As Church Leaders

As church leaders, we feel the need to be strong, confident and confident and competent. The result of this can be that we leave no room for the Holy Spirit to be strong through us. There is a right kind of weakness that causes us properly lean upon the Holy Spirit and depends upon His anointing in our lives. This is how ministry is done by His power, and not our own.

Let us see some scriptural examples, meditating upon the truth in each one:

Jesus

Isaiah 53:1-6

1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Acts 3:18

But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer.

Hebrews 5:9

And, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him

Hebrews 12:2

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Chorus - Cross

Calvary has drawn to Him;

There for He died.

And I rest beneath its shadow,

Satisfied.