Friday, November 8, 2024

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This week … ➡️ 20% make it to convergence ➡️ U.S. presidential election ➡️ Make before you manage (the BS) ➡️ Trumpian mustache

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🎧️ On the pod: Reframe your life: unlocking new horizons (ep 320)

KINGDOM DYNAMIC
20% make it to “convergence”

Only 20% of people make it to a convergence season in their lives.

Convergence is that season where everything up to that point is preface and preparation for what you’re entering into now.

It’s where the previous 5 or 6 sesons of you life converge into your most impactful and fruitful season. It’s high-leverage.

You thought that a previous season was it … the zenith, the summit of your life. And God used you in that season and blessed it.

But he’s always been looking at convergence for you. Growing you. Steering you toward that threshold.

Will you be in the 20% who make it? Or will it be aborted?

We should talk more about this here. What are the keys to entering that season? I’m learning.

I think we may do our best to bring some focus to this—the Smart Edit is for God’s people who aspire to be highly-functioning disciples of Christ.

Everyone is called to do things for the Lord. But there are some who have a heightened destiny to impact their sphere of influence for Christ’s kingdom.

Q4U: Have you heard of this season of “convergence”? Can you feel the potential of it? It could feel like expectancy, or even divine frustration.

"Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time (kairos time, opportune season), because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is" (Ephesians 5.15-17 ESV).

U.S. presidential election—overjoyed? distressed?

John Eldredge says, “The most important thing we can do in this volatile moment is to turn our gaze to God. He wants to be the focus of our attention so we will seek his interpretation rather than that of the news, our neighbors, or even our own opinion.”

Click image for 4:46 minute video. Whatever your view, you’ll find this helpful.

Hearing from you matters!

❓️ What goals or challenges do you want The Smart Edit to tackle? Your feedback matters! Confidential.

Make before you manage. I heard Tim Ferris (not a fan of everything Tim) say we must “make before we manage.” I agree. But let’s frame it in our Kingdom Worldview. God is a maker, a builder. We’re created in his image. Believe this … “I’m a maker, not just a janitor of BS (pardon please).” It’s difficult to overestimate the psychological advantage of making something. Small, medium, or bigly. Start this weekend.

Scary God people. Hang around some scary people😨— people that you think scare the darkness real good. Keeps you prayed up. Leveled up.

“This is a pivotal moment and we cannot miss it,” says Jonathan Cahn. “If we change the government, but do not change the people, then the people will end up changing the government back. If we change the laws but don’t change the hearts, then the unchanged hearts will change the laws back again. And the fall of America will continue.”

STELLAR QUOTE
I see everything and it’s all good

Growing in Jesus puts us at the 100,000 foot level. We can courageously see everything and frame it all into the Larger Story of Jesus and his kingdom.

The Word of the Week is … infrangible.
Unbreakable, inviolable. “Her values of honesty and compassion were infrangible, no matter how difficult her circumstances.” Latin, late 16th century. Source: WordDaily

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