The greatest deposit you can make in your own future is to elevate someone else’s account of themselves.

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I want to offer some advice today about the most profitable service that you can offer. I believe this is completely guaranteed. And whatever sector you are seeking to establish yourself in this particular kind of strategy will always work. And I just want to say that one of the greatest ways that you can serve the world and the most profitable is to believe in someone else, to cheer them on, to speak positive affirmation of their worth, to speak positive affirmation over them, be active in it, you know, refused to agree with any mega esteem that they plaster upon themselves.

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I love this.

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This is what prompted me to think about this and write about it and speak about it. Today is what Paul wrote to his friends in Philippine Philippians 1:6 and I’m going to read from the message Bible. There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Jesus Christ appears. I just love the absolute certainty that Paul approached his disciples, his friends, his followers with her.

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I never have been in the slightest doubt that God who started this great work in you will keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish.

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That kind of confidence in others, that kind of belief that others will complete and will find fulfilment in the call that God has placed up on their life is such a precious thing. And it’s something that you can offer to someone else today. You know, you may not have arrived at your final destination yet. In fact, I can almost guarantee that you haven’t. Nor am I.

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You know, the people that you’re connected with will still be on the road with you. Some may be a few steps ahead, some a few steps behind, some even miles up the road and some miles back down the way. You know, even that you may even find many of us stumbling along at times, but that doesn’t mean that that is where we’re destined to stay. We’re not destined to stay in the place that we are at today because we will, by God’s Grace and by active growth and pursuing Him, pursuing his Kingdom and pursuing the knowledge that we need to operate skilfully in our realm of expertise.

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We will move forward and we can.

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One of the ways in which we will do that is helping other people, move forward with us. You know, we all need encouraging voices to cheer us along the way. Even heaven, we’re told lines its balconies with a great cloud of witnesses, men and women who’ve handed the baton from generation to generation until we hold it in our hand today. Run your race well, run it with confidence. Run it with your heart, full of faith and ready to help someone else run theirs in a regardless of the hardness of the way at times, despite the setbacks, you can do this, your commitment to be all that you are called to be and your willingness to take risks to fulfil your leg of the race is admirable and blessed.

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I want to speak that over you. That all that you put your hand to will prosper. You know, the world measures by such wonky metrics, but God measures in a different currency. Now, it’s not that I want to discount some of the metrics that we measure our businesses by, etc. Etc.

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All of that may be important, but at the end of the day, there is a far more precious treasure that God is looking for us to accumulate. Your people. People, people are the most important thing to God, not prophets, but people. How can we best profit the people that we serve in a faith, love, hope, joy, peace. These are the things that fill the banks in heaven and faithful service ranks high in the stock market.

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Far more than just sails when you strip it all back. And God is looking for us to love people and help people. Yeah, that was the commandment. Love one another as I have loved you. And certainly one of the ways in which we can do that is to just speak confidence and Grace and affirmation into the lives of those who may be struggling.

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You know, when Gideon was hidden in Lee, the thing is, God sees the treasure in others, even when they don’t perceive it themselves. And we can learn to look with his eyes and draw that treasure out. Now, if you think of just a few of the stories in the Scriptures and there are many Gideon hiding in the wine press and God comes along, sent an angel and calls him mighty Jesus. And you know, you got flip flop, Simon. You know, 1 minute Lee ready to take on the world and the next minute denying the Lord who saved him.

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But Jesus called him Peter the Rock. Paul writes to Timothy. He clearly was feeling timid and ill equipped for his call in the pastor at you. And Paul reminds him, hey, Timothy, you may feel like that, but really, truly, you are a man of power, love, and a sound mind. And I just want to remind you today, the greatest deposit you can make in your own future is to elevate someone else’s account of themselves.

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Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully, it’s been an encouragement to you today. If you want to connect any further, you can do so through my website at davidleemartin.com

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have a great day.