2013-04-11T13:18:50-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/success/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10602 2013-04-11T13:18:50-05:00 Sign up for the email newsletter at Killer Tribes and you'll get a free copy of Bryan Allain's new booklet This is NOT a treasure map as a thank you. This is a helpful message to anyone who has been disappointed in a creative project or ministry. In 25 pages, he shows you a new (and biblical) way of perceiving your life, failures and successes. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-five-minute-winner-6325 2011-04-08T12:22:01-05:00 There's a much larger, more lasting success than you could possibly construct. Ultimately, your success is not the result of your degree, or your plan, or your intelligence, or your hard work. It's the result of the blessing of Almighty God - those few minutes in the morning when you say, "Oh Lord, give me success today." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-most-dangerous-season-of-all-6254 2011-01-03T17:01:47-05:00 Don't make God remind you who is the source of everything you've got, because success that costs you the blessing of your Lord is simply success that you cannot afford. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/frozen-assets-6121 2010-06-30T00:31:44-05:00 There's nothing more exciting than releasing what you have to help finish the work Jesus came to do. There's nothing more unsettling than to imagine Jesus returning, looking at all you have, and asking, "What are you doing sitting on all of that?" http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/running-out-of-ammo-6079 2010-04-29T11:12:03-05:00 For those of us fighting on the front lines, it's our responsibility to make every bullet count, to stay on mission, to always take the high road, and put our faith in Jehovah Jireh, not in contributors. And for every one of us, we need to hear the cries from the front lines, "We're winning, but we're running out of ammunition!" Let's throw everything we can into this battle for which Jesus gave everything He had! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/why-more-is-never-enough-6046 2010-03-15T10:53:12-05:00 In Ecclesiastes 3:11, Solomon actually puts his finger on why happiness is so elusive: He says, "God has set eternity in the hearts of men." We're made for something that will last forever, and nothing that doesn't last forever will ever fill the hole in our heart. In fact, we were made for a personal relationship with God, the only One who's big enough to fill that hole because that hole was made for Him. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/taming-the-final-frontier-5842 2009-09-10T13:24:28-05:00 Something very miraculous, something transforming happens when Jesus enters the darkness in our heart. The lights go on. The darkness isn't winning anymore, and He's waiting to make that miracle your miracle. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/setting-the-temperature-5820 2009-09-10T12:17:15-05:00 You put Joseph in a great situation and he's the trusted person, the one who says yes to responsibility. Put him in a terrible situation, he is the same man; making things better, changing his environment, setting a positive climate. That is a thermostat. And, that's what the people around you need you to be. Grownup people, godly people, make a difference people respond to situations, not from the environment around them or the feelings that they're feeling, but from the character inside them - the Lord who's inside them! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/downsizing-for-success-5775 2009-09-10T10:31:09-05:00 God puts us in situations where, like Gideon, we're left saying, "If there's a victory here, it's going to have absolutely nothing to do with me." So if you find yourself out-manned, out-gunned, and under-resourced right now - if it seems like God has been cutting you back and putting limitations on you - realize this may very well be the prelude to an amazing victory! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/manageable-mandates-5770 2009-09-10T10:19:12-05:00 God's plan will not take you where His grace will not keep you. Maybe you can't see where the money would possibly come from to carry out what God is mandating, but God's Word teaches us that what God orders, God pays for!