Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.—Psalm 95:6-7
Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to sheep, not to cattle.
It is especially important that Christian Pastors and Shepherds know the law of the leader—that he can lead others only as far as he himself has gone...
The Leaders and Pastors must experience what he would teach or he will find himself in the impossible position of trying to drive sheep. For this reason, he should seek to cultivate his own heart before he attempts to preach to the hearts of others...
If he tries to bring them into a heart knowledge of the truth which he has not actually experienced he will surely fail. In his frustration, he may attempt to drive them, and scarcely anything is so disheartening as the sight of a vexed and confused shepherd using the lash on his bewildered flock in a vain attempt to persuade them to go on beyond the point to which he himself has attained....
The law of the leader tells us who are preachers that it is better to cultivate our souls than our voices. It is better to polish our hearts than our pulpit manners, though if the first has been done well and successfully it may be profitable for us to do the second. We cannot take our people beyond where we ourselves have been, and it thus becomes vitally important that we be men of God in the last and highest sense of that term.
"Lord, today let me stop, step off the busy treadmill, and look to the condition of my soul. Help me to listen to You and be spiritually nurtured, to have my soul cultivated by You in silence and solitude. Amen."
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This is so true, that’s why it’s important for us to know what we are called to. Leadership and especially LeaderShifters. There is a great different LeaderShifter shall bare some hard, unbelievable tasks, heart-ships, but with all that; we must endure, but know that it’s a light affliction as the scripture says in 2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. As become through it all and are on the other side and have come to God, to serve Him; we as witnesses We can say “So That”; my God you are able to go through it, it’s only for a season, only for a moment, become a true witness. Today I pray that we are able to forget about ourselves, just as Jesus and begin to truly hear and obey God. Surrender all and all the quicken of the anointing to come in, allow our own Angels to come and minister to us, trust God that He know our future, He know us and by Him knowing us, He knows we can make it through whatever is before us, Praise God!!!