iWork4Him PowerThought

WEEK OF BALANCE  inspired from: iwork4him.com/podcast/2014/12/reaching-millennials   Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens." Life is full of seasons and activities. With so many things begging for our attention, how do we find balance? Dave Zillig from Equilibrium breaks it down into five core areas that must be healthy for our li...

What is the first question someone asks you after an introduction? I'd be willing to bet that 9 times out of 10 its "So… What do you do for work?" That question may feel fine and dandy when you are in a high-powered position or working your dream job – but for most people it's uncomfortable to be instantly framed by their employment OR lack of employment. We live in a society that equates our valu...

inspired from - www.iwork4him.com/podcast/2017/5/business-for-his-glory   A guy named David Foster Wallace once said, "Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship." Now Wallace may have had a lot of things wrong, but he had this right… every day – you and me and every other person on this earth - worships something. We worship whatever it is that absorbs our heart, imagination, a...

Have you ever tried to ignore God's direction in your work or career? Tried to follow your own plans and run into constant obstacles, closed doors, and un-ending rejections? The truth is that sometimes we try to LOGIC our way towards our calling instead of entrusting the creator of our calling with the journey to it. Remember the account of the Israelites in Exodus? It took them 40 YEARS of wander...

I recently heard the phrase "mental load" for the first time. If you aren't familiar with it, "mental load" is the largely invisible work of noticing and remembering. For example:  I need to schedule a dental cleaning; we are out of lightbulbs; and my kid needs snacks for soccer practice. In other words, It's the running list of everyday responsibilities that tend to fall on women to remember and...

Do you ever feel like you are juggling 50 balls at once and sooner or later you are bound to drop one? Well, you're right, you probably will! So instead of trying to keep everything perfectly in the air, take the time to ask yourself which responsibilities are a RUBBER ball and which are a GLASS ball? What I mean by that is, what things could you drop that will bounce back and not be affected, and...

A company we love, and one you may have heard of, called Dayspring, helps direct their branding by asking the question, "what do we want people to walk away feeling after they've encountered a Dayspring product?" Do we want them to feel seen, loved, or encouraged? And what can we do to make customers want to return after an encounter with our products? These kinds of branding questions aren't just...

There is this great TV gameshow called "Wipeout" where contestants go through a ridiculous obstacle course that is designed for them to inevitably WIPEOUT and fall into the water below the course. Life sometimes can feel like the show Wipeout… riddled with challenges that will eventually make you fall on your face. And it's true, none of us are perfect and we're all going to make mistakes and fail...

inspired from powerpod #54   Have you ever heard the 70s song, "Message in a Bottle"? The lyrics say, " Only hope can keep me together… I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle." Well – someone did! We recently got to hear the story of a man who is sharing the hope through a LITERAL message in a bottle. In John chapter 4, Jesus tells the woman at the well that to those who asks, he gives li...

inspired from: iwork4him.com/podcast/2020/4/trading-with-god   God formed Adam and Eve on the sixth day of creation… making their first full day in the Garden of Eden the Sabbath – a day of REST. God is gracious so He didn't start them out on a Monday … instead, God emphasized the importance and holiness of spending time in his presence FIRST, before the work week begins. He asks us to look to him...

inspired from: iwork4him.com/podcast/2018/11/words-on-the-millennial-generation   When speaking about mentorship, a friend of mine said, "You should always have a hand forward and a hand back." In other words, as Christ-followers we should constantly be in relationship with someone who is spiritually a step ahead of us and with someone who is spiritually a step behind us that we can help bring for...

inspired from - https://www.iwork4him.com/podcast/2014/07/the-languages-of-appreciation   All of us need to feel appreciated, especially at work. But not everyone feels appreciated in the same ways… So how do we value our coworkers, employees, and bosses in ways that are meaningful to THEM? According to the book, the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, one way is through acts of servi...

inspired from - https://www.iwork4him.com/podcast/2014/07/the-languages-of-appreciation   All of us need to feel appreciated, especially at work. But not everyone feels appreciated in the same ways… So how do we value our coworkers, employees, and bosses in ways that are meaningful to THEM? According to the book, the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, one way is through appropriate p...

inspired from - https://www.iwork4him.com/podcast/2014/07/the-languages-of-appreciation   All of us need to feel appreciated, especially at work. But not everyone feels appreciated in the same ways… So how do we value our coworkers, employees, and bosses in ways that are meaningful to THEM? According to the book, the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, one way is through spending qual...

inspired from - https://www.iwork4him.com/podcast/2014/07/the-languages-of-appreciation   All of us need to feel appreciated, especially at work. But not everyone feels appreciated in the same ways… So how do we value our coworkers, employees, and bosses in ways that are meaningful to THEM? According to the book, the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, one way is through giving them g...

inspired from - https://www.iwork4him.com/podcast/2014/07/the-languages-of-appreciation   All of us need to feel appreciated, especially at work. But not everyone feels appreciated in the same ways… So how do we value our coworkers, employees, and bosses in ways that are meaningful to THEM? According to the the book, the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, one way is through words of...

We all have a calling, have you heard this before? Some of us get called to the pulpit and some to the foreign mission field but most of us get called to our cubicles, construction sites, care facilities or whatever your job site may be. Your Workplace, It's your mission field and in that mission field, you and me, we may be the only Jesus our co-workers, employees and bosses may ever meet. That J...

It is a known tenant of organizational leadership, that as the leader goes , so goes the organization .  Simon Sinek tweaked it for today's culture by saying "So goes the leader, so goes the culture. So goes the culture, so goes the company." .... Anyone who has tried to change the culture of a team, an organization, or a company can testify to the truth of this.  The top leadership and WHO they a...

How many times have we said to ourselves. "I wish I had time to go on a mission trip." Well guess what, you DO!  Your workplace IS your mission field. Your daily commute IS your mission travel. And your workplace has been crafted perfectly by God, specifically tailored to you, and your giftings. We can all begin to view our workplace and every co-worker as "the mission". We can prepare, pray, plan...

Workplace politics. If you're working, you're involved in them. And as Christians, we don't have to disengage just because the term is distasteful. "Workplace politics" are the strategies people use to gain advantage for themselves or to support a cause. What if, we employed biblical wisdom and strategies to deal with the politics? .... such as Matthew 10:16   "I am sending you out like sheep with...

In today's culture, respect for our elders and wisdom, has been replaced by idolizing youth and outward appearances. As Christians, we believe that ALL human beings are created by God in His image. Therefore, every person has inherent dignity and creator-ordained worth. To be created in the likeness of God means that each person bears His image and with it, a value beyond our unique characteristic...

I heard recently from a retired army guy that he was taught to run TOWARDS the problem, not away from it. .... I wonder how many of us run towards OUR work problems vs. away from them.   Perhaps we think "confrontation" is un-Christ-like…but how did Jesus deal with problems? With the woman at the well, He confronted her, asked and answered questions. In the temple, He confronted with over-turning...

Businesses always seem to be searching for "the magic bullet" that will propel them into the "big leagues".  We've heard hundreds of stories of eternally successful companies and their practices and believe we know the secret. It's excellence. Excellence as unto the Lord.  Not being great at what you do, but EXCELLENT. .... It's the very top level. Consider these synonyms for excellence:  high qua...

Have you ever tried to ignore God and His direction in your work or career? Tried to go your own way, and kept running into roadblocks, un-ending NO's and shut doors? Sometimes in our career, we try to LOGIC our way towards our calling, to where WE want to be, but God has His plans.  Remember the Israelites? It took them 40 YEARS to make a 14 day journey. That's 14, 600 days of blindness, vs. 14 d...

I recently had my concept of "neighbor" challenged. Does neighbor mean only the people in my neighborhood? The ones we live near? Actually, in a broader sense, it is anyone "living or located near another". That means the folks all around us at work, in the next cubicle. The teacher in the next classroom. The person exercising next to us at the gym. Our neighbors are everywhere and the Lord had a...