Keeping Faith In Business Carrie Spratley

You are good. But can you be great?! 
 
I am not referring to a life of being content with what you have. Contentment is a mindset.
 
I believe, as people whose lives are rooted in faith, we walk a fine line between desiring more for this life and having a spirit of contentment. What I will be sharing with you is a perspective around what God is capable of doing through you. When we look at our lives as holy and belonging to HIM, we have a higher understanding that we are His vessels and we need to always be in communication with Him for what He desires we do with our lives for more impact.
 
We are also called to be living sacrifices. We should be willing to do hard things. Our job is not to arrive safely at the end. Our job is to run this race like it's the one chance we get to run and in the end, God is at the finish line. My desire for you is that you see yourself as a person on-mission to consider yourself LESS and to consider more how God can be glorified in your workplace and with the monetary resources He can generate through you for His kingdom.
 
Over 20 years ago God opened up space for one of my life’s challenges - a 10 year battle with autoimmunity to be a place that stung, a place that hurt, a place that would render me not present physically, emotionally and sometimes spiritually. I prayed for healing for what seemed like a selfish prayer. And God heard me. But he didn’t just hear me, he prepared me to walk in new freedom both physically, emotionally and spiritually but also to lead others. 
 

Other people’s opinions:
None of your business
If those opinions prevent you from doing what you are called to do, they become an idol for you
 
When you are on mission for meaningful things, you should have one person who you are looking to for validation or approval, and that is YOUR creator.
 
So unless those people loved you enough to die for you, they should NOT be who you are considering as part of the equation for your ability to impact people in this world.
 

In case you struggle with having value with your life.
 
In case you frequently wonder what this life is about anyway.
 
You are not alone. Most people undervalue who they are.
Once we realize WHOSE we are, we can better understand Who we are.
Then have the audacity to actually believe it! 
You are made for more. 

Get clear on who God is. Get clear on who you are as a result of who God is and then have the audacity to believe that He desires to do meaningful work through you - the kind of impact that is MORE THAN you can think, ask or imagine. 
I actually have the audacity to believe that God desires to do BIG things through me.
Buuuuut, I also have these very conflicting thoughts that accompany that same belief. Its a very confusing mixed message I navigate.
How can you move from doubt to belief in any area of your life? 

Maybe you are like me?
Maybe you put attention and priority towards things that have no earthly value?
Maybe you struggle with the desire to see and do things that matter most for all of eternity?
God is growing my thought process around doing everything I do as if for the Lord.
He is teaching me that when my heart aligns more with His, that doors open to more of the things that matter most, including the least of these.

Our behaviors leave us clues.
Sometimes our behaviors are not just about the behavior. Many times there is a root cause to our behaviors that we can connect the dots to point to a direction that indicate where our faith, hope and love reside.
Its important to realize and know that there are behaviors that happen as a result of those root fears and lack of trust that can lead us down paths that render us feeling powerless and out of control.

We grab the steering wheel and course correct ourselves into a fetal, helpless inadequate space where we are lacking the fruit we are designed to have.
We have a loving creator that taps into our GPS and says, is this thing on?
When we let his love in, love wins all day.