living a life of significance

Pastor Simon Eng

Numbers 14:4, Joshua 14:14

1) You can be someone of significance
- John Maxwell estimated that an average person impacts at least 10000 people in his lifetime

2) Have a goal in mind
- What do I want to BE/ DO? --> write it down
- Now, go for a bigger goal than this!
Focus on others -> help them get to where they want to go

Definition of signifiance
i) Help someone, or solve his needs/ problems
ii) Able to add worth and value to others
iii) What you accomplish breakthrough in projects
iv) When you help others achieve a higher goal

3) Prepare NOW
a) Fulfill the basics faithfully
- Do well in what you are doing now. Focus on what you have
b) Take more than just enough
- Learn more than waht you are learning now. Inspiration is not enough
- Evaluate yourself. Stop and take stock of where you are,
- Expand yourself by involving other people and working with others
c) Resist the spirit of the present generation
- E.g. the convenient spirit or the complacent spirit

4) Price of pursuing significance
a) Great heart - spirit - love -mind
- heart: "i will not give up/ turn away from challenges"
- spirit: never blame others
- love: cultivate great patience
- mind: mental toughness to persevere
b) Great attitude - character - skills
- attitude: circumstances will appear different when our attitude changes
- character: helps you maintain success for the long run (trustworthiness, loyalty, helpfulness, friendliness, courtesy, kindness, obeience, cheerfulness, thriftiness, clean, reverent)
- skills: need training, self-learning, invest

5) Characteristics of a non-significant life
a) no progress: "just want to survive"
b) negative: "it cannot be done"
c) fault-finding: don't be the problem, be the solution
d) slothful/ lazy