Topic “Faith Life”

The most essential thing you need after you are born again is the baptism in the Holy Spirit.  You may or may not be familiar with the Holy Spirit, despite the fact you may have been raised in a church. This was the case with me. In fact, I rarely even heard anything on the subject of being born again.

When we first heard God speak to us about the change He was going to bring to our lives, it was during one of those times when we were financially desperate. I had stayed up the whole night crying out to God and reading the Bible, and God gave me a scripture in Haggai 2:19. “Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. From this day on I will bless you.” God was telling me that if I saw lack, I should look for a seed to plant to reverse the desolation.

I once had the thought, no, let me correct myself, my wife once had the thought that we should grow a garden. We were young, new homeowners and when it came to gardens, we were not especially gifted. We picked a really nice spot in our yard which we thought would make a nice place for our new little garden. The only problem with the spot was that our yard bordered the woods. To keep the garden out of the way, we planted it against the woods on the west side of our yard. Without realizing it, we had tucked that garden up close to the woods and out of the sunlight.

Success is often determined by your enthusiasm about and confidence in what you are doing. If you, yourself, are not sold on your business, how could you ever convince anyone else to believe in what you are marketing? It is important to have confidence in your business. Over the years I have discovered when training associates that they start out believing in the business and are even excited about it, believing they have heard from God to work in our company.

Did you know there are Kingdom resources available to you and you can tap into them just by applying some very simple Biblical laws?  One of my favorite examples of this is found in Mark 6:35-44. The people had been with Jesus for three days and they were out of food. Some five thousand people were in need. There was not enough food to go around. This situation seemed impossible to fix in the natural. Have you ever been in a place where you didn’t have enough to meet your need?

“Why isn’t my life working?” “Why am I here?” “What’s the purpose of it all?” “Why do I feel empty all the time?” If you’ve ever asked these questions, you are like all human beings. We need to understand this life and what we’re all about. We all try to numb our emptiness with pain-killers that wear off quickly. We think buying a boat or getting a new job or divorcing our wife will make us happy, but in the end, we must change from the inside out to be truly happy. I know, because my life was going nowhere fast.