THE MIND OF A MAVERICK
My Bishop sent this to me as a word of encouragement. I am sending it to you as well as adding my comments to it.
~Minister Tracy Curtis~
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THE MIND OF A MAVERICK
Have you ever wondered why you are unsettled in your spirit about a variety of people, places, things and/or ideologies?
You are probably a maverick and just don't realize your true identity! Webster defines a maverick as someone who is a pioneer or an individual who does not go along with the group. History records many men and women who pioneered new areas and colored outside the lines of tradition and conformity. Lee Iacocca was a maverick who came from the outside to reinvent Chrysler from the top down.
Mavericks meet opposition in their quest for the new and untried ways of doing things. When offering ideas or suggestions, you may have received some of the following responses.
* That's not the way we do things around here.
* Are you suggesting that what we are doing is wrong?
* We have always done it this way.
* That can't be done.
* When you have been here as long as we have, you will understand that what you are suggesting is impossible.
Why are you meeting such opposition? It is because you are a maverick! Don't allow the pressure of a calcified routine to kill the maverick spirit inside you. Don't allow the opposition to cause you to be limited to coloring inside someone else's lines.
The world is waiting for you to bring it out of a fading glory and into its finest hour. Be who you are! Be the maverick that the world is waiting for!
Matt 10:34-40
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Friends, don’t think it strange that people don’t understand what you are doing or the fact that wherever you go you seem to shake things up. Just continue to follow the Jesus and you will find that may even have to forsake the approval as well as support of those in your household.
Pattern your lives after and align your thinking to the lifestyle and thoughts of the original maverick:
~Minister Tracy Curtis~
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THE MIND OF A MAVERICK
Have you ever wondered why you are unsettled in your spirit about a variety of people, places, things and/or ideologies?
You are probably a maverick and just don't realize your true identity! Webster defines a maverick as someone who is a pioneer or an individual who does not go along with the group. History records many men and women who pioneered new areas and colored outside the lines of tradition and conformity. Lee Iacocca was a maverick who came from the outside to reinvent Chrysler from the top down.
Mavericks meet opposition in their quest for the new and untried ways of doing things. When offering ideas or suggestions, you may have received some of the following responses.
* That's not the way we do things around here.
* Are you suggesting that what we are doing is wrong?
* We have always done it this way.
* That can't be done.
* When you have been here as long as we have, you will understand that what you are suggesting is impossible.
Why are you meeting such opposition? It is because you are a maverick! Don't allow the pressure of a calcified routine to kill the maverick spirit inside you. Don't allow the opposition to cause you to be limited to coloring inside someone else's lines.
The world is waiting for you to bring it out of a fading glory and into its finest hour. Be who you are! Be the maverick that the world is waiting for!
Matt 10:34-40
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Friends, don’t think it strange that people don’t understand what you are doing or the fact that wherever you go you seem to shake things up. Just continue to follow the Jesus and you will find that may even have to forsake the approval as well as support of those in your household.
Pattern your lives after and align your thinking to the lifestyle and thoughts of the original maverick:
Comment
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Comment by Erica Joseph Shepherd on February 10, 2009 at 11:51am
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God, is revealing the ministries of the mavericks, I loved it
Jesus
Our example
Erica
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Comment by Lonnie Kluttz on January 20, 2009 at 3:12pm
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God be with you,
Through obedience comes the maverick you are talking about. We are in fact not of this world. We are the children of the most high God and when we obey Him, people will defy, alienate, and mistreat you. So everything you said is correct.
God bless
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