(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• Marketplace Meditations 1/25  (January 25, 2009)
  Greek versus Hebraic Is your focus on gaining more knowledge or growing in intimacy and power with Jesus?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/24  (January 24, 2009)
  From the Desert to the Promised Land God calls you to eat from the fruit of your own work.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/23  (January 23, 2009)
  Called to Someone versus Something Sometimes we can place the idea of calling too much on the thing we do versus the One we are called to serve.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/22  (January 22, 2009)
  Masquerading as a Dentist If Christ is Lord over all of life, then He must be Lord over work, too.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/21  (January 21, 2009)
  Market Resistance Has God made you an inventor? Ask him to help you bring your product to market.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/20  (January 20, 2009)
  His Work, His Way When you and I live in this world without Christ we live a life just as Esau lived his life.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/19  (January 19, 2009)
  Lost Donkeys In Bible times, donkeys represented trade and commerce, for they were the primary means of transporting goods.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/18  (January 18, 2009)
  Competition in the Kingdom There is absolutely no place for competitiveness in ministry or marketplace activity if you understand God's view of receiving.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/17  (January 17, 2009)
  The Marketplace Minister and the Pulpit Minister Partnership We are a team that needs one another to accomplish the task of bringing God's presence into the city.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/16  (January 16, 2009)
  It's Time for a Funeral Many of the daily problems in life can be solved by coming to an end of ourselves so Jesus can take over.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/15  (January 15, 2009)
  The New Employee What would happen if Jesus took your place for a year in your workplace?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/14  (January 14, 2009)
  Big Assignments How does God prepare someone for big assignments?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/13  (January 13, 2009)
  Living for a cause Greater than Yourself Has God allowed a crisis in your life?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/12  (January 12, 2009)
  Secret Places During deep soul experiences God often leads us to amazing new discoveries.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/11  (January 11, 2009)
  Knowing and Doing God's Will Consider these five steps when discerning God's voice in your life.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/10  (January 10, 2009)
  Your Secular Work Is Ministry Do you know someone who needs tough love in his or her life right now?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/9  (January 9, 2009)
  When Your Sails No Longer Have Wind He stilled the storm to a whisper (Ps. 107:29). Does it feel like God has propelled you into the open sea only to stop midway with no options?
• Marketplace Meditations 1/8  (January 8, 2009)
  Jesus Was A Workplace Minister Consider that in the New Testament of Jesus' 132 public appearances, 122 were in the marketplace.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/7  (January 7, 2009)
  The Question of Calling There is a distinction between a later, special calling and our original, ordinary calling.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/6  (January 6, 2009)
  Sacred Versus Secular Jesus called all his disciples from the marketplace of life.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/5  (January 5, 2009)
  Discovering Your Purpose If you are going to discover how God wants to use your life and work, you must know why you were created.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/4  (January 4, 2009)
  A New Creation If you've never had a mulligan in life, now is the time to let Jesus give you a brand new start.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/3  (January 3, 2009)
  The 9-5 Window The "Church" is a Church when two believers come together in the name of Jesus. It is not a building. It is a people.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/2  (January 2, 2009)
  Moses' Staff God will often "break" our staff, or our vocation, in order to reshape and re-commission us.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/1  (January 1, 2009)
  The Work of God Today, God is establishing mini-franchises in the form of prayer groups and Bible studies in the workplace.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/31  (December 31, 2008)
  The Dangers of Overcontrol Ask God if you are being fully obedient to what He has called you to do this day.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/30  (December 30, 2008)
  Is Anything Too Hard for God? Are there things that make you laugh when you think of the miracle that would be required for it to take place?
• Marketplace Meditations 12/29  (December 29, 2008)
  Spiritual Contracts Ask God to show you the source of the problems that may exist in your city, your business, or people you want to see freed to fulfill God's purposes for their lives.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/28  (December 28, 2008)
  Opening Our Spiritual Eyes Who is the Elisha in your life? Do you have a mentor friend who can see the activity of God in your life when you cannot see it?
• Marketplace Meditations 12/27  (December 27, 2008)
  An Eternal View of Circumstances Are your life circumstances advancing the gospel?
• Marketplace Meditations 12/26  (December 26, 2008)
  Embracing the Lean Times Jeremiah drew a sharp comparison between the man who trusts in his own effort to solve his problem and the man who trusts in God when he cannot see the outcome.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/25  (December 25, 2008)
  Understanding Our Own Calling Are you tempted to compare yourself with where others are in their life?
• Marketplace Meditations 12/24  (December 24, 2008)
  Resolving the Ownership Issue As Christian businesspeople, God calls us to view Him as the owner of everything.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/23  (December 23, 2008)
  Treasures in Darkness What we perceive as dark periods in our lives are designed to be treasures from God.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/22  (December 22, 2008)
  Living a Life of Conviction Whenever God chooses to do a deep work in a life, a strong conviction is born of the Holy Spirit
• Marketplace Meditations 12/21  (December 21, 2008)
  Making Adjustments Adjusting our lives to God is the first thing that has to happen in order to begin experiencing Him in our daily lives.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/20  (December 20, 2008)
  Peace: A Weapon Against Satan In the battles of the marketplace, your peace is actually a weapon.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/19  (December 19, 2008)
  No Confidence in the Flesh The apostle Paul surely could relate to today's business executive.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/18  (December 18, 2008)
  David's Source of Direction Do you need direction in your life today? If so, David provides the best example of gaining direction.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/17  (December 17, 2008)
  The Training Ground of God Simply reading your Bible will not make you a warrior for the Kingdom.