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Grateful People

I just recently watched a leadership conference session online from NewSpring church in South Carolina and it was Steven Furticks’ session on gratefulness that really messed me up for the better. There is one particular point that Pastor Steven raised up that has really shaken me and it goes as follows: “Grateful people can find a blessing, enlarge a blessing or create a blessing in almost any situation. But on the other hand, negative people can find a burden, enlarge a burden or create a burden in almost any situation.”

The Lord has been challenging me with this. I have had to ask myself, am I the kind of person that sees the bad in almost everything or everyone or am I able to find, enlarge or create a blessing in almost situation? What kind of person are you?

Leadership = Privileges

If i got a dollar for each time a young person came up to me and said “I want to be a small group leader” or “I’m ready to lead, can I please be put in a leadership position” i’d probably have a few hundred dollars in the bank. Most the time when people think of leadership they seem to think:

  • Authority
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Power
  • Privileges
  • Benefits
  • Etc

The reality is quite different from that though. I’ve heard it said that if someone WANTS to be in leadership, then that very person probably should NOT be in leadership.

Leadership IS about privileges yes, but not the same kind that most people would think of. These certain privileges are an honor to those whose hearts are right and to those who truly understand the meaning of leadership. Jesus in Mark 10:44-45 44 and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. 45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

The privilege here is that we get to serve others. If you want to lead you MUST serve. If you don’t serve you can’t lead. Being in leadership does NOT mean to BE SERVED but rather TO SERVE!!!

The Good Samaritan

This is honestly the best illustration i’ve ever seen. Enjoy!

God Is…

Wow, i feel like i owe you all an apologie for not blogging in soo long. Things have been crazy around here with Encounter, Events, Fundraisers, Events Planning, Etc… (especially wedding planning haha) :)

As most of you know, OCC is following the ONE PRAYER series along with Craig Groeschel @ Lifechurch.tv and currently 1872 other churches all across the world in order to become Jesus’ answer to His prayer in John 17:20-24.

This year’s theme for One Prayer is: God is…

We have already looked, together as a church, at the fact that God Is: Able as well as God Is: Moving. On Monday of this week, i was working at the bakery and i was just thinking and meditating on this word of God Is… As i was pondering on this fact, something came to mind that was quite shocking to me, yet very true. I starting to think about how God Is… (in one way) UNable. Let me explain.

Though God IS very able to DO anything, BE anything and BECOME anything we need Him to be, (up to a certain extent of course), in a sense, God is very UNable as well. Numbers 23:19 clearly states that God is not a man that He should lie as well as stating the fact that He is unable to break promises.

In Joshua 9 we clearly see that God cherishes convenants and that He is a God of covenants. God is UNable to break covenant.

All throughout Scriptures we see that God is UNable to be unfaithful.

Here are a few more – God Is Unable:

  • To Sin
  • To Be Where Sin Is
  • To Deceive
  • To Go Against Free Will
  • To Be Unjust
  • To Be Unfair
  • To Ignore His Children
  • To Hate His Children
  • To Break Any Commandments
  • To Make Mistakes

And that is just to name a few. Let me know your thoughts!