Mysterious Means

June 4, 2023

Mysterious Means

Judges 6-8 CSB

Outline:

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. – John Maxwell

Judges 6.11-12

  • Gideon: valiant warrior?

vv.14-16

  • What excuses or hesitations keep us from taking steps forward?

  • God does not ask your ability or inability. He asks only your availability. – Mary Kay Ash

Leadership Lesson 1: Start where you are

“…go in the strength you have.”

  • Leading is about faith in ourselves. Leading is about faith in God.

  • Your decisions today will be the starting point for others tomorrow.

vv.36-37

 

Leadership Lesson 2: God can accomplish more with less

Judges 7.2

 

v.7

  • God’s math confounds our minds

Leadership Lesson 3: Success can become a snare

vv.17-18

 

 

 

Leadership Lesson 4: Finishing well requires faithfulness to the end

Judges 8.27

  • Ephod: garment worn by the high priest to communicate with God and discern his will

vv.33-34

 

  • A gap between giftedness and godliness…

  • Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

  • Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

à If not you, then who?

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