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Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'

Henry Blackaby

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Henry Blackaby
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 15
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Ultimately
Leadership

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All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the great fruit of revival. In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven.
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When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers.Leaders who begrudge people the opportunity to seek God themselves and who do not actively teach their people how to hear God's voice have disqualified themselves as spiritual leaders.
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If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!
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You cannot go with God and stay where you are.
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It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.
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People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
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We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).
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Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.
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What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.
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If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.
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The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory.
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Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
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Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.
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If things are getting darker, the problem is with us.
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We were not saved from our sin simply so that we would qualify for heaven. God delivered us so we would have a relationship with Him through which He could carry out His mission to redeem a lost world.
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Watch to see where God is working and join Him in His work.
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Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
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Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.
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Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.
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If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
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