Three Keys to Successful Leadership | Clip 2

• All right. Now, I’m coming to the next thing. I’ve got a little list here and it doesn’t follow, we’ll get through it. Something else that I find extremely important is this. Pray things through before they happen. Now, because this is a religious meeting and I’m a preacher, I’ll give you a scripture for this.
• Philippians 4:6 and 7. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. The peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Have any of you ever read the journals of John Wesley? Well, I read them in the 1950s, the complete four volume edition.
• There’s a there’s a there’s um an a bridged edition, which is all right, but it misses out a lot of the very exciting things. That was perhaps the most challenging book outside of the Bible that I’ve ever read. The other one would be Finn’s autobiography probably. I really am more interested in what people have done for God than in their theories about God.
• I find them personally more inspiring. And um I don’t think I think part of what has happened in my life has been in response to the challenge of John Wesley’s life. um I don’t necessarily espouse all his doctrines but there was some way I could relate to he was a fellow of a college at Oxford I was a fellow of a college at Cambridge um and he had that classical background I think probably there was something between his background and mine that made me but I was seeing so little of God’s power here I was Pentecostal baptized in the spirit
• and uh having all the language and we Pentecostals we believed that we had it all. I mean that was an absolute fundamental doctrine for us. And then I read about John Wesley an Anglican and I’d been an Anglican. I knew Anglicans didn’t have anything but he certainly had a lot more than I had. And I think one thing about it was God was pleased that I was humble enough to acknowledge them.
• And uh I think that’s gone on to be a continuing inspiration in my life to this day. But why I mention that is because in his journals, let me say another thing. What I I appreciate about John Wesley was his spirit. Um I admire in many ways Martin Luther, but I don’t envy Martin Luther’s spirit the least bit.