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Maximizing the Work Hours

 
  1. Stop living a geographical relationship with God.
    1. You are either in a relationship with God or you're not.
    2. 2 Corinthians 13:5 - Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine.  Test yourselves.  Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.

 

  1. Avoid the pull of success in the marketplace.
    1. Ecclesiastes 4:4 - Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors.  But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
    2. 1 Timothy 6:10 - The love of money causes all kinds of evil.  Some people have left the faith, because the wanted to get more money, but they have caused themselves much sorrow.
    3. Job 5:3 - Those who turn from God may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster.

 

  1. Choose a calling over a curse.
    1. Genesis 3:17 - Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat.  So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food."
    2. Genesis 2:15 - The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to care for it and work it.
    3. Colossians 3:23 - In all the work you are doing, work the best you can.  Work as if you were doing it for the Lord, not for people.

 

  1. Live a life of integrity at work.
    1. 1 Chronicles 29:17 - I know, my God, that You examine our hearts and rejoice when You find integrity there.
    2. Proverbs 11:20 - The Lord detests people with crooked hearts, but he delights in those with integrity.

 

  1. Invest in your work relationships.
    1. Matthew 5:14 - Here's another way to put it:  You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.  God is not a secret to be kept.  We're going public with this, as public as a city oh a hill.
    2. Isaiah 49:6 - … "I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth."

 


 

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