Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, in our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. I'm so looking forward to this week

as we continue on in our Hardest Things Emphasis Month, based on my first book,

The Seven Hardest Things God Asked a Woman to

do. But remember, this is just as much for men as for women, and I hope we have a lot of men

listening, in fact, because we're going to talk about a very important issue relevant to both

men and women right now, that of leadership. Specifically, I want to get into what kind of leaders should we be

and what kind of leaders should we be following. I have some feelings about this, especially

lately as I've noticed some trends in specifically Christian leadership that I'm not real fond of,

but I'm asking God to help me move past my feelings and really get wisdom from him on all of this.

Before I get started, I want to wish my co-author on this book, my mother, Kathy Reimer, a very

happy birthday today. What a gift to this world and to me she is. Happy birthday, Mama. You've always

followed and led well god asks us to both lead and follow and i think

depending on our personality we find one and easier sell than the other it's natural to lead

if you're a type a born leader and it's not nearly as easy to follow on the other hand if you're a type A born leader, and it's not nearly as easy to follow.

On the other hand, if you're more of a natural follower, you find it awkward to lead and may not

even understand or believe you're called to lead in any way. It's true that our personalities

play into our areas of strength, and we need to be who God created us to be because that's where we find

our greatest influence in this world. But that doesn't mean we aren't then responsible to do other

things. So we aren't off the hook in ways that don't come natural. We just need God's help more in

those areas I've found. Leaders will mostly lead, but we also sometimes are required to follow.

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