(1 Peter 4:10-11 NLT) God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. 11 Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
Confession: I was made to lead
(Proverbs 22:29 NIV) Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank.
Two Kinds of Influence
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Leading Up
1.Bring the
(1 Peter 2:17-18 ESV) Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. 18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
2.Work on the
(Proverbs 15:23 NLT) Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time!
3.Check the
(Philippians 2:3-4 NLT) Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
4.Show the
(Proverbs 10:4 NLT) Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.
(James 4:17 NLT) Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.
5.Tell the
(Colossians 3:9-10 NLT) Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. 10 Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
(Philippians 2:3-11 NLT) Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. 5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. 6 Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. 7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, 8 he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. 9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.