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Your reputation depends on it

November 2, 2012 in Personal Life with 0 Comments

Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation.  Hebrews 11:2

Faith. Reputation!

Faith sometimes gets a bad rap.  Some see it as the wild and irresponsible.  And some people do do some strange things which they say is ‘faith’, but is really an untested wild idea, a lazy reliance on other people’s hard work and generosity, or a cover-up for not having any idea what they are doing!

However, never throw out the substance because of an over-enthusiastic few.

Hebrews 11:2 tells us that your reputation is connected to your faith, not your ability to be conservative, always sensible, always calculated, always reasonable or controlled.  Faith is bold, faith is confidence, faith dares, faith believes for what’s missing and steps out anyway.

Go to your God-confidence today.  Go to a place of faith. Believe God more than your own ability.  Believe the Bible more than your own judgement.  Believe what God says about you more than what others may say about you.  Step outside of yourself and into the ‘faith-you’.  Your reputation depends on it!

See you in Church.

Confidence

January 17, 2011 in Personal Life with 0 Comments

What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. Hebrews 11:1 NLT

Faith is confidence.

When faith takes a hold of you you can’t help but feel like all things are possible.  Our hopes are realised when we are utterly convinced it will come to pass.  This confidence will cause faith to take a grip in your spirit.

Confidence is a natural partner of a faith-life.

Dealing with the things that steal our confidence will prevent our walk of faith being jeopardised.

1. The nag of a guilty conscience because we haven’t sought forgiveness for things we’ve done wrong steals confidence.

2. Failure to forgive ourselves for things we’ve done will steal our confidence.

3. If we haven’t forgiven others for wrongs done to us our confidence is weakened.

4. Broken relationships can effect our confidence. If we are aware that someone holds a grudge against us, we should try and repair the relationship. If we’re unsuccessful, we should put it out of our minds.

Be confident – let faith determine your steps today!

Today’s Behaviour Tomorrow’s Result

December 20, 2010 in Personal Life, Work Life with 0 Comments

“I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one”
 Tom Watson, Founder IBM

There are 3 principles that are certain to help you get to your desired destination:

1. See that destination
2. Believe you can achieve that destination
3. Act now in ways that will best determine that outcome

When you begin to adjust your behaviour now to look like your future you begin living it before it becomes reality. This will determine your reality.

If you have ambitions to become a director in your company but never hang with senior staff and talk about the ‘them and us’ you will remain one of ‘us’.

If you know how to bridge the junior and senior levels in your talk and behaviour you will become one of ’them’. One of ‘them’ doesn’t talk of ‘them’ and ‘us’ but ‘we’. ‘We’ are comfortable connecting at all levels appropriately.

What are you going to do today to determine the future you see?

“Now faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

Focus

September 29, 2010 in Work Life with 0 Comments

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” Henry Ford, founder of The Ford Motor Company.

The power of focus is way more than simply knowing what you want and how you want it. Focus keeps your eye on the right things and off the distractions. It fuels high level of motivation required to achieve the most ambitious of desires. Right now why don’t you write down in a clear and concise way where you want your career to end up. What will it look like. Then add faith to the equation. Keep that goal firmly in your mind, ask God to help you achieve it and be clear that it will happen.
Focus will activate faith, it will de-clutter your life of other possibilities and activities.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

Faith sees that are not yet a reality as if they are already. Focus your faith today.