{"id":2085,"date":"2019-02-26T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2019-02-24T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:57:17","slug":"1kings_4_1-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1kings_4_1-19\/","title":{"rendered":"It Takes a Team to Run a Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>1 Kings 4:1-19\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Kings+4%3A1-19&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2086 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190227.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190227-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/190227-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s passage is 1 Kings 4:1-19.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>On verses 1-19:\u00a0 Here we see that King Solomon &#8220;ruled over all Israel&#8221; (v1) by delegating different parts of the kingdom to various people, whom he trusted to help him govern the kingdom well (v2-19).\u00a0 What can we learn from this?<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 When the project is too large for any one person to handle, a wise leader will delegate different responsibilities to trustworthy individuals.\u00a0 As a kingdom grows, it takes not just one individual but a strong and excellent team to lead it.\u00a0 What is one area of your life where it would be more effective to delegate, outsource or at least seek advice rather than you trying to figure it all out by yourself?<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 God wants to involve His children in helping to rule His kingdom.\u00a0 As Luke 19:11-26 illustrates, God wants to give those servants of His who have proven to be trustworthy parts of His kingdom to rule on His behalf.\u00a0 You and I were made to reign with God.\u00a0 But how much God entrusts to us will depend on how trustworthy you are with what you have now.\u00a0 Do your best with what you have right now, and one day God will give you cities to manage.<\/p>\n<p><em>Heavenly Father, I pray I would be a faithful and trustworthy manager of all that You have given me, understanding that You are preparing me for even greater responsibility in the future.\u00a0 Please give me wisdom to know what parts of what I do I can delegate to others for greater effectiveness.\u00a0 \u00a0Thank You for everything and the trust You have in me!\u00a0 In Jesus&#8217; name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s passage is 1 Kings 4:1-19.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>On verses 1-19:\u00a0 Here we see that King Solomon &#8220;ruled over all Israel&#8221; (v1) by delegating different parts of the kingdom to various people, whom he trusted to help him govern the kingdom well (v2-19).\u00a0 What can we learn from this?<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 When the project is too large for any one person to handle, a wise leader will delegate different responsibilities to trustworthy individuals.\u00a0 As a kingdom grows, it takes not just one individual but a strong and excellent team to lead it.\u00a0 What is one area of your life where it would be more effective to delegate, outsource or at least seek advice rather than you trying to figure it all out by yourself?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}