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- “What’s the ‘tomorrow problem’ that you need to start working on right now?”
- What the ‘can’t do’ that needs to become a ‘can do’?
- What’s the best way to…?
direction determines destination. every time.
it breaks my heart how many people i speak with who don’t connect the dots between the choices they make and the outcomes they experience.
are there discrepancies between what you desire in your heart and what you are doing with your life?
direction is everything. direction determines destination. that is why we cannot afford to live disconnected lives. when we discover those subtle and sometimes not so subtle discrepancies between intent and lifestyle we should stop and pay attention. we should break the habit of drawing a circle around individual decisions and events and dismissing them as isolated occurrences. these are steps. steps that lead somewhere. because life is connected.
the principal of the path is operating in your life every minute of every day. you are currently on a financial path of some kind, you are on a relational path, you are continuing down a moral and ethical path. and each of these paths has a destination. my hope is that by becoming aware of this powerful principal you will have the wisdom to know which path to choose and the courage to stay the course.
the challenging aspect about picking the right paths is that the choices are NOW. the outcomes are LATER. the decisions you make today have ramifications down the road.
{from Andy Stanley – Principal of the Path}
1. What is it that you really want to be and do?
2. What are you doing really well that is helping you get there?
3. What are you not doing well that is preventing you from getting there?
4. What will you do differently tomorrow to meet those challenges?
5. How can I help / where do you need the most help?
1. What is it that you really want to be and do? This question is about vision and purpose. It clarifies where you want to be and what the target is.
2. What are you doing really well that is helping you get there? This question helps spotlight a core strength and the person’s ability to make choices and actions to move towards his/her goal.
3. What are you not doing well that is preventing you from getting there? This is about facilitating an honest and critical assessment of the roadblocks, challenges or weaknesses in a person that is slowing their ability to win the game; to meet the goal from question one.
4. What will you do different tomorrow to meet those challenges? Questions two and three help determine whether people are spending the right time on the right things. Question four identities real life actions and changes that a person can make to change so that they do hit their goal. direction determines destination. every time.
{from CWB}
* notes from the Leading and Loving It JustONE Virtual Conference this week
FREEDOM WITHIN THE BUSYNESS
1 define my priorities
don’t be so busy that you cant hear God speak and that you cant live right!
being too busy will take a toll on your life, your health, and your family
its okay to say NO
its okay QUIT
Sometimes redefining our priorities is difficult but SO necessary
redefining helps us identify what we can say YES to
the busyness of life can derail us. It can distract us from the best life we can have
why do we fill our plate so fill?
why do we not take time to pause and reflect?
what questions do you ask yourself to filter what you do?
will this help my family? will be still be a great mum?
Will that be a benefit to my family?
2 get help
we cannot do it all on our own
ASK for help
that’s what FRIENDS are for too!
3 remember His Presence
He is with us always
in the middle of the battle
in the middle of the mess
in the middle of the busyness
* notes from launch sunday 2013 @ The River
Ezekiel 47: the river from the temple
Where the river flows everything will live
Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves will be for healing
From the throne of God
Into all the earth
Every generation
Revived
Connected
Empowered
Pouring out
~ The River Vision Statement
The river was unexpected
The temple still to be built in real life
The angel and prophet measured the dimensions for a building
The temple was a place where people came to meet God
Starts with a TRICKLE
Increases in depth as you get further down
Unnatural for a river to get More from the source. Usually source is greatest depth
No provision or planning if a plumbing spout for the water to come from the temple. It just overflows
The great rivers of God start small
Eg kingdom of God, yeast, seed etc
Stop trying to find the next big thing but follow the trickle
God is a dream giver and a dream fulfiller
Dreams can come as big epiphany or as small thoughts
Sometimes it comes as sign writing and other times it is a gentle whispered
What is God beginning in your life?
Those who have been walking longer with God longer should burn brighter
4 things I’m convinced of:
1 The world needs revival
2 For the world to be revived the church must be revived – dead paramedics cant help dead people – dont be just theoretical pentecostal but be practicing pentecostals. The church will only get revived when we do the things we say we believe
3 the church only be revived of i am revived
4 revival needs room
Is there roomin your life for revival?
In our lives nothing can be more important than our relationship with God
Because its our source. He is our source. Everything flows everything.
Well, it’s that season once again. It’s the fodder for blogs, newspaper articles, TV magazine shows and way too many Twitter posts. It’s the time for the annual ritual of dramatic New Year’s resolutions fueled by the hope of immediate and significant personal life change.
But the reality is that few smokers actually quit because of a single moment of resolve, few obese people have become slim and healthy because of one dramatic moment of commitment, few people who were deeply in debt have changed their financial lifestyle because they resolved to do so as the old year gave way to the new, and few marriages have been changed by the means of one dramatic resolution.
Is change important? Yes, it is for all of us in some way. Is commitment essential? Of course! There’s a way in which all of our lives are shaped by the commitments we make. But biblical Christianity – which has the gospel of Jesus Christ at its heart – simply doesn’t rest its hope in big, dramatic moments of change.
What leads to significant personal change?
- • 10,000 moments of personal insight and conviction
- • 10,000 moments of humble submission
- • 10,000 moments of foolishness exposed and wisdom gained
- • 10,000 moments of sin confessed and sin forsaken
- • 10,000 moments of courageous faith
- • 10,000 choice points of obedience
- • 10,000 times of forsaking the kingdom of self and running toward the kingdom of God
- • 10,000 moments where we abandon worship of the creation and give ourselves to worship of the Creator.
And what makes all of this possible?
Relentless, transforming, little-moment grace. You see, Jesus is Emmanuel not just because he came to earth, but because he makes you the place where he dwells. This means he is present and active in all the mundane moments of your daily life.
my new years resolution: to know Him and make Him known
same resolution as every year…
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Genesis 12:1-3
i love how the bible has suddenly – or just introduces us to people in the middle of their stories. we dont know anything really about abram before this. all of a sudden we meet a man called by God to do something dramatic, to move himself and his family to a strange far away land that God has promised to him and a promise of blessing.
i love the I WILLS in the bible: I WILL show you. I WILL make your name great. I WILL bless you. these are God’s promises. I WILL DO THIS.
because God can never lie and because He is the promise keeper we can be assured and confident that God will act in accordance with what He says. even if we don’t know how or cant see how it will work out, we can be assured and confident that HE does. His I WILLS are secure and trustworthy. and you can live your life on them.
what a huge move – to shift your family and household to another land. in those days there were no moving companies. supermarkets on the way. GPS. air-conditioned cars. you went with your belongings, that what you and a camel could carry, and you walked to the new location and you found food on the way. you went out into the dust and the heat and the rain and the wind and the whatever. you slept in the dark in tents. you every day got up and walked and rode, battling the natural elements. a real exercise of faith!
i wonder if people, neighbours, friends, workmates, family tried to dissuade abram from his course of action? i wonder if people asked him, “did God really say?” i wonder what faith obstacles abram had to cross?
The story of the man who came to be known as Abraham leaving behind the security of everything he knew, to follow a calling… is a powerful lesson in trust.
He was going… but not knowing. In other words there was a major element of potential uncertainty here.
Abraham thought he had heard a voice saying this way… but he never quite got given all the details. Seems a big move, right… up stakes, grab the family and head out?
A faith move… does that sound quaint and old fashioned, a touch naïve? Well, not too different to the journeys of faith we take… every day of our lives.
Rob Harley
what would our response to such a call be?
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves Genesis 11:4
who are we living for?
ourselves?
our ambition?
to make a name for ourselves?
or for God?
to build His kingdom?
to serve Him?
how often do we try to build our own lives and towers of security? if we build our own name we will be secure and successful… if we have the best and brightest career we will be happy and satisfied…
where does our security come from? what should the tower in my life be?
Psalm 9:9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 61:3 For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe.
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
vision is good. but our vision must be a God vision, to build for Him and to seek Him and to walk with Him. these early people had a united vision – but it was to build for themselves – to build for their fame – to establish their own kingdom.
its times like this we need to read and take note; Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 1 Corinthians 10:6
things in the bible are not isolated reports or testimonies they are lessons for us to learn from.
when reading i am always asking myself 2 questions:
1. how can this be real in my life?
2. what does this reveal about God and who he is to me?
i also believe that as we read the Word that it “gets inside us” and transforms us and strengthens us and guides us. The Word challenges us and challenges us to draw near to God and to walk in his ways. it reveals who God is. it encourages me to trust Him, to believe Him, to have faith in Him. i believe that as we make intentional time to read it that we are blessed, because God rewards those who seek Him and those who obey Him and those who trust Him.
God intervened and stopped the tower from being built in a dramatic way. He scattered the languages which led to the scattering and disunity of the people. it reminds me that God is in control of not just my life but the nations and though the news may paint a world out of control what the reality is that the world needs Jesus and salvation and hope that only God can give. and that God does intervene in global situations. i want to live my life for HIS fame and HIS glory!
VISION is a picture of the future
that gives passion in the present.
‘Launch out into the deep.’ Luke 5:4 NKJV
Dr Robert Schuller’s hobbies include raising koi fish. Asked why some grow big while others stay small, he replied, ‘If a koi fish lives in a small tank it will never grow longer than five or six centimetres. In a larger pond they can grow up to 25 centimetres long-in ponds the size of mine they’ll get to be 45 centimetres long-but if they live in a huge lake where they can swim and stretch, they can grow up to a metre long. The size of the pond determines the size of the fish.
Similarly, little ideas in little-thinking minds produce little achievements. But little ideas embraced by big-thinking minds produce enormous achievements.’
Jesus said, ‘According to your faith be it unto you.’ (Matthew 9:29 KJV) The size of your faith and your vision determines the outcome of your idea.
Edison had to install electric lights for free in an office building before anyone even came to look at them. The first sewing machine invented was destroyed by a mob in France. Morse waited for ten years before the world showed any interest in his telegraph. And when the idea of travelling by railroad was introduced, people scoffed because it was widely believed that travelling at 50 kph stopped blood circulation in the human body.
Ronald E. Osborn said, ‘Undertake something difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try something beyond what you have already mastered, you’ll never grow.’ You attain in direct proportion to what you attempt, which is why Jesus said to His disciples: ‘Launch out into the deep.’
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