THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP BY DR.MYLES MUNROE PRINCIPLES AND SCRIPTURE REFERENCES CHAPTER FOUR

 


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THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP

CHAPTER FOUR PRINCIPLES


1. True leadership is not a method, a technique, or a science but an attitude.


2. Having the spirit of leadership means that you understand and demonstrate the mind-set of a leader.


3. You have to choose to fulfill your leadership nature.


4. Manifesting the spirit of leadership is a matter of discovering and nurturing your true self so that you naturally evidence your leadership nature.


5. You cannot rise above the plane of your mental conditioning. To change your life, you must change your mind.


6. There is nothing more important than the source of our thoughts.


7. When your philosophy, beliefs, thoughts, and convictions are based on the way you were created to think, you will naturally rule over your environment and fulfill your life’s purpose.


8. Our attitude toward life is largely a result of our self-concept or the picture we have of ourselves.


9. We are meant to see ourselves as being made in the image and likeness of our Creator and as having his nature.


10. Our thoughts and feelings about ourselves are determined by our self-worth. Since the Creator made us in his image and likeness, our value is a reflection of his value.


11. We can’t lead if we depend on others to give us value, but only if we recognize our own inherent worth and what we have been given to offer others.


12. True leadership gives people a cause, a reason for living, and a sense of significance that gives meaning to their lives so that they feel necessary and purposeful. It gives them an outlet for expressing their own gifting.


13. In order to manifest the spirit of leadership, we have to acknowledge how our attitudes toward ourselves impact our relationships with others.


14. Self-esteem is your estimation of your value to the world. It is how you regard yourself in terms of your contribution and usefulness to others.


15. True leaders believe that they are needed by their generation and the world.


16. The greatest discovery in human experience is self-discovery.


17. Your leadership attitude—or spirit of leadership—will come alive when you discover and start living according to your true nature.


18. The best way to discover yourself is to discover God. When a person gets to know his Creator, and finally comes to know himself, then his leadership is born.


19. You don’t really believe something until it gets into your heart or subconscious mind.


20. The most important pursuit in life is the pursuit of truth.


21. What you believe is essential to your life because you live out of your heart; you see through your heart; you interpret through your heart; you judge through your heart.


22. Developing the spirit of leadership means correcting what you have heard because much of what you have previously heard and accepted as truth has negatively influenced your image of yourself, your beliefs about your worth, and how you have lived your life.


23. Your subconscious attitude affects your altitude: The height to which your heart aspires depends on the information that is in it.


24. No one can live beyond the limits of his beliefs. Your life is what you think it should be.


25. The beliefs and convictions of a leader regulate the nature of his leadership.


SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
CHAPTER FOUR


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Proverbs 23:7
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.

Deuteronomy 6:5
5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Matthew 22:36
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

Matthew 22:39
39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’


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1 John 4:20
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?


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Matthew 12:34-35
34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 
35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.


Matthew 15:18-20
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 
20 These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”


Luke 6:45
45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.


Genesis 6:5
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.


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Proverbs 3:3
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart,


Proverbs 16:1
16 The preparations of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.


Jeremiah 17:10
10 I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.


Hebrews 4:12
12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.


1 Samuel 16:7
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”


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Matthew 6:21;Luke 12:34
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.


Matthew 18:35
35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”


Matthew 22:37
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.’


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Mark 11:23
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.


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Proverbs 4:23
23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of life.


Proverbs 27:19
19 As in water face reflects face,
So a man’s heart reveals the man.


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John 8:32
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”


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Romans 1:28-31
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 
30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 
31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;


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1 John 1:5
5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.


Proverbs 20:27
27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.


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Psalm 18:28
28 For You will light my lamp;
The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.


Luke 11:33
33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.

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