Spirit-Led Leaders Inquire of the Lord

Spirit-lead Leadership Part 2

Spirit-led Leaders inquire of the Lord.

Pastor Tamera Kraft, Revival Fire for Kids

www.revivalfire4kids.com

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Have you ever decided on a course of action that seemed reasonably but turned out to be a total disaster? Every leader can point to a situation in the past where that happened. Today we’re going to find out how to avoid those traps.

Intro

When I was first appointed as a children’s pastor at my church, I had no idea what I was doing. I had no plans to be a children’s pastor. I’d been teaching adults and assumed that’s where God had called me, but one day, the pastor asked if I would be in charge of children’s ministry at the church. I knew there was a need and felt the Holy Spirit leading me to step into what I thought would be a temporary ministry until they found someone else. I struggled with knowing what to do, but the kids seemed to love me. Two months later, God called me to children’s ministry in a dramatic way, but I still didn’t know how to make my children’s church work effectively. The church had no money for resources and curriculum, so I was literally on my own.

During that time, I learned an invaluable lesson. I would ask God what I should do first, and He told me. Then I asked Him what I should do next, and He led me to the next step. I asked Him what I should teach, and He showed me through His Word. I asked how I should direct the service, and He gave me a pattern for leading children into His presence through he order of service when I heard a camp meeting sermon about the furniture in the temple of God.

Soon, I was creating VBS and fun programs that were attracting hundreds of children to that church that ran around 120 when I started. I began writing my own curriculum that was Spirit-led. I plan children’s musicals that were so anointed that unsaved parents of the children participating got saved. Students in my ministry were getting saved, receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and were ministering in the church. When I taught them to pray, they became prayer warriors for pastors and leaders in the church. When I finally did go to conferences and took classes to learn how to do children’s ministry, I found out I, who knew nothing, was on the cutting edge of kidmin. And the church and children’s ministry grew.

It is so tempting, especially after going to a kidmin conference or reading a book on how to do children’s ministry to do the shiny new thing taught at the conference, but don’t fall into that trap. Expanding our knowledge is a good thing, and many times, God will use those conferences to show us what to do next, but make sure you inquire of the Lord before you use that new technique in your Kidmin.

Remember: Spirit-led Leaders Inquire of the Lord.

David was the greatest king Israel ever had. His super power for leading the nation of Israel was He inquired of the Lord. Here a a few of the times he did that.

• 1 Samuel 23:2 So David inquired of the Lord,
• 1 Samuel 23:4 Then David inquired of the Lord once more.
• 1 Samuel 30:8 David inquired of the Lord,
• 2 Samuel 2:1 Then it came about afterwards that David inquired of the Lord,
• 2 Samuel 5:19 Then David inquired of the Lord,
• 2 Samuel 21:1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord.

Are you facing a spiritual famine that’s lasting year after year? Maybe it’s time to seek the presence of God and in