Category Archives: Calling
His Name Not Yours
Dan.9:17 “O our God, hear your servant’s prayer! Listen as I plead. For your own sake, Lord, smile again on your desolate sanctuary.”
I have found in my walk with God, that one of the strongest pleas in supplication is “for your own sake” and Daniel also deployed this. Read the rest of this entry
Evaluate
1 Pet. 4:10 (LB) “God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other” [with emphasis]
In order to find the right place to work, you must first evaluate your past work, secondly, evaluate your abilities, thirdly evaluate your work environment and fourthly, evaluate how you naturally relate with others. Read the rest of this entry
On Course?
Prov.22:6 (MSG) “Point your kids in the right direction—when they’re old they won’t be lost.”
Rom.12:6 (LB) “God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well.” In my business, I discovered that I am really not interested in money and that’s not good for business, I can give everything away and, that can be a problem. Read the rest of this entry
Knack
Rom.12:3 (Philips) “…Try to have a sane estimate of your capabilities by the light of the faith God has given to you.” [with emphasis]
The next step in finding the right place to work after evaluating your past work, is to evaluate your abilities. Do not over estimate your capabilities and do not under estimate your capabilities – have the right estimate. Read the rest of this entry
Sweet Spot II
Ps.138:8 “The Lord will work out his plans for my life—for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me.”
Work is God’s idea. It is not a curse and He wants you and I to work. Work is a tool that God uses to supply our needs, develop character in us, empower us to be generous and be examples to others, and work affords us respect. Read the rest of this entry
Sweet Spot I
Eph.1:18 (KJV) “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints”
Work has two components – the job and the calling and they are very different. What a lot of people are doing is a job. To help us grasp this easily, we will enumerate the differences between the job and the calling. Read the rest of this entry
