Leadership Intergrity (Part 3) - A Place Called No

We are going back to our opening statement, the divine order of the kingdom principles and its concept. So there is a city known as ‘no’. An empty house, swept and kept idle, is the Devil’s workshop where he fabricates all sorts of lies, deception, falsehood, condemnation, and evil imaginations.

PHASE 03

A PLACE CALLED ‘NO’
It is a crime against humanity and divine order for a leader to leave his head empty. Your brain is able to design, to accommodate, and carry unfathomable information, but we’ve seen a place called ‘No’. 

 
No, means there is ‘nothing’. It means void of substance. In leadership, you must carry substance. You must be a person of substance, in terms of ideas, knowledge, exposure and intelligence. Tell it to yourself that; you must carry substance. Don’t live and enjoy the company of fools, we are, as leaders called into a higher life.

• No, indicates ignorance.
• No, connotes lack.
• No, introduces inability.
• No, confirms absence.

No, tells me if you’re out – out of supply, of ideas, inventions, initiatives, innovation and knowledge. Remember what the Scriptures said in Philippians four, nineteen? “My GOD shall supply all my needs according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus…” ‘No’ forms a colony and introduces a presence of ignorance. ‘a fool said in his heart, that there is ‘no’ GOD…’ “To be ignorant, is to die the death of a fool”.

For a soul to be without knowledge, the scripture says it is not good. (Discuss where this is found and read from different versions or translations).

THE DANGER OF IGNORANCE
‘No’ – also shows you nothing. “Nobody ever made a greater mistake than he who did nothing. Because he could only do little” and I add: or nothing” – Edmund Burke. Eskimo said: “He that boasts of his own knowledge, proclaims his ignorance” An ignorant person is like the grave, he carries foolishness on his shoulder that whenever you dare talk sense to him, he calls you foolish. The greatest thing Elohim laments over humanity is the rulership of ignorance.

 
I once saw an American proverb that said: “Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution”
How true is this statement can you add any experience that agrees to the above fact? Ignorance is synonymous to darkness, confusion, evil, and indecision. So by implication, a man without vision is in darkness, he cannot see the light of the day. There is a city called ‘No’ and it is the habitations of fools. A leader cannot and should pay a fare or a rent in that city. Ignorance is evil, it kills and destroys. How can this affect our nation?

THE PRICE OF IGNORANCE

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong”6. The price of ignorance as it relates to leadership is highly grievous; you can’t reclaim your honor once lost via ignorance. Death is the price you pay for being ignorant in life and of life. Listen: “You can only be killed by what you don’t know; anything you don’t know will eventually destroy you” Leadership through ignorance is evil and destructive. Many churches are gone; some now empty and void of God’s grace and presence, because ignorance was given a front seat in the church.
Dreams shattered, vision disappears and ignorance assumes the throne of our communities, organizations and families.

 
Academic environment has been turned to crises ground and battle field, because ignorance leads. Communal crises are now on the increase, because our kings and rulers are bound-brothers with Mr. Igno. they’ve agreed for him to take part in decision making. Our utterances are poison, even to our own children and people because uncle Igno, is the mouthpiece of the organizations and schools. Igno, is now the spokesman in the ministries that was once lead by the Holy Ghost. Oh, how far and farther away we have gone from knowledge and our hearts sticks in covenant with ignorance and stupidity! We make mockery of our God, when it’s time to nominate key leaders in the ministry, Ignorance is seated among the Deacon and Deaconesses and Deacon Igno has been nominated the Head of Deacon! Decay and falsehood takes over the entire ministry; Sin rules.

VISION AND ACTION
In leadership, you can have a vision that is not backed with action; is like a running car without brake. A man who goes to farm with all his tools but forgets to put on his shoes suitable for the job, is the same as having a vision without action.  Let’s go back to our root sentence or opening sentence; “Where there is no vision, the people …”

THE PEOPLE
I call them the ‘action-group’. If the vision is there but the people are not there, can anything happen? Now that is the spark (vision), the plug (the People). Vision sparks; the plug sustains the spark for a corresponding action to take place. If the spark is okay but not sustained, it will create or cause more damage in your car (engine). Ignite the fire and allow the people to sustain it. Vision – helps you create or design a system. The people help you to sustain the system. It makes more sense when you work with people, love them, carry them along, don’t be a lone-ranger, you will accomplish nothing. And eventually attain to nothing in life.

VISION VERSUS ACTION

 Once an African proverb captivated my attention and I noted it down, here is it: “Vision without action is a nightmare”. Action without vision is just passing time. But vision with action will change the world! We are changers, leadership is revolution; changing and shifting paradigm using the existing system to build or establish or fresh one, though it may not be quite or entirely different and from the old – that is leadership.

It’s good to have a cell phone, but it better to get a cell phone and a battery. It’s best to have a phone, a battery and a charger! Going a little further; it is excellent to have a cell phone, a battery, a charger and SIM card and airtime! The choice is yours to make. Vision must be accompanied with action. It makes the equation balance, and brings any system to a state of equilibrium. Peter, envisioned himself walking on water, when he saw (vision), the Messiah doing (action) the same. But until he acted on the words of Christ, he would never have walked on water. “If you don’t step out (action) of your boat, you’ll never walk on waters of circumstances”