One of any leader’s primary responsibilities is leadership in their home. Read Proverbs 22:6.

God established the family unit and gave parents the responsibility of leadership. In verse 6 He tells us that this leadership includes training a child while they are young. How does a parent become a good leader for a child? The following may help:

The Bible not only teaches leaders about God’s nature, leaders can also learn from the many examples of God’s leadership. Read Psalm 23.

When Saul, Israel’s first king, openly disobeyed God, God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint a new king for Israel. He directed Samuel to a farm owned by Jesse and told Samuel he would find the next king among Jesse’s sons. David was approximately 15 years old when Samuel anointed him to be the next king. When Samuel arrived at Jesse’s farm, David was staying in the fields virtually day and night working as a shepherd.

No matter where you are in the organizational chart, set your goal to be a leader’s leader. Read Nehemiah 10:1-29.

After the wall around Jerusalem was finished, the gates had been hung, and the people living in and around Jerusalem had spent a month worshiping God and gaining a deeper understanding of the Book of the Law, Nehemiah felt it appropriate for the people to make a deeper commitment to God to validate their belief that He had granted and orchestrated their success. According to 9:38, “In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it.” Nehemiah had the wisdom to understand human nature – we tend to remember contracts and covenants longer than undocumented experience.