FACTS – RED LIGHT… GREEN LIGHT

FACTS – RED LIGHT… GREEN LIGHT

²³ The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. ²⁴Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand.

Psalm 37:23-24

“The most important and the most challenging person you will ever have to lead is yourself.”

WHY AM I SO HARD TO LEAD?

• Wrong .
• Personal .
• Unchecked .
• Weak .

WHAT IS LEADERSHIP: .

Influence produces movement – movement requires change – and change always inflicts pain. (routine, energy, focus, money, time, priorities)

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. ⁶ Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

Proverbs 3:5-6

PRACTICAL STEPS TO LEADING YOURSELF

1. Start a new .

¹⁶ Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

Colossians 3:16

        2. Stop doing .

¹Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.

Hebrews 12:1

“If you stopped doing this one thing your life would be infinitely better.”

        3. a relationship to in other than you.

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Proverbs 27:17

²⁶ When Priscilla and Aquila heard him preaching boldly in the synagogue, they took him aside and explained the way of God even more accurately.

Acts 18:26

        4. Disrupt your life with a new .

²² Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice. ²³ If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are.

James 1:22-23 (GNT)

        5. Find a personal .

⁹ Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

Philippians 4:9

²² Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many advisers bring success.

Proverbs 15:22

        6. Take a .

⁷ “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. ⁸ They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8