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Act before the first surge. Make a clear faith transaction with God for enduement and continue ordinary duties with minute obedience; then pray offensively against hindering spirits, for the cleansing and deliverance of the deceived, for the purity of the coming work, and for the preparation of trained guardians of revival. As evidences arise, keep your mind reasoning, aim your spirit outward in witness and unity, and test manifestations by durable fruit: liberty of utterance without loss of self-control, clarified understanding, corporate harmony across differing knowledge levels, and effective conviction in hearers. If signs lag, ask God to remove obstacles He reveals—especially inward-turning, curiosity about wonders, pride, or desire for special marks—and refuse any experience that dulls agency or breeds harshness or separation. This counterintuitive posture resists passivity, keeps the outflow clear, and converts the adversary’s earliest push into lasting gains by locking counterfeit doors before they open.
I want to assure you that there is only one reason that we are here at this off-site, and at the company: to achieve results.
Influence fails when you treat the counterpart as a lone decision-maker; there is always a team shaping and constraining what they can do. In the Dos Palmas case, a change in kidnappers’ negotiators signaled a harder line, and an unaccounted-for actor (Sabaya) and side deals torpedoed the ransom drop. To avoid ‘hope-based’ deals, use calibrated questions that surface hidden veto players and internal constraints—e.g., ‘What internal approvals could block this?’ or ‘How would this move affect the people backing you?’—so you design agreements that can actually be executed. The trade-off is tempo: mapping the backstage takes time, but it prevents last-minute sabotage and costly failure.
One of the deepest needs of the human soul is to be understood. Once that need is met, the personal focus can shift to interdependent problem solving.
If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe–no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside ourselves as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way.
If you can't explain it to a six years old, you don't understand it yourself.
Our study clearly supported the conclusions of John Bowlby. When children feel pervasively angry or guilty or are chronically frightened about being abandoned, they have come by such feelings honestly; that is because of experience.
Rosaria Butterfield argues that Christians must actively confront cultural lies that permeate society, rather than passively accepting them. She likens these lies to air pollution, subtly affecting our consciousness until it’s too late. Butterfield emphasizes the need for Christians to reclaim gospel-centered truth and address falsehoods in public discourse and within churches. She states, 'unconfronted lies work a little like air pollution: we breathe it in, and we never realize that we are ingesting it until it's too late.'
It is our weakness, not our competence, that moves others; our suffering, not our blessings, that breaks down the barriers of fear and shame that keep us apart.
By demonstrating power and the willingness to use it, by accomplishing things, and by establishing structures that institutionalize power, the use of power becomes self-reinforcing.
Define your boundary in terms of your feelings and needs. For example, 'I need you to turn down the music as it's too loud for me,' rather than criticizing the child's behavior.
One of the most valuable things any of us can do is find a way to say the things that can’t be said.
In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.
Describes NASA's efforts at cultural transformation post-Columbia disaster, emphasizing the implementation of structures to lower the barrier to speaking up. This case of systemic change challenges the notion that entrenched organizational culture cannot be altered.
Every time you please yourself, you deny Jesus.
The problem is that what we think matters most in our jobs often does not align with what will really make us happy.
Detach from the 'Second Arrow'.
We shall advance with abandon
Believing that your qualities are carved in stone... creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.
The end of modernity, a resurgence of interest in spirituality, and a greater vulnerability about our disillusionment and disappointment with life have made us seriously wonder if there is another room.
