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August 24, 2026 · 5:49 AM

Shaping Your Future

Any time I’m talking with a leader, pastor or person who feels like they’re spinning their wheels, but going nowhere fast, I bring up Covey’s Four Quadrants. There’s urgent and important, not urgent and important, urgent and not important, and not urgent and not important. So many of us spend so much time in that first one that’s urgent and important. The problem is that we’re constantly on high alert, putting out fires and handling issues of the moment, but never getting to do anything about the future. Life can feel unfulfilling when we are constantly just handling today’s issues, yet they must be taken care of. There’s a feeling that God has more for us, but we can never get to it when we’re on the treadmill of urgent and important constantly.

In 1 Samuel 23 and 24, David had been anointed as king a while back, but found himself nowhere near the palace. Instead he was living in caves in the wilderness. He was running for his life from King Saul. Instead of leading a nation, he was leading 400 men who were outlaws, running from their own problems. Every day was living reactively to the problems that presented themselves. They were in survival mode just trying to hide from those who wanted to kill them. What David didn’t k ow was that God wasn’t wasting the years of hiding and hanging out with criminals. God was preparing him for the future and shaping his heart to trust God over his circumstances. His living in the urgent and important quadrant wasn’t blocking God’s purposes, but rather building him for those purposes.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end” (NLT). Life has trained us to live in the moment and to deal with today’s problems. It feels unfulfilling because God has built you with an eternal mindset. Yet God doesn’t waste today’s problems. He sees the bigger picture of your life that you can’t see while your battling today’s problems. It can feel like you’re going nowhere fast, but God is shaping you for the future. He’s at work in the important and not urgent quadrant that prepares you for the purposes He created you for. While the things that are urgent and important seem to dominate you today, God is at work shaping your future.

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February 9, 2021 · 5:57 AM

Fulfilling Your Destiny

I’m often asked to speak to groups to help people understand how they’re wired. Each of us have certain personality types that help us to fulfilled in our work and life. When we’re not operating or working in areas that are compatible with how we were wired by God, we feel out of place, stressed or unfulfilled. What I like to do is help people find their God given wiring so they can understand what’s going on inside of them. Once they understand that, they can find work that’s fulfilling and get plugged into serving in God’s Kingdom in a capacity that makes the greatest difference. Each of us were created by God on purpose and with a purpose. That means there’s a position in God’s Kingdom that only you can fill, and if you don’t do it, it won’t get done. You are called by God to be a Kingdom builder. Sitting on the sidelines thinking God’s calling is only for ministers is not an option.

Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations— that’s what I had in mind for you” (MSG). God was speaking to Jeremiah, but He was also demonstrating that He knows each one of us and has plans for us from before we were born. To reiterate it, Psalm 139:16 says, “Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.” God prepared you with a purpose to make a difference at each stage of your life. We can’t sit back and wait for the next stage. There’s something He has for you to do even now! You were created for such a time as this.

Finally, Ephesians 2:10 says, “Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!” (TPT). You have a destiny, a mission, a calling and a purpose that God created you for. You are not an accident. You have a divine purpose to make a difference in the lives you’ve been planted in. It’s not the responsibility of someone who is more spiritual, better equipped or more qualified. You can’t get more qualified than being designed by God from before you were born to fulfill your purpose. Your specific wiring and personality uniquely qualifies you to do the good works God created you for. Our world needs you to fulfill God’s plan for your life. You won’t feel fulfilled until you are moving in your purpose and doing what you were created for. Go make a difference today wherever God has you. There’s someone needing what only you can offer.

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