iWork4Him PowerThought

Our country needs healing, and it starts with bringing healing to your workplace.  Frederick Buechner said, "Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the Holy is drawing near." What injustice in your community brings you to tears? Homelessness, poverty, joblessness, sexual exploitation? What can you do about it? God provided you...

Our country needs healing, and it starts with bringing healing to your workplace.   Frederick Buechner once said, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." I believe the greatest need is the healing of the lost and broken. Likely you have noticed brokenness in your workplace that needs to be healed. What are you doing about it? Praying abo...

Our country needs healing, and it starts with bringing healing to your workplace.  You may be saying to yourself, but how do I bring healing to my workplace when I am so broken myself? As a Jesus-follower, you serve the ultimate healer. For the woman at the well, he didn't just give her water; he gave her healing from the inside out. She was a broken woman who had been married five times. No matte...

When we face uncertainly in life, there is one thing to remember, none of what is happening is a surprise to God… It's been a long week. It's always a long week. Each week draws attention to the reality of the broken world we live in. Here's a thought. Nothing that happened this week changed your position in eternity. You can be the solid, dependable one for those around you. Pray for healing the...

When we face uncertainly in life, there is one thing to remember, none of what is happening is a surprise to God. Someone around you is Hurting, Frustrated, Angry and Worried. What is your role as a Jesus follower in the workplace? Your role is to not get caught up in political rhetoric or petty grievances. Your role is to start up and get caught up in bringing the healing of Jesus to the hurting...

When we face uncertainty in life, there is one thing to remember, none of what is happening is a surprise to God. As a Jesus-follower, working and living around people who don't know Jesus, what is your role today?  Be a purveyor of peace. You don't have the luxury to respond to anyone in anger. Don't get uptight worrying about the effect of the latest news cycle and problems around this world. Do...

When we face uncertainty in life, there is one thing to remember, none of what is happening is a surprise to God. One thing this world needs is a people group that is not ruffled by the winds of change, a people of peace in the storms of uncertainty. The Body of Christ is just that group of people. In the early church, they were so NOT rattled that eventually the entire Roman empire was transforme...

When we face uncertainty in life, there is one thing to remember, none of what is happening is a surprise to God. People are so polarized, going left, going right, or just sitting out. As a Christ Follower living out your faith at work, what is your role in this? Your role is to represent our Heavenly Father by bringing peace and truth. Your role is to remind whoever you run into that you are not...

I'm not sure why Christians celebrate Halloween, but for some reason, we love to be scared.  Do you know what's really scary? People who need to know Jesus, who are surrounded by people who know Jesus, and nobody's talking about Jesus. That is really scary.  Jesus gave up everything for you and me. Why? So that He could give up everything for everyone you work with too.  If we don't tell the peopl...

I'm not sure why Christians celebrate Halloween, but for some reason, we love to be scared.  Do you know what's really scary? Christians who turn off their faith at work.  For some reason, when we go to work, many of us switch off our faith. Did Jesus only die for your Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights? No, he died for all of you, especially your work life.  When we bring Jesus to work with us,...

I'm not sure why Christians celebrate Halloween, but for some reason, we love to be scared.  Do you know what's really scary? Work without purpose.  I often thought about quitting my job to go into full-time ministry because I fought the purposelessness of my job.  For those pre-believers in your workplace, it is the opposite. They find all their purpose in their work. It is all that matters to th...

I'm not sure why Christians celebrate Halloween, but for some reason, we love to be scared.  Do you know what's really scary? Living life without loving relationships. As a Christ-follower, you have your church friends and small group as places where you get dependable, loving relationships. For those you work around, that may not be true. In Christ, we have loving relationships based on the commo...

I'm not sure why Christians celebrate Halloween, but for some reason, we love to be scared.  Do you know what's really scary? Life without meaning.  Imagine living a life without purpose, without hope, without access to the Truth.  As a Jesus follower, you don't live that life anymore, but the people you work with do.  So many of the people you work with live the Halloween reality every day. They...

As you woke up today, did you find yourself celebrating the end of the work week? We have all been trained to celebrate weekends and to dread our work. But is that the way God feels? I grew up thinking that work was a result of original sin. That the reason work was evil was that it came from evil. But that was a lie. God created work long before Adam and Eve sinned. God gave us work to be fulfill...

During your commute today, whether its walking down the hallway or driving down the highway, what will you think about? Will you be caught up in the stress of the day or will you be preparing your heart for what God is going to do today, alongside you in your work? God set the workplace standard before evil entered our world. He gave Adam a job to name all the animals. An almost impossible task, e...

When Jim & I were 13 we committed our lives to full-time Christian Ministry.  So naturally I thought I would be a pastor's wife or a missionary. I thought I was going to be a youth pastor.  When we got married, I naturally thought that ministry was in our future. Martha was right about that.  But we were both wrong about the location of our ministry. We kept thinking we were headed for church mini...

Do you ever feel like quitting your job? Even though it's a good job and it pays well. We mean quit your perfectly good job so you can go into full time ministry. Have you ever had that thought? If you are like us, you feel the need for significance in your work and you feel like a job in a Church or a Christian non-profit is the only way to go. We are here to help stop the madness. The job that y...

When you woke up today did you find yourself celebrating the first day of the work week or did you find yourself dreading it?  It seems that most of us suffer from TGIF syndrome instead of adopting the TGIM revolution. We need to start Thanking God its Monday. You see, God designed our work to have purpose and fulfillment. He also designed it so that He could work alongside us, bringing us His wis...

In 2006 I started a new job commuting 90 miles each way to work. I made a commitment to not turn on the radio on my way into work. I wanted to dedicate that time to pray for my family, my bosses and their families, my co-workers, and my employees. I learned to be quiet and I learned to make notes when I heard things from the Lord in my prayer time.  I like to say that it Changed my life.  Over the...

Do you want to see your workplace as a place to live out your faith? Your work is a place where you finally get that chance to be involved in fulltime ministry. Then do these things. 1st Start praying for those you work around, by name every day. 2nd look for ways to serve those same people over and above what your job requires you to do. 3rd look for ways to build a friendship with those you work...

I can't stand getting up any earlier than 6am. Who are these people who love to get up at 4:30am and work out?  I find myself resenting them. I have never had the motivation to do anything before 6am, but I do try to make the most of the time from 6am to 7am. This is my quiet time, the time I use to center myself on God by praying for others, studying my bible, and writing in my prayer journal. Th...

Do you sit all day long like I do?  I find that somedays, the only exercise I get is walking to the mailbox or the kitchen. I sit in front of this computer and I work. I have come to realize that my body craves exercise. IT craves moving around and getting outside, and when I give my body this activity, my mind seems to settle in, and my work seems to flow easier.  My soul needs exercise too. When...

What is the first thing you do in the morning when you get up?  Do you look at your phone and check emails before you get out of bed?  I find that my best mornings start when I ignore my phone and pop open my bible and my journal instead.  Since we really don't know what is ahead in our work today, its important that we spend time with the One who knows what is ahead.  When my mind is racing, thin...

Did you wake up tired today or press that snooze bar? Did you find yourself scrambling to get ready for that first zoom call of the day?  Life and work can be exhausting. What is the best way to prepare your heart for what God has in store for you today at work?  I don't think rushing around and running late is helping prepare your heart. For me, it's the still, quiet time, that feeds my soul and...

1 week of PowerThoughts: Topic Preparing your Head, Heart, Mind, Soul and Mouth for Work Preparing to go to work these days looks and feels different. What does that look like for you?  Is it showering and getting dressed or throwing on a robe? Maybe, for you, it's having that first shot of caffeine or perhaps its eating that healthy meal or drinking a vitamin filled smoothie. Maybe it involves ge...