Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

There is a place where you and I must reside. It is called the uncommon place. It is at times a lonely place, and is where few choose to reside.

However, there is a call being heralded throughout the world. There is a cry going out to the ends of the earth for those who will take up the challenge to rise up as leaders in their families, their schools, their universities, their workplaces, their churches, and throughout the entire fabric that makes up today’s society.

Who will take up the challenge? Who will count the cost? Who will pay the price? Who will stand against the tide of common opinion? Who will speak out? Who will be light? Who will be salt? Who will be a city set on a hill?

This is where those who stand up in response to this call will be and are transformed from the ordinary into the extraordinary. It may take decades to manifest, but if you persist it will surely appear.

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Peter J. Daniels, (born in 1932 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian life coach, writer, and professional speaker. On January 14 through 16 in 1984 I entered a motel room with one of his first published books, a Gideon Bible and a notebook with one intention – to unveil my destiny. Those three days of prayer and fasting changed my life forever.

So when I had the privilege of hearing Peter speak at a seminar in my hometown this past week, after so many years, I felt compelled to  honor this great and godly man by including his brief biography(that now covers 78 years) here in my Motivational Memo Blog.

Peter Daniels was illiterate and worked as a brick-layer’s assistant. He came from a disadvantaged background and was challenged with illiteracy in his early years. His family was third generation welfare recipients, he has two alcoholic brothers, 4 fathers and 2 mothers. Many of his relatives have been in jail. He failed at every grade in school, became a bricklayer, and at 26 years of age was hopelessly in debt.

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Many years ago my grandfather gave a gift to my dad. It was book that told the story of R. G. LeTourneau, and the title of the book was ‘Mover Of Men & Mountains’.

Many years later my dad handed me that same book, and I still have it in my possession to this day, and it was then that I was first introduced to this incredibly inspiring businessman.

In LeTourneau’s book he states that, ‘Some people think I’m all mixed up — that you can’t serve the Lord and business, too, but that’s just the point. God needs businessmen as partners as well as preachers. . . . When you go into partnership with God, you’ve got a Partner closer and more active than any human partner you can ever get. He participates fully in everything you let Him do, and when you start putting on airs, and thinking you’re doing it with your own head of steam, He can set you down quicker and harder than a thunderbolt. There’s nothing dull about being in partnership with God.’

So here’s his story…

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‘Talk the walk, then walk the talk.’

People don’t like associating with hypocrites. Particularly, if you a hold a position of leadership, followers want to know that you’re not just a bunch of words. They want to be assured that what you talk, you walk.

Now let’s be totally honest with each other. None of us is entirely faultless, but I have found that in raising three children I was given the greatest opportunity through the years to develop the practice of lining up my walking with my talking. Children don’t miss a thing.

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‘A good man(woman) leaves an inheritance for his(her) children’s children.’ Proverbs 13:22 NIV

If we call ourselves good, then we have been given a mandate; a command, that we are responsible to carry out. We cannot look over our shoulder and say that this is written for the other person. This has been written for you and for me.

The question is: are we up to the challenge? And what constitutes an inheritance? Well let’s get something clear. A good man or woman will leave a good inheritance.

Personally, I’m at a point in my life where I’m yet to meet my children’s children because they haven’t been born yet, but with every passing day that day is drawing closer. So for me, it’s a great time to consider the implications of this proverb on my own life – and I trust that it will enlighten yours.

Probably the most important question to answer is: what inheritance are we to leave to our children’s children?

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