Leadership Qualities: Discernment Part 3 Zerubbabel Reads People-Ezra 4:1-3 Leaders must practice discernment. Relationships can get messy; people often harbor personal agendas and attempt to mask their true motives or to make them sound more noble than they really are. Leaders must read the people, then lead the people. They must understand the timing, the […]
Leadership Qualities: Discernment Part 2 Nathan Saw Below Surface-2 Samuel 12:1-15 (positive) Discernment goes deeper than knowledge, resembling intuition. At times, discernment is a gift; at other times, it results from much experience. Discernment brings, a profound perception of what is occurring, either on the outside or the inside of a person. What gave Nathan […]
Leadership Qualities: Discernment Part 1 Balaam Didn’t Get It-Numbers 22:21-35 (negative) Balaam lacked both discernment and intuition about what was happening around him. Note the following observations about Balaam’s error: Balaam angered God because he disobeyed what he knew to be right. It took the Angel of the Lord standing in the way to stop […]
