1. Preaching
From A
Healthy Soul
Lance Witt

2. The greatest gift you give those you preach to is your own healthy soul.

3. Ambition is a
double-edged sword.

4. “fire in the belly” and a
We must have a
“fire in the belly” and a
“spiritual recliner”.

5. Selfish ambition can subtly
seduce us.

6. “We have an amazing ability to self-deceive
“We have an amazing ability to self-deceive. Your self-interest hides in a million clever disguises.”
~Fenelon

7. Beware of cloaking ambition in God talk and sanctifying it.

8. Selfish ambition has some serious spiritual
side-effects

9. The poison of unhealthy ambition will eventually
leak out.

10. “… for wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.”
James 3:16 NLT

11. Prayer is conspicuously absent

12. Achieving gets more attention than
abiding.

13. We try to draw a crowd more than make real disciples.

14. We lose our prophetic voice

15. We develop a spirit of competition and comparison.

16. 4. Humility is the antidote for self ambition

17. Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’

18. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand,
that He may lift you up
in due time.
1 Peter 5:5b-6 NIV

19. It is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God
It is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God. Where God is all, self is nothing.
~Andrew Murray

20. One of the best training grounds for humility is
obscurity.

21. Make much of Jesus.
Speak of him often

22. Regularly remind yourself that your ministry is not “your” ministry
Regularly remind yourself that your ministry is not “your” ministry. We are shepherds and stewards;
Jesus is the owner.

23. Stay in touch with depravity and grace.