Keith Craft: The Glory of God that you have within you (your 1%) is what God has given you…
The Glory of God that you have within you (your 1%) is what God has given you (Fingerprint), that only you can give to others (imprint).
The thought behind the quote
Our bodies are not simply physical vessels for our spirit, they are temples where the Holy Spirit resides. Paul was addressing the believers in Corinth, a city known for its indulgence and moral compromise. He was reminding them that their bodies were sacred—bought at a great price by Jesus' sacrifice—and that they should reflect this sacredness by how they lived.
Physically, our fingerprints are unique—no two people have the same pattern. Spiritually, we each have a unique "fingerprint" of God’s glory within us. Though 99% of our DNA is the same as everyone else’s, it is the unique 1% that God has given us that makes each of us irreplaceable. This distinctiveness is not meant to be kept to ourselves; it is intended to leave an imprint on the world—on others—reflecting the glory and presence of God.
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- Opening Statement Intimacy is a the prerequisite of happiness. It begins with a desire for connection. There can be no meaningful connection with others if a person has no revelation of their true self. The potential for great relationships with others starts with a great relationship with God and self. Intimacy is a revelation of your true self, being known by another and seeking to know the true self of another. It is the essence of closeness that a person feels by feeling connected and understood by another. Intimacy happens inside of us, before it happens outside of us. It stems from a desire to understand ourselves and be open with that understanding with others about... Our strengths and our weaknesses, our gifts and our limitations, our abilities and our liabilities, our purpose and our pain, our successes and our failures, our potential and our shortcomings, our faith and our fears, our holy and our unholy, our bright side and our dark side, our bests parts and our worst parts, our confidences and our insecurities, our dreams and our doubts... To be intimate with another person we must first be willing to share our TRUE SELF with that person. One of the greatest gifts you can give someone else is to allow a person IN-TO-ME-SEE and allow that person INTO your spirit, heart, soul, mind and body. Author Matthew Keely says, "Intimacy requires that we allow another person to discover what moves us, what inspires us, what drives us, what eats us, what we are running toward and what we are running from, what silent self-destructive enemies lie within us and what wild and wonderful dreams we hold dear in our hearts." Intimacy is at the heart of God with us and for us. He seeks to be sought by us, because He seeks to be with us! He wants to be loved by us, because He so loves us. He wants us to be close to Him so that the purpose for which He placed us on the earth, to be accomplished in us and through us with the Alignments that He has ordained for us, will happen! IN-To-Me-See is God's key to unlock your destiny!
- "Blind spots" are ways that we come across, that we think are perfectly O.K., yet our actions do not produce energy in others, but cause more harm than good. Therefore, any influence we could have in another's life is hindered by something we consider to be a strength in ourselves, but is perceived as a weakness by others.
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- Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.