The Key to Increased Productivity cont.

The key to increased productivity for the believer is to maintain a HOT relationship with God through Christ. What does this mean exactly? Maintaining a HOT relationship with God means maintaining the following: 1. Honest - Being honest with God about where we are in life, things we struggle with and areas we need to improve in is the best way to build and maintain an intimate relationship with God. 2. Open - If you really think about it, how can we actually hide something from an omniscient God :-) But, guess what, we do it all the time by ignoring certain issues and/or refusing to think or talk about them with God. 3. Transparent - It is always best in any relationship to be who we really are. Most people can see through facades anyway and even if they can't they often know something is not quite right. Being ourselves with God is a good policy because it helps us be real with ourselves and others.

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The Key to Increased Productivity

Key Verses: John 15:3-4 Here Jesus gives us the key to increasing our level of productivity and thereby increasing the quantity and quality of our service to our society. I use these terms because there is both a spiritual and material benefit to increasing our productivity. The spiritual benefits are numerous, but here are a couple: 1. In order to truly produce the kind of "fruit" or outcomes God requests and requires of us, we must be walking in a close, intimate relationship with Him through Christ. So the first benefit is the peace and confidence of having a close relationship with God 2. We are able to see and take advantage of opportunities that only God can open for us. We will be able to walk through doors that we would have otherwise never known were there or been prepared to walk through. One possible and major material benefit is that of greater career satisfication and often increased income. There are many factors that affect our income, but certainly the value the market places on what we do is one them. So if we are producing something or several things of great value to our market, we will be compensated accordingly.

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How to Be More Productive

In order to make this your best year yet, you will more than likely need to make a few small improvements in a couple of key areas of your life. What are those areas? How do we identify them? Where do we get the inner strength to make the necessary changes? In this message, we'll begin to answer these questions and more.

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Let's Make this Year Your Best Year Yet - An Intro

This year will be your best year yet. How do I know this, you ask? Well, God wants you, and for that matter, all of us to be increasingly more productive in each and every area of our life. We see this in the entire chapter of John 15. Wherever it says bear fruit, it can be translated, produce fruit. Clearly Jesus is instructing His listeners how and why He wants them to be more productive. This message will introduce you to this entire process and prepare you for your best year yet.

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