pastor alvin the other night was encouraging everybody to go back to their vision boards
you know people have been encouraged to do vision boards and basically he said if your
vision board does not include souls coming into the kingdom then that's not god's vision for you
you know it's so important to understand the purpose
right of what every gift that god has given us whatever you do do it unto the lord
because when he's glorified then people come to know who he is i'll tell you i think one
of the easiest ways for me chris is when you talked about you know let's talk about the the
higher thinking of what's the difference between godly ambition and selfish ambition
for me that's a a pretty simple litmus test it's how do i respond when someone else gets the acl
accolades or recognition i thought i deserved and if my heart gets then my ambition was not
was more about me than it was about the elevation of the gospel was more about making jesus famous
i have the massive privilege of getting to speak at a lot of conferences with chris
well i mean goodness gracious that's like wearing a skirt after tina turner i mean she's just
phenomenally gifted when it comes to preaching and verbal communication and so i mean i can't tell
you how many times people have said to me it must be hard to follow chris kane and i'm like actually
it's not because if i just get on base she'll bat me around and i still get the world series
ring and the ten thousand dollar bonus because if my goal is that people will hear the gospel
goodness gracious i get to be an elbow in the body of christ and so i think the litmus test for us if
you want to go what is my ambition is it godly or is it selfish how do you feel when someone
else around you gets celebrated gets accolades especially if you think you had something to do
with their success but nobody knows your name that that'll clean your pipes out pretty quick
yeah that's pretty good and you know also it's something that you have to continue you know in
our flesh dwells no in my flesh i'll just talk for me today dwells no good thing right and and
i'll just speak too from the industry of the music industry and what we do that is something you have
to consistently check and consistently take to the cross this is not about you this is about jesus
this is about his name being magnified people having an encounter with him you know when i pray
before i go and do anything it's like holy spirit show up because if i just show up nothing's gonna
happen that's right nothing that's gonna you know and so it's so important that we understand that
like we said godly ambition is to honor him but also to understand that you have to continue
to crucify your flesh daily because our flesh always wars against the spirit yes it's not if or
if it will it will daily it's a war right you know but you have to continue to take your flesh
to the cross and you do that by submitting to him right always like like lisa said always okay what
did i feel the holy spirit will tell you you know what that feeling was wrong that's not me
and you have to be quick to repent and you know you don't you don't have to be down you don't
have to be depressed you don't have to listen to the enemy telling you you're not there for god no
no no you bind it and you keep going you know but you recognize it right that because if not flesh
will will set in and it's easy to go into selfish ambitions well because humility is not shame and i
think we get that one confused too humility is not thinking less of yourself it's thinking of
yourself less and i think a lot of us have been deluded into thinking if i say oh woe is me i'm
just dirt i'm lower than a worm's belly then i'm showing huge humility and i'm like no first of
all it's not about me that's just narcissism and a nicer outfit you know let's put the attention
back on who god is but to to be a steward of glory together glory belongs to the lord
doesn't mean i take the attention to tell you how horrible i am right it's that i use that
momentum to go let me tell you how great our god is and so i think women especially tend to get
humility confused with shame and we go oh i'm no good a woman did that to me recently i was at a
women's conference i mean god was just showing off you know people were getting saved people
were getting healed it was incredible and i turned to a woman next to me because she was part of the
leadership team that put this conference on and i said this is amazing and she went
oh no it's not about me it's all about jesus and i was like well i wasn't even thinking about you
until you brought you up i knew it was about jesus so i think you know we do have to even as we're
thinking what is our ambition or do you think less of yourself or do you just think of yourself less
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