The Art of Leadership By Dag Heward-Mills
The Bible clearly tells us that “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven,” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). The time to be born is different from the time to die. The time to get is different from the time to lose. There is a time to weep and a time to laugh. A leader ought to realise that the secret of God is given at special seasons of our lives. Job understood this clearly.
He enjoyed knowing some of these secrets at a certain season of his life. He spoke passionately about the season when God gave him secrets and revelations. You will always look back to the season when God gave you certain revelations.
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
As I was IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH, WHEN THE SECRET OF GOD was upon my tabernacle.
Job 29:2-4
Job desperately wanted to experience the times of revelation again. True prophets will tell you when they have a revelation and when they do not. The reality is that revelation does not come all the time. Job was saying he wished he were young again, when the secrets of God were being revealed to him, (Job 29:4).
Kenneth Hagin, a prophet of God, described how God blessed him with eight visions of Jesus Christ between 1950 and 1958. He described how the Lord did not appear to him in that way anymore from 1958 onwards. Kenneth Hagin was only thirty-three years old when the Lord appeared to him. Though he ministered as a man of God until he was eighty-six years old, he started to discover the secrets of God at a young age.
It is important to discover secrets as a young person. When you are young, your whole life is ahead of you. You have a good chance of implementing the secrets and revelations that God shows you. I discovered the secret of Matthew 6:33 when I was in school. It has been the greatest secret of prosperity for my life. Seeking God first and building His kingdom first are divine secrets to prosperity!
Prayer Is a Key
Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: THAT THEY WOULD DESIRE MERCIES OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN CONCERNING THIS SECRET; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
THEN WAS THE SECRET REVEALED UNTO DANIEL IN A NIGHT VISION. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.
Daniel 2:17-23
When Daniel and his team needed to know certain secrets, they prayed about it. He asked God to show them mercy. God gave them the secret to what they needed to know and they escaped danger. Apostle Paul prayed for the spirit of revelation; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, might give a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17). Prayer is, indeed, the master key to discovering important secrets of your life.
Meditation is a Key
O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119:97-100, 105.
As you read the Bible and pray, make time to meditate on the word of God. Meditation turns the light on for you to understand to the secrets of God. As you meditate on the words, knowledge, revelation and wisdom will come to you. The Word of God is a lamp and a light.
When light comes on, all secrets are revealed. Whatever is lying in darkness is exposed and brought out into full view. Loving the Law of God and meditating on it day and night will help you to discover the secrets you need.
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