2023 March
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The Religious Spirit at Work
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). As we begin to express the life of Christ in our work lives, we need to be aware of
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, the enemy of your soul is very crafty. He often makes my sons and daughters think I afflict them with sickness to teach them some character lesson. Oh, I am so saddened that my children would ever think such a thing. I should be condemned as a child abuser if I did such a
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Make Your Experiences Count for the Gospel
“Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel.” – Philippians 1:12 Are your life circumstances advancing the gospel? Can you see the Lord’s hand in your life in such a way that all of your life experiences, joys, sorrows, hardships, and training have
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Live As Though You Are Dead
“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Rom 6:11-12). “How will I know when I am going to come out of my adversity pit?” said the woman sitting across from me. “When it doesn’t matter anymore,” I replied. It brought back memories, when I also sat
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, I want you to understand how destruction can enter your life at points where you open doors against my will. Do you recall the story of my sons Cain and Abel? Each made an offering to me. Abel made his offering from a heart of love, but Cain made his from a heart of
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Embracing the Lean Times
“But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.” – Jeremiah 17:7 Have you ever considered at what point a test becomes so difficult that you decide you can no longer trust in God and you must take over to solve the problem? The prophet Jeremiah describes a situation
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Becoming Influential
“The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom” (Deut 28:13-14). Coca-Cola, at this time of writing, has a 40% market
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Listening to the Father’s Heart
Son, I am teaching you to live in the inner court. In the olden days, I had my priests relate to me differently. They came to me through my tabernacle in three stages. First, there was the outer court, a place of public ministry to the people by my priests. This represents the place of
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Understanding Our Own Calling
…”If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow Me.” – John 21:22 Jesus was talking to Peter after he had just had a very important encounter with Him-one of the last meetings the two would have. This was the third time Jesus had shown Himself
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Kingdom Economics
“So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant” (Josh 24:13). In the world of business we are taught to do whatever it takes to produce a desired outcome.
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Listening to the Father’s Heart
Evil can never thwart my purpose for you, my son. You know well the story of my son Joseph. You know that the evil one worked in his brothers to kill him, but I would not allow it. I had plans to use this calamity to turn the tables on the evil one and use
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Resolving the Ownership Issue
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.” – Psalm 24:1-2 As Christian workplace believers, God calls us to view Him as the owner of everything. We are to be stewards of all
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Hearing the Voice of God-Even on the Job
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me. . . . My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:14,27). Tom Fox is a successful financial investment manager who heads up a workplace ministry in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area. He used to
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Listening to the Father’s Heart
My son Paul learned to live in peace in the midst of storms in his life. I would have you learn this important truth.There will always be storms in your life. The difference between those who are not brought down by those storms and those who are destroyed by them is trust. Those who entrust
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Treasures in Darkness
“I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.” – Isaiah 45:3 “I have never been in this place before. It is new ground for me, and I find I am way
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The Black Hole
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). On February 20, 1962, at 9:47 A.M., the spacecraft Friendship 7 rose on a pillar of fire, piloted by lone astronaut John Glenn. Leaving the coast of Florida far behind, the space capsule orbited the earth three times,
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Living a Life of Conviction
“For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction.” – 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5a Everyone lives a life of conviction. Whatever we give our greatest time, our greatest energies, and our
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Listening to the Father’s Heart
Son, whenever I call my sons and daughters to a humanly impossible assignment, you will always find me encouraging my kids with these words: “Fear not, for I am with you.” I said this to Moses when he did not want the assignment to deliver my people from the hands of Egyptian slavery. I said
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Thinking Big
“For nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:36-37). It was 4:00 A.M. in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2000 when businessman Graham Power was awakened by a vision from God that came in three distinct parts. In the first part of the vision, God instructed Graham to rent the 45,000-seat Newlands rugby stadium in
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Making Adjustments
…”Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” – John 21:6 A former client of mine was the marketing director of a large food brokerage company and told me a story about one of their client grocery stores located in the upper Midwest. It seems that the store
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Listening to the Father’s Heart
Wow, son, you came within seconds of destroying your computer because you thought that warning on the screen was coming from your anti-virus software when it actually WAS the virus masquerading as your protector. What a great picture of how Satan seeks to deceive my sons and daughters. He actually wants you to believe he
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Mourning for Your City
“When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven” (Neh 1:4). Nehemiah lived in the world of politics. He was a high ranking worker in the government of Babylon. His official title was cupbearer for King Artaxerxes. He would be
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Peace-A Weapon Against Satan
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me.” – Psalm 23:4a KJV In the battles of the workplace, your peace is actually a weapon. The workplace creates many opportunities to rob us of our peace. Cash flow concerns, deadlines, relationships –
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Listening to the Father’s Heart
Son, I want you to understand the great sacrifice that was necessary for you to have a relationship with me. Before my Son came to earth, my priests had to prepare and kill a spotless animal, spreading its blood on the altar of my tabernacle. This sacrifice was performed once a year on behalf of
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No Confidence in the Flesh
“If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more.” – Philippians 3:4b The apostle Paul surely could relate to the business executive. Paul reached the height of his profession only to have it completely stripped and torn from him. What he thought mattered in life became rubbish compared
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Listening to the Father’s Heart
Son, I have been doing a new work in you. Have you noticed how easily you cry when someone describes a situation that involves my activity? That is a physical sign of your identification with me. You are being allowed to feel my heart. There was a time in your life when you could not
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Receiving Only What God Can Give
“A man can receive only what is given him from heaven” (John 3:27). John the Baptist was in the business of bringing sinners to the place of repentance by baptizing them and teaching them about the coming Messiah. Over time, he had developed quite a customer base of disciples. Yet when the promised Messiah showed
