(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• Marketplace Meditations 12/16  (December 16, 2008)
  The Anguish of Faith It is okay to feel discouragement.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/15  (December 15, 2008)
  The Fallacy of Full-Time Christian Work Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men (Col. 3:23). We are all in missions.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/14  (December 14, 2008)
  Discerning the Work of God Before you are tempted to criticize or oppose something that looks different from your past experience, ask God for wisdom and discernment.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/13  (December 13, 2008)
  A Refiner's Fire God desires to turn His children from rough, hard-edged stones into gems of gold and silver.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/12  (December 12, 2008)
  Death and Birth of a Vision Almost every significant thing God births He allows to die before the vision is fulfilled in His own way.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/11  (December 11, 2008)
  Following Only the Father's Commands Our lives will become less cluttered, less stressful, and more fulfilling when we follow the model Jesus provided.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/10  (December 10, 2008)
  The First Requirement of Ministry Today, ask God to show you what things in your world are breaking His heart.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/9  (December 9, 2008)
  Obeying the Spirit of God God's ways of determining where we invest our time and energy often have little to do with results.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/8  (December 8, 2008)
  Understanding the Source of Anger If you struggle with anger, ask God to reveal the source of that anger.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/7  (December 7, 2008)
  Suffering for the Salvation of Another Ask God to show you how to love the unlovable in your workplace today.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/6  (December 6, 2008)
  When God Restores What the Locusts Eat God wants each of us to know that there is a time when He will restore in order to demonstrate His gracious hand in our lives.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/5  (December 5, 2008)
  Confidence in Numbers As we grow in wealth and ability, our confidence tends to move from complete trust in the Lord to trust in our resources.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/4  (December 4, 2008)
  Faith Versus Presumption Many businesspeople make the same mistake every day: we make assumptions about what we believe God is doing and wants us to do.
• Marketplace Meditations 12/3  (December 3, 2008)
  Living for a Cause Greater Than Yourself In the thirteenth century a man named William Wallace became the instrument of freedom from England's tyranny over Scotland...
• Marketplace Meditations 12/2  (December 2, 2008)
  The Depth and Width of Your Calling If God has plans of using you in the lives of many others, you can expect that He is going to allow certain faith experiences to come into your life.
• 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.