Live Intentionally

Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church and chairman of the board for the Willow Creek Association. He convened The Leadership Summit in 1995 following a God-given prompting to help develop the spiritual gift of leadership in the local church. A highly sought-after conference speaker on issues related to Christian leaders, Hybels is the best-selling author of more than 20 books including Courageous Leadership and the upcoming release, Axiom: The Language of Leadership.

• Mother Theresa
• How did she have such an impact?
• 2 Chronicles 16:9
• Made a series of vowes…
  • To give anything God asked for.
  • Throw herself fully into anything He called her.
  • To do God’s bidding without delay.
  • Be faithful in the little practices.
  • Many others.
• Are you the kind of person who’s lighting up God’s radar screen by being fully devoted, fully obedient?
• If you were God for a day, would you pick you?
• After 12 years of teaching in Albania, God called her to live and serve in the slums of Calcutta
• Mother Theresa wantsed to move ahead but can’t because of obstacles in her ways that were beyond her control.
• It’s during this phase when it looks like the dream will die, when God does some of his most purifying work.  Was this really from God?  How long am I willing to wait on God?  Do I really believe God can part circumstantial waters?  Would I lay down my life?
• Don’t push through, don’t bail, persevere.
• MT began a letter-writing campaign to the arch bishop to wear him down until he said yes.  Culminated in the “Let me go” letter.  Acts 20:24.  A year and a half after Inspiration Day, she got the approval to go.
• Outlast the opposition.
• Callings are precious, holy things.
• MT made herself into a relentless leader.
• She had spiritual dry-spells.  She wanted more of God.
• Blamed herself that she didn’t feel closer to God, but continued to get up and fulfill her calling.
• “Even though I don’t feel His presence, I will seek to love Him as He has never been loved.”
• Lord, give me that kind of relentlessness.
• Here I am, send me.

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