Samuel Principles

1.  Keep growing in wisdom and stature with the Lord and men.
2.  Listening to God is essential to knowing you are God's child. When you hear God call, say, "Here I am, I am listening."

Can you hear Me? This is how a relationship with God is fostered. God told Moses what to do. Led and Commanded Israel as Joshua listened to Him. Walked with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Raised up Judges through whom He led. Who is like our Lord that He should come down to us and desire to walk with us, to be in us, to make us His, but even more He talks with us! Behold I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears me opens the door I will come in and sup with them.


3.  Lasting leadership begins with a near ness and intimate relationship with God. (1 Samuel 3:19-21)

Therefore, because of intimacy with God your leadership can endure in a culture that does what is right in it's own eyes. We are living in such a culture.

How close to God are you? Are you close enough to hear Him and to obey Him?


4. The power in your words is what God does with them in the hearts of those who hear you speak. Samuel's words were transformational!

God didn't let any of Samuel's words fall to the ground. None of what he said was a waste to those who heard it. The power of the leader is in the what God does with the words that He gives to Him. Are your words transformative or trash?

Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight Oh Lord!


5.  God's leader is brought to us by God's authority not man's wisdom, or politics. (1 Samuel 4:1)


6.  Live in such a way that God's Spirit will inhabit your life. God's presence is the glory!

(1 Samuel 4-7) Israel had the ark of the covenant, but God was not with them. He wants to indwell the hearts of his people.

Eli and his sons and all the priesthood did not know the God they served. It was at a time when the word of the Lord didn't come to Israel. God had left the... building. Consequently, The Philistines didn't fear Israel as Jericho did, or as all of the Canaanites did under Joshua. It has been less than 300 years since Joshua and Israel has forgotten God and no God has forgotten them.

I don't want God's glory to leave me. I don't want to be left to my own devices by God. I want His presence in my life. I want to know He is with me.

You can dress up a pig but at the end of the day it is still a pig. I don't want to just appear to be something I am not in my heart.


7.  Nations that forget God will find that God will not hear them in times of crisis or conflict.


8.  God is our rock of help. Let's go to Him in times of crisis. 1 Samuel 7


9.  Walking with the Lord is no guarantee your kids will.

Samuel's sons didn't follow in their father's footsteps. The scriptures state clearly that his sons used their father's influence for personal gain and not for God's glory.


10.  Cultures that abandon God soon long for a man rather than God to rule over them. 
i.e people who forget God and His way soon long to rule over their own lives.


11. To make anything or anyone king in your heart other than the Lord, our Creator, grieves God.
Lord don't let me grieve you. Let me make a great impact for the Kingdom of Heaven.