On Being Proactive Presentation was used in a company of more than 50 employees as a devotion for their monthly company gathering.

2. The Life of Esther
(Esther 2 -7)
• Esther made Queen
• Hamans plot Discovered
• Mordecai plead with
Esther
• Esther appealed to
the King
• Haman was Hanged

3. Esther was Alert and
Proactive she risked her
own life to save her
people
The life You save may be
Your Own

4. Proactive and Alertness Defined
• Proactive
- Decisions and choices based on godly
values and principles
- to think carefully rather that react
• Reactive
- Choices based upon desires, feelings,
circumstances and condition of
their environment.

5. Proactive and Alertness Defined
• Alertness
- Quick to perceive and act to be watchful
and prompt to meet danger or emergency

6. “You shall use all your
senses to monitor very
carefully all that goes
on about you,
inside and outside”
– Sandy Woodward on
Alertness

7. Why do we have to be
Proactive and Alert about life?
• Ecclesiastes 9:10 Life is to short to
be wasted
• 1 Peter 1:13 A life lived well
brings blessings

8. Why do we have to be
Proactive and Alert about life?
• Titus 3:1 We are to live a
life doing good
• Matthew 25:1-13 Life will end
– be ready
• Romans 4:12 We will give an
account as to how we
lived our lives

9. Reflection Questions:
1. From Psalms 1:1-3.
Who are the people and the things
we should avoid?
What do we have to be proactive
and alert from these verses?

10. Reflection Questions:
2. From Ecclesiastes 9:10.
Reflecting on your life right now,
What are some of the things you
can be proactive about?
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11. Reflection Questions:
2. From Ecclesiastes 9:10.
What do you think would be the
results?