is made possible by our connection to Holy Spirit within us. Every measure of God’s glory is a testimony of God’s purpose and plan.
2 Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Leader’s turn to the Lord every day and they lead others in this as well. The footsteps of leaders are discovered by turning to the Lord for His direction of life. A leader’s footsteps create pathways that others can follow. Believers find their footprints in the footsteps of leaders when they too turn to the Lord in their hearts. Christ in humanity includes the spiritual letters of God’s choosing.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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