T.D. Jakes challenges leaders to be faithful with the work at hand, but also to dream about the potential of a larger vision and more influential leadership.
Find the Right Environment
Month: September 2018
Implement These Four Words
Craig Groeschel shares that a heart to care is one of the essential qualities required to be a leader others love to follow.
Create Leaders, Not Followers
Craig Groeschel highlights a willingness to empower as one of the qualities necessary to be a leader others love to follow.
Push Yourself to the More
Erwin McManus shares a fear all people experience at some point in their lives and tells how to process through it.
Truthfully Diagnose the Current Situation
Craig Groeschel challenges leaders to look forward in anticipation of what could be coming in the future and to make decisions today that lead toward desired outcomes.
Facing Challenges
Dr. Nthabiseng Legoete shares one of the leadership insights that helped her lead through challenges that could have defeated her dream.
Keep the How Flexible
Dr. Nthabiseng Legoete coaches leaders with an insight about staying flexible when leading toward vision achievement.
Focus on Why You Started
Dr. Nthabiseng Legoete shares one of the leadership insights that helped her lead through challenges that could have defeated her dream.
Fight or Flight?
What would you like the story of your life to look like?
Everyone has a ‘canvas’ on which ‘to paint’ the story of their life. If you were to paint yours, what picture would you create?
Paul refused to flee from the struggle and suffering involved with change.
Psalm 45 begins, “My heart is overflowing with a good theme….” The story of your life is determined by the overflow of your heart. Remember, transformation is always progressive, always changing and moving forward.
The Apostle Paul knew all about transformation firsthand. From murderer of Christians to apostle of the Church, the canvas of his life underwent radical change.
He admitted, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:12-14 NKJV)
Paul was well aware that he had some changing still to do, but he understood that it wasn’t about perfection, qualifications or credentials; it was about Christ’s righteousness. Paul was committed to pressing toward the goal of transformation into Christ’s image.
Paul refused to flee from the struggle and suffering involved with change.
He was passionate for the Cause of Christ and his passion oftentimes involved pain. In fact, the Latin word for passion means pain.
In our fight for change, we must realize that a certain degree of pain is involved. Putting to ‘death’ the old ways of thinking, feeling and behaving is uncomfortable at best, and often painful! Don’t be passive but be committed to pressing on.
Don’t be passive but be committed to pressing on.
The fruit is the reward; the blessing of God begins to overtake your life as you are in the process of transformation “from glory to glory,” day by day.
Life is filled with situations where we are faced with a “fight or flight” decision. If you run, you’ll have to face the same fight again.
You want to change your life? You have to fight for it.
But take heart—you are in good company!
This article originally appeared on Brian Houston’s website here.
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One voice told me to get up, the other reminded me who my God is.
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