Business & Faith = They're on the same team.
/1) PUT CAREER AND CALLING ON THE SAME TEAM
You are created to love and influence people right where you are. We each have a unique sphere that is often times determined by our careers. You have people you are interacting with that other women will never have the opportunity to impact or influence. Work out your calling of loving others THERE. Your career is a vessel wherein you can outwork your calling. The career is the vehicle, the vessel, and we need that! And now allow it to expedite the calling of love, influence, impact and leadership that is on your life! It’s not something that’s in the way, it’s something that creates A WAY for you to make an impact! You don’t wait until 5:00 so you can check out and then go about your calling, find opportunities in the M-F!
If you put calling and career on different teams that war against each other and compete with one another, you will end up exhausted and highly inefficient. Put them on the same time, and watch the fireworks!
2. WORK YOUR BUTT OFF
Sometimes we just think, well God will provide, I’ll just sit back and wait. Mmm Yes God provides, but Scripture also tell us to WORK HARD!
Put your heart and soul into every activity you do, as though you are doing it for the Lord himself and not merely for others. Colossians 3:23-25
We have to WORK OUT BUTTS OFF! As if we’re doing it for God himself, not merely man.
If we even just took that one piece of scripture and applied it to our day to day “PUT YOUR HEART AND SOUL INTO EVERY ACTIVITY YOU DO” imagine how much more productive, accomplished, invested, happy, ambitious, satisfied, and impacting we would be!
People would be like… what the HECK has gotten into HER!
3. YOU HAVE AN ADVANTAGE
The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. Romans 6:10
Scripture tells us as believers that we actually have God’s spirit deposited into our spirits. We have access to that power! So are we operating out of our spirit or THE spirit?
We should have an edge! If we truly believe God’s Spirit is living and active inside of us, we should be able to draw on that power source and make quick decisions, to be creative in our workplaces, to come up with unique problem solving solutions, to think of things that haven’t been thought of, to work through problems with peace and joy despite circumstances. You have an advantage!
4. REFUSE TO MISS OUT
I don’t know about you, but I refuse to miss out on God’s vision for my life.
I want you to take a moment, and in your CURRENT career or business situation, I want you to close your eyes and I want you to picture what God’s dream is for you in this career. What does it look like, what do you look like, what are you doing, how do you feel, how are you making other people feel?
REFUSE to miss out. Put career and calling on the same team, work your butt off, and realize you have an advantage!
HOMEWORK:
Write a personal mission statement that combines your calling and your career.
Okay now that we have our mission statement, how does our schedule and weeks reflect this? List out some practical things you can do day to day that bring this mission statement to life.
And now, have people in your corner that know your missions statement and are helping you bring it to life.
Let’s do this thing!
Love you all.
Ash
