Sunday, September 25, 2016

How Do You Turn The Ordinary Into Extraordinary By Ike Reighard

This evening I had the wonderful opportunity of attending a session conducted by the incomparble senior pastor of Piedmont Church Ike Reighard.  As part of an event put on by INJOY Stewardship Solutions called Capital Campaign University, Ike gave an incredible message on turning ordinary things in your life into extraordinary things.
As a special gift to everyone reading these posts, INJOY Stewardship Solutions offering a complimentary downloadable Ebook entitled “The Absolute Best Quotes From The 2016 ReThink Conference.”  Click Here to Download this Free Resource!
Enjoy these 57 Leadership Quotes On Turning The Ordinary Into Extraordinary By Ike Reighard:  
  1. There’s something about being around visionaries.
  2. You know it’s a bad day when you read your obituary in the newspaper.
  3. You’re trying to take money and turn it into a legacy.
  4. The first job of a leader is to define reality.
  5. You define reality and then you inspire hope.
  6. “If you really want to measure the true success of a man or woman, you don’t measure it by their position. You measure it by the obstacles they had to overcome.” – Booker T. Washington
  7. I’m here to inspire you. I’m here to breath life into your dream.
  8. Stewardship is embracing responsibility by managing what isn’t really yours to then bless others.
  9. Have any of you ever been in a church that smelled like death?
  10. It’s hard to get good room dynamics in a room that sits 1,600 people with 200 in attendance.
  11. 4,500 churches a year close their doors.
  12. Scripture never wastes any motion.
  13. Do you want Jesus in your boat tonight?
  14. It’s one thing for Jesus to speak to the crowd but it’s another thing for Jesus to speak to you.
  15. A lot of things you have learned in the past are keeping you down today.
  16. The biggest critics of innovation today were the innovators yesterday.
  17. You don’t want to be the expert on what used to work.
  18. You want a fresh encounter.
  19. There is a huge difference between a spectator and a participator.
  20. Most folks don’t want to go to the deep water.
  21. When Jesus becomes your partner it changes everything.
  22. The only thing that limited the size of their catch was the size of their nets.
  23. When you get ready to spend the money the critics come out.
  24. There is nothing more good than reaching people for Christ.
  25. A rising tide lifts all the ships.
  26. Every time a church is doing well it lifts all the churches in the area.
  27. “If I would have given people what they wanted I would have given them a faster horse.” – Henry Ford
  28. It says exactly 365 times in Scripture, “Fear not.”
  29. If you want to be able to steward and lead properly you must continually be in the presence of God.
  30. You will never rise above in public more than what you are in private with God.
  31. Charisma gets you into the room. Character keeps you in the room. Competency gets you in the next room. Life is a series of moving from room to room.
  32. Never let the somewhere be greater than the Someone.
  33. It’s still the Word of God that changes people’s lives.
  34. If we’re going to go from the ordinary to extraordinary you need a fresh word from God.
  35. If you want to lead and take the responsibility that God has given to you, we are not the owners we are the managers.
  36. The people of your church are expecting you to get a word from God.
  37. People do not follow the sound of an uncertain trumpet.
  38. Nobody’s going follow what you think God says.
  39. You don’t have to understand what God says, just be faithful.
  40. I became a Christian at 22 years old.
  41. There’s going to be times that God just says this is what you need to do.
  42. Whenever God asks you to do something no matter how simple, just do it.
  43. When one church is dying and one church is flourishing on the same street, God has gotten in the boat of that church.
  44. Our defining moment in life is when we wrestle between “Am I going to be obedient” or “Am I going to be disobedient?”
  45. The greatest doors of opportunity swing on little hinges called obedience.
  46. If you want to change ordinary to extraordinary never let yesterday’s failures rob you from tomorrow’s victories.
  47. When God shows up you need to sit down and shut up.
  48. On the greatest day of fishing in the life of Simon Peter, he got down on his knees.
  49. Jesus showed up at his workplace.
  50. Don’t ever take credit for only what God can do.
  51. Don’t take pride for something you know is something far beyond your ability.
  52. Whenever God does a miracle in your life, make sure you take other people in your life to be a part of it.
  53. You cannot ever take hold of what God has for you until you let go off what you want to hold onto.
  54. Following Jesus requires us to go deeper and wider than we’ve ever gone before.
  55. Don’t let go of your dreams.
  56. The day your memories are greater than your dreams, you’re dead in the water.
  57. “Your level of trust will determine your speed of change.” – Stephen Covey, Jr.
More info to come tomorrow.
1269
Click HERE or on the image to the left and as a free gift for subscribing to this site, you can receive my new Ebook 1269 Leadership Quotes: Timeless Truths From 2016’s Top Christian Leadership Conferences.  Featured are the Johnny Hunt Mens Conference, ReThink Leadership, Orange and Leadercast Conferences among others.  If applied, these insights will make you an exponentially better leader.  Enjoy!!!

No comments: