2009-10-01T10:08:18-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/work http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/4-d-glasses-2501 2009-10-01T10:08:18-05:00 You're not looking at just your circumstances, you're looking for your Lord at work, in your phone call, in an accident that was avoided, in a word of encouragement, there's the Lord in that little child, there He is speaking through that powerful storm, in the geese going by overhead, through some unanticipated help in your life. You find yourself thanking God often throughout the day, and you lose the complaining. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%202:24-25&version=NIV 2009-09-25T11:44:00-05:00 How do we find satisfaction in our lives? By living and working honestly, and serving God. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/the-good-side-of-not-having-much-8287 2009-09-18T14:03:17-05:00 Jack had been my best friend in high school, and now he was a very successful airline pilot. And his wife had a great job with the airline, too. Their brand new Cadillac was parked in a security garage under their exclusive apartment in New York City. We had a great evening when they invited us for dinner. So, we invited them to visit us at our totally not-exclusive apartment in a very modest New Jersey suburb. The problem was that about every ten minutes Jack would get up all worried and keep looking out the window. Finally, I figured out what he was doing. He was checking to be sure his new Cadillac–which was parked on the street–was still there. I thought: “I’m not sure if Jack owns his car, or his car owns 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-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-hard-times/power-failures-5758 2009-09-09T16:08:48-05:00 Here's one reason we experience personal brownouts or blackouts. We're doing some things that God never ask us to do. Or we're doing God's work in our own resources - trying to figure it out or work it out by ourselves. And that's when the demands become greater than our power to meet them, because it's our power; because we've taken on some demands that were never God's idea. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/treasure-in-the-trash-5695 2009-09-09T10:56:23-05:00 The parable right before this indicates that the field is this world we live in and the man in the field is Jesus. And the buried treasure? That's you and me. It's very possible you've been such a buried treasure that you don't even know you're a treasure! But Jesus thinks so! I love one thought that George W. Bush expressed in his Inaugural Address. He said, "No insignificant person was ever born." http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201:28-29&version=NIV 2009-08-26T16:18:28-05:00 The apostle Paul here identifies the one cause that he devotes his entire life's labor to: teaching and discipling followers of Jesus. That's the great work to which all Christians are called. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Col.3.23-24&version=NIV 2009-07-16T11:06:23-05:00 When we work, we are not just working for our employer or for a paycheck at the end of the week. The Bible tells us to work hard because in reality we're working for the LORD, not for man. http://delveintojesus.com/Devotionals/24/Work-Hard,-Play-Hard.aspx 2009-01-25T14:31:25-05:00 God surely wants us to make the most of our time on earth, so we tend to jealously guard both our work and leisure time so that none of it is wasted or interrupted. But what does this kind of lifestyle do to our relationships, especially our relationship with Jesus? This devotional examines why it's so important to trust God to tell us how to spend our time wisely and make it meaningful.