What to Do When What You've Been Doing Isn't Working

WHEN IT’S NOT WORKING

What to do when what you've been doing isn't working

LEADERSCOPE

Greg Howse, December, 2015

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

Abraham Lincoln

DO YOU KNOW THESE GUYS???

Noah (Genesis 6; II Peter 2:5)

Possibly up to 75 years building the ark

Preacher of righteousness ….. no converts

Moses (Exodus 5 - 12)

5:2I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.

5:21You made it worse on us

7:23Pharoah’s heart was not moved

Joshua @ Ai (Joshua 7)

7:1,12 The sin of Achan

7:3 Arrogance

No consulting of the Lord

Elijah (I King 18:41, 43,44)

18:41To Ahab: The sound of abundance of rain

18:43Sending the servant to look for a sign of rain ….. 7 times

Naaman(II Kings 5)

5:9-11 He will surely come out to me

5:12In a rage

Disciples (Matthew 17:16, 20, 21)

17:17 Faithless and perverse generation

17:20 Their unbelief ….. their inability to command ….. Prayer and Fasting

QUESTIONS TO ASK

1.What's going on with you, the leader?

Your ______

2. Why hasn't it been working?

______

Ask the ______

Does this fit your ______?

Is the ______right?

Do you have the ______on your team?

3. What does your analysis tell you?

Truthfully face ______….. Be ______

Have you truly invested the ______?

Ignore? Avoid? Or make necessary changes?

4. Should this be tweaked or stopped?

Is this truly what God led you to do?

What ______need to be made?

What level of ______is needed?

Or, is the door of opportunity ______on this one?

5. What are the next steps?

Do you keep going?

Do you try it again? Restart?

Do you change team members?

Reframe your situation as a battlefield, and your mission as life or death

You must have an inner persuasion that the willingness to fight for what you want is the dominant qualification for obtaining

SOME MORE QUESTIONS

1. What are you doing?

2. Is it what you are SUPPOSED TO BE DOING? How do you know? Who told you?

3. What are YOU holding on to?

4. What are YOU HEARING? ….. NOT HEARING? (know the Voice)

Be faithful to the ______of the Lord

Whatever God ______comes to pass

The main focus is ______

5. Who are you PROTECTING?

Noah / Moses / Joshua / Elijah / Naaman / Disciples

Your text is in your context

All of them …..______

Noah had to deal with the fact that people would not be ______

Moses had to deal with an ______man

Joshua had to confront an issue of ______

Elijah had to keep ______

Naaman had to do something ______

The Disciples had to face what seemed like a ______to them and others

WHAT ABOUT YOU?

I will keep standing when others fall.

I will keep reaching when others withdraw.

I will believe God and myself when lies are being hurled around me.

I will keep listening when others stop discerning.

I will know what I want when no one else around me cares what I want.

I will develop the highest level of excellence in my environment.

I will recognize the rewards of being unstoppable.

I will exercise trust in God and His Word.

I will exercise faith in what God has made me to be.

Greg Howse

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