(Today God is First) / Marketplace Meditations Archives

• Marketplace Meditations 1/6  (January 6, 2009)
  Embrace Your Work Life as a Holy Calling Jesus called all his disciples from the marketplace of life.
• Marketplace Meditations 1/5  (January 5, 2009)
  Understanding 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)
  Mulligans 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)
  Not a Building 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)
  Broken 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)
  Church Mini-Franchises 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.
• 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.