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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
How Does God Keep His Promises?
3 Principles on how to move a mountain of difficulties and problems when the odds are against us:
1. Don't Focus on Your Lack of Power; Focus on His Spirit's Power
2. Don't Focus on Your Load of Problems; Focus on His Specific Promises
3. Don't Focus on Your Lack of Progress; Focus on His Sovereign Purpose
What should you do when you think you receive a
Rhema Word?
a. Evaluate carefully (1 Corinthians 14:29)b. Submit it to the Community (1 Corinthians 14:29,36)
c. Submit it to the Leadership (1 Corinthians 14:37
d. Submit it to Scriptures (1 Corinthians 14:37
‐38, Matthew 24:35))http://web001.rbc.org/pdf/discovery-series/how-does-god-keep-his-promises.pdf
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Doing things God's Way
http://christybower.com/?p=3708
Naaman and the Seven Ducks
2 Kings 5:1-14
Naaman was a valiant warrior and captain of the army of Aram. He was highly respected by the king of Aram because the Lord had given him victory. But, despite his position, power, and prestige, Naaman had a problem: he was a leper.A little Jewish girl had been taken captive in battle and she became a servant to Naaman’s wife. The little girl would not stop going on about a prophet in her homeland and she urged her mistress over and over, saying, “I wish my master would go to see the prophet in my homeland. He would cure him of the leprosy.”
One day, Naaman casually mentioned it to the king, explaining how this little girl relentlessly babbled about this possible cure. And, to Naaman’s surprise, the king of Aram sent Naaman with letters and provisions for the journey to seek out this potential cure.
After the long journey, Naaman presented the letters to the king of Israel, which read: “I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
The king of Israel was understandably distraught. “Am I God?” he exclaimed. “How can I cure this man? This is an impossible situation, for the king of Aram is seeking cause to go to war against me if I do not cure him!”
When the prophet Elisha heard about this, he urged the king of Israel to send Naaman to him so that the king of Aram would know that there is a prophet of God in Israel.
So Naaman arrived on Elisha’s doorstep, with his full entourage of royal horses and chariots.
Then, after his grand arrival, Elisha wouldn’t even come out to greet him. Instead, the prophet sent a servant to Naaman, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan River seven times and your flesh will be restored and you will be clean.”
Naaman went away feeling the sting of the apparent insult. In fact, he was downright furious at the unexpected response. He paced back and forth in his camp that night, saying, “I thought for sure the prophet would come out and call upon God and wave his hand over my body or do something so I would be instantly cured. This isn’t the glamorous, miraculous healing that I expected. If all I was supposed to do was bathe in a river, I could have done that at home!”
The disgruntled and disappointed commander set out for home, but his servants dared to speak to him.
“Sir, if the prophet had told you to do some spectacular thing, you would have done it gladly. Why, then, won’t you try this simple act of washing so you may be healed?”
Almost defiantly, Naaman turned back to the Jordan River to prove to his servants that it wouldn’t do any good.
The Jordan River is wide, but not very deep most of the year, so when Naaman stripped off his royal robes and walked into the water, it was little more than waist deep. So Naaman rather indignantly squatted down to duck into the muddy water to be fully immersed. When he emerged, he looked at his leprous body.
No change.
Disappointed, he began to leave the waters, but his servants pleaded, “No! You only did it once. The prophet said to wash seven times.”
Still certain that it would never work, Naaman figured his humiliation could not be any greater, so he resumed this ridiculous ritual.
He squatted down for the second duck.
He held up his arms to show everyone watching that there was no change.
A third duck.
No change.
The fourth duck.
Still nothing.
The fifth duck.
No luck.
The sixth duck.
Not even a hint of improvement.
The seventh duck.
When he emerged from the muddy waters, there was a gasp from his servants, for their master’s skin was as the flesh of a child. He had been healed!
The steps to doing things God’s Way.
1. There Must Be A Reverence For God and the Things of God
2. There Must Be a Drawing to the Lord
3.There Must Be A Turning From Things That Pull us Away From God
4.There Must Be A Confession Of Sin
5.There Must Be A Willingness to Depend On God For Help
Do not despise the day of small beginnings
Zech 4:10
The Greatness of
Small BeginningsGetting Started
Toward a Goal
Makes All the Difference
http://www.nehemiahministries.com/great3.htm
http://sentense.me/2011/02/
The Greatness of
Small BeginningsGetting Started
Toward a Goal
Makes All the Difference
http://www.nehemiahministries.com/great3.htm
http://sentense.me/2011/02/
Friday, May 4, 2012
The Art of the Elevator Pitch
Six questions your Elevator Pitch must answer:
1. What is your product or service?
Briefly describe what it is you sell. Do not go into excruciating detail.
Briefly describe what it is you sell. Do not go into excruciating detail.
2. Who is your market?
Briefly discuss who you are selling the product or service to. What industry is it? How large of a market do they represent?
Briefly discuss who you are selling the product or service to. What industry is it? How large of a market do they represent?
3. What is your revenue model?
More simply, how do you expect to make money?
More simply, how do you expect to make money?
4. Who is behind the company?
“Bet on the jockey, not the horse” is a familiar saying among Investors. Tell them a little about you and your team’s background and achievements. If you have a strong advisory board, tell them who they are and what they have accomplished.
“Bet on the jockey, not the horse” is a familiar saying among Investors. Tell them a little about you and your team’s background and achievements. If you have a strong advisory board, tell them who they are and what they have accomplished.
5. Who is your competition?
Don’t have any? Think again. Briefly discuss who they are and what they have accomplished. Successful competition can be an advantage-they are proof your business model and/or concept will work.
Don’t have any? Think again. Briefly discuss who they are and what they have accomplished. Successful competition can be an advantage-they are proof your business model and/or concept will work.
6. What is your competitive advantage?
Now that you’ve identified your competition, you need to effectively communicate how your company is different and why you have an advantage over them. A better distribution channel? Key partners? Proprietary technology?
What your Elevator Pitch must contain:Now that you’ve identified your competition, you need to effectively communicate how your company is different and why you have an advantage over them. A better distribution channel? Key partners? Proprietary technology?
1. A “hook”
Open your pitch by getting the Investor’s attention with a “hook.” A statement or question that piques their interest to want to hear more.
Open your pitch by getting the Investor’s attention with a “hook.” A statement or question that piques their interest to want to hear more.
2. About 150-225 words
Your pitch should go no longer than 60 seconds.
Your pitch should go no longer than 60 seconds.
3. Passion
Investors expect energy and dedication from entrepreneurs.
Investors expect energy and dedication from entrepreneurs.
4. A request
At the end of your pitch, you must ask for something. Do you want their business card, to schedule a full presentation, to ask for a referral?
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-art-of-the-elevator-pitch.html#ixzz1ttZYZMidAt the end of your pitch, you must ask for something. Do you want their business card, to schedule a full presentation, to ask for a referral?
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Commitment
Differentiation is not a tactic.
It is a way of thinking.
It is mindset, a mindset that comes from listening and observing and absorbing and respecting. Most of all, it is a commitment.
A commitment to engage with people in a manner that reveals to them that, yes, we get it.
quote from Yongme Moon "Different"
Friday, April 20, 2012
Continuously Clever Creator
The older we get, the more routines we seem to follow in our lives.
Boring!
Monotonous!
but comfortable.
While God's character is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, we will always encounter God in new and exciting ways.
Matthew 13:52
God is delightfully creative and innovative in His responses to our prayers.
"God always has some way to provide for the needs of His people. He is not limited to ordinary." means.
JR Miller
His ears are not deaf.
He hears.
He answers.
He provides.
Grumbling is a sin. If we trust God, we don't need to grumble.
God is the ultimate source of every good blessing.
He is still the great Maker and Creator.
Boring!
Monotonous!
but comfortable.
While God's character is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, we will always encounter God in new and exciting ways.
Every scribe who has been
trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a
household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.Matthew 13:52
God is delightfully creative and innovative in His responses to our prayers.
"God always has some way to provide for the needs of His people. He is not limited to ordinary." means.
JR Miller
His ears are not deaf.
He hears.
He answers.
He provides.
Grumbling is a sin. If we trust God, we don't need to grumble.
God is the ultimate source of every good blessing.
He is still the great Maker and Creator.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Create a Strategy for Your Life
Keep the purpose of your life front and centre as you decide how to spend their time, talents, and energy.
Without a purpose, life can become hollow.
Allocate Your Resources
Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy. Allocation choices can make your life turn out to be very different from what you intended. Sometimes that’s good: Opportunities that you never planned for emerge. But if you misinvest your resources, the outcome can be bad. Troubles relate right back to a short-term perspective.
Create a Culture
If ways of working together to address those tasks succeed over and over, consensus begins to form. MIT’s Edgar Schein has described this process as the mechanism by which a culture is built. Ultimately, people don’t even think about whether their way of doing things yields success. They embrace priorities and follow procedures by instinct and assumption rather than by explicit decision—which means that they’ve created a culture. Culture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable methods by which members of the group address recurrent problems. And culture defines the priority given to different types of problems.
Avoid the “Marginal Costs” Mistake
It suckers you in, and you don’t ever look at where that path ultimately is headed and at the full costs that the choice entails. Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.”
Remember the Importance of Humility
One characteristic of these humble people stood out: They had a high level of self-esteem. They knew who they were, and they felt good about who they were. We also decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others. Good behavior flows naturally from that kind of humility. But if you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning opportunities will be unlimited. Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself—and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.
Choose the Right Yardstick
I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched. Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people. Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.
Clayton M. Christensen - speaking to the students of the Harvard Business School. July 2010
http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1
Keep the purpose of your life front and centre as you decide how to spend their time, talents, and energy.
Without a purpose, life can become hollow.
Allocate Your Resources
Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy. Allocation choices can make your life turn out to be very different from what you intended. Sometimes that’s good: Opportunities that you never planned for emerge. But if you misinvest your resources, the outcome can be bad. Troubles relate right back to a short-term perspective.
Create a Culture
If ways of working together to address those tasks succeed over and over, consensus begins to form. MIT’s Edgar Schein has described this process as the mechanism by which a culture is built. Ultimately, people don’t even think about whether their way of doing things yields success. They embrace priorities and follow procedures by instinct and assumption rather than by explicit decision—which means that they’ve created a culture. Culture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable methods by which members of the group address recurrent problems. And culture defines the priority given to different types of problems.
Avoid the “Marginal Costs” Mistake
It suckers you in, and you don’t ever look at where that path ultimately is headed and at the full costs that the choice entails. Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.”
Remember the Importance of Humility
One characteristic of these humble people stood out: They had a high level of self-esteem. They knew who they were, and they felt good about who they were. We also decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others. Good behavior flows naturally from that kind of humility. But if you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning opportunities will be unlimited. Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself—and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.
Choose the Right Yardstick
I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched. Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people. Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.
Clayton M. Christensen - speaking to the students of the Harvard Business School. July 2010
http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1
Sunday, February 26, 2012
The Lord gives his people rest ...
The Lord gives his people rest from sorrow and fear, from slavery and chains. Isaiah 14:3
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Ziglag
Ziglag: The Test of Kings
http://theschoolofchrist.org/articles/ziklag-the-test-of-kings.html
Don’t ever give up! Ziklag is not your final resting place, it is only the test of kings. Encourage yourself in the Lord, pursue, recover, and move forward. This is your destiny, and this is the word of the Lord to you.
The Battle for the Promises_ From Recovery to Advancement
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13400025/The%20Battle%20for%20the%20Promises_%20From%20Recovery%20to%20Advancement.mp3
Davidexperienced great success. But soon after, much turmoil and pain formany years, as Saul hunted him down and he lost his princess wife toanother man. etc.etc .... till rock bottom hit at ziglag ...
Easyto start QUESTIONING God in times of great loss.
But David did not do that .... instead
(1) he turned to God (that’scalled faith) and found strength in Him.
Whenthings look the darkest and you still choose to trust God, that’swhen the greatest blessings come upon you.
(2)David asked God for a strategy.
Shall I pursue this raiding party?
God said yes. (Pursue the enemy). And on the basis of this promise, David pursued and succeeded in recovering everything.
(3)Trust God. When things look the worse, it means that God has great blessings coming your way.
(4)Promises need to be battled through. No matter what happens, “Keep moving forward”. Your forward movement positions you for divine recovery.
http://theschoolofchrist.org/articles/ziklag-the-test-of-kings.html
Don’t ever give up! Ziklag is not your final resting place, it is only the test of kings. Encourage yourself in the Lord, pursue, recover, and move forward. This is your destiny, and this is the word of the Lord to you.
The Battle for the Promises_ From Recovery to Advancement
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13400025/The%20Battle%20for%20the%20Promises_%20From%20Recovery%20to%20Advancement.mp3
Davidexperienced great success. But soon after, much turmoil and pain formany years, as Saul hunted him down and he lost his princess wife toanother man. etc.etc .... till rock bottom hit at ziglag ...
Easyto start QUESTIONING God in times of great loss.
But David did not do that .... instead
(1) he turned to God (that’scalled faith) and found strength in Him.
Whenthings look the darkest and you still choose to trust God, that’swhen the greatest blessings come upon you.
(2)David asked God for a strategy.
Shall I pursue this raiding party?
God said yes. (Pursue the enemy). And on the basis of this promise, David pursued and succeeded in recovering everything.
(3)Trust God. When things look the worse, it means that God has great blessings coming your way.
(4)Promises need to be battled through. No matter what happens, “Keep moving forward”. Your forward movement positions you for divine recovery.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
EXD Extreme Disciple - A normal Christian life
Deny Self Goal Setting
(my Character - Faith) Spiritual Discipline
Spiritual Discipline
The key to spiritual growth is training. Training is hard work, like exercise and dieting to build strong physical bodies, and requires discipline. Spiritual disciplines draw us closer to God. They are practices that help us overcome the sins that separate us from God.
An important step in living spiritually transformed lives is to be grounded in Scripture. The purpose is not to get us through the Bible but to get the Bible through us.
How do we move from knowing about God to experiencing God?
Take Up Cross Cell Life
(my Community - Fruit) Spiritual Wellness
Follow Jesus School of Leaders
(My Commitment - Field) Spiritual Leadership
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