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195 Leadership is automatically transferred to those who remain optimistic

Mark Virkler

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Roger Miller, my co-elder at Pioneer Christian Fellowship, a church I founded and pastored 40+ years ago, spoke the above sentence to me when I was expressing to him how pessimistic I was about things.

He calmly said, “Leadership is automatically transferred to those who remain optimistic.” The statement pierced my heart as a prophetic word, as the Lord made me realize I could never be an effective pastor of a church or a leader in society unless I changed from pessimism to optimism! I repented on the spot and decided to change.  That statement is now a beautifully framed graphic that sits on the desk in my office.

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