Leadership Challenge - Week of Jan. 25-31, 2009

  • Pastors Obed & Rae Orozco
  • Jan 24, 2009
  • Series: Leadership Challenge

LEADER’S CHALLENGE #1 - 01/24/09

As we enter the New Year of 2009, the uncertainty of the economy, wars, catastrophes and curiosities in the climate have even the finest of our world leaders and scientist bewildered and intimidated.  Yet historically, whenever the world around us begins to lose hope, and clutch their hearts in fear God calls His people to arise and take the lead.

This is the season for God’s people, not to shrink back, but to forge ahead!  This is the season for God’s people, to look upon obstacles not as hindrances, but instead as opportunities for faith and courage.   In every challenging circumstance, God has called His people to arise to a new level and conquer new terrain. 

But in every one of these circumstances God has used men and women to lead His people into those new places of authority and opportunity. These leaders, stepped forward, not backward, and brought a message of vision and hope.   

The Bible tells us the story of men and women such as Moses, Debra, Esther, Nehemiah and David, Peter and the Apostle Paul.  These were men and women were ordinary in their circumstances- yet extra-ordinary in their vision and faith.  They answered God’s call to lead and discovered that God Himself became their partner and provision.

It is in such a time as this that we enter this new year of 2009.  We stand on the precipice of change and challenge – we stand on the precipice of opportunity. God is calling leaders to stand and take their place in God’s eternal roll call.  We take our stand arm and arm, right next to the Heroes of faith found in Hebrews 11.  They watch now to see just how we will respond!  Will we say “yes”?  Will we refuse to fear, but instead choose to believe in God’s possibilities?  Will we strip away all those trivial things that take up our time, drain our faith, and distract us from our true purpose?

We give you this invitation and this challenge:  join us now!  Take your stand beside us and link your arms in ours!  Together we will meet this new day with confidence and expectation that God can do immeasurably more that we could even dream!

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses …let us strip off every weight that slows us down…And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 

Pastors Obed and Rae