Born To Lead

INTRODUCTION

You and I are born to leadership is the part of our make up,is the purpose for our creation,the gene is in us. Both the disappointing part is that we are misappropriating our leadership grace.

Imagine a leader that want to forcefully make his or her followers to do his or her biddings.

The leadership position is SERVANTHOOD position. If you want to be a leader you must be ready to serve like Jesus Christ served His disciples. He even said 'I not to be served but to serve. Likewise we that we said we are taking after Him as His ministers and ambassador we must take after Him in service.

But d disappointing part is that we are misappropriating our leadership grace

TEXT : GEN. 1:26-31

From NLT

26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

27 So God created human beings in his own image.     In the image of God He created them;     male and female He created them.

28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”

29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.

30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.

31 Then God looked over all He had made, and He saw that it was very good!And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.

The book of Genesis is loaded with a lot of message and purpose

• Marriage

• Leadership

• Church

• Unity..... But leadership is my concern here.

  If you read it very I don't think there is place where God said man should rule over man.

OBSERVATIONS FROM TEXT ON LEADERSHIP.

Below are some points that suggest our God-given leadership potentials.

1. Being made in God's image means we were created to lead. V26.

After God says, 'Let Us make man image,' He says, "Let them have Dominion. One of the way we reflect God's image is leading.

God is initiator and leader of all, if we will resemble Him in His ATTRIBUTE then we are leader.

This verse is telling us that humanity created by God are leader.

1. God commanded both male and female to have DOMINION. V27.

Dominion means power or the use of power, sovereignty over something, stewardship, supremacy.....

V27 both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific not gender biased. To think that women are fragile or weak and make them redundant is against the initial purpose of God. The place of HEADSHIP and AUTHORITY of men over women cannot be erased, but women also are leader.

It is pity that some men believe that nothing good can come from women thereby turning to second class citizen and bench them in the society. As you are leading in your capacity as men so, also, women have are of functionality as well. Don't forget male and female He created them. For what? to have Dominion.

We are leader because God is a leader

1. We to rule over the, but not necessarily over each other. V28.

We were not directed to rule each other,but over the earth creatures. Read the text again. But men and women have perverted their God-given roles by trying to rule each other. Sin in man open up an opportunity to the devil to rules after the fall thereby he put the same spirit of RULERSHIP in us for the demonstration of his will. But thank God for God and Jesus. We are to rule over the earth,animals...... not on each other.

Leadership is not the same as rulership. Leadership is servanthoodness. Jesus said anyone who want be oga must be the servant. No wonder Jesus was their master, because served them,washes thier foot......

1. All of us are to serve one another in the are of our and purpose. V29,30.

God created everything for a purpose. Our general purpose is to lead, but each of us should ask God, what is my specific purpose. There is a particular area where you the one that can lead there. You are the only servant that can fit into the needed responsibility there. That is why women have their own are of ministry where God wants them to serve(lead). When you locate your specific gift it will define your office.

Any minister of God with a special call are called servant of God either pastor, prophet,evangelist..... we are all servant or leader nobody is inferior or superior. Pastor cannot do the work of pastoring, singing and ushering at the same time.

What make Jesus a master or boss is His serving attitude

1. Each person's leadership is best exercised in his or her area of giftedness v31.

We will discover our gifts,we will naturally lead in those areas where we are most productive, comfortable, influencial and satisfied. Leadership is not issue of fighting, envying, mocking at all, because when everyone discover his or her area of leadership you focus on it without any chance to wasting your time on other people's assignment.

CONCLUSION

In our nation Nigerian a particular nation use Born To Rule as their slogan until it was changed. Let's say they use Born To Lead or Born To serve I would have give them kudos.

The same mentality is what we are seeing in the church today. We want to rule others not ready to serve. We demand respect from people because we don't have servant attitude,when you serve other your life will command respect.