FASHIONING YOUR OWN ETERNAL FOOTPRINT

If you have been around me for any length of time, then you know that I am a woman on a mission to leave a legacy that honors Christ. So let me take a few minutes and share with you 6 thoughts on what it looks like to craft your own legacy:

1. A Footprint of INTENTIONALITY

• What's intentionality look like in Jeanne's life? Being a "100X person" ... "Jesus with skin on."
• Until you decide who you ARE, you'll probably keep trying to be a CHEAP IMITATION of someone else.

2. A Footprint of PEOPLE OVER PROGRAMS

• The ONLY two things that you can take to Heaven with you are your own intimacy with the Lord...and OTHER PEOPLE.
• "When I die, don't think I'm gone. I'll still be alive in that person...and that person...and that person...and that person." - D. L. Moody...and Jeanne

3. A Footprint of PASSION AND WHOLEHEARTEDNESS

• Find a few things you are willing to DIE FOR...and then chose to LIVE FOR THEM.
• If it's not worth doing WHOLEHEARTEDLY, it's probably not worth doing AT ALL.

4. A Footprint of CONSISTENT PERSONAL SOUL-TENDING (Code language for prioritizing my own personal time with the Lord.)

• "Have a ‘DAILY APPOINTMENT TIME' with Jesus." (5 out of 7 days is a successful week in my heart.)
• OWN responsibility for your own spiritual growth and health. It is spiritual suicide to mentally assign that responsibility to your pastor or anyone else. You will eventually become either a spiritual HERO or a spiritual HAS-BEEN. But only YOU can decide.
• Never am I so FULFILLED as when I choose to UNDERWHELM my schedule so Christ can OVERWHELM my soul.

5. A Footprint Of KNOWING AND FIGHTING YOUR "SHADOW SIDE"

• Identify and label the "bull's-eye" on your spiritual chest. You can't DEFEAT an enemy that you're unwilling to RECOGNIZE and call by name.
• We as Christian leaders have a frightening ability to rationalize and double-talk our own subtle compromise and sin. Do so at your own peril.
• Make your failures and weaknesses PUSH YOU INTO THE LORD'S PRESENCE. That's why Peter ran to the tomb after the Resurrection. Ultimately take courage in knowing that your CALL is always greater than your FALL.

6. A Footprint of REFUSING TO QUIT

• There are a lot of GREAT STARTERS in the Kingdom; but not a lot of GREAT FINISHERS. Determine, by God's grace, to be the latter. Then, though I've said it countless times, remember that PERSEVERANCE is often the GREATEST REVENGE you can ever pay to Hell.