Life Mission

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Life Mission Personality Traits
If you know where you are going, you can respond
to priorities rather than circumstances.
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God places gifts within us

• Ex. 31 2-5 See, I have called by name Bezaleel,
  the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
  Judah and I have filled him with the spirit of
  God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in
  knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to
  devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in
  silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones,
  to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in
  all manner of workmanship.

If you know where you are going, you can respond
to priorities rather than circumstances.
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God places gifts within us

• Pro.1816 A mans gift makes room for him, and
  brings him before great men.
• Ex.321-5 And when the people saw that Moses
  delayed to come down out of the mount, the people
  gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said
  unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before
  us for as for this Moses, the man that brought
  us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know
  what has become of him...

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God places gifts within us

• and when Aaron saw, he built an altar before it,
  he (Aaron) made proclamation and said, Tomorrow
  is a feast to Jehovah. And they rose up early on
  the next day and offered burnt offerings, and
  brought peace offerings. And the people sat down
  to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

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Know your calling

• God Calling (gift)
• A person who is walking in a gift from God is
  more likely to be humble.
• Self-proclaim Calling (gift)
• A person who taught himself without God wants all
  the credit

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What are you passionate for?

• Is your job a task master or are you master over
  it?
• Do you look for ways to improve your performance
  or are you just content with where you are?
• Do you take projects head-on or can your
  employer depend on you for anything outside of
  your job description?
• Is money your only motivator?

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Motivational Gifts

• What productive task do you find so easy to do in
  terms of gifting?
• Does an individual ever need to hone his gift?
• Practice makes perfect

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Pitfalls

• Know your limits, and never over promise and
  under deliver
• Learn to say no.
• Share the glory and let another help with your
  weak points

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Mission Statement

• Sets sail
• Gives direction
• Makes it plain

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When God Changes the Channel
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Drought

• 1 King 171 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe
  in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of
  Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be
  neither dew nor rain in the next few years except
  at my word."
•  2 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah 3
  "Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith
  Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from
  the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed
  you there."
•  5 So he did what the LORD had told him. He went
  to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and
  stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and
  meat in the morning and bread and meat in the
  evening, and he drank from the brook.

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Change of Channel

• 7 Some time later the brook dried up because
  there had been no rain in the land.
• 8 Then the word of the LORD came to him 9 "Go at
  once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have
  commanded a widow in that place to supply you
  with food."

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Ready to die

• 10 So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the
  town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He
  called to her and asked, "Would you bring me a
  little water in a jar so I may have a drink?" 11
  As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring
  me, please, a piece of bread."
•  12 "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she
  replied, "I don't have any breadonly a handful
  of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am
  gathering a few sticks to take home and make a
  meal for myself and my son, that we may eat
  itand die."

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Why wait?

•  13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home
  and do as you have said. But first make a small
  cake of bread for me from what you have and bring
  it to me, and then make something for yourself
  and your son. 14 For this is what the LORD, the
  God of Israel, says 'The jar of flour will not
  be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry
  until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' "
  
•  15 She went away and did as Elijah had told her.
  So there was food every day for Elijah and for
  the woman and her family. 16 For the jar of flour
  was not used up and the jug of oil did not run
  dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken
  by Elijah.

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Sparrow Faith

• Mat 625"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about
  your life, what you will eat or drink or about
  your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
  important than food, and the body more important
  than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air
  they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
  and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you
  not much more valuable than they?

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Seek First the Kingdom

• seek first the kingdom of God and his
  righteousness and all of these things shall be
  added to you.
• Be Punctual
• Be Diligent
• Be Honorable
• Be Fruitful

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Coach Time

• What are your personality gifts?
• What are your pitfalls?
• What are your passions?
• Write out a draft mission statement

If you know where you are going, you can respond
to priorities rather than circumstances.