At prayer last night we were talking with the Lord about influence – about becoming people of influence, being good stewards of that influence, using influence to advance the Kingdom – and I realized that just as transformed people transform people… influenced people influence people. Human beings tend to be reactive, responding to whatever stimulus [...]
There is a difference between excellence and perfection. Although we often think of “excellence” and “perfection” as being synonymous, they are not. One can live and work with a spirit of excellence, or one can strive for perfection. Not only are the two not synonymous, they cannot exist concurrently. I didn’t “get” this until about [...]
If “on earth as it is in heaven” is to become a reality for us, we have to get “I can’t” completely out of our vocabulary. There’s no “can’t” in heaven. Every excuse and every limitation needs to be obliterated by the presence of God. When we get there… when we can no longer say, [...]