Become A Master Of Strategic Steps
by Pastor Dag Heward-MIlls
STRATEGY IS
A SERIES OF MANEUVERS AND STEPS THAT ARE UNDERTAKEN
TO ACHIEVE A SPECIFIC GOAL
Seven Things You Need To Know About Strategy
1. Every great or important destination requires a number of steps to get to it.
A good leader must accept the reality that no great achievement involves just one step. It will involve a series of steps, a series of maneuvers or a series of stratagems. The series of steps, maneuvers or stratagems is also known as strategy.
Strategy is defined as a series of maneuvers that are undertaken to achieve a specific goal. Simpletons are averse to strategies. All they want is something to be done for them. If they do accept the responsibility, they do not want anything that involves more than one step.
2. The worst leaders will take zero steps to achieve anything. The worst leaders live in constant expectation of something to be done for them.
Their mentality is that someone owes them something and someone has to do something for them or to them. This is often the mentality of people who have been slaves before. It is also the mentality of people who have been colonized and used to others thinking for them. Their understanding is that something has to be given to them or handed over to them. Such leaders constantly read speeches requesting aid and describing their woes, lacks and efficiencies and hoping that it will touch the heart of a philanthropist somewhere.
Even after many years they do not perceive that their woeful plight and pathetic situation does not touch the hearts of many people of the men in this selfish world. It takes years for zero-step leaders to realize that no one will freely pour out his hard-earned wealth into their laps. Such leaders are excited to receive wealthy visitors, NGO directors, singers, football stars, western diplomats, because at the back of their minds they expect something to be given to them or done for them.
3. Bad leaders are interested in taking only one step towards a goal.
Bad leaders are a little better than the worst leaders because they take at least one step towards their goals. But most things are not achieved by taking one step. Many people will take the step of prayer.
Many people will take one step of fasting and praying every year.
Many church members will take one step of sowing a seed in order to be prosperous. But one step does not go very far.
As you sit in your seat reading this book, if you were to take just one step how far would you get?
You cannot even make it to the toilet with one step!
But that is all people want to do. They just want to take one step towards their goals. There are few things, if any, that can be reached with one step. The bible says that “… things work together for good.” Many things work together to make one thing beautiful or successful. Many things are combined in a particular way and with particular timing to make a nice stew or soup. It is not just having one thing (good meat) that will make you have a nice stew. Many things will work together.
Because one step gets you almost nowhere the one step that is taken is often seen as having not worked. Because of this, people who have taken the one step of praying or one step of fasting or one step of sowing a seed have often complained that the one step does not work.
4. The greater the goal the more the maneuvers and steps you need to take.
The greater and more impossible the goal is to you, the more steps you will have to take to get there. To achieve great goals you will need to take many steps.
5. Each step in a strategy requires faith and patience.
The first few steps require the most patience and the most faith in the wisdom of your strategy. If one of the steps you are taking is to have your quiet time, you need a lot of faith and patience to consistently have your quiet time, believing that it will have an effect on the outcome of your life.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:12
6. Many strategies to get somewhere or to achieve anything can be broken down to four steps.
With four steps you can get to any destination or person in this world.
7. Become a man who takes as many strategic steps as needs be. Graduate from being a zero-step person or a one-step person.
SEVEN STRATEGIES OF JEHOVAH
1. THE STRATEGY TO REPLENISH THE EARTH
Step 1: Put a man in the garden
Step 2: Put a woman in the garden
Step 3: Give the man desires and testosterone
Step 4: Curse the woman to be attracted to something she does not like
2. THE STRATEGY TO SAVE ISRAEL
Step 1: Make a Levite like another
Step 2: Let a baby be born and found by Pharaoh’s daughter
Step 3: Let the baby child be trained in leadership and used to palace life and leadership,
Step 4: Banish him to the wilderness and train him and humble him there
Step 5: Meet him and anoint him in the wilderness
Step 6: Harden Pharaoh’s heart so that more miracles can be done
Step 7: Use Moses to teach righteousness and the Law
3. THE STRATEGY TO SAVE THE WORLD.
Step 1: Allow the Israelites to be punished by their enemies and become devoted to the Law of Moses
Step 2: Send His Son to the world to be born of a virgin
Step 3: God’s first step was to wait for the right time. God waited for the right time He sent His son Jesus
4. THE STRATEGY TO DESTROY THE DEVIL’S POWER OVER MAN
Step 1: Send Jesus to this world to preach the word and tell the world about heaven
Step 2: Allow Him to be tempted and tested by the devil in all ways
Step 3: Allow Him to overcome the devil and demonstrate superiority over demons
Step 4: Allow Him to show love which never fails
Step 5: Allow Him to pour out His blood and give a legal reason why sinners like us can come to heaven without question
Step 6: Send people into the world to tell everyone about this sacrifice
Step 7: Send the Holy Spirit to help the sinful and weak and fallen men to proclaim the powerful gospel of Jesus Christ
5. THE STRATEGY TO PREVENT MAN FROM REACHING HEAVEN ON HIS OWN
Step 1: Say nothing about the project that men are undertaking
Step 2: Give everybody a different language
Step 3: Cause them not to understand each other
Step 4: Cause them to fight each other
Step 5: This will bring a natural halt to the Babel project
6. THE STRATEGY TO SEND THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE WORLD
Step 1: Train them by association for three years
Step 2: Teach them
Step 3: Give them practical training by sending them out
Step 4: Show them how to sacrifice
Step 5: Send them to the world
7. THE STRATEGY TO LET CHRIST BE KNOWN
Step 1: Allow the good and evil to grow
Step 2: When they are fully mature, allow them to be harvested
Step 3: Allow the Roman Empire to take up the whole world
Step 4: Convert the Roman Emperor
STRATEGY IS
A SERIES OF MANEUVERS AND STEPS THAT ARE UNDERTAKEN
TO ACHIEVE A SPECIFIC GOAL
Seven Things You Need To Know About Strategy
1. Every great or important destination requires a number of steps to get to it.
A good leader must accept the reality that no great achievement involves just one step. It will involve a series of steps, a series of maneuvers or a series of stratagems. The series of steps, maneuvers or stratagems is also known as strategy.
Strategy is defined as a series of maneuvers that are undertaken to achieve a specific goal. Simpletons are averse to strategies. All they want is something to be done for them. If they do accept the responsibility, they do not want anything that involves more than one step.
2. The worst leaders will take zero steps to achieve anything. The worst leaders live in constant expectation of something to be done for them.
Their mentality is that someone owes them something and someone has to do something for them or to them. This is often the mentality of people who have been slaves before. It is also the mentality of people who have been colonized and used to others thinking for them. Their understanding is that something has to be given to them or handed over to them. Such leaders constantly read speeches requesting aid and describing their woes, lacks and efficiencies and hoping that it will touch the heart of a philanthropist somewhere.
Even after many years they do not perceive that their woeful plight and pathetic situation does not touch the hearts of many people of the men in this selfish world. It takes years for zero-step leaders to realize that no one will freely pour out his hard-earned wealth into their laps. Such leaders are excited to receive wealthy visitors, NGO directors, singers, football stars, western diplomats, because at the back of their minds they expect something to be given to them or done for them.
3. Bad leaders are interested in taking only one step towards a goal.
Bad leaders are a little better than the worst leaders because they take at least one step towards their goals. But most things are not achieved by taking one step. Many people will take the step of prayer.
Many people will take one step of fasting and praying every year.
Many church members will take one step of sowing a seed in order to be prosperous. But one step does not go very far.
As you sit in your seat reading this book, if you were to take just one step how far would you get?
You cannot even make it to the toilet with one step!
But that is all people want to do. They just want to take one step towards their goals. There are few things, if any, that can be reached with one step. The bible says that “… things work together for good.” Many things work together to make one thing beautiful or successful. Many things are combined in a particular way and with particular timing to make a nice stew or soup. It is not just having one thing (good meat) that will make you have a nice stew. Many things will work together.
Because one step gets you almost nowhere the one step that is taken is often seen as having not worked. Because of this, people who have taken the one step of praying or one step of fasting or one step of sowing a seed have often complained that the one step does not work.
4. The greater the goal the more the maneuvers and steps you need to take.
The greater and more impossible the goal is to you, the more steps you will have to take to get there. To achieve great goals you will need to take many steps.
5. Each step in a strategy requires faith and patience.
The first few steps require the most patience and the most faith in the wisdom of your strategy. If one of the steps you are taking is to have your quiet time, you need a lot of faith and patience to consistently have your quiet time, believing that it will have an effect on the outcome of your life.
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:12
6. Many strategies to get somewhere or to achieve anything can be broken down to four steps.
With four steps you can get to any destination or person in this world.
7. Become a man who takes as many strategic steps as needs be. Graduate from being a zero-step person or a one-step person.
SEVEN STRATEGIES OF JEHOVAH
1. THE STRATEGY TO REPLENISH THE EARTH
Step 1: Put a man in the garden
Step 2: Put a woman in the garden
Step 3: Give the man desires and testosterone
Step 4: Curse the woman to be attracted to something she does not like
2. THE STRATEGY TO SAVE ISRAEL
Step 1: Make a Levite like another
Step 2: Let a baby be born and found by Pharaoh’s daughter
Step 3: Let the baby child be trained in leadership and used to palace life and leadership,
Step 4: Banish him to the wilderness and train him and humble him there
Step 5: Meet him and anoint him in the wilderness
Step 6: Harden Pharaoh’s heart so that more miracles can be done
Step 7: Use Moses to teach righteousness and the Law
3. THE STRATEGY TO SAVE THE WORLD.
Step 1: Allow the Israelites to be punished by their enemies and become devoted to the Law of Moses
Step 2: Send His Son to the world to be born of a virgin
Step 3: God’s first step was to wait for the right time. God waited for the right time He sent His son Jesus
4. THE STRATEGY TO DESTROY THE DEVIL’S POWER OVER MAN
Step 1: Send Jesus to this world to preach the word and tell the world about heaven
Step 2: Allow Him to be tempted and tested by the devil in all ways
Step 3: Allow Him to overcome the devil and demonstrate superiority over demons
Step 4: Allow Him to show love which never fails
Step 5: Allow Him to pour out His blood and give a legal reason why sinners like us can come to heaven without question
Step 6: Send people into the world to tell everyone about this sacrifice
Step 7: Send the Holy Spirit to help the sinful and weak and fallen men to proclaim the powerful gospel of Jesus Christ
5. THE STRATEGY TO PREVENT MAN FROM REACHING HEAVEN ON HIS OWN
Step 1: Say nothing about the project that men are undertaking
Step 2: Give everybody a different language
Step 3: Cause them not to understand each other
Step 4: Cause them to fight each other
Step 5: This will bring a natural halt to the Babel project
6. THE STRATEGY TO SEND THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL TO THE WHOLE WORLD
Step 1: Train them by association for three years
Step 2: Teach them
Step 3: Give them practical training by sending them out
Step 4: Show them how to sacrifice
Step 5: Send them to the world
7. THE STRATEGY TO LET CHRIST BE KNOWN
Step 1: Allow the good and evil to grow
Step 2: When they are fully mature, allow them to be harvested
Step 3: Allow the Roman Empire to take up the whole world
Step 4: Convert the Roman Emperor
