Kingfisher Leadership News - September 2020

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Kingfisher Leadership

1st September 2020

Kingfisher Leadership news How God develops our faith for the new season When the call comes, we will need to step out into a new plan that God has for us as a leader. That ‘new plan’ will most likely have the following characteristics: PHASE 1: A DREAM God gives you a dream: an idea, goal, or ambition. Every great accomplishment first begins as a God-given dream in someone’s mind. “God is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.” Eph. 3:20 (LB)

WHEN THE CALL COMES “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Seasons change, and the role of the leader is to discern those season changes, to be ready for them and to enable those they are leading to navigate them successfully. It is a leader’s responsibility to hear when the call comes to change season and to be ready to respond.

When the call comes for ‘season change’, will you be ready?

PHASE 2: DECISION A dream is worthless until you decide to do something about it. For every ten dreamers, there’s only one decision-maker. This is the moment of truth where you decide to invest your time, money, energy, and reputation - and to let go of security. If you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat! “You must believe and not doubt … a double-minded man is unstable in all he does.” James 1:6 and 8 (GN) PHASE 3: DELAY There is ALWAYS a time lapse before your dream becomes reality. God uses this waiting period to teach you to trust Him. Remember: a delay is not a denial. Maturity is understanding the difference between “no” and “not yet.”

Such a ‘season change’ is upon us. Whilst we are still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing sense of momentum to start meeting together physically, to look at ways of safely kickstarting ministries, to expect God to be at work in new ways among us. Are you ready? Are you ready to lead others in this new season?

When the call from God comes, am I in the right place to respond and are those I am leading in the right place to respond? The true leader doesn’t just give a sigh of resignation when they hear that groups and ministries are starting up again and reluctantly waves goodbye to their lockdown lifestyle - a leader is ready to lead forward when the call comes. There is still time to gear up to hear the call! There is still time for leaders to get things in place to enable us to hear and respond to that call. A great example of this is to be found in Samuel’s calling, which we can read about in 1 Samuel 3:1-14. The essence of the story is that Israel was in a bad way; the spiritual leaders were living compromised, worldly lives, the people were far from God, the Lord was rarely heard as a result. And yet, God was about to move - the season was about to change, and He called Samuel to be his mouthpiece. Why Samuel? Because he 1


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