Keith Craft: We need to get helped so we can help others! Helped people help others!
We need to get helped so we can help others! Helped people help others!
- Source
- From a Mastermind session
The thought behind the quote
When we face trials, struggles, and troubles, we often seek God for comfort, and He is faithful to provide it. However, the comfort we receive is not just for our own benefit—it is meant to equip us to extend that same comfort to others. Paul emphasizes that we are comforted by God so that we can, in turn, be a source of comfort to those around us.
Life’s challenges can sometimes be overwhelming, and in those moments, the comfort we receive from God – and others - becomes a lifeline. But once we have been healed, our responsibility is to pass that healing on to others who need it. Helped people help others. If we allow God’s help to flow through us, we become instruments of His grace in the lives of others.
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- Your highest and best use is when what you do best is used for the best interest of others.
- If you will make miracles happen for others that would not have happened without you, God will make happen for you what would have not happened without Him.
- Servant-Leadership is a noble ascent of the mind and heart to live life with a transcendent cause. It is born out of a grateful heart and expressed through a spirit of Generosity. Through Servant-Leadership one’s life becomes “sacred despoilment” of mediocrity. Servant-leadership is an initiation of Greatness…by the one serving and is intended to benefit the one being served. However, the real beneficiary of Servant-leadership is the one who leads by serving. Servant-Leadership is the most effective way to develop personal greatness that generates competence, attitude and skills that empowers one to find a need and not just fill it, but lead it. By doing so, the one who leads himself to serve others, leads others by example and creates an atmosphere of excellence where quality breeds excellence and excellence breeds quality. Servant-leadership as a modus operandi, develops the quality of indispensability that is the cause for all long-term growth and success both personally and professionally.
- God's servants are not people who just believe in Him or people who simply strive to live with a biblical world-view and seek to do the right thing. God's servants are people who live with a transcendent cause - a cause beyond themselves. Who give their time, talent, and treasure to God. Who live not to make their own dreams come true, but to make God's Dream come true, through how they live.
- The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.
- Get hold of the spirit of wanting to help somebody else.