A Leadership Insight from Vision Multiplier International https://visionmultiplierllc.com/
I was reflecting on these scriptures this morning and my heart began to consider ways we, as leaders, can maintain strong mental health in this season.
Sometimes we get so bogged down by endless “to do” lists or our peace is disturbed by our “not yet done” list or maybe we worry about our “what should I be doing” list.
These can all be tools used by Satan to steal our joy, our peace and ultimately weaken our resolve and ability to fight – if we allow it.
I believe and declare that we choose to pursue the thoughts of Christ!
Scripture teaches us several strategies for success:
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
Strategy #1 – Don’t go at it alone:
“For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them. [Exod. 3:14.]”
Matthew 18:20 AMPC
““How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had given them up? “For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves judge this.”
Deuteronomy 32:30-31 AMP
“Bear (endure, carry) one another’s burdens and troublesome moral faults, and in this way fulfill and observe perfectly the law of Christ (the Messiah) and complete what is lacking [in your obedience to it].
For if any person thinks himself to be somebody [too important to condescend to shoulder another’s load] when he is nobody [of superiority except in his own estimation], he deceives and deludes and cheats himself.
But let every person carefully scrutinize and examine and test his own conduct and his own work. He can then have the personal satisfaction and joy of doing something commendable [in itself alone] without [resorting to] boastful comparison with his neighbor.
For every person will have to bear (be equal to understanding and calmly receive) his own [little] load [of oppressive faults].”
Galatians 6:2-5 AMPC
Strategy #2- Control our thoughts with focused effort:
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…”
Proverbs 23:7a KJV
“Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.”
Proverbs 4:23 AMPC
“Delight thyself also in the LORD; And he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Commit thy way unto the LORD; Trust also in him; And he shall bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, And thy judgment as the noonday.”
Psalm 37:4-6 KJV
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
John 14:27 KJV
“Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.”
Philippians 4:6 AMPC
Strategy #3 – Think on paper:
“The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.”
Jeremiah 30:1-2 KJV
“And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”
Habakkuk 2:2 KJV
“And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.”
Deuteronomy 17:18-20 KJV
Selah
In closing, as we meditate on the Lord’s revealed plans for us, we get a glimpse of His thoughts, a sense of His peace and clarity that others can’t understand!
God’s mercy and truth cuts through ALL the confusion:
“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the table of thine heart:
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding In the sight of God and man.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.”
Proverbs 3:3-6 KJV
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”
John 16:13 KJV
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 2:12, 16 KJV
Be Blessed!
Be a Blessing!
“Let the wicked leave (behind) his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion (mercy) on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts higher than your thoughts.
“For as the rain and snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth, Making it bear and sprout, And providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater, [2 Cor 9:10]”
Isaiah 55:7-10 AMP
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