Team work makes the dream work

Behind every great leader there is a great team of committed individuals who are playing their part, sacrificing time and energy to propel their team and leader to success. No one ever accomplished anything great on their own. Through synergy and the combining of efforts and ideas, our strengths and resources are multiplied. If we make an acronym out of the word TEAM we can say, “Together Everyone Achieves More.”

The Bible speaks much on the power of unity. One can put a thousand to flight, and two ten thousand. Recruit like-minded people to be part of your team, or become a part of a team so together you can achieve a worthwhile dream.

This is Dr Shaun Marler's Power Quote and thought for today - helping you to win in life through Jesus Christ

How do you react?

“Outlook determines outcome, and attitude determines action”

David in the Bible who was called to be King, discovered that what was important was not the circumstances around him but the attitude within him. If he was to reach his God given goals and fulfil his destiny, then he was going to have to watch his attitude towards life. He was going to have to have some attitude checks along the way.

Check his attitude to see what happened to him, watch his action or reactions to others - how he would act when he was treated unfairly. Would he love, forgive, forget, and move forward, or would he retaliate, hold and bare grudges, allow unforgiveness in his heart? How would he react towards his superiors, his wife, family, friends and peers? Would he set an example for others to follow? How would he react when God judged him, corrected him and dealt with him? Would he repent and turn back to God making restitution where possible or would he get bitter, harden his heart towards God, go on in his rebellion and strike out at others? Would he follow Saul’s example or God’s Word?

If your life is falling apart, it is likely that you are part of the problem. We have seen that unbelief and rebellion only lead to emptiness. You can continue to tear things apart with your bad attitude, or you can change your life for the better by submitting to God and allowing Him to work.

This is Dr Shaun Marler's Power Quote and thought for today - helping you to win in life through Jesus Christ

Attitude ...

"Your attitude in life determines your altitude”.

If you want to fly high in life and achieve great things, then your attitude is the one all-important thing that will determine whether you will succeed or fail. In every plane there is an altitude gauge and an attitude gauge. The altitude gauge determines how high you are flying while the attitude gauge determines how you are flying in relation to the horizon. How are you flying today in relation to your horizon (your destination, your goal, your vision, your dream). Are you on track or have you drifted off course? Are you flying upside down or skewiff? Check your attitude.

I dare you right now to stop and have an attitude check. Do you have the right attitude to reach your dream your goal, your destination, or are you going to crash? Remember, “Your attitude in life determines whether you will reach your dreams."

This is Dr Shaun Marler's Power Quote and thought for today - helping you to win in life through Jesus Christ

To have friends, one must show themselves friendly

"Value others by valuing their point of view"
Dr Shaun Marler

Spend quality time with family and friends, especially your children. But remember, quality time will never make up for too little time. The Hebrew word for ‘children’ means builder of the family name. We should train up our children in the way we want them to go. Training involves spending time with them teaching them, mentoring them, showing how to do things (not just telling them). It means leading by example, being a role model for your children. It also requires understanding, putting yourself in their shoes and taking the time to listen. Listening requires patience and a humble attitude - we as people have often lost the art of listening.

We are so busy making our point or trying to get our point across, that we often don’t hear the other's point of view. We are just waiting for them to shut up so we can have our say. In doing this we haven’t respected the other person - they don’t feel valued by us, they don’t feel like we care, and so often walls start to be put up and people's relationships break down.

Let's value others by valuing their point of view, showing them respect by taking the time to listen. Let's build bridges, not barriers, by showing ourselves friendly. Let's regain the lost art of communication by learning to listen.

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Heart felt prayer

"When you pray so that your heart will feel the emotions of your prayers, so will God's heart feel those prayers.”

Pray heart felt prayer, pray without ceasing, pray the Word. You must feel the passion in your prayers. In a intimate moment with a loved one as you share the passion or emotion of that moment, they (the other person) feel it and so do you. Your words become you, the essence of yourself, your life, energy, love and feelings are expressed in your own heart felt words. You become your words. God and His Word are one. Gods Word to me, is God in all His fullness to me. God does not speak idle words. He watches over His word to perform it. He has framed Himself in his words.

In the Beginning was the Word,and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

James 5v16b "The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]." (Amplified Bible)

This is Dr Shaun Marler's Power Quote and thought for today - helping you to win in life through Jesus Christ.

You need to possess God!

"The more you possess God, the more you are made like Him!"
Jeanne Guyon, Grenoble, France (1685)

I love this statement by Jeanne Guyon. In life there are so many things that try to possess us, take our attention, fill our time - some good, others not so good. We must remember to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, God will then add to your life all the other things that people seek after. God wants to bless us and give us nice things to enjoy. He just doesn’t want those things coming before Him or taking over our lives. Some people are so possessed by material things, that these things control there lives.

Families are wrecked and relationships destroyed sometimes because someone has become so possessive of certain things that they put these things before everyone else in their lives, even their children or spouse. The Bible says that the love of money (not money, but the craving desire or love of it) is the root of all evil. Possess God so there is not room in your heart for anything else to take your affection. Then love God, your family and all others from out of the love you now possess - for God is love.

This is Dr Shaun Marler's Power Quote and thought for today - helping you to win in life through Jesus Christ.