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November 17, 2017 - April 25, 2018
When was the last time you attempted something that was destined to fail without divine intervention?
supernatural synchronicity.
The brain processes print on a page at one hundred bits per second, while it processes pictures at one billion bits per second. So technically, a picture is really worth ten million words!2
“God is not calling His ambassadors out of Syria.”
“a single moment that determines and decides everything:
inaction is an action.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
A great dream doesn’t just make a difference. It inspires dreams to the third and fourth generation.
Don’t let what you cannot do keep you from doing what you can.
them—contextual intelligence.
That’s contextual intelligence.
If you want to reach people no one is reaching, you might have to do something no one else is doing.
you need to identify the battlefield you’re willing to die on.
Instead of embracing the new technology, they decided to do it the way it had always been done.
I need God’s anointing today more than I did yesterday. And I’ll need it even more tomorrow than I do today!
We don’t just let the future happen; we make it happen with God’s help.
That positive stress, eustress, forces me to seek a fresh anointing each and every day. Without it, I’m coasting. With it,
if you’re afraid of making a mistake, you’ll probably miss the opportunity.
Over time we cultivate a sixth sense that enables us to operate out of instinct.
inertia.
think the way we’ve always thought and do things the way we’ve always done them.
a dream without a to-do list is called a wish list.
The holding pattern is an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to trust, an opportunity to prove your integrity.
Be fruitful right where you’re planted.
what is impossible today can be accomplished in a year or two or ten.
At the end of the day, I want to be famous in my home.2 And by the way, it’s hard to be famous in your home if you’re never home.
The goal isn’t winning. The goal is God’s glory. And that isn’t contingent upon the final score. That is the final score!
Joshua 3:5: “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”
The will of God is the glory of God.
Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences.
We go through the routine day after day. And before we know it, we’re just going through the motions.
“When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it’s not, mmmmmmmm, boy.”1
It’s only as we compensate for those disadvantages that we discover our greatest gifts.4
disadvantages developed skills in David’s mighty men that they didn’t know they had.
“I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”6
give yourself a start date. And I’d highly recommend today!
God an hour a day every day.
give yourself a deadline.
Ecclesiastes 11:4
Generally speaking, you are probably never going to be more than about 80 percent certain. Waiting for greater certainty may cause you to miss an opportunity. Depending upon your personality, no amount of information may move you past a particular degree of certainty.8
“I’d rather have an 80 percent plan 100 percent executed than a 100 percent plan 80 percent executed.”
“Always discouraged by the imperfection of the material,”
Counting the cost is a biblical principle, but it doesn’t mean just the actual cost. That’s the easy part. The hard part is calculating the opportunity cost.
God has strategically positioned NCC for such a place as this.
Just because something isn’t part of your life plan doesn’t mean it’s not part of God’s plan.
Everything in your past is preparation for something in your future.
“before I formed you in the womb” and “before you were born.”
Your greatest legacy might be the children or church or charitable trusts that outlive you.
It’s your spiritual birthright.
It wasn’t about Benaiah. It was about David.
