Leaders:
If you don’t do this already, I want to challenge you to start a simple habit.

Write everything down.

It’s the skeleton key to creativity, productivity, and ingenuity.

Record every creative impulse. Every possible vision initiative.  Every good idea.  Every bad idea.  Every “I need to check into that” situation.

Record it any way you can.  I keep most of my thoughts in a Moleskine.  But if I have to, I will jot blog ideas on napkins.  I’ve called my own voicemail to capture a song melody.  I keep notebooks all over my house…just in case inspiration strikes.  I roll over often while drifting to sleep and wake up just enough to scratch out an idea in my old school composition notebook on my nightstand.

Type it.  Blog it.  Twitter it.  Scribble it.  But whatever you do, capture it!

It doesn’t have to be pretty.  Just get it done.

Some of your best sermon ideas were never preached because they weren’t written down.  You thought you’d remember.  You didn’t.  It’s gone.

Millions of lucrative business ideas and helpful inventions never saw the light of day because somebody didn’t write them down.

Now, after you’ve written them down, organizing and implementing your ideas is a much more complicated process.  And the way you do that will depend on your personality and circumstances.

But recording your thoughts is to vision what a blueprint is to a building.

Why would God give you more vision and concept if you’re not being a careful steward of what He’s already given you?

We’re happy and sorry to announce that the THR3E event is completely sold out.  Even though the official deadline isn’t here yet, we’re full.  Registration is closed, and I’m excited to be with all 150 of you who bought a ticket.
God is filling me with concept and revelation, and I believe April 28th will be an incredible day of impartation.  We’ll never be the same.

See you in a month!

We talk a lot about discovering your purpose.
But most of the time in Scripture, people’s purpose discovered them.
When God places His hand on you to accomplish great things through you, part of you will feel like: “Hey, I didn’t ask for all this!”
If you’re the parent of a strong willed child, a decision maker in a struggling company, or a youth pastor with little budget and no support, no doubt you’ve felt the frustration:
“I didn’t ask for this!”

Mary didn’t ask for a full-term teenage pregnancy.
Noah didn’t ask for a 102,000 square foot, 43,000 ton building project upon which the preservation of the human race depended.
Moses didn’t ask for the responsibility of leading a fledgling nation of couple million ingrates through the wilderness.

God doesn’t ask your permission to fulfill His purpose through you.
You don’t get a vote, much less veto power.
You may as well give a gracious acceptance speech, and get on with it…

I used to love to go to my Grandmother’s house because she had a satellite dish.  She would record all of the WWF and NWA (pro wrasslin’) pay-per-view events for me.

Ok, so actually, she didn’t have her own satellite dish.  The neighbors had a satellite dish.  She illegally hacked their signal.  Which (other than being illegal) worked completely fine…

Until the dish changed position.  Every few minutes, the signal would become very scrambled, and you could barely see what was happening on the screen.

Sometimes our spiritual vision gets scrambled because we try to hack someone else’s vision.
If you want a clear vision, you’ve got to get your own satellite dish.

You’ve got to have your own personal experience with God to lead with clarity and insight.
You’ve got to have a fresh revelation from the Word to preach with prophetic power.
You’ve got to discover your unique strengths and particular anointing if you want to make a signature contribution to the cause of Christ.

Otherwise, you’ll never be able to see God’s purpose clearly through the incessant interference and scrambled signals.