The Art of Leadership
Several famous generals were known for their speed. Alexander the Great and Napoleon and are some of the well-known generals who were associated with high-speed warfare. The speed of thought and movement were clearly keys that brought them victory.
Look carefully and you will see how nations like Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore have caught up with western nations like Germany, England, Holland and Italy. How did they do it? By COPYING and EMULATING those ahead!
Copying, emulating, learning to be like someone are keys to rapid movement. All the poor nations which have caught up with the rich nations did so by copying. All the nations which were two hundred years behind moved faster when they began to copy the richer nations.
Instead of spending your life discovering things that have already been discovered, you can humbly use the existing discovery and surge forward into something new.
The key to achieving fast church growth is to copy those who have been able to build big churches. It may sound absurd to you, but I can assure you that great things are really very simple.
The key to speed is copying. I have tried copying men of God I look up to and it made me move fast. I have copied the fathers God gave to me and it has given me great speed.
Do you want to spend your life as a discoverer? Perhaps in Heaven you can sit by David Livingstone and share your discoveries with each other!
You must catch the anointing quickly, learn how to preach quickly, master the art of shepherding quickly, learn how to pray for the sick quickly and understand the ministry quickly! None of these things should be done slowly.
There is a lot to be done, and there is a devil who is trying to outpace and outrun you. What is the master key to increasing your speed and achieving lightning strikes? The answer to speed is copying!
Alexander the Great and Lightning Speed
In the Bible, Alexander the Great is depicted as a swift goat that came out of Greece. “The shaggy male goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king of the Greek Empire,” (Daniel 8:21, NLT).
In the Bible, Alexander the Great is depicted as a goat that appeared from the western world (Greece) attacking the Persians (the ram) who were led by Darius the Great. Alexander displayed quickness of mind by turning his army around and arriving at the battleground before the enemy had fully prepared his defences.
While I was watching, suddenly A MALE GOAT APPEARED from the west, CROSSING THE LAND SO SWIFTLY THAT HE DIDN’T EVEN TOUCH THE GROUND. This goat, which had one very large horn between its eyes, headed toward the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the river, rushing at him in a rage.
The goat charged furiously at the ram and struck him, breaking off both his horns. Now the ram was helpless, and the goat knocked him down and trampled him. No one could rescue the ram from the goat’s power.
The goat became very powerful. But at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off. In the large horn’s place grew four prominent horns pointing in the four directions of the earth – Daniel 8:4-8 (NLT).
The verses above show how the goat moved; crossing the land so swiftly that it did not even touch the ground. Such was the speed of Alexander the Great! He became the ruler of the known world. At the height of his power, when he was just thirty-three years old, he died suddenly, and his kingdom was divided among his four generals.
The Scripture shows how the large horn was broken and it was replaced with four prominent horns.
The ram butted everything out of his way to the west, to the north, and to the south, and no one could stand against him or help his victims. He did as he pleased and became very great.
Germany and Lightning Speed
During the Second World War, the German army was well known for moving with lightning speed. Its lightning strikes were called blitzkrieg – a German word that means lighting strikes.
This tactic depended on speed and surprise and needed the military force to be based along light tank units supported by planes and foot soldiers.
Fighting with the speed of lightning was so successful that it resulted in the British and French armies being defeated in the first few weeks of the Second World War.
Several famous leaders have moved with lightning speed, surprising their enemies and winning wars. You must have speed! It is time to stop giving excuses and calling for more meetings!
It is time to stop planning for things to be done next week and the week after. If it must be done, it must be done now! It must be done with speed!
Culled from “A Good General”
BY Dag Heward-Mills