Follower of One : Missions For The Rest Of Us

Banking on Joy. Does joy matter in your day? Do you experience God's joy at work? The promise and the hope of it can pull us through difficulties. It also energizes us and enables us to give more than we ever thought. It makes us transform in our circumstances. The joy set before Jesus enabled Him to save us. The joy of walking with God makes us ministers in our workplace.

Just before Jesus was crucified, a lady came to him during an evening meal and broke an expensive jar of perfume and poured it over Jesus. She wasn't rational. She didn't just sprinkle some of it on him. But she broke the vial. She wanted to use every bit. When we love someone we do unreasonable things. Our love prompts us. Do we love Jesus such that we would do unreasonable things simply because we love him? Do we ever give our time and money because of our love? Do we do anything that can't be explained except for the fact that we love Jesus?

Just before Jesus was crucified, a lady came to him during an evening meal and broke an expensive jar of perfume and poured it over Jesus. She wasn't rational. She didn't just sprinkle some of it on him. But she broke the vial. She wanted to use every bit. When we love someone we do unreasonable things. Our love prompts us. Do we love Jesus such that we would do unreasonable things simply because we love him? Do we ever give our time and money because of our love? Do we do anything that can't be explained except for the fact that we love Jesus?

Jesus can be the foundation for our actions, or not. When obeying Jesus is not the reason for our actions, we construct our life on a weak foundation. Poor decisions follow poor decisions. Over time, our life can't handle the difficulties of life in general.

Jesus finishes his point from yesteday. If we do what he says, we will have a solid foundation. We will build a house that can stand the test of time and weather. Imagine your life is a building. What have you built? What is it based upon? What will you add today? What will you add in the next few weeks?

How you spend your time matters. The building analogy is important. When Mike was younger, he considered he could always change. Now that he's getting older, change is harder. After a while, what we build is harder and more difficult to fix. Think about every action you take as a brick, or some nails. Next year you may want to build something on to what you've built today. Every action takes us toward or away from God. How we act in our job is no exception. Will your actions today move you one notch closer to Jesus, or one farther away? If we have Jesus as our foundation, let's do what he says. we will build our house on a solid foundation.

This foundation is one of the best reasons for taking the Marketplace Mission Trip, too. Practice choosing to obey Jesus as you do the activities of your job, as you live your life. Our next mission trip begins in just a few days. Learn more and sign up at MarketplaceMissionTrip.com.

Jesus can be the foundation for our actions, or not. When obeying Jesus is not the reason for our actions, we construct our life on a weak foundation. Poor decisions follow poor decisions. Over time, our life can't handle the difficulties of life in general.

Jesus finishes his point from yesteday. If we do what he says, we will have a solid foundation. We will build a house that can stand the test of time and weather. Imagine your life is a building. What have you built? What is it based upon? What will you add today? What will you add in the next few weeks?

How you spend your time matters. The building analogy is important. When Mike was younger, he considered he could always change. Now that he's getting older, change is harder. After a while, what we build is harder and more difficult to fix. Think about every action you take as a brick, or some nails. Next year you may want to build something on to what you've built today. Every action takes us toward or away from God. How we act in our job is no exception. Will your actions today move you one notch closer to Jesus, or one farther away? If we have Jesus as our foundation, let's do what he says. we will build our house on a solid foundation.

This foundation is one of the best reasons for taking the Marketplace Mission Trip, too. Practice choosing to obey Jesus as you do the activities of your job, as you live your life. Our next mission trip begins in just a few days. Learn more and sign up at MarketplaceMissionTrip.com.

An Encore Presentation of: Discovering Your Strengths

In this episode of the Follower of One Podcast, Mike speaks with Dale Young. Dale is a certified Coach through ACC, executive WeAlign Coach and former IT professional with over 4 decades of experience. Dale helps people discover what is unique about them and then turns that into the ultimate strength in business. What are your strengths? What about you is unique? Find out more in this week's episode!

• 2:20 - Leadership and what it means
• 5:40 - Dealing with your “Whole Self”
• 6:55 -  Dale's Book “ The Identity Key"
• 10:00 - Dale's thoughts on The Marketplace Mission Trip
• 14:35 - Takeaway from Dale on the impact of the mission trip
• 16:20 - Dale's experiences with faith at work
• 22:10 - What's Next for Dale
• 26:40 - How to get in touch with Dale

Dealing with the Whole Self

Dale begins to describe that every person is a "whole person". The whole person is a combination of three main things - Your work life, personal life, and your spiritual life. If you only address one or two of those things you are limiting both your potential and experiences. This directly relates to faith at work (spiritual life). We were all created to do something very specific but most of the time this is difficult to figure out and find. My listening and honing in on our "whole self" we can be to structure our next steps and find out just what God has in store for us. In fact, Dale wrote a book on this (one in a series) called The Identity Key. This book is designed to help you understand on a deep level who you were created to BE and could be a great place to start!

Framework for Faith at Work

Everyone is walking on different paths through life but we all need a framework on how to get to an end result right? Faith at work is no different. In the conversation with Dale, the Follower of One Marketplace Mission Trip gave the right framework to make it easy for anyone to do. Dale talks about how it was an eye-opening experience that showed what he can be doing on a daily basis with everyone around him. What steps have you taken lately to pray for your coworkers? What about Appreciating people around you? Serving others? Knowing what you believe? If you want to do more – take a look at the next Marketplace Mission Trip and sign up! We believe in you and our process!

Connect With Dale:

• Website
• LinkedIn

Connect With Follower Of One

Join us over in our Online Community, get social with us; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Listen to our podcast on your way to work and subscribe using your favorite podcast app. Be a part of our next Marketplace Mission Trip!

An Encore Presentation of: Discovering Your Strengths

In this episode of the Follower of One Podcast, Mike speaks with Dale Young. Dale is a certified Coach through ACC, executive WeAlign Coach and former IT professional with over 4 decades of experience. Dale helps people discover what is unique about them and then turns that into the ultimate strength in business. What are your strengths? What about you is unique? Find out more in this week's episode!

• 2:20 - Leadership and what it means
• 5:40 - Dealing with your “Whole Self”
• 6:55 -  Dale's Book “ The Identity Key"
• 10:00 - Dale's thoughts on The Marketplace Mission Trip
• 14:35 - Takeaway from Dale on the impact of the mission trip
• 16:20 - Dale's experiences with faith at work
• 22:10 - What's Next for Dale
• 26:40 - How to get in touch with Dale

Dealing with the Whole Self

Dale begins to describe that every person is a "whole person". The whole person is a combination of three main things - Your work life, personal life, and your spiritual life. If you only address one or two of those things you are limiting both your potential and experiences. This directly relates to faith at work (spiritual life). We were all created to do something very specific but most of the time this is difficult to figure out and find. My listening and honing in on our "whole self" we can be to structure our next steps and find out just what God has in store for us. In fact, Dale wrote a book on this (one in a series) called The Identity Key. This book is designed to help you understand on a deep level who you were created to BE and could be a great place to start!

Framework for Faith at Work

Everyone is walking on different paths through life but we all need a framework on how to get to an end result right? Faith at work is no different. In the conversation with Dale, the Follower of One Marketplace Mission Trip gave the right framework to make it easy for anyone to do. Dale talks about how it was an eye-opening experience that showed what he can be doing on a daily basis with everyone around him. What steps have you taken lately to pray for your coworkers? What about Appreciating people around you? Serving others? Knowing what you believe? If you want to do more – take a look at the next Marketplace Mission Trip and sign up! We believe in you and our process!

Connect With Dale:

• Website
• LinkedIn

Connect With Follower Of One

Join us over in our Online Community, get social with us; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Listen to our podcast on your way to work and subscribe using your favorite podcast app. Be a part of our next Marketplace Mission Trip!

What does it mean to acknowledge? How does our life look different when we acknowledge God? One way is that our paths are made straight. We might not get clarity, but we find straight paths. We find shorter ways of doing things. Or we find that we accomplish something completely different and better than we might otherwise. Can we acknowledge God and trust Him today?

What does it mean to acknowledge? How does our life look different when we acknowledge God? One way is that our paths are made straight. We might not get clarity, but we find straight paths. We find shorter ways of doing things. Or we find that we accomplish something completely different and better than we might otherwise. Can we acknowledge God and trust Him today?