The Power Of Quality Relationships
January 12, 2012
Bishop Gerald Doggett
Everything big starts with something little. You will never accomplish anything significant without friends, and a team. A key to the success of every leader is the ability to build, and maintain healthy relationships. Quality relationships release a life force that can enable dreams to come true and impossible situations to turn around. If you are a leader, don’t give up on finding those quality relationships that will make possible for your every dream to come true.
Much of your accomplishment in leadership will be determined by your ability to establish meaningful relationships. Your leadership is more than loving God; it is loving people. Your primary goal in leadership is to connect people to God. It’s good to remember that relationships you establish don’t just add to you; those relationships will also multiply what you are as a leader.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a leader is to withdraw and isolate, to separate from relationships with others. Satan’s strategy is to isolate you and make you feel alone. In fact, your enemy fears good relationships. It takes constant effort to maintain relationships in a vibrant manner. You will have to fight, labor, and toil to keep your friendships alive and vibrant. Satan fears good relationships.
Throughout this journey of life there are a couple of needs that reoccur from time to time. Simply put, you have a need to minister to others through your gift of leadership. However there is also a need to receive ministry from others. This reciprocal action will help maintain healthy relationships as well as keep leaders on the cutting edge of the mind of Christ.
The life God provides includes the building, and maintaining of relationships. However, all these relationships might not be in the ministry, or in the sphere of your leadership influence. In fact it’s healthy to have quality relationships in some other areas of life. Other relationships might include your family doctor, or a good financial consultant, a lawyer, and even a great travel agent would provide helpful, fulfilling relationships.
Leaders are dreamers, and dreamers need to interact with others to share energy, and plans. God is a planner. He planned a marriage supper 6000 years before it happens. God planned the ark that Noah built; the tabernacle was the plan of God, the temple and the body of Christ were all plans God shared with humanity. Your dreams can come true. Continue the pursuit of quality relationships for they have inherent power to achieve victories at the highest levels. It’s the power of quality relationships!
January 12, 2012
Bishop Gerald Doggett
Everything big starts with something little. You will never accomplish anything significant without friends, and a team. A key to the success of every leader is the ability to build, and maintain healthy relationships. Quality relationships release a life force that can enable dreams to come true and impossible situations to turn around. If you are a leader, don’t give up on finding those quality relationships that will make possible for your every dream to come true.
Much of your accomplishment in leadership will be determined by your ability to establish meaningful relationships. Your leadership is more than loving God; it is loving people. Your primary goal in leadership is to connect people to God. It’s good to remember that relationships you establish don’t just add to you; those relationships will also multiply what you are as a leader.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a leader is to withdraw and isolate, to separate from relationships with others. Satan’s strategy is to isolate you and make you feel alone. In fact, your enemy fears good relationships. It takes constant effort to maintain relationships in a vibrant manner. You will have to fight, labor, and toil to keep your friendships alive and vibrant. Satan fears good relationships.
Throughout this journey of life there are a couple of needs that reoccur from time to time. Simply put, you have a need to minister to others through your gift of leadership. However there is also a need to receive ministry from others. This reciprocal action will help maintain healthy relationships as well as keep leaders on the cutting edge of the mind of Christ.
The life God provides includes the building, and maintaining of relationships. However, all these relationships might not be in the ministry, or in the sphere of your leadership influence. In fact it’s healthy to have quality relationships in some other areas of life. Other relationships might include your family doctor, or a good financial consultant, a lawyer, and even a great travel agent would provide helpful, fulfilling relationships.
Leaders are dreamers, and dreamers need to interact with others to share energy, and plans. God is a planner. He planned a marriage supper 6000 years before it happens. God planned the ark that Noah built; the tabernacle was the plan of God, the temple and the body of Christ were all plans God shared with humanity. Your dreams can come true. Continue the pursuit of quality relationships for they have inherent power to achieve victories at the highest levels. It’s the power of quality relationships!
Keep Standing
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September 30, 2011
Bishop Gerald Doggett
Do you find yourself waiting for an answer to prayer? Have you prayed a long time without a response? Some days do the heavens seem like brass and God’s silence is deafening? Never give up; and refuse to back away without a reply! Be relentless, tenacious, and stubborn. Stand on the integrity of God’s Word. The promise of God remains the foundation for expectation. Your knees may be shaking as you stand on the Rock of God’s Word, but the Rock you are standing on will never be shaken. Double for your trouble is on the way. Breakthrough can happen at any moment. Dramatic changes are shifting in the spiritual atmosphere. Be aware of positive movement in your favor. You can KEEP STANDING!
Joseph in prison had to wait for God to free him and then reconcile him to his brothers. Israel had to wait for deliverance from Egypt, and Moses had to wait through ten difficult plagues before Pharaoh would let the people go. Joshua and Caleb had to wait forty years before claiming their inheritance, and the delay was not their fault. David had to wait to receive his throne. Mary and Martha had to wait for Jesus to come to Bethany and while they waited, their brother died! Each of these people received an abundant harvest even though they had to wait a long time for God to answer. There were plenty of opportunities to give up. The waiting, the mockery from friends, the whispering of the adversary, and feelings of loneliness were enemies that had to be defeated. Every person conquered an opponent and ultimately stood with an abundant harvest. All who received the manifested promise knew what it meant to KEEP STANDING!
God is not bound by time and space therefore, His timing is perfect and His schedule is always better than ours. When God waits, He may have a better gift for you than the one for which you’ve been asking. His delays are neither denials nor defeats, so put your times in His hands and wait on the Lord. Affirm your commitment to challenge the enemy every step of the way to your abundant harvest. Draw on inner resources provided by your relationship with God and lean all your weight on the covenant of promise sealed by the blood of Jesus. No enemy can hold back this harvest. Remain focused, be encouraged, and enjoy heavenly blessings as, together we KEEP STANDING!
Bishop Gerald Doggett
Do you find yourself waiting for an answer to prayer? Have you prayed a long time without a response? Some days do the heavens seem like brass and God’s silence is deafening? Never give up; and refuse to back away without a reply! Be relentless, tenacious, and stubborn. Stand on the integrity of God’s Word. The promise of God remains the foundation for expectation. Your knees may be shaking as you stand on the Rock of God’s Word, but the Rock you are standing on will never be shaken. Double for your trouble is on the way. Breakthrough can happen at any moment. Dramatic changes are shifting in the spiritual atmosphere. Be aware of positive movement in your favor. You can KEEP STANDING!
Joseph in prison had to wait for God to free him and then reconcile him to his brothers. Israel had to wait for deliverance from Egypt, and Moses had to wait through ten difficult plagues before Pharaoh would let the people go. Joshua and Caleb had to wait forty years before claiming their inheritance, and the delay was not their fault. David had to wait to receive his throne. Mary and Martha had to wait for Jesus to come to Bethany and while they waited, their brother died! Each of these people received an abundant harvest even though they had to wait a long time for God to answer. There were plenty of opportunities to give up. The waiting, the mockery from friends, the whispering of the adversary, and feelings of loneliness were enemies that had to be defeated. Every person conquered an opponent and ultimately stood with an abundant harvest. All who received the manifested promise knew what it meant to KEEP STANDING!
God is not bound by time and space therefore, His timing is perfect and His schedule is always better than ours. When God waits, He may have a better gift for you than the one for which you’ve been asking. His delays are neither denials nor defeats, so put your times in His hands and wait on the Lord. Affirm your commitment to challenge the enemy every step of the way to your abundant harvest. Draw on inner resources provided by your relationship with God and lean all your weight on the covenant of promise sealed by the blood of Jesus. No enemy can hold back this harvest. Remain focused, be encouraged, and enjoy heavenly blessings as, together we KEEP STANDING!
Attitude Determines Outcome
Bishop Gerald Doggett
There are days when life seems like one, eternal transition. Problems surface when the unfamiliar is encountered. Since we’ve not passed this way before, there is a tendency to withdraw. A decision is made which says, “Because it’s not familiar, it must not be the will of God.” Discomfort is not always a sign you are out of the will of God, or that you are walking away from the dream God placed in your heart. In fact, if you are uncomfortable right now, it could be the signal you are on the threshold of a great breakthrough. Be encouraged in your journey, truth is, ATTITUDE DETERMINES OUTCOME!
When you evaluate great men and women of the Bible, they always seemed to be most uncomfortable immediately before God used them for His greatest purpose. Many of these great men and women that have been the subject of inspiring sermons and books lived life outside a “comfort zone” most of their journey. I know the Bible doesn’t say, “They were uncomfortable.” However, if you evaluate their attitude, you will conclude they were mostly uncomfortable. It’s imprecise to conclude we must distance from discomfort lest we offend God, or anger Him by being out of His will and plan for our life. Don’t be afraid of a little discomfort, it could be the resistance that propels you the next level of your dream. Remember, ATTITUDE DETERMINES OUTCOME!
Pressure, and your resistance to that pressure serves as elasticity in life. When the tension seems greatest, and you believe the breaking point is any moment, is when God can manifest His power of rescue. Like the “rubber band,” you move beyond the original point where the pressure began, and are thrust to a dimension beyond your wildest expectations. Remember, God is outside the constraints of time and is not subject to the law of limitation. The tension presently experienced can become the catalyst for tomorrow’s miracle. Take into account, “ATTITUDE DETERMINES OUTCOME!”
Life is an exciting journey; don’t miss a moment by living in an emotional cave. Come out and enjoy the journey. Transition is not a bad word. Transition is a word that continues to introduce seasonal changes that release personal growth and life’s most exciting challenges. Your attitude can be your best friend, or your worst enemy. It was David’s attitude toward Goliath that changed the future of a nation. David’s attitude was different that his brothers and King Saul. It was the attitude toward Goliath that produced the necessary response to pressure against the nation. Once again, be reminded, “ATTITUDE DETERMINES OUTCOME!”
Encouragement: When Your Vision Is Under Attack
As
a Christian, you probably began this journey with a mental photo of
something God placed in your heart. It was called, “your vision,” or
maybe, “your heart’s desire.” As time and circumstances evolved that
picture became cloudy, more difficult to define, or perhaps disappeared
beneath the debris of life. I have good news.
While there is so much of life with which you must deal, God remains focused on you, and your vision. He remains committed to the plan He gave in the beginning. Nothing you’ve gone through has taken Him by surprise. You will never be too old, nor will you be too late, to accomplish your vision. Although your enemy wants to paralyze your progress, blur your vision, and steal your future; you have strength in reserve and weapons of war that are not carnal! It’s time to take a deep breath, exhale and gather yourself for an aggressive move forward toward your dreams. The first step is to “get up on the inside.” Make that first forward move a shift in thinking. Think like a conqueror. No more pessimism, doubt, or fear. Today, choose to make the shift in your mind (soul). Remember, what happens in your mind will happen in time. You are in a process that’s repositioning you to maximize every gift God placed within your life. Take a look around because in every crisis, God gives a key to exit that crisis. Energize your thinking to be keenly aware of all resources available. Something previously overlooked could a key to your breakout. Encouragement and energy are often synonymous words in the journey of faith and obedience. Our energy often stops at the point of our focus. When energy wanes, encouragement also wanes. God’s word says your vision has an appointed time for manifestation. When a baby is born, the greatest discomfort and pain is just before the delivery. When the baby enters the birth canal, the nurse/doctor might say about the mother, “she’s in transition.” Although you are in the midst of a painful season, please know this may also be the pain just before the promise! Your destiny is manifesting at another dimension. Be encouraged today as you remember the Word of God, which says, “Weeping may endure for a night, but JOY cometh in the morning.” Your day of deliverance is at hand. Refuse to miss this moment. It’s that for which you have prayed. Embrace your harvest. It’s abundant, and much closer than you think! Encouragement for Pastors
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