FOLLOW THE LEADER
FURTHER QUOTATIONS ON
PROPHETIC LEADERSHIP
- PAIN & SACRIFICE:
- SELF-SACRIFICE: This part of the cost must be paid
daily. A cross stands in the path of spiritual leadership, and
the leader must take it up...^11
- A. W. Tozer wrote:
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to
lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of
the Holy Spirit and the press of {circumstances}...There was
hardly a great leader from Paul to the present day but was
drafted by the Holy Spirit for the task, and commissioned by
the Lord to fill a position he had little heart for...The man who
is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader
will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage, but will be
humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow
when the Spirit chooses another to lead.”^12
- God can and does magnify such gifts offered in faith. After
all, it was one little boy who gave his lunch to Jesus, but with
it God fed an entire multitude. He asks us merely to give what
we have to offer, and to trust in Him for the harvest.
Consider the names we will never see in this history, names
of men and women who had the same opportunity to act with
valor but let it pass by, who kept their provisions for themselves
instead of taking them out to David in his flight, who
stayed on the fence forever. These are the ones who remained
nobodies. These small heroes we do see are just a few out of
tens of thousands, but they were the few who remembered, who
understood, and who gave of themselves when it counted. And
so they each became a somebody, and even now we remember
them with honor...^13
- STANDING ALONE:
- Harry Truman, who embodied moral courage, once said: “How
