The Word Before Work

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” He answered, “Haven’t you read what Davi...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7) Your phone is blowing up. Your calendar is out of control. Your to-do list feels never-ending. Your mind won’t stop racing. A...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were wi...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. (Romans 15:20) As we have been exploring throughout this devotional series, Paul chose to work as a tentmaker in conjunction with his preaching ministry...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12) After spending the first twenty-one v...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under C...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days....

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the w...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to...

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Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters (Colossians 3:23) When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandments were, he replied, “Love the Lord your God…and…Love your neighbor as yourself.” As we saw last week, excellent work is one way in...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9) The purpose of our work is no different than the purpose of our lives, namely to glorify God i...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He [Jesus] has done everything well,” they said. (Mark 7:37) Today’s passage is one of my all-time favorite descriptions of Jesus: “People were overwhelmed with amazement. ‘ He [Jesus] has done everything well ’” [emphasis mine]. As followers of Christ,...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30) What’s the Biblical response to the mou...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. (Psalm 55:22) Last week, we opened up about the realities of stress and anxiety related to our work. We noted that there are a whole host of workplace issues and experiences that contribute to our ev...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up. (Proverbs 12:25) Let’s face it: We are overwhelmed with worry and anxiety, perhaps more so than we are willing to admit. We are overcommitted, overwhelmed, and overstressed personally and professionally. The problem has gotten so bad...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’ Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole ea...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, t...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Genesis 1:1-3 (NIV) The first thing God reveals...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. Lift up...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 (NIV) As we saw in Genesis 11 last week, the Babylonians were driven by improper ambition to...

Sign-up for my free 20 day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com   “Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, ‘Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let us b...