April 2010

Powerful Leadership – A Positive Attitude in Leaders Produces Results in More Ways Than One!

Powerful Leadership – A Positive Attitude in Leaders Produces Results in More Ways Than One!

A Valuable Leadership Skill Worth Improving!

Leadership skills are valuable and always worth improving.

As a leader grows and develops, it not only helps improve their life, but the lives of those around them.

A key skill to develop and maintain is a positive attitude.

Why?

Men and women rise and fall everyday because of their attitude.

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
— Thomas Jefferson

Positive Attitude – The Critical Factor in Leadership

If you really want to go anywhere as a leader, you have to examine your attitude! Whatever attitude you accept at this time is a critical factor in determining the success or failure of your future.

Too often people never come to a place of leadership where God wants them. Or they don’t produce the results that are expected, because of a negative attitude.  A leader may want God to use them, but He is saying “No” because of their sour, nasty attitude. A negative attitude will hinder a leaders potential.

And don’t be one that points the finger of blame at others, especially as a leader. Each persons attitude is their own responsibility.

Often times, people with bad attitudes don’t know that they have one. But if you are a leader and find yourself pointing the finger of blame at others regularly, that may be a great reason to examine the condition of your own thoughts and heart.

Positive Attitude – Helping Leaders Produce Positive Results

Understand that the attitude a leader has toward how they view and handle things, will determine the results they produce. As long as a leader is viewing things negatively, they are going to get negative results.

Leaders should not let other people govern their production and outcome. Leaders must have an “I can” attitude. Many people miss opportunities and promotions that God has for them, because they let someone else determine their attitude.

Of course as a leader, challenges are always going to come and attempt to get you to accept a bad or negative attitude. But remember it is a critical factor to have a positive, ‘I can’ attitude about what you are doing in order to produce positive results.

The results not only show up in the life of the leader, but in the life of those being led. This is the case whether it is a leadership role in a family, ministry, or business. You can make a difference.

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.” 
— Proverbs 29:2

Bottom line: A leaders attitude will create results. It is up to the leader to choose the attitude they will put on for the results they desire. A leadership role should require a positive attitude and one that produces positive results.

May you be a leader that maintains a positive attitude and a life of growing prosperity!

God bless you –

Cheers,
Brenda

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Mark Schultz – Love Has Come – Music Video

Mark Schultz – Love Has Come – Music Video

“Love Has Come” – Music Video

Love has come.
Jesus already paid the price on the cross.
Every heart can now be set free.

And Jesus is going to return again. And there is coming a moment when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and God is Love. Everyone will see that God is love and He sent His love for us all!

Although one day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess (have to affirm, no one will be able to deny the truth) that Jesus Christ is Lord, only those who choose to put their faith in Him, in this life, will have an everlasting relationship with Him after death.

God’s people have much to be excited about!

“And being found in fashion as a man,
He humbled himself, and became obedient to death,
even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also has highly exalted Him,
and given Him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of things in heaven, and things in earth,
and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
— Philippians 2:8-10

Enjoy this song!

God bless you –

Cheers,
Brenda

P.S. You can find the song “Love Has Come” by Mark Schultz on his album Come Alive at amazon.

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Prosperous Living – Shortcut Your Path to Wealth by Acknowledging the True Source of Abundance!

Prosperous Living – Shortcut Your Path to Wealth by Acknowledging the True Source of Abundance!

Who Do You Acknowledge and Trust to Supply Your Needs in Life?

Prosperous living requires taking a drive…

on the path to wealth.

One of the primary shortcuts,

in reaching our destination,

involves acknowledging the true source of abundance.

One Infinite Source

There is only one true source in the universe that holds unlimited supply. God it the true source of all wealth; including financial wealth and spiritual and physical prosperity.

It is important to understand that when we acknowledge God as our source, temporary financial struggles no longer need to dictate our outcome. Why? Because, there are many ways and means that God can use to supply our needs. And His supply never runs dry.

God is the source and everyone else is His instrument.  Many people make the mistake of thinking that their job is the source of their supply. But they need to realize that God is the source, and He simply uses their work as a means to let the funds flow to them.

“My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches.”
— Philippians 4:19

Notice it says ‘My God’, not the company you work for. God is your source.

An Invisible Reservoir of Abundance

Norman Vincent Peale talks about an invisible reservoir of abundance in the universe. This is a great image of the abundance of God.

As we continually acknowledge God as the source of our supply, we’ll find that we are divinely guided on our path to wealth. God is able to make a way when there seems to be no way. Realize it is our choice to recognize God’s power and ownership over everything. And remember we are only stewards of what He supplies us.

Putting our faith and trust in a job, a person, or any other income source, has been proven to be a letdown at one time or another in life.

Prosperity is the result of our choice to accept and trust that God’s ways are higher than ours. When we live by His ways, they will guide us on the path to wealth and allow us to tap into the invisible reservoir of abundance…

We will then be like trees planted by rivers of water and prospering in everything we put our hand to. (Psalm 1:3)

Make no mistake about it: We will never go wrong acknowledging God as the source of our supply. However, be fair warned, if we choose not to, we can expect a lot of detours on our path to wealth.

May your eyes always be fixed on God as your source and may your life be filled with growing prosperity!

Be blessed to be a blessing –

Cheers,
Brenda

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Real Reason for Easter Video – Revelation Song

Real Reason for Easter Video – Revelation Song

Happy Easter Everyone!

Enjoy your egg hunts and chocolate easter bunnies on Easter… but just be sure to take some time and remember and thank God for the gift of salvation He provided us. Thank Jesus for his sacrifice on the cross and the price he paid for each one of us individually!

Take time to Remember the Real Reason for Easter!

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosever believes in Him shall not perish,
but have everlasting life.”
— John 3:16

Celebrate the we serve a risen and living God!

God bless you,
Brenda

P.S. This video has been put to the awesome music “Revelation Song” by Philips, Craig, and Dean.

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Happy Good Friday – Investigating Easter

Happy Good Friday – Investigating Easter

Research into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus

A Happy Good Friday to everyone!

Today and Sunday are especially important days for Christian believers.

I hope you take time to celebrate!

I just read an article in the Washington Post by Lee Strobel called “Investigating Easter.”

I found it interesting and highlighted some things below:

Resurrection… isn’t that the stuff of mythology and legend? We live in the scientific age – belief in the resurrection is simply untenable…

…at least, that’s what Lee thought until checking the facts himself. Using his legal training, he investigated the most audacious claim of history: that Jesus of Nazareth returned from the dead and thus authenticated his claim to being the Son of God.

After a couple years of research he found his atheism cracking after discovering some of the following:

First, there’s overwhelming evidence Jesus was executed.

Second, resurrection accounts date back so early they can’t be legendary – because legends take time to develop.

Third, there’s the empty tomb. If it weren’t empty, it would have been impossible for a movement founded on the resurrection to have exploded into existence in the same city where Jesus had been publicly executed and buried just a few weeks earlier.

Finally, scholars point out nine sources reporting the resurrected Jesus appeared to the disciples.

You can read the complete article here: Investigating Easter

Again a Happy Good Friday to you!

God bless you,
Brenda

P.S. Image credit thanks to Billy Alexander!

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