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The Walk at Work: Seven Steps to Spiritual Success on the Job - Softcover

Hall, Andria

 
9781578566440: The Walk at Work: Seven Steps to Spiritual Success on the Job
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1578566444 ISBN 13: 9781578566440
Verlag: PRH Christian Publishing, 2003

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God Is at Work Whether you work with your hands or your head, God wants your heart to be at work for Him. However, with all the confrontation, conflict, and frustration in the workplace, too often we leave God out of the equation. Amid the all-out pursuit of our hopes and dreams, we find ourselves wondering, How can my faith sustain me through challenges of work? How can I daily honor God on the job? The Walk at Work is a guidebook that combines daily inspirational readings with a seven-step plan for personal spiritual growth to answer those questions about faith at work. Whether you face difficult relationships, job anxiety, or office politics, Andria Hall will show you how to experience success by aligning your priorities with God's. Through the down-to-earth, practical wisdom in these pages you will: receive daily wisdom from God. discover the benefits of praying for others. learn how to carry out your God-given tasks in the workplace with integrity. unearth a new commitment to honor God in all that you do, say, and think. settle your mind and nurture your spirit through timely daily readings Excellent as a daily devotional or group study, The Walk at Work also includes a topical index of common work-related challenges, questions for further reflection, and recommendations for additional reading.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andria Hall is a Christian professional with more than twenty years experience as a veteran broadcast television journalist. She is currently host of Faith and Values Media’s Sunday morning program America at Worship, airing on the Hallmark Channel, which is available to nearly 49 million homes. The author of This Far by Faith: How to Put God First in Everyday Living, she holds an honorary doctorate from Virginia University of Lynchburg. Andria, who resides in New Jersey, is a married mother of three.

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God Is at Work
Whether you work with your hands or your head, God wants your heart to be at work for Him. However, with all the confrontation, conflict, and frustration in the workplace, too often we leave God out of the equation. Amid the all-out pursuit of our hopes and dreams, we find ourselves wondering, "How can my faith sustain me through challenges of work? How can I daily honor God on the job?
"The Walk at Work is a guidebook that combines daily inspirational readings with a seven-step plan for personal spiritual growth to answer those questions about faith at work. Whether you face difficult relationships, job anxiety, or office politics, Andria Hall will show you how to experience success by aligning your priorities with God's. Through the down-to-earth, practical wisdom in these pages you will:
- receive daily wisdom from God
- discover the benefits of praying for others
- learn how to carry out your God-given tasks in the workplace with integrity
- unearth a new commitment to honor God in all that you do, say, and think
- settle your mind and nurture your spirit through timely daily readings
Excellent as a daily devotional or group study, "The Walk at Work also includes a topical index of common work-related challenges, questions for further reflection, and recommendations for additional reading.

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God Is at Work

Whether you work with your hands or your head, God wants your heart to be at work for Him. However, with all the confrontation, conflict, and frustration in the workplace, too often we leave God out of the equation. Amid the all-out pursuit of our hopes and dreams, we find ourselves wondering, How can my faith sustain me through challenges of work? How can I daily honor God on the job?

The Walk at Work is a guidebook that combines daily inspirational readings with a seven-step plan for personal spiritual growth to answer those questions about faith at work. Whether you face difficult relationships, job anxiety, or office politics, Andria Hall will show you how to experience success by aligning your priorities with God s. Through the down-to-earth, practical wisdom in these pages you will:

· receive daily wisdom from God
· discover the benefits of praying for others
· learn how to carry out your God-given tasks in the workplace with integrity
· unearth a new commitment to honor God in all that you do, say, and think
· settle your mind and nurture your spirit through timely daily readings

Excellent as a daily devotional or group study, The Walk at Work also includes a topical index of common work-related challenges, questions for further reflection, and recommendations for additional reading.

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How to Use This Book

This book is designed primarily to be your guide through a sevenmonth process of attaining spiritual growth and maturity in your workplace. This is not a book to speed-read through. Think of it instead as a seven-course meal to be savored—one that will feed your soul daily.

Each chapter provides one month’s worth of inspirational and motivational readings: The chapters define and explore in detail the seven S.U.C.C.E.S.S. steps. Each discussion is followed by a series of action points, journal exercises, and a prayer that you can apply in day-to-day situations over the course of the month.

The twenty devotional entries that follow each S.U.C.C.E.S.S. step provide readings for four five-day workweeks. These devotionals are written in the first person to help you more easily personalize the principles they offer. Some can be read as prayers. Action points at the end of each will give you an opportunity to begin the process of applying an idea presented in the devotional.

The devotionals are topical, and each keyword is indexed at the back of the book. In addition to using this guide as an organized study, you can also refer to it as needed for wisdom and encouragement when
you face specific on-the-job trials, circumstances, and events that affect your Christian walk. It is my belief that when biblical principles permeate the workplace, true success can be achieved.


S. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Step One
SEEK SEEK God, Your Real CEO

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Matthew 6:33

After more than twenty years of working for other people, I am finally able to say that “those people” have no power over me.

You can say that too. You can have the peace of God that truly “surpasses all understanding” (Philippians 4:7), a peace that no tyrannical boss, conniving coworker, job merger, layoff threat, or stock-market crash can suppress. This peace adds to the quality of your life and the quantity of your faith. When you finally get it—I mean really get it, deep down in your soul—no setback will have any long-lasting effect on you ever again. That’s when you’ll begin to experience more joy and a greater ability to bounce back.

Here’s the truth of the matter: You don’t really work for your boss!

You work for Jesus Christ. Your supervisor is the Holy Spirit, and you take your marching orders from the Lord. God is your CEO! Embracing that revelation will allow you to experience a new level of peace-
filled freedom in your Christian walk at work. It’s what the Bible terms “free indeed” (John 8:36). The key to this freedom requires each of us to strive daily, discern wisely, accept submissively, and work wholeheartedly on each assignment God sets before us.


On Assignment in the Service of the King

Then Jehoiada placed the oversight of the temple of the LORD in the hands of the priests, who were Levites, to whom David had made assignments in the temple, to present the burnt offerings of the LORD as written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing, as David had ordered. (2 Chronicles 23:18, NIV) Jehoiada was a high priest. He made the other priests supervisors, to whom David doled out temple assignments. Well, Jesus Christ is our High Priest, and He continues to give us assignments today not just in the church, but in our daily work as well. Notice that David not only ordered the Levites to carry out their assigned tasks, but he also ordered them to complete their work with “rejoicing and singing.” In other words, when God chooses us to carry out an assignment and then places us in a position where He can use us, we are to be joyful. (More on that in chapter 5.)

I knew when I got the job offer at CNN that it was an assignment from the Lord. I kept saying, “Nobody gets a job like this, especially not people in my career.” Let me give you a little background so you can see that, truly, the Divine is in the details.

Back in 1996 I was working as an NBC affiliate news anchor in New York City. I had made it to the number one station in the number one market for news. The position I held didn’t work out for so many reasons, one of which was the Lord closing a door to open a window that was bigger than the door through which I had most recently come. (If you want all the sticky details, read my first book, This Far by Faith: How to Put God First in Everyday Living.)

After leaving the station, I penned This Far by Faith with my friend Linnie Frank. It’s a book about how God, through all our ups and downs, college, careers, children, and friendship, never left us. Just writing the book became a faith-building exercise for me. I knew I had been called to complete it and then go on tour to promote it. I needed to be faithful to complete this task God had set before me, and I was. But not without financial consequence. Fourteen months after my last paycheck and six months into touring the country with the book, I was still seeking God and believing that He would come through. While supportive, all my loved ones—my husband, my mother, my father, my sister, my friends—were just a tad bit concerned. I had already borrowed from most of them and didn’t know when I was going to pay them back. The mortgage was three months behind. The bill collectors knew me on a first-name basis and even pronounced my name correctly (ON-dree-ah).

At regular intervals I’d hear the concerned tone in the voice of my most patient man gingerly asking, “Honey, I know you’re really committed to this book and you think you’re doing what God wants you to do, but when do you suppose you might go out and get…a job?” It’s not as if I couldn’t see his point. After all, he was working every day, and the reality at the time was that our lifestyle required a double income.

Some two and a half years after I had stopped working (and our financial well had nearly run bone-dry), the book tour finally wound down. I had just one more signing to go. One morning around one o’clock, I awoke from a deep sleep. My eyes opened gently, as did my spirit, and I responded to the call of the Holy Spirit. I said, “Okay, God.

I hear You saying it’s time. I know it’s time…time to go back to work. Whatever You want me to do, wherever You want me to go, I’ll go.”

One week later—we’re talking seven days here, God’s perfect number—I got a call from the then-president of CNN, who asked me to come work for him as his weekend anchor.

To this day my soul rejoices when I reflect on how faithful God was to answer the needs in my life. Living through that season increased my faith and put a new song in my heart, a song that goes something like this: “Lord, I can always depend on You. When I obey and do what You ask me to do, I know You will see me through. I can always rejoice at what You’re about to do in my life. Your Spirit leads and Your Spirit guides. I want only and always to abide in You.”


His Way Is Worthy of Our Complete Trust

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

God is a God of completion. He always finishes what He starts. For as long as is necessary, God will bring you right back to where He first revealed Himself to you and say, “Will you trust Me?”

It seems spiritually fitting that the very first chapter of this, my second book, would bring me back to the first testing of my faith.

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Verlag
PRH Christian Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1578566444
ISBN 13 
9781578566440
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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