SHINE SERIES part 6: LEADERSHIP
Message Title: Prime Time Leadership
Text: Job 29:1-4 (NLT)
2 “I long for the years gone by when God took care of me, 3 when he lit up the way before me and I walked safely through the darkness. 4 When I was in my prime, God’s friendship was felt in my home.
Major Point:
Today, people are in need of leadership to help them navigate the difficult seasons of life, suffering, pain, loss, and calamity, and it will take a certain type of person to do so.
I want to talk to you today about PRIME TIME LEADERSHIP.
Job, the Prime Time Leader
Today, I want to talk about Job. He is a righteous man that through a set of astronomical events in his life has placed him on a bed of sufferin and He is frantically trying to understand what is happening to him and what he is going to do about it. He is a Prime Time leader but currently he doesn’t look that way.
- He’s lost his Job and work
- He’s lost his reputation in the city - everyone thinks he’s a wicked man
- He’s lost his kids and all of his success
- And He lost it all in one day!!!!!!
Now he’s sitting in misery, wishing he could go back to some sense of normalcy. *
And many people, like Job, are sitting in circumstances thinking of the same thing. Many today are in a place of suffering crying out,they are confused, and some even hopeless, and the only thing that is going to help them in this time of need is for leaders to emerge for the glory of God.
I believe this year, you will need to SHINE in LEADERSHIP and lead people again like they did in the good old days.
Prime Time Leadership Defined
Prime Time Leadership is all about leading from this place Job said he wished he could return. Listen to the verses:
Job 29:1-4 (NLT)
2 “I long for the years gone by when God took care of me, 3 when he lit up the way before me and I walked safely through the darkness. 4 When I was in my prime, God’s friendship was felt in my home.
Prime (or in the days of my youth): Horef
means -
When we talk about Prime Time Leadership, we are talking about you leading from the place that God can get the most out of you
—@antione_ashley
What Prime Time Leadership LOOKS LIKE
Job 29:1-11 (NLT)
1 Job continued speaking: 2 “I long for the years gone by when God took care of me, 3 when he lit up the way before me and I walked safely through the darkness. 4 When I was in my prime, God’s friendship was felt in my home. 5 The Almighty was still with me, and my children were around me. 6 My steps were awash in cream, and the rocks gushed olive oil for me. 7 “Those were the days when I went to the city gate and took my place among the honored leaders. 8 The young stepped aside when they saw me, and even the aged rose in respect at my coming. 9 The princes stood in silence and put their hands over their mouths. 10 The highest officials of the city stood quietly,holding their tongues in respect. 11 “All who heard me praised me. All who saw me spoke well of me.
Prime Time Leadership is when one is the Autumn season of their walk with God.
- Vs 2 speaks of
- Vs 3 Speaks of
- Vs 4& 5 speaks of
- Vs 6 speaks of
- Vs 7-11 speaks of
Prime Time Leadership looks like something, but it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Prime Time Leadership is the result of
How Job ENTERED into Prime Time Leadership
Vs 12- He delivered the
Vs 13 - He helped those__ without hope__, and he helped
Vs 14 - He was
Vs 15 - He helped the
Vs 16 - He was a father to the
Vs 17 - He defended the
If you will be a Prime Time Leader, you will have to learn a few things about leadership
Leadership is not called for in times of success, but in Crisis
Leadership is not clean, neat, and pretty; rather it is dirty, yucky, and grimy
Leadership is not to be visible. It has the
The RESULTS of Prime Time Leadership
21-25 are the results of Prime Time Leadership. When you come into the best version of who God is calling you to be, you look blessed, you look, prosperous, you look well, and that is BECAUSE of the hidden sacrifices you have made and the submitted posture of your heart before God to minister to the needs of man. When your life aligns to this, you are now walking in your Prime, and there are astounding results that come from this.
Vs 21 God gave Job a heavy mantle of
“Everyone listened to my advice. They were silent as they waited for me to speak.
Vs 23 - God brought the thirsty out to Job -
When God’s hand comes upon with a sustained and consistent period of time, then people will come from all over to drink from your well.
6 Attributes of a Prime Time Leadership
Prime Time Leaders are
Prime Time Leaders are
Prime Time Leaders are comfortable in the season of
Prime Time Leaders are
Prime Time Leaders arise in times of
Prime Time Leaders do what
Jesus, our Ultimate Example of a Prime Time Leader
Like Job, Jesus was a Prime Time leader that exemplified all of the attributes of a Prime Time Leader throughout his life and ministry. And He too entered into His Prime by intentional and sacrificial actions
Luke 4:18 says, 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, 19 and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.”