SUCCESSION PLAN 1

12 Now the Lord said to Moses: “Go up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
13 And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.
14 For in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to hallow Me at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah, at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)
15 Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying:
16 “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
17 who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”
Numbers 27:12-17 (NKJV)

Whoever is a pioneer of a ministry, a business organization, a move or whatever God has enabled you to pioneer or start, you should endeavour to have a succession plan as the work progresses—starts growing.

We could see in the passage above about God taking Moses who started the journey of taking the Israelites to the promised land. Being a person who knows the significance or importance leadership—the significance having a leader by a congregation or group. He interceded and pleaded with God to choose another leader for His people, who would lead them to the promised land (Numbers 27:15-17).

Whatever you are called to do, If you are the founder or pioneer, you would do well to think of succession plan as the work progresses or grows. In Moses response to God when he was to be taken away, he did ask God to give His people another leader who would shepherd them.

The approach of Moses to It is, he first of all pleaded with God in prayer to choose by Himself another leader for His people (Numbers 27:15-17). One of the reasons why the Israelites did a lot of chaotic things in the time of the Judges was that there was no central government. Joshua, unlike Moses, in his departure did not ask God to appoint a leader for His people; thus, after his demise or death everyone was just doing whatever he or she likes—what seems to be right in their sight: "IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL; EVERYONE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES" (Judges 17:6 NKJV).
READ: Judges 2:8-15; 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25

As a founder of a ministry, develop a plan or method of doing things in the ministry or church committed to your hands—procedure or detailed formulation of a program of actions. There should be a kind of hierarchical progression of whoever is climbing the ladder of leadership. When this is done, there would be order, and the body or the organization or the ministry would be working and growing on itself because a system is already in place. However, where there is no system, there would be no order, and when order is absent there cannot but be a chaos.
Rebellion is a product of lack of order. When there is no order or a working system in an organization or ministry, everyone would be coming with his or her own ideas and eventually things would become chaotic and muddled up. Thus, let there be a well organized plan on how someone could rise on the ladder of leadership in your ministry or church. When you have this in place, those who may want to rebel would be put in check.

God in a bid to put a stop to the kind of rebellion of those who rebelled against the leadership of Aaron and Moses in the wilderness; Dathan, Korah, Abiram and other two hundred and fifty renown leaders, did ask that every leader of each tribe should bring a rod each and whoever's rod budded is the appointed person or leader to stand before God (Numbers 16:1-3).

Some people are with the notion that when you plan things out or you have an organized system, you are ruling God out, that there would be no freedom or liberty for the Spirit of God to move and do things or change things freely, but that could not be true.
The issue is, when It comes to systemic progression, there should be an order or pattern with which it goes. The fact that human nature is rebellious, when there is no order or pattern through which one could rise to leadership in a ministry or an organization there would definitely be a chaos; rebellions and scheming and manipulations. It would become a survival of the fittest, like what transpired in the Book of Judges after the death of Joshua. It would be that the most vocal person or bold or assertive or someone who is strong in one way or the other would be emerging as the leader of the organization or ministry. Some who are not qualified for certain positions or offices would want to manoeuvre their ways to the top.
However, when there is a system, an order is in place, It would be difficult for someone to disrupt things and change things in their favour.

Many young ministries being led by the founders or pioneers of such ministries do not always put this issue into consideration. If you are a founder of a ministry, let there be a system in which things are done in your ministry. This would enable the ministry to keep growing whether you are there or not. I have seen some young ministries or churches that stopped existing the moment the founder died. The labour of years of the founder could not be seen again, because there is no one appointed who could keep the vision going. However, If there had been a system in place, the next person in order of leadership would have easily assumed the responsibility of the leadership of the church or ministry.

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The principle shared here is also applicable to business owners or whoever has an established organization—an establishment that could be perpetuated.
Peace.