A good general

Leaders take decisions!
Decisions say a lot about a leader! The type of leader you are is revealed by the decisions you take. Here are ten decisions of Jehovah God.

10 Decisions of Jehovah

• When the Earth was without form, void and covered with darkness, God took a decision to create Heaven and Earth.
And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2

• When God realised that man was lonely, he took a decision to create a woman.
And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. Genesis 2:18

• When the Earth was full of wickedness, God took a decision to kill all the human beings and leave only Noah and his family alive.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Genesis 6:5-7

• When God saw Noah’s sacrifice, he took a decision not to destroy all living things anymore.
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. Genesis 8:21

• When God saw the perversion in Sodom and Gomorrah, He took a decision to eliminate that city forever.
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Genesis 18:20,21

• When God saw that the Israelites were suffering so much in Egypt, He took a decision to rescue them from the hand of Pharaoh.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. Exodus 2:23-25

• When God was taking the children of Israel out of Egypt into Canaan and they began to complain, God took a decision to keep them in the wilderness for forty years.

(When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest). Hebrews 3:9-11

• When God saw that Lucifer was rebellious, he took a decision to cast him out of Heaven.
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Ezekiel 28:17

• When God realised that the Israelites did not want to be ruled by a prophet, he took a decision to change the style of leadership from judges to kings.
And the Lord said unto Samuel, hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 1 Samuel 8:7

• When God saw that all of his creation was going to be lost through sin, he took a decision to send his Son to win them back.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16-17
Clearly, God has taken many decisions through time. In the lives of mortal men, God has taken decisions from the creation till now. As a leader, you must take decisions too!

The writer is the founder of the Lighthouse Group of churches.
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