God Ideas

Last week, I got the privilege of seeing Creflo Dollar speak at the Christian Faith Center Vision '09 Conference. Excellent! One of the really great nuggets of truth I walked away with was on the topic of resources and time management.

If you are an idea person (like Tammy and I totally are), you get good ideas all the time. The problem is knowing which to implement! As business and ministry people, there is only so much time, resources and money available, so we can't "do" everything. Therein lies the dilemma... Which ideas get focused attention and become activities to work on and develop?

About 3 years ago, Pastor Dollar said he swept through his ministry eliminating every "good idea" that was taking up resources, time, volunteer hours, money, etc. Seem strange? It did to me as well, until he followed it up with this thought - Allow only the God ideas to remain.

If we can catch hold of this simple thought, it could transform our businesses, careers and ministries. Allow only the ideas and activities that God ordains and anoints to remain. The God ideas will flourish. The God ideas are predestined to succeed. The God ideas will bear much fruit. The God ideas will bring you the most satisfaction. The God ideas serve his purposes on the earth. I don't know about you, but I think I have some "house cleaning" to take care of...
-Krista Dunk, Co-Founder

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Vision Boards - Faith Boards

…They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritance. Joshua 18:4 (KJV)

As believers in God we are called to write things down, make them plain and have faith that ‘it’ will come to pass. Notice though that there is an action involved, before inserting your faith, the action is writing it down. We are shown examples all through the word where the instruction to writing out our course, (vision, life-map, and view) is key to having a fulfilling life.

Vision Board step 1:
1. Start with 2009: When we start small, with a single year, we begin to open up our minds and space for more. Getting totally clear on the shorter term helps to evolve the plan for the long term. Focus on what you are believing God to do in 2009 for your family, business and life.

1 Kings 3:10 ... “And if you stay on course, keeping your eye on the life-map and the God-signs as your father David did, I'll also give you a long life." (Message)

What a powerful word, not sure about any of you but…I am believing for a long life and if keeping my eye on my “life-map” is part of what will bring that to pass for me, I darn well better know what that map looks like! Also, if God has given me the clear instruction in his word, and I know His word to be the living truth, whom am I to sidestep the simple action of writing out my life-map and making it plain?

Vision Board step 2:
Write it down (in whatever style is most comfortable) the vision that God has given you for 2009. You can journal, write single words, short sentences and even poems – the idea is to get it on paper.

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Persecuted for Your Faith?

As a Christian businesswoman, I recently experienced some online persecution on a social networking site. Here is the irony - I was hoping to get feedback from other Christian business owners on the challenges they experience. With the abrupt hostility I faced, my own question was answered!

We in the U.S. experience "persecution" on a much smaller scale (usually) compared to Christians in other countries, where they experience financial, physical and even legal persecution for their faith. However, what we deal with is real none-the-less. Anti-Christian attitudes, unfair treatment, ignorance, slander, prejudice, and more rarely, attacks on property are realities of Christian life in the modern-day USA.

Realize this - the offenders, at the core, are against God, not us as individuals.

What can we do? Pray. Forgive. Do not let our hearts be troubled. Overcome the offense. Seek God on how to respond or if to respond at all. Sometimes the antagonist is actually seeking answers about God.

Are you wondering what I did? I did not respond - it was futile. These folks were questioning, yet not really wanting answers. "Light" and just the mentioning of "Christian" was offensive to their darkness. In this world we will have troubles, but He gives us His peace to see situations and people through His perspective. And now this situation can be shared to encourage others to press on towards the prize, no matter how many others want to trip you on the way!