Deciding: Clarifying Your Kingdom Contribution (The Breakthru Series (Navigating Transitions))

by Terry B. Walling

Of all the things I could do, what should I do?

God may be using this in-between time, and the questions it stirs in a different way than you might have first imagined.

will you choose what I have for you, and trust me, or will you return back to what you know you can do on your own?

In the early days, God chases us, but in the days of contribution, we must chase God.

The second half of one’s journey is often about encountering the “false-self,” and facing issues of ambition and dysfunction that seek to sabotage the life God designed.

“We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather we find it by seeking God.18 —David Brenner

The mandate for discipleship today, involves both intimacy (being) and influence (doing).

First Degree: The love of self for self-sake. Second Degree: The love of God for self-sake. Third Degree: The love of God for God’s sake. Fourth Degree: The love of self for God’s sake.27

“What’s the one thing—not two things, not three, not four, but the one big thing—in the box?”29

In addition, technology, noise and the glut of entertainment are also primary culprits responsible for pulling us away from the important goals of our lives. It’s not so much about a radical restructuring of life, but it is more about carving out times for contemplation, solitude and making choices that allow for times of rest, family life and relaxation.

During all those times when the Scriptures mention Jesus praying, He was doing more than checking “devotions” off his to-do list. He was aligning Himself with the work of the Father, receiving His ministry.

Friedman defines a leader as a “self-defined person with a non-anxious presence.”