The MIRACLE in Business…

Jesus replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” ~ Matthew 17:20

Does God do miracles in business?

Is He concerned about the mountains we face in our work life?

Does He want us to bring the everyday problems we face in the workplace to His attention?

The answer to every one of these questions is yes. God wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives.

Gunnar Olson, the Swedish founder of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce, tells a story about God performing a miracle in his own business a few years ago. He owns a plastics company in Sweden. They make huge plastic bags that are used to cover bales of hay in the farmlands across Europe. It was the harvest season and they were getting ready to ship thousands of pallets of these bags to their customers.

More than 1,000 pallets were ready to ship when an alarming discovery was made. Every bag on the warehouse floor had sealed shut from top to bottom. Scientists declared the entire stock as worthless trash. Nothing could be done. The company would go out of business.

Gunnar, his wife, and children sought the Lord in prayer about this catastrophe. The Holy Spirit spoke through various family members. The wife said, “If God can turn water into wine, what are plastics?” The daughter said, “I don’t believe this is from the Lord. We should stand against it.”

Gunnar sensed they were to trust God for a miracle in this situation. They began to pray. They took authority over this mountain of a problem based on Matthew 17, which gave them the authority to cast a mountain into the sea if faith only the size of a mustard seed could be exercised.

The following Monday they went to the warehouse and laid hands on every pallet asking the Lord to restore the bags to their original condition. It took several hours.

Later, the employees began to inspect the bags. As they inspected the bags, they discovered that every single bag had been restored to its original condition! An incredible miracle had taken place.

What obstacles have been placed in your life that need a miracle today?

Could God be setting the stage in your life for you to trust Him at new levels you’ve never trusted before?

God sets the stage to allow His power to be revealed for those willing to exercise the faith of a mustard seed.

All things are possible with God.

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Who Is Your Daddy?

A number of years ago a seminary professor was vacationing with his wife in Gatlinburg, Tennessee where they were eating breakfast at a little restaurant, hoping to enjoy a quiet family meal.

While they were waiting for their food, they noticed a distinguished looking, white-haired man moving from table to table visiting with the guests.

The professor leaned over and whispered to his wife: “I hope he doesn’t come over here.” But sure enough, the man did come over to their table. “Where are you folks from?” he asked in a friendly voice. “Oklahoma,” they answered. “Great to have you here in Tennessee,” the stranger said. “What do you do for a living?” “I teach at a seminary,” he replied. “Oh, you teach preachers how to preach? Well, I’ve got a really great story for you.”

And with that, the gentleman pulled up a chair and sat down at the table with the couple. “See that mountain over there?” (pointing out the restaurant window). Not far from the base of that mountain, there was a boy born to an unwed mother.

He had a hard time growing up, because every place he went, he was always asked the same question: ‘Hey boy, Who’s your daddy?’ Whether he was at school, in the grocery store or drug store, people would ask the same question, “Who’s your daddy?”

He would hide at recess and lunchtime from other students. He would avoid going into stores because that question hurt him so bad. When he was about 12 years old, a new preacher came to his church. He would always go in late and slip out early to avoid hearing the question, “Who’s your daddy?”

But one day, the new preacher said the benediction so fast he got caught and had to walk out with the crowd. Just about the time he got to the back door, the new preacher not knowing anything about him, put his hand on his shoulder and asked him, “Son, who’s your daddy?”

The whole church got deathly quiet. He could feel every eye in the church looking at him. By now, everyone knew the answer to the question, ‘Who’s your daddy?’

This new preacher, though, sensed the situation around him and using discernment that only the Holy Spirit could give, said the following to that scared little boy… ‘

Wait a minute!’ he said, ‘I know who you are. I see the family resemblance now. You are a child of God.’ With that he patted the boy on his shoulder and said: ‘Boy, you’ve got a great inheritance. Go and claim it.’ With that, the boy smiled for the first time in a long time and walked out the door a changed person. He was never the same again.

Whenever anybody asked him, ‘Who’s your Daddy?’ he’d just tell them, ‘I’m a Child of God.’ The distinguished gentleman got up from the table and said, “Isn’t that a great story?”

The professor responded that it really was a great story! As the man turned to leave, he said, “You know, if that new preacher hadn’t told me that I was one of God’s children, I probably never would have amounted to anything!”

And he walked away. The seminary professor and his wife were stunned. He called the waitress over and asked her, “Do you know who that man was who just left who was sitting at our table?” The waitress grinned and said, “Of course. Everybody here knows him.

That’s Ben Hooper. He’s the former governor of Tennessee!”

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A Woman’s Question…

When we fall in love with the beauty of the face of our lover, that love fades with every wrinkle that time would bring. It is when we fall in love with the heart that such love grows and blooms into a flower worthy of Eden.

What makes marriage so special and precious is the fact that it is ever-humbling. What makes it ever-humbling is the fact that another person, another human being, another mortal, with life as fleeting as our own, with such a short time to stay in this world, chose to spend and commit the rest of his or her life with us.

And once we have truly grasped the shortness of life, the preciousness of mortality and the beauty of moments that pass with the whispers of every breath, time becomes golden in our eyes. And what makes this even more of a treasure is the fact that this time is spent with us.

These golden times and moments become as diamonds. And as the ancients used to say, where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

Who am I to deserve a gift as gentle as the twinkle of a star?

Who am I to receive a treasure as priceless as the song of a silent waterfall?

How could I hope to believe that I deserve an ounce of another’s fragile heart.

Here I am, trying to stay deserving, yet ever-failing, holding on to the hope that she cares enough to give me that angel-kiss.

Here I am, struggling to stay moldable in the Potter’s hands.

Here I am, here I am, waiting, hoping, believing.

A Woman’s Question
-Lena Lethropdo

You know you have asked for the costliest thingever made by the Hand above?

A woman’s heart, and a woman’s life-and a woman’s wonderful love.

Do you know you have asked for this priceless thingas a child might ask for a toy?

Demanding what others have died to win,with the reckless dash of a boy.

You have written my lesson of duty out, manlike, you have questioned me.now stand at the bars of my woman’s souluntil i shall question thee. You require your mutton shall always be hot, your socks and your shirt be whole; I require your heart be true as God’s starsand as pure as His heaven your soul.

You require a cook for your mutton and beef, I require a far greater thing; a seamstress you’re wanting for socks and shirts-I look for a man and a king. A king for the beautiful realm called Home, and a man that his Maker, God, shall look upon as He did on the firstand say: “It is very good. “I am fair and young, but the rose may fadefrom this soft young cheek one day; will you love me then ‘mid the falling leaves, as you did ‘mong the blossoms of May?

Is your heart an ocean so strong and true, I may launch my all on its tide? A loving woman finds heaven or hellon the day she is made a bride.

I require all things that are grand and true, all things that a man should be; if you give this all, I would stake my life to be all you demand of me. If you cannot be this, a laundress and a cook you can hire and little to pay; but a woman’s heart and a woman’s lifeare not to be won that way.

Ladies, keep your standards high. Require all things that are grand and true. Don’t lower your standards for a moment; any guy who asks you to do so is not worth your time.

Men, have we grasped the costliness, the pricelessness, of a woman’s love? It is no small thing, no game, to invite a woman to accompany us through life. May we earn the right to make such a request by striving to be men of integrity- men whose hearts are strong and true. Then, and only then, should we stand at the bars of a woman’s soul and ask to gain entrance.

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