Global Leadership Development

Center
Lagos, Nigeria

A Member of Living Saints Global

Ministries
The Making of a Leader
 Introduction
 Are leaders born or made?

 You may be born with some natural talents or

gifts

 You may have received a level of leadership

training and education

 You may have read many leadership books

 You may have been appointed or elected to be a

leader

 But you can only become a true leader by doing

two things well:
 Take responsibility
 Solve problems
 The Place of Human Needs
 Leadership is about solving problems. History has
shown that great leaders emerge out of times of
great crisis or human need.

 All the great leaders whose great achievements

are recorded in the Bible were raised by God to
help God’s people meet the needs and overcome
the situational crisis of their time

 Noah – Gen 6:5-8, 13-22

 Abraham – Gen 12:1-3; 18:17-19
 Joseph – Gen 41:37-57
 Moses delivered Israel from the bondage of Egypt
to emerge as a leader – Ex 14:30-31

 Joshua became known as a leader when he took

up the challenge of bringing the sons of Jacob into
the promised-land – Josh 1:1-10
 Deborah lived in a man’s world yet she became a
powerful leader in her days when she stepped out
to do what men dreaded to attempt – Judges 5:6-
9
 Gideon became a mighty leader after he led
Israel to victory against the Midianites who
invaded and impoverished their land – Judges 6-8
 David, Mordecai, Esther, Nehemiah, Zerubbabel,
and many great saints and leaders of the Old
Testament became solutions to the problems and
lights to the darkness of their time

 They achieved greatness not because they were

so born, but because they stepped out in a time
of great human need and crisis and pointed the
people of their time to the solution

 They risked their lives, sacrificed their resources

and gave up their rights to personal enrichment
to emerge as great leaders.
 The Price of Greatness
 The price of greatness is responsibility –
Winston Churchill
 Ex 3:7-11
 And the LORD said:" I have surely seen the oppression of My
people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their
taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.8 So I have come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them
up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with
milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites
and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the
Jebusites.9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel
has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which
the Egyptians oppress them.10 Come now, therefore, and I will
send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of
Israel, out of Egypt.“ 11 But Moses said to God," Who am I that I
should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel
out of Egypt?"
 It is by taking responsibility that ordinary people
become extra-ordinary

 Leaders are ordinary people who became extra-

ordinary leaders by facing and overcoming extra-
ordinary challenges

 Great leadership is fostered in the soil of great

human need

 You become a leader by sensing and responding

to meet the needs of the people around you

 A season of crisis and great human need is the

only time chosen by God to effect the release of
great leaders
 Lookaround you, what you see as a
problem may be perceived by others as
great opportunities for leadership

 Atthis very moment, many nations

including your own are at the cross-road of
history

 Peopleare suffering everywhere.

Uncertainties have become the
outstanding marks of the very time in
which we are living
 It is Your Turn to Shine
 “… children of God without fault in the
midst of a crooked and perverse
generation, among whom you shine as
lights in the world …
(Phil 2:15-16)”.

 “Arise;shine; for your light has come! And

the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
For behold, the darkness shall cover the
earth and deep darkness the people; But
the LORD will arise over you, and His glory
will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall
come to your light, and kings to the
brightness of your rising” (Isaiah 60:1-3).
 The Leadership Irony
 The time of your rising is unavoidably connected
to the time when darkness is covering the
nations, the peoples and their leaders

 Spiritually, darkness represents evil, ignorance,

problems, uncertainties and every other human
experience associated with pain

 The problems around you are not meant to

consume you: they re organized to reveal the
grace and the calling of God on your life

 It is by responding to solve those problems that

you will discover the great leader in you.
Be the Answer to Our Prayers
 “Then Jesus went about all the cities and
villages, teaching in their synagogues,
preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and
healing every sickness and every disease
among the people. But when He saw the
multitudes, He was moved with
compassion for them, because they were
weary and scattered, like sheep having no
shepherd. Then He said to His disciples,
“The harvest truly is plentiful, but the
laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord
of the harvest to send out laborers into His
harvest.”
 (Matt 9:35-38)