{"id":1328,"date":"2014-04-12T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T07:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2014-04-10T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:55:01","slug":"you-need-no-mans-permission-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/you-need-no-mans-permission-to-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"You Need No Man’s Permission To Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Have you ever noticed how programmed our society is as regards the subject of permission?\u00a0 Watch very carefully the next time you are around any group of people who are experiencing some type of challenge or major problem that needs immediate resolution.\u00a0 Whenever such a significant problem or challenge comes up there always seems to be hesitation on most folk\u2019s part to handle the problem, resolve it, and then get on with their lives. \u00a0 Leaders are decisive people.\u00a0 Leaders are problem solvers……<\/b>Failures aren\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It just seems like so very many people cannot accept personal responsibility and take charge of a situation, correct the problems that need correcting or the issues at hand and \u201cfix-it\u201d without first looking around or waiting for someone else\u2019 s permission or approval before taking any action on their own and solving the problem.\u00a0 I call it the \u201cfollow-the-leader\u201d mentality.\u00a0 Everyone just sits around waiting for someone else to do something to solve the problem instead of getting up, beginning to move, and solving the problem themselves.<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the biggest problems as I see it today is that so very few people have any desire to stand up, speak up, and begin taking the necessary action to fill the wanting leadership role.\u00a0 Earning, achieving, or declaring yourself as the leader of any other person or group of individuals, does not necessarily make you or anyone else a leader.\u00a0 True leadership is totally taking action and leading by example!\u00a0<\/b> Taking action means, at least to me, that one begins to do what a real leader does.\u00a0 True leadership is taking charge of a given situation and solving its challenges regardless of what someone else\u00a0 says, thinks, or does.\u00a0 Leaders…Lead.\u00a0 They do not look for other people\u2019s approval to perform.<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s go all the way back to your toddler years.\u00a0 Your parents and other authority figures in your life were the ones who taught you to have their approval before you began to act.\u00a0 You learned from them to seek permission before doing almost anything.\u00a0 As you grew and matured over your adolescent and teenage years, your school teachers for the most part simply re-confirmed getting their permission or personal approval before you were allowed to complete a task or even choose what you wanted to\u00a0<\/span>learn or do.\u00a0 The high school and college system prepared you to get a job which you did and now your employer required or even demanded that you were to have their personal approval before doing your job as they assigned it to you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now comes along your adult years of life, and lo and behold, you get slapped in the face with the fact that as a 21+year old man or woman, you have never been trained or even taught how to make decisions on your own,…how to recognize and assess an existing problem or challenge and then formulate a solution to the problem and take action to resolve it!\u00a0 You do not know that which you do not know!\u00a0<\/b> So why do we have this ongoing failure to perform problem?…. Because whenever people are faced with a challenge instead of resolving it, they naturally do what they were trained and taught to do and that is to go get someone else\u2019s permission or approval before they take charge and solve the problem.\u00a0 THIS IS COMPLETE NONSENSE!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can lead just as well as anyone else,….but not from the sitting position!\u00a0 Leadership is performed from the front.\u00a0 Real leaders are always the ones who lead by example,…they are doing that which they are teaching others (their followers) how to do and that is to be actively involved!<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When you were conceived, God did not \u201cshort-change\u201d you.\u00a0 In almost all instances, you were given the same quantity of brains and grey matter that everyone else was given.\u00a0 The quantity of leadership ability that was apportioned to you equalled that which was given to everyone else.\u00a0 You have all that you need to accomplish the plan God has predetermined for your life, just the way you are,…right now!<\/b>\u00a0 You just have to start using it!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now comes the greatest part.\u00a0 Once you have an established spiritual root to your life, that is to say that once you have become a Christian, then you can rest in the Peace of Christ full well knowing that you need no mortal man\u2019s approval to do what God has told you to do as is recorded in the Holy Scriptures. \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your personal obedience to the Word of God far outweighs and supersedes that which man tries to tell you to do.\u00a0 Your submission to and performance of the teachings and instructions of the Word of God is that which you must pay absolute attention to if you desire His blessings in your life. \u00a0<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Never lose sight of the fact that there is a real and true Judgement Seat of Christ.\u00a0 <\/b>And as a \u201cborn-again believer,\u201d your spirit will one day stand before The Lord Jesus and have to give a full account of your thoughts, decisions, words, and actions you have taken or failed to take since your conversion and salvation.\u00a0 No excuses will be acceptable as reasons why you would not or could not be faithfully obedient with the use of your knowledge and personal instructions given to you by The Lord. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, there are always going to be rules and regulations in our physical world today that will carry with them lots of different rules and absolutes concerning how you are to do things man\u2019s way and what is or is not legally acceptable according to man and his laws.\u00a0 There will also be all kinds of people, trained and untrained, eager to tell you what you can and cannot say or do.\u00a0 There may come into\u00a0 your life,… things, people, events and the like that will force you to make a clear distinction between what God says and what man says.\u00a0 In the end it will ultimately be your own call, but I must tell you…Never violate God laws!…if you want to experience His protection and rewards.\u00a0<\/b> God is a just and a jealous God.\u00a0 He will not take back seat to anyone or anything else.\u00a0 He demands to take first position in your life,….never second just behind some foolish law put into place by a mortal man.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I fully realize some of you readers are going to be totally against what I have just said, but that is completely immaterial.\u00a0 Why? Because God does not require or even need your personal approval or agreement for His Rules to prevail.\u00a0 God\u2019s Truth is just that….God\u2019s Truth with or without your approval.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay humble, there is no need for arrogance on your part.\u00a0 There is never a need to become angry or upset whenever another person comes crashing\u00a0 into your life trying to tell you everything you can and cannot do or say.\u00a0 If\u00a0<\/b><\/span>you are a real Believer in Christ Jesus, then He is your authority.<\/b>\u00a0 When you are obedient to His Word and His guidance, He is glorified to the world and you will be so rewarded just as He promises to provide to you.<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So here is how it all works.\u00a0 Obey man\u2019s laws whenever and wherever you can.\u00a0 Obey man\u2019s instructions when they are in concert with God\u2019s Laws.\u00a0 BUT if you are ever faced with an \u201ceither-or\u201d situation where you are placed into the uncomfortable position of having to choose who it is that you will follow,…permit me to strongly and powerfully exhort you to always stay on\u00a0 the God-side of life.\u00a0 If you stay on God\u2019s side, you will never regret it.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t stay on His side,….you will live to see the day that you do deeply regret it.\u00a0 Don\u2019t take the chance.\u00a0 Play it safe.\u00a0 Stay on the side of your Savior!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because your eternal security and the quality of it,… depends upon it….that is why!<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Peace and Love to All of You………………..Poppa Bear<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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