Wow! what a journey of soul searching Jesus is taking us on....Let's recap:

We have talked about the importance of looking inward, searching our heart and motives for all we do in Leadership, we have asked ourselves is our leadership a display of servanthood or self edification.

We have reached way down in all sincerity and searched our heart for honesty and integrity and then we looked to see our agenda, was it our own or was it God's...and we layed ourselves down at His feet in repentance, and now we are seeking to please only Him.

We are not looking at our own abilities nor comparing ourselves to others for we have learned that each one of us has our own God given destiny, and He has

prepared for each of us our own canvas as God himself brings to life His own masterpiece out of our lives.

And last, we learned that His view of ministry and our view have been altered through man made views of religion and He has called us to repent and wipe the slate of our heart clean and remove all the man made scales from our eyes and pray to see through His.

So Here we are at Leadership #6....Here we are now

finally understanding that as a leader our first and foremost desire has to be to follow the mandate that Jesus gave to us to serve rather than be served,

And the other huge revelation that we have come to understand is that because we now realize this, our adversary the devil is now unleashing all he has to try and make us ego driven and self serving.

BUt let us not mis-represent humility for weakness, For even Jesus' humility came from the fact that He knew who He was, where He came from and where He was going.

That permitted Him to love and lead unconditionally,

with true faith and authority, all confidence,standing strong without waivering...why...because when you have come to this place, where finally you have reliquished all of yourself to Him, this is when you truly know without any shadow of doubt that you are standing in His power and not your own.

This place we have struggled through some hard soul searching messages to get to, it is because once you stand here my friends, pastors and leaders, if you have truly made this journey in all truth and sincerity

you will understand what Jesus meant when He said I in My Father, My Father in Me and I in you...

Jesus always knew the Father unconditionally loved Him, that gave Him confidence to stay focused on the reason He had come...

John 15:9

As the Father has loves me, so have I loved you. Now

remain in My love.

Colossians 3:15

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.

What a blessing it is to live each day knowing that through Jesus we have access to such peace with God that goes beyond our ability to understand.

And our peace and our confidence is no longer based on our abilities or our success in the eyes of man, but in our abilities to surrender all to God.

Now we have moved completely away from comparing ourselves to others to being totally content with who we are and whose we are.

Now we have moved from an unsure foundation and uncertain truth to seeking all truth with an open heart and an open mind.

Now we are at the place where God can use us mightily...Our faith can reach out and move mountains and we can stand strong in the power of His might.

Mark 11:22

Have faith in God," Jesus answered, " I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, Go throw yourself into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen,it will be done for him.

Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have recieved it, and it will be yours.

Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 2:6

God will give to each person according to what he has done. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory,honor and immortality, He will give eternal life.

Amen!!!  Amen!!! Amen!!!

This is the key " Have FAITH IN GOD!!!

Listen if we can ever get ourself out of the way,

it empowers us to release our faith, why?

Because we know ourselves better than anybody else, it does not matter what we may portray to others on the outside, we may have everyone believing we are the most perfect person in the world but you see, when you stand alone looking in the mirror of who you really are, you know all of your faults and failures better than anyone, except God, and the devil who stands always as the accuser of the bretheren,  and thats what He does, and He uses your own faults and failures to dampen your faith, not because you don't believe God can do it, but because you don't believe God will do it for you.

But you see when we totally empty ourselves out to God is when we find GREAT FAITH IN GOD!!!

Because we finally realize it does not depend on who we are or what we've done but it is GOD who is faithful.....

in spite of us...we see the truth about ourselves, that we will never be worthy enough to live up to God's divine plan for our lives, but yet it will be through His

strength, love and mercy, and all that Jesus died to give us...it's already ours...even though we don't deserve it...Jesus already took the chastisement of

our sin upon Him and bought our freedom by His own

precious blood.

That is why we can stand strong in FAITH and know that we will be successful and accomplish all of God's divine masterpeice that He has created individually just for you and me...we all have a part in His divine master plan...but to get there we must forsake all of ourselves and who we are, and enter into the realm of FAITH knowing who GOD is and what He has done.

          " OUR GOD IS MIGHTY TO SAVE "