The Standard of Excellence

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Excellence is simply to do the best you can with what you’ve got and removing as many distractions as possible.

Critique is part of excellence. Be a coach not a critic.

How to achieve excellence? The 7 P’s

#1 – Prayed up

Your heart has to be ready to receive the people that God’s sending you

#2 – Punctual

If you’re not there before the people, you miss opportunities to take care of the people.

#3 – Prepared

If you’re not prepared to do your best, God won’t give you more to serve and care for. We are to do our best & then God will do the rest.

#4 – Persistent

If you’re not persistent your people won’t be. People do what people see, if you’re not coming on a regular, persistent basis; neither will those God’s sending you.

#5 – Pleasant

Smile – Good attitude (Ro.14:17-18 – An attitude of joy!)

#6 – Push Through

The right fear is not absence of fear, it’s knowing when and how to push through that fear.

#7 Passion

An intense urgency to accomplish your God-given. People follow people not programs—people follow people with passion.

What’s the result when you have all of these things? The power of Christ. Acts 1:8 (NKJV) “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

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