Team working in God's work Bravo! The war with Am'alek is beautiful. There are few elements to win: 1. God on their side clearly 2. use God's chosen one; and the right person in right place (Joshua pick and lead the army) 3. plenty of prays, that is, let God leads 4. not doing alone; but in team (Arron and Hur help holding his hand when he got tired) 5. continuous and persisting intimate relationship with God (when his hand down, they lose) 6. support your team with all your effort Leadership never easy Moses, as a leader, was never easy. He got scolded all the time. Only very often, he was appreciated. But God is always at his side teaching him the next step. However, never once (so far I read) God comforted him alone. If this is a model of leadership, it tells us clearly that leadership in his work is totally different from in the world. Being leaders in the world, we gain wealth, power, prestige and others good stuffs. But leader in him get fault-picking, challenge, disapproval, even get stoned for Moses. We may get tired, frustrated, annoying, even faithless. We may use our own interpersonal skill, management tool, or give up our vision in the first place as for a solution. But in fact, the only way is to ask God for the instruction of next step. His instructions are precise that we can just follow step by step. Most important of all, keep in mind that HE is the leader, not us! -Exodus17