There are two aspects to spiritual leadership. The first is our character. Do we have integrity of heart? Are we living consistently with our values and with God’s word? Are we honest? Do we work hard? David had integrity of heart. What David believed, he practiced. He knew God was all-powerful and he put that belief to practice when he took on Goliath. His actions were perfectly in line with his beliefs.<\/p>\n
But David also had skillful hands. At times we assume that integrity is enough. It often is not. Leaders also require skills. There has been many a godly person who was a disaster as a leader! They loved the Lord, but they could not delegate or develop other leaders. They had a pure heart but were totally befuddled at dealing with those who did not. David not only possessed integrity, he also allowed God to develop his leadership skills. A skillful leader with integrity is a powerful instrument in the hands of the living God!<\/p>\n
How are you presently positioned as a leader? Is your integrity firmly in place? Are your actions consistent with your beliefs? What new leadership skills have you developed recently? Are you continuing to grow as a leader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. Psalm 78:72<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15299,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/15299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}