INTRO: What have we Learned about LEADERSHIP?
- Great Leaders SERVE God, by SERVING Others (Servant Leadership)
- Humility is the Secret Sauce of Leadership
- Spiritual Leaders Move from Evaluation to Motivation

ANALYSIS/APPLICATION: Leaders Move from Evaluation to Motivation.

1. Evaluation is the first step to Complete Restoration.
So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode. Vs 11-12

Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. Isaiah 58:12

2. Evaluation prioritizes the Investigation of Walls and Gates.
And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire. 14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass. 15 So I went up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. 16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work. Vs 13-16

Whoever has no rule over his own spirit Is like a city broken down, without walls. Proverbs 25:28

3. Evaluation inspires compelling Motivation!
Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they settheir hands to this good work. 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?” 20 So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.” Vs 17-20

“The Lord is my strength and my shield” Psalm 28:7

“But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one” 2 Thess 3:3