EPISODE 813 – PRACTICAL WAYS TO HONOUR YOUR LEADERS 5 – Receive them with Joy 2

PRACTICAL WAYS TO HONOUR YOUR LEADERS 5 – Receive them with Joy 2

“Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men in esteem”

Philippians 2:29 (KJV)

Receiving your leaders through a great and special hospitality because of their reputation is one practical way.

There is another practical way of receiving your leaders that you must give attention to; receiving them in the name of the one who sent them.

Your Leaders are not Jesus Christ our Lord, but they are specially appointed, ordained and sent men of the Lord Jesus Christ.

These leaders did not send themselves; they were sent by the Lord with a special grace to fulfill His assignment.

“Those who welcome you are welcoming me. And when they welcome me they are welcoming God who sent me. If you welcome a prophet because he is a man of God, you will be given the same reward a prophet gets. And if you welcome good and godly men because of their godliness, you will be given a reward like theirs.” Matthew 10:40-41 (TLB)

These words of Jesus point out two crucial things:

– How you receive a leader the Lord has sent to you, is how you have received the Lord. The Lord sees your hospitality towards your leaders as hospitality towards Him. This means you must see the leaders God has set over you as men from God who must be given special reception.

– The second item is that you must acknowledge, accept, welcome and receive your leader in the capacity of his commission or calling. The commission or assignment of the Lord entrusted to a man has a reward which shall benefit or serve for your advantage. Every mandate comes with a reward, and so receive them in the capacity of their mandate.

As part of receiving the leaders sent by God to you, you must listen to the words of the Lord.

When you don’t receive or even reject them, you have rejected the Lord (See Luke 10:16).

“Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.” 1 Corinthians 4:1 (Amplified Bible).

This was how Paul the apostle was instructing the saints in Corinth to regard himself and Apollos. Paul the apostle did not expect the brethren to regard them as mere men preaching the gospel but as ministers or servants of Christ. They are to see them as stewards, custodians or administrators of the mysteries of Christ.

You will always receive and honour your leaders by how you see their mandate to you.

Though we are equal by what Christ has obtained for us, we are not equal in the administration of God’s grace.

Honour those the Lord has set over you. Submit your mind to the nurturing of your leaders.

How do you see the commission or assignment of your leader?

Until you see the extraordinary grace of God at work in him and recognize him as a man sent from God, you will connect with or regard him as an ordinary person.

The special anointing to carry out a divine assignment distinguishes men.

Selah.