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Monday Jan 14, 2019
Monday Jan 14, 2019
1-14-19 Monday
Here is the secret to success… everyone who has been successful has had _________________
- Authenticate – 1 : to prove or serve to prove that (something) is genuine, REAL AUTHENTIC; especially : to prove that (an item of evidence) is genuine for the purpose of establishing admissibility, to prove by demonstration of an action.
Prov. 27:17Pro 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Authenticate- you make what is there better, sharper, you make it real! You make sure it is real!
It is genuine for it’s purpose…
Do you have someone to help you make you genuine for your purpose.
Mentor!
Someone who sees your talents and abilities and makes them better.
*Why do people pay a personal coach? Cuz they take who you are and make you better.
When I studied guitar I wanted the best… I found him, in fact he is now the Executive Vice President of Hal Leonard and Lead song writer and guitar player of The Altered Five blues band which won Blues Song of the Year at the 2018 Independent Music Awards.
Why did I pay him and drive to an hour to take lessons from him in Milwaukee? Because he was worth it. He was the best mentor I could find.
HERES A SECRET!
All of you have enough of what you need to be rich, smart, thin, loved, respected etc… what you need is someone who will just teach you how! Someone to sharpen you!
The great thing about this is that it goes both ways! When I mentor someone, I always get mentored in the process.
You want to be a better
Father
Husband
Employee
Baseball player
Guitar player
Investor
Boss
Etc…
Find someone to take the skill, talents gifts you have and Authenticate them- Make them better.
Questions to ask someone for possible mentorship.
- who have you mentored?
- Do you share experience in what I want to be mentored in?
- How much time do you have?
- Do you have a game plan?
- Will you call me on my excuses?
FINALLY DON’T RELY ON JUST ONE MENTOR- HOW FAST WILL YOU AUTHENTICATE WITH TWO MENTORS?
Todays challenge:
If you were mentored what would you like your life to look like in 5 years?
Ok, now find a couple mentors to help you do that in a year!
FORCE YOURSELF TO FIND THE BEST MENTORS AND LAY ON THE PRESSURE!
Friday Jan 11, 2019
Friday Jan 11, 2019
You want to increase your bench? I have a guaranteed way how…
- Instigate - To urge on; goad. To stir up; torment.
Rom.15:7Rom 15:7 So reach out and welcome one another to God's glory. Jesus did it; now you do it!
Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
Instigate - to stir up, aggravate and push someone in to a better place.
- Ever have a push you in the gym….
Titty twisters on the bench….
A dentist pulling a tooth…. pain but then AAAahhhhhhh!
Have friendships that bring out Gods best in one another.
I have a friends who when you are around pushes me to a greater spiritual faith level. He is always sharing about how God spoke to him, how he witnessed to someone, how God used him to heal someone, I see him patient, kind loving in hard situations… and the adoration of people who see this!
Instigate= you start good things happening in someone else life!
I don’t have a problem praying for people- for salvation, healing deliverance etc…
One of the things I like to do is when I am around some of my friends who is also a Xn but admitingly is not so outgoing with his faith is to pull them in on prayer in public.
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
- Saturate - To soak, fill, or load to capacity.
Pro 27:9 Perfume and incense make the heart glad, but the sweetness of a friend is a fragrant forest.
Fragrant forest - well watered and lush, smell the trees and flowers… full of wild game and bounty
What is true wealth?
paying your bills every month
retiring early
Peace with God
A great marriage
*Wealthy is the man who has friends who invest in him, who saturate him.
Do you have a friend who can fill you back up when you are empty? Do you have someone who can refresh you?
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
Wednesday Jan 09, 2019
- Eliminate - To get rid of; remove
John 15:13 Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
When we read “LIFE” we might think, I gotta die for my friend?
Two thoughts: 1. this may mean you give up what is most important for you in order to be the type of friend you need to be.
- you get what you give. You want a friend who will die for you? Then you must be willing to die for them.
Do you have that type of friend…. You say they are not out there! False, you just simply need to be the type of friend you want to have!
Apple has sold more than a billion devices… and has one of the most recognizable logos on the planet. but if I asked you to draw it you and less than 1% of people could draw it from memory.
Is the apple completely round? Does it have a stem, does it have a leaf, does the stem or leaf tilt to the left or right, does it have a bite taken out of it? from what side? Is the bite 1/3 2/3 or more of the apple, is the bottom of the apple flat, does it have bumps on the bottom? how many bumps?
Attentional saturation… we see it so much our brain teaches us its unimportant.
We can do that with friends… we call certain people good friends or best friends to the point of losing sight of the details of what makes up a good friend - giving up ones life.
Are you willing to eliminate things from your life in order to better love and server your friends?
What is in your life you are willing to give up in order to be a better friend?
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Friend number one
- Aggravate - To rouse to exasperation or anger; provoke
Prov. 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Do you want a mechanic or a house inspector or a Doctor tell you what you want to hear? OR DO YOU WANT THEM TO TELL THE TRUTH.
When I was a young Youth pastor before I had kids, I had a good friend Joe Stienke. We went to camp and we had a speaker who was asked to leave in the middle of the week due to attitude problems. That week we had a talk and I said how could this guy let this happen, doesn’t he see how he looks to others? Joe stopped me and said Garth “do you love me? Do you trust me? You could be blamed for the same thing if you are not careful” OUCH! I did not want to hear that, but I needed to hear that!
Aggravate means to stir things up… do you have a friend who stirs things up? Do you want a friend like that?
2 Samuel 12
12 The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, 3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.
4 “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”
5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”
7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more. 9 Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
11 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”
13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Monday Jan 07, 2019
1-7-19 Monday
There are many reasons we dare not to risk trying to be someone's friend. As there are many reasons we do not befriend others.
- Luke 5:12-16 The leper - he was rejected on the basis of his physical status. He was putrid in his appearance. Body parts falling off, rotting right before your eyes. Crusted puss and blood at the end of his fingers, toes and protruding parts of his body. And where it wasn't crusted over it was freely oozing.
You might be rejected as a possible friend due to your appearance, your height, weight, looks, your demeanor, your slow, your clumsy, your black your white your gay your straight or you have HIV or AIDS. YOUR PHYSICALLY DIFFERENT!
We may not want a friend that is physically different from us, or others may not want to be our friend because we are physically different.
This man was rejected by everyone… including family. V.12 The leper says "Lord is you choose you can heal me". You can bring an end to the pain, the rejection the loneliness the emptiness". The lord said I am willing.
There is a question you may be asking yourself tonight… Lord if you are willing you can be my friend. You can take away the pain the rejection the loneliness the emptiness". The lord is saying I am willing.
- Luke 19:1-10 The Tax collector - he was rejected on the basis of his social status. He was the local Mafia. The rich greedy hit man who made life miserable for you and made it rich for him! Not only that but he was a Jew. It would be like your own family ripping you off and foreclosing on your home. They could help, but they would rather make money. They are only concerned about themselves. Zachechaeus was a short kid, hurt and beat up. He now got his revenge from taxing the same people who hurt him growing up.
You might be rejected as a possible friend because your not a jock, cheerleader, geek, rich, famous, popular, from the south or the north, your not into heavy metal or rap or country. YOUR SOCIALLY DIFFERENT!
We may not want a friend that is socially different from us. Or we have felt the isolation from others because we are different socially.
- Luke 7:36-50 The prostitute was rejected on the basis of her moral status. She was a prostitute! She was a well known harlot. She freely gave out sex for money. Everyone knew who she was, and everyone despised her for it. She was the one who broke up homes, split up families. She was risking everything by showing up to the Pharisees house. Christ in his acceptance of her shows his love for everyone.
You’re a drug addict, a slut, a gang banger, a thief, a gossip, a cheater, a sinner, morally corrupt, white collar crime and blue collar thievery.. YOUR MORALLY DIFFERENT!
Jesus still wants to be your friend.
What was one of the biggest complaints the religious leaders had against Jesus? he was a friend of sinners!!!!
At the Got Vision RT' at the water park there were some people who had introduced themselves to me and some of the others who could tell we were Christians. They said " we go to an AG church here in Wisconsin and we are Christians too". Later that day as they sat right behind us they commented on a man who had tattoo's all over his body! The began to say things like those are demonic, how could anyone do that, how disgusting etc…. as I heard this I thought to myself "is this what Jesus would do?" and with that I knew what he would do. So I went up and talked to him for a few minutes. As I came back to our group I could see the eyes of these people … they were stares of disappointment, kind of like, we thought you knew better than that. How sad, because I believe God was looking down at them saying the same thing.
Jesus is the ultimate friend. How many here can honestly say that their best friend would die for them?
Christ says in John chapter 15 that a true friend would die for you. And Christ demonstrates his love for us by dying on the cross for us. The ultimate friend. Not only does he die for us but he dies for us while we are still sinners. He dies for his enemy? Many of you might die for you best friend… but most of you would not die for you gym teacher!
He wants to be your ultimate friend… but he can't unless you come to him admit that you need him. That you are a leper, you are a tax collector you are a prostitute. Admitting that you need him is the only way to truly have a friendship with Jesus.
V.47 he who has been forgiven little loves little… what Christ was saying was " the more you understand how much you have been forgiven the more you love the one who forgave you".
But He wants to have the ultimate friendship with you!
Friday Jan 04, 2019
Friday Jan 04, 2019
Mortor round…
Kill range of about 300 square yards
Friendship series.
Proverbs 3: Hold on to loyal love and don’t let go,
and be faithful to all that you’ve been taught.
Let your life be shaped by integrity,[a]
with truth written upon your heart.
When it comes to friendships the best test is the test of time!
I tried Xny
I tried Jesus
I tried religion
NO - Jesus tried you and you failed. You did not hold on to him… He is lyal, he is faithful, he will shape you with his holiness if you hang on to him.
Has someone been your friend for a long time?
NO? It’s probably you… Check yourself
YES? Tell them thank you… realize they bring a little Jesus in your life.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
When it comes to success, it’s easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust. But new research from Stanford University will change your mind (and your attitude).
Psychologist Carol Dweck has spent her entire career studying attitude and performance, and her latest study shows that your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ.
Dweck found that people’s core attitudes fall into one of two categories: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.
With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you’re challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.
People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.
Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
“Failure is information—we label it failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, and I’m a problem solver, so I’ll try something else.’”
What does scripture say?
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1
Don’t stay helpless. We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down. There are countless successful people who would have never made it if they had succumbed to feelings of helplessness:
- Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas,”
- Billy Graham was said not to be successful because he was to RAW
- Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s Cinematic Arts School multiple times. Imagine what would have happened if any of these people had a fixed mindset.
*and then there are all those people in the bible, Samson, David, Paul, Peter etc…
The question “When I say wake the faith up… do you see your life in the faith setting or the failure setting?”
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
SIN CONCIOUSNESS VS. GRACE CONCIOUSNESS
A positive focus to thrive
Dr Boyatzis as saying: “You need the negative focus to survive, but a positive one to thrive.”
James 5:13-18
Are you sick, happy, troubled, do you need it to rain i.e. a miracle, are your circumstances not lined up right? are you in sin?
*Take it to prayer and do what the bible says to do
YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE FEELINGS...Feelings create emotions, emotions create states, states create moods, Moods create mindsets, mindsets create personalities. Your personality creates your life! *YOU MUST LEARN TO CONTROL YOUR FEELINGS TO CONTROL YOUR LIFE - You control your feelings by controlling your input… but the danger is we typically allow in what we feel, or what we feel we deserve, or what we have been programmed to feel! If you choose to live by your feelings you choose to live as a victim.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FEELINGS RULE?
Herbert Bird foot: Ernie - Sesame street - Vacuum.
https://youtu.be/TlFG4c1HPDo
Grace consciousness vs. Sin consciousness
Sin - My forgiveness is dependent on what I do
My answers to prayer is dependent on what I do
My circumstances will work out only if I do the right thing
I will always struggle with sin, addiction, weakness etc…
Im obligated to do what is right to get Gods acceptance, favor
It’s impossible to please God
*We typically make it about our will power and discipline
HERE IS AN IDEA: Next time you think you have enough will power to please God, practice that when you have diarrhea…
BOTTOM LINE: Sin consciousness is based on feelings…
Remember what I said about feelings?
Feelings create emotions, emotions create states, states create moods, Moods create mindsets, mindsets create personalities. Your personality creates your life!
GRACE: My walk with God is based on what He has done for me through Jesus. He fulfilled my obligation.
Grace comes from knowing God and relying on him.
GODS GRACE WILL INFLUENCE ME, EMPOWER ME, TRANSFORM ME IF I RELY ON HIS POWER AND SPIRIT AND NOT MINE!
Dr. Darrell Merrill - shout out… called me one day when I needed grace.
Grace consciousness actually sends more blood to the brain and gives greater clarity and focus and optimism.
So like James 5 says: Whatever comes your way- you keep feelings out of it and go by the word of God.
Tuesday Jan 01, 2019
Tuesday Jan 01, 2019
4000 yrs Ago Babylonians started New Year resolutions. Their year started in March. They believed that what you sowed or did on the first day set the pace for the rest of the year!
I am messy, and I am ok with it. But I gotta admit- I work better in a clean environment.
Removing clutter and simplifying your life is one of the most effective strategies for goal acceleration.
Ever clean your garage and then later pulling in you hit the garage door opener and you feel so good about it.
*your closet
*your desk
*your work bench
SO WHAT IF… We declutter our tv schedule, our phone time, our computer time, social media habits, our friends list, our eating habits etc…
“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.” Proverbs 21:5
Haste - pressed in, Hurried due to lack of space in your calendar
many times we make goals and resolutions about putting new things in our life… I would recommend this year making goals and resolutions about what you will stop doing!