Blessed Steps

I was blessed to be able to attend the Global Leadership Summit 2017 for FREE! It was a super expensive ticket of course but someone donated 5 tickets to TTC and since nobody took it, as last minute as it was, I went for it.  For the next few postings, I'll be sharing some take-aways I've received from #GLS2017 :) EMBRACING RISKS Don't procrastinate to pull the trigger to the things God had placed in your heart. Speaker: Jossy Chacko The only way you'll be entrusted with bigger things is when you... 1. Enlarge your vision Stay focus and allow your horizon to get bigger If your vision is to keep what you have, you won't see those opportunities around you. Passionary= visionary  with a passion 2. Empower your people Leadership is about taking one's chances and giving people opportunities, despite your past experiences Before you empower them, focus on building character 3. Embrace Risk Risk (marketplace) = Faith (ministry) Without faith...

the places where you have the biggest challenges become the places where you have the most to give- if you do the inner work.

My Greatest JOY is to bring people closer to God. Nothing drives me more than that! What excites me and put a smile on my face? When I find out that a friend started coming back to church, just became a Christian, rededicated her life to God, figured out that she needs God for real... Deep calls unto deep. It is when I myself get closer to God daily, I  draw people closer to God. Gently. Lovingly. By just being myself. By just being their friend. By just offering a little more of kindness and an listening ear. It has been something I have been doing knowingly or unknowingly for a big chunk of my life. I have to give credit to my mom for always trying to bring people around us to church. I learnt from there. I learnt and I adopted the idea and developed the passion for myself. I REJOICE when people come closer to God. It fills my bucket. Drives me. Because I realize how fulfilling and how assuring and how satisfying it is to just dwell in the presence of God and to li...

“You can work through anything as long as you are not destroying yourself or each other. That means emotionally, physically, financially or spiritually. Make nothing off limits to discuss. Never shame or mock each other for the things you do that make you happy. Write down why you fell in love and read it every year on your anniversary (or more often). Write love letters to each other often. Make each other first. When kids arrive, it will be easy to fall into a frenzy of making them the only focus of your life…do not forget the love that produced them. You must keep that love alive and strong to feed them love. Spouse comes first. Each of you will continue to grow. Bring the other one with you. Be the one that welcomes that growth. Don’t think that the other one will hold the relationship together. Both of you should assume it’s up to you so that you are both working on it. Be passionate about cleaning house, preparing meals and taking care of your home. This is required of everyone ...

Isaiah 43:16-21 “Remember not the former things,     nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing;     now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness     and rivers in the desert." Jerusalem was destroyed. The temple was destroyed, Israelites are in exile.  Their dreams were crushed. They wonder... will their dreams ever still be possible?  Does this sound familiar to us?  We might have dreams that are crushed, and we wonder, if its still possible at all? At times like this...  1. Remember Remember the Great things the Lord has done for you! Relive, play it out, every moment of good things that the Lord has done in your life previously.  I was in trouble, I was about to fail, and Jesus rescued me.  Are there moments like these where it carves into your memories? 2. Forget Forget the former things.  If you are stuck on the pa...