EMPOWER LEADERS

Leaders often wonder if it is really their job to create other leaders or simply inspire them and release them. A Pastor may wonder if their main role is on Sunday but the rest is all just extra. We were actually called to a much higher level by His word to equip other leaders to go lead. We are to identify, prepare, and release teams to work.

God did this very thing with Moses and the 70 leaders he had selected. Now what do these potential leaders need? God says:

1. Authority. Num. 11:16 And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.

He had them stand with Moses.

2. Anointing. Num. 11:17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

He took the spirit that had been on Moses and would put the same on them.

3. Ownership of the vision. Num. 11:17

Again, he put the spirit on them as well.

4. Responisibility. Num. 11:17

They shall bear the burden of the people.

5. They need specific ministry roles. Num. 11:24 Moses went out and told the people what the LORD said. He gathered 70 of the leaders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

He placed them around the tabernacle.

6. They need to express their gifts. Num. 11:25 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

When the spirit rested upon them they prophesied.

7. They need a secure leader who will release them to succeed. Num. 11:26-29 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon them!