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1. It is my inference that most people do not want to think for themselves and the few that are willing to think have the opportunity to manipulate the rest – keeping them at the end of the line while maintaining the front row. #FulfillingYourMinistry
2. It is said that the majority is always right but in Romans 12:2 (MSG), we are encouraged not to blend in but to go against the norm. If you go against the majority, you are more likely to be in alignment with God. #FulfillingYourMinistry
3. Jesus ran against popular thinking, against popular culture and that is my challenge to you today. #FulfillingYourMinistry
4. The culture around you is always seeking to drag you down to mediocrity. Jesus wanted to bring the best out of his disciples Mark 10:42-45. #FulfillingYourMinistry
5. Whoever wants to be a leader must first seek to serve not to be served. Mark 10:43. This thinking is counter-culture. #FulfillingYourMinistry
6. Jesus was running against the popular mindset: Leaders around us don’t typically serve but expect to be served. #FulfillingYourMinistry
7. Jesus was saying that if you will ever realize your highest potential, you have to turn the focus off yourself and serve others. #FulfillingYourMinistry
8. Self-centeredness will drag you down and it is one major reason why people’s prayers are not answered (James 4:3). Being others-focused is the major key to leadership and answer to prayers. #FulfillingYourMinistry
9. As you rise through the levels, you begin to be responsible for more and more people; if you remain focused on yourself, you will take what belongs to many and expend it on yourself. #FulfillingYourMinistry
10. Your decisions on a day to day basis will show how you will handle the answers to your prayers. #FulfillingYourMinistry
11. Vision is the ability to see people, places and things not just the way they are but the way they can be. As a leader, you need to have a vision and you cannot adequately envision if your focus is on yourself. #FulfillingYourMinistry
12. Self-centeredness will blind you. If you are to think for one thousand people and your focus is only on one – you; you will be blind. Service is the essence of leadership and self-centeredness and leadership will never go together. #FulfillingYourMinistry
13. A leader who got it right is King Solomon. (1Kings 3:11-13). How many of your prayer points are focused on other people? Service is the secret to impact and it guaranty success. Our country needs People like Solomon. #FulfillingYourMinistry
14. Selfishness will frustrate your potential for leadership, it in fact guarantees failure. #FulfillingYourMinistry
15. I suggest that volunteering and service should be added to our education curriculum. It is a dangerous thing to grow into adulthood without learning to focus on others. #FulfillingYourMinistry
16. Children need to learn that there are people with needs and how they can be of service to humanity. #FulfillingYourMinistry
17. As you commit to service to God, I declare that you will not serve God in vain. #FulfillingYourMinistry
