You Will Not Even Recognize Yourself!

2011 is the year of total transformation!

You Will Not Even Recognize Yourself!

• Beloved, now are we the sons of God, it doth not yet appear what we shall be: (KJV)

• Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. (ISV)

• Beloved, now are we children of God, and what we shall be has not yet been manifested; (Darby)

• Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. (Weymouth)

To Be Different We Must Do Different

• Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Einstein

5 Changes You Must Make!

• A – Attitude• E – Expertise• I – Input • O – Opposition• U – Utterance

YOU’RE NOT A BIG FISH!YOU’RE NOT A BIG FISH!YOU’RE NOT EVEN A FISH!

• BIG FISH clip about goldfish

Attitude1. The lens you view every

element of life.2. The atmosphere you bring

into a room.3. The way you handle

problems in your life.4. The grace you extend to

those who hurt you.

Expertise1. Become an expert in the

Scripture• Pick a topic (faith, hope,

love, prosperity, health, joy), find 10 Scriptures on it and learn them.

• You will then be an expert in that topic.

Expertise2. Become an expert in your

field.• Whatever your job is, get

further education and training.

• Buy a book on it and read it, a chapter a day.

SHARPEN YOUR SAW!

Expertise3. Become an expert on

yourself• Know your favourite

song• Know what brings you

refreshing• Know what brings you

agitation• Know what you like• Know what you hate

Input1. Your mind is a receptacle

InputA. Don’t let others put

their rubbish in your mind.• Company• TV• Radio• Banter

Death and life are in the power of the tongue – Proverbs 18.21

InputB. Create a system to put

good ideas and thoughts in your mind• Scripture• Christian literature and

media• Community of Care

InputC. Sow out good information

in every venue you can.• Give and it shall be given

to you!• Hearing yourself

communicate truth is the best form of input.

G I G O !

• Clip showing GIGO?

Opposition

Who Made David a Hero?

Opposition

Who Made David a Hero?

GOLIATH!

Opposition1. Your enemy determines

your promotion.• If you fight small foes, you

will never achieve anything.

2. Your promotion brings new enemies.• When we started Tree of

Life Church, we had no enemies.

• The more successful we become the more enemies will emerge.

Opposition3. Opposition comes through

envy to your success or anger at your influence.• The War on Sickness will

produce anger in people who are defeated by sickness

• It will produce envy by those who cannot produce the healings we can produce.

Opposition4. Don’t let opposition from

within the family distract you from running your face.

5. Don’t let opposition impose your destiny on you. You impose your destiny on your opposition.

• Example of UTTERANCE!?!

Utterance1. You will have what you say.

So speak solution and victory.

2. Deliberately say the future you want for yourself this year.• What you do daily will

determine your destiny• “Speak the Future”

sheets

Utterance3. Refuse to speak any words

that do not paint the picture you want.

4. Take the time to choose your words carefully.• Successful hunting is

done by a sniper rifle not a machine gun.

• 1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Don’t Quote Half a Sentence!

Don’t Quote Half a Sentence!• 1Co 2:9 But as it is written,

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

• 1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Spirit Revelation• God wants you to know what

He has prepared for you in 2011.

• Don’t use past experiences as your landmark!

• Don’t use your self-valuation as your landmark!

• Don’t use other’s valuation as your landmark!

Spirit Revelation• God wants you to know what

He has prepared for you in 2011.

• Let Jesus’ words spoken to your spirit be your landmark!