Here are some great thoughts and truths I’ve chewed on in 2010. I hope they’ll help you:

• Discipline is remembering what you want
• God’s word isn’t just instruction, it’s empowerment to do what it says!
• I can be used by God everywhere I go
• Success is always being, not having
• God wants to be as unique with my story as He is with everyone else’s
• Focus on things that will produce fruit – long term
• People’s opinions don’t matter, it’s His Word that matters
• I’m always going to have to choose between people’s approval or God’s approval
• Apart from God, we can’t do anything worth doing!
• Job 23:10 – God knows where I’m at and where I’m going, when I come out, I’ll be like gold!
• II Chronicles 16:9 – I’ll only have victories where I trust God!
• John 21 – 3 Things I need to do if I love God – 1.) Follow Him 2.) Feed His sheep 3.) Don’t worry about how God is using everyone else
• Jesus was never confused. He always knew what to say, where to go, and what to do, and we should be the same.
• The only thing worth giving people is Jesus.
• World class Christians pray for the world
• Only Life Focus: To make Jesus famous one person at a time.
• Wherever I go and whatever I do, I’ll be blessed if I’m following God –Deut. 28:6
• God is who makes you great, you can never make yourself great!
• A “call” is not the same thing as “developed”
• “If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life, God shows up, then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what’s more important to you – the dream or Him?”
• “The impact God has planned for us doesn’t occur when we’re pursuing impact. It occurs when we’re pursuing God. At long last after a lifetime of striving God was enough. Not God and impact or God and ministry. Just God.”
• We’re educated way beyond our obedience!
• There isn’t a lack of people to minister to, there is a lack of people that have something to say when they minister
• Daily Choice: Am I going to be a leader or a clown?
• Prayer: God, develop me as quickly and as solidly as possible.
• David went from feeding the sheep to serving the King, out of Nowhere
• You can always be bigger on the inside than you are on the outside
• One act is better than a thousand intentions
• Prioritize the relationships that will sit on the front 3 rows of your funeral!
• When you’re lacking resources, God is helping you learn to be resourceful!
  
• To increase your capacity to receive you need one thing: Faithfulness
• Don’t try to impress, just be impressive!
• Haggai 1 – When your confused and it doesn’t seem like you’re going anywhere, you probably aren’t putting God’s Kingdom first. (Matt. 6:33)
• Stop talking about your goals and start working on them!
• We need to love and serve God for who He is, not what He can do for us.
• Dig Deep Roots (Character)
• Boundaries in Life are Incredibly important!
• Romans 10:11 – No one who believes in Him will ever be put to shame or disappointed!
• Psalm 113:7-8 He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the dung heap. He sets me among princes, even the princes of God’s own people!
• In all labor there is profit, but idle talk leads to poverty. –Proverbs 14:23
• Exalt the Word of God over everything else
• What I love about my heroes (Keith Moore, John Maxwell, etc.) is the God in them!
• Nobody has a step up on me in the Word! The more I value the Word of God, the more I’ll reap!
• God’s correction isn’t just correction, it’s preparation!
• Walk in the light you have, not the light someone else is trying to give you!
• It’s not what you know, it’s what people will receive!
• I’d be more effective if I asked God what I’m supposed to do everyday!
• Anytime you let other people’s opinions fill your heart, you push God out.
• Promotion comes from the Lord
• In life, you will have fruit testers!
• The season you are in is not forever. It will pass and just be a memory of what was!
• The Lord will be your confidence! –Proverbs 3:26
• Always ask yourself: “What’s important” Answer: Less and Less
• If the disciples figured to learn about leadership on the fast track and w/appropriate perks and bonuses, Jesus soon disillusioned them” –J Sanders
• “The application of: Doing it now has led to my success”
• Matthew 11:28 – Move with the UNFORCED rhythms of grace!
• Love God, Love People
• Quit feeding yourself, start feeding your sheep!
• Patient endurance is what I need now! Hebrews 10:35
• Nobody is going to make sure your successful!
• If God wants you to have something nothing will stop that.
• God won’t let you have second hand faith, He wants you to have your own!
• I need to spend unhurried time with God daily!
• We need to get to a place where if God doesn’t show up, we’ll fall flat on our faces!
• Know your worth or no one else will!

Don’t Let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building others up. -Ephesians 4:29

This is such a powerful video clip! It’s only 3 minutes long, please take the time to watch it!

Takeaways:

God is Bigger than Anything that Comes Against You! - “Your pain is real, Your loneliness and brokenness are Real and their Big, but God is bigger.”

Your Words Matter – So much of our self-doubts and self-worth are based off of what people have said to us in our past. I love when he said, “We can either kill somebody with our Words, or Save somebody with our words.” It’s true. So many people have to spend years finding out who God says we are, instead of who people have said we are.

It’s Ok for You to be YOU – You’re are SPECIAL JUST THE WAY YOU ARE – this is probably the hardest thing in life to grasp. God made us just how He wanted to. We’re His masterpiece. We need to rejoice in who God made us instead of torturing ourselves wishing we were somebody else.

We Must know what the Truth Says! Without the Truth, We Cannot Fight the Lies – the only way we can know if what we’re thinking is a lie or not is if we know what the truth is. Truth is what God says. The Word of God is truth. We need to define ourselves, our thoughts, and everything in our lives by God’s Word (truth). If we do that, we won’t buy the lies that come to us on a daily basis.

“My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when he corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.” -Hebrews 12:5,6

If we’re going to become everything that God has called us to be, we’re going to have to be corrected, a lot. We’ve already established that being corrected and coming face to face with reality in our lives can be very difficult and painful.

When correction comes we have two choices: Humble ourselves, become vulnerable, and make changes, or become bitter, ignore the correction, and refuse to change. One leads to life and one leads to living a mediocre & miserable life.

The only way you’ll chose to humble yourself and make changes is if you have the right perspective of correction. Keith Moore said something at Impartation that set me free in this area. He said, “It’s not just correction when the Lord corrects you, it’s preparation.”

The Bible says to not give up when we’re corrected, it wouldn’t say that if we wouldn’t be tempted to. Then it says that God corrects those HE LOVES. When you’re being corrected, realize that God is preparing you for the next season of your life. That should give you hope to press through no matter how hard it gets.

Choose to be humble and vulnerable. Ask people to speak into your life, if they say something you don’t want to hear, don’t get bitter, recognize that they’re speaking into your life because they love you unconditionally and want to see God’s best in your life.

Once you’ve received correction from someone, ask questions, set boundaries, set daily disciplines, and get accountability, and before you know it, God will have taken you to an entirely new level.

Correction does has it’s perks!

Thoughts?