Jody Mitchell shared today in staff devotions. It was so good I
decided to post my notes. Hope this blesses you as much as it did me.
Relationship = Connection -People have a fundamental need to
1. Belong
2. Make an impact
3. Leave a mark
What am I doing in mu relationships to help people do this?
Matt 9.36 – Jesus was moved w compassion because they were scattered
and w/o a sheppard. If we are His ambassadors then we should be moved
with compassion in our relationships as well.
1. Relationship is Affirming -takes focused attention – they feel they
are important. Mentoring, strengthening, remembering prayer requests,
etc.
2. Relationship is Attentive – the more you pay attention and remember
about people the more trust can be built.
3. Relationship is Appreciation – making people feel valued. Jesus
always left people feeling better than he found them. Luke 34.32-35 –
sometimes people’s issues are distracting sometimes but appreciate
the person enough to allow yourself to minister to them anyway.
4. Relationship is Authentic – people can tell when your genuine and
care about them over what they can do for us. Matt 25.24 – when I am
authentic in how I care for people Jesus receives it as if it were for
Him. Its not what you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines
you.
Jesus on Relationships -by Jody Mitchell
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2009 by pmicah#lwfc – a message of HOPE – Multimedia Easter Production
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 by pmicah
Please copy this post to your blog, retweet to your twitter friends, and invite all your facebook friends!!! It's going to make a real difference in the lives of those you know.
a message of HOPE multimedia Easter presentation/rock opera is about an average person searching through the struggles of everyday life for purpose and their place in the world. This production features the music of
- Coldplay
- Snow Patrol
- Staind
This will be a unique event for everyone. Witness the life changing event on
Saturday April 11th at 6pm
&
Sunday April 12th at 9am, 11am, and 6pm.
We’ll see you there! Share this and invite everyone you know!
How to Finish Strong Regardless of the Circumstances!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2009 by pmicahBorn with no limbs, Nick Vujicic faces obstacles we never imagine every day of his life. This young man reminds us all that there is no challenge that i can’t over come. i won’t spend a lot of text explaining it. Just watch.
Check out Nick’s DVD at http://www.IWasBornToWin.com
Failure: The Secret to Success
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2009 by pmicahThis is a great documentary from Honda on failure. a couple of thoughts.
1. if you let failure define you instead of instruct you you loose every time.
- earn to embrace failure as part of the journey, not a destination that you were forced into.
2. each failure brings you closer to being better.
- as long as you learn from your failure it’s not a bad thing.
- if you don’t fail your not growing.
3. push your limits until you fail, fix something and then push it again.
- failure is a byproduct of pushing the envelope
- you never know what needs to improve until some form of failure occurs.
Sandy is still alive!!!!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2009 by pmicah:: THE DON’T SONG :: Igniter Media Group ::
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2009 by pmicahWish i had known these things when i got married!!!
New LWFC Building Front for your Desktop
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2009 by pmicah
Here is your very own picture of the new front of Living Word Family Church. Tonight at prayer Mario Patrick mentioned he was going to put it on his frig so he can keep the vision before him. i just put it on my desktop and thought i would share with you. Put it on your desktop and see the future!!
How To Constantly Grow?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2009 by pmicahA few things I learned from pastor steve at the men’s breakfast on how to be more like Jesus. Our growth is based upon how we change to be like Jesus
- Bible is for the purpose of causing us to conform us to think and act like Jesus. – The purpose of church is the teaching and experience to change us to be more like Jesus.
This is hard for those who hate change or hate being wrong. Must learn to be moldable and changed by the Bible and Christ’s Body (the church)
If our church experience or reading the Bible isn’t changing the way I think then there is something wrong. If we are unwilling to have our thinking challenged then we are not growing. Bottom Line – personal growth = change
Change is caused by allowing the Bible and my church experience to change what and how I think. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
How To Make Mistakes
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 by pmicah
Making mistakes is a huge part of everyone’s life. However not everyone knows how to make them effectively.Scientists understand that mistakes get u closer to the answer your looking for. The road to the place you want to be is a series of mistakes followed by learning from those mistakes.
- honest mistakes vs careless mistakes
- honest – where attentive exploration is a natural part of efficient learning,
- careless – mistakes that stem from inattentiveness, where we may not even notice our mistakes and/or where we don’t process the information we receive from mistakes. In these cases, mistakes are likely to lead to no progress and bad habits.
- don’t rationalize sloppy mistakes
- -”Oops. Well, that never happened before.”
- -”Hey, nobody’s perfect.”
- -”Well, I missed a couple things, but it was pretty good on the whole.”
- -”I don’t know what happened. I can play this piece.”
embrace and Learn from them
- Children are able to assimilate the world so quickly because they don’t worry about making mistakes.
- Adults learn much more slowly because they have heavy ego attachment to results and have been schooled to value perfection over the process
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
—-George Bernard Shaw - Humans have drive & reverse. No neutral. If your not pushing out side of what you know and do and learn new things by making mistakes then your abilities are shrinking as the world grows around you.
- “The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.” —-Dr. Joyce Brothers
Reveal my need for help
- Mistakes keep your ego in check, but only if you accept and embrace them. Insecure people with ego, won’t admit or embrace their mistakes.
- As they say, in golf, the only thing that will screw up your swing more than a bad shot is a good shot: the problem is trying to force a good shot because you just shot well/poorly rather than approaching each shot with dispassionate focus and calm regardless of the previous results.
- If you can meet Triumph and Disaster and treat these two impostors just the same… Kipling poem If?
What to do when your mistakes hurt or cause more work for others
- Learn – figure out why it happened and what you can do to keep it from happening.
- take it seriously and apologize for the harm/inconvenience you caused them.
- think about the trickle effect of your mistake and appologize to those below the surface that may have had to pay for your mistake.
- Ask what you can do to make it up or replace the resources that were lost by your mistake.
- Realize that apologies and repayment doesn’t make you week but strong in others eyes. most people are not strong enough to do this.
