Discovering Your Leadership Gift | Dr. Myles Munroe

[Music] thank you for joining us for another power packed message from dr miles monroe provided by monroe global incorporated and monroeglobal.com we transform followers into leaders and leaders into agents of change we hope that this message is a blessing to you as you advance your life and discover your purpose now let's go into the message i am going to focus today on discovering your leadership gift i am very encouraged today to see so many of you present the reason why i'm encouraged is because normally when anyone mentions the word leadership the average person is not interested and this is because most of our culture has taught us that leadership is only for a specific elite group of people who are specially chosen by god and providence to lead the rest of us who are not as intelligent as they are we have been conditioned to believe that leadership is reserved only for a small percentage of the world population who are identified with special gifts and talent and maybe even a calling from heaven to be leaders and the rest of us are destined to be sub leaders or even followers for the rest of our lives so i'm very excited to see you because it means that somehow something drew you to this meeting to learn and discover some things about yourself that is not average so i want to begin with a statement that i hope will shock you and here's the statement every human on earth was created to lead why should that statement shock you because the question that comes to your mind when you hear such a statement is this question if everybody is a leader then who's going to follow that question is a result of a contaminated view of human value it is a product of oppressive ideologies and belief systems that discriminate against the human dignity and has been perpetrated ever since the fall of man and that is that some humans were born to lead while others were born to follow this idea of subjugation of human dignity relegated to most of the human race is satanic i believe that every human being was born to lead i am convinced that no human came to earth to be a slave or to be a servant of another human i am convinced with all my might that no human was created by god to be a second-class human or a second-class citizen the fact that you have difficulty believing that every human cannot be a leader because someone has to follow is the reason why most of us don't achieve our full leadership potential i have a picture of a gentleman on the screen for those of you who are listening by radio you may not be able to see it's a photograph of a of a young local preacher who pastored a church of 300 people imagine a country preacher out in the country pastoring a little church of 300 people he was trained in a seminary and his only interest was to be a pastor of a little church and some of you here today are just like him you've got a church with 300 people and people think that you are not important but look at that man who would have thought that in that little church every sunday standing before 300 people in a little town in alabama was a man who would change the world i wonder who you are in your little church speaking to your 300 people how many people would have laughed at him and says there's no way a little country preacher could change the world there's no way a man who has no degree in leadership no degree in philosophy no degree in science could ever impact the whole world that is why i believe everyone was created by god to be a leader but not over people i want to make a few statements about leadership whether you are young or old i have come to tell you that you were born to be a leader and we need you to discover your leadership why because nothing happens without leadership secondly nothing changes without leadership if leadership does not emerge the world will remain the way it is nothing on earth has changed by itself when it comes to human development everything that has ever happened on earth in the human environment happened because someone took leadership thirdly nothing develops without leadership if you are going to develop this beautiful country with all of its natural resources and all of its great potential for becoming a world influence there will have to be someone or some people who will emerge and take leadership responsibility nothing improves without leadership if you don't like the situation in your nation or in your community or in your city or even in your family then don't wait for it to change it takes leadership to improve anything fifth nothing is corrected without leadership if something is going wrong in your home in your community in your nation then leadership is necessary to correct it most of the time religious people are useless because they spend too much time praying and no time acting prayer they say changes things i disagree creates the environment for things to change but it takes a human to change it and this is why the great leader jesus christ said acts and it shall be given unto you that's prayer but then he says now get up and go seek and then he says when you find it you gotta knock because it's behind a closed door you gotta work to get it in other words answered prayer demands action if you want a better country don't just pray for a better country get involved in national development get involved in local politics get involved in social activities why you cannot change something you tolerate nothing is corrected without leadership number six nothing advances without leadership and that goes for your church your company your department your nation your organization and your family if you want to advance in any area it takes someone to emerge as a leader because nothing succeeds without leadership this very event is only possible because somebody took responsibility to take leadership of my coming to this place nothing just happens and therefore we are always being led by someone because we are always being influenced by people whether we know it or not somebody's always leading us whether we know it or not then it's important for you to study the leaders in your life one of the most important statements i've ever heard about leadership was made by a young jewish rabbi two thousand years ago he was thirty years old he made this statement he said if the blind lead the blind they both fall into the ditch it's important to read that statement slowly he said if the blind lead which means that it's possible for someone to be in leadership and be blind not because the person has a title or a position does it mean they have a vision what he's telling us is vision is more important than a title vision is more important than a position and this is why even in politics in democracy we don't create great leaders because democracy can produce a leader by vote not by qualification in other words you can become a leader in government and don't know anything about leadership because you have no vision and this is why voting in a church doesn't produce a good pastor because you can vote a pastor into the position but he has no vision for the church and if the blind lead the blind the whole organization goes into a pit so don't just follow people ask them a question where are you going the bible never says without a leader the people perish the bible says without a vision the people perish so vision is more important than the leader so i am not impressed with your title i am bishop sam i don't care where you going i am member parliament where are you taking the your constituency i am reverend where are you going i'm an evangelist where are you going i'm the manager where are you taking the department vision qualifies leaders if the blind lead the blind they both fall into a ditch so we are always being led the question is who's leading us and where are they leading us and this is why it's important for you in order to become the leader you were born to be you must discover true leadership when i first met mr nelson mandela years ago i shook his hands i was so humbled to meet such a great man he had just come out of prison 25 years isolated from his own family because he had a vision for his country i had a meal with him with another a few other dignitaries and i'll never forget i asked him a question this was over 17 years ago i said sir in all that you've experienced can you give me one of the things you learned about being a successful leader and he gave me five answers i will give you one of them he said true leaders never seek followers followers seek true leaders so he said to me son if you want to be a leader do not seek leadership seek a purpose for your life and that changed my life forever you were born to fulfill a purpose you are not an experiment you came to earth to fulfill an assignment you didn't come to earth just to make a living you came to earth to make a difference so i have come into your life for these few moments to tell you stop working for a salary and start working for an assignment [Applause] we need the right kind of leaders in the world and this is why we cannot find effective leaders around our nations papua new guinea is just like my country we too are an island nation the bahamas in the caribbean where i'm from is a nation that was also a british territory we were also a colony of england and we gained independence in 1973 just three years before you we too were under british rule for over 200 years we know what it is to be treated as second-class citizens we know what it is to not have access to education we know what it is to be told that our skin color restricts our advancement in life we know what it feels like to be called ignorant and have breed monkeys i lived in that i was born in 1954 in the colony i remember there were restaurants we couldn't eat at because they were only reserved for white people i know what it is to go to school that had no white person in it because we were not allowed to mix with them i know what it is to stay on one side of the island and not enter the other side i know it is to be mentally damaged by segregation and racism i'm not bitter i'm just realist i know what it is to mentally battle with the idea that i was not equal to other people i overcame that only through a revelation through jesus christ about who i am i am not who you think i am i am who he says i am [Applause] it was that revelation that set me free and from that day forward i made a commitment to myself that i will travel the world and i will hate the spirit of oppression i hate racism i hate segregation i hate the devaluation of humans all humans are completely equal in value all seven billion of them no one in this room is less than the other we are all equally made in god's wonderful image we also carry his likeness which means we have his ability we function like our creator but we've been brainwashed to believe that is not true and most of that has been done by erroneous leadership ideology that has been perpetrated by colonization let me give you a few things to remember that are very destructive in leadership these are the kind of leaders we don't need write these down number one politics without principles we don't need any more politicians who have no principles number two pleasure without conscience we must not allow leaders in our lives who pursue pleasure at the expense of conscience number three wealth without work it will destroy us people who pursue prosperity but don't want to perspire if you don't work you are a parasite to humanity number four knowledge without character will destroy us there are educated people who have no character scientifically philosophically intellectually advanced but they have no moral conviction these are dangerous leaders number five business without morality will destroy us and this is why corruption emerges in developing countries people want to achieve financial security at the expense of morality business must have a moral foundation and this is why selling drugs to make money is immoral this is why perpetrating prostitution on the streets with young ladies and men is immoral anytime you attempt to do business without moral conscience you are a destructive force in humanity this is why taking bribes is immoral this is why padding the invoice and negotiating contracts with your own family who don't qualify for the contract is immoral we need leaders who will not sacrifice their morality for the advancement of their business number six what will destroy us science without humanity we are so scientifically advanced today that we can actually abort a baby with a pill we call that advancement i call it murder when we can produce a nuclear weapon and then use it on our own families in the world that's science without humanity then we can build a computer an internet system and then use it to destroy the moral fabric of our country with pornography that is science without humanity what kind of leadership do we have and the last one is most important what will destroy us worship without sacrifice there are people who claim to represent god but they don't live like god they don't want to sacrifice to live a life that is worthy of representing who they worship if you claim to be a pastor then stay with one woman don't get quiet on me now worship without sacrifice is a destructive leader there is no worship without sacrifice there's no claim to being pure without discipline you cannot claim to represent a holy god and live an unholy life there has to be sacrifice and this is why the religious people in the world are not respected anymore because we tell the world we are holy and then the world knows our private lives that's why jesus christ the greatest leader that ever lived didn't trust religious people he never chose religious person to join his organization he only chose businessman he never went to the temple to find the disciple he chose an accountant matthew he chose a business team peter james and john they owned a fishing company he chose luke he was a doctor i'll come in and choose the pastors because religious people tell lies everybody clap right there get it out [Applause] if you're going to represent who you claim to worship then you should sacrifice and discipline yourself to live what you preach we need leaders today who will sacrifice in order to be honest what is leadership i want to give you a definition that i introduced in my session last evening all the books that you see available today in this session you'll find details of what i'm talking about in the books including this definition i have studied leadership for 42 years and i could not find a definition that was comprehensive enough to satisfy my investigation so i penned this definition from a labor of 40 years i have read over 217 books on leadership and couldn't find a definition that's satisfied i got degrees from university studied all the great minds and philosophers and still couldn't find a definition that satisfied what i discovered about leadership from the greatest of all leaders yeshua here is what i have concluded leadership is write it down leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration generated by a passion motivated by a vision birth by a conviction which is produced by a sense of purpose i will repeat leadership is very complicated and yet very simple leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration generated by a passion motivated by a vision birth from a conviction which is produced by a sense of purpose in other words you were born to be a leader but you will have to go through the process of becoming the great leader you were born to be and the process requires that you follow a specific experience for example to become a leader you must turn the sentence upside down and begin at the bottom to become a true leader you must first discover your purpose and your purpose then produces in you a sense of conviction that conviction begins to show up in pictures you call vision that vision gives you a passion to pursue a future that is better than the present and that passion is what inspires other people which causes you to influence them by your passion and they are able to follow you because they believe that you are willing to die for what you are pursuing so what we call leadership in most cases is not leadership it is simply glorified management notice this definition specif specifically states that leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration inspiration is the opposite of manipulation most of the people you call leaders are simply professional manipulators leaders don't manipulate people to manipulate means you threaten people you play with their emotions you pray with their fears that's not leadership that's dictatorship true leaders never manipulate they inspire why do we so admire mr nelson mandela he never asked you to follow him but we are inspired by his passion for his conviction based on his purpose for his country why do we admire martin luther king jr he never asked us to follow him but we are inspired by his passion based on his conviction driven by his sense of purpose for his people why do we admire mahatma gandhi because we are inspired by his passion based on his conviction dedicated to his sense of purpose for his people why do we admire mother teresa because we are inspired by this young lady's passion dedicated by a conviction for the people on the streets who are poor why are we not inspired by you because you haven't found a conviction that produces a passion based on a sense of purpose that you're willing to die for you came to earth to produce a passion so let me ask you some questions about leadership does leadership require followers just think about it is it necessary for leaders to have titles maratha had no title martin luther king jr had no title nelson mandela was a prisoner how's that for a title moses was a convict how's that for a title jesus was a rebel what kind of title do you need to be a leader i discovered something about titles people who are doing nothing needed many titles let me say it again people who are ineffective and doing nothing need many titles the more effective you become as a leader the less titles you need so i'm very suspicious when i meet people who got many titles it means they are doing nothing my name is reverend dr bishop evangelist pope and tate you are you are sick the more successful you are as a leader the less titles you need as a matter of fact to test your greatness as a leader you must reduce your life to your first name if you don't believe me study the great leaders of history we never say bishop moses we just say moses we don't say evangelist joshua we just say joshua we don't say write reverend honorable daniel we simply say daniel what's your problem well i'm not coming to the meeting because they printed my name incorrectly they didn't say reverend bishop you are sick the greater you become the less names you need jose joel amos obidaya jonah micah nahum habakkuk zephaniah hege zechariah malachi peter james john jesus what's your problem [Applause] sometimes people give me their cards it takes me two weeks to read the name of the card right away i know they're not doing anything hmm obama that's enough kennedy that's enough what's your problem leadership is not about titles is leadership a matter of distinction of superiority in other words some people think that leadership means that you are superior to other people this is completely satanic something that leadership is a disposition of advantage that means i was born in a better family in a better village than you so i must be better than you you are sick jesus christ was born in a cave his first was an animal trough and yet today he rules the universe it doesn't matter where you were born is who was born in that place you were born in that place a great person was born in that place clap your hands for being born in this great country some think that leadership has to do with some qualities of of leadership or the manifestation of intellect have you noticed that people with phds always work for people who ain't got none let me say it again people who get master's degrees and phds always work for those who don't have any because leadership is not about intellectual advancement some of the greatest leaders in the world never finished college dropped out of school you know one of the great american presidents ronald reagan didn't finish school he was a an actor in hollywood most of the time his acting didn't succeed couldn't even act when he became the president states they asked him in an interview they said you're not a college graduate you don't have any degrees how come you are such a successful president his answer was a very smart answer he said well i staff my weaknesses okay let me break it down for you he said i hire people wherever i'm weak i hire the smart people to work for me in other words people who are in leadership are not there because of intellect they're there because they discovered a purpose and a passion and a dream mr reagan had a dream his dream was a world without communism a world without the wall in europe and so his passion constantly was tear the wall down he didn't need a degree to pursue that passion and he inspired the world and they tore the wall down what inspires you leadership does not mean superior intellect it doesn't mean you are smarter than other people cognitively in other words true leaders is not about the race that you're from or the class that you're from this is why i'm very adamant about stamping out this spirit of superior oppression by those who claim to be smarter or wiser or better or greater or more intellectually advanced than anyone else this is wrong everyone in this room is a great leader trapped in a follower and my passion is to bring that leader out hidden in that follower every woman in here is an awesome woman every man and here is a great world changer but you have to believe that yourself sitting next to you is one of the greatest persons in the world and you don't know who they are yet but you're going to be glad you sat next to them in the next five years shake the hand right now tell them congratulations and this is why i tell people that leadership depends on the philosophy that a person has because your philosophy controls how you interpret life your philosophy controls how you interpret people and how you value people it guides your life on how you think about life philosophy is the framework for leaders and how they make their decisions this is why this conference is so important i am not here to make you shout and say hallelujah i am here to attack your ideas i am here to attack your philosophy your belief system because until your mind changes you will never change and your philosophy is simply the way you've been conditioned to think that you believe to be true and much of what you believe is not true because both of us as people have been products of colonialism which have brainwashed us to believe that we are not equal to everybody else in capability and potential and value and we are historically struggling with that still let me quote something that's very important written by the richest man that ever lived he said something to all third world people i think is very critical his name is solomon solomon wrote this he says woe to the land when a slave becomes king let me quote it slowly it's found in the book of ecclesiastes he said woe to the land when a slave becomes king let me quote it for the third time because that's happening right here in papua new guinea woe to the land when a slave becomes king what does he mean by that woe means damned it's a horrible word it's in the bible woe to the land means that the land is damned it is condemned when the leader thinks like a slave that's in the bible don't look at me like that i'm a quoted one more time woe to the land when the slave becomes king what does he mean it means that when a person who thinks like a slave becomes the pastor of the church or the manager of the department or the leader of a country that whole organization is in trouble because wearing a crown does not change your mind it exposes your mentality a position does not change disposition a title does not change mentality and that's why the the quickest way to reveal a person's character and philosophy is to give them power and money if you want to know what a person is like give them power it reveals their mindset that's why solomon says woe to the land when a slave becomes king if somebody is given power but didn't have a mental transformation then that entire organization or country is in trouble your way of thinking your philosophy will manifest what kind of leader you will be that goes for husbands in the family pastors in the church managers in the company and politicians in the country how you think affects the people so solomon also wrote this has a man think it in his heart so is he you cannot rise above your belief system you cannot rise above your convictions of your mental agreement with yourself you cannot arrive but what you consider to be true and that's why in order for you to change you must change your thinking and this is why proverbs 23 is so important he says for as a man thinking in his heart so is he the word heart actually means your subconscious mind it means your human hard drive it's where you hide the things you believe to be true your heart is your center of belief and every human has a center of belief the things you believe about yourself that you got from other people and it may not be true papua new guinea is a great country it has awesome people but my question is are you still struggling with 200 years of mental oppression wearing a necktie doesn't change your mentality living where the british used to live doesn't change your mentality having the title the british had didn't change your mentality it exposes it my question is what do you believe about yourself and where did you get that belief from the word belief write it down belief it's a greek word in the new testament it's the word pistus p-i-s-t-i-s the word belief pistols when you translate it it's the word faith faith faith is simply belief the apostle paul the great leader of the first century said these words he said faith comes by hearing what is faith belief belief comes by what you hear i was told by a scottish teacher when i was 13 years old in a class with 36 black kids in my island in the caribbean he stood before the class and he was angry he turned red and he said to us you are stupid black people you cannot learn he says you are ignorant you are half bread monkeys i'll never forget that day he looked at me he says you are and then he said these words i'm wasting my time on you black children your brain is not developed you are half breed monkeys i sat there and wept just a kid and i almost believed because i was getting grades of f in his class and i said to myself maybe i am a monkey maybe i am i went home to my mother weeping that day and she said what happened to you son i said my teacher said i'm a half breed monkey i'm i can't learn i am not developed as a human i am still a half animal and my mother grabbed me by my dirty shirt and she shook me and she said don't you ever say that again and i wept and then my mother picked up a big black book that she always read and she turned it to a page and she gave it to me she said now you go back to that little dirty room over there and you memorize that statement in this book and i want you to memorize it tell you don't have to read it anymore i went back to that dirty little room in that wooden house on four big rocks in a village that was the poorest in my country and i sat on a pile of dirty clothes in that wooden room memorized one statement that she gave me i'll never forget the statement it went like this now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly far beyond all you can ever ask think or imagine according to the power that worked within you suddenly the light came on in a little boy as i kept reading it now i want to him who was able to do exceedingly abundantly above far beyond all i can ever ask think or imagine according to the power that worked within me and i kept repeating it and suddenly a little boy was born at age 13. i realized for the first time in my life that a white teacher from scotland was not the power that the power was in me and that i could imagine anything and the creator would do above what i imagined and i started imagining being an a student i went back to school the next day and i made a decision i will never trust another teacher so i picked up all the books in school and i memorized everything in the books myself i never allowed that teacher to teach me again i memorize everything in the history book in the geography book i memorized the entire mathematics books and algebra i memorized every single geometry aspect of everything i knew everything i memorized it i went home and memorized every book and in four months i went from an f student to an a student within six months i was the number one student in the school at the end of semester i graduated top of the whole class on top of the school and i'll never forget when i got my grades the teacher from scotland came to me his name was mr robinson he said young man i'm so proud of you i said no thanks to you sir you're not my teacher remember i'm a monkey i never trusted him today my books are textbooks in that same school i graduated from that school top of the class and our country had just become independent when i graduated 1973 and the government couldn't find any black teachers because they never trained us to teach so i went from high school straight into teaching the government paid us students who graduated to become teachers of the younger kids we never had teacher training because our country didn't have anyone to teach because when we became independent all the white people left and ran and i became a teacher at the same school where they called me a monkey a few years ago i was in england and i was facilitating a leadership training seminar in london downtown in a beautiful hotel and the place was packed with people and at the end of this seminar i was in the auditorium of the lobby of this the hotel i was autographing books and there was a long line of people in the hall and suddenly i saw an old man walking up to the table he was shaking from age he was walking with a cane and he came up to the table and he gave me two of my books one of them was brand new the other one was an old book and he said can you autograph this for me please i said yes sir i autographed them thanked him for coming to the seminar and i gave them back to him and he stood there wouldn't leave he just kept looking at me i said sir thank you very much for coming i appreciate you being part of our seminar today uh will you please allow the others to come and he just stood there in the front of the table looking at me and after five minutes everybody became irritated including me and i said sir thank you so much for coming will you please allow others to come and he just looked at me and began to cry and he said i used to live in the bahamas i said you did i said where i used to live in nassau i said so that's the island i'm from what did you do there and he said i used to be a teacher i said where did you teach he said chris high school that's the high school i came from sir he said i know uh you don't remember me do you i said no sir he said i'm mr robertson i jumped up from my chair i couldn't even recognize him he was so old i grabbed him and hugged him and we wept and everybody was watching us in that lobby a handsome black young man hugging an old dying white man and we kissed each other on the cheek and he cried his tear fell on my suit and he said you changed my life i said how did i change your life he said your books are in scotland and all the bookstores and i read four of your books and they changed my life i now understand who i am and i love jesus and i want to thank you i came all the way from scotland took the train to come here i wanted to see you because i heard you were coming to london and i just wanted to come and tell you thanks and i said mr robertson you read my books he said your books are the most important books in my library i said you mean you read the writings of a monkey i wonder who you are you are a leader trapped in a follower under other people's opinions and that's why i don't trust any humans opinions of me nobody including yours i wouldn't give you the privilege of telling me who i am i know who i am let god be true and every man a liar tell your neighbor you don't know who i am so be nice to me some of the greatest leaders in the world are sitting in your chair right now sit up straight and think about who you are what they told you in school was wrong what they taught you in high school about you is wrong no one knows a product like the manufacturer and god created you only he knows who you are [Applause] abraham thought he was barren at 75 and god told him there's a nation inside of you [Music] i wonder who's inside of you there's a leader trapped in a follower thank you once again for listening to this message as we hope that it has been a blessing to you our goal is to show you new paths and opportunities so that you can discover your purpose it is your love support and partnership that makes monroe global possible please visit us online at www.monroeglobal.com for more product partnership or to join us at one of our live events around the world

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Length: 57min 31sec (3451 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 04 2021