received 16th June 2005, exhortation to leaders

Dear all,

The attached for your reflection and prayer. Since the beginning of this year,when i prayed abt what God will say to us as leaders and what we need to take heed, i felt that over the past few mths, time & time again over prayer, God is saying, "I want My people to be holy". Although the speaker did not speak on holiness, i was thankful that Adriel addressed the issue on sat nite during the retreat.

What did you hear my friends over the retreat??? The words, "...getting rid of the accursed things in our lives..." kept ringing in my ears even till now. I believe that it is by removing the idols and sins, esp habitual sins(strongholds) in our lives that keep us pure and blameless before God and men. Our words are powerless to the youths unless we live up to what we preach.

The book written by Henry Blackaby on, "Holiness, God's Plan for fullness of life" address the problem 1st with, the loss of the fear of God. Some of us who are Christians for many years and may find that the problem with loss of fear of God is very real. I don't know about you, I been reading books on the Dark side of leadership cos' i need to examine my own spiritual life and guard my heart from pride, self-righteousness, etc... Let us walk humbly before the Lord.

Thanks to all of you for making this retreat a meaningful one. This is again the beginning, the outcome of the ministry will very much depend on how we live our lives and respond to our God. Sure we've learned a lot from the book of Joshua.

All by the grace of God,
Sandy


The attachment:
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1 Corinthians 3:11 Build Foundation : Jesus Christ

How do we see the ministry?

We are building a spiritual house unto the Lord.

We are fighting a spiritual war.

If you see the ministry as an organisation/company, then we will run it like the world -- and form more committees etc...

If we want to build a ministry, we play by different rules.


What are the spiritual rules?


Rule No

1) Spirit gives birth to Spirit & flesh gives birth to flesh.
Jn 3 : 6

If we run the ministry by the flesh, then we'll produce flesh.

Joshua 5:13-15 God was preparing Joshua to possess the Promised Land. He taught Joshua the principles.

1st principle -- God is in-charge. Not you or me.
God says, "I am in charge" and you are to enquire from me God sets the agenda

2nd principle ? God says, "Take off you sandals, for this is holy ground."

Joshua 7
Attack at Ai, Joshua consulted his committee and did not consult God.
Anything that we do without consulting God gives birth to flesh. Only spirit gives birth to spirit. Joshua and His people defected at Ai.
Achan's sins -- It was exactly the two things that the Lord taught Joshua at Josh 5:13-15.
1st -- "You did not consult Me"
2nd -- covetousness -- no holiness. Result 36 men died.

As a Leadership -- We need to deal with the accused things in our lives.
1) There is pride in our ministry -- we've an issue here.
God is the one In-charge.
2) Sexual Immorality
3) Unforgiveness
4) Anger?etc.

We need to:
1) give up our rights.
2) total surrender
3) surrender our will and say, "not mine but Yours be done".


Search me O God and see if there is any sins within me. When there is sins in my life -- no anointing.

Only a Spirit-filled leader can produce a Spirit-filled youth


The price of sin in our lives is a price too great to pay because you and I have to pay with the souls? of our youths (that's the price)

2nd thing (principle)

God sets the agenda

2 Chronicles 20
What do we do when we're in trouble?
King Jehoshaphat fell on his knees and prayed
Stand still & see the salvation of the Lord
The Holy Spirit is interceding for us all the time.
Transformed leaders for transformed youths.

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