Getting Organized in the Google Era... a new covenant

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com

Getting Organized in the Google Era by Douglas C. Merrill, once the Chief Information Officer Google. He learned a lot while at Google. Many systems were created to increase internal efficiencies which Google then introduced to the public at large... such as Google Mail, Docs, etc. Merrill shows us how to use technology for increasing working efficiency... as well where paper still has a place. Having to struggle with dyslexia, Merrill in overcoming his disabilities created methods for being organized that help the most unorganized person become perfectly organized.

His methods can be applied to personally organization and enhancing learning skills. In Getting Organized in the Google Era, Merrill establishes 21 principles of organization. It's an interesting read. His style has a conversational flow making you feel he is right there talking to you. Here are his 21 principles in a capsule.

(1) Organize life to minimize brain strain. (2) Get stuff out of your brain as quickly as possible to prevent information over load. (3) Multitasking usually makes you less efficient. Encoding is required for information to stay in the long-term memory. (4) Stories store information in useful order. Use stories to remember. Our brains aren't good at multitasking, remembering, or making decisions. So goals and priorities are essential to narrow down decisions that fulfill goals and priorities.

The fifth principle of organization is just because something is done a certain way, doesn't mean it should be. Who made 9 to 5 so sacred. Our society doesn't function as one set of preset blocks of time. How we work and how we live are conflicting structures. (6) Knowledge is not power. The sharing of knowledge is power.

We all have constraints. Douglas had dyslexia. It can be anything emotional, mental, physical that hinders us. Principle #7 is to organize around actual constraints, not assumed. (8) Be completely honest but not judgmental with yourself. Others who see our strengths and weaknesses can help us be objective. Don't over think. (9) Know when to ignore your constraints. Fear is a constraint best ignored. Control what you can, let go of what you can't control.

The tenth principle of organization is know exactly where you're going, and how you'll get there, before you start the engine. Define goals for tasks you're facing. (11) Be flexible about how you achieve. Some mid-course changes may be required in mid stream. Learn to delegate. Make a plan of action. Identify resources and strategies to work around constraints and accomplish your goals.

What is the new organization and how do we achieve it? Our traditional methods for being organized don't accommodate our individual differences. (12) Today, search is what we need to survive. Don't file your information, use search to find it. You don't need to put email in folders. Search will find it. To get the most out of search be descriptive as possible. Use quote marks around phrases to find that exact phrase. Use adjectives, such as say "cheap," "budget," hotels in search to narrow down categories.

Merrill has other Google tips for using search. Google calculates, spell checks, has a phone book. Search can even search documents in your personal computer. (13) Only keep in your head what truly needs to be there. Filter out what you don't need. (14) Break up big chunks into small ones. What can you ignore; what can you use later. (15) Dedicate time each week to review key information. Merrill uses colored markers when reading to highlight or note important or interesting information to read later. Use stories, use repetition on key information, priorities, identify limits to your concentration.

Principle no. 16 says there's no such thing as a perfect system of organization. Remember your goals will guide you. Use the tools that best support your goals. When to use paper? To get stuff out of your head write it down immediately. Sometimes technology is not available. Solve problems on paper. When digesting a lot, read it on paper. Keep financials on paper as well as legal documents. Paper is great for taking quick notes. Keep important documents backed up on the Internet (the cloud). (17) Whenever possible use tools you already know. (18) Add relevant key words to your digital information so you can easily find it later. Gmail has friendly features to store and easily retrieve information. Google apps has numerous tools to simplify organization such as calendars, personal document storage, to-do lists. Google reader will bring you the relevant blogs, news you want to read.

(19) Take notes to help you shift contexts later. (20) Group tasks with similar contexts together. The brain works better when it can shift from one thing to another of the same context.

(21) Integrate work with life instead of balancing the two. Too much overlaps in life, so go with the flow. Merrill goes into detail with many personal examples of apps and Google helps. At the end of the book, he lists the tools he loves and likes. He says not one size fits all. We all will have certain preferences over others.

http://www.douglascmerrill.com/

Merrill talks extensively about that the way we do things in business and education are outdated structures. They don't fit the era we live in and these structures had origins for a culture over 100 years ago.

"Many of the most established structures and beliefs in our world are all wrong (e.g., 9 to 5, summer breaks for school). Too often we try to make our lives work within outdated structures, rather than revise our structures to work within our lives."

There is a new era with new technology to assist us in living life and doing business in a new way.

Jesus' mission was that... to show God's plans for us are relevant to make us live happier and fuller in our lives. Jesus was the key to bring everyone into a complete, full way of living.

In the Bible, Jeremiah foretold us that God will introduce a binding agreement with His creation. That God will form a new covenant with His People.

"But this is the new covenant. I will make to my people. I will put my instructions deep within them and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. and they will not need to teach their neighbors... You should know the Lord. For everyone for the least to the Greatest will already know me. I will forgive their wickedness and never again remember their sins." (Jeremiah 31: 33, 34, NLT)

The New Living Translation Study Bible (2008, p.1263) comments on this. "It points toward Jesus whose death would seal this new covenant. The relationship between God and His people envisioned in the Sinai Covenant was surrounded by laws chiseled in stone and a priestly class in charge of all religious institutions and activities. The new differs from the old covenant in one primary way.

It would no longer be external to the worshipers, but would now be written on their hearts. The great defect of the old covenant was that it lacked the power to enable people to do what it commanded (Romans 8:3). The new covenant would be internalized through the Power of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling would be made possible through the sacrifice of Christ (Ezek. 36: 24-27). Thus, it would become possible for people everywhere (not just a select few) to fulfill God's covenant plan for life as summed up in the two Great Commandments. You must love the Lord your God (Deut. 6:5) and Love your neighbor as yourself (Lev.19:18) combined by Jesus (Matt. 22:35-40) as the two great commandments.

In the new covenant, God's role as Creator goes beyond making all material things. The new covenant would achieve the goal that the old one pointed to, but could not reach the hearts of others: creating new persons and a new community. The goal is deep transformation of sinners, beginning with forgiveness of sins and culminating in a holiness exemplified by good works (Eph. 1:4, 2:8-10). According to the New Testament, all believers in Jesus Christ will know him directly by the activity of the Holy Spirit. They will know him personally and experience him powerfully, as only a few did in the Old Testament.

Hebrews 8:8-12 quotes this Old Testament passage to contrast it with the New Testament. Jesus' death brought the new covenant into existence, making Him the mediator of the covenant for whoever believes in Him."

All who believe in Him has access to all of God's Power of Spirit through Jesus who now lives in us, these mortal bodies, to make us powerful through the Spirit that Works Mightily through us. We have this power and love of Spirit as a practical part of our daily activities.

The Energy Bus... abide in love

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com

The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon is about how to cultivate energy, maintain it in all circumstances, and then share it with all others. In life, you can choose to see the curse or choose to see the gift. On Joy's bus, she encourages the riders that it's their choice, so choose wisely.

George had a flat tire, so he had to take the bus. There he met Joy, the bus driver, who always was smiling at him. George found out his car had a defective brake system, was part of a recall, and that it would take two weeks for the part to come in. He decided to take the bus the next two weeks.

His job was on the line. George had lost zeal for life. What he learned from Joy turned his life around. Joy had "10 rules for the ride of your life" posted on front of the bus. The next ten days, Joy and her joyful bus riders explained the importance of these rules to George.

Rule #1. You're the Driver of Your Bus. Take responsibility and control of your life. Take it where you want it to go. You must decide what you want, then create it. Don't let the world create it for you. What's your vision for your life, your work, your relationships. The laws of physics point out it's all about energy. What and who increases your energy. Sometimes by seeing what we don't want we see what we do want. Use crisis to create opportunity.

Rule # 2. Desire, vision, and focus move your bus the right direction. Stop thinking about what you don't want and focus your energy on your vision and what you want. Live in your energy field of dreams.

Rule #3. Fuel your ride with positive energy. E + P = O. Events in your life plus your perception creates your outcome. Make P a positive energy perception. You control that. This fuels your vision and puts energy behind your focus and creates positive results. It's like remembering the excitement of a great golf shot. You review it in your mind, tell others about it. Recall the exciting events of the day. Think about your vision, replay it in your mind daily and tell others.

Rule #4. Invite people on your bus and share your vision. Remember you're driving the bus, but you are also asking people to get on. It's too much to do it all yourself so you need an organized, energized team to deliver a successful product launch. When you invite people to get on they need to be excited about your vision too. And don't forget to tell your wife and family... it is indispensable that they be kept in the discussion of your vision.

Rule #5. Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus. You may have some negative team members already. You may have to ignore them and not take it personally. Don't worry about those who won't get on your bus. The less energy you spend worrying about them, the better off you'll be.

Rule #6. Post a sign that says No Energy Vampires Allowed on your bus. Some who are negative and won't be positive with the vision may need to be asked to get off your bus. Your positive energy and vision must be greater than anyone's negativity. Your certainty must be greater than anyone's doubt. Lead with your heart. The heart is your power center.

Rule #7. Enthusiasm attracts more passengers and energizes them during the ride. Everyone around will be in beat to the frequency of your heart. Your positive energy will radiate to everyone's around you.

Rule #8. Love your passengers. Share love generously and you will become a love magnet to everyone around you. What people really want is to be loved and appreciated. When they feel loved employees will do more, and customers will send you more business.
Five ways to love your passengers. 1. Make time for them. 2. Listen to them. 3. Recognize them. 4. Serve them. 5. Bring out the best in them.

Rule #9. Drive with purpose. When you fuel up with purpose you find excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary. Find your bigger purpose in the here and now and your purpose will find you. Shared purpose keeps your team energized. It is more powerful, meaningful, and inspiring if the team formulates what they want to be. They will be an energized, purpose-driven team.

Rule #10. Have fun and enjoy the ride. Live young, have fun, arrive at your destination as late as possible, with a smile on your face. Put these rules in your bus and the energy bus will give you the ride of your life.

In summary: 1. Create your vision. 2. Fuel your vision with purpose(it's benefit to others). 3. Write a vision/purpose statement. 4. Focus on your vision. 5. Zoom Focus. 6. Get on the bus. 7. Fuel the ride with positive energy. 8. Post a sign "No vampires allowed." 9. Navigate adversity and potholes. 10. Love your passengers 11. Have fun and enjoy the ride. For more go to...

http://www.jongordon.com/theenergybusbook.html

Jesus said when you remain in My Love you obey my commandments. His commands are not burdensome. We are to love God with all our heart and love each other.

In The True Vine by Andrew Murray, he writes about abiding in God's love. (Note John 14 and 15.) Abide in My love Jesus says. We speak of a man’s home as his abode. Our abode, the home of our soul, is to be the love of Christ. We are to live our life there, to be at home there all the day: this is what Christ means our life to be, and really can make it. Our continuous abiding in the Vine is to be an abiding in His love. The love of the Father to the Son is not a sentiment—it is a divine life, an infinite energy, an irresistible power. It carried Christ through life and death and the grave. The Father loved Him and dwelt in Him, and did all for Him.

So the love of Christ to us too is an infinite living power that will work in us all He delights to give us. The feebleness of our Christian life is that we do not take time to believe that this divine love does really delight in us, and will possess and work all in us. We do not take time to look at the Vine bearing the branch so entirely, working all in it so completely. We strive to do for ourselves what Christ alone can, what Christ, oh, so lovingly, longs to do for us.

And this now is the secret of the change we spoke of, and the beginning of a new life, when the soul sees this infinite love willing to do all, and gives itself up to it. “Abide in My love.” To believe that, it is possible so to live moment by moment; to believe that everything that makes it difficult or impossible will be overcome by Christ Himself; to believe that Love really means an infinite longing to give itself wholly to us and never leave us; and in this faith to cast ourselves on Christ to work it in us; this is the secret of the true Christian life.

And how to come to this faith?

Turn away from the visible if you would see and possess the invisible. Take more time with Jesus, gazing on Him as the heavenly Vine, living in the love of the Father, wanting you to live in His love. Turn away from yourself and your efforts and your faith, if you would have the heart filled with Him and the certainty of His love. Abiding means going out from everything else, to occupy one place and stay there. Come away from all else, and set your heart on Jesus, and His love, that love will waken your faith and strengthen it. Occupy yourself with that love, worship it, wait for it. You may be sure it will reach out to you, and by its power take you up into itself as your abode and your home.

Murray continues in Abide in Christ.
"This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you." Let us try in all simplicity and honesty to go out to our home to translate the language of high faith, so that all men can understand it.

Let our temper be under the rule of the love of Jesus: He can not alone curb it--He can make us gentle and patient. Let the vow, that not an unkind word about others shall ever be heard from our lips, be laid trustingly at His feet.
Let the gentleness that refuses to take offense, that is always ready to excuse, to think and hope the best, mark our intercourse with all.
Let the love that seeks not its own, to give its life for others, be our aim as we abide in Jesus. Let our life be one of self-sacrifice, always studying the welfare of others, finding our highest joy in blessing others.
And let us, in studying the divine art of doing good, yield ourselves as obedient learners to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

By His grace, the most commonplace life can be transfigured with the brightness of a heavenly beauty, as the infinite love of the divine nature shines out through our frail humanity. Fellow-Christian, let us praise God! We are called to love as Jesus loves, as God loves.

Word of Mouth Marketing... earnest intercession

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com

Word of Mouth Marketing by Andy Sernovitz is the modernization of the most powerful marketing tool... people telling others about what you do and its value. Today we have the tools to make it work even better. It is creating conversations we have, we create and participating with others in it. It has been around forever, but his book is a how-to book on using the tools and building knowledge on how to do it well. It is the lowest investment for the greatest return of marketing costs you can purchase today.

The four rules of word of mouth marketing are 1. Be interesting, 2. Make it easy, 3. Make people happy, 4. Earn trust and respect.

The three reasons people talk about you:
1. It's about you... they like you and like your stuff.
Or they hate you; you give them something to talk about; you've made it easy for them to talk about you.
2. It's about the talker. It makes them feel good.
They feel smart; they want to help people; they want to express themselves.
3. It's about the group. They feel connected.
They are part of your brand's family; they belong to the community; part of the team; they are insiders.

You can kill word of mouth marketing by offering prizes and rewards (people feel sleezy being paid to tell others about you), too much over exposure, or forgetting why people talk about you and departing from your original intrigue.

The rest of Word of Mouth Marketing expounds on the five T's of word of mouth marketing.
1. Talkers. Who will tell your friends about you?
2. Topics. What will they talk about?
3. Tools. How can you help the message travel?
4. Taking part. How should you join the conversation?
5. Tracking. What are people saying about you?

Word of mouth marketing can't be faked. It must be genuine. Be yourself. Avoid the hint of deception and follow a tight code of personal ethics. Word of mouth marketing is the most profitable marketing. It reduces customer acquisition costs, it's free advertising with better results than traditional advertising, makes sales people more productive with more sales leads, reducing customer service costs while building a stronger brand.

For each of these areas create your word of mouth marketing plan:
1. Talkers. Find people who will talk about you. Fans, volunteers, customers, bloggers, influencers.

2. Topics. Give people a reason to talk. Special offer, great service, cool products, silliness, neat ad, new feature.
3. Tools. Help the message spread faster and farther. Tell-a-friend form, viral email, blogs, handouts, samples, coupons, online discussions.
4. Taking Part. Join the conversation. Reply to comments, posts on blogs, join discussions, answer email, offer personal service.
5. Tracking. Measure and understand what people are saying. Search blogs, read message boards, listen to feedback, use advanced measurement tools.

To find the talkers, Sernovitz provides this worksheet.
What products do you want talked about?
Who do you want to reach?
List the who's.
Who are they connected to?
Do they have connections, conversations, and audience?
What is the word of mouth (WOM) topic?
You can recognize talkers by their passion, credibility, connections and the opportunity they provide by the number of interactions they have.
Build a talker profile. Rally the faithful.

Find a great topic. Great topics are organic, the exceptional quality of the product, something they are amazed about. For finding a topic use this brainstorming guide. Is your topic buzzworthy? Ask the tough questions until you get a strong yes.
Ask:
Would anyone tell a friend?
What would they say? This is the WOM topic.
Who would they tell?
How could they tell more people.
Make it easy and provide ways so it is easy for them.

The next T is tools. Look for ways to use these tools. The Internet is a powerful tool. Ask people to spread the word. Put everything in an email. Put a tell-a-friend link on every page of your website. Make your information easy to steal. Use samples and seeds to plant. Give things away. Start a blog which makes messages portable, highlights new topics, comments and conversations can begin. A blog builds credibility for you. Create an online community, use social media to create contacts, be careful to build an intriguing profile page. Make it exclusive, reveal secrets and have surprises. Add testimonies and customer reviews.

Take part and join conservations. Comment on blogs and social network conversations. Find your right talkers and just join in. Some places to look are blogs, community forums, social networks. Be sure to watch your manners. Never sell, follow the rules online. Say who you are in ten words or less. Be open and disclose who you are, be honest, don't impose.

How to deal with negative word of mouth. Word of mouth will happen and sometimes people say bad things about you. It is an opportunity to put your best foot forward. Don't feel you have to win every argument or even respond to negative people. Four defenses to use are to build credibility before you need it, bring it in your own tent which is in your own website or blog, let your fans do it, don't get caught off guard and respond quickly online. Respond calmly, don't get in a fight, be human, write for the record, followup, and do something wonderful.

Track what people say about you. Use online tracking tools. Encourage feedback.

Do something worth talking about. Create your Action Plan. Assign a team. Hit the WOM basics. Viralize everything. Start talking. Try lots of little things. Go deep and have fun.

For more and worksheets visit:
http://www.wordofmouthbook.com/

In the Ministry of Intercession by Andrew Murray, we learn the power behind humble, earnest petitions to God and the impact it has. The Holy Spirit has been given to us. It is by His Spirit in us that the Divine Power or energy maintains and strengthens our lives. The Holy Spirit is prayer. It makes intercession for us to our Father in Heaven. The Power of prayer comes from the power of the Spirit in us. For us to pray right, the life of the Spirit must be right in us. Everything depends on this indwelling of the Spirit.

There are three lessons the believer must know to receive the blessings of prayer.

First, believe that the Spirit dwells in you. When we quietly believe that in the midst of our weakness, the Spirit is petitioning for us... for the very purpose of enabling us to pray in the manner and measure that God desires. God has made an abundant provision for our being what He wants us to be. We see the Holy Spirit will pray and is praying in us.

The second lesson is beware of everything that may grieve the Holy Spirit. We grieve Him by sin, unbelief, by selfishness, and unfaithfulness to His voice. Reject any sin that rises up against your will, such as slothfulness, pride, self-will or passions of the flesh. Each day accept the Holy Spirit as your leader, your life, your strength. He is revealing Christ who is actually your life and strength unseen within you. Do you grieve the Holy Spirit by distrusting Him just because you do not feel His presence in you. Be quiet before the Lord and give Him time.

The third lesson is Be Filled with the Spirit. It is only the healthy Spiritual life that can pray right. It is God wills that we be filled with the Spirit. We can count on and expect the Holy Spirit to take possession of and fill us. Be willing to receive Him, to yield yourself to God, to trust Him for it. Through Him we have access by one Spirit to the Father and Son. It must be by The Spirit. The Spirit can pray in us only when He lives in us.

One last lesson is to pray in the Spirit for all saints. The Spirit of supplication is the Spirit of intercession... a humble, earnest, compelling request of God's Spirit to respond to our pleas. When the Spirit of intercession takes full possession of us, all selfishness vanishes, and we no longer want to have Him for ourselves alone, apart from His intercession for others. We can begin to avail ourselves of our wonderful privilege to pray for others.

Claim and accept Him to work in you whatever God desires. Let Him be the Spirit of your whole life and you can count on Him to take charge. Depend on Him regardless of your feelings or your experience to His work of pleading for others through you. Renew this act of faith through you every morning. Trust Him in spite of all appearances to work through you for others. Only this indwelling of God through the Spirit will enable us to appropriate the wonderful promises given to prayer. The Spirit is given so we can be everything God wants us to be. Depend only and entirely on Him.

Rework... secret of intercession

by Dale Shumaker

4spirit@gmail.com

Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, deviate from traditional business views and have built intentionally to stay small and stay profitable. They question a lot of the notions that are popular in the business world to succeed. They succeed in that they built a business they want to live with and have a life. In writing this book, they decided to un-build and then rebuild the business from scratch. Here's some of their advice. In business or going into business they feel this will shed some new light on how to do this thing called business.

That will never work in the real world some may say. Ignore that. It may be real for them, but you don't have to live in it. You don't have to keep your secrets for success a secret from others. Failure is not a rite of passage. You can build success as you grow. When small, you can't afford failures repeatedly to learn. Build small successes and learn from them. Planning is guessing. Plans over a few pages long end up as fossils in your files. A week is long enough to plan out, and make your decisions right before you need to. It's okay to be small. If it's sustainable and profitable you should be proud of your business. Workaholics are not heroes. Real heroes figure out how to get things done faster, and be home on time. Be a starter. Get the idea, have confidence and start.

Make a dent in the universe. Make it valuable. Do something that matters. You don't have to conquer the world but make the world better for many. Scratch your own itch. Make what you need. When you solve your own problem you fall in love with what you're making, that you can be happy making for years. Ideas are cheap, what matters is how well you execute. What you want bad enough you make time for, and want to do it well. What you offer doesn't have to be loved by everyone but be loved immensely by the ones who use it. Your mission statement should be a statement of what you live, not a bunch of nice words on paper. It's believing and living it. Plan Z may be the cash flow plan. You can make it on less than you need, and less from others you think you need. Start a business not a startup and make one you will love to do all your life. Not just to build it and sell it. Live with less mass, small leases, smaller space, lower inventory, less staff.

Live with less and create self-imposed restraints. Make a great half a product and not a shoddy full product. Keep in the epicenter of your business. Ignore details early on and get rolling. Over concern with too many details slows it all down. Make decisions early as you go. It keeps you moving while keeping you motivated and keeping momentum. Throw less at the problem and focus on what won't change. Sell your by-products. Get it out there, launch now, keep quality there. Find out what really works by doing it, and not guessing it.

Being productive is getting real. Chisel out distractions and what's not relevant. Interruptions kill personal momentum... find places to work where you can stay in the flow. Meetings are toxic. Meet and discuss the problem where you can see it, and with people directly involved in it. Use judo solutions that are quick and to the core. Momentum fuels motivation, so get something done and move to the next, quickly. Don't be a hero, quitting may be the best answer. Get sleep, you think better and work better when rested. Estimate small chunks, most long term estimates suck. Make small to-do lists, and tiny decisions repetitively.

Don't copy, be original. Pour yourself into your work. Take a stand for who you are and if you pick a fight, it creates distinction and loyal followers. Under do the competition and be proud of it. Focus on you instead of they...

Give new ideas some days to rest and then move on the right priorities. Let your customer direct you. And choose the right customer for who you are, some will outgrow you so let them go.

Some don't know you now. That's great. Stay in the shadows and make your mistakes. Build your audience. Don't out-spend, instead out-teach your competition. Let people in behind the scenes and see how you do things... they'll love you for it. Be real and personal. Send notes not spam emails. Call and talk to them, see them. Be like the drug dealer... a taste of you will get them hooked. And everything is marketing, that's everything you do. Overnight success comes with years of steady audience captivating.

Hire when it hurts, until then do it yourself. Pass on great people, if you don't need them. Hire slowly and trust your gut. Hire better writers. Today so much of what we say is in emails. Test drive employees. Use in projects first to see how they work.

When you mess up, apologize. Be honest, sincere. When you build rapport your customers will be forgiving. You don't create work cultures, they happen by all you do. Avoid Rock Stars, but build a great environment for all to star. Encourage everyone to get things done and everyone knows they will leave at 5. ASAP is poison. Use emergency terms for true emergencies.

When inspired do it while inspired. Inspiration is fleeting. When inspired you get a lot done in short periods of time keeping the inspiration in what you do.

Rework has short chapters, proverbial quips graphically illustrated before each very-short section (only a page or two each). An enjoyable, enlightening, fast read, with more at 37 Signals. They have many other websites with biz tools to power up your business.

http://37signals.com/rework/

The Secret of Intercession by Andrew Murray expounds on the impact we have in peoples lives through prayer. The Glory of intercession is so much greater when a man is bold and asks from God what he desires for others. The Intercessor seeks God so God will bring down on hundreds and thousands of souls the power of eternal life with all its blessings. Intercession is the very holiest exercise of our boldness as God's children. It is the power of being used by God as His instruments for His Great work of making men His habitation and showing His Glory. Above anything else we should seek to cultivate this gift in all of God's children, the gift of unceasing prayer for a wavering world.

God will certainly avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him. All powers of Heaven are at the disposal of this intercessor, this person who prays. May God open our eyes to see this great power and its availability to us. May God's children seek the hidden treasures of Heaven, to bring them down in blessing on the world. By this intercession they do come down from Heaven to earth.

When Jesus left the earth physically, He imparted this right to ask as you will and that whatever you ask for His will to be done for them. God regards intercession as the highest expression of His people, to yield themselves to the mighty power of God. God waits for us to do our part. As we plead for this Heavenly power, God will send it down to meet our requests on earth. May we realize our position, and the extension of God's Hand is put in our hands. God calls for intercessors. He has made His work dependent on us.

We are God's channel, and it is the highest privilege we have. It's not a passing interest. It becomes our intense desire. Too long we have thought of prayer as the means for supplying our needs in life. It's higher calling is to join with God to bring the Kingdom of God down to earth. It opens the way on earth for the blessing God delights to give. When Christ ascended to Heaven the disciples knew it was their place to pray in one accord. One accord in and now as Christ represented body on earth. They were bonded together by the love and Spirit of Christ into one body. It was this that gave them their wonderful power in heaven with God and upon earth.

Christ meant to teach us that however large the field may be and however few the laborers, prayer is the best, the sure, the only means of supplying the need. We remain confident that as we intercede for the Kingdom of God to advance on earth as in Heaven, our prayers are heard, our prayers are indispensable for the coming of God's wonderful Kingdom.

(I am available for additional sharing at 4spirit@gmail.com and 417-224-3517.)

How Successful People Think... Experiencing God

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
417-224-3517

How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell outlines the how and why of successful people's ways of thinking. Maxwell explains why you should change your thinking. It is not automatic, it is difficult, but worth the investment. And he says how to be a better thinker is to expose yourself to good input, to good thinkers, think good thoughts, act on good thoughts, allow your emotions to create new good thoughts, and repeat the process. Put yourself in the right place to think... to think your thoughts, shape your thoughts, stretch your thoughts, land your thoughts and fly your thoughts.

Maxwell explains the why's and how's in each area of thinking. I will focus on the How's for each. Maxwell is very extensively thorough in explaining the why's and how''s.

Cultivate Big Picture Thinking. Look beyond the bridges you will need to cross, learn to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity, learn from every experience, gain insights from a variety of people and give yourself permission to expand the world.

Engage in Focused Thinking. Remove distractions and do first things first, make time for focused thinking, keep items of focus before you, set goals, are you making true progress.

Harness Creative Thinking. Value ideas, explore options, embrace ambiguity, celebrate the offbeat, connect the unconnected, don't fear failure and venture out. Remove negative influences and ask the right questions, and hang around creative people.

Employ Realistic Thinking. Develop appreciation for the truth, do your homework, think through pros and cons, picture worst case scenarios, align thinking with resources.

Utilize Strategic Thinking. Break down the issue, ask why before how, identify the real issues and objectives, review your resources, develop your plan, put the right people in the right place, repeat the process.

Explore Possibility Thinking. Focus on possibilities not impossibilities, stay away from experts or people who know it all, look for possibilities in every situation, dream one size bigger, question the status quo, find inspiration from great achievers.

Learn from Reflective Thinking. Set aside time for reflection, remove yourself from distractions, regularly review your calendar and journal, cement learning with actions.

Benefit from Shared Thinking. Ask these questions. Am I emotionally secure? Do I value people? Move from competition to cooperation. Have an agenda when you meet. Get the right people around the table. Compensate good thinkers and collaborators well.

Practice Unselfish Thinking. Put others first. Expose yourself to situations where people have needs. Give quietly or anonymously. Invest in people intentionally. Continuously check your motives. Give while you live.

Rely on Bottom Line Thinking. Identify the real bottom line which is what your really want. Make the bottom line the point. Create a strategic plan to achieve the bottom line. Align team members with the bottom line.

Final thoughts: "Life consists of what we think about all day." (Emerson);
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." (Locke)
"You are today what your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you." (Allen)
"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking." (Ward)
"Whatever is true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of a good report, think on these things."
(The Apostle Paul)

More from John C. Maxwell at
http://johnmaxwellonleadership.com/

In Experiencing God through Prayer, Madame Guyon emphasizes that you must learn to pray from your heart. She says prayer is entering the Presence of God and remaining there for Him to speak, heal, console and just be with you. Start by digesting the Word of God, and then pray the Word of God. The Kingdom of God resides in His Temple and we are now His Temple. We can enter that most Holy and Powerful place.

Look at the Lord's prayer and dwell on these words. Our Father... we are His child. Let Him know your heart's desire. Remember, what a Father does and especially our Father in Heaven, creating of us and everything we see and don't see. What can this do? Ponder on what just, "Our Father" means. Let Him reign in you, and His right to rule over you.

Then continue as you ponder and reflect on Thy Kingdom Come and Thy will be Done on Earth as in Heaven. Ask God to accomplish His will through you on earth as it is in Heaven.

"Give us this day our Daily Bread." See yourself as a sheep before your shepherd. Look to Him for your food. Tell Him about your needs and family's needs. God is within you, walks with you, so He cares for you and your personal needs. Simply yield to God's operations in you until He completes His work. It's all attainable for those who seek God, simply begin.

Enter in His Presence. Stay silent and simply enjoy God and who He is. The road to perfection is abandonment. It is the key to enter the inner court of Spirit, to abandon oneself to God, casting off all selfish cares in order to be at His Divine disposal. Guyon says you must want only what God has willed from eternity. Remain steadfast in God and all things will be done to perfection. Put your confidence in God and remain quiet where He has placed you. Forgetting your faults when in His Presence is proof you have been purified in them.

Be led by the Spirit. When you are not being led by the Spirit you will feel either forced or constrained. When under the Spirit your actions will be free, easy, and so natural that it will almost seem as though you have not acted at all. When your spirit is centered on God, all activities He initiates will be noble, full of peace, natural, and so spontaneous that it will appear to you there has hardly been any activity at all. God's attraction is both a perfume to allure and an ointment to heal. Yet each soul is given freedom without constraint to follow Him. God never uses force, instead He attracts us by His powerful sweet presence.

God assures us that we need fear nothing. He promises to take very special care of us.
"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she would not have compassion on the son of her womb." (Isaiah 49:15-16)

After reading these beautiful words of consolation, how can you ever again be afraid of abandoning yourself wholly to the Guidance of God!

The Spirit will increase in proportion to as you lose your self hood. By departing from self-hood, you will have acquired the purity and innocence of God. Gold cannot be purified except by fire, which consumes all that is earthly and foreign. Our earthly part must be melted and dissolved by the force of fire. It must be cast again and again into the furnace until it has lost every trace of pollution and every possibility of being further purified. You must be purged through the fire to be purged of self. It may last a long time. But do not become discouraged. Yield yourself to the Divine Spirit until you are wholly absorbed in Him.

Press on, press on, press on to know God.

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The Power of the Subconscious Mind... entering the Inner Chamber

by Dale Shumaker,
4spirit@gmail.com,
417-224-3517

The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy, a classic, elaborates on how powerful the mind is in helping us achieve health, happiness and wealth in our lives. Miracle working power for you exists in your subconscious mind. It fulfills what you tell it. Your desires are prayers. The mind is based on a principle, just like electricity is a principle. Cooperate with its inherent powers, and marvelous inventions and discoveries which will bless humanity will come your way.

You must know what belief is and how it works. The Bible says it simply. "Say to this mountain to move, if you don't doubt in your heart, believe it will happen, and you will have whatever you ask for." (Mark 11:2)

The mind has two functions... objective and subjective. The conscious mind is objective and makes judgment calls. The subconscious is subjective and carries out what the conscious mind tells it. The subconscious mind is very powerful with vast capabilities to do very miraculous things. Give your subconscious mind the right orders from your conscious mind and it will carry them out for you. So control the ways you think, the attitudes, and what you think about because the subconscious is designed to fulfill these as commands you want. Think on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report.

The subconscious mind accepts what is impressed on it or what you consciously believe. It's like soil. It accepts the seed you put in it, and bears the fruit of that seed. Whatever you plant will grow. The more you plant, the more what you plant grows. The conscious mind is the watchman at the gate to protect the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is amenable to suggestion. It simply reacts to the impressions given to it by the conscious mind. When a suggestion is accepted by the conscious mind and given to the subconscious mind, it then is taken as a command to be fulfilled by the subconscious mind. Consequently, when you use autosuggestion, deliberately planting in your subconscious mind what you really desire, it will direct you to that. Use autosuggestion to achieve noteworthy things in your life. You can restore memory, overcome fear, counteract negatives in life... choose happiness and abundance and you will have that. Don't say "I can't," or "it won't" but believe and say the exceptional for you and it will direct you to experience it or achieve it.

The subconscious mind is one with infinite intelligence and boundless wisdom. What you impress to the subconscious mind, it will move heaven and earth to bring it to pass. The subconscious mind is always working for you. It runs your body automatically. Take control of your conscious mind, and you will express, reproduce your habitual thinking. Put yourself in a restful sleepy state. Affirm to it what you want to come to pass, and it will. Also use disciplined, scientific imagination. What you believe in prayer will be done. Implanting desires is the same as prayer to your subconscious mind.

Imagine the end desired, feel its reality, life force will respond to your conscious request. Believe you have already received, and you will receive. The law of life is belief, faith. It is done unto you as you believe. Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. Choose a certain mental picture. Unite mentally and emotionally with that picture. As you remain faithful to that mental attitude, that prayer will be answered. If you want the power to heal you can do it through faith.

Blessed are those who thirst after righteousness. Apply these mental techniques for impregnating the subconscious mind. Create a blueprint for your life like a builder would for a house. Impress that blueprint on your mind of your life design. Dwell upon it and claim it as yours, and your subconscious mind will bring it to pass.

Use prayer. Asking, seeking, knocking continually will cause your creative mind to respond to your mental picture. Along with this, apply contemplation.
Visualize and see your desire in your minds eye. Before everything you do, visualize a series of events unfolding as you desire.
Create mental movies and experience all the emotions, pleasures, satisfactions of the event as you ideally hope it to be.
The Baudoin Technique is going into a sleepy, drowsy state. Then in a quiet, passive, reflective way convey the idea to your subconscious. Use a short rhythmic phrase like a lullaby and repeat it continuously to your mind.
The subconscious mind is most receptive in the sleepy state so use this time to consciously instruct it to what you desire. Use affirming thoughts to state what you most highly hope for in your life.
The Thank You technique greatly influences the subconscious mind. Express appreciation for the outcome you want as if it has already happened, that it exists right now. Thank God for taking care of the matter.
The Affirmative Method of prayer conforms to the principles of life. It works like the principles of mathematics. To affirm, you state that a situation is as you want it to be, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. When you do this you will receive your answer to prayer.
The Absolute Method is reflecting onto a person God's love as you think of the person and their healing or desire needed. Contemplating the attributes of God in someone's life generates Spiritual sound waves bringing harmony, love, health, peace into that person's life. Many remarkable healings have followed this method of prayer.
The Decree Method involves the power of our word decreeing into someone's life what they wish for. Power goes into words according to the feeling and truth behind it. It does not require force in our speech but said reassuringly, affirmingly to the person. "I release into you..." may be one way to begin a decree statement. What we say to people, has power on their subconscious mind and it becomes them.

Every thought entertained by your conscious mind accepted as true is sent to your brain's solar plexus, the brain of your subconscious mind, to be made into flesh, and to be brought forth into your world as a reality. When fear, false beliefs, and negative patterns are made to register into your subconscious mind through psychological, emotional conditioning, there is no other course open to the subconscious mind except to act on the blueprint specifications offered it. You are the sum total of your own thoughts. You can keep from entertaining negative thoughts. The way to overcome negative thoughts is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good and the bad will vanish. Go your way, your faith has healed you. Impress the subconscious mind with faith, convincing it of the idea through repetition, faith, expectancy.

Whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive it. The three steps of prayer are to take a look at the problem, turn to the solution known by your subconscious mind, rest in a deep conviction that it will be done. The best time to impregnate your subconscious mind is prior to sleep. This will line up your imagination with your desires.

Murphy goes on to show this will affect bringing riches in your life, having effective business partners, strong marriage relationships, being happy, forgiving, and building great relationships. He emphasizes the power of sleep impressing your desires into the subconscious mind through imagination. Whatever mental picture, backed by faith, you behold in your conscious mind, your subconscious will bring to pass.
More from Joseph Murphy at
http://josephmurphy.wwwhubs.com/

Murphy talks about powers of the mind, although the Spirit of God goes deeper.
The Inner Chamber is the most Holy Place of God. The Actual Presence of God.
The Spiritual mystics of old talked about it frequently. Andrew Murray, Madame Guyon learned the secret of depth in Spirit is entering the Inner Chamber. What does this mean?

In the Most Holy Place, the Inner Chamber, is the Presence, the actual presence of God himself. It is what Moses experienced at the mountain with God, what Paul experienced in meeting Jesus himself after His death from the earthly body. It was where the disciples were on the mountain of transfiguration. It was where the Prophets went frequently as they sought wisdom, guidance... eliciting the very Power of God, the very creator of the universe who creates and recreates all things. This actual Presence and Power of God is available to us when we enter the Most Holy Place, the Presence of God.

With this right we now have through Jesus, we have at our availability for all we do the full extent of God's Power, love, joy, peace and happiness within us. There is not one Good thing that God will withhold from those who live in His Presence. (Psalm 84:11)

The body naturally recreates itself over a year. Most origins of our body are rebuilt from brand new cells. Our economy creates and recreates. We have economic downturns about every 7 years. We must constantly create and recreate our economic systems. Relations recreate every 7 years. The 7-year inch is actually our relationships wanting to go to a higher and deeper level.

In the Inner Chamber, God recreates our lives daily. As often as we go into the Inner Chamber we experience a newer, a heightened, a deeper presence of God's very nature that lives with us throughout the day. Just as God created the world, He is building a New Thing in our lives constantly. That's the significance of the Inner Chamber. This all Happens while in the Inner Chamber of God, the Most Holy Place, the Supernatural Creating Power of God. Here we meet and are intimately intercoursing with our eternal presence that is all powerful. The Inner Chamber gives us power beyond our ability to measure and comprehend. This is the secret to power, a power beyond our ability to even grasp, that Supernaturally directs our lives. Run to the Inner Chamber, dwell there and give up all things to be there. Our power resides there. When Murphy says turn things over to the subconscious mind, and it will create all things, he is touching on what the Inner Chamber of God is. We have that privilege now through Jesus to get there, live there, and depend on its Intelligence and Power to change all things as God directs. Read about the Inner Chamber in Hebrews 8, 9, 10... here are a few excerpts:

"But now Jesus, our High Priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old priesthood, for He is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God, based on better promises.

But this is the new covenant I will make
with the people, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds,
and I will write them on their hearts.

I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
And they will not need to teach their neighbors,
nor will they need to teach their relatives,
saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’
For everyone, from the least to the greatest,
will know me already. (Heb. 8: 6, 10 NLT)

By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that
the entrance to the Most Holy Place was not freely open
as long as the Tabernacle and the system it represented were still in use.
And so, dear brothers and sisters,
we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
By His death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. (Heb. 9:8; 10: 19, NLT)

Get this... We can personally, without anyone else standing in on our behalf, enter directly in God's presence, talk to him directly and live with the expectation God personally hears us. With that, all His World-creating Power is with us.
He will respond to our conversations, intimate times with Him. It is so intimate, more than any intimacy we can experience in our earthly bodies.

Integrate what Murphy says with what the Scriptures say, and you will have universe impacting power.

In Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray (chapter 3), he states.

"And the first thing the Lord teaches His disciples is that they must have a secret place for prayer; every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God. Every teacher must have a schoolroom. We have learned to know and accept Jesus as our only teacher in the school of prayer. And yet He wants each one to choose for himself the fixed spot where He can daily meet him. That Inner Chamber, that solitary place, is Jesus’ schoolroom. That spot may be anywhere; that spot may change from day to day if we have to change our abode; but that secret place there must be, with the quiet time in which the pupil places himself in the Master’s presence, to be by Him prepared to worship the Father. There alone, but there most surely, Jesus comes to us to teach us to pray.

He will see to it that the answer to prayer be made manifest in His blessing upon us. ...our part there should be the childlike simplicity of faith, the confidence that our prayer does bring down a blessing. ‘He that cometh to God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that seek Him.’ Not on the strong or the fervent feeling with which I pray does the blessing of the closet depend, but upon the love and the power of the Father to whom I there entrust my needs. And therefore the Master has but one desire: Remember your Father is, and sees and hears in secret; go there and stay there, and go again from there in the confidence: He will recompense. Trust Him for it; depend upon Him: prayer to the Father cannot be vain; He will reward you openly.

In the Inner Chamber we enter the very Presence of God.
This has amazing implications for our lives.
Go there often.


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The Most Successful Small Business in the World... the creator of all things

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
417-224-3517

The Most Successful Small Business in the World by Michael Gerber is about teaching you how to conceive and build the most successful small business in the world. Gerber explains the ten principles that if you follow you will do this.

The First principle. A small business built rightly can grow 10,000 times its current size. The reason for the book is to talk about the process for creating something that has meaning, something bigger, something you can write home about. Create a business that has the ability to do just that. What can you do that can be replicated again and again.

The Second principle. A small business is no more effective than upon the idea it is built. If you fix cars and bill $100 an hour that's all you will get. But, what if you built a business that teaches people how to fix cars. Is the idea worthy of growth? Is it waiting to be done... something quite miraculous.

The Third Principle. A small business is a system in which all parts contribute to the success or failure of the whole. It means that the system is focused outside of the business, rather than inside of the business. It's focused on the customer. The ideas of the business are more important than the work of the business.

The old mindset is start with what you have and move out from there. The new mindset is start on the outside where the customer is, the idea for the customer that is the heart, mind and soul of the customer. The parts needing addressed outside the business are the customer parts, competitor parts, channels of distribution parts, media parts, financial parts. Then in the inside of the business are the strategic parts, tactical parts and incremental parts. Order is the word of the day, which calls for symmetry, balance, consistency, integration of parts that fit well together.

The Fourth Principle. A small business must be sustainable through all economic conditions, in all matters, providing meaningful, highly differentiated results to the customer. The ten principles can not fail you. The fundamentals of success are to choose the most ordinary (something everyone will use), constantly improve, listen to your customer, respond to what you hear, see, and feel, set high standards, write the exquisite story, live your story.

The Fifth Principle. A small business is a school in which its employees are students, with the intention, will, and determination to grow. You don't find the right people, you create the right people. They must be voracious students and you must be a voracious teacher. What do they need to learn? Ask the right questions to find out. They need to learn about life and work, money and management, entrepreneurship and creating a business, skills for it, and how to think and develop beyond where they are.

The Sixth Principle. A small business must manifest the higher purpose upon which it was seeded, the vision it was meant to exemplify, the mission it was intended to fulfill. The higher aim is not to stimulate a purchase. Rather, it is to provide a result that authentically serves a human being in the process of emerging from where they are to where they could be. It is no longer acceptable for the new entrepreneur to stimulate a sale where the purchaser ends up in exactly the same place they were when the sale was made.

The five components of higher purpose have these steps... the first step is awakening, to discovering, then to experiencing, next internalizing and the fifth step is becoming. We awaken from our sleep and see ourselves for who we are. We become the mover instead of the moved. We see who we are and are meant to be. The sense of it becomes real to you and you see the color, the shape, the energy of it. A transformation begins and we create a new life, always seeing and advancing new possibilities. We are in constant movement and the higher purpose drives us to be in a perpetual state of moving beyond.

The Seventh Principle. A small business is the fruit of a higher aim in the mind of the person who conceived it. You have been given a destiny to create a new world. You are called to fulfill your destiny. You are to grown beyond making a living to creating a world that is a much better place. It resides in your higher aim. You are to pursue this aim which is your purpose, your destiny.

The Eighth Principle. A small business possesses a life of its own, in the service of G-d, in whom it finds reason. The source of our self is G-d. We must believe that G-d is and that He wants us to pursue the impossible. What would G-d have us do? If G-d is not present in your heart, in your imagination, in your desire to create the most successful small business in the world, the possibility of creating it would not exist. With G-d in your life, how would this affect your dream, your vision, your mission, your purpose? So, what would G-d have you do?

The Ninth Principle. A small business is an economic entity, driving an economic reality, creating an economic certainty for the communities in which it thrives. Henry Ford said that if money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security man has is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Money does not create money. It is simply the fuel that feeds energy. If each sole proprietor could hire five people, could just grow five times where it started, what would be the financial impact on the community it serves? Money is not the answer, but reviving the entrepreneur spirit is the answer. We are given the freedom to choose our own life path, to imagine and build what we imagine. Government giving out money is not the solution. Transforming sole proprietors to become developed entrepreneurs is what will transform the economy. It's not the money, it's getting the idea.

The Tenth Principle. The small business creates a standard against which all small businesses are measured as either successful, or not, to upgrade the possibility for all small businesses to thrive beyond the standards that formally existed, whether stated or not. The standards of a small business to be measured against are: Spiritual Standards, the human spirit and soul of the business. Psychological standards, the state of mind of the people. Ethical standards, the appropriateness of the choices made. Philosophical standards, the belief system or the world view held by the company.

In conclusion, what in the world would you do with wealth you earn? What purpose does G-d have for you in your purpose? Does this fulfill your purpose on earth, the purpose of your soul?

http://www.michaelegerber.com/

All things we see and don't see are created by Christ according to the Bible. We are made to live out the Mind of Christ, and all things Christ did on earth. We are made to have his mind. This mind must be developed as the Scriptures also say that we are to renew our minds.

In a survey of the Scriptures we see all that Jesus did on earth He went to the Father in Heaven, or God. Now, He does the same for us. To assist us in accomplishing all things, He goes to the Father for us. The Apostle Paul reminds us that the great secret is that Jesus lives in us. "And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory." (Colossians 1:27, NLT)

The very person and power that Jesus possessed on earth now resides in us. Slowly ponder these Scriptures from Colossians 1.
^"Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,
for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth.
He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see,
such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.
Everything was created through him and for him.

He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together.
Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body.
He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead.
So he is first in everything.

For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ,
and through him God reconciled everything to himself.
He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth
by means of Christ’s blood on the cross." (NLT)

Our purpose is derived out of this life living out Jesus who exists in us. The part that requires some work in having the mind of Jesus as our normal way of thinking. It is a Spiritual mind of unlimited possibilities. Our natural, flesh and blood, mind is limited by its experiences. The mind and subconscious mind function from what we see in the natural, have seen in the natural, and conclusions we have drawn with our natural mind in all these circumstances.

The challenge then is to deliberately renew, transform, re-create a mind that functions in the same belief system as Jesus had on earth. When we do this and reflect as Jesus showed us on earth, we will be one in mind and Spirit... then we have potential to do all things as Jesus did. Reflect on this possibility. Through Jesus all that is and was created was made through Him. Jesus was assigned to create everything we see and don't see.

If Jesus made all the most intricate systems in nature, the body, the climate, the vegetation, all things that are made with precision functioning and uninterrupted in its abilities to perform. If Jesus did all this, what can He do for us. He can create, recreate, remake, transform through natural process and through supernatural process everything around us that we need transformed.

We have unimaginable power at work in us, through us and for us. We can count on this power being at work in us. We have power over everything around us, and can recreate through Him all that can be imagined. The key is Jesus did everything for the purpose He was put on earth to accomplish. He did only the things which were meant to complete His purpose and satisfy God's will for Him.

That's why God's purposes for us is so important. If we are working in line with God's purpose for us, all things, as were available to Jesus on earth, are also available to us. Jesus never focused on what people said to Him. He knew His purpose and what He was called to do on earth. He stayed constantly focused on His Heavenly purpose and calling.

People's views of what He was doing didn't deter His actions of purpose on earth. We should be the same way. Tune in to God's purpose and not be miss-directed by views of friends, relatives, personal setbacks, and stick the course to God's place, purpose, calling for us.

We must dwell on this potential that works with so much might through us. We must constantly return to this as a true power. We must not let circumstances dictate a false sense of identity as weakness or incompleteness.

Adverse conditions and setbacks may want to dictate a sense of inadequacy in us. Our belief remains in God's power, through Jesus that works steadily through us. As the Apostle Paul says that His Power works powerfully through him. May we declare the same.


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