Month: March 2016

Hey! What is going on ?

Identify the events unfolding in your life while in a ‘wilderness’ experience.

The wilderness experience in a leader’s life can easily be misinterpreted, derailing us from our direction, purpose, and mandate.

The wilderness season is a revealer of where I have set my confidence. Periodically it reveals that my trust is lacking. Leaders, it is urgent that we figure out and recognize the indicators of the landscape of our being. This will permit us to emerge from this stage with a heightened capacity and perspective.

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New beginnings promote new growth.

Generally, the impulse is to hold unto things when we must let go. Fresh beginnings stimulate renewed growth.

Leaders can turn stagnant when they have invested nothing into their future growth and development. We can be great at accomplishing what we are currently doing, and never become more than what we are. Do not step into the trap of being a manager… when you are a leader.

The end of one thing is always the ‘seed’ for the next stage of progress, the next event unfolding in your life. Our tendency, our human nature, is to hold on to objects, techniques, positions, mindsets, etc. and seek to keep them alive past their efficiency or purpose. We expend great effort to repair something that does not even belong in our life, team, organization, or church anymore.

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