2020-01-09
Proverbs 29:18 NLT
Karen Williams continues: “To function successfully as a team, each person needs to be trained in understanding how the others function. That’s the only way they’ll be able to communicate, as they all speak completely different languages. The visionary has to become the cheerleader, holding the vision out before the people over the entire lifetime of the implementation stage so they can remember why they’re doing what they do. They have to understand that the process person and the task person have different measures for their own success, and they must acknowledge progress and milestones with praise and celebration. The process person has to be able to encourage the visionary that through the processes their vision will be accomplished. And they also have to encourage the task person that each and every task is imperative to the success of the completed vision, and that performing tasks according to the defined processes is critical for success. Likewise, the process person and the task person must realize that the visionary needs encouragement via responses that demonstrate their support for their vision. The visionary can’t lead without this understanding. The process person can’t serve or lead without this understanding. The task person can’t serve without this understanding. There are different ‘measurables’ for each person, allowing them to consider themselves a success in his or her particular role. And of course, the key is placing the right gift in the right role, communicating its value to the entire team, and constantly supporting it privately and publicly.” This is why Paul wrote to his team: “Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God” (Philippians 1:3 NLT).
Soul food: Exo 4-6; Matt 5:27-37; Ps 42:6-11; Prov 1:28-31
2020-01-08
Romeine 12:6 NLV
In die bediening, soos in elke ander veld, is dit nodig dat ons die individuele proses wat met elke persoon se gawe gepaard gaan, verstaan. Karen Williams, die president van Strategic Media Solutions, skryf: “‘n Bediening bestaan uit verskeie begaafde individue, wat deur ‘n gedeelde visie wat God in die leier laat ontstaan het, gelei word. Hierdie individue kan gewoonlik in drie kategorieë gegroepeer word: 1) visioenêr; 2) proses-georiënteerd; en 3) taak-georiënteerd. Daar is ‘n emosionele reaksie vir elke persoon in hulle area van begaafdheid, soos dit betrekking het op die geboorte en suksesvolle voltooiing van ‘n visie. ‘n Visioenêr beleef ‘n emosionele hoogtepunt wanneer die visie aan hulle duidelik word. Wanneer hulle dit aan diegene wat dit gaan uitvoer voorlê, beleef diegene in die gehoor weer ‘n hoogtepunt wanneer hulle hierdie duidelike, wêreldveranderende visie aanhoor. Wanneer die visie ten volle duidelik is, is dit 100% voltooid vir ‘n visioenêr. Dis hoekom hulle kan aangaan om nuwe visies te skep en te ontvang, lank voordat die eerste een voltooi is. Vir die proses-georiënteerde lede, moet die visie eers in prosesse omskep word. Hulle emosionele hoogtepunt vind plaas wanneer die prosesse duidelik gedefinieer en gedokumenteer is en wanneer hulle voel dat die prosesse die voltooiing van die visie suksesvol kan ondersteun. Hulle hoogtepunt vind dus plaas lank nadat die visie aan hulle voorgelê is. Die taak-georiënteerde lede beleef ook eers hulle emosionele hoogtepunt lank nadat die visie voorgelê is. Hulle ervaar dit wanneer hulle take voltooi en wanneer hulle dinge op hulle lysie kan begin afmerk. Dit gebeur eers aan die einde van die voltooide take wat in die prosesse uitgeklaar is.”
Sielskos: Eks 1-3; Matt 5:13-26; Ps 42:1-5; Spr 1:20-27
Romans 12:6 NLT
In ministry, like any other field, we need to understand the individual process that comes with each person’s gifting. Karen Williams, president of Strategic Media Solutions, writes: “A ministry is composed of several gifted individuals…led by a common vision God has birthed in its leader. These individuals can typically be grouped into three categories: (1) visionary; (2) process-oriented; (3) task-oriented. There’s an emotional response for each person in their area of giftedness as it relates to the birth and successful completion of a vision. A visionary gets an ’emotional high’ when the vision becomes clear to them. When they present it to those who’ll be charged with ‘making it happen,’ they think those in attendance will be as ‘high’ as they are upon hearing this perfectly clear, world-changing vision. For a visionary, when the vision is fully clear, it’s effectively 100% complete. That’s why they can go on to create and receive other visions long before the first one is truly manifested. But for the process-oriented person, the vision that has been presented is ‘on hold’ until it can be translated it into processes. The emotional ‘high’ for them comes when the processes are clearly defined and documented and they feel they’ll successfully support the completion of the vision. So their ‘high’ doesn’t come until well after the vision has been presented. For the task-oriented person, the vision that’s been presented is also ‘on hold’ as they haven’t yet been given anything to do. Their emotional ‘high’ comes with the completion of tasks, things they can mark off their to-do list. Thus their ‘high’ doesn’t occur until the end of the completed tasks mapped out within the processes.”
Soul food: Exo 1-3; Matt 5:13-26; Ps 42:1-5; Prov 1:20-27
2020-01-07
Isaiah 60:4 NLT
One of the lessons Jesus taught in the parable of the Prodigal Son is this: Don’t give up on someone no matter how bad things may be in their lives. We give up too soon because: (1) We see only their conduct. But we don’t know the experiences they’ve gone through that may have made them what they are. Sometimes people “act out” of the pain of unhealed wounds and unresolved issues they carry inside them. Sometimes their anger is masking deep fear. Other times, they act like the dysfunctional parents who raised them, because those are the tools they were given to work with. And until someone shows them a new and better way to handle life, they’ll remain stuck. (2) We don’t know what people are struggling with. Don’t let their façade of success fool you. Someone can live in a nice home, and drive a nice car to a nice job, yet their marriage is falling apart, their children are in rebellion, and their mind is going crazy. They need your compassion. Instead of writing them off as a lost cause, ask God for words of wisdom. Isaiah said, “The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed” (Isaiah 50:4 NIV). If you’ll keep praying for them and trying to help them, God will make you a paramedic of His mercy and grace. So the word for you today is: Don’t give up on them – because God hasn’t!
Soul food: 1 Cor 15-16; Matt 5:1-12; Ps 10:12-18; Prov 1:17-19
Jesaja 60:4 NLV
Een van die lesse wat Jesus ons in die gelykenis van die Verlore Seun geleer het, is die volgende: Moenie iemand afskryf nie, maak nie saak hoe sleg dinge in hulle lewens mag wees nie. Ons gooi te gou tou op, omdat: 1) Ons hulle optrede sien. Ons weet egter nie deur watter ervarings hulle gegaan het, wat hulle gemaak het wie hulle is nie. Partykeer tree mense as gevolg van die pyn van wonde en onopgeloste kwessies wat hulle binne-in hulself saamdra, verkeerd op. Soms is hulle woede ‘n masker vir ‘n diepe vrees. Ander kere, tree hulle soos die disfunksionele ouers wat hulle grootgemaak het op, omdat dit die voorbeeld is wat hulle gegee is om mee te werk. Totdat iemand egter nie vir hulle ‘n nuwe en beter manier wys om die lewe te hanteer nie, sal hulle daarin vasgevang bly. 2) Ons weet nie waarmee hulle worstel nie. Moenie laat hulle fasade van sukses jou ‘n rat voor die oë draai nie. Iemand kan in ‘n mooi huis bly, ‘n duur kar na ‘n goeie werk toe bestuur en tog val hulle huwelik uitmekaar, hulle kinders rebelleer en hulle gedagtes maal rond. Hulle het jou deernis nodig. In plaas daarvan om hulle as ‘n verlore saak af te skryf, vra God vir woorde van wysheid. Jesaja het gesê: ‘Die oppermagtige Heer het my geleer sodat ek dié wat moeg is moed kan inpraat. Elke môre maak Hy my wakker en leer my luister soos dit ‘n leerling betaam’ (Jesaja 50:4 NLV). As jy voortdurend vir hulle bid en hulle probeer help, sal God jou ‘n paramedikus van sy genade maak. Die woord vir jou vandag is dus: Moenie hulle afskryf nie – want God het nie!
Sielskos: 1 Kor 15-16; Matt 5:1-12; Ps 10:12-18; Spr 1:17-19
