Original Pinoy Mindset 3

DI PWEDE ANG PWEDE NA!

(WHEN GOOD ENOUGH IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH)

 

Mindset - things that we do not think much about it but we do it anyway.

-          Set in the mind

Pwede na – contentment

Ø  Be contented with something given

Ø  Material things

To give all – to be excellent

Ø  Doing something

Ø  Do not settle for second best

Ø  Give best with everything

Pwede na applied to things you have – contentment

Pwede na applied to things you do – excellence; give our best

Effects of mediocracy (pwede na) – slow progress; inferior products

Daniel 6:3

Exceptional quality – excellent spirit (like the wind you don’t see it but it is there)

Ø  Excellence – you can’t see but you see tangible results

Ø  Hard to grasps but results are tangible

Daniel 1: 1-8

Ø  If there is a person in the bible who has an excuse not to be excellent, it will be Daniel because he is a captive

Ø  Excellent spirit is what’s with you regardless of circumstance

Daniel

Ø  Resolved not to be defiled

Ø  Followed the Leviticus diet

King

Ø  To be healthy, you must eat from the King’s table (Daniel 1:10)

Ø  To defile culture – do not eat from king’s table

Culture – gives food you cannot swallow

Excellence – challenge yourself against yourself

Daniel – challenged the world on the standards of the WORD

Daniel 1: 20

Ø  Giving the best in all in every matter

Ø  Not to be excellent spiritually but in every matter mentally, physically and emotionally

Ø  We cannot attain perfection but if we chase after it, we might just get excellent

Proverbs 22:29

                Excellence is being mindful of details

                Every matter and every detail

Daniel 1:8

                Have a heart – ways to excellence

                Excellence is not sustainable without a heart

Original Pinoy Mindset 2

UTANG NA LOOB!

Mindset - things that we do not think much about it but we do it anyway.

-          Set in the mind

Do good (period) – Utang na loob (inner being)

§  You never know when to pay it in full

Deliver – expect something in return

·         Expectation exceeds political, legal, moral, emotional, financial manners (manipulative)

Receiver – looking for ways to payback

·         Enslaved by utang na loob/burden

·         Should not be in a place of bondage where you don’t have a choice

Bondage  vs. Freedom to give

·         A favor no matter how small, is a debt we must never forget since no money can ever fully repay it

Romans 13: 8 – continuing debt

-          We are indebted to each other

-          Obligation to love one another

-          Forever debt (continuing receiver)

GIVER

1.        Galatians 6:9 – do good to everyone

2.      Do it without manipulating

3.      Sowing and reaping

4.      Bless not curse

5.      Love causes you to do good

TIME – “chronos" time itself

                “chyros” timing

·         When you expect something, don’t expect it from a person but from God

(in God’s time)

RECEIVER

1.        Always look for opportune time to return

2.      You should not be doing good in bondage of returning something

3.      Do good because you want to do good

*** Just do good not because you want something in return ***

NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Romans 5:8

 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Do good not because you want to but because you have the heart to do so

Original Pinoy Mindset 1

GRAB, DON'T CRAB!

Mindset - things that we do not think much about it but we do it anyway.

-          Set in the mind

Crab Mentality – Tall poppy syndrome

-          Social leveling attitude

-          Effort to pull down

James 4: 1-10

1.       Look into your heart – desires that battle within you

2.       Covet – desire eagerly something; unlawfully

Envy vs. Covetousness

Jealousy – guarding what you want that you have

Envy – wanting what someone does have

Covet – connote something you desire but you have to break the law to get it.

3.      The focus is not on the desire  but on the way you get what you want – nothing was broken lawfully but in your heart, you have already sinned

4.      Bitterness – defiles many

5.      God gave us a spirit that envies intensely (designed to desire God )

6.      Grace of God – humble yourself before God

Humility – is not the absence of confidence but it is confidence in the right place

How to be humble (James 4:7-12)

a.      Submit yourself to God

b.      Resist the devil

c.       Come near to God

d.      Wash your hands

e.      Purify your heart – the world has desynthesize  us to sin

f.       Grieve, mourn and wail – be sensitive to sin that surrounds us

g.      Humble yourself