‘I sat among them for seven days.’ Ezekiel 3:15 NIV Remember the reality tv show Undercover Boss? In it, the company owner goes undercover disguised as a regular staff member, and works alongside the other employees. He or she gets to experience their daily pressures...
‘God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it.’ Genesis 2:15 NIV God created the Garden of Eden, placed Adam in it, and told him to ‘work it’. God said, ‘Be fruitful and multiply.’ (Genesis 1:22 NKJV) In other words, ‘Be successful.’ But notice,...
‘I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.’ Genesis 12:2 NIV God promised to bless Abraham and make his name ‘great’ for one reason—so he would be a blessing to others. Jesus taught His disciples to be distributors of blessing and...
‘A great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me.’ 1 Corinthians 16:9 NIV Nothing becomes truly great until it overcomes something that looks insurmountable. Paul writes, ‘I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost, because a great...
‘God’s purpose in all this was to use the church to display His wisdom in its rich variety.’ Ephesians 3:10 NLT Here are three of the challenges the church faces today: (1) We can’t experience a new move of God if we insist on clinging to an old one. ‘God’s purpose in...
