WHO IS GOING TO GO ?

1. WHO IS GOING TO GO? Realising Potential Overcoming Blockages Pr Hans Voortman CRC SA, WA, NT State Conference 19th October 2011.

2. Capture the Momentum of your Life! Trim your Sails!

3. You’ve reached a ‘Tipping Point’!

4. Lift the Lid!!!

5. Key Verses... Matt 11:12 Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful people lay hold of it. 1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

6. This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done!

7. Galatians 6:10 NIV. As we have opportunity, let usdo good unto all... Msg. Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us...

8. Fire Up! • 2 Tim1:6For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. “ • ...No more time for sitting around, No procrastination...”

9. Run with the Vision... Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it, that the one who reads it may run with it.”

10. 1 Peter 1:13 KJV...Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober.. NASB...Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

11. Release what God has made you to be! Romans 12:4-8 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a person’s gift is ............., let them use itin proportion to their faith. So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed parts in Christ's body, let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't.

12. The Parable of the Talents.Matthew 25... • “To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability... • “Now after a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. “The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.’ “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’

13. “And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. ‘And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. ‘Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. ‘Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’

14. Your Lemonade Stand Project! • Running with a $100Vision!!! • What could you sow into some fertile ground???

15. Get Involved!!! 1 Cor. 2:9 But, as it is written, “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has in store, prepared, for those who love him.”

16. Realising Potential, Overcoming Blockages...

17. 1. Competence • Channel your energies towards those arenas of expression in which you are most likely to excel. • Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing!

18. The less you do the more you will accomplish! • Narrow your focus to increase your productivity. • Your weakness is another’s opportunity!

19. 2. Courage • The courage to initiate, to set things in motion, to move ahead is a leader’s prime responsibility. • People seek an equilibrium and stability which inherently challenges progress. Leaders must challenge the process because any system will unconsciously conspire to maintain the status quo and prevent change.

20. Courage establishes leadership. Leaders are not always the first to see the need for change, but they are the first to act. • The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. • Leaders understand the unique role of confidence and caution - courage requires both.

21. The difference between Carefuland Fearful... • Careful is cerebral; fearful is emotional. • Careful is fuelled by information; fearful is fuelled by imagination. • Careful calculates risks; fearful avoids risks. • Careful wants to achieve success; fearful wants to avoid failure. • Careful is concerned about progress; fearful is concerned about protection.

22. Remember, everybody’s afraid! Fear is the common ground of humanity. • The key question is... “will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?” • What could be? What should be? Write it down. Hang it on a wall. Broadcast it!

23. 3. Clarity • Clarity even when you don’t have certainty and breaking free of the paralysis of indecision is critical to leadership. • “Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.” Henry Kissinger • Uncertainty creates the necessary condition for leadership.

24. There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about everything. • Uncertainty increases with leadership responsibility! • The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty, but rather to navigate it.

25. If you are unwilling to make decisions with limited information, you can’t achieve clarity. • People will follow you if you are wrong. They will not follow you if you are unclear. • Clarity results in influence. • Uncertainty is not your enemy. It is in fact what empowers leadership and creates unimaginable opportunities for the future.

26. 4. Coaching • Realizing your personal best will never occur without someone else to spur you on. • Coaching enables the leader to go farther, faster. • Feedback is the most cost efficient strategy for improving performance and instilling satisfaction. • An effective coach does not need to possess more skills than the person he is coaching.

27. 5. Character. • The moral authority necessary to bring people and resources together, flows from who you are, not what you say. • Character makes you a leader worth following. • Don’t envision what you can do before what you should be!

28. Character is the will to do what is right even when it is hard. • The willingness to say ‘no’ is what sets a leader apart. • Beware fudging the edges under the guise of progress!

29. Power, money, success, fame are all intoxicants that distort reality. Character is what lets you see clearly. • Character leaders are led by their values rather than their feelings. • Leaders have two pages, one visible, one invisible. The visible badge is your position and title. The invisible badge is your moral authority.

30. Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you! • People buy into you before they buy into your vision.

31. Build a moral perimeter around your behaviour. • Two key questions... • What small thing in my life right now has the potential to grow into a big thing? • Who knows about it other than me? Don’t fool yourself. Small indiscretions deceive many leaders into thinking that they will be equally successful in surviving the bigger ones down the line.

32. Lift the Lid!!!

33. 1 Peter 1:13 KJV...Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober.. NASB...Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

34. Run with the Vision... Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it, that the one who reads it may run with it.”

35. Everybody • Somebody • Anybody • Nobody.