Early flying and Brian Houston
April 16th, 2008 by Pastor Eric
I missed Brian Houston last night as I had to fly back to Destin from the ARC conference in Birmingham to speak at McGuires. Which by the way, there were 107 people there.
Now, I am back at Church of the Highlands and Brian is speaking. Here are some of the highlights of his talk:
- God asks Moses, “What’s in your hand?” Answer: “A shepherd stick”. God took it and turned it into the rod of God. God will take what you have and use it for powerful ministry.
- We can underestimate of what is our hand.
- To the widow it was, “What’s in your house?” Her response was nothing. We are quick in ministry to say we don’t have when what we need when all the time we have exactly what we need right in our house.
- Believe for God to open your eyes to show you what you have in your house. Often, leaders are blinded by what they think they don’t have. Blinded to see what God wants to do.
- So often the oil is in our own house. What do you have in your house?
- Great churches are not built on the gifts and talents of few but are built on the sacrifices of many.
- Sometimes we can’t see the elephant if we are too big in the frame. (On safari, he tried to snap a self -picture with an elephant behind him. But his head took up the whole frame) We have to get out of the frame if we want to see the talent in our house.
- What do you have in your head? What do you have in your house?
What is there; who is there in our church that we don’t see that God wants to use in a might way. Step and use what you have in your hand, in your house, in your sphere to make a difference in Destin.
Flying High at Church of the Highlands