Leadership manifesto

Romans 12:8

if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

Samoan firefighters

Bones

Bones

When we think of people with faith, we always remember those who exhibited their faith in their living days. 

Well, read Hebrews 11 - the portion about Joseph. He asked his sons to embalm his body so that his bones can be taken to his homeland in Palestine and be buried there. He was a man of true faith. He could see the unseeable. He could believe the unbelievable. He displayed his faith in his deathbed. 

And, centuries later, his bones were indeed buried in Palestine. Seeing the unseeable when what you want to see is not even in the visual field is real faith. I hope you and I can develop such a faith. We can ask the giver of faith to bestow us with it so that we can reach our intended destination. Like Jospeh. 

Quotes

"God has brought me here in his wisdom. He will keep me here by his grace. In his goodness he will teach me what I need to learn. In his perfect time he will deliver me from here by his power." Dr George Cherian

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.   Abraham Lincoln 

“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it.” Rev. Charles Spurgeon (1855).

God doesn't double bill - pastor Rock Dillaman 

George Müller: “I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was to have my soul happy in the Lord.”

“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.” Corrie Ten Boom

God buries his workmen, but his work goes on. (Charles Wesley)

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so - Mark Twain 

In God we trust. Everything else, bring data. Dr. Edwards Deming

There are three versions to the truth - yours, mine and the truth. 

the will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you

Anyone can be great because anyone can serve - MLK Jr

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens writes, “It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

The more gratitude we have, the less entitlement we'll have. 

There is much we can do AFTER we pray, but not UNTIL.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. MLK Jr

Promises for life

             Daniel 2:21-22

 He changes times and seasons;
    he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise
    and knowledge to the discerning.

He reveals deep and hidden things;
    he knows what lies in darkness,
    and light dwells with him.

Matthew 6:25-34

“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 than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look 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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Daniel 1:15

At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food.

Proverbs 30: 7-9
“Two things I ask of you, Lord;
    do not refuse me before I die:
 Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
    give me neither poverty nor riches,
    but give me only my daily bread.

Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you
    and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’
Or I may become poor and steal,
    and so dishonor the name of my God.