I believe that it is in looking back that we are tempted to cherish our heritage while growing blind to our destiny. Nevertheless, our past performance can also instruct us. If we have done poorly, our past, painfully examined, can help us toward a better future. If we have repeatedly done something well in the past, we have established a pattern of HOPE! David, in 1 Samuel 17:34-36, remembered how well he had done with a slingshot in the past. So he proposed to transfer training. What worked with a bear would probably work with a giant, he reasoned. His slingshot methodolgy was transferable! Empowered leadership wisely makes the past its teacher. Goliath fell prey to proven principle. Empowered leadership takes good notes on life and writes all its future lectures out of past examinations!

The Beautiful People

The scripture says David was "Beautiful" (1 Samuel 16:12) David must have been one whose inner life rendered him beautiful. What is it that makes us beautiful? I know one thing ... Beautiful people are others-centered.

Self-Centeredness is ugly; altruism is beautiful . Stephen Covey says that self-Centerdness is like Israel's dead sea, for it welcomes in freshness but grows stagnant because it will not give! Personal growth comes from the giving life!

Let God Empower You to be the leader He Needs

God blessed King David only after David submitted himself to God's stregnth. I am excited to blog about the study that I am doing in my personal time on King David! I am excited to break down and Discover what Davids approach to leadership can teach us today. I cant wait to blog openly about how this part of scripture is impacting me "right now" right where I am !

King David was a great yet ordinary man "Great & ordinary" is the usual recipe of leadership. I am reading 1 Samuel 16 through 2 Samuel 9 right now .... WHAT A BLESSING!!! make no mistake the principles of leadership found in Scripture are applicabel in every area of secular and spiritual leadership!!

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