The True Leader

For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.

(Luke 22:27 KJV)

Beloved, journey of every true leader is not just in commanding but in service. Is not just in taking but in giving, and is not in seeking for personal security but in seeking for other people’s security and welfare. Beloved, every seat of leadership is a seat of responsibility, and every leader are called to lay down their lives and wills as sacrifice for the good of their followers irrespective of what others will call us before and after the sacrifice. Christ our LORD laid down this example, as HE laid down His life for us to live; Apostle Paul said in the epistles to the Corinthian that as leaders “We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God  (Leaders) we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;  through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.  (2 Cor. 6:3 - 10 NIV).  Because, that is what leaders are born to be. Therefore beloved, as leaders, we are called to serve, if we will be a true leader, following the example of OUR SERVANT KING

Shalom.

MSG BY: Jeremiah O. Chijioke
Body of Christ Prayer Ministry, Lagos, Nigeria.