"How to Deliver Your Message"

In this third blog installment on successful, Kingdom minded business marketing, Matt Gillogly of Christian Business Daily shares some excellent wisdom on "How to deliver your message".

The link for this blog post is: How to deliver your message

Have a blessed and happy day.

Give Them What They Want

Matt Gillogly and Christian Business Daily shares the second of three key fundamentals to building a successful kingdom minded business. This week Matt discusses the marketing topic of discovering what people want. The link for this blog entry is: Give Them What They Want.

I have really enjoyed this series. Keys to becoming successful are not always complicated. Most of the time the key is focusing on the key fundamentals and the consistent doing of those keys.

Happy reading!!

Conducting Your Life Wisely

To the faithful followers of Jesus,

In 1 Co 10:31 it states, "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." We are called to be the reflection of Jesus Christ to the world. When people see us, they should see Christ and the excellence of the Father. This is a time for us to "polish the mirror", to remove the smudges of our own selfishness and let the glory of the Lord shine through us.

In my own life, I am choosing to make the necessary changes to better reflect the excellency of the glory of God. Are there areas within your life that the Lord is saying, "I show you a more excellent way"? Are you willing to make a change?

In Psalms 50:23, the Lords promises that he that orders his conversation, behavior or manner of living aright, to him, will I show my salvation. In a practical way, ordering your behavior is called, etiquette. Webster's defines etiquette as, "the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life". Etiquette comes from a French word which means, "ticket" and carries the sense of a note attached to something indicating its contents. In Proverbs 20:11 it states, "Even a child makes himself known by his actions, whether his deeds are pure or right."

How well do you know the principles of proper etiquette? Here are a couple of online links to quizes in order to test your knowledge.

http://www.usatoday.com/img/content/flash/getiquettequiz/flash.htm
http://www.gradview.com/careers/etiquette.html

More to follow,

Duane

As a man thinks in his heart

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he...

Proverbs 23:7a

A man will never rise above the inward images he believes about himself. Past failures or negative words spoken against him become like ghosts that haunt him. They cause him to hesitate in stepping out when true opportunities present themselves. The thoughts connected with those past experiences can so easily become well traveled areas within his mind. Just as roads or paths that are travelled down time after time after time, they become ruts. Many a person in life has said, "I feel like I am in a rut".

Continual travelling a certain path of thinking will eventually create fortified areas within one's mind; becoming a mindset or a fixed state of mind. As concrete forms itself to the mold around it and then sets itself within that mold, our minds can form mindsets. They conform to the circumstances and the world around us. Once they are set, it can be challenging to change them, apart from the power of God.

The word "thinks" in this proverb, is a word which means to split or to open, to act as a gatekeeper or to estimate. A man has the power to open or to close the gates of his life to influences, events and opportunities that he encounters in life. He does this according to how he estimates or appraises things. The word "estimate", refers to how one judges, appraises or assesses the value, worth or significance of a person or an item, whether it be himself or things around him.

Wrong results are always a product of wrong choices. Wrong choices are the result of wrong thinking. The remedy for any past failure is to turn one's heart and life to Jesus Christ. Christ is the only one with the power to wipe away one's past and give a person a new start.

True success and prosperity begins with the Lord. If you are tired of battling the past failures of your life; if you are in a rut and tired of going down the same path and getting the same results; if you would like a fresh,new start; turn your heart to the Lord. Tell Him, "I am tired of the old. Give me a fresh, new way of thinking, a mindset that thinks like you."