1. Living Beyond the Borders

2. 4 Ways to Keep Criticism From Becoming Lethal 1. By Focusing on our Assignment Rather Than our Failures

3. The Perfect Storm 2 Samuel 16:11-12 (ESV) “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to. It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”

4. 2 Types of Leaders 1.Those who Step on Broken Arrows 2.Those who Repair Broken Arrows

5. Ways to Keep Criticism from Becoming Lethal 1. By Focusing on our Assignment Rather than our Failures 2. Running Towards Your Giant

6. Ways to Keep Criticism from Becoming Lethal 1. By Focusing on our Assignment Rather than our Failures 2. Running Towards Your Giant 3. Learning to View our Pain and Purpose through a Generational Lens

7. Psalm 127:4 (KJV) As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are your children.

8. 1 Samuel 3 (NKJV) Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation. 2 And it came to pass at that time, while Eli was lying down in his place, and when his eyes had begun to grow so dim that he could not see, 3 and before the lamp of God went out in the tabernacle[ of the Lord where the ark of God was, and while Samuel was lying down,’’ 4 that the Lord called Samuel. And he answered, “Here I am!” 5 So he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” And he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” And he went and lay down. 6 Then the Lord called yet again, “Samuel!”

9. So Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” He answered, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.” 7 (Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.) 8 And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. So he arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you did call me.” Then Eli perceived that the Lord had called the boy. 9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’”

10. 11 Then the Lord said to Samuel: “Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.”

11. 1 KINGS 18:41 (JKV) “Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.”

12. 1 Kings 18:44 And the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

13. Noise Noise: The Random, Undesirable Electric Energy that Disrupts Communication & Interferes with the Message Being Transmitted.

14. Ways to Keep Criticism from Becoming Lethal 1. By Focusing on our Assignment Rather than our Failures 2. Running Towards Your Giant 3. Learning to View our Pain and Purpose through a Generational Lens 4. Agreeing with God

15. Jeremiah 1:4-8 (ESV) 4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” 7 But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. 8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.”

16. Jeremiah 1:9-12 9 Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. 10 See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” 11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond branch.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”

17. Shaw-kad’ Shaw-kad: (v.) To Awaken, To Watch, To be Alerted to.