by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
In Brain Rules, author John Medina, molecular biologist, tells us how our brain works. He has twelve rules for making the brain work better. His bonus DVD gives you specific directives on how to put the rules to work.
The twelve rules for Brain Power:
Rule #1: Exercise to boost brain power.
Exercise twice a day ... 20-30 min. aerobic in the morning and strength sessions in the afternoon is all it takes. Even if you're getting older and get away from exercise, it will come back if you start now. Walking 12 miles a day will do it too.
Rule # 2. The human brain has evolved too.
Our brains have developed over time with symbolic reasoning. From experiences, we learn to figure things out. We actually have three brains. One runs our body functions. The second brain allows us to feel emotions... rage, fear, pleasure. It creates and remembers emotions from experiences. The third brain, the cortex, is highly specialized for speech, vision, memory. Our brains are getting bigger from generation to generation. This one figures out others, motivation, the ability to create relationships. With symbolic reasoning, we can understand others' intentions and motivations, allowing us to coordinate within a group.
Rule #3: Every brain runs circuits in its own unique way.
Every brain, in terms of function, is wired differently. We each store things in different areas. The brain does not pay attention to age as some things by some are learned in different ways, at different times than all the others. For example he found most brains aren't ready to learn reading when, at the age, it is taught in most schools.
Since all brains function differently, at different time lines, smaller group education is better, customized approaches are the best. So we have many ways to be intelligent which don't show up on the IQ Test. And remember, no two people store info the same way, and every brain develops at different rates in different people.
Rule # 4: We don't pay attention to boring things.
What we pay attention to is influenced by memory... of the past experiences and how we felt about them then. Our cultures influence us too. Emotionally arousing events, at least for a certain person, gets attention. The emotion is remembered more than details. Knowledge is organized around these core commotions of the mind. Then details are formed around these notions.
The brain doesn't multi task. It does things sequentially... one after another. We can't process attention-rich inputs simultaneously. The brain shifts to an "alert" to something (task, idea), then it activates task functions. It then disengages; and again, it recognizes another "alert" to the next task, then to task activation. It disengages again, signals an "alert" and continues the process again and again.
This keeps reoccurring about every ten minutes. After ten minutes it wants to shift. This is important in that it affects attention, learning, listening, task function effectiveness. So if speaking to someone you must grab attention back by saying it in another way, or doing something different... constantly changing the mode or style of communication. In a task, we should change the nature of the task at these intervals even if just going back and forth from one form to another.
Emotional arousal helps the brain to learn... fear or great joy at peak levels affects our ability to remember. The brain remembers the dramatic, shocking, intense, deeply heart felt...and ties information to it then.
Rule # 5: Short-term memory.
Repeat to remember. In 30 days we forget 90% of what we learned in a class. Actually, we forget most of what we learn in class a few hours after the class. But when applying space in learning, repeating information in timed-intervals, we increase memory.
Memory has 4 stages: encoding, storing, retrieving, and forgetting. How we encode the first few seconds of exposure to information has the greatest affect on how we remember and can retrieve it. The more elaborately we encode in these initial moments, the stronger the memory. You can increase chances of remembering by re-producing the same environment when it was first exposed, put into your brain. If sad when you first were exposed to the information, you recall it faster, again when in a sad state. You will notice when in certain moods, you remember or just happen to think of certain things. This how the brain works... it creates associations with emotion.
Rule # 6: Long-term memory remembers to repeat.
Information needs repeated shortly ( a few hours) after it is presented. This should be repeated again in a few hours. Repetition and review must go on at constant time-spaced intervals.
Rule # 7: Sleep well, think well.
Sleep loss means mind loss. It hurts attention, execution function, immediate memory, working memory, mood, quantitative skills... Sleep is rather intimately involved with learning. We down shift in certain parts of the day. Take naps when you are downshifting (25-45 minutes is a good length for a nap) and see 34% productivity improvement.
Rule # 8: Stress.
Stressed brains don't learn the same way. Stress comes from feeling helpless and loss of control in our lives. It happens when you have a problem and have no control over the problem. Stress releases adrenaline which scars your blood vessels. This then can cause a heart attack or stroke. To relieve stress, find ways to relieve or change the situation you feel you have no control over, or it puts you in a sense of feeling helpless in doing anything about it.
Rule # 9: Sensory integration.
Stimulate more of the senses at the same time. Students learn better when multi-media is used with words and pictures together, presented simultaneously, than successively; near each other, with extraneous information excluded and with animation and narration instead of text. We rely on past experience, when deciding how to combine signals. Vision influences learning.
Rule # 10: Vision
Vision trumps all the other senses. Visual processing doesn't just assist in the perception of our world, it dominates our perception of the world. The brain actively reconstructs what it is sent through the eyes. It de-constructs the information, then pushes it through a variety of filters, and reconstructs it again to what it sees or thinks it sees. So we literally can see things that are not there. Previous experience plays a vital role in what the brain allows you to see.
The more visual the input, the more likely it will be remembered and recalled. In 72 hours, people remember 10% of what they hear, while retaining 65% of pictures they see. With words we read, we create many pictures in the mind to decide which picture to use. Text and Microsoft is not natural for the brain. Trees and leaves are. We try to visualize in our brains the words we read... creating many versions based on past experiences. Power point has too many words to be effective.
Our visual system creates movies, generates hallucinations, consults with previous information before allowing us to see outside. The retina creates streams of movies, some parts of the brain registers motion, the other color. We then combine all of these... this is what we see. We learn best through pictures. Text requires many simultaneous processes for us to grasp meaning.
Rule #11: Gender
Male and female brains are different. We all have known this but some cultural issues have caused us to deny it. Medina presents a case for dealing with the realities of it.
If you get two X chromosomes, you are a girl. If you get an X and Y you are a guy. The egg never carries the Y, only the sperm. So the male determines the sex. The X does most of the developmental lifting. So girls' early development passes up the boys. The X chromosomes creates more proteins involved in brain manufacturing of highly cognitive functions in verbal skills, social behavior and intelligence.
Men synthesize serotonin faster than females, so they usually get over emotional things faster than females. Females get depressed more. Males are more antisocial, while females have more anxiety. Most alcoholics and drug addicts are males, most anorexics are female. In emotional situations, females remember more detail and males walk away with the gist of the thing. Under stress women tend to focus on nurturing offspring, men tend to withdraw. Girls advance verbal skills sooner then boys in school, whereas boys advance mathematically faster. Doing things together is the glue for male relationships, while girls talk.
Boys are more directive, girls invite the group in on things. Girls who are directive are considered bossy.
Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers.
We actively test situations through observation, hypothesis, experiment and conclusion. We recognize and imitate behavior because of "mirror neurons" scattered across the brain. That's why culture and our experiences have such a big effect on how we think. What each person sees, that brain records that as its reality.
The good news is our brains stay malleable like as when we were babies, so we create neurons and learn new things throughout our lives. There is hope as we age: old dogs can learn new tricks. For more on brain tricks to stir up yours, note John Medina's website:
http://www.brainrules.net/
The lyrics of an old popular worship song keep going through my mind,
"We are One in the Spirit, We are One in the Lord,
and we pray that all unity will one day be restored.
And they will know we are Christians by our love."
Paul the Apostle said in Ephesians that we are One body and One Spirit. We are all united by One Spirit.
In Spirit we become one with the Father, through the Holy Spirit that rides in us. We are the vehicle it rides in and where we go; where we take it, it goes with us.
When we walk in that Spirit, and others walk in the Spirit, the Spirit unites us. Then we become one in Spirit. As the Apostle Paul said...
"Don't you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16, NLT)
"Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father, who is over all and in all and living through all." (Ephesians 4:2-6, NLT)
"Are your hearts tender and compassionate? Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose." (Philippians 2:1-2, NLT)
We have one mind, one purpose and walk as a mass as Christ. We have literally become, when this authentically exists, the incarnate presence of Christ on earth... through a love-bond united Group as One.
The power we have is walking in this One Love, this One Spirit. When we all go to the same Spirit, and work in maintaining the unity of our faith, we are powerful.The secret to Spirit Power is in these principles which Paul so emphatically explains, exhorts us to adhere to. That's why this process in the Spirit Powered business is powerful...
Each of the inner core, need to hold close relationship with the Holy Spirit, spending personal time in the Inner Chamber of God. This is essential and cannot be bypassed. The depth of this is then reflected in the power when we come together.
To hear the voice of God, each part must be shared with each other... the spark of God's voice is ignited then. As a group of combined voices, we hear all of God's voice and not just a part of it as may come from just one person. We need the combined voice of God, from all the parts of everyone, to hear all of God's voice. It's here we fall short in living in God's Power in business. The inner relationship core strength is not established and each person falls short in their own responsibility and diligence in entering the Holy Chamber of God.
Joint worship does this. When the core group enters into group worship, worship that exalts God will then hear from God. It is important to provide time and place to hear the Voice of God... this happens when the group comes together in Spirit. The Inner Chamber surrounds the group, the Most Holy Place of His Presence is entered. Not practiced by very many, although, this is the core, the nuclei of power.
We are controlled by the Spirit, when we allow Spirit to have full reign of our minds. Brain rules become slaves to the Spirit in doing what is pure of the Spirit. "But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you." (Romans 8:9, NLT)
When others witness the love this manifests as a group, your efforts in any business, organization or group will have a drawing effect on everyone around you. The Spirit hovering in and over you is like a magnet, that will draw all men to the presence of Jesus among you. This brings the image of Jesus visible so all see, and you have the power of Jesus on you when this is perfected in your group.
In all you do, make this the pattern as Paul suggests and you will See His Power among you.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Ben Franklin, America's Original Entrepreneur... an unselfish visionary
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Ben Franklin, America's Original Entrepreneur, is a Tricentennial Commemorative Edition (1706-2006). Written by Baylor University Professor, Blaine McCormick, who is widely known for his studies on Franklin and business advantages, he has put together a very interesting must-have-business-bookshelf addition of Ben Franklin's business genius. He has taken the autobiography of Ben Franklin, made it easy to understand, and adds examples of current entrepreneurs who have followed Franklin's principles.
Ben Franklin saw himself as a business person. Although he was integral in the creation of a media empire, establishing the first public library (a zealous advocate of reading), creating the first book club, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, creating fire brigade system, an inventor (the Franklin stove well known still), and a statesman. His insights to life, wisdom, and virtues of life principles remain well read today. The greatest personal virtue is humility, while having pride to do things well.
The Entrepreneur addition has three main parts and 80 chapters. Franklin wanted his autobiography to be to be a book of principles explored by the success and failures of his life that would be useful for other business people.
As a printer, publisher, newspaper enterprise, he recorded his ideas so others could acquire knowledge too. Franklin was 65 years old when he wrote his autobiography of his life lessons learned. Being the youngest of the youngest of 5 generations he was doomed to no inheritance, but learned how to become wealthy. Actually, no inheritance works in favor of the great, Franklin states. You can finish better than your beginnings.
First lesson... give credit where credit's due. You are part of an inter-connected social system. Franklin was self taught and held in high value in life... reading, leadership, and a bias for action. All life should be embedded in being moral with integrity and honesty in all endeavors.
Lengthen life by lessening meals and be a vegetarian. Eat to live, and not live to eat. Reconcile with people you have wronged. We lessen impact on our lives when we initiate to make right where we wronged.
"He who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas." Your reputation follows you.
"Promises get friends, non-performance loses them."
"Be aware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a big boat."
Negotiation power is in the power of liking. People work with people they like.
The Rise of the Entrepreneur
"How to govern my life and live it intentionally."
Stay frugal. Pay off your debts. Speak the truth in every situation. Steady, patient work acquires wealth. Don't speak poorly of anybody.
Franklin organized his own clubs for self development and gathering strategic information. The Bible forbids certain things because they are bad for us. So listen to what the Bible says and God's good will be with you. When cheated, Franklin didn't sue, he just competitively out-businessed them.
He established many entities that groomed learning. Such as the University of Pennsylvania, the Library, Poor Richard's Almanac, where he provided proverbs for virtuous living. He felt government and religion worked best when interactive. The art of virtue came out in Franklin's life abiding list to Moral Virtue.
1. Self-control: over eating, over drinking.
2. Silence: say only what benefits others.
3. Order: keep things in proper place.
4. Determination: carry out commitment.
5. Economy: waste not, and let your only expense be doing good to others.
6. Productivity: spend time on useful matters.
7. Truthfulness: avoid lies that harm others.
8. Justice: avoid injuring others by your actions.
9. Moderation: avoid extremes and don't hold grudges.
10. Cleanliness: keep body, clothes, living place clean.
11. Peace: Don't be overtaken by irritants.
12. Chastity: indulge in sex for sake of health and offspring only.
13. Humility: imitate Jesus and Socrates
"There is one God who made all things. He governs the world by His Providence. And we should worship Him in adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving."
"What is serving God? It's doing good to man."
While a printer, publisher, inventor, statesman, Franklin's goal was always reciprocal. Use your talents and industry to make life better for mankind around you. Your life will be full of wealth of fulfillment, satisfaction and true joys of living. Ben Franklin, a great achiever, humble in that not matter what he achieved, he always saw more to be done.
Ben Franklin in our day would have probably been a forerunner using web technology to further his causes. Others have put his original autobiography on line.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/
Blaine McCormick's web identities.
http://www.baylor.edu/christianleadership/index.php?id=36965
Ben Franklin: America's Original Entrepreneur
http://www.amazon.com/Ben-Franklin-Americas-Original-Entrepreneur/dp/1932531688
One of the richest men who ever lived was very immoral.
He practiced all of Ben Franklin's principles except he had a love for women and had many wives that God forbid him to marry. Ironically, the Bible features his Proverbs for us to read today, but he admitted himself that all he attained in life was vanity. That all life was vanity. The pursuit of wealth, of women, and a lover of wine was to his own demise.
In his new book, How to Get Rich, Felix Dennis admits he lived the wild life with all the money he had. Then he cautions the reader not to pursue the life of wealth for wealth's sake, womanizing and mind altering drug partying. Although, he has given up the drug life, but now promotes wealth for good reasons, wine for health reasons, and women for meaningful relationships.
Jesus said to store up your riches in Heaven.
As the Apostle Paul said to keep your mind on Heavenly things. With this as your state of mind, "Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory." (Col. 3:1-4, NLT)
He suggests we die to this life.
Jesus goes on to say to pursue the Building of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven. Is this possible? Well, only if we know what Heaven is. So it would be of value to visit it from time to time. We can do that in what we call prayer. We can learn the fine art of in-depth meditation.
Now Paul said He even visited Heaven.
"I was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or out of my body, I don't know—only God knows. Yes, only God knows whether I was in my body or outside my body. But I do know that I was caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words, things no human is allowed to tell." (2 Cor. 2-4, NLT)
We can refine times in Spirit to visit Heaven too.
Franklin advocated a life of morality. To give up moral sins, and not to over indulge. When we visit Heaven in our Spirit we die to the flesh, the things of this world. We can't control our fleshly nature, but we can dwell in Heaven more than earth and affect its emphasis in our life. In that our preoccupations of mind are on Heavenly things.
When the Bible talks of fasting, it is more than just food. It is what naturally drives us to get it under control, so the Spirit has full control. When we fast we may think of food degradation, but when we dwell in Heaven we create earth degradation. We lose touch of earth. It loses its hold on us, and then Heaven has its grip.
We can become moral, but not the way Solomon did as he had all the things of this earth. That's why Jesus said sell it all. We gain the riches of Heaven by giving up our emotional hold to things of this earth. Jesus wasn't being a meanie by asking us to give up everything for Him. He knew as long as we made the earth our priority, that Heaven wouldn't be our priority. And we wouldn't be able to enjoy the wonderful riches of Spirit while on earth. So He said to "take up your cross and follow Me."
We do this by crucifying the flesh as Paul said.
Sins of over indulging fight our Spirit. When we over eat, are overly busy, spend excessive time in things of earthly satisfactions, we temper the Spirit. Sex, food, drug addictions are all forms of flesh commanding its way over the Spirit. Sins of obesity, busyness take us from Spirit. "When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God." (Gal.5:19-21, NLT)
We are to kill fleshly pleasure.
"Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives." (Gal. 5:24-24, NLT)
What is Crucifying the flesh?
Andrew Murray goes into detail on what this means for the Believer in Christ. From Murray's, Like Christ.
http://www.victoryoversin.com/murray/like/lc06.htm
We are to set our minds on Heavenly things.
That's our life... forever. What we live in the flesh, our minds, our worldly indulgences are temporary. Indulging in the things of the flesh and making that our aim, instead of Spirit, will lead to despair. Paul in Galatians exhorts us to live by the Spirit and not the flesh.
We are to be filled with the Spirit.
"Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith." (Gal. 6:8-10, NLT)
Morality are issues Franklin said are essential to being effective in business.
Franklin advocated that our lives should be about doing good,
a business should bring good to those around us.
Jesus takes this to another level.
Build the Kingdom of God on earth as in Heaven as your chief aim.
Learn what Heaven is.
Bring it to earth through Spirit in what your purpose and mission is in life.
Build wealth in His Kingdom that lasts forever and you will enjoy forever.
Build the Kingdom of Heaven around you so all you rub shoulders with will enjoy it too.
4spirit@gmail.com
Ben Franklin, America's Original Entrepreneur, is a Tricentennial Commemorative Edition (1706-2006). Written by Baylor University Professor, Blaine McCormick, who is widely known for his studies on Franklin and business advantages, he has put together a very interesting must-have-business-bookshelf addition of Ben Franklin's business genius. He has taken the autobiography of Ben Franklin, made it easy to understand, and adds examples of current entrepreneurs who have followed Franklin's principles.
Ben Franklin saw himself as a business person. Although he was integral in the creation of a media empire, establishing the first public library (a zealous advocate of reading), creating the first book club, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, creating fire brigade system, an inventor (the Franklin stove well known still), and a statesman. His insights to life, wisdom, and virtues of life principles remain well read today. The greatest personal virtue is humility, while having pride to do things well.
The Entrepreneur addition has three main parts and 80 chapters. Franklin wanted his autobiography to be to be a book of principles explored by the success and failures of his life that would be useful for other business people.
As a printer, publisher, newspaper enterprise, he recorded his ideas so others could acquire knowledge too. Franklin was 65 years old when he wrote his autobiography of his life lessons learned. Being the youngest of the youngest of 5 generations he was doomed to no inheritance, but learned how to become wealthy. Actually, no inheritance works in favor of the great, Franklin states. You can finish better than your beginnings.
First lesson... give credit where credit's due. You are part of an inter-connected social system. Franklin was self taught and held in high value in life... reading, leadership, and a bias for action. All life should be embedded in being moral with integrity and honesty in all endeavors.
Lengthen life by lessening meals and be a vegetarian. Eat to live, and not live to eat. Reconcile with people you have wronged. We lessen impact on our lives when we initiate to make right where we wronged.
"He who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas." Your reputation follows you.
"Promises get friends, non-performance loses them."
"Be aware of little expenses, a small leak will sink a big boat."
Negotiation power is in the power of liking. People work with people they like.
The Rise of the Entrepreneur
"How to govern my life and live it intentionally."
Stay frugal. Pay off your debts. Speak the truth in every situation. Steady, patient work acquires wealth. Don't speak poorly of anybody.
Franklin organized his own clubs for self development and gathering strategic information. The Bible forbids certain things because they are bad for us. So listen to what the Bible says and God's good will be with you. When cheated, Franklin didn't sue, he just competitively out-businessed them.
He established many entities that groomed learning. Such as the University of Pennsylvania, the Library, Poor Richard's Almanac, where he provided proverbs for virtuous living. He felt government and religion worked best when interactive. The art of virtue came out in Franklin's life abiding list to Moral Virtue.
1. Self-control: over eating, over drinking.
2. Silence: say only what benefits others.
3. Order: keep things in proper place.
4. Determination: carry out commitment.
5. Economy: waste not, and let your only expense be doing good to others.
6. Productivity: spend time on useful matters.
7. Truthfulness: avoid lies that harm others.
8. Justice: avoid injuring others by your actions.
9. Moderation: avoid extremes and don't hold grudges.
10. Cleanliness: keep body, clothes, living place clean.
11. Peace: Don't be overtaken by irritants.
12. Chastity: indulge in sex for sake of health and offspring only.
13. Humility: imitate Jesus and Socrates
"There is one God who made all things. He governs the world by His Providence. And we should worship Him in adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving."
"What is serving God? It's doing good to man."
While a printer, publisher, inventor, statesman, Franklin's goal was always reciprocal. Use your talents and industry to make life better for mankind around you. Your life will be full of wealth of fulfillment, satisfaction and true joys of living. Ben Franklin, a great achiever, humble in that not matter what he achieved, he always saw more to be done.
Ben Franklin in our day would have probably been a forerunner using web technology to further his causes. Others have put his original autobiography on line.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/
Blaine McCormick's web identities.
http://www.baylor.edu/christianleadership/index.php?id=36965
Ben Franklin: America's Original Entrepreneur
http://www.amazon.com/Ben-Franklin-Americas-Original-Entrepreneur/dp/1932531688
One of the richest men who ever lived was very immoral.
He practiced all of Ben Franklin's principles except he had a love for women and had many wives that God forbid him to marry. Ironically, the Bible features his Proverbs for us to read today, but he admitted himself that all he attained in life was vanity. That all life was vanity. The pursuit of wealth, of women, and a lover of wine was to his own demise.
In his new book, How to Get Rich, Felix Dennis admits he lived the wild life with all the money he had. Then he cautions the reader not to pursue the life of wealth for wealth's sake, womanizing and mind altering drug partying. Although, he has given up the drug life, but now promotes wealth for good reasons, wine for health reasons, and women for meaningful relationships.
Jesus said to store up your riches in Heaven.
As the Apostle Paul said to keep your mind on Heavenly things. With this as your state of mind, "Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory." (Col. 3:1-4, NLT)
He suggests we die to this life.
Jesus goes on to say to pursue the Building of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven. Is this possible? Well, only if we know what Heaven is. So it would be of value to visit it from time to time. We can do that in what we call prayer. We can learn the fine art of in-depth meditation.
Now Paul said He even visited Heaven.
"I was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or out of my body, I don't know—only God knows. Yes, only God knows whether I was in my body or outside my body. But I do know that I was caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words, things no human is allowed to tell." (2 Cor. 2-4, NLT)
We can refine times in Spirit to visit Heaven too.
Franklin advocated a life of morality. To give up moral sins, and not to over indulge. When we visit Heaven in our Spirit we die to the flesh, the things of this world. We can't control our fleshly nature, but we can dwell in Heaven more than earth and affect its emphasis in our life. In that our preoccupations of mind are on Heavenly things.
When the Bible talks of fasting, it is more than just food. It is what naturally drives us to get it under control, so the Spirit has full control. When we fast we may think of food degradation, but when we dwell in Heaven we create earth degradation. We lose touch of earth. It loses its hold on us, and then Heaven has its grip.
We can become moral, but not the way Solomon did as he had all the things of this earth. That's why Jesus said sell it all. We gain the riches of Heaven by giving up our emotional hold to things of this earth. Jesus wasn't being a meanie by asking us to give up everything for Him. He knew as long as we made the earth our priority, that Heaven wouldn't be our priority. And we wouldn't be able to enjoy the wonderful riches of Spirit while on earth. So He said to "take up your cross and follow Me."
We do this by crucifying the flesh as Paul said.
Sins of over indulging fight our Spirit. When we over eat, are overly busy, spend excessive time in things of earthly satisfactions, we temper the Spirit. Sex, food, drug addictions are all forms of flesh commanding its way over the Spirit. Sins of obesity, busyness take us from Spirit. "When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God." (Gal.5:19-21, NLT)
We are to kill fleshly pleasure.
"Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives." (Gal. 5:24-24, NLT)
What is Crucifying the flesh?
Andrew Murray goes into detail on what this means for the Believer in Christ. From Murray's, Like Christ.
http://www.victoryoversin.com/murray/like/lc06.htm
We are to set our minds on Heavenly things.
That's our life... forever. What we live in the flesh, our minds, our worldly indulgences are temporary. Indulging in the things of the flesh and making that our aim, instead of Spirit, will lead to despair. Paul in Galatians exhorts us to live by the Spirit and not the flesh.
We are to be filled with the Spirit.
"Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith." (Gal. 6:8-10, NLT)
Morality are issues Franklin said are essential to being effective in business.
Franklin advocated that our lives should be about doing good,
a business should bring good to those around us.
Jesus takes this to another level.
Build the Kingdom of God on earth as in Heaven as your chief aim.
Learn what Heaven is.
Bring it to earth through Spirit in what your purpose and mission is in life.
Build wealth in His Kingdom that lasts forever and you will enjoy forever.
Build the Kingdom of Heaven around you so all you rub shoulders with will enjoy it too.
Friday, June 20, 2008
How to Wow... led by Spirit
By Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
How to Wow by Frances Cole Jones is about proven strategies for presenting your ideas, persuading your audience and perfecting your image.
Loaded with key precepts on personal communication she gives chapter by chapter tips on how to make it work in the every day life of business. Such as... introducing yourself with impact, meetings and interviews, speeches, power point, writing and social interactions. These are ruddy communication skills that make you stand out as a business leader.
How to Wow is organized in a way you can use it as a reference source to get timely business savvy tips for a specific event you are about to become engaged.
Here's a few of her tips, but by no means exhaustive of all the down-to-earth business experiences Frances covers.
Face to Face communications
Know the 7-38-55 rule. 7% of influence comes from your words, 35% your tone of voice, and 55% your body language. Remember the James Bond memorable line. "My name is Bond... James Bond." The pause after Bond makes it zing. When someone asks you how you are doing.. Avoid the "incredible, great" reply. Be more creative and paint a picture of what great may be like. More isn't better, better is better. And learn to breathe from your diaphragm... sounds better and calms nerves.
When one-on-one the eyes have it.
Watch eyes, look into eyes, read the eyes. When talking to someone state the obvious. Because it is obvious, many times it may not be stated because everyone thinks they know. The "I'm just jokin" comment may not be a joke. People say this to cover a truth in what they say so not to overtly offend you. What we dislike in others may be what we dislike about ourselves. People may give away their true colors by what they say about others. Follow up and stay in touch, especially when you say you will.
In the Meeting
Hand your handouts out at the end of the meeting. They will read ahead and not follow your build up in the presentation. Use them as a summary of what you said, to hand out at the end, so they can review what you did say. Keep your hands where everyone can see them. It says you are not hiding anything. When others are speaking, look at them like you would gaze into the eyes of someone special on your first date. When others talk give them that great-first-date look.
Always be clear on: the situation you are covering, the mission, the execution strategies, administration needs, and the communication pipeline you take on every project.
The Interview
Get there early and be in the vicinity early. Announce yourself about 5 minutes before your interview. Pause before you answer a question. In difficult questions use this as time to think. This makes you come off as a thorough, thoughtful thinker.
Ask, but in a way that shows respect for ourselves and the other person. Know your walk away number. Keep your sense of humor, and followup promptly, professionally, with polish.
Speeches... stand and deliver
Check out the physical environment. Note acoustics, ability to be seen and heard. When you are given a Mike instead of tapping on it, just ask first if everyone can hear you. If you are in a long room without a mike, ask the same.
The speech everyone hears and remembers follows the Rule of 3. Have 3 main points and 3 good examples for each point. Most people can't remember past three. The examples help them make a tie into their lives.
When you plan to open up for questions, play it safe by having someone planted in the audience to ask a first question. Before you give a speech, tell them you will be taking questions... so they can make a note of it during the speech.
When you finish, no matter what the response, act pleased. Walk away with a confidence you said what you needed to say. This makes the audience sense an importance to what you said.
Keeping power in your powerpoint
Come early and pre-setup the room and make sure everything works. Arrange the room so everyone can see, note the best place for you to stand and be heard. Use the 10/20/30 Rule. Show no more than 10 slides, no longer than 20 minutes, no smaller than 30 point type.
Keep most important information on the right. People go left to right in how their eyes flow and accept as truth more what is on the right. Right means good.
Put it in Writing
Emails should communicate facts and figures. Attempts at emotion in email can backfire. Avoid the ALL CAPs and extra exclamation marks!!!!!. People take these as yelling.
Your resume should be clean, concise, active in language, concrete in detail and tailored to your recipient. When using a cover letter, use the one-two punch. It's not to tell the whole story but get the reader to get into what you want to say. State "why I am writing you, what I bring to the party." Write, review, rewrite.
In a speech, bullet your key points and don't write word for word.
Making the most of Social interactions
Many avoid social interactions in that they may come across too pushy when introducing themselves and talking about what they do, or seem opportunistic or needy. Although skills in these settings are very important to advance life and business opportunities.
Count your assets
You have more to offer than what you may think when you stand comparing yourself to others in the room. Get excited before you enter the room... turn dread into anticipation. Introduce yourself. Use Mr. and Mrs. when talking to others. Use mutual friends to introduce you, but if they are not there you need to introduce yourself. You can never error by being too polite. And when you introduce yourself don't do a full frontal assault. Create interest, then ask to followup in a few days.
Verbal finesse
When in doubt of a person's intentions, ask them to clarify...actively listen. Your word choice is critical. Use the word "situation" when discussing a problem. Don't react to hostile questions. Pause, repeat your top line message.
Respond to "what if" with "what is." Always ask for more clarification, then redirect when necessary. When not knowing how to respond, commend the other person for an interesting point of view.
For more on Frances Cole Jones, Cole Media Management, and How to Wow:
http://www.howtowow-thebook.com/
The Spirit is a powerful, pinpointing force for speaking to others. Here is a comprehensive summary of how to walk with precision in Spirit in all you do.
An excerpt from The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit by R.A. Torrey
True prayer is prayer in the Spirit (i.e., the prayer that the Holy Spirit inspires and directs). The prayer in which the Holy Spirit leads us is the prayer "according the will of God." (Rom 8:27) When we ask anything according to God's will, we know that He hears us, and we know that He has granted the things that we ask. (see 1 John 5:14-15.)
We may know it is ours at the moment when we pray just as surely as we know it afterwards when we have it in our actual possession.
But how can we know the will of God when we pray?
In two ways.
First of all, by what is written in His Word. All the promises in the Bible are sure, and if God promises anything in the Bible, we may be sure it is His will to give us that thing.
But there are many things that we need which are not specifically promised in the Word and still even in that case it is our privilege to know the will of God, for it is the work of the Holy Spirit to teach us God's will and lead us out in prayer along the line of God's will.
Some object to the Christian doctrine of prayer, for they say that it teaches that we can go to God in our ignorance and change His will and subject His Infinite wisdom to our erring foolishness, but that is not the Christian doctrine of prayer at all. The Christian doctrine of prayer is that it is the believer's privilege to be taught by the Spirit of God himself to know what the will of God is and not to ask for the things that our foolishness would prompt us to ask for but to ask for things that the never-erring Spirit of God prompts us to ask for.
True prayer is prayer "in the Spirit" (Eph. 6:18), that is, the prayer which the Spirit inspires and directs.
When we come into God's presence, we should recognize our infirmities: our ignorance of what is best for us, our ignorance of what we should pray for, and our ignorance of how we should pray for it. In the consciousness of our utter inability to pray correctly, we should look up to the Holy Spirit to teach us to pray and cast ourselves utterly upon Him to direct our prayers and to discover our desires and guide our utterance of them. There is no place where we need to recognize our ignorance more than we do in prayer.
Rushing heedlessly into God's presence and asking the first thing that comes into our minds, or that some other thoughtless one asks us to pray for, is not praying "in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 1:20) and is not true prayer. We must wait for the Holy Spirit and surrender ourselves to Him. The prayer that God the Holy Spirit inspires is the prayer that God the Father answers.
The longings which the Holy Spirit begets in our hearts are often too deep for utterance, too deep apparently for clear and definite comprehension on the part of the believer himself in whom the Spirit is working: "The Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." (Rom. 8:26)
God Himself "searches the hearts" to know what "the mind of the Spirit" is (Rom. 8:27) in these unuttered and unutterable longings. But God does know what the mind of the Spirit is. He does know what these Spirit-given longings which we cannot put into words mean even if we do not. These longing are "according to the will of God" (Rom. 8:27), and God grants them. It is in this way that it comes to pass that God's able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. (Eph. 3:20)
There are other times when the Spirit's leadings are so clear that we pray with the Spirit and with the understanding also. (1 Cor. 14:15) We distinctly understand what it is that the Holy Spirit leads us to pray for.
That we "Lack Wisdom."
We must be conscious of and fully admit our own inability to decide wisely. Here is where we often fail to receive God's wisdom. We think we are able to decide for ourselves or at least we are not ready to admit our own utter inability to decide. There must be an entire renunciation of the wisdom of the flesh.
We must really desire to know God's way and be willing at any cost to do God's will.
This is implied in the word, "ask". The asking must be sincere, and if we are not willing to do God's will, whatever it may be, at any cost, the asking is not sincere. This is a point of fundamental importance. There is nothing that goes so far to make our mind's clear in the discernment of the will of God as revealed by His Spirit as an absolutely surrendered will.
Here we find the reason why men oftentimes do not know God's will and do not have the Spirit's guidance. They are not willing to do whatever the Spirit leads at any cost. It is He who wants to do His will who will know not only of the doctrine but His daily duty. Men oftentimes come to me and say, "I cannot find out the will of God," but when I put to them the question, "are you willing to do the will of God at any cost?" They admit that the are not. The way that is very obscure when we hold back from an absolute surrender to God becomes as clear as day when we make that surrender. We must definitely "ask" for guidance.
4spirit@gmail.com
How to Wow by Frances Cole Jones is about proven strategies for presenting your ideas, persuading your audience and perfecting your image.
Loaded with key precepts on personal communication she gives chapter by chapter tips on how to make it work in the every day life of business. Such as... introducing yourself with impact, meetings and interviews, speeches, power point, writing and social interactions. These are ruddy communication skills that make you stand out as a business leader.
How to Wow is organized in a way you can use it as a reference source to get timely business savvy tips for a specific event you are about to become engaged.
Here's a few of her tips, but by no means exhaustive of all the down-to-earth business experiences Frances covers.
Face to Face communications
Know the 7-38-55 rule. 7% of influence comes from your words, 35% your tone of voice, and 55% your body language. Remember the James Bond memorable line. "My name is Bond... James Bond." The pause after Bond makes it zing. When someone asks you how you are doing.. Avoid the "incredible, great" reply. Be more creative and paint a picture of what great may be like. More isn't better, better is better. And learn to breathe from your diaphragm... sounds better and calms nerves.
When one-on-one the eyes have it.
Watch eyes, look into eyes, read the eyes. When talking to someone state the obvious. Because it is obvious, many times it may not be stated because everyone thinks they know. The "I'm just jokin" comment may not be a joke. People say this to cover a truth in what they say so not to overtly offend you. What we dislike in others may be what we dislike about ourselves. People may give away their true colors by what they say about others. Follow up and stay in touch, especially when you say you will.
In the Meeting
Hand your handouts out at the end of the meeting. They will read ahead and not follow your build up in the presentation. Use them as a summary of what you said, to hand out at the end, so they can review what you did say. Keep your hands where everyone can see them. It says you are not hiding anything. When others are speaking, look at them like you would gaze into the eyes of someone special on your first date. When others talk give them that great-first-date look.
Always be clear on: the situation you are covering, the mission, the execution strategies, administration needs, and the communication pipeline you take on every project.
The Interview
Get there early and be in the vicinity early. Announce yourself about 5 minutes before your interview. Pause before you answer a question. In difficult questions use this as time to think. This makes you come off as a thorough, thoughtful thinker.
Ask, but in a way that shows respect for ourselves and the other person. Know your walk away number. Keep your sense of humor, and followup promptly, professionally, with polish.
Speeches... stand and deliver
Check out the physical environment. Note acoustics, ability to be seen and heard. When you are given a Mike instead of tapping on it, just ask first if everyone can hear you. If you are in a long room without a mike, ask the same.
The speech everyone hears and remembers follows the Rule of 3. Have 3 main points and 3 good examples for each point. Most people can't remember past three. The examples help them make a tie into their lives.
When you plan to open up for questions, play it safe by having someone planted in the audience to ask a first question. Before you give a speech, tell them you will be taking questions... so they can make a note of it during the speech.
When you finish, no matter what the response, act pleased. Walk away with a confidence you said what you needed to say. This makes the audience sense an importance to what you said.
Keeping power in your powerpoint
Come early and pre-setup the room and make sure everything works. Arrange the room so everyone can see, note the best place for you to stand and be heard. Use the 10/20/30 Rule. Show no more than 10 slides, no longer than 20 minutes, no smaller than 30 point type.
Keep most important information on the right. People go left to right in how their eyes flow and accept as truth more what is on the right. Right means good.
Put it in Writing
Emails should communicate facts and figures. Attempts at emotion in email can backfire. Avoid the ALL CAPs and extra exclamation marks!!!!!. People take these as yelling.
Your resume should be clean, concise, active in language, concrete in detail and tailored to your recipient. When using a cover letter, use the one-two punch. It's not to tell the whole story but get the reader to get into what you want to say. State "why I am writing you, what I bring to the party." Write, review, rewrite.
In a speech, bullet your key points and don't write word for word.
Making the most of Social interactions
Many avoid social interactions in that they may come across too pushy when introducing themselves and talking about what they do, or seem opportunistic or needy. Although skills in these settings are very important to advance life and business opportunities.
Count your assets
You have more to offer than what you may think when you stand comparing yourself to others in the room. Get excited before you enter the room... turn dread into anticipation. Introduce yourself. Use Mr. and Mrs. when talking to others. Use mutual friends to introduce you, but if they are not there you need to introduce yourself. You can never error by being too polite. And when you introduce yourself don't do a full frontal assault. Create interest, then ask to followup in a few days.
Verbal finesse
When in doubt of a person's intentions, ask them to clarify...actively listen. Your word choice is critical. Use the word "situation" when discussing a problem. Don't react to hostile questions. Pause, repeat your top line message.
Respond to "what if" with "what is." Always ask for more clarification, then redirect when necessary. When not knowing how to respond, commend the other person for an interesting point of view.
For more on Frances Cole Jones, Cole Media Management, and How to Wow:
http://www.howtowow-thebook.com/
The Spirit is a powerful, pinpointing force for speaking to others. Here is a comprehensive summary of how to walk with precision in Spirit in all you do.
An excerpt from The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit by R.A. Torrey
True prayer is prayer in the Spirit (i.e., the prayer that the Holy Spirit inspires and directs). The prayer in which the Holy Spirit leads us is the prayer "according the will of God." (Rom 8:27) When we ask anything according to God's will, we know that He hears us, and we know that He has granted the things that we ask. (see 1 John 5:14-15.)
We may know it is ours at the moment when we pray just as surely as we know it afterwards when we have it in our actual possession.
But how can we know the will of God when we pray?
In two ways.
First of all, by what is written in His Word. All the promises in the Bible are sure, and if God promises anything in the Bible, we may be sure it is His will to give us that thing.
But there are many things that we need which are not specifically promised in the Word and still even in that case it is our privilege to know the will of God, for it is the work of the Holy Spirit to teach us God's will and lead us out in prayer along the line of God's will.
Some object to the Christian doctrine of prayer, for they say that it teaches that we can go to God in our ignorance and change His will and subject His Infinite wisdom to our erring foolishness, but that is not the Christian doctrine of prayer at all. The Christian doctrine of prayer is that it is the believer's privilege to be taught by the Spirit of God himself to know what the will of God is and not to ask for the things that our foolishness would prompt us to ask for but to ask for things that the never-erring Spirit of God prompts us to ask for.
True prayer is prayer "in the Spirit" (Eph. 6:18), that is, the prayer which the Spirit inspires and directs.
When we come into God's presence, we should recognize our infirmities: our ignorance of what is best for us, our ignorance of what we should pray for, and our ignorance of how we should pray for it. In the consciousness of our utter inability to pray correctly, we should look up to the Holy Spirit to teach us to pray and cast ourselves utterly upon Him to direct our prayers and to discover our desires and guide our utterance of them. There is no place where we need to recognize our ignorance more than we do in prayer.
Rushing heedlessly into God's presence and asking the first thing that comes into our minds, or that some other thoughtless one asks us to pray for, is not praying "in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 1:20) and is not true prayer. We must wait for the Holy Spirit and surrender ourselves to Him. The prayer that God the Holy Spirit inspires is the prayer that God the Father answers.
The longings which the Holy Spirit begets in our hearts are often too deep for utterance, too deep apparently for clear and definite comprehension on the part of the believer himself in whom the Spirit is working: "The Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." (Rom. 8:26)
God Himself "searches the hearts" to know what "the mind of the Spirit" is (Rom. 8:27) in these unuttered and unutterable longings. But God does know what the mind of the Spirit is. He does know what these Spirit-given longings which we cannot put into words mean even if we do not. These longing are "according to the will of God" (Rom. 8:27), and God grants them. It is in this way that it comes to pass that God's able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. (Eph. 3:20)
There are other times when the Spirit's leadings are so clear that we pray with the Spirit and with the understanding also. (1 Cor. 14:15) We distinctly understand what it is that the Holy Spirit leads us to pray for.
That we "Lack Wisdom."
We must be conscious of and fully admit our own inability to decide wisely. Here is where we often fail to receive God's wisdom. We think we are able to decide for ourselves or at least we are not ready to admit our own utter inability to decide. There must be an entire renunciation of the wisdom of the flesh.
We must really desire to know God's way and be willing at any cost to do God's will.
This is implied in the word, "ask". The asking must be sincere, and if we are not willing to do God's will, whatever it may be, at any cost, the asking is not sincere. This is a point of fundamental importance. There is nothing that goes so far to make our mind's clear in the discernment of the will of God as revealed by His Spirit as an absolutely surrendered will.
Here we find the reason why men oftentimes do not know God's will and do not have the Spirit's guidance. They are not willing to do whatever the Spirit leads at any cost. It is He who wants to do His will who will know not only of the doctrine but His daily duty. Men oftentimes come to me and say, "I cannot find out the will of God," but when I put to them the question, "are you willing to do the will of God at any cost?" They admit that the are not. The way that is very obscure when we hold back from an absolute surrender to God becomes as clear as day when we make that surrender. We must definitely "ask" for guidance.
It is not enough to desire; it is not enough to be willing to obey; we must ask, definitely ask God to show the way. We must confidently expect guidance.
"Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering."(James 1:6). There are many who cannot find the way, though they ask God to show it to them, simply because they have not the absolutely undoubting expectation that God will show them the way. God promises to show it if we expect it confidently. When you come to God in prayer to show you what to do, know for a certainty that He will show you. In what way He will show you, He does not tell but he promises that he will show you and that is enough.
We must follow step-by-step as the guidance comes.
As said before, just how it will come, no one can tell, but it will come. Often times only a step will be made clear at a time; that is all we need to know-the next step. Many are in darkness because they do not know and cannot find what God would have them do next week or next month or next year.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Answer... to great brains, business and Spirit
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray is a penetrating work on re-wiring your brain so it naturally manufactures achievement powers in business. The book has two parts. First, the mental retraining part, which is one of the most thorough treatments on this which actually shows you how you can re-wire your brain. Plus a section on building your business using these dynamic mental processes.
Here is a short view of what they do.
All the universe is tied to a brain that has a connection to everything. Goal setting, visualizing, affirmations work if done the right way. Assaraf scientifically explores these dynamics and shows the power of the process behind it.
Our physical world is made up of atoms. Atoms are indivisible units of energy when united. Einstein breaks it all down to that everything is energy. With the property of entanglement, these influence each other. When in a zero point field, a force appears at absolute zero, that's when all known forms of energy vanish. Instantaneous connections of entanglement are made and a field of information appears. Basically, then, everything is made of thought.
In a nutshell, everything in the physical world is made from atoms, atoms are made out of energy, and energy is made out of conscious.Thoughts create things, and belief is the power which creates reality of the thought. So ideas precede things and belief creates the things.
A law of attraction is established... what we think comes to being.The seed of your business is vision.The law of gestation then comes into play in that seeds need time to gestate and form. Carrot seeds take 70 days, human life takes 280 days. You can't force the seed to grow at this stage. If you push the process it pushes back. If you root up the seed before it gestates, it dies. You have to allow the idea time to germinate and grow, to take root and find its resources on its own time. The next most important law is the law of action. After you plant you water, weed, take care of the planted seed; you create the environment so it can grow.
These three laws work together
... attraction, gestation, action...
so you must be purposeful, patient, and active.
Along with this time you maintain clear thinking with a clear vision, clear on its details which is focus. The greater the clarity, the more consistent the focus, the better the results outcome.
Your brain is amazing. Your conscious brain has a will, memory, perception, reasoning, intuition and imagination. But your conscious brain is only 17% of your brain. The nonconscious brain has 83% capacity. It functions 800 times faster, stores everything, processes four hundred billion bits of information per second, and serves limitlessly all the requests of the conscious brain... good or bad. The conscious brain perceives past and future, whereas the nonconscious brain functions in the now.
Setting goals is a conscious process; achieving goals is a spiritual, nonconscious process. To achieve anything requires the extraordinary function of the nonconscious brain's advanced functions. You got to re-wire it. It has stored everything and recorded your judgments on every experience... good and bad. The bad needs to be replaced with the good, and that can be done.
Here's Assaraf's method: You must...
Find something that stirs your soul.
Become excellent at it.
Recondition your mind to believe you can have it and achieve it.
Understand how to make money at it.
Take daily action.
By establishing new habits that match your beliefs, without having your brain in conflict with your beliefs, your achievement levels begin advancing on their own. Assaraf calls this neural conditioning.
There are six steps to neural reconditioning.
Step 1: Create a new vision of your financial and business success. Make it emotionally rich and crystal clear.
Step 2: Create powerful declarations and affirmations that support the new vision.
Step 3: Develop emotional anchors for neural linking.
Step 4: Prepare a portfolio of imprinting material... written, auditory, visual, subliminal pieces.
Step 5: Maintain a brief daily routine of reconditioning techniques, three times a day (on waking, midday, before bed).
Step 6: Employ various forms of neurotechnology to reinforce these images throughout the day.
Create a new vision.
New vision takes repetition, repetition, repetition. Plus impact. You create an imprint in your mind that has dramatic impact. To imprint, it must be done over and over again. You are laying down new tracks to replace the old tracks so this becomes your neural path. What you have experienced is eventually over-ridden by what you imagine, if done enough times. The brain does not know the difference from what is imagined, if imagined vividly, strongly, and repeatedly, and it becomes the new reality of who you are, of how you immediately respond.
Create Powerful Affirmations.
Affirmations are statements as if what you are saying is already existing with the emotion of how much you are liking the way it is. It's taking the future and making it present. One suggestion Assaraf has is to think about something very exciting that happened in your life, and think on this until your emotions well up like they did when it actually happened. At the peak of this emotion, do your new affirmation with the same excitement. This gives real life to your affirmation. It affects your belief system to really believe it is possible. Say, "I am a brilliant and savvy business person" over and over, and your nonconscious will embed this belief and create better thinking process for you to be just that. When you brain says... "naaaa"! You must override it with the affirmation again and again and it will eventually believe it, and make it you.
Create emotional anchors for neural linking.
This is linking the new belief with powerful feelings that already exist in association with some other memory. It is taking the example above of a highly gratifying, positive emotionally charged experience, like winning a talent show, getting a wonderful present, being loved by someone very special, doing something that no one can do as good as you... that made you feel sensational inside. Then as you recall these events, it potently affects your self-worth to override failures of the past, to create the excitement tied to it, making your new affirmation become you. At the height of this emotion, say the affirmation within the vision and feeling of this
heightened emotion. This is neural linking.
Neural linking is a powerful mind-control exercise that strengthens your mind belief system, and desire for what you envision and hope for.
Prepare neural imprinting material.
Write statements about your success, type and laminate them. Listen to audio recordings, and record your own voice about the excitement of your achievement. Also consider subliminal recordings (which Assaraf has) and vision or dream boards. Keep pictures of what your new life looks like around you everywhere.
Create neural reconditioning routines.
Meditate. Learn the art of meditation which Assaraf explains how to do it. He is very thorough in explaining how you can do this... and do it well. It must be mastered, and when you do, you will get outstanding results and see amazing changes in your life.
Meditation increases abilities of focus and concentration, observation, creates energy, helps you learn and remember better, overcomes illnesses... and more. When the brain waves are at the alpha lever, between totally awake and asleep, that is sleepy but still awake, the nonconscious is most susceptible to impressions to it. It takes when you put in it as fact, records these and makes them your active reference on how you function. In meditation and then deliberately reprogramming or re-wiring the brain, you create some of the most astounding changes you will ever see in your life.
The sixth step is using neurotechnology.
That's audio and subliminal forms of communication. Even though we are not consciously aware of many impulses to our brain, they are making an imprint on our brain.
In summary, when doing the neural reconditioning processes, it is better to do them three times a day... at morning, midday, and evening. The dynamic core is
Meditation
Visualization
Affirmations
And throughout the day, apply various forms of neurotechnology.
Then the second part of The Answer takes you into how to re-wire your business using your re-wired brain to build a mental magnitude that propels your business to greatly expanded horizons.
It's about vision, focus, action. Doing a gap analysis... looking at where you are, where you want to go, and what needs to be done in between.
Murray Smith handles much of this second half taking you through a systematic journey of identifying your ideal customer, innovating your business, finding your business DNA, reaching your ideal customer, using the laws of attraction, gestation, action to think big... but this time you make it work. This is equivalent to a second book... very thorough.
The Answer is loaded with forms at the back of the book and even more resources at www.onecoach.com/theanswer
The brain is a very powerful organism created by God. Jesus told us about another powerful organism... that is living in Spirit and tying to God in Spirit. When in Spirit with God, we then expand brain potential to Spirit potential which is universe creating power. We can apply the method suggested by Assaraf to refining this Spiritual connection we have.
In Meditation-- go into the presence of God and let the Spirit speak, allow the Principles of Scripture to soak in. Allow The Holy Spirit to penetrate and rebuild your soul.
Add Visualization--see God revolutionizing the lives of those you are praying for.This is faith. Seeing the answer as given, before it materializes. From this, God stirs revelations of Spirit, of things to come and what He will do. (Do this as you pray for friends, relationships, co-workers... and see God transform their lives.)
Then Affirmation--Praise God for the victory as if everything you are praying for has already happened. In faith let praise be on your lips, your voice, your heart and mind. As David did, proclaim the victory like he did when he charged the giant. In vigor and with all you got, shout out in strong belief the power of God in your life, claiming victory. In the Old Testament, many times they gave a Big Shout as they charged the enemy.
If we would make this our process of prayer, and in faith reach into the presence of God, and seek His insights and directions, we would see a super-powerful path open up before us.
"For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs." (Zephaniah 3:17, NLT)
We are reminded that God is a Living God. He is Spirit. And this is an active creative Spirit. This is an intelligent Spirit that communicates and saturates the universe... all of existence, and all that can be created to exist. He is personal and speaks personally to each and every creation... of those who will listen. This very Spirit of God chooses to live in Us. In meditation we can go to this Spirit of God which then extends into His infinity of existence.
"Yet the time will come when Israel's people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, 'You are not my people,' it will be said, 'You are children of the living God.'" (Hosea 1:10, NLT)
This Spirit lives in us and delights to bring tangible victory we can witness with our own eyes. Spirit, of the invisible, becomes visible in production of its results. He brings joy into our lives and gives us depth of satisfaction in lifestyle.
God then takes these simple steps and begins transforming us as we continually mediate on His ways, His principles of living. We know the source of our power and we go to it. We know the credit belongs to His Power in us, working for us, that penetrates all things around us.
"As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world's interest in me has also died. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation. May God's peace and mercy be upon all who live by this principle; they are the new people of God." (Galatians 6:14-16, NLT)
"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." (Romans 12:2, NLT)
Our methods to accomplish things change. We learn, become acquainted with Spirit and rely on Spirit to work at levels greater than our brains. Our brains join with this power and we walk in a dual transforming power.
Andrew Murray reminds us of how significant this vehicle is in our lives.
"Man is God's temple. In him, too, there are the three parts. In the body you have the outer court, the external visible life, where all the conduct has to be regulated by God's law, and where all the service consists in looking to that which is done without us and for us to bring us nigh to God. Then there is the soul, with its inner life, its power of mind and feeling and will. In the regenerate man this is the Holy Place, where thoughts and affections and desires move to and fro as the priests of the sanctuary, rendering God their service in the full light of consciousness. And then comes within the veil, hidden from all human sight and light, the hidden inmost sanctuary, ' the secret place of the Most High,' where God dwells, and where man may not enter, until the veil is rent at God's own bidding. Man has not only body and soul, but also Spirit. Deeper down than where the soul with its consciousness can enter, there is a Spirit-nature linking man with God." (from the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray), more at:
http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/murray/7764/776424.htm
The implications here are beyond mental comprehension, so in faith as we meditate on Scriptures, see the answer as we pray, and proclaim with our voice the workings of God's Spirit in our life, we see this Supernatural power working outstandingly around us.
It's embedded in our minds, hearts and Spirit when meditating on His principles.
Revelation is produced to show what God is about to do and what we are about in doing it.
Proclamation voices it vigorously in our lives to boldly overtake our foes.
A partnership in Spirit that yields an active, living Supernatural lifestyle.
4spirit@gmail.com
The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray is a penetrating work on re-wiring your brain so it naturally manufactures achievement powers in business. The book has two parts. First, the mental retraining part, which is one of the most thorough treatments on this which actually shows you how you can re-wire your brain. Plus a section on building your business using these dynamic mental processes.
Here is a short view of what they do.
All the universe is tied to a brain that has a connection to everything. Goal setting, visualizing, affirmations work if done the right way. Assaraf scientifically explores these dynamics and shows the power of the process behind it.
Our physical world is made up of atoms. Atoms are indivisible units of energy when united. Einstein breaks it all down to that everything is energy. With the property of entanglement, these influence each other. When in a zero point field, a force appears at absolute zero, that's when all known forms of energy vanish. Instantaneous connections of entanglement are made and a field of information appears. Basically, then, everything is made of thought.
In a nutshell, everything in the physical world is made from atoms, atoms are made out of energy, and energy is made out of conscious.Thoughts create things, and belief is the power which creates reality of the thought. So ideas precede things and belief creates the things.
A law of attraction is established... what we think comes to being.The seed of your business is vision.The law of gestation then comes into play in that seeds need time to gestate and form. Carrot seeds take 70 days, human life takes 280 days. You can't force the seed to grow at this stage. If you push the process it pushes back. If you root up the seed before it gestates, it dies. You have to allow the idea time to germinate and grow, to take root and find its resources on its own time. The next most important law is the law of action. After you plant you water, weed, take care of the planted seed; you create the environment so it can grow.
These three laws work together
... attraction, gestation, action...
so you must be purposeful, patient, and active.
Along with this time you maintain clear thinking with a clear vision, clear on its details which is focus. The greater the clarity, the more consistent the focus, the better the results outcome.
Your brain is amazing. Your conscious brain has a will, memory, perception, reasoning, intuition and imagination. But your conscious brain is only 17% of your brain. The nonconscious brain has 83% capacity. It functions 800 times faster, stores everything, processes four hundred billion bits of information per second, and serves limitlessly all the requests of the conscious brain... good or bad. The conscious brain perceives past and future, whereas the nonconscious brain functions in the now.
Setting goals is a conscious process; achieving goals is a spiritual, nonconscious process. To achieve anything requires the extraordinary function of the nonconscious brain's advanced functions. You got to re-wire it. It has stored everything and recorded your judgments on every experience... good and bad. The bad needs to be replaced with the good, and that can be done.
Here's Assaraf's method: You must...
Find something that stirs your soul.
Become excellent at it.
Recondition your mind to believe you can have it and achieve it.
Understand how to make money at it.
Take daily action.
By establishing new habits that match your beliefs, without having your brain in conflict with your beliefs, your achievement levels begin advancing on their own. Assaraf calls this neural conditioning.
There are six steps to neural reconditioning.
Step 1: Create a new vision of your financial and business success. Make it emotionally rich and crystal clear.
Step 2: Create powerful declarations and affirmations that support the new vision.
Step 3: Develop emotional anchors for neural linking.
Step 4: Prepare a portfolio of imprinting material... written, auditory, visual, subliminal pieces.
Step 5: Maintain a brief daily routine of reconditioning techniques, three times a day (on waking, midday, before bed).
Step 6: Employ various forms of neurotechnology to reinforce these images throughout the day.
Create a new vision.
New vision takes repetition, repetition, repetition. Plus impact. You create an imprint in your mind that has dramatic impact. To imprint, it must be done over and over again. You are laying down new tracks to replace the old tracks so this becomes your neural path. What you have experienced is eventually over-ridden by what you imagine, if done enough times. The brain does not know the difference from what is imagined, if imagined vividly, strongly, and repeatedly, and it becomes the new reality of who you are, of how you immediately respond.
Create Powerful Affirmations.
Affirmations are statements as if what you are saying is already existing with the emotion of how much you are liking the way it is. It's taking the future and making it present. One suggestion Assaraf has is to think about something very exciting that happened in your life, and think on this until your emotions well up like they did when it actually happened. At the peak of this emotion, do your new affirmation with the same excitement. This gives real life to your affirmation. It affects your belief system to really believe it is possible. Say, "I am a brilliant and savvy business person" over and over, and your nonconscious will embed this belief and create better thinking process for you to be just that. When you brain says... "naaaa"! You must override it with the affirmation again and again and it will eventually believe it, and make it you.
Create emotional anchors for neural linking.
This is linking the new belief with powerful feelings that already exist in association with some other memory. It is taking the example above of a highly gratifying, positive emotionally charged experience, like winning a talent show, getting a wonderful present, being loved by someone very special, doing something that no one can do as good as you... that made you feel sensational inside. Then as you recall these events, it potently affects your self-worth to override failures of the past, to create the excitement tied to it, making your new affirmation become you. At the height of this emotion, say the affirmation within the vision and feeling of this
heightened emotion. This is neural linking.
Neural linking is a powerful mind-control exercise that strengthens your mind belief system, and desire for what you envision and hope for.
Prepare neural imprinting material.
Write statements about your success, type and laminate them. Listen to audio recordings, and record your own voice about the excitement of your achievement. Also consider subliminal recordings (which Assaraf has) and vision or dream boards. Keep pictures of what your new life looks like around you everywhere.
Create neural reconditioning routines.
Meditate. Learn the art of meditation which Assaraf explains how to do it. He is very thorough in explaining how you can do this... and do it well. It must be mastered, and when you do, you will get outstanding results and see amazing changes in your life.
Meditation increases abilities of focus and concentration, observation, creates energy, helps you learn and remember better, overcomes illnesses... and more. When the brain waves are at the alpha lever, between totally awake and asleep, that is sleepy but still awake, the nonconscious is most susceptible to impressions to it. It takes when you put in it as fact, records these and makes them your active reference on how you function. In meditation and then deliberately reprogramming or re-wiring the brain, you create some of the most astounding changes you will ever see in your life.
The sixth step is using neurotechnology.
That's audio and subliminal forms of communication. Even though we are not consciously aware of many impulses to our brain, they are making an imprint on our brain.
In summary, when doing the neural reconditioning processes, it is better to do them three times a day... at morning, midday, and evening. The dynamic core is
Meditation
Visualization
Affirmations
And throughout the day, apply various forms of neurotechnology.
Then the second part of The Answer takes you into how to re-wire your business using your re-wired brain to build a mental magnitude that propels your business to greatly expanded horizons.
It's about vision, focus, action. Doing a gap analysis... looking at where you are, where you want to go, and what needs to be done in between.
Murray Smith handles much of this second half taking you through a systematic journey of identifying your ideal customer, innovating your business, finding your business DNA, reaching your ideal customer, using the laws of attraction, gestation, action to think big... but this time you make it work. This is equivalent to a second book... very thorough.
The Answer is loaded with forms at the back of the book and even more resources at www.onecoach.com/theanswer
The brain is a very powerful organism created by God. Jesus told us about another powerful organism... that is living in Spirit and tying to God in Spirit. When in Spirit with God, we then expand brain potential to Spirit potential which is universe creating power. We can apply the method suggested by Assaraf to refining this Spiritual connection we have.
In Meditation-- go into the presence of God and let the Spirit speak, allow the Principles of Scripture to soak in. Allow The Holy Spirit to penetrate and rebuild your soul.
Add Visualization--see God revolutionizing the lives of those you are praying for.This is faith. Seeing the answer as given, before it materializes. From this, God stirs revelations of Spirit, of things to come and what He will do. (Do this as you pray for friends, relationships, co-workers... and see God transform their lives.)
Then Affirmation--Praise God for the victory as if everything you are praying for has already happened. In faith let praise be on your lips, your voice, your heart and mind. As David did, proclaim the victory like he did when he charged the giant. In vigor and with all you got, shout out in strong belief the power of God in your life, claiming victory. In the Old Testament, many times they gave a Big Shout as they charged the enemy.
If we would make this our process of prayer, and in faith reach into the presence of God, and seek His insights and directions, we would see a super-powerful path open up before us.
"For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs." (Zephaniah 3:17, NLT)
We are reminded that God is a Living God. He is Spirit. And this is an active creative Spirit. This is an intelligent Spirit that communicates and saturates the universe... all of existence, and all that can be created to exist. He is personal and speaks personally to each and every creation... of those who will listen. This very Spirit of God chooses to live in Us. In meditation we can go to this Spirit of God which then extends into His infinity of existence.
"Yet the time will come when Israel's people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, 'You are not my people,' it will be said, 'You are children of the living God.'" (Hosea 1:10, NLT)
This Spirit lives in us and delights to bring tangible victory we can witness with our own eyes. Spirit, of the invisible, becomes visible in production of its results. He brings joy into our lives and gives us depth of satisfaction in lifestyle.
God then takes these simple steps and begins transforming us as we continually mediate on His ways, His principles of living. We know the source of our power and we go to it. We know the credit belongs to His Power in us, working for us, that penetrates all things around us.
"As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world's interest in me has also died. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation. May God's peace and mercy be upon all who live by this principle; they are the new people of God." (Galatians 6:14-16, NLT)
"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." (Romans 12:2, NLT)
Our methods to accomplish things change. We learn, become acquainted with Spirit and rely on Spirit to work at levels greater than our brains. Our brains join with this power and we walk in a dual transforming power.
Andrew Murray reminds us of how significant this vehicle is in our lives.
"Man is God's temple. In him, too, there are the three parts. In the body you have the outer court, the external visible life, where all the conduct has to be regulated by God's law, and where all the service consists in looking to that which is done without us and for us to bring us nigh to God. Then there is the soul, with its inner life, its power of mind and feeling and will. In the regenerate man this is the Holy Place, where thoughts and affections and desires move to and fro as the priests of the sanctuary, rendering God their service in the full light of consciousness. And then comes within the veil, hidden from all human sight and light, the hidden inmost sanctuary, ' the secret place of the Most High,' where God dwells, and where man may not enter, until the veil is rent at God's own bidding. Man has not only body and soul, but also Spirit. Deeper down than where the soul with its consciousness can enter, there is a Spirit-nature linking man with God." (from the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray), more at:
http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/murray/7764/776424.htm
The implications here are beyond mental comprehension, so in faith as we meditate on Scriptures, see the answer as we pray, and proclaim with our voice the workings of God's Spirit in our life, we see this Supernatural power working outstandingly around us.
It's embedded in our minds, hearts and Spirit when meditating on His principles.
Revelation is produced to show what God is about to do and what we are about in doing it.
Proclamation voices it vigorously in our lives to boldly overtake our foes.
A partnership in Spirit that yields an active, living Supernatural lifestyle.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Just Enough Anxiety... embrace growth stress
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
In Just Enough Anxiety by Robert H. Rosen, Rosens says, "It's time to embrace change, uncertainty and anxiety as facts of life. We can use our healthy anxiety as a positive force for growth. Just enough anxiety is the key to living and leading in our complex world. Rosen shows us in Just Enough Anxiety how this can work for us instead of against us.
Anxiety is about uncertainty. But this can be a motivator to make change for the better in times of uncertainty. After reviewing what triggers anxiety and the productive and nonproductive responses to it, Rosen gives us a powerful roadmap, a new model, and shows us how to re-wire our brain to making it a very useful tool in our lives. We must balance our need for protection and growth.
The anxiety gap is our current reality, problems and challenges,
and the distance of the gap to our desired outcome, opportunities and dreams.
If the gap is too small we may remain complacent and unmotivated and if the gap is too large we may be over whelmed and immobilized. To navigate the gap it takes an open mind of self-awareness, lifelong learning, and non-attachment. Then fuel movement through the gap with an open heart of emotional honesty, empathy and compassion, and emotional resilience.
When the head and heart are aligned emotional intelligence rises stimulating intellectual ability. We think clearly, communicate effectively, are creative, fulfill relationships and perform vibrantly. You create balance between these two desires by pushing, pacing, then taking time for rest and renewal.
Close the gap by identifying your target of change,
imagine desired outcomes, assess current reality,
analyze your ability to close the gap,
take one step at a time as you remain focused.
This gap is important to grow using uncertainty positively in your life.
Anxiety has three faces.
Too little anxiety or too much contentment, which can create boredom or stagnation.
A second face is too much anxiety which attacks change, combatant and controlling.
The ideal is the third face... just enough anxiety. You embrace change and challenges, search for opportunities, learn and grow.
Too little anxiety causes one to be detached, cautious, overpleasing, too idealistic. Too much anxiety causes one to be suspicious, a perfectionistic, volatile, egotistical. Just enough anxiety comes in the middle of these two... which is a balance. This then forms a productive energy to achieve sustainable growth. Bring the above two extremes to a middle place and there is productive action.
This creates a paradox... but a paradox of power. Learn the art of moving to the middle.
Here are some paradoxes of the middle between too little and too much anxiety.
Too little anxiety can be idealistic, but too much is cynical.
The middle power is optimistic and realistic.
You see things as they are, but have a positive path to initiate change for growth.
Too little anxiety can be complacent, too much careless or reckless.
The middle or just enough anxiety is constructive and impatient.
You choose to get on to get things done, but in a constructive well-conceived design.
Too little anxiety can be self-doubting, too much arrogant.
Just enough anxiety, in the middle, is humble and confident. Knowing you don't know everything but confident in finding other resources for gaining productive energy. Too little anxiety is ineffective energy, too much chaotic energy, but just enough anxiety is productive energy created by the synergy of paradox combined.
Just enough anxiety then is
optimistic and realistic,
constructive and impatient,
humble and confident.
These then create the power in the paradox.
Just enough anxiety leaders have an open heart which invites passion. In an age of lightening speed, they have confident humility nurturing trust. Needing something to believe in, realistic optimism focuses energy to that vision. Expanding knowledge and skills continually is vital in the frantic changing world, so the open mind fosters learning.
Constructive impatience is the fuel to ignite performance, producing results.
The organization develops around this wheel of open heart to open mind cylinder internalizing purpose and values, mobilizing productive relationships, creating shared direction, unleashing and harnessing creativity and innovation, completing the circle cycling to achieving performance excellence.
Tapping your full potential, just enough anxiety is the power force in your life as you commit to know yourself, be yourself, challenge yourself, and to love yourself.
Robert Rosen and Just Enough Anxiety are building Healthy Companies and their company of the same name has more tools and programs at
www.justenoughanxiety.com
It takes a little weirdness in our lives for us to grow. When things go well we have a tendency to become complacent and not grow.
When the Children of Israel were blessed by God, they became complacent and no longer served Him. They loved the blessing more than the one who provided the blessings. They loved the things around them, the things they enjoyed, but forget who brought them.
Too much niceness in life, takes the edge off which also eliminates the potential joy we get in victory and growth. Happiness is growth, and when we stop growing we cease having a sense of fulfillment. It takes some tension to get us to grow, and growing through challenges is where true growth and soundness of mind matures.
That's why the Apostles said that suffering brought joy.
Now that is a paradox of Scriptures.
Why would suffering, trials, struggles bring joy. Here is their take on the benefits of being challenged and it is actually good for our growth. As Rosen calls it "just enough anxiety."
Paul, the apostle, pointed out the value of struggles, just enough anxiety, in the problems we face. "We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love." (Romans 5: 3-5, NLT)
It increases our love for Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God, because it shows how much He is there and comes into our lives even more just when we need Him.
James begins his letter by saying that we should rejoice because of what trials, problems, anxieties of life, will produce in us. That we should look to its product, what it will cultivate in our lives. "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing." (James 1:2-4, NLT)
So realize it will make us better than before, and with that we almost get excited about the idea. It takes some tension to cause us to grow... from muscle building to life attitude and mental strength building. To build muscle we must strain to lift more than we have before, then with rest, it builds up stronger for the next time. Tension, strain, then rest in Spirit, continues to build up Spiritual strength we have never had before. So we are happy with what it will bring us.
Without uncertainties of life, we don't press through the struggle to become a more powerful person. In that, even if someone has bad intentions and wants to hurt us, we can even rejoice because of what it will do for us. Making us better and stronger that without it we wouldn't have. So as James said we can consider it great joy.
Peter, the Apostle, chooses to address the same theme in the first chapter of his letter. "So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world." (1 Peter 1: 6-7, NLT)
Our rewards are established when we prove we will endure the test. Any athlete knows he must actually perform to prove his abilities. Without the event, his skills are not proven. But when he does, the rewards are there.
The tension that challenges produce is a main ingredient for God's Spirit to accomplish the level of perfection He wants us to have in our lives. We can be glad and know that God is building this in us. And we are coming into the perfected Spirit He desires to implant in us.
"So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God's obedient children. Don't slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn't know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, "You must be holy because I am holy." (1 Peter 1:13-16, NLT)
As you see, we will remain in His love and strength and be perfected so that we will be strong in Him. Because of these experiences, we thought were trials and struggles, we develop a inner stamina, a righteousness in Spirit that Peter refers to as Holy. We have strength in Spirit to not slip back in to our olds ways which revealed our weaknesses. We are stronger and can take on a much larger mission in our lives that God may very well be using all we have gone through to prepare us for it.
So rejoice!
He is building you up,
to be the better stronger person,
to do much more through your life for the Kingdom of God,
than you ever imagined.
4spirit@gmail.com
In Just Enough Anxiety by Robert H. Rosen, Rosens says, "It's time to embrace change, uncertainty and anxiety as facts of life. We can use our healthy anxiety as a positive force for growth. Just enough anxiety is the key to living and leading in our complex world. Rosen shows us in Just Enough Anxiety how this can work for us instead of against us.
Anxiety is about uncertainty. But this can be a motivator to make change for the better in times of uncertainty. After reviewing what triggers anxiety and the productive and nonproductive responses to it, Rosen gives us a powerful roadmap, a new model, and shows us how to re-wire our brain to making it a very useful tool in our lives. We must balance our need for protection and growth.
The anxiety gap is our current reality, problems and challenges,
and the distance of the gap to our desired outcome, opportunities and dreams.
If the gap is too small we may remain complacent and unmotivated and if the gap is too large we may be over whelmed and immobilized. To navigate the gap it takes an open mind of self-awareness, lifelong learning, and non-attachment. Then fuel movement through the gap with an open heart of emotional honesty, empathy and compassion, and emotional resilience.
When the head and heart are aligned emotional intelligence rises stimulating intellectual ability. We think clearly, communicate effectively, are creative, fulfill relationships and perform vibrantly. You create balance between these two desires by pushing, pacing, then taking time for rest and renewal.
Close the gap by identifying your target of change,
imagine desired outcomes, assess current reality,
analyze your ability to close the gap,
take one step at a time as you remain focused.
This gap is important to grow using uncertainty positively in your life.
Anxiety has three faces.
Too little anxiety or too much contentment, which can create boredom or stagnation.
A second face is too much anxiety which attacks change, combatant and controlling.
The ideal is the third face... just enough anxiety. You embrace change and challenges, search for opportunities, learn and grow.
Too little anxiety causes one to be detached, cautious, overpleasing, too idealistic. Too much anxiety causes one to be suspicious, a perfectionistic, volatile, egotistical. Just enough anxiety comes in the middle of these two... which is a balance. This then forms a productive energy to achieve sustainable growth. Bring the above two extremes to a middle place and there is productive action.
This creates a paradox... but a paradox of power. Learn the art of moving to the middle.
Here are some paradoxes of the middle between too little and too much anxiety.
Too little anxiety can be idealistic, but too much is cynical.
The middle power is optimistic and realistic.
You see things as they are, but have a positive path to initiate change for growth.
Too little anxiety can be complacent, too much careless or reckless.
The middle or just enough anxiety is constructive and impatient.
You choose to get on to get things done, but in a constructive well-conceived design.
Too little anxiety can be self-doubting, too much arrogant.
Just enough anxiety, in the middle, is humble and confident. Knowing you don't know everything but confident in finding other resources for gaining productive energy. Too little anxiety is ineffective energy, too much chaotic energy, but just enough anxiety is productive energy created by the synergy of paradox combined.
Just enough anxiety then is
optimistic and realistic,
constructive and impatient,
humble and confident.
These then create the power in the paradox.
Just enough anxiety leaders have an open heart which invites passion. In an age of lightening speed, they have confident humility nurturing trust. Needing something to believe in, realistic optimism focuses energy to that vision. Expanding knowledge and skills continually is vital in the frantic changing world, so the open mind fosters learning.
Constructive impatience is the fuel to ignite performance, producing results.
The organization develops around this wheel of open heart to open mind cylinder internalizing purpose and values, mobilizing productive relationships, creating shared direction, unleashing and harnessing creativity and innovation, completing the circle cycling to achieving performance excellence.
Tapping your full potential, just enough anxiety is the power force in your life as you commit to know yourself, be yourself, challenge yourself, and to love yourself.
Robert Rosen and Just Enough Anxiety are building Healthy Companies and their company of the same name has more tools and programs at
www.justenoughanxiety.com
It takes a little weirdness in our lives for us to grow. When things go well we have a tendency to become complacent and not grow.
When the Children of Israel were blessed by God, they became complacent and no longer served Him. They loved the blessing more than the one who provided the blessings. They loved the things around them, the things they enjoyed, but forget who brought them.
Too much niceness in life, takes the edge off which also eliminates the potential joy we get in victory and growth. Happiness is growth, and when we stop growing we cease having a sense of fulfillment. It takes some tension to get us to grow, and growing through challenges is where true growth and soundness of mind matures.
That's why the Apostles said that suffering brought joy.
Now that is a paradox of Scriptures.
Why would suffering, trials, struggles bring joy. Here is their take on the benefits of being challenged and it is actually good for our growth. As Rosen calls it "just enough anxiety."
Paul, the apostle, pointed out the value of struggles, just enough anxiety, in the problems we face. "We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love." (Romans 5: 3-5, NLT)
It increases our love for Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God, because it shows how much He is there and comes into our lives even more just when we need Him.
James begins his letter by saying that we should rejoice because of what trials, problems, anxieties of life, will produce in us. That we should look to its product, what it will cultivate in our lives. "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing." (James 1:2-4, NLT)
So realize it will make us better than before, and with that we almost get excited about the idea. It takes some tension to cause us to grow... from muscle building to life attitude and mental strength building. To build muscle we must strain to lift more than we have before, then with rest, it builds up stronger for the next time. Tension, strain, then rest in Spirit, continues to build up Spiritual strength we have never had before. So we are happy with what it will bring us.
Without uncertainties of life, we don't press through the struggle to become a more powerful person. In that, even if someone has bad intentions and wants to hurt us, we can even rejoice because of what it will do for us. Making us better and stronger that without it we wouldn't have. So as James said we can consider it great joy.
Peter, the Apostle, chooses to address the same theme in the first chapter of his letter. "So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world." (1 Peter 1: 6-7, NLT)
Our rewards are established when we prove we will endure the test. Any athlete knows he must actually perform to prove his abilities. Without the event, his skills are not proven. But when he does, the rewards are there.
The tension that challenges produce is a main ingredient for God's Spirit to accomplish the level of perfection He wants us to have in our lives. We can be glad and know that God is building this in us. And we are coming into the perfected Spirit He desires to implant in us.
"So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God's obedient children. Don't slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn't know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, "You must be holy because I am holy." (1 Peter 1:13-16, NLT)
As you see, we will remain in His love and strength and be perfected so that we will be strong in Him. Because of these experiences, we thought were trials and struggles, we develop a inner stamina, a righteousness in Spirit that Peter refers to as Holy. We have strength in Spirit to not slip back in to our olds ways which revealed our weaknesses. We are stronger and can take on a much larger mission in our lives that God may very well be using all we have gone through to prepare us for it.
So rejoice!
He is building you up,
to be the better stronger person,
to do much more through your life for the Kingdom of God,
than you ever imagined.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
One Minute Entrepreneur... an entrepreneur of Spirit
by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Why the One Minute Entrepreneur by Ken Blanchard and Don Hutson?...
"The best advice we ever received was given in less than a minute."
Three keys to entrepreneur success:
Finances; knowing how to manage them.
Your people; empower others to become like owners.
Taking care of customers; it's beyond being the best at what you do, but also taking care of the customers.
There are twenty attributes of successful entrepreneurs.
Find them at:www.estrengths.com
Each chapter concludes with the outline of principles the chapter features.The chapter itself is a story, or parable, of potential real world situations which explain the principles. For now, here are the principles, although the story is worth reading for application and insight.
Build the Foundation
Associate with people you admire and can learn from. Keep a notebook of wisdom you read, hear, learn. Build on strong values... integrity, love, honesty. You never need to cheat; what is right is more important than who is right.
Grow in knowledge
...through people you meet and books you read. Help others get what they want to get what you want. Success comes when opportunity and preparation meet.
Learn the Craft
Humility opens you to learn and grow, master the basics. Visualize your outcome.
Gain a Vital team
People come into your life for a reason. Build a great marriage. You and your spouse are a team.
Doors Open
Create a big dream and seize opportunity knocking. Never let expenses outstrip revenue. Collect timely from customers; they pay the bills. Nurture your people.
Launch the Company
Find new sources of revenue. Seek advice when going to new levels. Always be making a profit.
Financial Growing Pains
Generate cash, cash, cash. Good cash management is imperative. Profit comes when there's good customer care; a motivating environment.
Create Legendary Services
Create the experience you want them to have. Listen to your customers. Let your people soar like eagles
.
Help People Soar like Eagles
Work in partnership with your people. Encourage everyone to be leaders. Coach day by day. It's about everyone getting A's.
Ego Issues
It's more than numbers. Work and home relationships need nourished. Keep priorities in order and seek advice from mentors.
Turn Things Around
Patiently implement a good biz plan than recklessly pushing for growth. Wrong leaders will send you wrong places. Right leaders can steer you the right direction.
Putting it All Together
Live happy, fulfilled, be generous. Giving is as rewarding as receiving. Be intentional about leaving legacies. Helping and forgiving reap good returns.
There's more including the top 20 attributes of entrepreneurs at their website. Take their test and find yours.
www.estrengths.com
D. L. Moody may be one Gifted as an entrepreneur of Spirit for building the kingdom of God. This article by R. A. Torrey, a close associate of Moody's, provides insight to why he was so gifted. Here's the link to the complete article, below is a version I abbreviated for you.
http://www.freewebs.com/ratorrey/Why%20God%20Used%20D%20L%20%20Moody%20.htm
Why God Used D. L. Moody
By R. A. Torrey
Close associate and friend of D. L. Moody
But how was it that D. L. Moody had that power of God so wonderfully manifested in his life? Pondering this question, it seemed to me that there were seven things in the life of D. L. Moody that accounted for God's using him so largely as He did.
(1) A Fully Surrendered Man
The first thing that accounts for God's using D. L. Moody so mightily was that he was a fully surrendered man. Every ounce of that two-hundred-and-eighty-pound body of his belonged to God; everything he was and everything he had, belonged wholly to God. Now, I am not saying that Mr. Moody was perfect; he was not.
I presume I knew whatever defects there were in his character as well as anybody. But while I recognized such flaws, nevertheless, I know that he was a man who belonged wholly to God.
But Mr. Moody did not stop short of absolute surrender to God; he was a wholly surrendered man, and if you and I are to be used, you and I must be wholly surrendered men and women.
(2) A Man of Prayer
The second secret of the great power exhibited in Mr. Moody's life was that Mr. Moody was in the deepest and most meaningful sense a man of prayer.Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to surmount and to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that "nothing was too hard for the Lord" and that prayer could do anything that God could do.
Often we were gathered in the lecture room far into the night -- sometimes till one, two, three, four or even five o'clock in the morning, crying to God, just because Mr. Moody urged us to wait upon God until we received His blessing. How many men and women I have known whose lives and characters have been transformed by those nights of prayer and who have wrought mighty things in many lands because of those nights of prayer!
He was a man who met every difficulty that stood in his way -- by prayer. Everything he undertook was backed up by prayer, and in everything, his ultimate dependence was upon God.
(3) A Deep and Practical Student of the Bible
The third secret of Mr. Moody's power, or the third reason why God used D. L. Moody, was because he was a deep and practical student of the Word of God. Every day of his life, I have reason for believing, he arose very early in the morning to study the Word of God, way down to the close of his life. Mr. Moody used to rise about four o'clock in the morning to study the Bible. He would say to me: "If I am going to get in any study, I have got to get up before the other folks get up"; and he would shut himself up in a remote room in his house, alone with his God and his Bible.
STUDY the one Book, and preach, preach, PREACH the one Book, and teach, teach, TEACH the one Book, the Bible, the only Book that is God's Word, and the only Book that has power to gather and hold and bless the crowds for any great length of time.
(4) A Humble Man
The fourth reason why God continuously, through so many years, used D. L. Moody was because he was a humble man. I think D. L. Moody was the humblest man I ever knew in all my life. He loved to quote the words of another; "Faith gets the most; love works the most; but humility keeps the most. "
He himself had the humility that keeps everything it gets. As I have already said, he was the most humble man I ever knew, i.e., the most humble man when we bear in mind the great things that he did, and the praise that was lavished upon him. Oh, how he loved to put himself in the background and put other men in the foreground. How often he would stand on a platform with some of us little fellows seated behind him and as he spoke, he would say: "There are better men coming after me." As he said it, he would point back over his shoulder with his thumb to the "little fellows. " I do not know how he could believe it, but he really did believe that the others that were coming after him were really better than he was. He made no pretense to a humility he did not possess.
In his heart of hearts, he constantly underestimated himself, and overestimated others.The entire shore of the history of Christian workers is strewn with the wrecks of gallant vessels that were full of promise a few years ago, but these men became puffed up and were driven on the rocks by the wild winds of their own raging self-esteem.
(5) His Entire Freedom from the Love of Money
The fifth secret of D. L. Moody's continual power and usefulness was his entire freedom from the love of money. Mr. Moody might have been a wealthy man, but money had no charms for him. He loved to gather money for God's work; he refused to accumulate money for himself. He told me during the World's Fair that if he had taken, for himself, the royalties on the hymnbooks which he had published, they would have amounted, at that time, to a million dollars.
But Mr. Moody refused to touch the money. He had a perfect right to take it, for he was responsible for the publication of the books and it was his money that went into the publication of the first of them.
(6) His Consuming Passion for the Salvation of the Lost
The sixth reason why God used D. L. Moody was because of his consuming passion for the salvation of the lost. Mr. Moody made the resolution, shortly after he himself was saved, that he would never let twenty-four hours pass over his head without speaking to at least one person about his soul. His was a very busy life, and sometimes he would forget his resolution until the last hour, and sometimes he would get out of bed, dress, go out and talk to someone about his soul in order that he might not let one day pass without having definitely told at least one of his fellow-mortals about his need and the Savior who could meet it.
D. L. Moody's consuming passion for souls was not for the souls of those who would be helpful to him in building up his work here or elsewhere; his love for souls knew no class limitations. He was no respecter of persons; it might be an earl or a duke or it might be an ignorant colored boy on the street; it was all the same to him; there was a soul to save and he did what lay in his power to save that soul.
Oh, young men and women and all Christian workers, if you and I were on fire for souls like that, how long would it be before we had a revival? Suppose that tonight the fire of God falls and fills our hearts, a burning fire that will send us out all over the country, and across the water to China, Japan, India and Africa, to tell lost souls the way of salvation!
(7) Definitely Endued with Power from on High
The seventh thing that was the secret of why God used D. L. Moody was that he had a very definite enduement with power from on High, a very clear and definite baptism with the Holy Ghost. Moody knew he had "the baptism with the Holy Ghost"; he had no doubt about it. In his early days he was a great hustler; he had a tremendous desire to do something, but he had no real power. He worked very largely in the energy of the flesh.
Time and again, when a call came to me to go off to some church, he would come up to me and say: "Now, Torrey, be sure and preach on the baptism with the Holy Ghost." I do not know how many times he said that to me. Once I asked him: "Mr. Moody, don't you think I have any sermons but those two: 'Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God' and 'The Baptism With the Holy Ghost'?" "Never mind that," he replied, "you give them those two sermons.
"Young men, I can't see any reason why we shouldn't kneel down here right now and ask God that the Holy Ghost may fall upon us just as definitely as He fell upon the apostles on the Day of Pentecost. Let us pray." ...and as we began to pray, our prayers seemed to pierce that cloud and the Holy Ghost fell upon us.
Men and women, that is what we all need:
the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.
4spirit@gmail.com
Why the One Minute Entrepreneur by Ken Blanchard and Don Hutson?...
"The best advice we ever received was given in less than a minute."
Three keys to entrepreneur success:
Finances; knowing how to manage them.
Your people; empower others to become like owners.
Taking care of customers; it's beyond being the best at what you do, but also taking care of the customers.
There are twenty attributes of successful entrepreneurs.
Find them at:www.estrengths.com
Each chapter concludes with the outline of principles the chapter features.The chapter itself is a story, or parable, of potential real world situations which explain the principles. For now, here are the principles, although the story is worth reading for application and insight.
Build the Foundation
Associate with people you admire and can learn from. Keep a notebook of wisdom you read, hear, learn. Build on strong values... integrity, love, honesty. You never need to cheat; what is right is more important than who is right.
Grow in knowledge
...through people you meet and books you read. Help others get what they want to get what you want. Success comes when opportunity and preparation meet.
Learn the Craft
Humility opens you to learn and grow, master the basics. Visualize your outcome.
Gain a Vital team
People come into your life for a reason. Build a great marriage. You and your spouse are a team.
Doors Open
Create a big dream and seize opportunity knocking. Never let expenses outstrip revenue. Collect timely from customers; they pay the bills. Nurture your people.
Launch the Company
Find new sources of revenue. Seek advice when going to new levels. Always be making a profit.
Financial Growing Pains
Generate cash, cash, cash. Good cash management is imperative. Profit comes when there's good customer care; a motivating environment.
Create Legendary Services
Create the experience you want them to have. Listen to your customers. Let your people soar like eagles
.
Help People Soar like Eagles
Work in partnership with your people. Encourage everyone to be leaders. Coach day by day. It's about everyone getting A's.
Ego Issues
It's more than numbers. Work and home relationships need nourished. Keep priorities in order and seek advice from mentors.
Turn Things Around
Patiently implement a good biz plan than recklessly pushing for growth. Wrong leaders will send you wrong places. Right leaders can steer you the right direction.
Putting it All Together
Live happy, fulfilled, be generous. Giving is as rewarding as receiving. Be intentional about leaving legacies. Helping and forgiving reap good returns.
There's more including the top 20 attributes of entrepreneurs at their website. Take their test and find yours.
www.estrengths.com
D. L. Moody may be one Gifted as an entrepreneur of Spirit for building the kingdom of God. This article by R. A. Torrey, a close associate of Moody's, provides insight to why he was so gifted. Here's the link to the complete article, below is a version I abbreviated for you.
http://www.freewebs.com/ratorrey/Why%20God%20Used%20D%20L%20%20Moody%20.htm
Why God Used D. L. Moody
By R. A. Torrey
Close associate and friend of D. L. Moody
But how was it that D. L. Moody had that power of God so wonderfully manifested in his life? Pondering this question, it seemed to me that there were seven things in the life of D. L. Moody that accounted for God's using him so largely as He did.
(1) A Fully Surrendered Man
The first thing that accounts for God's using D. L. Moody so mightily was that he was a fully surrendered man. Every ounce of that two-hundred-and-eighty-pound body of his belonged to God; everything he was and everything he had, belonged wholly to God. Now, I am not saying that Mr. Moody was perfect; he was not.
I presume I knew whatever defects there were in his character as well as anybody. But while I recognized such flaws, nevertheless, I know that he was a man who belonged wholly to God.
But Mr. Moody did not stop short of absolute surrender to God; he was a wholly surrendered man, and if you and I are to be used, you and I must be wholly surrendered men and women.
(2) A Man of Prayer
The second secret of the great power exhibited in Mr. Moody's life was that Mr. Moody was in the deepest and most meaningful sense a man of prayer.Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to surmount and to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that "nothing was too hard for the Lord" and that prayer could do anything that God could do.
Often we were gathered in the lecture room far into the night -- sometimes till one, two, three, four or even five o'clock in the morning, crying to God, just because Mr. Moody urged us to wait upon God until we received His blessing. How many men and women I have known whose lives and characters have been transformed by those nights of prayer and who have wrought mighty things in many lands because of those nights of prayer!
He was a man who met every difficulty that stood in his way -- by prayer. Everything he undertook was backed up by prayer, and in everything, his ultimate dependence was upon God.
(3) A Deep and Practical Student of the Bible
The third secret of Mr. Moody's power, or the third reason why God used D. L. Moody, was because he was a deep and practical student of the Word of God. Every day of his life, I have reason for believing, he arose very early in the morning to study the Word of God, way down to the close of his life. Mr. Moody used to rise about four o'clock in the morning to study the Bible. He would say to me: "If I am going to get in any study, I have got to get up before the other folks get up"; and he would shut himself up in a remote room in his house, alone with his God and his Bible.
STUDY the one Book, and preach, preach, PREACH the one Book, and teach, teach, TEACH the one Book, the Bible, the only Book that is God's Word, and the only Book that has power to gather and hold and bless the crowds for any great length of time.
(4) A Humble Man
The fourth reason why God continuously, through so many years, used D. L. Moody was because he was a humble man. I think D. L. Moody was the humblest man I ever knew in all my life. He loved to quote the words of another; "Faith gets the most; love works the most; but humility keeps the most. "
He himself had the humility that keeps everything it gets. As I have already said, he was the most humble man I ever knew, i.e., the most humble man when we bear in mind the great things that he did, and the praise that was lavished upon him. Oh, how he loved to put himself in the background and put other men in the foreground. How often he would stand on a platform with some of us little fellows seated behind him and as he spoke, he would say: "There are better men coming after me." As he said it, he would point back over his shoulder with his thumb to the "little fellows. " I do not know how he could believe it, but he really did believe that the others that were coming after him were really better than he was. He made no pretense to a humility he did not possess.
In his heart of hearts, he constantly underestimated himself, and overestimated others.The entire shore of the history of Christian workers is strewn with the wrecks of gallant vessels that were full of promise a few years ago, but these men became puffed up and were driven on the rocks by the wild winds of their own raging self-esteem.
(5) His Entire Freedom from the Love of Money
The fifth secret of D. L. Moody's continual power and usefulness was his entire freedom from the love of money. Mr. Moody might have been a wealthy man, but money had no charms for him. He loved to gather money for God's work; he refused to accumulate money for himself. He told me during the World's Fair that if he had taken, for himself, the royalties on the hymnbooks which he had published, they would have amounted, at that time, to a million dollars.
But Mr. Moody refused to touch the money. He had a perfect right to take it, for he was responsible for the publication of the books and it was his money that went into the publication of the first of them.
(6) His Consuming Passion for the Salvation of the Lost
The sixth reason why God used D. L. Moody was because of his consuming passion for the salvation of the lost. Mr. Moody made the resolution, shortly after he himself was saved, that he would never let twenty-four hours pass over his head without speaking to at least one person about his soul. His was a very busy life, and sometimes he would forget his resolution until the last hour, and sometimes he would get out of bed, dress, go out and talk to someone about his soul in order that he might not let one day pass without having definitely told at least one of his fellow-mortals about his need and the Savior who could meet it.
D. L. Moody's consuming passion for souls was not for the souls of those who would be helpful to him in building up his work here or elsewhere; his love for souls knew no class limitations. He was no respecter of persons; it might be an earl or a duke or it might be an ignorant colored boy on the street; it was all the same to him; there was a soul to save and he did what lay in his power to save that soul.
Oh, young men and women and all Christian workers, if you and I were on fire for souls like that, how long would it be before we had a revival? Suppose that tonight the fire of God falls and fills our hearts, a burning fire that will send us out all over the country, and across the water to China, Japan, India and Africa, to tell lost souls the way of salvation!
(7) Definitely Endued with Power from on High
The seventh thing that was the secret of why God used D. L. Moody was that he had a very definite enduement with power from on High, a very clear and definite baptism with the Holy Ghost. Moody knew he had "the baptism with the Holy Ghost"; he had no doubt about it. In his early days he was a great hustler; he had a tremendous desire to do something, but he had no real power. He worked very largely in the energy of the flesh.
Time and again, when a call came to me to go off to some church, he would come up to me and say: "Now, Torrey, be sure and preach on the baptism with the Holy Ghost." I do not know how many times he said that to me. Once I asked him: "Mr. Moody, don't you think I have any sermons but those two: 'Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible to Be the Word of God' and 'The Baptism With the Holy Ghost'?" "Never mind that," he replied, "you give them those two sermons.
"Young men, I can't see any reason why we shouldn't kneel down here right now and ask God that the Holy Ghost may fall upon us just as definitely as He fell upon the apostles on the Day of Pentecost. Let us pray." ...and as we began to pray, our prayers seemed to pierce that cloud and the Holy Ghost fell upon us.
Men and women, that is what we all need:
the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Rich Idiots... transfer of wealth
Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
How Come that Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? by Robert Shemin. The Rich Idiot is Robert. In school he never amounted to much, but after school he learned the secrets to making money. Ironically, even though he wasn't a premier student he was an avid reader. He learned early on that reading was necessary for what he wanted.
He quickly realized "the power of self-belief always trumps the power of what others believe about you." Although he caused his parents and teachers a lot of heartaches, he adds Rich Idiots take responsibility for their actions.
Rich Idiots love wealth, team, and put their money to work.
His plan to create wealth you desire:
1. Turn your own thinking upside down;
2. Create your wealth wish list;
3. Get a wealth talisman or wealth charm (a constant companion to remind you of your wealth goals).
Rich is upside down.
Then there are the RUBs. They are Right side Up...and Broke. They're smart, get along with all the teachers, follow the rules, but don't take on the challenge to take charge of their life.
Secret no. 2 is to follow Spiritual laws of wealth. Learning to believe upside down there are physical laws of money and there are Spiritual laws of money. There are laws that govern wealth, and there is enough to go around.
The Rich Idiots follow two steps-- forgive and commit.
Lack of forgiveness is a Spiritual condition that holds you back. The two Spiritual Laws of wealth are that you must get before you can give. The Rich Idiots are givers, but they know to give you must first get. Then giving opens more doors to give more. What can you always give? You can always give a smile, a thank you, a hand, a hug, an hour. Giving then continues a flow for what you get. Balance the law of getting and the law of giving for great wealth.
Secret no. 3 is the power of one. They focus on "one" goal every day... to become a Rich Idiot. Three things to goal success:
1. Decide how much money will make you a Rich Idiot.
2. Choose the path you're going to take to reach your Rich Idiot goal.
3. Pick activities every day to take you to your goal.
Now take these steps.
1. Write yourself a Rich Idiot wealth check. Date it, make it to you, sign it.
2. Write your Rich Idiot Mission Statement. Include 3 key sentences....my value sentence, my passion sentence, my action sentence. What is that...how I want to be remembered, what I am really good at that excites me, and what I will do every day to make it happen.
Secret no. 4. Live Rich Today. Don't wait, plan, over analyze how to get rich. Live rich today, start now. Do rich things today, think rich things today, imagine rich things with a wall of Rich pictures around you. Rich begins right now.
Learn to get more for less, i.e., your house, car, insurance, food and clothing, travel entertainment, savings, charity.
Secret no 5. Rich Idiots don't get rich alone. OP power separate the RUBs form the Rich Idiots. OPs are other people. Get rid of OPs who want you to remain a RUB. Find OPs who want you to be Rich Idiots and build your Rich Idiot team. These are enablers who have experience (to be mentors), have ideas to share, will assist you with their time. They put up money to make things happen.
When building your OP Dream Team use referrals, don't be cheap, make sure they're experts, and connect with associations. But look for those with experience, ideas, time, money.
Into Secret no. 6, Robert directs you to take aim. Build assets. An asset has value, you own and control them. They provide future benefits (aka, money). A liability is something that holds you back and handicaps you. Assets bring you money, liabilities cost you money. RUBs go for cars, furniture, clothes, trips. Rich Idiots acquire cash, real estate, stock portfolio, businesses. Your two biggest assets are you and your time. Killers to assets are divorce, disability, death, the government.
Still Secret no. 6 is get into debt. There's good debt and bad debt. Bad debt is credit cards, loans for cars, boats, toys, loans for anything not making money. Save, payoff credit cards, or pay full amount at the month's end. Credit cards are good when you barrow for no interest during the month and then pay off at the end of the month, and accumulate credit points to planes, hotels, etc.
Still Secret no. 6 is real estate assets. Own your own home, add income property, add another income property. Robert reveals additional real estate strategies.
Still Secret no. 6 is build assets in stocks. Let the pros help you create your portfolio, don't invest what you can't afford to lose, be conservative, be patient.
Still Secret no. 6 is to start your own business to build assets. Create a one page business plan to include your mission statement, time commitment, goal, activities to reach goal, schedule to do it. Always review activity and its return. Ask yourself if this activity is making you money or will it make you money. Ask do I enjoy doing it, or should I get someone else. Keep the focus, do I love it, make sure revenues lead expenses, work so you can also enjoy life.
Act. Take care of yourself first. Start at the end. What results do you want? Is it possible? How badly do I want it? Let passion, faith, desire, drive your actions.
Don't wait. Act now. Be grateful for what you do have, move toward what you really want.
More about being a Rich Idiot at:
http://www.getrichwithrobert.com/
Foolish people seek after things that will perish, but the wise seek for riches that last forever. What is the Spiritual purpose of riches? How are riches released to those with noble purposes for their wealth? Spirit creates the material.
Jeff Ahern, Sozo Services, has a vision for what the business community can be as God's Community. He has quite a stirring vision for wealth in business that will challenge your heart, mind and soul. Here's an article he shared with me which I share below in its full context. And be sure to check out his website to learn more about Sozo Services for the Spiritually committed business leader.
http://www.sozoservices.com/
The Transfer of Wealth through Business Intercessors
by Jeff Ahern
A favorite scripture of almost every born-again believer, and especially business leaders and entrepreneurs, is "The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just" (Prov. 13:22). If you are a business leader or entrepreneur, you are probably anxiously looking forward to the day when that will happen. You may even have found yourself with outstretched hands, looking up to heaven, waiting for it to rain down. Don't laugh! We've all done it at one time or another. But, has the transference of wealth started to happen yet for you and your business?
If not, then this article might shed some light on why you might still be waiting, and how you can accelerate the transference of wealth using the biblical concept of business prayer intercessors. In fact, you'll see that the transference of wealth constitutes spiritual warfare, and as Jesus said, "This kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting" (Matt.17:21) In Ezekiel 28:13, we see an allegorical picture of Satan.
The Scriptures says that when God created Satan, he was clothed in gold, diamonds and every precious stone. In otherwords, he was clothed in wealth. After the fall in the garden, the dominion over everything that was given to Adam and Eve, including the wealth of the earth, was transferred to Satan. Now he had his covering returned and dominion over that wealth. Even Jesus did not contest this statement during his trial in the wilderness (Luke 4:6). When you engage in business and Kingdom wealth building, you are essentially attempting to remove Satan's clothing of wealth right from his back! That's why it can seem like such a struggle to succeed in business, even though you are living righteously and standing in faith for all of the promises of God.
Now, all power and dominion has been given to Jesus and the body of Christ, but we apprehend these blessings by faith and spiritual warfare. The fact that we've been given the promises of blessings is not enough. We have to take back the occupied territories from Satan so that the kingdom of this world will become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ (Rev. 11:15).
One good example of receiving a promise of God through spiritual warfare is found in the Israelites struggle to enter the Promised Land. God had already promised them that He would lead them to, and give them the Promised Land (Gen 12:7, Exodus 3:8). However, during the journey there, the Amalekites came out to fight them. While Joshua fought the battle on the field, Moses, Aaron and Hur fought a spiritual battle. Whenever the intercessors succeeded, the army of the Israelites prevailed. When the intercessors rested, the Israelite army was overpowered by the enemy (Ex 17:11). Notice that the victory always happens in the spiritual realm before it happens in the natural (or business) realm.
It wasn't enough that God promised that He would give them the Promised Land, or the promise that he would wipe out the Amalekites from the face of the earth. There was still a spiritual and natural battle that needed to take place before the Israelites could walk in the blessings that God promised. Many Christians are standing on the promises of God with outstretched hands, waiting for Him to deliver. However, just as the Israelites found out when they came to the Promised Land, the land was already occupied by an enemy that was bigger and stronger. Although God "gave it to them," He expected them to receive it through warfare. As Jesus said, "…the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force" (Matt 11:12).
Daniel was a type of business intercessor for a king. He was considered a "wise man" and had an excellent spirit in him. Daniel was seeking revelation from God on an end-time vision that he had received. The enemy tried to prevent Daniel from receiving his answer. There was a spiritual battle in the heavens for 21 days; during which time Daniel fasted and prayed. At the end of the 21 days, there was breakthrough in the spirit realm, and after that, there was a breakthrough in the natural realm (Dan. 10:12-13). Note in verse 12 that God had granted him his request on day one, but it took 21 days of spiritual battle before he could see a manifestation of results in the natural realm.The battle is always won in the spirit realm before the victory (or wealth) manifests in the natural realm.
The enemy of our souls is a seasoned General with an army of warriors(demons), and he has no intention of giving up what he perceives to be his wealth, without a fight. One of our missions is to manifest the Kingdom of God on earth by taking possession and dominion of the occupied territories that are currently controlled by the enemy. God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, and take dominion and subdue it (Gen 1:8).
That command in the church age hasn't changed. We're called to go into the Promised
Land and take dominion away from the enemy so that the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus. Some business battles cannot be won without combining fasting with prayer. Most business leaders have neither the time or experience to spend days or even weeks fasting and praying for a breakthrough. Dedicated business intercessors can help fight this battle in the spiritual realm, while the business leaders fight the battle on the field (or in the boardroom).
During one fiscal quarter in 2007, three of the largest financial institutions in this country reported quarterly losses of $2 Billion, $1.6 Billion, and $1.3 Billion dollars. If each of these companies had hired several full-time prayer intercessors, could they have avoided such huge loses? Considering that their losses were in the billions, even if no benefit resulted from these intercessors, how much would the expense of intercessor salaries have increased their losses? At the same time, how much could they have profited from the employment of these business intercessors? The U.S. automotive and airline industries would love to have one quarter when they break even, never mind producing a profit!
So how does one find and select these business prayer intercessors? From experience, here is a list of qualifications that you need to look for when hiring intercessors for your company.
• Born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit – they must be Spirit filled in order to be Spirit led.
• Operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially the word of knowledge, word of wisdom, and prophecy – they must be able to hear God's strategies for your battle and victory, as well as to minister to the people they serve.
• Integrity – they must walk in complete obedience to God and in intimacy with Him. No unrepentant sin in their life. Compromise in this area will only allow an open door for the enemy into your business.
• Business acumen – the more they understand about business in general and your business, the easier it will be to understand what God is telling them concerning your business.
• Ability to pray for hours – very few people can pray for several hours at a stretch.There is a special grace to be able to pray in the Spirit for hours and not grow weary.
• Ability to fast for days and even weeks when necessary – some strongholds cannot be broken without some serious fasting. Corporate fasting is also important for achieving breakthroughs.
• Knowledgeable about Spiritual Warfare – intercession is not just praying for someone or a circumstance. They must understand binding and loosing, prophetic declarations, praying in tongues, repentance, prayer of agreement, etc.
• Intercessors with a calling, not just looking for a job – people called and anointed to minister in the business market place, who see their role as an assignment from God and not just a job.
Does that sound like a fairly high bar on qualifications? It is! Therefore, when you find these gifted people, you need to make sure that you hold onto them. Yes, God has promised that there will be a transference of wealth in these last days from the wicked unto the just. But just as the Israelites found out, the wealth is already possessed by someone bigger and stronger than us, and he has no intention of letting it go without a fight. But thanks be to God, through the blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, we have the victory that overcomes the world – our faith (1John 5:4).
Remember, victory always takes place in the spiritual realm, before it happens in the natural realm. Business prayer intercessors can help you win the transference of wealth battle. The Kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent business leaders take it by force!
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How Come that Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? by Robert Shemin. The Rich Idiot is Robert. In school he never amounted to much, but after school he learned the secrets to making money. Ironically, even though he wasn't a premier student he was an avid reader. He learned early on that reading was necessary for what he wanted.
He quickly realized "the power of self-belief always trumps the power of what others believe about you." Although he caused his parents and teachers a lot of heartaches, he adds Rich Idiots take responsibility for their actions.
Rich Idiots love wealth, team, and put their money to work.
His plan to create wealth you desire:
1. Turn your own thinking upside down;
2. Create your wealth wish list;
3. Get a wealth talisman or wealth charm (a constant companion to remind you of your wealth goals).
Rich is upside down.
Then there are the RUBs. They are Right side Up...and Broke. They're smart, get along with all the teachers, follow the rules, but don't take on the challenge to take charge of their life.
Secret no. 2 is to follow Spiritual laws of wealth. Learning to believe upside down there are physical laws of money and there are Spiritual laws of money. There are laws that govern wealth, and there is enough to go around.
The Rich Idiots follow two steps-- forgive and commit.
Lack of forgiveness is a Spiritual condition that holds you back. The two Spiritual Laws of wealth are that you must get before you can give. The Rich Idiots are givers, but they know to give you must first get. Then giving opens more doors to give more. What can you always give? You can always give a smile, a thank you, a hand, a hug, an hour. Giving then continues a flow for what you get. Balance the law of getting and the law of giving for great wealth.
Secret no. 3 is the power of one. They focus on "one" goal every day... to become a Rich Idiot. Three things to goal success:
1. Decide how much money will make you a Rich Idiot.
2. Choose the path you're going to take to reach your Rich Idiot goal.
3. Pick activities every day to take you to your goal.
Now take these steps.
1. Write yourself a Rich Idiot wealth check. Date it, make it to you, sign it.
2. Write your Rich Idiot Mission Statement. Include 3 key sentences....my value sentence, my passion sentence, my action sentence. What is that...how I want to be remembered, what I am really good at that excites me, and what I will do every day to make it happen.
Secret no. 4. Live Rich Today. Don't wait, plan, over analyze how to get rich. Live rich today, start now. Do rich things today, think rich things today, imagine rich things with a wall of Rich pictures around you. Rich begins right now.
Learn to get more for less, i.e., your house, car, insurance, food and clothing, travel entertainment, savings, charity.
Secret no 5. Rich Idiots don't get rich alone. OP power separate the RUBs form the Rich Idiots. OPs are other people. Get rid of OPs who want you to remain a RUB. Find OPs who want you to be Rich Idiots and build your Rich Idiot team. These are enablers who have experience (to be mentors), have ideas to share, will assist you with their time. They put up money to make things happen.
When building your OP Dream Team use referrals, don't be cheap, make sure they're experts, and connect with associations. But look for those with experience, ideas, time, money.
Into Secret no. 6, Robert directs you to take aim. Build assets. An asset has value, you own and control them. They provide future benefits (aka, money). A liability is something that holds you back and handicaps you. Assets bring you money, liabilities cost you money. RUBs go for cars, furniture, clothes, trips. Rich Idiots acquire cash, real estate, stock portfolio, businesses. Your two biggest assets are you and your time. Killers to assets are divorce, disability, death, the government.
Still Secret no. 6 is get into debt. There's good debt and bad debt. Bad debt is credit cards, loans for cars, boats, toys, loans for anything not making money. Save, payoff credit cards, or pay full amount at the month's end. Credit cards are good when you barrow for no interest during the month and then pay off at the end of the month, and accumulate credit points to planes, hotels, etc.
Still Secret no. 6 is real estate assets. Own your own home, add income property, add another income property. Robert reveals additional real estate strategies.
Still Secret no. 6 is build assets in stocks. Let the pros help you create your portfolio, don't invest what you can't afford to lose, be conservative, be patient.
Still Secret no. 6 is to start your own business to build assets. Create a one page business plan to include your mission statement, time commitment, goal, activities to reach goal, schedule to do it. Always review activity and its return. Ask yourself if this activity is making you money or will it make you money. Ask do I enjoy doing it, or should I get someone else. Keep the focus, do I love it, make sure revenues lead expenses, work so you can also enjoy life.
Act. Take care of yourself first. Start at the end. What results do you want? Is it possible? How badly do I want it? Let passion, faith, desire, drive your actions.
Don't wait. Act now. Be grateful for what you do have, move toward what you really want.
More about being a Rich Idiot at:
http://www.getrichwithrobert.com/
Foolish people seek after things that will perish, but the wise seek for riches that last forever. What is the Spiritual purpose of riches? How are riches released to those with noble purposes for their wealth? Spirit creates the material.
Jeff Ahern, Sozo Services, has a vision for what the business community can be as God's Community. He has quite a stirring vision for wealth in business that will challenge your heart, mind and soul. Here's an article he shared with me which I share below in its full context. And be sure to check out his website to learn more about Sozo Services for the Spiritually committed business leader.
http://www.sozoservices.com/
The Transfer of Wealth through Business Intercessors
by Jeff Ahern
A favorite scripture of almost every born-again believer, and especially business leaders and entrepreneurs, is "The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just" (Prov. 13:22). If you are a business leader or entrepreneur, you are probably anxiously looking forward to the day when that will happen. You may even have found yourself with outstretched hands, looking up to heaven, waiting for it to rain down. Don't laugh! We've all done it at one time or another. But, has the transference of wealth started to happen yet for you and your business?
If not, then this article might shed some light on why you might still be waiting, and how you can accelerate the transference of wealth using the biblical concept of business prayer intercessors. In fact, you'll see that the transference of wealth constitutes spiritual warfare, and as Jesus said, "This kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting" (Matt.17:21) In Ezekiel 28:13, we see an allegorical picture of Satan.
The Scriptures says that when God created Satan, he was clothed in gold, diamonds and every precious stone. In otherwords, he was clothed in wealth. After the fall in the garden, the dominion over everything that was given to Adam and Eve, including the wealth of the earth, was transferred to Satan. Now he had his covering returned and dominion over that wealth. Even Jesus did not contest this statement during his trial in the wilderness (Luke 4:6). When you engage in business and Kingdom wealth building, you are essentially attempting to remove Satan's clothing of wealth right from his back! That's why it can seem like such a struggle to succeed in business, even though you are living righteously and standing in faith for all of the promises of God.
Now, all power and dominion has been given to Jesus and the body of Christ, but we apprehend these blessings by faith and spiritual warfare. The fact that we've been given the promises of blessings is not enough. We have to take back the occupied territories from Satan so that the kingdom of this world will become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ (Rev. 11:15).
One good example of receiving a promise of God through spiritual warfare is found in the Israelites struggle to enter the Promised Land. God had already promised them that He would lead them to, and give them the Promised Land (Gen 12:7, Exodus 3:8). However, during the journey there, the Amalekites came out to fight them. While Joshua fought the battle on the field, Moses, Aaron and Hur fought a spiritual battle. Whenever the intercessors succeeded, the army of the Israelites prevailed. When the intercessors rested, the Israelite army was overpowered by the enemy (Ex 17:11). Notice that the victory always happens in the spiritual realm before it happens in the natural (or business) realm.
It wasn't enough that God promised that He would give them the Promised Land, or the promise that he would wipe out the Amalekites from the face of the earth. There was still a spiritual and natural battle that needed to take place before the Israelites could walk in the blessings that God promised. Many Christians are standing on the promises of God with outstretched hands, waiting for Him to deliver. However, just as the Israelites found out when they came to the Promised Land, the land was already occupied by an enemy that was bigger and stronger. Although God "gave it to them," He expected them to receive it through warfare. As Jesus said, "…the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force" (Matt 11:12).
Daniel was a type of business intercessor for a king. He was considered a "wise man" and had an excellent spirit in him. Daniel was seeking revelation from God on an end-time vision that he had received. The enemy tried to prevent Daniel from receiving his answer. There was a spiritual battle in the heavens for 21 days; during which time Daniel fasted and prayed. At the end of the 21 days, there was breakthrough in the spirit realm, and after that, there was a breakthrough in the natural realm (Dan. 10:12-13). Note in verse 12 that God had granted him his request on day one, but it took 21 days of spiritual battle before he could see a manifestation of results in the natural realm.The battle is always won in the spirit realm before the victory (or wealth) manifests in the natural realm.
The enemy of our souls is a seasoned General with an army of warriors(demons), and he has no intention of giving up what he perceives to be his wealth, without a fight. One of our missions is to manifest the Kingdom of God on earth by taking possession and dominion of the occupied territories that are currently controlled by the enemy. God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, and take dominion and subdue it (Gen 1:8).
That command in the church age hasn't changed. We're called to go into the Promised
Land and take dominion away from the enemy so that the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus. Some business battles cannot be won without combining fasting with prayer. Most business leaders have neither the time or experience to spend days or even weeks fasting and praying for a breakthrough. Dedicated business intercessors can help fight this battle in the spiritual realm, while the business leaders fight the battle on the field (or in the boardroom).
During one fiscal quarter in 2007, three of the largest financial institutions in this country reported quarterly losses of $2 Billion, $1.6 Billion, and $1.3 Billion dollars. If each of these companies had hired several full-time prayer intercessors, could they have avoided such huge loses? Considering that their losses were in the billions, even if no benefit resulted from these intercessors, how much would the expense of intercessor salaries have increased their losses? At the same time, how much could they have profited from the employment of these business intercessors? The U.S. automotive and airline industries would love to have one quarter when they break even, never mind producing a profit!
So how does one find and select these business prayer intercessors? From experience, here is a list of qualifications that you need to look for when hiring intercessors for your company.
• Born again and baptized in the Holy Spirit – they must be Spirit filled in order to be Spirit led.
• Operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially the word of knowledge, word of wisdom, and prophecy – they must be able to hear God's strategies for your battle and victory, as well as to minister to the people they serve.
• Integrity – they must walk in complete obedience to God and in intimacy with Him. No unrepentant sin in their life. Compromise in this area will only allow an open door for the enemy into your business.
• Business acumen – the more they understand about business in general and your business, the easier it will be to understand what God is telling them concerning your business.
• Ability to pray for hours – very few people can pray for several hours at a stretch.There is a special grace to be able to pray in the Spirit for hours and not grow weary.
• Ability to fast for days and even weeks when necessary – some strongholds cannot be broken without some serious fasting. Corporate fasting is also important for achieving breakthroughs.
• Knowledgeable about Spiritual Warfare – intercession is not just praying for someone or a circumstance. They must understand binding and loosing, prophetic declarations, praying in tongues, repentance, prayer of agreement, etc.
• Intercessors with a calling, not just looking for a job – people called and anointed to minister in the business market place, who see their role as an assignment from God and not just a job.
Does that sound like a fairly high bar on qualifications? It is! Therefore, when you find these gifted people, you need to make sure that you hold onto them. Yes, God has promised that there will be a transference of wealth in these last days from the wicked unto the just. But just as the Israelites found out, the wealth is already possessed by someone bigger and stronger than us, and he has no intention of letting it go without a fight. But thanks be to God, through the blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, we have the victory that overcomes the world – our faith (1John 5:4).
Remember, victory always takes place in the spiritual realm, before it happens in the natural realm. Business prayer intercessors can help you win the transference of wealth battle. The Kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent business leaders take it by force!
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