Work

Work is an experience that as a Christian, allows me to experience and share God with others. Seek first the kingdom.

I need to seek to be the CEO, Chief Encouragement Officer, in any job God gives me.

I need to believe, that God provides all work, and that when he gives me a job, I need to trust him by being a vessel of grace to those he puts me with. I need to find my satisfaction in serving him, as I provide unconditional love to those he brings to me.

• Pray for God to give you work where you can serve and minister to others.
• Thank God for the people, places, experiences, gifts and skills he has provided you with and call on him to use them for his Kingdom.
• Seek work within your skill set and go develop new skill sets through education and practice that broaden your options.
• Seek relationships with others that can help you identify opportunities for work, best choices for your skills and interests, and to get feedback on where you may best fit. Ask how you can support them in their life journey and encourage them.
• Let the people in the circles God has provided know you are looking for work and be open to any feedback they give and how you can use that to draw nearer to them and encourage them.
• Apply for jobs and pray for guidance, discernment, and wisdom and for God to open and close doors so His will is done.
• Call on God to provide work so that you can do his work for the kingdom.
• Wait on God.
• Don't be afraid to take a job that is beneath your "level" if it appears to have potential options for growth.
• When you interview ask how they define success and how the role you are being considered for will help contribute to this.
• If God gives you multiple choices for jobs, ask him to direct your steps to the one that will give you the most opportunities for his kingdom.
• When you start a job, seek to learn what they do, how, and why.
• Seek to get to know the people you will work with or be dependent on to get work done, what their interests, passion, motivations, beliefs or fears are.
• Pray for God to work in the lives of the people he has put in your work circles, and to open opportunities to serve and encourage them.
• Don't seek to influence, change or correct work practices for the first 60- 90 days unless asked to, but focus on working within the direction provided and be a servant to all.
• Ask your boss and customers what is important to them in work outcomes so you can support them.
• Serve others humbly so that you can build trust and relationships.
• Seek first to model disciplined work processes and methods that support others in their work.
• When others falter, are inconsistent, complain, are decisive or rude, seek to model the fruits of the spirit to them...love, joy, peace, patience...
• As you are asked, provide input to how you could help improve how work is done. Always seek to model good behaviors before you recommend them.
• When issues, conflicts or problems occur, be willing to take ownership to help fix things, find root causes, and implement improvements so they don't reoccur.
• When you make mistakes, take ownership, admit to them and work to correct any wrongs you have done.
• When others make mistakes, help them recover from them.
• Continue to pray for God to work in the lives of the people he has put in your work circles, and to open opportunities to serve and encourage them.
• When others become chronically negative, seek to rise above it by focusing on what your customers and leaders need.
• Call out to God when work or people are overwhelming, commit to live them, and ask him to deliver the results you need. Accept the results as from him.
• Seek first the kingdom...to show unconditional love to your coworkers and trust that God will supply all your needs no matter what the barriers that may come.

Integrity is very important and what that means to me is that I clearly say what I'm going to do, I deliver on what I say and what you do, and I communicate when I've completed.

I worry less about being recognized for the work than for showing Integrity of being transparent and faithful in my work.

I am a proponent of asking for promotions or raises, but instead talking to my leadership about and what I can do to help the organization that will allow me to advance. This shows a commitment to the organization and other people's success before mine which I believe is true servant leadership.