When Leaders Lead

By Dr. George Hill

When you see God's potential, you become a dreamer. When you see your own potential, you become an achiever. When you see the potential in others you become a leader. With over 40 years of leadership experience, Dr. George Hill brings a wealth of experience and a deep knowledge of the uncompromising Word of God to these quick lessons for leaders.
Dr. George Stanley Hill is a modern-day apostle who along with his wife Hazel founded Victory Churches International - an apostolic and prophetic church-planting movement that has spread around the world. Victory has launched church planting organizations in many countries, along with Bible Colleges, orphanages, Christian Schools, as well as many outreaches to the poor. They formed an active Canadian political lobby and launched Canada's first ever 24-hour Christian television station. Victory Churches is a multi-generational, multi-national movement with a heart to reach the world for Jesus.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. George Hill
• Release date: Jul 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9780920567654

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When Leaders Lead

Quick Lessons For Growing Leaders

By Dr. George Stanley Hill

Victory International Publishing

Copyright © 2019

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ISBN: 978-0-920567-66-1

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Section 1 Growing Character

Going For The Gold

Dare to be a Daniel

Leaders That Will Lead

Fulfilling Your Calling

Habits of Highly Successful People

Being The Kind of Leader People Can Follow 1

Becoming the Kind of Leader People Can Follow 2

Favour With God And Man

Personal Disciplines That Bring Long Term Public Success

Staying Power

Section 2 Growing Spiritually

You Can Be an Anointed Leader

Revival Time

Favour: The Secret of Extraordinary Success

New Levels of Faith, Maturity and Opportunity

Going Beyond Offense and Forgiveness

A Fresh Mental & Spiritual Attitude

Section 3 Growing In Leadership

Leaders Must Stay On The Leading Edge

Good Leaders Have A Strategy

Pioneers are Limit-Lifting, Barrier-Breaking People

Eagle Christians are World Changers and History Makers

When Time and Opportunity Meet

The Power Of Perspective

Section 4 Growing Your Skills

The Thrill Of New Beginnings

Excellence in Leadership

Staying On Top of Change 1

Staying On Top of Change 2

Creative Problem-Solving Leaders

Wisdom Keys To Effective Communication

Growing in the Skill of Making Good, Quick Decisions

Living In The Age of Innovation

Leadership in the Age of Information and Innovation

Section 5 Growing Your Church

Time for the Church to Wake up and Become an Army

Foundations for Long-Term Real Church Growth 1

Foundations for Long-Term Real Church Growth 2

The Elisha Generation

Order, Miracles, & Globalization 1

Order, Miracles, & Globalization 2

Order, Miracles, & Globalization 3

Order, Miracles, & Globalization 4 & 5

Order, Miracles, & Globalization 6

Order, Miracles, & Globalization 7

Two Kinds of Shepherds, Two Kinds of Sheep

Walking In Wisdom Towards The Unsaved

Section 6 Growing Your Team

Good Leaders Know That Teamwork Fosters Success

Team Ministry

Team Ministry 3

Team Ministry 4

Great Leaders Delegate 1

Great Leaders Delegate 2

Four Areas Of Unity That Guarantee Success

Section 7 Growing Successors

Leaders, Emerging Leaders, and Much More

Emerging Leaders Want Life Without Limits

Growing People to the Size of the Vision

16 Rules To Motivate Those You Lead

Breakthrough People and Churches

Convergence

Victory Churches International Links

Other Victory Books

INTRODUCTION

The reason I wrote this book was to help men and women to grow in leadership. Everything rises and falls on leadership and there is a major lack of good leaders in the world today.

During my 40 years of fulltime pastoral and apostolic ministry I have seen how God can take nobodies and make somebodies out of them. Jesus took ordinary people from different walks of life and turned them into world-changers and history-makers.

Many years ago, I decided that whenever I had a group of leaders together, I would start with a short five-minute teaching on leadership. I did this to grow both myself and my leaders. As I grew, and my leaders grew, the church grew, and eventually grew into the Worldwide, Apostolic, Prophetic, Church Planting movement we call Victory Churches International.

For the last ten years I have sent out a monthly leadership e-letter that I have tried to keep to one page in length. Out of these short teachings, I have chosen the best to be in this book. They are informational, inspirational, motivational, life-changing truths. This book can be used as a daily devotional: read one lesson a day, meditate on it and apply these truths in your life and ministry. Or use it to train your leaders or future leaders a little bit at a time. If they get better, you will look better!

When you see God’s potential, you become a dreamer. As the creator of the universe, God has placed some of that same creative energy inside each one of us. Einstein said, Your imagination is a preview of your life’s coming attractions.

When you see your own potential, you become an achiever. Many people fail to realize their own potential. But when you begin to see the potential that God created in you, the giftings that He has invested in you, the abilities He has developed in you – then you can see with new eyes, the opportunities that He sets before you!

When you see potential in others, you become a leader. The world needs more visionary leaders: pastors, politicians, husbands, wives, business owners, and parents who can see the potential in the people they lead and can draw it out. We need more leaders who will pour out their lives, not to build monuments to themselves, but to build people.

It is my prayer that this book will help you to see the potential in God and begin to dream God-sized possibilities. That it will help you to see the potential in yourself and begin to achieve more than you ever thought possible. But more than that, that it will help you begin to see the amazing potential in people all around you and inspire you to spend your days helping them become all that God has created and called them to be.

That’s leadership!

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When leaders lead: [and] the people willingly offer themselves, Bless the Lord!

Judges 5:1-2

Section 1

Growing Character

GOING FOR THE GOLD

"Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step. I discipline my body and bring it into subjection." (1 Corinthians.9:25-26)

The Five Qualities of a Winner

Whether you’re in the world of sports or in the Kingdom of God, every winner has these five qualities:

1. Self-analysis

A winner is honest about his strengths and weaknesses The Lord searches every heart...If you seek Him, He will be found by you. (I Chronicles 28:9) In God’s presence, you’ll see yourself both as you are now, and how you could be. You are Simon (a reed) the son of Jonah, you shall be called Cephas (a stone). (John 1:42)

2. Focus

Champions live in the present. They refuse to let their body be one place while their mind is another. People who are always ‘waiting for their ship to come in’, live disappointed lives or die on the pier. Live where you are today. That’s where God is. Paul said, I have made it my aim (target)… (Romans 15:20) Paul’s focused, high-definition mentality, gave him the gold (an imperishable crown) in the Holy Spirit Olympics!

3. Confidence

Winners conquer anxiety by keeping their eyes on the goal. As they achieve each goal, their confidence increases. David said, What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? I killed the lion and the bear; and this Philistine will be like one of them. (1 Samuel 17:25, 36) This is something you must do daily through prayer and the Word of God. But you, beloved building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. (Jude 20)

4. Toughness

Champions give up the present, for the future. They say ‘No’ to indulgence and ‘Yes’ to discipline, because the prize is worth the sacrifice. It’s what we call delayed gratification. Paul says, Like an athlete, I punish my body treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to. (1 Corinthians.9:27) Quitting too soon breeds weakness, and weakness always comes before surrender.

5. They Have a Team and a Game Plan

Champions know that talent is never enough. You have to have a team and know your part in it. Have you found your place in a team yet? (Ephesians 4:16) You have to have a plan and live by it.

We all need:

- A book to live our lives by - the Bible.

- A role model we can follow - Jesus.

- A team we can be a part of - the Body of Christ.

Have you found Gods plan for your life yet? Are you living by it? Talk to Him about it, for it’s the most important conversation you’ll have today.

It’s your time. It’s my time. It’s our time - to be winners on a winning team!

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WINNERS CONQUER ANXIETY BY KEEPING THEIR EYES ON THE GOAL

DARE TO BE A DANIEL

In Daniel chapter one, Daniel’s character was tested, plus his prophetic and interpretive skills were developed. This took place over a three-year training period, and then he went on and became great.

Five things we can learn from Daniel:

1. Daniel dealt with his past and refused a spirit of bitterness. Daniel had to overcome a bad past. But he never let his bad past separate him from his belief in a living, all-powerful God, nor from his love and concern for God’s people and God’s work.

You think you had a bad past? Daniel and his three friends were part of