King sher Leadership
1st February 2022
Kingfisher Leadership news Equipping leaders for 2022 and beyond Resilience is NOT: We have just released our Vision for 2022, which focusses on us being in our 30th year this year, and how signi cant that is as a milestone in the Bible. • Just carrying on regardless (‘It is useless for you to work so hard om early morning until late at night, anxiously It is the year in a person’s life when that person is working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved deemed to have come of age and is expected to move into adult responsibility and when he or she ones.’ (Psalm 127:2) moves into the ministry that they have been •Refusing to change to a new mode of prepared for. That step is not ministry (‘Forget the former things…’ completely out of the blue, but rather makes sense of all that has Isaiah 43:18-20) happened before.
Bearing this in mind, what do we really need to transition into whatever God has for us as we pass that 30-year mark? One particular word seems to be very signi cant. The word is: RESILIENCE. We need to be encouraging people in our groups and ministries and churches to grow in resilience.
Resilience is the capacity to recover from life’s dif culties.
Of course we cannot lead to a place where we have not been - we need to grow in resilience rst of all. Consequently this is very much a ‘right now’ word. Jesus spoke about resilience when He told His disciples: “In this world you wi have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)
•Sacri cing an intimacy with the Lord (‘You have lost your rst love’ Revelation 2;4) Resilience IS:
•Having a sense of purpose that will sustain you when tiredness or opposition or discouragement shout to you to give up.
•‘He who has a why can bear almost any how’. For Paul, every step he took had purpose…was leading towards his overall purpose in life. Each step was hard, but each step was worth it because each step took him closer to the ful lment of that purpose. Each step was seen in the context of that purpose.
“So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. 27 I discipline my body like an athlete, What is resilience? It is the capacity to recover training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that a er from life’s di culties. Resilience gives you the preaching to others I myself might be disquali ed.” (1 ability to nd meaning in the challenges life brings Corinthians 9:26-17, NLT) your way and to recover. If the purpose is really worthwhile then the cost is
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