2008-11-13T15:38:55-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/power http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Impressing-God 2008-11-13T15:38:55-05:00 That skill of making a good impression gets more and more important as our responsibilities grow. Some people even hire a company to write a good résumé for them. We get pretty good at analyzing what will impress others until we meet a person who isn’t impressed by any wardrobe or résumé. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/The-Silence-of-the-Good-Guys 2008-11-13T15:20:28-05:00 Psalm 107:1–2 of the Bible says, “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say this—those he redeemed from the hand of the foe.” This is a call to God’s people to make some noise. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Working-Without-Leaving-Home 2008-11-13T14:39:52-05:00 We could call prayer God’s powerful version of telecommuting. Going into God’s throne room and bringing our fellow believers there in prayer is the greatest gift we can give them. Go into the throne room and bring down God’s power for a person. You can intercede for others on the front lines and play a decisive part in their battle. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Right-Answers-Under-Pressure 2008-11-13T13:22:33-05:00 We all know the feeling of the Jeopardy contestants. We’ve been in a conversation with our boss or our parents, we’ve dealt with one of our children on a key issue, we’ve tried to speak to a friend about the Lord, and the right answer is really important. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/The-Child-Test 2008-11-13T12:33:51-05:00 If you want to be great, be a servant. If you want to be a servant, show how you treat children. This is so important because to be a leader for Jesus, we don’t promote ourselves, we promote other people. We make ourselves available for their needs. Nowhere does this show up more than in how we respond to a child. ... Children have no money. They have no influence. They have no votes. The issue is how you treat people who can’t do anything for you. For many adults, a child is a bother and a not someone that matters. A child is often in the way of our adult business, but they are supposed to be our most important adult business. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Only-a-Reflection 2008-11-13T12:32:12-05:00 Mirror Lake, in that dark cavern, has little beauty of its own. It’s really an underground puddle. It reflects the beauty of what is above it, and that makes it come to life. The same thing can happen to you, if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and are spending time with Him. If you allow Him to transform you and make you more like Him, it is possible as an ordinary human being to have an extraordinary impact on someone’s life simply because you display Jesus to them. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Getting-Your-Mouth-Open 2008-11-13T12:29:42-05:00 Years ago God was saying to His people—and today He is saying to us—that His people are under-living. There is so much more He wants to give you and do for you. There is a voice inside many of us that is saying, “There has got to be something more in this relationship with Christ and in this Christian living.” ... This is not news to make us materially prosperous, but to know that God has more power, more peace, more love, and more significance to open up our lives so we can really make a difference. The problem is that He can’t get our mouths open, just like trying to feed a baby. God wants us to want His best for our lives, but we have to open our mouths. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Why-It-Is-Taking-So-Long-To-Put-It-All-Together 2008-11-13T12:24:47-05:00 God gives four things He wants us to do: humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways. Do you know what God seems to be saying? “Let me work in you, then I can do those things for you. Before I can solve your puzzles, I have to solve you.” http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Starting-Your-Trip-With-a-Full-Tank 2008-11-13T11:09:32-05:00 Each day is a long trip, with stress, surprises, and people pulling at us; and it’s tempting to just take off on the trip without that time with Jesus, or cutting that time short. We can’t afford that. http://hutchcraft.com/Motivational-Articles/The-Power-You-Need/Seeing-Where-the-Wind-Will-Take-You 2008-11-13T11:02:36-05:00 This really says that we need to take the way we’re going today and turn it over to the Lord. Too many of us let our relationship with Him deteriorate into something general, boring, theological, or theoretical.