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00:00Why should a leader pray?
00:19It is important to make it clear that a Christian leader is not measured by ability, but by interest and commitment.
00:26To reach the goal and fulfill God's will, it happens when the leader is on his knees.
00:33And pray to know God's desire and achieve the success that will be doing the Lord's will at all times.
00:42Proverbs chapter 16 verse 3 says
00:46Put your actions in the Lord's hands and your plans will be fulfilled.
00:52God seeks leaders willing to come into His presence with sensitivity
00:56with a passion for overcoming challenges, with the humility to recognize that only his intervention
01:03It will drive him to achieve the impossible, but the measure of success lies in the time spent in prayer.
01:10Prayer is the fundamental and definitive key to a leader's success.
01:15But why should a leader pray before starting a project?
01:20Number one, because that shows that I depend on God.
01:24Human beings love to feel self-sufficient.
01:29Only when we're in over our heads,
01:33When we have a financial problem or a serious illness,
01:37When our own strength fails, that's when we seek and turn to God.
01:43It is essential to maintain union with Christ in prayer.
01:47Through His word and constant communion, we will be able to bear fruit in our lives.
01:55There is nothing that God is not willing to do for the person who depends on Him.
02:02We can only begin to be useful as leaders when we recognize that we depend on God.
02:08When prayer becomes your first reaction to problems,
02:15as it was for Neemiah,
02:17You will know that you are living in dependence on our Lord.
02:23Number two, why does it make the load more bearable?
02:27Only through prayer do we receive strength and comfort in any situation.
02:34Neemiah wept for the situation of his people,
02:37But he didn't just stand there doing nothing.
02:40He was a compassionate and sensitive man,
02:43a man who felt things deeply.
02:45Disturbed by the bad news he received,
02:50He tried to find God's heart through prayer.
02:55But it was in prayer that he presented the situation to the Lord.
03:00She didn't complain, she didn't groan, nor did she wallow in self-pity.
03:06God honors the prayer that comes from a genuinely concerned heart.
03:11He longs to hear, Lord, I can't bear this.
03:14I don't know how to deal with it.
03:16Help me, Lord.
03:18Leadership produces great pressure
03:21and relief is found on one's knees in prayer.
03:26The leaders make the word in Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 31, a reality.
03:33But those who trust in the Lord will always have new strength.
03:37and they will be able to fly like eagles.
03:40They will be able to run without getting tired and walk without getting weary.
03:44God is the leader's strength at all times,
03:47with total dependence on his grace.
03:51Number three.
03:53Because it unleashes the power of God.
03:56Prayer releases the power of God.
03:59Jesus said,
04:00Jesus said,
04:01Ask and God will give to you.
04:04Seek and you shall find.
04:06Knock on the door and it will be opened to you.
04:09Because he who asks receives, and he who seeks finds.
04:12And to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
04:14Prayer can do everything that God can do.
04:21Prayer uses God's own resources.
04:25When God is brought into a project,
04:28The impossible becomes possible.
04:30Remember, the leader must pray because
04:34everything I am and do as a Christian leader
04:38It depends on God's grace.
04:40Because it lightens our load and strengthens us in times of need.
04:44And because it unleashes the power of God.
04:47The work is his.
04:48Now, we'll talk about some important points
04:54in the result in the leader's prayer.
04:58We will learn from the prayer that Neemiah addressed to God
05:02when I was sad about the situation in Jerusalem.
05:06Neemiah offers us four secrets
05:09about answered prayers.
05:12Number one.
05:14He based his prayer on the greatness of God.
05:17In chapter one, verse five
05:19From the book of Nehemiah, it says
05:21Lord, God of heaven,
05:24Great and terrible God,
05:25that you keep your alliance firm
05:27and your faithfulness to those who love you
05:30and they keep your commandments.
05:32Here we see the importance of recognizing
05:34the greatness of God and His power.
05:36A God who keeps his promises
05:38He is a faithful and unconditional God.
05:41In the prayer of Neemiah
05:43It was recognizing who God is.
05:45when the leader has that attitude
05:47He praises and acknowledges him
05:50his limitations as a person.
05:53It is truly believing and proclaiming
05:56that God is greater
05:57that any situation,
05:59disease,
06:01no matter how critical it may be.
06:03That is to say,
06:04I am so small and limited
06:05that I can't do anything
06:07without the help of our Lord.
06:09We are remembering ourselves
06:11that God has everything under control.
06:13I understand there are problems,
06:15chaotic situations
06:17like the ones you can feel, Neemiah,
06:19But the power of God is greater.
06:21And He is faithful to His promises.
06:24If we seek to train ourselves
06:25as Christian leaders,
06:27You must never forget
06:29that God
06:30He is the one who does the work.
06:33Recognizing greatness
06:34of his love and power
06:35It's an everyday task,
06:38it is to embody in our lives
06:40the action of God.
06:43Nehemiah
06:44confessed the sin
06:46that was in his life.
06:48We all know
06:49the price of disobedience,
06:51The cost is high.
06:53What happened
06:53when the Jews
06:54Did they disobey God?
06:56It was hard for them to lose
06:57the promised land,
06:59But they refused to listen.
07:02Disobedience
07:02It cost them their city,
07:04their time and their freedom.
07:07Neemiah in his prayer
07:08we see that he confesses
07:09the sin of his people.
07:11In verses 6 and 8
07:14from chapter 1
07:15says,
07:16I beg you now
07:17that you attend to prayer,
07:19that day and night
07:20I am directing you
07:21in favor of your servants,
07:23the Israelites.
07:24I recognize
07:25that we,
07:26the Israelites,
07:28We have sinned against you.
07:30Even my family members
07:31and I have sinned.
07:33We have conducted ourselves
07:34in the worst way
07:35before you.
07:36We have not complied.
07:38the commandments,
07:39laws and decrees
07:40that you gave us
07:41through your servant
07:42Moses.
07:43Remember
07:43that you warned him
07:45that if we
07:46we were sinning,
07:47you would scatter us
07:48all over the world.
07:49Nehemiah
07:49He began his prayer
07:51recognizing
07:52who is God,
07:53his greatness
07:54and that complies
07:55his promises.
07:57Subsequently
07:57acknowledges
07:58who have sinned.
07:59I speak in the plural.
08:00when praying before God
08:02and say
08:02We have sinned.
08:04Nehemiah
08:05not even
08:06had been born
08:07and much less
08:07lived in Jerusalem
08:08and it feels
08:09as one of them.
08:11I'll pause here.
08:12for reflection
08:13initially
08:13basics of leadership
08:15what is
08:16responsibility.
08:17We'll talk
08:18more on this term
08:20in the second year
08:21of leaders,
08:22however
08:22It is important
08:23mention it
08:24because Neemiah
08:25assumes
08:26responsibility
08:27that he could not
08:28attend
08:28someone else
08:29of his town.
08:31Recognize
08:31a sin
08:32and assume
08:32the consequences
08:33is wanting
08:35straighten
08:35the path.
08:36In today's world
08:37is always present
08:39This situation.
08:40Someone is more
08:41guilty that I
08:42and always
08:43we tend
08:44to justify ourselves
08:45and excuse ourselves.
08:47Mistake.
08:47This part
08:48It doesn't fit in a leader.
08:50In the book
08:50of Genesis
08:51when Adam
08:52eat of the fruit
08:53forbidden
08:54and he sees himself naked
08:55God asks him
08:56What had he done?
08:57Adam answers
08:58the woman
08:58that you have given me
08:59as a partner
09:00He gave me some of the fruit
09:01forbidden.
09:02Then God
09:03he asks
09:04to the woman
09:04Why did you do it?
09:06She answered
09:07the snake
09:08He deceived me
09:09that's why
09:10I ate it.
09:11What do we see
09:12common factor
09:13that so much man
09:14and woman
09:14Are they making excuses?
09:16How different
09:17would have been
09:17upon recognizing
09:19their failure
09:20before God?
09:23Need
09:24as a leader
09:24accept
09:25responsibility
09:26of our
09:26acts
09:27and go further.
09:29Recognize
09:30what we have left behind
09:31to do
09:31when putting
09:32pretexts
09:33excuses
09:34so as not to take
09:35the challenges
09:35that if we see
09:37but we evaded
09:39because we say
09:40It's not ours
09:41problem.
09:43A leader
09:43gets involved
09:44a leader
09:45intercedes
09:46and act
09:47to change
09:47a situation
09:48negative
09:49to a situation
09:50better
09:51always doing
09:52the will
09:53of God.
09:54Let us remember
09:54a leader
09:56accepts
09:57responsibility
09:58accepts
09:59the blame
10:00and take
10:01an attitude
10:02like the one from
10:03Nehemiah
10:03when saying
10:04we have
10:05sin
10:06against you.
10:09In the Bible
10:10we found
10:11countless
10:12examples
10:13of people
10:14with some
10:14need
10:15when praying.
10:17They called him
10:18Mister
10:18I want you to do
10:19This is because
10:20when we
10:22we pray
10:22must
10:22to ask ourselves
10:24because
10:24the Lord
10:25ought
10:26to respond
10:27my prayer?
10:28Often
10:29we give it to him
10:29a list
10:30orders
10:30and wishes
10:31bye
10:32so that
10:32He/She will fulfill it for us.
10:33A leader
10:34must
10:34introduce him
10:35bye
10:35the reason
10:36of his prayer.
10:38Let's see
10:39last two
10:39points
10:40how
10:41has to
10:41to pray
10:41a leader
10:42if we take
10:43the experience
10:43of Neemiah.
10:46Claim
10:46the promises
10:47of God
10:47in the book
10:48of Neemiah
10:49Chapter 1
10:50verses
10:50of the 8
10:51to the 9
10:51says
10:52remember
10:53that you warned him
10:54that if we
10:55we sinned
10:56you would scatter us
10:57all over the world
10:58but what if
10:59we would return
11:00to you
11:00and we complied
11:01your commandments
11:02putting them
11:03in practice
11:04even if
11:05we were
11:06scattered
11:06until the very last
11:07corner of the world
11:08you wouldn't pick up
11:10from there
11:10and you would take us
11:11again
11:12to the holy place
11:13that you chose
11:14as a residence
11:15of your name.
11:17Nehemiah
11:17he said to God
11:18I want you to remember
11:20what you said
11:21to your servant
11:22Moses
11:22Can you imagine?
11:24that someone
11:25tell God
11:25that I remember something?
11:28Nehemiah
11:28It reminds him
11:28bye
11:29what he had said
11:30in the past
11:31Yeah
11:32it's true
11:33that you spoke
11:34that we will lose
11:34the earth
11:35for our
11:36disobedience
11:37but also
11:38you promised
11:39that if we regretted it
11:40Would you give it back to us?
11:41along
11:43of history
11:43of salvation
11:45we find characters
11:46which reminds him
11:47which
11:48he
11:48he said
11:49what he wants to do
11:50David did it
11:51Abraham
11:52Moses
11:53the prophets
11:54God needs
11:56that we remind him
11:57things
11:57well no
11:59it is forgotten
12:00of what
12:01has promised
12:02No
12:03so
12:05because
12:05Shall we do it?
12:07simply
12:08because it helps us
12:09us
12:10to remember
12:11what God
12:11has promised
12:12the prayer
12:14transforms
12:15the promises
12:16of God
12:16under construction
12:16the prayer
12:18consists
12:18in taking it
12:19the word
12:20bye
12:20the prayer
12:22consists
12:22in asking him
12:23that complies
12:23which
12:24has promised
12:24when we pray
12:26We are
12:27asking
12:28that he does
12:28which
12:29has already promised
12:30and wants to do
12:31Did you know
12:32that in the Bible
12:33There are more than
12:33seven thousand
12:34promises
12:35expecting
12:36that we
12:36Should we claim it?
12:39Nehemiah
12:39he was able to declare
12:40those promises
12:41because the
12:42I knew
12:43had studied
12:44the word
12:45of God
12:46had hidden
12:47in his heart
12:48the promises
12:49divine
12:49how can we
12:51do
12:51valid
12:52the promises
12:52of God
12:53but
12:53know
12:54the scriptures
12:55so that
12:56our prayer
12:57of fruit
12:58consists
12:59in begging him
12:59bye
13:00that complies
13:01as promised
13:01I know
13:03very good
13:03that the
13:04promises
13:04of God
13:05determines
13:06the fortress
13:06of my life
13:07prayer
13:08as fourth
13:09spot
13:10be specific
13:12in what
13:13need
13:14to obtain
13:15answers
13:16specific
13:16to our
13:17prayer
13:17we have to
13:18do also
13:19requests
13:19specific
13:20otherwise
13:21How are we going to know?
13:22that God
13:23has responded
13:24of mine
13:25in the chapter
13:26one
13:26verses
13:27ten
13:27eleven
13:27says
13:28we are
13:30your servants
13:30and your people
13:31that you rescued
13:32with your great
13:33can
13:33and strength
13:34I beg you
13:35well
13:36Sir
13:37that you attend
13:38to my prayer
13:39and the pleas
13:40of your servants
13:41whose only
13:42I wish is
13:43honor you
13:43I ask you
13:44also
13:45that you give me
13:46success
13:46and wake up
13:48towards me
13:48sympathies
13:49of the king
13:50we see reality
13:51of enmities
13:52he was
13:53willing
13:54however
13:55It was also
13:56aware
13:56from his position
13:57as a cupbearer
13:58of the king
13:58a position
13:59certainly
14:00with privileges
14:01because it is very
14:02trust
14:02but also
14:03with many risks
14:04It was very complicated.
14:06that the king
14:07Artaxerxes
14:08would allow
14:09take a trip
14:10long
14:10exposed
14:11to many situations
14:12that they would put
14:13at risk
14:14his life
14:14hardly
14:16would get
14:16the authorization
14:17of being absent
14:18for a long
14:18time
14:19the king
14:20Artaxerxes
14:21He was a man
14:22that he didn't believe
14:23in God
14:23that had
14:24the power
14:25life
14:25or death
14:26however
14:27Nehemiah
14:27I was confident
14:29in his prayer
14:30and if God
14:31I had called him
14:32to be a leader
14:33that I needed
14:34surely
14:35will manifest
14:36favorably
14:38when doing
14:38the application
14:39of absence
14:40to the king
14:40Nehemiah
14:41I would need
14:43a high
14:43can
14:44of conviction
14:45to get
14:46that the king
14:47would allow
14:48absent
14:48for three years
14:49it may be that
14:51during the four
14:52months that he was
14:52praying Neemiah
14:53their cry
14:54it evolved
14:56could be
14:57that at the beginning
14:58asked
14:58because there would have
14:59a solution
15:00and in the end
15:01God
15:01He challenges him
15:02to be part
15:04of that solution
15:05if you are
15:06so worried
15:07for them
15:07because you don't
15:09you involve
15:09in the matter
15:10and the answer
15:11was
15:12I can
15:13be part
15:13of the solution
15:14maybe
15:16God
15:16will you be able to
15:16wear
15:17so that
15:18rebuild
15:19the walls
15:19I do it
15:21I am willing
15:22to Neemiah
15:24I'll take it
15:25time
15:25grasp
15:26the vision
15:26that God
15:27had planned
15:28first
15:29gold
15:29saying
15:30God
15:30mine
15:30aid
15:31to the
15:31that are
15:32over there
15:32after
15:34said
15:34maybe
15:35can
15:36wear
15:36me
15:36as a response
15:37to his prayer
15:38now
15:40at last
15:40now
15:41saying
15:41give me
15:42success
15:43I invite you
15:45to do
15:46memory
15:46and remember
15:47that which you asked for
15:48with great faith
15:49in your prayer
15:50with confidence
15:52that your prayer
15:53was heard
15:54and what God
15:55He granted you
15:55because there was
15:56listened
15:57your prayer
15:58No
15:59No
15:59No
16:00in your prayer
16:02that
16:03No
16:05what god
16:05He granted you
16:06with confidence
16:08your prayer
16:10Thank you!