GLR - What every leader needs

by Pastor Alan Hewitt

Exodus 17:8-16
The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.” 10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword. 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner. 16 He said, “Because hands were lifted up against[a] the throne of the Lord,[b] the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”


Point 1
People who follows instruction

- Learn to celebrate our people
- Instructions are critical, vital and following them does not mean they are better than you but is just their positioning
- Authority is for the benefit of all not just the ego of a few
- Someone needs to take instruction and someone needs to give instruction
- First mentioned of Joshua at 20 years old ... Joshua did as Moses commanded
- Destiny is developed while we serve, you never know what your serving is preparing you for
- Greater responsibility comes with greater serving
- God will never trust someone to lead who can't be trusted to follow!
- Submission is something that cannot be forced, it is to be yield
- There is no perfect leadership except Jesus the chief pastor

Point 2
People who fight the right battles

- The devil don't mind who you fight as long as it's not him

Deuteronomy 25:17-18
Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. 18 When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.


- Discern the right battles to fight
- Our fight is against what we don't see: The world, the flesh and the devil

Point 3
People who use initiative

- No instruction was given to Aaron and hur but they used initiative to put a rock for Moses to sit on. They could not do what Moses did
- Stone getters are as vital as rod lifters!
- The gifting was for moses to hold the rod, Aaron and hur are the stone getters
- Pray for them
- Look out for them
- Show emotional intelligence to them
- Leaders must look out for each other, in fact everyone must look out for each other
- Hur wasn't a great leader like Moses, he wasn't a great general like Joshua or someone great like Aaron. Hur was only mentioned 3 times. Yet he was crucial to the victory! Yet his ministry was crucial
- It's your function that really matters, not the title

Point 4
People who remember where their victory lies!

Exodus 17:14-15
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner.


- God is always enough (Yahweh nissi) for every situation in my life!!
- The staff of God
That single rod was of more avail than as if they had gone into the field preceded by a thousand banners
-John Galvin-

- It was the staff
- We don't have that staff today because we have God