Moving Toward Your Destiny

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• James Creasman
• CRMS Facilitator Refresher Course
• 7 / 12/ 08

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• Introductions
• Name
• Ministry/Work
• Facilitator
• Highlight

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• The difference between leaders and followers is
  perspective. The difference between leaders and
  effective leaders is better perspective.
• My prayer for you as you attend this
  seminar/workshop
• May the God of Perspective give you
• perspective on your own life, which
• will help you better develop as a
• leader--to carry out His life purpose
• for you.
• Blessings, Bobby Clinton

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Five Habits of Effectiveness

• 1. Effective leaders maintain a learning posture
  throughout their entire lives.
• 2. Effective leaders are committed to mentoring
  and being mentored.
• 3. Effective leaders have a dynamic statement of
  personal calling.
• 4. Effective leaders experience repeated times of
  renewal.
• 5. Effective leaders increasingly perceive their
  life in terms of a big-picture, lifetime
  perspective.

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• Simon Birch
• Can a twelve-year-old have a sense of destiny?

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• 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
  at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was
  twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after
  the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had
  fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child
  Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem and Joseph and
  his mother knew not of it. 44 But they,
  supposing him to have been in the company, went a
  day's journey and they sought him among their
  kinsfolk and acquaintance. 45 And when they found
  him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem,
  seeking him. 46 And it came to pass, that after
  three days they found him in the temple, sitting
  in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them,
  and asking them questions. 47 And all that heard
  him were astonished at his understanding and
  answers. 48 And when they saw him, they were
  amazed and his mother said unto him, Son, why
  hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father
  and I have sought thee sorrowing. 49 And he said
  unto them, How is it that ye sought me? Didnt
  you know that I must be about my Father's
  business? 50 And they understood not the saying
  which he spake unto them. 51 And he went down
  with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject
  unto them but his mother kept all these sayings
  in her heart.

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• What difference does it make?
• Where does it come from?
• How do you discern it?
• How do you act on it?

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• Biblical examples of a sense of destiny?

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• Spiritual Leaders Have
• A Growing
• Sense of Destiny

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• A Sense of Destiny is awareness about your part
  in Gods purposes.

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• 3 Stages
• 4 Types
• 5 Benefits
• 4 Guidelines

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3 Stages

• Preparation
• Revelation
• Realization

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3 Stages

• Preparation
• Early awareness of Gods hand in a leaders life
  through

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3 Stages

• Revelation
• Growing Conviction of Gods purpose for a leader
  through

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3 Stages

• Realization
• Confirm and Clarify Gods hand in a leaders life
  through
• Promise realization
• Divine affirmation
• Obedience process item
• Word process item
• Faith acts
• Prophecy fulfillment

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3 Stages - Pauls Life

• Preparation
• Tarsus - 3rd university city
• Roman citizen
• Mentor Gamaliel

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3 Stages - Pauls Life

• Revelation
• Damascus road
• Ananias vision
• Mentor Barnabas
• Antioch Commissioning
• Macedonian call

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3 Stages - Pauls Life

• Realization
• Gentile churches
• Missionary team
• Mentorees
• Epistles

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4 Types

• Direct
• Indirect
• Providential
• Blessing

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4 Types

• Direct
• An experience in which God intervenes directly in
  a life to either communicate his reality and
  presence or give revelation of something to come
  or in some other way indicate his desire to use
  the life for his purposes.
• Ex Moses at burning bush

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4 Types

• Indirect
• An experience in which some aspect of destiny is
  linked to another person, and the leader simply
  must receive its implications.
• Ex Hannahs promise to give Samuel to God.

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4 Types

• Providential
• The build up of a sense of destiny in a life
  because of the accumulation of providential
  circumstances which indicate Gods arrangement
  for the life.
• Ex Apostle Pauls birth and early life situation.

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4 Types

• Blessing
• When a leader enjoys the powerful presence of God
  in life and ministry and has repeated experiences
  which show that God is blessing the life and
  ministry.
• Ex Ezra

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5 Benefits

• What are some of the benefits of having a sense
  of destiny?

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5 Benefits

• Encouragement - helps leaders persevere
• Impetus - helps leaders grow
• Direction - helps leaders make wise decisions
• Strategy - helps leaders focus
• Gives leaders spiritual authority

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4 Guidelines

• Listen to God speaking in your present.
• Look for Gods hand in your past.
• Ask and expect God to give you new destiny
  experiences in the future.
• Act on what you know whenever possible.

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Mary, Did You Know?

• Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy would one
  day walk on water?
• Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy would save
  our sons and daughters?
• Did you know that your Baby Boy has come to make
  you new?
• This Child that you delivered will soon deliver
  you.

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Mary, Did You Know?

• Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy will give
  sight to a blind man?
• Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy will calm
  the storm with His hand?
• Did you know that your Baby Boy has walked where
  angels trod?
• When you kiss your little Baby you kissed the
  face of God?
• Mary did you know

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Mary, Did You Know?

• The blind will see.The deaf will hear.
• The dead will live again.
• The lame will leap.The dumb will speak
• The praises of The Lamb.

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Mary, Did You Know?

• Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy is Lord of
  all creation?
• Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy would one
  day rule the nations?
• Did you know that your Baby Boy is heaven's
  perfect Lamb?
• The sleeping Child you're holding is the Great, I
  Am.

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_____, Do You Know?

• What your destiny will look like when it is
  fulfilled?
• Do you have a growing sense of destiny?

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• Destiny Items
• Identify recurring themes
• How would you state your destiny in a sentence?

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Moving Toward Your Destiny

• Spiritual Leaders Have
• A Growing
• Sense of Destiny

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