2 Chronicles 20:20 · World English Bible
They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
A leader's real work before a battle is handing people a certainty they can act from. Being established follows believing, in that order, and the order is the mechanism.
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A leader's real work before a battle is handing people a certainty they can act from.
Being established follows believing, in that order, and the order is the mechanism. Conviction about Yahweh sets the state of an army, the state decides whether men walk toward Tekoa as the doomed or the defended, and how they walk decides what they can do when the coalition comes into view.
Those same men, certain instead about the armies massing against them, arrive already beaten, and an enemy gets credited with a victory their own imaginations produced. Belief in the prophets aims at a result nobody has seen, which is precisely what dread does with the same faculty. A leader who supplies information alone leaves their people to aim it wherever the worst news points, and commands an army that is well briefed and finished.
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What picture am I handing myself before I walk into the room?
What you hold in your mind about a thing becomes how you meet it. The same event finds one person ready and another already beaten.
A steady mind in action is what carries a person through, not the size of the opposition. Arjuna's problem on the field was never the army.
Both faith and dread picture what has not happened yet. The mind will do it either way, so the only question is which picture you hand it.
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