The Lord gives his people rest ...

The Lord gives his people rest from sorrow and fear, from slavery and chains. Isaiah 14:3

The Lord is my Shepherd; I have everything I need Ps 23:1

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.

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

Heros of the Bible

Moses Friend of God

          Abraham Justified by Faith

          Daniel Warrior of Faith
          David A Man after God's own Heart

          Joseph Predestined for Glory

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            and Suanny?

Leadership and Innovation

Who's Job is it?

Engaging people across all levels of the company has many advantages including:

• Greater involvement in the business and a willingness to follow through on new initiatives – this works to build enthusiasm and ownership
• Inspiring people to be searching for new and better ways, knowing they will be listened to
• Collecting real information from the interface with the customer.
• Building a sense of team within the business
• Taking some of the pressure from the top management.

Making it happen
The CEO of one of the most innovative businesses in the services sector in Asia has a KPI on all divisional mangers that 10% of each successive year’s revenue shall come from new and innovated products. Such is this company’s commitment to innovation, and it works. They achieve this by leveraging staff knowledge through the formation of cross functional innovation teams spread throughout the business.
These teams have a mandate to work using the proven tools of “Innovation” and “Opportunity Capture” to forever create and explore new ideas, pass these through a first evaluation filter, (referred to as the “Technology Diffusion”) then package and present them to senior management.
This process works, is systematic and simple so long as the staff have the right tools, a strong mandate and the ear of management.

Finally – remember this simple message
“Those organisations that fail to innovate will ultimately fail to exist and the extinction horizon these days is approaching just five years and narrowing!”

http://sbr.com.sg/media-marketing/commentary/its-all-about-leadership-and-innovation

Leadership and Innovation: Relating to Circumstances and Change

Innovation takes place at different levels from modest improvements on an existing product or process to dramatic and even historically significant breakthroughs in how we relate to the world. In all cases, the capacity to innovate will be a function of our commitments, what we want to accomplish and our relationship with the circumstances we perceive we are in.
If we are resisting or coping, we see no innovation and whatever change we generate will be as a reaction to the circumstances and part of the process by which those circumstances persist.
When we are responding or choosing we are in a position to innovate and will do so naturally and consistently as a function of what we observe to be possible or what we observe is missing in our perspective of the world. Change based on this view is likely to be an improvement on what already exists.
When we are bringing forth or creating we are not only in a position to innovate but are predisposed to do so. Further, in these ways of relating to circumstances, we have few if any limitations on what we can imagine and generate. We are likely to be generating breakthroughs or even creating entirely new spheres of possibility.

6 ways of relating to change associated with different leadership models, intentions and views of circumstances http://www.innovation.cc/discussion-papers/selman.pdf

Walk on Water, Pete! – Matthew 14:22-33

 

In the end, who looks better? Peter who tried and sank or the other 11 who didn’t even try?
http://www.keepbelieving.com/sermon/2009-07-10-Walk-on-Water-Pete!/
It was Helen Keller who said, “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all.”
Heavenly Father, grant that we might be great risk-takers for the kingdom of God. Shake us loose from the security of staying in the boat. Help us to walk on the waters of faith because we believe that Jesus will hold us up. Amen.