"Man is the most extraordinary computer of all."
— John F. Kennedy
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Byproducts of discovering your greatness
There are seven byproducts of discovering your greatness:
1. Optimum job fit. This is the place where we get the greatest amount of result from the least amount of effort. Our swing is so comfortable that sometimes it creates no sense of stress or tension at all. It is the overlap between our internal motivated wirings and the critical requirements of a job ? regardless of what it might be. While there is no perfect job where 100% of the requirements and our wiring overlap, some jobs fit better than others.
2. Immunity against boredom and burnout. Boredom is when we find ourselves having too much internally wired skill left over at the end of the day. When a job doesn?t call us to use our whole skill set, we begin to dream of new adventures, whether hobbies or professions. This begins to absorb the efforts that could be placed into our job. The other unintended consequence of a lack of greatness is burnout. Burnout is when we are asked to do many things in a job, but we possess no internal wiring, motivation or skills to perform the task. Certainly, every job has its ?taking out the trash? elements. However, if someone employed as an accountant doesn?t have the wiring to work with numbers or focus on a single assignment, it is easy to see the burnout he might have during the month of April.
3. Job settledness. Many people live life with the theory that the grass is always greener on the other side. They are constantly peering over the fence post, dreaming and wishing for a job other than the one they have. While at times it may be okay to hope for bigger and better things, most of the time it simply results in job restlessness. By finding your greatness, you end up settling into a job that fits.
4. Confidence and self assurance. Make no doubt about it, we hold our head higher?we work with a firmer step?we have a twinkle in our eye when we are in the process of greatness. An individual who has never discovered his greatness will always struggle with a lack of confidence and low self assurance.
5. Courage to make tough decisions. When you are in your zone, it is easier to make the hard calls. You possess a sense of relaxed subtleness about the impact a hard decision might have on others. You keep an eye toward the future and hold a certain awareness that things will be okay.
6. Best sustainable results. Anyone can create results one time. The question is, can you repeat and sustain those results? Best sustainable results will always pour forth from someone who has discovered his greatness.
7. Intrinsic passion, perseverance and creativity. A person who has discovered his greatness is fueled from the inside out. He has a power pack attached to his soul that drives him out of the everyday routine to truly participate in life.
1. Optimum job fit. This is the place where we get the greatest amount of result from the least amount of effort. Our swing is so comfortable that sometimes it creates no sense of stress or tension at all. It is the overlap between our internal motivated wirings and the critical requirements of a job ? regardless of what it might be. While there is no perfect job where 100% of the requirements and our wiring overlap, some jobs fit better than others.
2. Immunity against boredom and burnout. Boredom is when we find ourselves having too much internally wired skill left over at the end of the day. When a job doesn?t call us to use our whole skill set, we begin to dream of new adventures, whether hobbies or professions. This begins to absorb the efforts that could be placed into our job. The other unintended consequence of a lack of greatness is burnout. Burnout is when we are asked to do many things in a job, but we possess no internal wiring, motivation or skills to perform the task. Certainly, every job has its ?taking out the trash? elements. However, if someone employed as an accountant doesn?t have the wiring to work with numbers or focus on a single assignment, it is easy to see the burnout he might have during the month of April.
3. Job settledness. Many people live life with the theory that the grass is always greener on the other side. They are constantly peering over the fence post, dreaming and wishing for a job other than the one they have. While at times it may be okay to hope for bigger and better things, most of the time it simply results in job restlessness. By finding your greatness, you end up settling into a job that fits.
4. Confidence and self assurance. Make no doubt about it, we hold our head higher?we work with a firmer step?we have a twinkle in our eye when we are in the process of greatness. An individual who has never discovered his greatness will always struggle with a lack of confidence and low self assurance.
5. Courage to make tough decisions. When you are in your zone, it is easier to make the hard calls. You possess a sense of relaxed subtleness about the impact a hard decision might have on others. You keep an eye toward the future and hold a certain awareness that things will be okay.
6. Best sustainable results. Anyone can create results one time. The question is, can you repeat and sustain those results? Best sustainable results will always pour forth from someone who has discovered his greatness.
7. Intrinsic passion, perseverance and creativity. A person who has discovered his greatness is fueled from the inside out. He has a power pack attached to his soul that drives him out of the everyday routine to truly participate in life.
Friday, 20 July 2007
NEWS
Jonathan and I have just returned from a trip to Vermont and Pennsylvania. It was great travelling with Jono after not having him around for a few months. We were gone for just 1 day over 3 weeks. Wow! those last few days I sure missed Michelle.
We had some awesome meetings in Gap Pennsylvania with Bishop Ashley and then on to Vermont for an apostolic conference with Martijn and I and some others from the 'house' came up for a few meetings with powerful prophetic worship and ministry to those in attendance. We ended up staying a week and a half longer to do more meetings with Martijn and then back to PA for a Sunday and a Frontliners 'vision' meeting.
All round, the flow of revelation and the Lord's confirming presence attested that we are moving with the Spirit.
This past week was our breakthrough first meeting in Jacksonville. We ministered at our friends, Errol and Debbie's, church who are from SA and have been here for about 9 years now.
Since then I have met a wonderful "market place" apostle who has opened up so many new relationships for us, including in the market place which really is exciting. Suddenly, our program looks very busy. Next month we are doing our first apostolic encampment, in Vermont. That is, before it starts getting too cold again. We have made many wonderful friends there and always look forward to going back. This time, however, Michelle is going with to do a "Wholeness to Intimacy" seminar with the ladies there. So, we are trusting for a work of the Spirit for them there.
Summer holidays...you cannot believe how long they are, especially for parents. Jonathan and Wesley have gone for this past week to a youth summer camp, and we are still to hear how it went.
I would like to encourage you to not let the enemy of "Small Thinking" keep you limited and limiting the Almighty to see your purpose and destiny and life fulfilled. "Almighty" in the Hebrew means the "Sufficient One". He is sufficient to take you beyond all you have ever imagined. But some of you have even stopped doing that. IMAGINE. Time to dream!
Just listen for the direction and prompting of the Spirit to your life. Let Him initiate His work. Let Him finish His work and let Him DO the work, so He can get all the glory.
From all of us here in Jax
Be very blessed and powerful
Shaun, Michelle, Jonathan, Wesley and Jesse.
We had some awesome meetings in Gap Pennsylvania with Bishop Ashley and then on to Vermont for an apostolic conference with Martijn and I and some others from the 'house' came up for a few meetings with powerful prophetic worship and ministry to those in attendance. We ended up staying a week and a half longer to do more meetings with Martijn and then back to PA for a Sunday and a Frontliners 'vision' meeting.
All round, the flow of revelation and the Lord's confirming presence attested that we are moving with the Spirit.
This past week was our breakthrough first meeting in Jacksonville. We ministered at our friends, Errol and Debbie's, church who are from SA and have been here for about 9 years now.
Since then I have met a wonderful "market place" apostle who has opened up so many new relationships for us, including in the market place which really is exciting. Suddenly, our program looks very busy. Next month we are doing our first apostolic encampment, in Vermont. That is, before it starts getting too cold again. We have made many wonderful friends there and always look forward to going back. This time, however, Michelle is going with to do a "Wholeness to Intimacy" seminar with the ladies there. So, we are trusting for a work of the Spirit for them there.
Summer holidays...you cannot believe how long they are, especially for parents. Jonathan and Wesley have gone for this past week to a youth summer camp, and we are still to hear how it went.
I would like to encourage you to not let the enemy of "Small Thinking" keep you limited and limiting the Almighty to see your purpose and destiny and life fulfilled. "Almighty" in the Hebrew means the "Sufficient One". He is sufficient to take you beyond all you have ever imagined. But some of you have even stopped doing that. IMAGINE. Time to dream!
Just listen for the direction and prompting of the Spirit to your life. Let Him initiate His work. Let Him finish His work and let Him DO the work, so He can get all the glory.
From all of us here in Jax
Be very blessed and powerful
Shaun, Michelle, Jonathan, Wesley and Jesse.
This blog was started as a way for me to leave "something" for all my friends and fellow-labourers as we work and BE in the different parts of the earth. As I would send text messages all over the world for others to be encouraged, this is my way of staying in touch. When I have "something" and sometimes more, I post. At times, I am out of town, or just don't have anything to post, then nothing will appear. But, please keep checking; I am thinking of you. For those just beginning to check, I trust there will be 'something' to challenge, encourage or mentor you too, as often as you return.
BeStrong!
BeStrong!
Your Kingdom Come
"..Your kingdom come, Your will be done..."
It's the norm today for there to be talk of the necessity of the Kingdom of God coming and being established by us in the earth. There are many who are considering what that means to the 'church' and the nations; Considerations of how we must do this and why 'they' don't receive it.
"Kingdom" simply means the "rule" and "demand" of the King.His dominion and authority.
When I consider that WE are the church, that has to be the first place that this Kingdom has its domain, then I realise that my first question needs to be:
How much RULE and AUTHORITY does the King have in my life?
What areas are still outstanding?
Where does the King NOT have dominion in ME?
Our first priority should be to see the Kings Dominion being established in my life.
Do I allow myself to be convinced and persuaded to LIVE accordingly?
Or, do I live under His control most of the time, but reserve a certain elements for my own throne?...
How easily we can "preach" the message, but have not researched the establishment of kingdom elements in my own life. Now, I by no means, am advocating a self-centered, deep depressing, analytical, condemning, nit-picking assessment, of my deepest emotions and life. No, we do have to understand our dependence needs to be on the power of the precious Holy Spirit who will lovingly reveal through the Word, through others, the areas that need to be captivated and brought into submission to the might of the KING and His rule. We are the land He has purchased and we are the land where He wants His kingdom, foremostly, to be established. But, bring His rule and dominion we must, to this land. Today, begin to allow the King to conquer enemies and territories for His will and purpose.
Heb 13:20
God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
It's the norm today for there to be talk of the necessity of the Kingdom of God coming and being established by us in the earth. There are many who are considering what that means to the 'church' and the nations; Considerations of how we must do this and why 'they' don't receive it.
"Kingdom" simply means the "rule" and "demand" of the King.His dominion and authority.
When I consider that WE are the church, that has to be the first place that this Kingdom has its domain, then I realise that my first question needs to be:
How much RULE and AUTHORITY does the King have in my life?
What areas are still outstanding?
Where does the King NOT have dominion in ME?
Our first priority should be to see the Kings Dominion being established in my life.
Do I allow myself to be convinced and persuaded to LIVE accordingly?
Or, do I live under His control most of the time, but reserve a certain elements for my own throne?...
How easily we can "preach" the message, but have not researched the establishment of kingdom elements in my own life. Now, I by no means, am advocating a self-centered, deep depressing, analytical, condemning, nit-picking assessment, of my deepest emotions and life. No, we do have to understand our dependence needs to be on the power of the precious Holy Spirit who will lovingly reveal through the Word, through others, the areas that need to be captivated and brought into submission to the might of the KING and His rule. We are the land He has purchased and we are the land where He wants His kingdom, foremostly, to be established. But, bring His rule and dominion we must, to this land. Today, begin to allow the King to conquer enemies and territories for His will and purpose.
Heb 13:20
God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Conform or Transform
It is interesting that during the teenage years there is more pressure to conform to what is considered the norm than probably at any other time of life. This is precisely the time of life when our true identity and purpose should be becoming clear, and this pressure from the world seems to be especially strong at this time to keep it from happening. This is also the time when many yokes of bondage are placed on people that keep them bound their entire lives. When you see a generation breaking out of this, willing to be different, having such vision and focus during these years that they cannot be seduced by the ways of this world, you can be sure the end of this age is near because the bride is here.
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