Leaders — Vision — Team | Facing Your Blitz Weekly Video Devotion

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Who brings detail and vision together? Can you lead more powerfully? What do people need from you? Read through this week’s guide to see how to lead more effectively.

Game Plan:

“Where there is no revelation [no vision], people cast off restraint [loyal attachment]; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.” Proverbs 29:18 NIV

“If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, how would you smell anything? But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where he wants it. How strange a body would be if it had only one part! Yes, there are many parts, but only one body. The eye can never say to the hand, “I don’t need you.” The head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you.” In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary.” 1 Corinthians 12:17-22 NLT

Time Out:

Are you a visionary or a details person? Regardless, you are a needed leader because how you act and communicate influences those around you. Your family and people close to you need your positive leadership.

Here’s a question for you detail people…do you make efforts to understand the big vision?

And a question for you visionaries…do you make efforts to celebrate the details of how team members contribute to the larger goals and vision?

Tying the details to the big vision helps people commit and sacrifice for the cause.

Whether you’re a visionary or details person, a leader ties them together to help people commit and sacrifice for the greater cause.

Go Deep:

Think BIG every day. Tie everything you do into the largest goal there is – bringing glory to God and cooperating with Him in His epic rescue mission of humanity. Our family, friends, peers and each person on earth need to see God’s love and hear His truth and good news. Make it your goal to help people see the value of each member of God’s body, each member of the team. Honor the different gifts and roles that people play by describing their importance to the big goals and big vision.

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Lone Ranger or Team Player? | Facing Your Blitz Weekly Video Devotion

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Are you a lone ranger or team player?  That’s a crucial question in life.  Watch this session and see why.

Game Plan:

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 9:2, ESV

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!  Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?  And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken” Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, ESV

“Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.” Proverbs 18:1, ESV

Time Out:

Do you live your life as a solo act? Does it embarrass you to ask for help? Do you hate to show need because you think people will think you are weak? You may be great at helping others, but did you know that at the root of not wanting to ask for or need the help of others is a form of arrogance? It’s a self-handicapping attitude when you can’t admit your imperfections and need. We’re all imperfect. We all need others. We were made to bear each other’s burdens.

Go Deep:

Ask yourself what is really at the root of why you hesitate to share your challenges or ask for help?  I bet you feel ok about helping someone else when they share their difficulty or need.  Decide to be a team player. 

Choose one person that you can open up to and share with.  Give them a call, or better yet, set up a meeting.  Ask someone for advice or prayer today, and during this week.  Offer your support and prayers to someone else, this week, and for the rest of your life.  Share a burden.  Bear a burden.  Don’t isolate.  Build a team of friends in your life.

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Whose Lenses Are You Wearing | Facing Your Blitz Weekly Video Devotion

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Does life get a bit blurry when you are looking at it? Do you find yourself in some messy predicaments? Watch and consider whose lenses you’re looking through

Game Plan:

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.” Isaiah 55:8, NLT

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.” Proverbs 3:5-7, NLT

Time Out:

Whose lenses are you looking through? God’s or your own? Consider your vision, perspective and attitude on life. Is it short term, self-anchored, performance-driven, and conditional? Does it focus on possessions, circumstances, ego, pride, insecurity and fears? Whose vision and desires for your life are ultimately better…yours or God’s? God so wants what is best for us that He even coaches us not to trust or depend on our own thinking, our own understanding and our own ways. Our ways may seem good at the time, but they lead us into some dumb mistakes and messy places.

Go Deep:

Where are you depending on your own vision? Where are you leaning on your own understanding and trusting your own path in life? Ask God to shine the light on where you need to turn your life and attitude over to the Lord. Start each day this week with this prayer: “God, give me your vision. Help me trust you and release my control to You. Help me remember that You love me and guide me to live better than I love and guide myself. Lead me. I trust you.”

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Encourage When Discouraged | Facing Your Blitz Weekly Video Devotion

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Do your problems tend to shrink your awareness to only your situation? There’s a way to get out of that cycle of discouragement. Check out the value of focusing on others when we’re feeling down.

Game Plan:

“So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.” I Thessalonians 5:11, NLT

“Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of His return is drawing near.” Hebrews 10:24-25, NLT

Time Out:

Here’s some advice that sounds backwards, “When you are discouraged or struggling, encourage someone else.” God’s ways are often upside down from the ways of society. Scripture frequently encourages us to encourage others…and that advice is not dependent upon us feeling good about what’s going on with us at the time. We are taught to follow Jesus’ example of loving people unconditionally. We’re also to encourage others no matter how we are feeling. The practical paradox is that encouraging others actually does positive things for our attitude. It gives us greater bandwidth to face whatever difficulty we are facing.

Here’s some advice that sounds backwards, when you are discouraged or struggling, encourage someone else.

Go Deep:

Do a quick assessment. How many times this week did I encourage people? How much am I encouraging my family members? People at work? Friends? I’m sure you like to be encouraged. Choose to give others the very thing that you enjoy. And remember…showing concern and encouragement for others when they are struggling is one of the ways that we can better rise above the times when we are struggling and discouraged. Let your hard times be a trigger for you to look around to encourage someone else.

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