(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• Marketplace Meditations 2/15  (February 15, 2009)
  Fulfilling Your PurposeMan Your purpose in life is chosen by God. It is not negotiable.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/14  (February 14, 2009)
  Walk as Jesus Did Next time you have an encounter with an unsaved associate, find out about a need they have and ask God how you can meet it through His power.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/13  (February 13, 2009)
  Microsoft Mary Is the Holy Spirit active in your work life? Are you asking for His direction to succeed in your work?
• Marketplace Meditations 2/12  (February 12, 2009)
  They're Always Watching and Listening Beware how you conduct your life today. Because the prisoners are watching and listening.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/11  (February 11, 2009)
  Do You Know Who You Are? Someone once said, "Success is when those who know you the best are those who love you the most."
• Marketplace Meditations 2/10  (February 10, 2009)
  Withholding Your Natural Gifting In the work world, we are trained to press through obstacles, no matter the cost. But perseverance that is not directed by the Holy Spirit is only sweat and toil.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/9  (February 9, 2009)
  Your Ministry to the Poor What if Christ asked you, "How are you ministering to the poor in my name?"
• Marketplace Meditations 2/8  (February 8, 2009)
  Nothing is Impossible with God Do you need something special from God?
• Marketplace Meditations 2/7  (February 7, 2009)
  University of Adversity It's hard to find anyone in Christian history who became a great leader without earning an advanced degree at the University of Adversity.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/6  (February 6, 2009)
  Jesus Could Not Heal the Sick Neither could He deliver the tormented from demons or raise the dead. To believe otherwise is to ignore what he said about Himself.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/5  (February 5, 2009)
  Strange Instructions And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands (2 John 6). How is your obedience quotient?
• Marketplace Meditations 2/4  (February 4, 2009)
  How God Uses Pain God will use pain in order to create a love relationship with His creation. This statement may challenge your theology.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/3  (February 3, 2009)
  Being Chosen Do you recall how good it felt when you were chosen to be on a team?
• Marketplace Meditations 2/2  (February 2, 2009)
  Deep Things One of the great mysteries of the Kingdom is how God uses the darkest times in our lives to reveal greater depths of understanding of His ways.
• Marketplace Meditations 2/1  (February 1, 2009)
  Manifest vs. Market God is calling us to manifest breakthroughs by operating at times as God did--by speaking to the problem.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/31  (January 31, 2009)
  Creating a Memory How can you create a memory for someone in your workplace today? Jesus was all about creating memories.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/30  (January 30, 2009)
  Jesus did all of His miracles as a man, not as God. Let that sink in.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/29  (January 29, 2009)
  Why Work? Jesus may have continued His occupation even after He began to teach and travel.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/28  (January 28, 2009)
  Forgiving Ourselves The murderer was condemned to life in prison. Then one day something amazing happened...
• Marketplace Meditations 1/27  (January 27, 2009)
  Father, Son and Holy Scriptures? There's never been a better description of the Church today.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/26  (January 26, 2009)
  Out of Your Comfort Zone Have you ever been given an assignment at work that was beyond your perceived ability?
• 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.