THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP BY DR.MYLES MUNROE SCRIPTURE REFERENCES CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER THREE

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THE LEADERSHIP SPIRIT

CHAPTER PRINCIPLES

1. To exercise leadership, you must believe that you are inherently a leader.

2. The leadership spirit is the inherent leadership capacity and potential that is the essential nature of human beings. The spirit of leadership is the mind-set or attitudes that accompany a true leadership spirit and allow the dormant leadership potential to be fully manifested and maximized.

3. Trapped within every follower is a hidden leader.

4. Our leadership capacity is buried under social, cultural, and ideological perceptions that restrict, discourage, and hinder its manifestation.

5. The leadership spirit is the intrinsic capacity of the human spirit to lead, manage, and dominate, which was placed there at the point of creation and made necessary by the purpose and assignment for which man was created.

6. Leadership is not something that human beings have to strive for; it is something that is inherent within us because of our purpose and design.

7. When we become our true selves, we will naturally be leaders.

8. If something is created to do something, it is designed with the ability to do it.

9. Humanity was designed with the natural components or “circuitry” to dominate its environment.

10. God’s requirement that we dominate is evidence that the ability to lead is inherent in every human spirit.

The secret to leadership greatness is in serving others.

To become the great leader that you were created and destined to become, you must discover your unique inherent gift and assignment (your original purpose) and serve that to the world of mankind.

12. THE PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP

(1) leadership is predetermined and not a preference; 

(2) leadership is a prepared

position; 

(3) leadership demands a price; 

(4) leadership is

inherent; 

(5) leadership is a divine deposit; 

(6) leadership

is not for you but for others; 

(7) leadership is becoming

your true self for the benefit of others.

13. NATURE OF THE LEADERSHIP SPIRIT 

(1) manager of one’s environment; 

(2) exerter of influence; and 

(3) comfortable with power.

14. When Jesus said, “In my Father’s house, there are many mansions,” he was referring to the permanent restoration of our spiritual standing or position with God, which also reestablished our place of authority and power on the Earth.

15. FOUR ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE CREATOR AS WELL AS THE LEADERSHIP SPIRIT

(1) omnipotence, 

(2) omniscience,

(3) omnipresence, and 

(4) integrity.

16. The leadership spirit is the essence of the spirit-man, who can comprehend his identity only from relating to his Source.

17. SIGNS OF RECONNECTION WITH THE LEADERSHIP SPIRIT 

(1) a comfortableness in the Creator’s company, 

(2) an otherworldly confidence, 

(3) an internal soundness and security, and 

(4) a natural love for all human beings.

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SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

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Genesis 1:11-12

11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 

12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:20-22

20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 

21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 

22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

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Genesis 1:24-25

24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 

25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:26

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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Genesis 1:26

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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Matthew 20:20-26

20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.

21 And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She said to Him, “Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom.”

22 But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to Him, “We are able.”

23 So He said to them, “You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father.”

24 And when the ten heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers.

25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 

26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.

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Matthew 20:26-28

26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 

27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— 

28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

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Genesis 12:2-3

2 I will make you a great nation;I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

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Deuteronomy 8:18

18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

1 Timothy 6:10

10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Luke 10:21

21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

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Matthew 14:28-29

28 And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”

29 So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.

Mark 6:7-13

7 And He called the twelve to Himself, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits. 

8 He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts— 

9 but to wear sandals, and not to put on two tunics.

10 Also He said to them, “In whatever place you enter a house, stay there till you depart from that place. 

11 And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

12 So they went out and preached that people should repent. 

13 And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.

Matthew 20:25-28

25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 

26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.

27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave— 

28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

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1 Timothy 3:1

1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.

1 Timothy 3:2-12

2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; 

3 not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence 

5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); 

6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 

7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8 Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money, 

9 holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. 

10 But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being found blameless. 

11 Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 

12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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John 14:1-2

1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 

2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

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Jude 6

6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;

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Acts 1:8

8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be [a]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

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1 Corinthians 13:12

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

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Genesis 3:8

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

John 18:33

33 Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

John 18:36

36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.”

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Luke 23:34

34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots.

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1 John 4:8-9

8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 

9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

1 John 4:20-21

20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 

21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

Matthew 22:37-40

37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 

38 This is the first and great commandment. 

39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”