The Leader and His Prayer Life
In fulfilling his calling as a leader, a leader may be so overwhelmed by the needs of others that his needs often go unmet. Before you know it, another leader has another casuality.
To avoid this negative element of a leader's life, the leader needs to learn from the leader of leaders---Jesus Christ himself. Though his life and ministry were often preoccupied with the needs of others, Jesus never allowed his own needs to go unmet. He avoided becoming another casuality. How?
Scripture tells us:
Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Luke 5:15-16, NIV, emphasis added)
Prayer often empowers and clarifies. Because he knew this, Jesus made time for prayer.
