Open Heaven 25 May 2019: [Saturday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A
Adeboye – A Serving Leader
A SERVING LEADER – Saturday May 25th
2019
Memorise: If I then, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14
Read: John 13:12-17 (KJV)
12 So
after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments,
and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
13 Ye call me Master
and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord
and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have given you
an example, that ye should
do as I have done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The servant
is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent
him.
17 If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Bible in one year: Leviticus
4-5, Jeremiah 42:7-22, Hymnal: Sing hymn 5
Message:
Some
people don’t know the difference
between being a serving-leader and a servant-leader. A great example of a
serving leader is our Lord Jesus Christ.
OPEN HEAVEN 25 MAY 2019
He served
till the end of His earthly ministry and continues to serve even at the right
hand of power in heaven (Romans 8:34,
Hebrews 7:25). However, He is not a servant;
He actually acknowledged His status as Lord and Master in John 13:13. It is unfortunate therefore
that many followers want to make servants out of their God-ordained leaders.
Leaders are meant to server but not to be subjected to servitude!
This is what I personally describe as the “abuse of a leader”. Some people use
their leaders to their own selfish advantage, and when such a leader dies, they
jump over to another leader who they will also use to death! King Saul is a
good example of a servant-leader.
When he was confronted with his disobedience to God, he said in 1st Samuel 15:24:
“I have sinned: for I have transgressed
the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and
obeyed their voice.”
Open Heaven 25 May 2019: [Saturday] Daily Devotional By Pastor E.A Adeboye – A Serving Leader
The people
he was supposed to guide were actually the ones controlling him, and by his own
admission,
he feared them.
Open Heaven 25 May 2019 Saturday: Prayer point
This arrangement is common in
the political sphere, and cannot serve the interest of the people.
If you are in such situation, remember you will give account of your service to
God and not to a godfather. May God grant us leaders who will serve His
interest in our churches
and nations in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer Point
Father, make me a
serving-leader and not a servant of individual interests. Also, give us
serving-leaders and not servant-leaders who would lead us astray through the
fear of men.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor
E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one
of the largest evangelical Churches in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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