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10 Short Devotions for Work Meetings to Encourage Your Team
10 Short Devotions for Work Meetings to Encourage Your Team Starting a work meeting with a short devotion can set a positive, faith-filled tone for your team. Whether you are leading a staff meeting, a team check-in, or a leadership huddle, a simple devotional thought reminds everyone that God is present in every part of
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The Necessity of the Desert
…”I have become an alien in a foreign land.” Exodus 2:22 God’s preparation of a leader involves training, extended times of waiting, pain, rejection, and isolation. Are you ready to sign up? Moses was brought up in Pharaoh’s court. He had the very best of everything-education, clothing, food, and personal care. But there came a
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Many of my sons and daughters are not aware of the spiritual forces working behind the scenes to disrupt my plans for them. Son, you live in a war zone, not Disneyland. There are forces you cannot see that seek to destroy your life and your destiny. Be confident that I have put a shield
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Creating Your Niche
“Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique…” (Song of Solomon 6:8-9). Every business must have a unique niche if you wish to separate yourself from others to compete in the marketplace. This is especially true if you are competing in an industry
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Called to the Ministry
“Usually a person should keep on with the work he was doing when God called him” (I Cor. 7: 20 TLB). We’ve all heard stories of men or women in the workplace that left their jobs for the “ministry.” Certainly God does call people into vocational ministry. However, many times this move is more rooted
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, whenever I call my sons and daughters into leadership you can expect the enemy of your soul to bring a measured assault against you. He will seek to discredit you and turn your righteousness into unrighteousness. This is what Satan tried to do to my Son through the Pharisees. When I bring a new
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Significance
“May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us- yes, establish the work of our hands.” Psalm 90:17 Many of us begin our careers with the goal of achieving success. If we haven’t entered our work as a result of God’s calling, we will eventually
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The Perfectionist
“Moses said to the LORD, ‘O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue’” (Ex 4:10). One of the greatest affronts you can commit against God is to refuse His calling that He has placed upon you. Imagine
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Changing Our Paradigm
“While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, ‘Simon, three men are looking for you. So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.’”Acts 10:19-20 Peter had never preached to the Gentiles. In fact, he believed it was against Jewish law
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, come before me, enter confidently into my presence, to dispel the fear and anxiety that disturbs you. You CAN have my peace in the midst of the storms. You can live above the dark clouds because my presence dispels the fiery darts of oppression. Faith is the key for appropriating my presence. Acknowledge my
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Are You Useful?
“Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me” (Philem 11). Paul’s letter to Philemon reveals something about a man named Onesimus. At one time, Paul viewed Onesimus as useless. But while Paul was in chains he treated Onesimus as a son. Something changed in this
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, some of my sons and daughters live in defeat because there are still open doors of iniquity in their lives. An open door gives Satan a legal right to enter and cause havoc. My son Joshua learned this painfully when he led the Israelites into battle against the city of Ai and did not
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Moving With the Cloud
“Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out.” Numbers 9:21b God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, and they had to pass through the desert on their way to the Promised Land. God was their guide by means of a cloud that appeared overhead. When it moved, they moved. When
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, one of my required “graduate level courses” in leadership for my sons and daughters is a willingness to wash the feet of their Judases. Being wronged and rejected and taken advantage of by someone close to you is very difficult. It requires that you walk in a new level of my grace. Doing so
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Beware of Mixture
“Then they said, ‘these are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt’” (Ex 32:4). Moses had gone up onto Mount Sinai to meet with God and receive the Ten Commandments. He left his brother Aaron in charge. Aaron had been mentored by his brother Moses. However, we learn that Aaron still
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Triumphant Defeats
“This was now the third time Jesus appeared to His disciples after He was raised from the dead.” John 21:14 William Wallace was a Scotsman who sought freedom from a tyrannical king of England in the 1200s. He initially took up this cause in retaliation for his own personal family losses. His cause grew among
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Faithfulness to Convict
“When He comes, He will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment.” John 16:8 I had recently come back from a mountaintop experience. As I attempted to get back into my routine, I found a great cloud of oppression come over me. Each day I attempted to press through
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Who Said That?
Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down” (Rev 12:10-11). Do you discern the voice that whispers
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, the reality of your faith is based on how you live your life with me. Some can only speak of what they read about me; I seek those who can speak of what they personally know and have experienced by walking with me. Experience is the witness the world is looking for. Genuine faith
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True Repentance
“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10 What does it mean to repent? When you or I wrong another person, or we sin against God, do we simply say we are sorry and move on? A few years ago I was involved
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, sharing truth with others without relationship leads to rejection. All my sons and daughters are wired for relationship. If you try to share my truth before there is a trusting relationship established, you may find your message rejected. This includes your own children. And remember that discipline without relationship leads to anger. People want
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Concealing a Matter
“He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy” (Prov. 28:13) None of us are immune from making poor choices in our lives. David made a number of seemingly minor choices that snowballed into an avalanche of suffering, shame and tragedy. It started when he chose to stay
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, rarely do I extricate my sons and daughters from the difficult things in life. I more often choose to walk silently along side. When my son Paul was beaten and stoned almost to death, I did not send my angels to deliver him. When he was shipwrecked I did not send another boat to
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Defining Moments
“As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.”Acts 9:3 For Moses, it was the burning bush. For Peter, it was walking on water. For Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, it was walking through the burning furnace untouched. For Paul, it was being blinded and spoken to by Jesus on
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Confronting Your Industry Culture
“Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers’”
