Ensure you discipline your Sabbath time. You can teach it—they can know it—but if they need you they aren’t going to necessarily understand that you’re on a Sabbath. If you’re going to rest—if you’re going to have a biblically commanded Sabbath—you’ll have to discipline yourself to take it.
Read your mind. People are usually waiting to be led. They are looking for a vision to follow. They can’t follow an unspoken vision.
Build your sense of self-worth. If you’re waiting to hear how wonderful the message was, what a good job you’re doing or how much the church loves you in order to feel you’re doing a good job—you’re going to be very disappointed most of the time. You’ll have to find your sense of self-worth in your relationship with God and living out His purpose for your life—the same place you’re hopefully encouraging the church to find their sense of self-worth.
Completely discern your call from God. Some may be used of God to speak into your life, but your personal calling is between you and God. They won’t always understand when you’re “called away” or when you feel “led” to lead in a certain direction. And you can’t expect them to.
Don’t expect others to do for you what only you—by God’s grace—can do.
