Spirit Empowered Leadership Final Exam

Four Hidden Gems of Leadership Success

1. Hard Work- Discipline
2. Attitude
*3. Savvy and Resilience*
4. Favor

Resource Strategy

A significant part of leadership is the capacity to obtain and steward *resources*.

Your ability to endure __________________ and ______________ will be critical to leadership success.

criticism and pain

__________ is a special grace upon an individual and an invisible quality that leads to visible results.

Favor

Spirit-empowered Christianity is the ______________________________________________ in the world.

fastest-growing religious movement

And Jesus _________ in wisdom and stature, and in _________ with God and man.

grew, favor

Luke 2:52

And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Leadership requires a _______________.

team

Humility is the opposite of pride; .........

not self-exalting or self-promoting.

The country of ____________ have the largest population of spirit-empowered leaders. (2020)

Brazil

A leader's _____________ is critical for success. Without it, you will not be able to make it through the difficult times. (MORE PASSION, MORE ENERGY)

passion

You must rely upon the Holy Spirit to be...

the leader God has called you to be.

Spirit dependent

spirit empowered

"If you are unwilling to feel people's pain, you are not ready to lead them"

Billy Willy/William Wilson

Azusa Street Revival began in ___________ led by

1906, William Seymour

(the SEA has REVIVAL in CALIFORNIA)

First Great Awakening in America took place during when?

(1730s-1742)

First Great Awakening in America was led by who?

Johnathan Edwards and George Whitefield

Second Great Awakening in America took place during when?

(1790-1840)

What happened during the Second Great Awakening in America?

Cane Ridge Revival and Camp Meetings

(we eat Cains on the ridge in the Camp SECOND)

First wave

Pentecostalism

Second wave

Charismatic Movement

Third wave

Neo-Pentecostal and Neo-Charismatic Churches

Dennis Bennet

- Easter 1960
- Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church
- Announced his baptism in the Holy Spirit

Dennis Bennet, Easter 1960

Announced as an EPISCOPAL PRIEST his baptism in the Holy Spirit

Oral Roberts provided a new vocabulary

1) *Prayer language*
2) Point of Contact
3) *Seed Faith*

The Holiness Revival of the 19th Century

- *Pheobe Palmer-Shorter Way*
- Charles Finney
- Keswick Movement

Charles Fox Parham

(1873-1929)
Started a Bible school in Topeka, KS

"Leaders aren't born they are ________. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."

made

"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."

Vince Lombardi

"Your ______________, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

attitude

"Your ATTITUDE, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

Zig Ziglar

"Attitude is the ______________ of your future. It determines your destiny."

prophet

"Attitude is the PROPHET of your future. It determines your destiny."

Johnny Creasong

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: To choose one's attitude in any given set of __________________________, to choose one's way."

circumstances

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: To choose one's attitude in any given set of CIRCUMSTANCES, to choose one's way."

Viktor Franki
(Nazi concentration camp survivor)

"He who is good for making ______________ is seldom good for anything else."

excuses

"He who is good for making EXCUSES is seldom good for anything else."

Ben Franklin

"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is __________."

going

"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is GOING."

Joe Namath,
former New York Jets quarterback

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your _______ on the ground."

feet

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your FEET on the ground."

Theodore Roosevelt,
US president

"Leaders are VISIONARIES with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."

Robert Jarvik

"Leaders are ______________ with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."

visionaries

In order to be a successful young leader,...

you must be ROOTED IN THE SECRET PLACE

The Azusa Street Revival proclaimed...

1) Justification by Faith
2) Sanctification as an instant second blessing
3) Baptism in the Holy Spirit with Tongues as "Bible Evidence"

Knowledge doubles every ___ _____________.

12 hours

Martin Luther wrote the 95 theses (Wittenberg October 31, 1517)

1) Grace alone
2) Faith alone
3) *SCRIPTURE ALONE*

Assets of a Leader

1) Motivational Goal
2) Practical Plan
3) Committed Team
4) Resource Strategy
5) Strong Resolve
6) Powerful Partner

(need to know all of them)

1856: Sought the Vice-Presidential nomination at his party's national convention & got less than 100 votes (Ran for Vice President and lost)

1858: Ran for U.S. Senate again & again he lost (Ran for US Senate and lost

1860: Elected president of the United States

Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom's instruction is to fear the Lord, and ______________ comes before ___________.

humility, honor

Proverbs 15:33

Wisdom's instruction is to fear the Lord, and HUMILITY comes before HONOR.

What should happen if a leader fails morally?

Embrace repentance.

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

Ronald Reagan

Leaders are ___________________ _________________. People don't like change. Therefore, many times, people don't like leaders.

change agents

ORU MISSION Statement

"Developing Holy Spirit-empowered leaders through whole person education to impact the world."

ORU VISION Statement

"Raise up your students to hear my voice, to go where my light is dim, where my voice is heard small, and my healing power is not known. Even to the uttermost bounds of the earth. Their work will exceed yours, and in this I am well pleased."

Two Common Traps of a Young Leader

Entitled/Prideful
Insecure/Fearful

A person who is empowered by the Holy Spirit to serve others by _____________ them in turning vision into reality and _______________________ them to cooperate together in reaching a worthy goal.

leading, influencing

A Holy Spirit-empowered Leader is:

A person who is empowered by the Holy Spirit to serve others by LEADING them in turning vision into reality and INFLUENCING them to cooperate together in reaching a worthy goal.

We are empowered by the Holy Spirit with...

*1. Supernatural Insight*
*2. Extraordinary Wisdom*
3. Spiritual Authority
*4. Notable Integrity*
5. Personal Giftedness
6. Exceptional Courage
7. Exemplary Resilience
8. Astonishing Love for People

Acts 1:8

But you will receive POWER when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my WITNESSES in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Four frames for decision making

*1) Structures*
*2) Resources*
*3) Politics*
*4) Symbols*

Threats that limit us

1) Fear
2) Toxic environment
3) Identity threat
4) Negative voice
5) Over commitment