READ: Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” – Proverbs 22:3
A leader is someone who sees ahead. Generally speaking, a good leader is able to predict what will happen in the future. Jesus said that the disciples would experience persecution. And they certainly did! You don’t need to be a special prophet to know that the members of a new group will experience some trouble.
Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way thingswill go. The Bible teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. The Bible says explicitly that what is going to happen is only what has happened already.
A good manager should be able to predict from the general trend of affairs that certain businesses are going to go out of date in the near future. Certain politicians must see that the course on which they are walking will only end in disaster. Ministers of the Gospel must be able to predict the future in a general way. I am not talking about predicting events and dates. I am talking about using common sense!
Years ago, I began metropolitan churches. Today, we have thousands of members in these citywide churches. If I had not acted on my observation and predicted the need for these churches, I would have lost thousands of members. I am not talking about predicting when Jesus will return. I am talking about predicting the obvious and seeing ahead as a wise leader.