Welcome to the June 29th edition of Faith & Life Lessons.
You will see this email full of tidbits from my week. My goal is simple. I hope that from how I live my life, you can find a thing or two that helps you as you try to live a life that matters. I am always trying to do one thing - make Christ-focused decisions in love, work, and life. And this was my week.
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The Story of My Week.
We kicked off the one year of me assisting my spiritual director, working with a group of men.
They come from different walks of life - clergy and business.
We had a three-hour workshop to start our year.
In some respects, it felt like a refresher for me. I was going through some of the content I had gone through about 5-6 years ago.
And it was worth it.
It was another opportunity for me to go through spiritual lessons that have helped me in recent years.
I am serving the group and building myself at the same time.
This is probably one of the ways that the “minister gets ministered to at the same time”.
A whole new year of inner growth and service awaits.
Things I Learnt
1-Heaven Down Perspective to Needs: Earlier in the week, I was mulling over a particular need that needed to be addressed.
I came up with a plan to address it.
The only problem is that God had a different perspective on how the problem should be addressed.
The different perspective meant a different plan.
A plan that would demand more from me.
It reminds me of the story of King Asa of Judah when King Baasha of Israel came against him.
He came up with a simple solution - one that would not involve going to war. He “paid” King Ben-Hadad to break off his allegiance with King Baasha, thereby weakening his battle strength.
This worked.
But God told him this was the foolish solution.
Why?
Because God wanted Asa to go to battle with Baasha, so God could give Ben-Hadad into his hands.
Imagine that.
That’s why I am choosing the hard solution…to make sure my “Ben-Hadad” does not escape from my hands.
Heaven’s perceptive of meeting this need.
A more challenging way.
2-A Reputation for Driving Results: I had a crash session with staff across different teams on an R&D task I want us to work on.
After we had done the jaw-jaw, I decided to close the meeting by asking for feedback date from the team.
Immediately, I asked for it, someone in the meeting said he was expecting me to do just that.
I don’t mind having that kind of reputation.
A reputation tied to driving results.
We are measured by how well we remain to delivering results that matter to our organisations.
Without results, we have limited value on display for our organisations.
This is what I continue to push for.
Postscript
May you be known for building a reputation that delivers results and not for making excuses. Amen
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Tola - The Everyday Disciple
I help Christians like you who want to live intentional lives incorporate their faith into everyday life so they can make Christ-focused decisions in all areas of life and truly live to make an impact and make God happy.
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