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“Does God have access to your job?”

A thought by Rick Warren from his book, God's Answers to Life's Difficult Questions (Living with Purpose) (p. 33). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

That is an important question with blessing in mind.

Rick says, “Is your business available for him to use at any time? Is he able to minister to people through your job? Too often we try to separate the secular and the spiritual; we have our Christian life nicely partitioned off from our career. But this prevents God from blessing your business or job. And the truth is, God will bless anything you give him. If you give him all your life, he will bless all of it. But if you give him just a part of it, he will bless just that one part.”

Rick goes on, “A friend told me that as the president of his corporation he invites God to every board meeting. He reports that as a result, the board members make fewer mistakes and have more peace of mind about difficult decisions.

“There is something about having Jesus in your boat that eliminates the fear of failure and reduces your worries about the results. When Peter made Christ his fishing partner, the results were incredible: he caught more fish than he had ever caught on his own. Don’t miss the sequence, though. First Peter used his boat for Christ’s purposes. Jesus took the boat and preached from it to reach people. Then, after Christ had used the boat for his own purposes, God took care of Peter’s needs.” (Luke 5:1-11)

He continues, “God promises us that if we ‘Seek … first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness,… all these [other] things shall be added’ unto us (Matt. 6:33 KJV). Does this mean that if I give my whole life to Christ, putting him first in every area, then he will bless it all? Yes, that is God’s promise to you.

That is a great promise, isn’t it?


Yes, yes!
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