Noted from friend to share for new year

Noted from friend to share for new year 

Great Read: 

Bright Future starts with ur Habbits 

As we count down to the New Year we're sharing 5 days of leadership habits to make 2016 your best year yet.Day 4: Read

Our founder John C. Maxwell believes that the secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. If you make a few key decisions and then manage them well in your daily agenda, you will succeed. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

You see, success doesn't just suddenly occur one day in someone's life. For that matter, neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.

In other words ...You are preparing for something.

The question is, What are you preparing for? Are you grooming yourself for success or failure? As John’s father used to tell him when he was growing up, "You can pay now, and play later, or you can play now and pay later. But either way, you are going to pay."

The idea was that you can play and take it easy and do what you want today, but if you do, your life will be harder later. However, if you work hard now, on the front end, then you will reap rewards in the future.

Think about it: What are you preparing for today? Success or failure? Does your daily agenda indicate that you make a habit of paying before you play?

Answering these questions is a good predictor of what you will become tomorrow and in the future.

One of the best ways to prepare is something John does every day, reading. Reading is the second habit you need to harness if you want to succeed in 2016.

Reading on a daily basis keeps your mind sharp and focused, provides perspective on your life and situation outside of your own thoughts and it can be an excellent source of reflection and solitude.

Here are three factors to look for when you’re choosing books to read for your personal growth.

It teaches you something new.It comes from someone who’s ahead of you in leadership.It challenges you.

These resources by John are daily reminders of the leadership you want to live out.

Part 2:

Dedication is the ability to see a task through to completion.  Many people start; few people finish.  Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams.

What is the difference?  Dedication, perseverance, commitment and tenacity are the traits you will find in those who finish and achieve their dreams.

"Resources will only come to you as you keep moving. As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act like the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. 

“What’s missing are people who will make the choices necessary to maximize their talent." ~ John C. Maxwell

Those you spend most time with will either lift you up or pull you down. Aim to spend your time with those who will help you to become talent-plus..

The secret of your success is in your daily routine. Are you being methodical about your personal growth? What are you doing today that will make you better than you were yesterday and better tomorrow than you were today? Those who have a plan understand that success doesn't just happen overnight.   The fulfillment of your dreams can begin today by doing the right thing.

Sermon note- Valentine message Isaiah 43

Sermon  note- Valentine message

Pastor Brian

Isaiah 43:13-26
Behold...

Wow !!!! The truth is ...

1) He has got it
Vs 15
Isaiah 43:15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,The Creator of Israel, your King.”

2) He has done it before
- eg He parted the Red Sea
Vs 16
Isaiah 43:16 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the seaAnd a path through the mighty waters,

3) He will do it again
- new Road & rivers
- road to freedom & river of fullness
- Road upwards - new opportunity
- flowing river underneath - provision ( river of fullness )

4) He tells us exactly the new things
Isaiah 43:18-19 “Do not remember the former things,Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing,Now it shall spring forth;Shall you not know it?I will even make a road in the wildernessAnd rivers in the desert.

5) Shall you not know it ?

What is going to look like ?
✅new road to freedom
- supernatural intervention
Eg Israel was 400 years slavery in Egypt
Eg when they were in Babylon

✅supernatural favour
Eg Pharoah release them even a short period to release them

✅supernatural fast track
God gives short cut eg ideas
Exo 13:40-14:1-3
Why are you crying , go forward
Isaiah 40:31
Those who wait upon theLord shall renew their strength

✅ supernatural supplies
- manna & squirrel from the sky

We don't understand whose heart God can soften . Even unbeliever he can chance to fulfil His purpose eg King Cyrus releasing Israelite then & paying all the expenses in Daniel time to rebuild Jerusalem

✅Supernatural repositioning
Isaiah 61:1-7

God can provide & we need to cooperate with Him!!!

Are you prepared to compound the cost to follow Him? He wants to bring new road of freedom & river of fullness . Are you willing ?

Sermon & discussion note - how to deal with Epic failures...

Sat 2 Aug 14 - forum and sermon note ( for discussion )

Dealing Epic Failures...

Note for discussions:-

Romans 8:28(NLT)

Romans 8:28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.


In Greek " failure " = sin.

Total failures are in sin ...

Mistake and failure ( sin) are difference .

Need to see opportunities in failures ..

Jesus grows in wisdom and statute..Jesus didn't sin does he made mistake

What will be the kind of question we should ask ourself when we think we "fail" ?
Ask God in the position of grace....

Message from Robert Ferguson

Everyone makes mistakes as part of human condition.
Failure never defines you .

Willing to fail and try again and fail better. Failing better..

Every failure  can be learned from .

2 type of Failures:-
Moral failures
Non-moral failures

2 Sam 11:1
Eg
David remains in Jerusalem is not a moral failure
He turns into moral failures because of his adultery

Failures has consequences ...

Three principals of failures :-
1. All failures has consequences
2. All failures has irrecoverable features.eg the prodigal was redeemed but he can't get the money back.
3.All failures are redeemable by Christ

Note: retrievable is not the same as redeemable.

How we deal with failures ?
Psalms 51- how David dealt with moral failures ( we can use that principles that he used for both moral and non- moral failures )
5 sections :-
1)face your failures vs 2
2)own your failures .take responsibility of failures vs 3
3)confess your failures vs 4
4) learn from them vs13
5) move on from the. Vs 18

In everything u do, do not let failure defines you !

Sermon note: Pioneer

Sunday 13/7- sermon note

Robert Ferguson

How to keep going for the rest of the year or the rest of your life?

A journey of trust & faith with God

Gal 3:6
- considered Abraham
Vs 9 those who has faith will be blessed along with him

Heb 11:8
God called him to go to unknown place.

In Christianity is not about the destiny but is about the journey.- a commitment to the relationship with God.

Our entire is founded in Pioneering Spirit. Everyone of us tend to want to settle but our life is in a pilgrimage .

Gen1:4
Gen12:5
He landed in the land of promise but not settle
Gen 12:1
God calls and promise

If you commit a journey of pilgrimage, two things are required in this journey :-

1)Leave & 2)be a blessings

1)LEAVE
- need movement
- need to leave your comfort & stuck in the familiar
- there is always people in your world will not come with you when u want to grow and lead a radical life.
- sometime we never achieve what God wants us to do because we refuse to leave the people that hold us back
- Abraham left...
- God wants us to pioneer again...find your next steps ...
- it's not easy to leave
- God remind Abraham to leave twice.

2)BE A BLESSING
- 6 expectations
- remove the Masks... You need to be like Israelite or Joshua

4 advices :-
1) Travel light in Spirit, soul & physical
- don't be so burden with debts, bitterness or unforgiveness.

Abraham did not know where he was going
Heb 11:8

2)trust God
- God wants him to count the stars. He would able to count them. Just for us, we can't count the stars but to trust God.

Heb 11:11
- he did not know how to get there.

Sometimes we can't commit to our personal visions that we can't see God's vision for us.

3)Turn up
- he did not know when but he keep turning up
Heb 11:13
Living their faith within their life time

Keep turning up and it could happen anytime

4)Think Jesus
- keep thinking Jesus

God has promised Abraham to fulfill in the seed ( Jesus)
Heb 11:17
- he didn't question God

Gal 3:16
The promise is in the seed

Heb 12:2
Set our eyes in Jesus.

You can stay home safe & dry but you won't be pioneer again and the next generation may be lost.

Conference notes- unfiltered

Conference 5

Louis Giglio

Eph 6:21-22
Tychicus was mentioned in the Bible in 3 reasons:-

1) choose to volunteer to unseen & unpaid position
He choose to serve Paul in prison

2 Tim 4:9-10
Demas deserted Paul because of his appetite for the world
Col 4:14

faithful servant in The Lord

2) his heart in it
We love the place where God placed us.

3)willing to take the supporting role.
they do what need, what they can and what they ask.
If u focus the size of task, we miss the main thing.


He has ...
1)He has Paul's confident .
Eph 6:22
Paul sent him to Ephesians.

2)He has the blessings of Paul.
He was sent ...not just showing up...
He walks under the blessings

Church do not build on the talents of few but sacrifice of many .


Romans 16:2-...23
Phoebe , Prescilla ....
Paul listed the people who sacrificed.
Vs 26... All for the glory of God.

3) He has the privilege

Simple truth...Faithfully carry what God put in our hands....

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Church talk - Pastor Brian

7 important decisions that has generational impact :-

1)Who
Who u married & stay in marriage.

2 cor 10
Thoughts , imagination, fascination , argument , strong hold
- don't entertain wrong

Stay in who..

Embrace the season

2)where
- we situated ourselves
- where we raised our children
- community
-

3)what
- what u do?
- do what u good at...with other us have to do.. Need discipline in life
- do what flows
- stay true to what God wants you to do.

4)when
- timing is everything
- get the right people, right place & right time...
- having the sense of timing & keep sowing

5)with
- relationship & friends

I cor 15:33
Good people affected by bad company
Bad company corrupts good habits

Psalm 101
2 thess 3:6( NkJV)
U got to decide who is going get on you .

Vs 11 - 15
avoid these people ...gossip, don't obey word, but challenges them.

Hang around people who build you ...your future is too important

6)why
- why you do what u do
- keep your motive right
- keep your motivation right
- do what u want to do just to help people
- keep grateful

7)wish
- what do you wish for ?
- Solomon ask for wisdom.
- wisdom build your house and your life & your future ...

Who is the next generation u raise after u ?

To much is given to much is required.

Principles of Honor

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Robert Madu

Gen 1:14(NLTse)
- day & light
- seasons, days & years

Formula is right, the outcome is right

Title : It's in the formula

Ten commandment of communications
- how you begin something matters

ERP
- estimated relationship potential

This is the day of conference and the beginning of new you ....

Gen 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven & the earth.

We are called to bring heaven to earth.

God brings order to chaos.

Will power can't fix our problem. It is our will that got us into trouble in the first .

We got to use the first that changed the world. In the beginning it was Word & the Word was with God.

The power is not in the will but the Word of God.

God is the only person to create something out of something. We make but not create.

God does not make but he create !

God has the power out of nothing that you can see.

John 11:

Gen 1:3-5(NLTse )
- day 1: light
Vs 16-19
- day 4: sun, moon & stars only come on 4th day to mark the seasons , days , years vs 14

What shines the earth in btw? The power of the Word of a God

Why God created sun, moon & stars ? to mark the seasons , days , years vs 14
The formula is to trust God, seasons, days & years

Seasons come & go but His Words stands forever.

I am not going to allow season dictate my faith but my faith speaks to my seasons .

Conference notes ...unfiltered just to share👌💡💡Conference day 4

Steven Furtick

Title :Don't stop on 6th

Heb 10:36(NIV)
You need to persevere ....to receive the promise

Persevere is the link ...to finish what

Joshua 6: 1-14
Don't stop on 6th...

Life is not walk thru like watching video game . We going to walk thru to possess our land .

Don't lose your passion .

Vs1 the gate of Jericho was securely barred
Vs2..see God had delivered even before the battle was won. Only God can do that... He speak in past tense in the battle we are fighting.
= what God says is not we are seeing ...

Our perspective can get obstructive by enemy ...

The intensity of the obstacle is the intensity of our victory... The enemy get intimidated by God's promise.

Praise can help you to lift up your perspective to see what God sees...

God is our master motivator !

After 40 days, God spoke to Joshua to stop at the wall & just walking for 7 days....the seven days nothing move physically but he walked by faith.

Will you walking even it doesn't working?

Why God set up this way ?
OBEDIENCE IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY & THE OUTCOME IS GOD's

Sometime we are so consumed for God to enforce but God just want to win the battle within us!!!!

The promise still stand! He will do what He says!
Vs 2...see... Delivered them in your hands
Vs 7 .... Take ark with them .
Vs14....6th is the number of Man, 7th is God's number = perfection.

We can stop short because of our obstructive perspective !

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Joshua 5:13
He asked the Man for him or against . He says neither...He came to take over...

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Eph 3:20


Think About.... When giving

Multiply or maintain

Obedient or optional

Relationship or reluctance

Entrusted or entitle

There is more with what is there come from...


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Carl Lenz

Title: psalm 23

Psalm 23:1( NIV)
The Lord is my shepherd and I lack nothing .
Vs 4 ...walk
Vs5-6...

The truth is the truth whether u like it or not...

We need a Shepherd !!!

We are sheep...desperately a Shepherd

Psalm 23 reality check-
If Jesus is our Shepherd
1) we are no longer chasing other except the Shepherd, Jesus
John 10:15
- He is. A good shepherd who gives life
2)Sheep don't strive

Don't chase spot light . When you chase the shepherd, He will bring you to spot light and sometime the shadow in the valley. We don't have the control but the Shepherd.

3) security in the Shepherd

Two things good Shepherd will do:-
1)always correct
Heb 12:5-8
He discipline those He loves.
God wants to correct us so we don't get into bigger trouble .
God exalt the humble .
2)always protect
Wherever u go & do
He is our protector .
Shepherd washes sheep to protect them from dirt that may bring diseases.

Trail Blazing for the Generations: Part 1

Psalm 1, Genesis 5:1-18

We have to make decisions. Small decisions we face can be big decisions in disguise. Often, we can make decisions without thinking about future consequences. Our decisions have generational impact. If we are wise, like Jesus, we will make decisions that leave an inheritance and heritage for future generations. As we pioneer the gospel of Jesus, reaching our world with God’s kingdom, we are choosing to blaze a trail for our children and our children’s children.

God spoke to Abraham, the father of our faith, about future generations and blessings that involved his descendants. Abraham chose to live his life in faithful obedience to God, making decisions out of God’s calling and purpose for his life. He could have made choices thinking only of himself, his comfort, and what was easiest for him, but he didn’t. Abraham stayed true to God and what followed were fulfilled promises, blessings and generational impact that led all the way to Jesus. In our lives, we too make decisions that willimpact generations.

We must make decisions with the future in mind. Everyday decisions not only have consequences for our lives, but our household and future generations. We can allow circumstances to guide our decisions, but just because something seems to be the easiest thing to do now, doesn’t mean it is the best thing for our future. Decisions have impact beyond our situations. Godly wisdom does not lead us to make permanent decisions based on temporary circumstances.

Godly choices will not be ruled by indecisions, comfort, stability, or impulsivity, but will be found in the purpose of God. Let us never underestimate the impact of our life and decisions on future generations and always believe what God can do in and through our lives. May every person pursue and take hold of godly wisdom to make the everyday life choices that will blaze a trail for future generations to be firmly established in God’s kingdom.

BIBLE AND BELIEF

Read: Ephesians 5:15-17, Romans 12:1-2,
Colossians 3:12-17

Q: Think of some of the key figures in the
Bible. Describe and discuss some of
the decisions they made that had
impact on future generations, either
good or bad.

Q: How do you hear from God and
make decisions that are faithful to his
calling and purpose? Share scriptures
that have been helpful to you.

Q: What key ideas about decision
making do the scripture we read out
contain?

Q: What does “renewing our mind”
(Rom 12:2) mean? Why is it
necessary? How does it influence
decision making?

Q: What does it take for us today, makes
decisions that reflect Colossians 3:17?
What generational impact can you
see this having in our world?