•What have I received (Advice), what am I doing with it (Purpose)?
•Proverbs 20:5◦Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,But a man of understanding will draw it out.
Skilled
Inherited through Advice
•Certain things in life are inherited:◦Genes (Marapanu)
◦Advice
◦Body
◦Money, materials
Inheritance is good, but what do you do with it?
•If I were to get a land, I would want to put something up there.
◦The land is my own
◦The plan is mine.
◦However, the materials, I wouldn't recreate, I would just purchase.
◾Ever heard of "re-inventing the wheel"?
◾Creativity is good, but not re-creativity.
◦The Skill is to know what has been done (The Experience), How it was done (The Discipline) and through the advice, either create something new, or, just use it as a Add-on.
◦Our time is mostly wasted on NOT TAKING ADVICE.
◦I would rather use an Advice, than lose it.
•What is the Best advice you ever received?◦Write down on a piece of paper and pass it to me.
◦Write down a piece of advice for a each and every person here.
◦Write down something encouraging about your co-workers.
•Paradigm Shift - Steven Covey's - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
◦The father who lost his wife and the children who lost their mother.
◦The Battleship vs The Lighthouse
◦It is all about seeing things differently.
◾Suddenly
◾I see differently, and because I saw differently
◾I thought differently
◾I felt differently
◾I behaved differently
◾My irritation vanished.
◾The Old man needs a meal.
◾The plant needs water, not comforting
◾If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
•Numbers 27:1-11◦The 5 Women who changed God's rules.
•Change life for the better.
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.
Marla Gibbs
Committed
Purposed - Isaiah 30:18-21 - Right Path
•The Advice give us direction towards the right path.
•Which in turn leads us towards the purposes of our life.
◦The Road Less Traveled makes all the difference.
•Right Path is not always the Popular Path.
◦It's lonely
◦it's in the limelight
◦the city on the hill (Matthew 5:14)
•Church is the hope of this world. Acts 2:43-47
◦You've been purposed to serve at the most important place in the world.
◾Sense of Awe
◾Met together Constantly
◾Shared Everything They Had
◾They Worshiped Together
◾Enjoyed Goodwill of all People
