(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• Marketplace Meditations 12/1  (December 1, 2008)
  Striving Versus Abiding We are called to work; He is called to bring forth the fruit.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/30  (November 30, 2008)
  Knowledge + Action = Faith Those who heard [the gospel] did not combine it with faith (Heb. 4:2). As a new Christian I heard an illustration of what belief & faith look like combined.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/29  (November 29, 2008)
  Forgiveness Ensures Freedom In business and life the opportunity to harbor bitterness for a wrong suffered is great.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/28  (November 28, 2008)
  Tapping Into Our Secret Weapon He is always wrestling in prayer for you (Col. 4:12). We must fight our battles and grow our companies through the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/27  (November 27, 2008)
  Developing Our Heart for God I realized my walk with Christ focused more on what I knew than on an intimate and powerful walk with God.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/26  (November 26, 2008)
  Coming Out of Babylon There is a day when God is going to judge the system of Babylon around the world. What is Babylon?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/25  (November 25, 2008)
  Knowing Versus Doing If I asked you the purpose for which God made you, what might you say?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/24  (November 24, 2008)
  Spiritual Warfare Have you ever heard someone say, "I will never do business with another Christian"?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/23  (November 23, 2008)
  Fruitful Suffering If you find yourself in a time of suffering, now is the time to press into God.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/22  (November 22, 2008)
  Godly Rewards Have you ever felt that serving God had little reward and the ungodly seemed actually to be more blessed than you?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/21  (November 21, 2008)
  A Man Who Has God's Favor Few men of God have become extraordinary people of faith without the influence of mentors.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/20  (November 20, 2008)
  Paneled Houses There is a crisis of grand proportions in the spiritual house of God today.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/19  (November 19, 2008)
  Loose Your Donkey Jesus chose to use a vehicle of commerce to bring Him into His most important public display.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/18  (November 18, 2008)
  Seeing Through God's Eyes I believe God does a special work of grace in those who go beyond the realm of normal response to persecution.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/17  (November 17, 2008)
  Saved From Such Men I'm so grateful the Lord cares enough to give us wake-up calls.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/16  (November 16, 2008)
  Weapons of Warfare God is going to turn our pruning hooks into spears.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/15  (November 15, 2008)
  Unexplainable Power When is the last time God did something in your business life that can only be explained as God?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/14  (November 14, 2008)
  Spiritual Strongholds What are the true motivations of your heart? Have you ever looked deeply at these motivations?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/13  (November 13, 2008)
  A Joseph Calling God is doing a unique work today; He is raising up Josephs throughout the world.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/12  (November 12, 2008)
  Having Eyes for One What's the first thing we do when unexpected calamities or even something that we have never experienced before comes into our life?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/11  (November 11, 2008)
  Time to Hear I realized if I was going to hear God's voice, I had to make time to seek Him and hear Him.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/10  (November 10, 2008)
  Worthless Idols In the midst of realizing his own calamity, Jonah made a seemingly out-of-context statement...
• Marketplace Meditations 11/9  (November 9, 2008)
  Becoming a Fool I have found that it is helpful to try to understand if people are teachable.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/8  (November 8, 2008)
  Precious Deaths The Bible speaks of the seed that must die in order for it to spring up and give new life.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/7  (November 7, 2008)
  Sowing in Tears Psalm 126 describes an interesting process that goes against our natural tendencies when we are taken into a difficult period in our lives.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/6  (November 6, 2008)
  "You Want Me to Do What?" We must understand that after we have spent years with Jesus, this does not always mean we must leave our professions in order to fully follow Jesus.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/5  (November 5, 2008)
  Decision-making Today I can tell you I would never make a major decision without the counsel of others who are close to me.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/4  (November 4, 2008)
  The Black Hole My grace is sufficient for you (2 Cor. 12:9). How's your heat shield? Can it withstand the heat that would burn up everything in your life not based in Him?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/3  (November 3, 2008)
  Understanding Your Gift Paul correlates gifts to a human body, telling us that each person's gift helps the whole Body of the Church.
• Marketplace Meditations 11/2  (November 2, 2008)
  Obedience With a Cost Have you ever felt like you have been obedient to the Lord for something He called you to do and all you get are more roadblocks?
• Marketplace Meditations 11/1  (November 1, 2008)
  Empty Mangers It has been through the messiest of times in my business and personal life that God has revealed His power and strength in my life.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/31  (October 31, 2008)
  Giving Him the Key Has your life with God been more like an honored-guest relationship, or does He have the key to your life?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/30  (October 30, 2008)
  A Talking Donkey Sometimes we want something to succeed so much that we fail to listen to that little voice inside trying to warn us by directing us on a different path.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/29  (October 29, 2008)
  Sacrificing at What Cost Each of us must be willing to give to others without a motive to get anything in return.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/28  (October 28, 2008)
  A Call to Worship It is very difficult to lead when those you are leading believe they have been mistreated and have lost all hope.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/27  (October 27, 2008)
  In the Zone Obedience in the Christian life is being in the zone.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/26  (October 26, 2008)
  Placing Trust in Our Strength The minute you and I place more trust in our abilities than in God, we are guilty of numbering the troops.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/25  (October 25, 2008)
  Seeing the Works of God If God chooses to take us into deep waters, it is for a reason. The greater the calling, the deeper the water.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/24  (October 24, 2008)
  Passing the Tests When God anoints a person, a pattern of testing appears to take place at specific times in the leader's life.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/23  (October 23, 2008)
  Horizontal Versus Vertical Moses was like a lot of enthusiastic Christian businesspeople who seek to solve a spiritual problem with a fleshly answer.