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Leadership Lifelines: Prayer, Fasting, and Flexibility

How discipline and commitment prove essential in your leadership ministry.

Andy Stanley said, “Leadership is stewardship, and you are accountable,” while speaking to a group of leaders at Catalyst Atlanta in 2006. This quote absolutely resonated with me, because we can forget that as leaders we are responsible for our own leadership. Not only are we accountable to ourselves and those we lead, but most importantly we are accountable to the God that called us to lead.

Leadership in its most basic definition is the action or ability to lead a group or organization. Having been in leadership in education, business, the nonprofit sector, and ministry, I know all too well the truth of this statement. You are only a leader if someone is following you, so we need to give attention to how we lead, the impact of our leadership, and the health of our leadership.

Leading effectively requires discipline, and I have learned I am most effective when I discipline myself. As a leader, I have found three disciplines that help me lead well and avoid leadership pitfalls and burnout. I have used these in every area I have been called to lead. These lifelines have proven viable, having saved my life and the lives entrusted to me. Through the lifelines of prayer, fasting, and flexibility, my leadership has been enhanced in multiple ways. Albeit, prayer, fasting, and flexibility are disciplines, I consider them lifelines because of the life-giving power they have provided.

The lifeline of prayer

We know the power in prayer. We can perform a historical analysis of scripture and see many of the leaders God used were given to prayer. Prayer is what brings our will into alignment with God’s will. Whether God calls us to lead in church or the marketplace, our prayer lives are essential to our success as leaders. ...

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The choice of dielectric fillers and structure design play an important role in improving the energy storage properties of polymer-based nanocomposites.
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Tuning Ambipolarity in a Polymer Field Effect Transistor using Graphene electrodes

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01452D, Paper
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
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Suppression of the morphology mismatch in Graphene/ n-type Organic Semiconductor interfaces: a Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy investigation

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5882-5893
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5913-5922
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5769-5776
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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5873-5881
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Ferroelectricity of trimethylammonium bromide below room temperature

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5868-5872
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC07019B, Paper
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Multi-shelled upconversion nanostructures with enhanced photoluminescence intensity via successive epitaxial layer-by-layer formation (SELF) strategy for high-level anticounterfeiting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5692-5703
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00902D, Paper
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Effect of molecular weight on the EUV-printability of main chain scission type polymers

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5958-5966
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06482F, Paper
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This study on the main chain scission type polymers, PMMA and a copolymer system, shows that the EUV-printability is proportional to the Mw of the starting material, which is attributed to the enhanced litho-parameters of higher Mw material.
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Correction: Effect of molecular weight on the EUV-printability of main chain scission type polymers

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5967-5967
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC90080J, Correction
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