5 Minute Daily Devotions for Leaders ... C'mon Man!

5 Minute Daily Devotions for Leaders ... C'mon Man!

Leadership is about two primary activities: receiving and overflowing. As a small group leader -- as any kind of leader -- my relationship with God comes first. I first must receive from him, and when I make myself available, God gladly pours into me all the things I do not have on my own, but that those I lead need: grace, love, patience, power, compassion, and so much more. When I am receiving, I can overflow, but I cannot overflow without receiving.

Today as I read Psalm 61, I came to a significant verse:

Let me live forever in your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings! (Psalm 61:4, New Living Translation).

King David was on the run, but he yearned to be back in Jerusalem, not because that's where his palatial home was, but because that's where God's sanctuary was. To David, God's presence resided especially in the sanctuary, and David yearned to be there.

Leader, don't miss the word forever here. David longed to dwell in God's presence forever. The relationship, the fellowship, he had with God was so sweet he didn't want it to end!

Here's a tough question for us today. Do you feel the same way as you spend time with God?

Do you rush through your daily quiet time to get to the "more important" things you have to do or would you rather hang out with God a little longer, enjoying some intimate time with him? Do you schedule a 5 or 15 minute meeting with God and just do the bare minimum because you feel you should, or do you open your heart to God and desire to spend as much time as needed to enter into real fellowship with him?

I'm concerned for us, Christian leaders, that perhaps we've set our own agendas for our times with God rather than coming humbly to him seeking out his agenda and purposes for our time together. There are a number of "entry-level" devotionals out there that help beginners spend time with God. Five Minute Bible Devotionals, Five Minutes with Christ, Five Minutes a Day: 365 Daily Devotionals ... I found a bunch of these listed on Amazon. And those are fine, I suppose, for new Christians. But if you're leading others and you're still doing 5 minutes a day with God, I just want to say, "C'mon man!"

I believe that our time spent in solitude with God is THE secret to fruit-bearing ministry. You must receive before you can overflow!

How is your time with God? Are you rushing through it or, like David, do you not want it to end?

WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD?

It is that spiritual state in which the life of God and of heaven is made accessible to

men, and they enter into its enjoyment here on earth. If we ask what its marks are we

find the answer in the wondrous change we see in the life of the disciples.

The mark of a kingdom is the presence of the king. With the Holy Spirit Christ

came down to be with His disciples as really, and more nearly, than when He was

with them in the flesh. The abiding nearness and fellowship of Christ, and in Him of

God the Father, is the very central blessing of the Kingdom. This experience was

what the Holy Spirit at Pentecost made real. The disciples had their Lord with them as

consciously as the angels in heaven. His presence made heaven all around and in

them. A believer to whom a full entrance into the Kingdom is given, has the Presence

The mark of the kingdom is the rule of the king. We read, “His Kingdom ruleth

over all.” Before Pentecost the disciples could not love or be humble, could not trust

or be bold. But when the kingdom came the dominion of God prevailed, God’s

Presence through the Holy Spirit gained the victory, sin was overcome, and the will of

God done in them to pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as in

heaven,” He promised this. As the Kingdom came down with the Holy Ghost the

promise was fulfilled. And our entering into the kingdom means our being brought

into a life in which God rules over all, His will is truly and joyfully done, and all the

blessedness that reigns in heaven finds its counterpart here below. As it is written,

“The Kingdom of God is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

The mark of a kingdom is power. “The Kingdom of God is not in word but in

power.” Just think of the work these simple fishermen dared to undertake, and were

able to accomplish. Think of the weapon with which they had to do their work – the

despised Gospel of the crucified Nazarene. Think of all that God wrought through

them, and see how the coming of the Kingdom brought a new power from heaven by

which feeble men were made mighty through God, and the slaves of Satan were made

God’s holy children.

Believers! it is this Kingdom of God come from heaven we preach. We come to

tell you that a life in the presence and the will and the power of God, has been opened

up, that men have been brought to enter into it and live in it, and that you too can

enter in. There are some of you who are confessing the feebleness of your Christian

life, and the failure of all your efforts to make it better. You have believed in Jesus as

your Saviour, but of an entrance into the Kingdom as it came in power you know

nothing. I beseech you begin at once to-night and believe that there is such a life in

the kingdom here on earth. Believe that Christ’s death wrought such a wonderful and

complete redemption, and that the coming down of the Holy Spirit, nothing else but

the glorified Christ coming in the Spirit, brought down the heavenly life in such

reality, that, even as the first disciples, we can be endued with power on high. If you

will believe that, if you hold fast, there is a kingdom of heaven on earth, your desire

will be stirred to become partakers of its blessedness, and as we point out the way

how, your hope will begin to see that this life is even for you too. And you will

WHAT IS IT TO ENTER THE KINGDOM

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Genesis 1 v 28 "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitul, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have  dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth". Saints the mandate has been laid before u, after being anointed, we need to function (Hezekiel was anointedto rise the borns, therefore when he places you in that situatin, he has something in mind). Its high time we speak the, we preach the Word at ur best, because when excellency is on the stage, it demands attention. You have been too quite, some people are not given what we have been given, so what are we doing with what we have been give, to whom much is given, much is required, therefore as you will know saints, every farmer's disappointment is a vine that doesn't bear fruits, therefore allow God to work in you for you to carry out the mandate. God is calling the Abrahams of such a season, the target is earth, but before we can be used, we need to die to ourselves, unless a grain of wheat dies, it cannot multiply, we must have an element of dyin first. Perhaps what i'm really trying to elaborate on is that our mandate is to feel the earth, the Bible says that we are the salt of the world, not of our own towns, we are not saved to be alone but so that other may be saved through us. God is about his glory, when we operate at our best, the glory rises to God, John says, now that the lamb has come, i must decrease and him increase. This website is all  about "POPULATING OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM"....Pastors, saints, the mandate was given, what have we achieved? Let's carry out our father's mandate, not the promotion of our own churches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN JESUS NAME....AMEN************