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Marketplace Proverbs & Coffee With Ernie · Marketplace Proverbs and Coffee with Ernie-A Proverb Per Day Keeps Stinking Thinking At Bay

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  SPEAKER_00: i bet like me you have asked yourself sometimes what am i doing
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  SPEAKER_00: and why am i doing it frankly i think most of us ask ourselves these questions
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  SPEAKER_00: at times especially
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  SPEAKER_00: when we're constantly facing challenges navigating uncharted territory like
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  SPEAKER_00: a shifting culture or feel the mountain in front of us is too steep to climb
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  SPEAKER_00: and sometimes i ask myself a simple question
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  SPEAKER_00: is this desire to write speak in code something i created
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  SPEAKER_00: or something god placed inside me we're going to talk about that
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  SPEAKER_00: welcome to marketplace proverbs and coffee with ernie where a proverb
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  SPEAKER_00: a day keeps stinking thinking at bay i'm ernie lansford after more than 60 years
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  SPEAKER_00: in sales and leadership i've learned that biblical wisdom is
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  SPEAKER_00: the most valuable asset we can carry into
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  SPEAKER_00: the marketplace each time i read proverbs scripture
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  SPEAKER_00: Reveals practical insight for leadership service and building relationships
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  SPEAKER_00: that far outlast the last transaction So pour yourself a cup of your favorite brew
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  SPEAKER_00: and let's explore today's proverb together Well today the 16th day of
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  SPEAKER_00: the month we are in Proverbs 16 verse 3
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  SPEAKER_00: using the new king james version nkjv quote commit your works to the lord
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  SPEAKER_00: and your thoughts will be established end quote that's proverbs 16 verse 3
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  SPEAKER_00: from nkjv you know i often well not often i have just recently reached out
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  SPEAKER_00: to some people in a prayer group and
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  SPEAKER_00: i just said hey please pray for me to start succeeding in life you know
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  SPEAKER_00: because sometimes these things aren't coming to fruition
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  SPEAKER_00: and i asked myself well what am i doing and why am i doing it and frankly that's
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  SPEAKER_00: a very common thought process and i bet you have the same feelings
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  SPEAKER_00: and same thoughts sometimes why am i working so hard on a plan
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's not going all that smooth
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  SPEAKER_00: you know i can remember praying often god please make this work god open this door
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  SPEAKER_00: god bless what i'm doing god expand my territory
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  SPEAKER_00: and god didn't answer it didn't seem like he answered because
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  SPEAKER_00: the prayer was asking god to bless my direction and that possibly he never assigned
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  SPEAKER_00: to me oh yeah and
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  SPEAKER_00: that brings me to proverbs 19 21 it says quote many are the plans in a man's heart
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  SPEAKER_00: but it is the lord's purpose that prevails many plans one purpose and you know those
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  SPEAKER_00: of us whose plans never come to fruition is not means that we don't have effort
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  SPEAKER_00: or faith it may mean that
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  SPEAKER_00: our plans are competing with a purpose that was already written by god
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  SPEAKER_00: before i was born proverbs 16 3 says commit your works to the lord
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  SPEAKER_00: and your thoughts will be established not commit your works
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  SPEAKER_00: and god will make your plans succeed commit your works surrender
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  SPEAKER_00: the direction entirely and our thoughts
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  SPEAKER_00: will be established the clarity comes after we surrender and when I'm in alignment
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  SPEAKER_00: when we are in alignment with God's will
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  SPEAKER_00: for our life I gotta tell you things do flow doors open the work produces fruit and
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  SPEAKER_00: when we're not in alignment with God we hit speed bumps
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  SPEAKER_00: maybe we're trying to force something into a place that was never designed
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  SPEAKER_00: to fit kind of like a square peg in a round hole it doesn't eventually fit
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  SPEAKER_00: if we push harder it just fits when we find the right hole and
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  SPEAKER_00: if we keep hitting walls it doesn't mean we lack discipline it just may mean we just
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  SPEAKER_00: need to keep pushing we've been pushing in
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  SPEAKER_00: the wrong direction Psalm 37 4 says delight yourself in the Lord
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  SPEAKER_00: and he will give you the desires of your heart
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  SPEAKER_00: and when you delight
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  SPEAKER_00: in him he changes what we want he changes his desires become our desires and
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  SPEAKER_00: then he fulfills them because he's the one
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  SPEAKER_00: who gave them yep i'm convinced that's alignment and now that i've said all
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  SPEAKER_00: of this i really do feel that i am in alignment with god with the podcast with
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  SPEAKER_00: the books the most recent book
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  SPEAKER_00: marketplace proverbs volume 6 navigating a shifting culture is now
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  SPEAKER_00: in hardcover published by ingram so i really do feel that this is god's will
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's up to him i just present it to him and that works for us in the marketplace
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  SPEAKER_00: as well
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  SPEAKER_00: you know sometimes we want to push and shove our way into a relationship and maybe
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  SPEAKER_00: that relationship wasn't meant to be maybe that customer is not really a customer
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  SPEAKER_00: that is aligned or their morals or their values aren't aligned with ours
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  SPEAKER_00: and maybe it's time to put that transaction mindset aside and
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  SPEAKER_00: walk away because it's the right thing to do it's it's really all about surrender
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  SPEAKER_00: and asking God in as in verse 3 let's commit our works to the Lord
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  SPEAKER_00: and our thoughts will be established is staying aligned think on
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  SPEAKER_00: that Lord God thank you for
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  SPEAKER_00: the opportunity to add value and significance to the listeners and the readers
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  SPEAKER_00: and you know my heart that's exactly what I want to do I don't do this
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  SPEAKER_00: to have millions of followers but I won't turn that away if it happens I don't write
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  SPEAKER_00: to be best sellers if one person reads or hears your word
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  SPEAKER_00: and turns their heart and their alignment in with you then my job is done
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  SPEAKER_00: and i thank you in jesus name amen well thank you for joining me on this episode
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  SPEAKER_00: of marketplace proverbs and coffee with ernie if this episode has been meaningful
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  SPEAKER_00: for to you or added significance to you please consider sharing it
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  SPEAKER_00: that's how we influence the marketplace for god we truly do
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  SPEAKER_00: and remember chasing personal success is temporal adding significance
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  SPEAKER_00: to others is infinite