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  Power leadership       [Nehemiah 6:10-14]     If we look at the book “Power Leadership” by John Maxwell, there is a section called ‘Creating Focus’.   It tells us three things about how we can achieve the focus required of effective leaders (Maxwell):   (1)     70% of your focus should be on your strengths.   Effective leaders who have reached their potential need to focus more time on what they are good at than what they are bad at.   If you want to be a successful person, you need to focus on your strengths and develop them.   (2)     25% of your focus should be on new things.   A competent leader is one who always tries to improve and strive for change.   He's not afraid to step into new territory.   He needs to invest time in new things related to merit.   In leadership, if you stop growing, you stop everything.   (3)     5% ...

Let us not be ashamed  of the gospel.   [Romans 1:15-17]     What are you earnestly praying to God for as you write a letter of your heart to God?   My earnest prayer topic is to be used by God.   In particular, I have been praying that the Lord would use me as His tool like five loaves and two fish according to the words of John 6:1-15 when He called me during the college retreat in May 1987.   As I kept praying, ‘Lord, may You accomplish Your work of five loaves and two fishes through me,’ I became convinced that the work of five loaves and two fishes could be accomplished even through my life or my death.   So, I am not discouraged.   But I am praying, expecting, and waiting today as well.   With a heart longing to be used by the Lord in this way, I am praying more specifically to God: ‘Lord, please use me as a burning evangelist and comforter of your love.’   The reason I pray like this is because I want a heart that can...