Comfort Zone

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Living Above Par

David Kadalie, in his Leaders Resource Kit (2008) sites that, "For those in leadership, it is imperative to be motivated by a deep sense of call....This sense of call defines their leadership experience.

Too often, we find people who are contented with:

• Doing the bare minimum, yet demanding maximum benefit
• Living a life of mediocrity and under-achieving
• Living aimlessly with no purpose in life
• Being self-centered and largely motivated by status and prestige
• Being concerned about their own security but not caring about the needs of those around them

My prayer is that I will NOT be contented with the above! My prayer for you is that you will yearn to be better than you were yesterday. As we are at the end of yet another year of God's amazing grace of life let us live above par. The difference between an ordinary person and an extra-ordinary person is that extra.  In the coming days, weeks, months and years - let us pray that we will move to the sphere of that extra...

Mentorship

Mentorship is allowing a young man drive in your stead.  The tid bits you offer while on the highway.  The choices you observe them make and the alternative thought-out decisions you offer.

It is an opportunity to see them rise into usefulness. It is also an opportunity to give you time to process bigger and better solutions and mental processes to preferable actions other than manipulating a vehicle.

True mentors know when to disengage and engage their mentees into action.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Let us mentor them -above all,  to love the LORD God of Israel! 

Autobiography In Five Short Chapters -

This is by By Portia Nelson

Chapter I

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost… I am hopeless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter II

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don’t see it.
I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in this same place.
But it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter III

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there.
I still fall in… it’s a habit… but,
my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

Chapter IV

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

Chapter V

I walk down another street.

Mentorship

Mentorship is allowing a young man drive in your stead.  The tid bits you offer while on the highway.  The choices you observe them make and the alternative thought-out decisions you offer.

It is an opportunity to see them rise into usefulness. It is also an opportunity to give you time to process bigger and better solutions and mental processes to preferable actions other than manipulating a vehicle.

True mentors know when to disengage and engage their mentees into action.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Let us mentor them -above all,  to love the LORD God of Israel! 

Everything Else Is Just Body

"Again, I think of it this way: if Christ is the head of his body, then everything else is just body, including the pastor, and therefore the pastor needs what the body has been designed to deliver." - Paul D Tripp

I agree with that! What God feeds the Pastor to feed the congregation is not for the good of the group and not him but for the mutual good of the body. The preacher is a part of the body. He needs the fellowship in the body, the building up within the body.

All the parts of the human body work for the mutual good of the entire body. They inter-depend, inter-relate and contribute for each other.

Thus the importance of 1Corinthians 12:14-25

Let us seek to be an important member of the body, as you feed on the word it is good for you as it is good for the rest of the church members! You need what the body has been designed to deliver.

Good News Mission Report July 2016

We are thankful to God for the establishment of the Good News Mission.  Here is a recent report about the exciting things God continues to do through men, women, youth and children at the Good News Mission.

A better program for your life

No one person wakes up to accidentally be a success! You've got to plan for it! However many people are not planning for success. "They do not read. Everything happening around them is only output", says Dr Wale. They are programmed wrongly or as people say, "wired wrongly".

If you do not plan for where you are going, you will have to do with where life will drop you.
You need to program your life! Everything happening around you/in your life  is not an accident. Something was put in first (input). Some program was installed so to say.

I think of Jabez in 1Chronicles 4:9,10 The Bible says that he was more honorable than his brothers!
Jabez was born with a program of bitterness & pain. He had been named after his mothers painful experience during childbirth.  The pain was so bad so that it influenced her to what she called her son. Before even Jabez had done anything good or bad his life was programmed to be that of sorrow, pain and bitterness.

Many people live today in programs that were given to them by others. Some see their lives going in the direction of their fears. Some in the direction of what they have been labelled as.

Let us get a better source of better programs from the Bible. It is a timeless source of our programming.

Criticism Trap

Today I will avoid the criticizing trap!
You may criticize a lizard for sticking its tongue out but you have never been a lizard before and you do not realize that sticking its tongue out is a way of getting its food. The larva may criticize the butterfly for spreading out its wings and accuse it of showing off but that is the way butterflies are made to be. Don't look at someone who has a lot of money and conclude that they must have stolen the money.....Don't look at someone who lives in a million dollar home and preach sermons about how there are cheaper houses that they could have lived in!
(Thank you Dr Wale for the Tidbits)

And so today I will choose to get into my space that of being a trans-formative leader looking at what my next form will be! Let me not to despise that next form in which I want to be soon!

Last night we looked at my old phone a Sagem - it had its unique ringtones then! Now in a junk box! What was a trophy then is now outdated by its next form - the Smartphone!

Think about that!

Myth Versus Reality