SECURITY To START SMALL Last Sunday we learned to have the courage to think big ie to dream Gods dream for our lives The Security To Start Small Our God specializes on doing the impossible Yet we hesitate to ask Him for great things and settle on requesting for the mundane ID: 267234
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The
SECURITY
To START
SMALLSlide2
Last Sunday we learned to have the courage to think big; i.e., to dream God’s dream for our lives.
The Security To Start Small
Our God specializes on doing the impossible. Yet we hesitate to ask Him for great things and settle on requesting for the mundane. Slide3
Now while we should think big in God, we must be willing to start small.
The Security To Start Small
This guiding principle of leadership calls us to have an inner security to start small. It takes a quiet disposition and humility to begin on a small scale. Slide4
Some great companies or organizations have an inconspicuous genesis.
The Security To Start Small
Mariano
Que
perhaps is one of the good models to building a huge business empire by starting small.Slide5
He founded the Mercury Drug Corporation by first selling pills from a pushcart in the 1940s.
The Security To Start Small
Mariano
Que
started his career working in a Manila drugstore in
prewar
Philippines. After the war, he used his drugstore experience to launch his own business.Slide6
Mercury Drug Corporation is the Philippines' dominant pharmacy group today. It operates a national chain of more than 450 drugstores. MDC is estimated to sell as much as 60% of all medicines sold each year in the Philippines (the country's hospitals sell about 12 %).
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Continuing on the memoirs of Nehemiah and how he led Israel to rebuild its walls and its city, we find key principles in realizing God’s dream for our lives by having the security to start small.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem
DISCREETLY
. (2:11-16)
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“I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days I set out during the night with a few men. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem.”
(Nehemiah 2:11-12a)
Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem discreetly. (2:11-16)
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem discreetly. (2:11-16)
He was not impulsive or hasty.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem discreetly. (2:11-16)
He began acting on his vision three days after arriving in Jerusalem.
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“So we arrived in Jerusalem, where we rested three days.”
(Ezra 8:32).Slide12
“By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem...”
(Nehemiah 2:13)Slide13Slide14
Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem discreetly. (2:11-16)
He implemented his plans cautiously, carefully, and calculatingly.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem
PERSUASIVELY
. (2:17-20)
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem persuasively. (2:17-20)
He identified the problem.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem persuasively. (2:17-20)
Challenges Nehemiah faced
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Most of the wall of Jerusalem were in ruins.
The Jewish people were discouraged.
The neighboring enemies were constantly threatening.Slide18
Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem persuasively. (2:17-20)
He identified himself as one of them.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem persuasively. (2:17-20)
“You see the trouble
we
are in...Come, let
us
rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and
we
will no longer be in disgrace.”
(2:17)
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem persuasively. (2:17-20)
He identified the source of his victories.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem persuasively. (2:17-20)
“I also told them about the
gracious hand of my God
upon me and what the king had said to me...The
God of heaven
will give us success.”
(2:18, 20a)
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem
SKILLFULLY
. (3:1-32)
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem skillfully. (3:1-32)
He delegated manageable sections of the wall to the people.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem skillfully. (3:1-32)
He ensured good supervision, close co-operation, and proper coordination.
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Nehemiah started rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem skillfully. (3:1-32)
He organized and managed the project complete with records of workers and their assignments.
The Security To Start Small