(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• 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.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/22  (October 22, 2008)
  Seeing a Greater Purpose in Adversity How often we are so busy looking for deliverance from our circumstance that we miss God completely.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/21  (October 21, 2008)
  No More Reproach Ask God to show you what needs to be confessed this day so that no reproach exists.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/20  (October 20, 2008)
  The Proper Foundation If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/19  (October 19, 2008)
  The Skillful Worker The Lord has called each of us to be excellent in what we do.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/18  (October 18, 2008)
  Thirsting After God The first requirement to move in greater power and authority in God is to hunger for it.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/17  (October 17, 2008)
  The Purpose of Crucibles What tests are being brought your way today?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/16  (October 16, 2008)
  Standing in the Gap Just as Christ did, we are to be those who will stand in the gap on behalf of others who are not aware of their own vulnerable condition.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/15  (October 15, 2008)
  Recognizing Our Source Pride is the greatest temptation to a successful marketplace minister.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/14  (October 14, 2008)
  God's Tests What if God has chosen you for a specific purpose in His Kingdom?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/13  (October 13, 2008)
  Obedience-Based Decisions vs. Skill & Ability How many times have you or I operated in the marketplace based on our skill and ability, without seeking to know the details of God's will?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/12  (October 12, 2008)
  Move On! God sometimes brings each of us to a "Red Sea" in our life.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/11  (October 11, 2008)
  Finding the Will of God How would you describe the process by which you find and do God's will in your life?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/10  (October 10, 2008)
  Wrestling With God "Beware of the Christian leader who does not walk with a limp."
• Marketplace Meditations 10/9  (October 9, 2008)
  Obedience Have you ever felt that the more obedient you are to following God, the more adversity there is?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/8  (October 8, 2008)
  Sudden Ghosts in Life "It's a ghost!" they said, and cried out in fear (Matt. 14:26). Have you ever had some unexpected event happen in your life that caused great fear?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/7  (October 7, 2008)
  God-Inspired Delays Delays in our life are not always easy to handle or to reconcile in our minds.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/6  (October 6, 2008)
  Blessing Those Who Curse You What is the purpose God desires to accomplish with the estranged relationship you may have with someone?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/5  (October 5, 2008)
  The Purpose of the Desert Have you ever tried to talk with someone who was so busy you could not get him to hear you?
• Marketplace Meditations 10/4  (October 4, 2008)
  Receiving Only From God When we seek to acquire anything that God has not given us, we can expect God to respond to us like any good father would to a child.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/3  (October 3, 2008)
  Failure That Leads to Godliness God uses broken things to accomplish His greatest work.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/2  (October 2, 2008)
  Coming Out of the Stronghold When life beats down on us and we get to the place where we want to hide in a cave, God often places people around us who prod us into moving in the right direction.
• Marketplace Meditations 10/1  (October 1, 2008)
  Your Positioning I once asked my Bible study group to ask others, "What do you think of when someone mentions my name?" This exercise can bring some interesting revelations.
• Marketplace Meditations 9/30  (September 30, 2008)
  Seeing the Big Picture
• Marketplace Meditations 9/29  (September 29, 2008)
  Dissolving Partnerships Abraham took a totally different approach to solving a problem. He told Lot to choose which land he wanted.
• Marketplace Meditations 9/28  (September 28, 2008)
  A Gift Basket From Heaven My wife came to know Jesus in the workplace when her boss led her in the sinner's prayer to receive Christ...