Monday, February 04, 2008

lead like Jesus

yoyoyo! haha. am reading this book that i got for my birthday(thanks again! haha=P i realli love it alot! haha) its called "Lead Like Jesus" its really a great book and i realli enjoy it alot and learned alot from it alot as well. bt i haven been reading it consistently =x and so i've decided to read it daily, even if its just abit haha so i would learn something new on how to lead Like Jesus. and share about what i learn here as well.

firstly, this book as its title teaches us how to lead(like duh!). Leading ourselves, our people, people around us and our family.

What is a leader?
-Anyone who has certain influences over someone's life.

basically this book teaches us hw to lead everything that i've named above like how Jesus does it.

And now. i shall share abit on what i've learned from reading the book for around 1hour i think.

Personal Leadership
Effective leadership starts from the inside. And so it starts from knowing ourselves better.
Two critical questions asked:
Whose am I?
Some questions you can ask yourself
-Why we do the things we do? And who do we do it for?

Who am I?
Some questions you can ask yourself
-What is our life purpose? or rather what has God called us to do / fulfill? And to what extent do we live a life that God wants us to live the most.

there are alot of examples given in the book on how Jesus or His disciples did personal leadership. shall share just one of them on Paul(previously Saul) met Jesus on the road to Damascus(Acts 9:5) was blinded etc. he knew who Jesus was and decided to follow Him, he knew God's word well as he was educated as a teacher and lawyer in Jerusalem. though he made a commitment but it did not mean that Paul was ready to minister to God's people yet. so he went away to spend time with God and fixing his thoughts with what he experienced of God.

after that Paul was readied and fully surrendered to God and His plans for Paul. Paul was then able to bring God's word alive in his life as he obeyed what he knew of God's word.


And so the practical point for me:
-Take some time out to spend time with God. make sure of my purpose and direction in life, and what God has called me to do. and apply it to the way i do things.
-Be more conscious of how i live my life. evaluating it. so that it would become a life that slowly transforms into the life that God wants me to live.

if today you feel somewhat disconnected from God, maybe you have not been exactly living a life that God wants you to live. one that is lived out based on what God's word says=)


praise God for some new insights He's given to me! as i was one of those that felt somewhat disconnected from God. and without realising it, i wasnt living a life that was fully according to God's will! by God's grace, we will be able to live a life that is more and more according to God's will and word!


Living life according to the way God wants it to be is a choice. and not everytime its an easy choice, the hard ones are the ones that helps us to grow more. and so i want to make more hard decisions for God=) jiayou everyone! in the harvest period, a growth is definitely needed to contain the harvest!

[God is moving like crazy everywhere in East and throughout the world.]

aloy; 12:53 AM