(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• Marketplace Meditations 8/4  (August 4, 2007)
  Making Judgments Have you ever made a judgment about a person or situation only to discover how wrong you were in your assessment?
• Marketplace Meditations 8/3  (August 3, 2007)
  How Solid is Your Foundation? The Bible says the stones used for the foundation of the temple in Jerusalem were"quality stone."
• Marketplace Meditations 8/2  (August 2, 2007)
  When Others Disappoint You Paul seems to have an invincible spirit. Yet he was a man who suffered, felt betrayed, and was at times very lonely.
• Marketplace Meditations 8/1  (August 1, 2007)
  God versus Mammon The primary lie behind the spirit of mammon is that money contains power.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/31  (July 31, 2007)
  Give Me Your Last Meal It seemed like a cruel and selfish thing for God to have Elijah do.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/30  (July 30, 2007)
  Your Position Is a Result of Your Actions Do your actions line up with the position God desires for your life?
• Marketplace Meditations 7/29  (July 29, 2007)
  Knowing When to Quit We become deceived by the need to succeed at any cost in our venture.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/28  (July 28, 2007)
  How Sharp Is Your Ax? The first quality of a Christian worker should be excellence.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/27  (July 27, 2007)
  Little by Little We justify putting our dreams aside because we don't believe we have the time .
• Marketplace Meditations 7/26  (July 26, 2007)
  Presuming Upon the Future "Do you think I should pay off my mortgage?" I asked.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/25  (July 25, 2007)
  Peace: Our Weapon Against Fear Jesus has authority over the storms in our lives.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/24  (July 24, 2007)
  To Know My Ways Disobedience leads to an inability to enter God's rest.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/23  (July 23, 2007)
  You Were Made to Fly Becoming like Christ often leads through the wilderness of adversity
• Marketplace Meditations 7/22  (July 22, 2007)
  Finish the Job Believers are under a basic biblical mandate for to do their work with excellence.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/21  (July 21, 2007)
  Gaining Direction Through a Lack of Provision God uses a lack of provision to move us into new directions.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/20  (July 20, 2007)
  God Delays His timing is pre-ordained for a greater purpose.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/19  (July 19, 2007)
  Crying Out to the Lord Are you only talking about changing?
• Marketplace Meditations 7/18  (July 18, 2007)
  Obedience Tests God uses circumstances to give your faith opportunity to be proven.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/17  (July 17, 2007)
  Defining Your Self-Worth The media message is designed to create dissatisfaction.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/16  (July 16, 2007)
  Getting Refueled Jesus knew the paramount importance of spending time in prayer to His Heavenly Father
• Marketplace Meditations 7/15  (July 15, 2007)
  Defining Moments How would you like to be remembered?
• Marketplace Meditations 7/14  (July 14, 2007)
  Higher Education One of the primary ways God encourages believers is through other believers.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/13  (July 13, 2007)
  From Adversity to Destiny Only in the darkness do we learn to walk by faith.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/12  (July 12, 2007)
  Who Should Be In Charge? God desires to extend His mandates through godly leaders over all spheres of life
• Marketplace Meditations 7/11  (July 11, 2007)
  Teaching Versus Imparting Teach concepts you personally live out.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/10  (July 10, 2007)
  Strongholds Over Industries When Jesus wanted to bring His Kingdom into the corrupt tax system in Jerusalem, He began investing in lives.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/9  (July 9, 2007)
  Allowing God to Promote There is a great danger in self-promotion.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/8  (July 8, 2007)
  Covenant Relationships God is always the strongest partner in a covenant relationship.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/7  (July 7, 2007)
  The Lord Is Not In It We often think God is in our grand projects only to discover that He is not.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/6  (July 6, 2007)
  Is Perception Reality? Perception is not always reality. Elijah was in a crisis. Jezebel wanted to kill him. The nation was falling to Baal worship. From his vantage point - it was all over.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/5  (July 5, 2007)
  One Body When you function in a way that is not directly connected to the larger Body, you are only fulfilling a small portion of why the Manufacturer made you.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/4  (July 4, 2007)
  Servant Leadership Whenever someone mentions your name does the word "servant" come to their mind?
• Marketplace Meditations 7/3  (July 3, 2007)
  How's Your Joy Quotient? One of the overriding evidences that someone has a genuine relationship with our living Savior is their consistent attitude of joy and outlook on life.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/2  (July 2, 2007)
  Time Management David accomplished a great deal in his lifetime. However, he also understood life had an end to it and he wanted to make the most of it. He learned to use his time wisely.
• Marketplace Meditations 7/1  (July 1, 2007)
  The Role of Spouses in Making Decisions God's principles for making decisions require input from both spouses, regardless of their level of expertise.
• Marketplace Meditations 6/30  (June 30, 2007)
  Hearing God I have discovered a pattern in the way God speaks to me when I'm faced with major decisions...
• Marketplace Meditations 6/29  (June 29, 2007)
  Desert Training The desert holds a special place in God's Word. The Scriptures portray the desert as a place of inspiration and exaltation - a place where people met God in a powerful new way.
• Marketplace Meditations 6/28  (June 28, 2007)
  God's Leader Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him (2 Kings 23:25). What type of person does God raise up when a nation becomes synonymous with idol worship and sin?
• Marketplace Meditations 6/27  (June 27, 2007)
  Shedding Former Things The rite of circumcision is painful, bloody and personal, and the Israelite men were incapacitated until the wound had healed.
• Marketplace Meditations 6/26  (June 26, 2007)
  Baptism at the Red Sea The Israelites couldn't imagine that God's path to freedom actually led straight into and through the deep waters!