Trust God! And Work Like the Devil for Our Lord. 

Trust God! And Work Like the Devil for Our Lord. 

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Four must-do things to begin your year right, Part 4

Review:

First: Stop! Go Directly to Reflection | Aim before you fire!

Questions to ask:

  1. What do I see?  
  2. What do I desire? (Ambition)
  3. What does a win look like? (Execution)
Second: Start! All Systems Go
  • Objective: Creating systems that work with little to no effort from you so that you can focus only on those things where you can add the most value.
  • You are leading an organization – it will require moving parts.
  • As your church grows you will have to learn how to handle more and more complexity without compromising your core responsibilities.
  • Vital: Creating and maintaining “systems” is time consuming.  The truth is you will spend the majority of your time doing this.  But when you do work on your  core responsibilities you will get so much more done.
Third: Walking Almost on Air | Setting short-term goals to get you where you see you and your organization going.
  • Question: What is the one thing I can do now that will increase the odds that I will get to my destination? I call this building the bridge as you walk on it.

FOURTH: Trust God and Work Like the Devil for Our Lord.

  • Kingdom work is complicated and hard.  There are no easy fixes and there no easy steps.  God is not going to do it for you – He has put the church where you’re at in your hands.
  • Jesus is a hard and austere man expecting us to collect what he did not deposit and harvest what he did not sow. And if we will not do so he will take away what we do have and give it to the servant who is. (Luke 19:20-26)

The ONE THING for today: To achieve what you desire, and more importantly, to achieve what God desires is going to require you working harder than your opponent. 

That is why I say, “I am working like the devil for our Lord.”  For he neither sleeps nor slumbers. 

  • Ministry is extreme (what we’re doing matters)
  • Robert Strauss, speaking of success: “It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla.  You don’t quit when you’re tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.”
  • Will Smith “I will either be the last one off the treadmill or I will die on the treadmill. | Treadmill video

“Give me souls, oh God, or I die!”

John Hyde

Photo by Johann Walter Bantz on Unsplash

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