Your organization or company has been tasked to implement a new idea or new project. You become the team leader. Your group have deadlines to meet for different milestones of the project. Each person or each department has a gift to bring for the overall project. You are not getting any support however you want to succeed and feel the need that you have to do it all by yourself in order to meet deadlines and become successful. Your gift to the overall project is scheduling the tasks. You need support for budgeting, equipment purchases, technology and service to the customers in order to be successful. You do not want to fail so you try to become the one all, be all for everything. You're trying to be finance, sales, purchasing and IT all in one. This is not how God designed us to work. To work alone. He wants us all to work our gifts collectively. ~Butterfly Faith
Just as God equips Christians for building up the Body of Christ, so he also equips all people with talents and gifts for various kinds of work, for the purpose of building up the human community. (Every Good Endeavor, Timothy Keller) Teamwork makes the dream work. But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. -Ephesians 4:15-16 Chemistry happens when a unique relational mix of diverse backgrounds, personalities, work styles, values and interests come together for a common purpose. It has an elusive quality that isn't always easy to define, but you can tell when it is missing. (Created for Good Works, Brian Ray) What is your purpose for working? We work to pay the bills. We work to maintain our lifestyle. We work to support our families. We work because we need the $$$! Some of us are miserable going to work and hate to see Monday morning come. Some of us have no clue of what we want to do and settle for anything that provides a paycheck. Some of us do not like the bosses we work for. Some of us don’t like the people we work with. Some of us are afraid to find other employment and feel that they must stay with a job 30+ years until retirement. HOWEVER, some of us enjoy and love our jobs because it’s the right fit. How many of us feel stuck in a career, feeling miserable and afraid to find out why? Don’t you want to find your calling and enjoy work so that it doesn’t feel like work? ~Butterfly Faith
Feel free to comment if you will. When you think of moments you’ve been energized at work, you were using abilities that were most natural to you. Conversely, when you went home exhausted, you were engaging in activities that were least natural to you. You can excel in a competency that isn’t a natural talent. However, these competencies sap energy even though you perform well. Discover your energizing and natural competencies! (Follow Your Star, Kristin Sherry) Jill Lamar worked several years at Merrill Lynch before deciding she needed to make a change. A lover of books and a good writer, she decided to switch [transition] to publishing, starting again at the very bottom in pay and position. She wrestled with the fact [faith] that the opportunity to make a lot of money didn't necessarily mean that banking was the vocation she should continue to pursue. She tried to think about how she could best use her gifts and passion to serve instead. Her decision created quite a flurry, even in the church! (Every Good Endeavor, Tim Keller) (very similar story~butterfly faith)
April 1, 2016
I had a career but wasn't sure of my calling. I knew that I didn't like the career I was in and did not want to move forward so I called out to God, stepped out on faith and left my career in IT [information technology]. I feel that I heard my calling in which I transitioned into a new career in "Career and Workforce Development" which now seems to be both my calling and career! I love it and continue to grow within it. Begin to picture your work and calling in ways in which you are content, fulfilled, and in alignment with God’s will. Make plans and think about what it will take to accomplish them one step at a time. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29: 11, NASB
(Created for Good Works, Brian Ray) This is my first time creating a blog. Please bear with me as I am not sure on how to do this. What I do know is that I've been wanting to start a career ministry in some type of way but as I am trying to decide, time keeps passing me by. So now I am telling myself, quit wasting time and just do it! I may not get it right the first time, but if I at least start somewhere, then at least I have started to learn my way. I am praying for guidance from HIM to lead the way. So here we go! Today is Thanksgiving. I am thankful for the encouragement and the ability to begin.
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