1. Passion: identify what excites you, what enthuses you. identify who suffocates your dream. identify in whose presence you lose heart.
- sounds are so important. identify the sounds you like and put them around you. birds singing? water falls?
- if you don't like complainers, decide where they'll be and decide that they won't be around you
- have you decided what you like to hear, and have you invested in putting those sounds around you. in life there is no party, you are the party, and if you are not jumping, it is because you are not playing the right music
- passion is a success necessity. passion is more important than money because if you have passion you can create any financial life you want
- if someone attacks your passion, drains your joy, they are an adversary. they might smile but they are your adversary. who is messing with your passion?
- protect your passion. don't spend time with people that drain your passion: your passion for God, your passion for life, your passion for your future. you are going to have to fight for your passion. don't let anybody mess with your passion
- if you really want something to happen decide that it will happen; whether or not they say something to discourage you like, "it'll cost you more...blah blah"
- do what you have a passion for. don't teach what you don't have a passion for.
- to protect your passion, you'll have to find your comfort zone, your comfort cirlce: someone who isn't trying to dismantle your dream. they don't create the burden of response, they are not stressful to you
- wisdom is the ability to discern difference in people. people bring different things to your life. discern those who are a comfort circle
- if someone doesn't like you, it's because they don't discern and celebrate your difference
- what are you doing about your passion?
- don't engage in conversations with people with whom when you talk to them, it feels as if they are pouring water on your dreams
- learn to encourage yourself; David learned how to encourage yourself. You decide your success. you don't need other people to encourage you
- what words do you like to hear.
- God gave us His words so we would develop skills at talking to ourselves.
- don't mess with your passion. sculpt an environment...every home should have songs of worship going on in your homes all day long
- thoughts have a presence. assess an environment before you enter it and try to change it
- you cannot help anyone who will not listen to you
- you can't make anybody love you. they either love you or they don't. if they don't gather your honour and leave. cos there is somebody waiting for you. go where you are celebrated instead of where you are tolerated.
- don't think less of yourself simply because someone doesn't respond. don't cook the third meal when they haven't eaten the first meal. don't try to grow fruit in wrong soil, cos someone is waiting for you
- get real serious about your passion, identify why it is dying and find out who is killing it
- wisdom can be picked up, assessed through reactions. that's how we know someone has wisdom, based on their reactions
- what is your reaction to greatness? if you go into a restaurant and a world class achiever is in that restaurant. do you pick up the tab? do you leave them a note? do you acknowledge their greatness?
- if you were to meet a great person what questions do you ask? how did you do it? how did you accomplish it? Do you try to extract wisdom from them? do you allow them to be your mentor?
- how do you react to the presence of God. when you are dating somebody, ask yourself, what is their reaction to God's presence. if you get someone in God's presence, they can change but if they wouldn't even get in God's presence, they can't change; that's the best they'll ever be
- if we don't continually go into God's presence, we have the capacity to deterioriate.
- what is your reaction to correction? if you open the door for correction, you remove all the pain from correction.
- correction is different from criticism; criticism diminishes your influence. whomever you criticize will stop listening to you. make gentle corrections: "that's good. and here's another thought...."
- people who really love you want you to succeed and will go to any length to help you succeed
- what is your reaction to correction? what is your reaction to a mistake? the diff between success and failure is correction.
- how do you open the door for correction: "I have this idea, if it's not a good idea shoot it down".
- Don't be afraid to be corrected, it is part of the price of becoming.
- your wisdom will depend on your ability to receive correction
- it is dangerous if the people who love you stop correcting you.
- you don't teach people who need you, you teach people who heed you; invest where you see change
- Invest where you see change
- put as little money as possible in a bank; try to change it into value: gold bars etc
- How do you react to a loss? Hold loosely to the things of this world. Let other people have the gifts they take, you still have the Giver. and as long as you have the Giver, every good and perfect gift comes from the Lord.
- May you never have anything God didn't give you; You don't want anything God didn't give you. if God doesn't give you something, it's cos it'll be a tragedy for your future. But don't let satan take away anything God gave you. Fight to keep what God has given you.
- Even evil people, like a delilah put a value on a samson. may you never have anything God didn't give you
- even if satan took it, the same God who gave you your life can give you what you need to live this life.
- the same God who gave you one idea, can give you many more ideas
- those assigned to stay in your life cannot leave. those who hate your passions, ministry cannot wait to leave. but there are people who cannot stay away from you because they know your value, they know your difference
- Read Mike Murdock's book: The Law of Recognition: there is something you're not seeing, and it is costing you.
- you haven't seen or known 1% of 1% of 1% of what God has in store for you...eye hath not seen nor ear heard.
- God hides beauty under ugly so that persistence will be rewarded; nothing is ever as it first appears
- if you feel like u r a push over take that ugliness off and realise that God put graciousness in you; if you feel like u have an anger problem, take off that ugliness and realise that God put passion in you.
- Single people: satan will introduce a counterfeit to you, a decoy. you don't want anybody God didn't bring to you. you don't want people who bring themselves to you either. don't you let anybody else tell you whom God has chosen for you. Let the spirit of God confirm it to you.
- Let the man do the choosing. You don't want a man so stupid he can't hear God's voice.
- You want someone who know the voice of the Spirit, who can talk to God for you; who can communicate
- Avoid guys who are deceptive, liars. You want one in which what he says with his mouth is what he feels in his heart. You want someone who excels in honour; someone who knows how to talk to you, talk to others.
- Every future has a price
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