Month: May 2012
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Try Giving God a Chance
“I pray, expecting an answer.” – Andrew Murray The LORD has heard my supplication, The LORD receives my prayer. – Psalm 6:9 “Pray and let God worry.” – Martin Luther You have some issues. I mean, after all, your issues may require some serious attention. To be honest, they may require more than you…
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Write Your Way into View
2002 sales of books and products through all channels: just under $4.2 billion, up from $4 billion in 2000.$2.4 billion sold through Christian retail outlets; $1.1 billion through general retail; and $725 million through direct-to-consumer ministry channels. First 6 months of 2003: CBA member store sales were down 2%. Books increased 8%, Bibles increased 2%…
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Do Like Jesus
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found…
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What God Wants from You
He has shown you, O man, what is good;And what does the Lord require of youBut to do justly,To love mercy,And to walk humbly with your God? – Micah 6:8 (NKJV) The Lord requires something of us. Yes, He wants to bless us. Yes, He wants us to have the best that He has to…
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What God Wants for You
God wants something for you. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek…
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What God Wants
We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. They are the people he called, because that was his plan. – Romans 8:28 (New Century Version) It is all due to His plan. he has a plan and things work out in accordance with His plan. Anything outside of…
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Articulate Your Vision
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! – Ezekiel 13:3 (NIV) Everyone who is speaking about vision isn’t being honest about it. They claim to be prophets of profit or visionaries of victory. It sounds good, but it seems worthless. Some are…
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Finding Fishers for Fishers of Men
And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. – Matthew 4:18 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they…
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Keep Your Promises
“I will keep my promises to the Lord in the presence of all his people.” – Psalm 116:14, 18 (NLT) As Christians in any form of business, nonprofit or otherwise, we can seek God’s provision for our business here and there, even now and then. Yet, few of us ask: “What can I offer the…