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		<title>#WFJ: I ALWAYS bless My Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Joseph Peck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of February 16, I listened to the entire book of 2 Corinthians. As you may recall from yesterday's post, I had read all of 1 Corinthians the morning before. In the afternoon on Feb 16, I participated in the weekly Marching Through Culpeper prayer call. That was awesome. Everyone on the call agreed.]]></description>
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<p>On the morning of February 16, I listened to the entire book of 2 Corinthians. As you may recall from yesterday&#8217;s post, I had read all of 1 Corinthians the morning before.</p>
<p>In the afternoon on Feb 16, I participated in the weekly Marching Through Culpeper prayer call. That was awesome.</p>
<p>After some opening discussion, Virginia Morton led our national team in prayer as usual. Wow! So powerful.</p>
<p>When Virginia was finished praying, Nancy Slocum shared that as Virginia was praying she saw a vision with lots of money raining down from heaven. Nancy then read her recent WFJ message which resonated so favorably with my spirit.</p>
<p>Then Rick Heeren shared a message from his latest book &#8220;The Stone That Was Cut Without Hands.&#8221; Another powerful message.</p>
<p>Virginia then asked me to pray, which I did. Then Bob Sims prayed each of us would spend more and more time praying and in reflection.</p>
<p>In his prayer near the end of the call, Rod Stone thanked God for the way he felt the Spirit of God move so powerfully on the call.</p>
<p>Nancy said that right after I prayed, she saw the wind blowing in the trees. It brought to her mind the scripture about the mulberry trees.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">2Sa 5:23-25 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, and He said, &#8220;You shall not go up; circle around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. &#8220;And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the LORD will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.&#8221; And David did so, as the LORD commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">1Ch 14:14-17 Therefore David inquired again of God, and God said to him, &#8220;You shall not go up after them; circle around them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. &#8220;And it shall be, when you hear a sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.&#8221; So David did as God commanded him, and they drove back the army of the Philistines from Gibeon as far as Gezer. Then the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.</span></p>
<p>Bob then explained the significance of these scriptures and what God did through David&#8217;s continual obedience.</p>
<p>After the group prayer was over and while a few of us were chatting at the end, <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Virginia talked about the total power of the Word of God, whether we read it, speak it, or express it any other way. God ALWAYS honors His Word. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">One of my goals for this year is to publish God&#8217;s entire written Word as audio to inspire and enlighten you &#8211; to light a fire of desire in you to know God more intimately and to make Him known around the world. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">Blessings as you bless God&#8217;s holy Word!</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://josephpeck.com" target="_blank">R. Joseph Peck, M.D.</a><br />
&#8220;Blessed to be a blessing&#8221;<br />
THE CONNECTOR and The Journaling Guy</p>
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<p><span style="color: #AB052D;"><strong>P.S.S. Spiritual Journaling will transform your life!</strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><strong>UNCOMMON Journaling is the key<br/>to unlock YOUR dreams!</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday November 15, Lynne Lee sent a simple email to our Coaches Mastermind Group asking each of our 7 members to answer two profound questions. I woke up this morning thinking about her first question, "What has God been saying to you?" As I lay in bed resting and reflecting this morning, answers started coming to me. When I got up and began journaling, here is what the LORD shared with me: ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Sunday November 15, Lynne Lee sent a simple email to our Coaches Mastermind Group asking each of our 7 members to answer two profound questions. I woke up this morning thinking about her first question, &#8220;<strong><span style="color: #008000;">What has God been saying to you?</span></strong>&#8221; As I lay in bed resting and reflecting this morning, answers started coming to me. When I got up and began journaling, here is what the LORD shared with me:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">1) Randy, <strong>FOCUS on the Journaling Course and BIG TICKET offers for the remainder of 2009</strong>. Enjoy the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Spend lots of quality time with family and friends. That&#8217;s your love language. <strong>It&#8217;s Ok to say &#8220;No&#8221; to people who want your help chop down trees for them</strong>. You are a BIG PICTURE guy. Keep your eyes on the forest. Delegate the tree cutting to capable and responsible others. <strong>Put the oxygen mask on yourself first before helping others.</strong> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">2) <strong>Godly STEWARDSHIP comes before being strategic and fruitful.</strong> You must be faithful in the little things, with what I entrust to you before I will give you more. That&#8217;s why your &#8220;UNCOMMON Stewardship: How To Steward Your Time, Talent, Treasure, and Temple Through Journaling&#8221; course will be your greatest Christmas gift ever. Your primary target audience for this course is Christian writers, people who enjoy writing and want to experience much more &#8211; of Me and fruitfulness as well.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">3) Randy, I want to <strong><span style="color: #008000;">UNLEASH YOUR SPIRIT</span></strong>. As Brian McFadin told you, <strong>what manifests in your life is a function of how you are BEING</strong>. Being is always going on. People tend to fix their attention on doing or having (e.g. more time, more money), but it&#8217;s when they change their being &#8211; how they are &#8211; that fruitfulness will happen automatically.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>BE VULERNABLE and BE HUMBLE to allow people you meet to contribute to your life.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Brian hit the nail on the head when he said &#8220;<strong><a href="http://journal777.com/wfj-youre-being-a-know-it-all-is-whats-getting-in-your-way/" target="_blank">You&#8217;re being a know-it-all is what&#8217;s getting in your way!</a></strong>&#8220;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>4) &#8220;It&#8217;s a numbers game!&#8221; (Stephen Beck). &#8220;Spread the word! with Affiliate marketing&#8221; (Jerry)</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Today (Nov 13), I had you recall the passage from The Greatest Salesman in the World book that &#8220;<strong>Many have achieved great success with one sales talk delivered with excellence.</strong>&#8221; That is what you saw with Stephen Beck, the webinar expert. <strong><span style="color: #008000;">Your niche, your sales talk, is the <a title="UNCOMMON Stewardship" href="http://steward777.com/" target="_blank">UNCOMMON Stewardship</a> one.</span></strong> Master that and the world will be ours. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>5) GET ORGANIZED</strong><br />
</span><a href="http://journal777.com/reason-11-to-journal-get-organized/">http://journal777.com/reason-11-to-journal-get-organized/</a></p>
<p>In his book &#8220;The Total Money Makeover,&#8221; Dave Ramsey writes, &#8220;<strong>You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time</strong>&#8221; The way you eat an elephant is one bite at a time. <strong>Find something to do and do that with vigor until it is complete; then and only then do you move to the next step. If you try to do everything at once, you will fail.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The power of FOCUS is what causes our baby steps to work. When you try to do everything at once, progress can be very slow&#8230; Because you attack several areas at once, you don’t finish anything you start for a long time.</strong> That makes you feel that you aren’t accomplishing anything, which is very dangerous&#8221; The power of focus is that it works. Things happen&#8221; The power of priority causes the baby steps to work.</p>
<p>Brian Tracy, a motivational speaker, says &#8220;<strong>What does it take to succeed on a big scale?</strong> A tremendous God-given talent? Inherited wealth? A decade of postgraduate education? Connections? Fortunately, for most of us, what it takes it something very simple and accessible: <strong>clear, written goals</strong>.&#8221; According to Brian Tracy, a study of Harvard graduates found that after two years, the 3 percent who had written goals achieved more financially than the other 97 percent combined!&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">6) Keep Your Commitments</span></strong><br />
<a href="http://journal777.com/reason-12-to-journal-keep-your-commitments/">http://journal777.com/reason-12-to-journal-keep-your-commitments/</a></p>
<p>Letting your &#8220;Yes&#8221; be &#8220;Yes&#8221; and your &#8220;No,&#8221; &#8220;No&#8221; is extremely important. Every time you fail to honor your word, it takes away the power behind your spoken word. You lose credibility.</p>
<p>Like many of you, I have trouble saying &#8220;No.&#8221; As a result, I find myself over-committed. It’s easy to justify this wrong behavior by saying I’m meeting the needs of those around me. But God doesn’t ask or require us to meet everyone’s needs.</p>
<p>When you’re late for a meeting or appointment, even a few minutes late, that’s failing to keep your word. Often it’s easy to justify why that happens, but an excuse is just that – an excuse. Rarely are we late because of circumstances outside of our control.</p>
<p>When I journal using the &#8220;Yesterday&#8230;&#8221; method, I list both highlights and low points for each day. By reflecting on the low points, I notice character flaws in me that need prayer and work to overcome.</p>
<p>I have a few very simple gauges that let me know if I’m too busy. Being late is one of them. Another is not taking care of my body, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Failing to exercise at least 5 days per week is a bad sign. As I complete this book, I am being most convicted by this particular section. This is an area I must work hard at to improve at.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">7) Pr 4:5a Get wisdom! Get understanding!</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>When you change your thinking, you will change your life!</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Blessings of the Day</strong></p>
<p>1) <a href="http://yourdailyblessing.com/what-has-god-been-saying-to-you/" target="_blank">Read Lynne Lee&#8217;s profound email from November 15</a></p>
<p>2) <a title="UNCOMMON Stewardship" href="http://steward777.com/" target="_blank">UNCOMMON Stewardship: How To Steward Your Time, Talent, Treasure, and Temple Through Journaling</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Joseph Peck</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Failure to plan is a plan to fail. God is the Master Planner!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;<strong>The plan pleased me well</strong>; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.&#8221; (Deuteronomy 1:23</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the order in your life?<br />
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your planning?</span></strong></p>
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<p>Journaling helps you get organized. So many people have asked me, &#8220;Randy, can you help me get organized?&#8221; So what I decided to do is write my e-book &#8220;<a href="http://journal777.com/book1/" target="_blank">UNCOMMON Journaling For Breakthroughs</a>&#8221; and prepare online courses combined with accountability (real life coaching) to train others to journal, who in turn can train more people, in essence creating disciples who disciple others.</p>
<p><strong>Journaling helps reduce the noise in your life which helps you plan better and become more organized.</strong> Many people reject the notion of planning and setting goals. It’s been said, &#8220;We want to live like there’s no tomorrow, but we want to plan like we’ll live forever.&#8221;</p>
<p>I personally use <a href="http://thejournal777.com/45-day-free-trial/" target="_blank">The Journal</a> software to set and follow through with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. While I don’t profess to have my whole act together, this definitely help me stay on track. God doesn’t want us to be like a pinball bouncing randomly all over. I believe God wants to send and steer us like cruise missiles.</p>
<p>In his book &#8220;The Total Money Makeover,&#8221; Dave Ramsey writes, &#8220;<strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time</span></strong>&#8230; The way you eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Find something to do and do that with vigor until it is complete; then and only then do you move to the next step. If you try to do everything at once, you will fail.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #008000;">The power of FOCUS is what causes our baby steps to work.</span></strong> When you try to do everything at once, progress can be very slow&#8230; Because you attack several areas at once, you don’t finish anything you start for a long time. That makes you feel that you aren’t accomplishing anything, which is very dangerous&#8230; The power of focus is that it works. Things happen&#8230; The power of priority causes the baby bteps to work.</p>
<p>Brian Tracy, a motivational speaker, says &#8220;<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>What does it take to succeed on a big scale?</strong></span> A tremendous God-given talent? Inherited wealth? A decade of postgraduate education? Connections? Fortunately, for most of us, what it takes it something very simple and accessible: <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">clear, written goals</span></strong>.&#8221; According to Brian Tracy, a study of Harvard graduates found that after two years, the 3 percent who had written goals achieved more financially than the other 97 percent combined!&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Prayer Power<br />
<span style="color: #993366;">Heavenly Father, we praise You as the God of order. Thank You for the order in my life that comes as a result of journaling. May those who read and listen to this message learn how to journal to bring more order to their lives. Thank You Jesus. Amen and hallelujah!</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">Blessings to BE Organized!</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://josephpeck.com" target="_blank">R. Joseph Peck, M.D.</a><br />
&#8220;Blessed to be a blessing&#8221;<br />
THE CONNECTOR and The Journal Guy<br />
Changing Lives to Disciple Nations<br />
Community Transformation Specialist<br />
<a href="http://empower2000.com" target="_blank">www.empower2000.com</a></p>
<p>P.S. Sign up TODAY for my free E-course &#8220;<a href=http://30-days-to-breakthrough.com/" target="_blank">&#8220;30 Days To Breakthrough</a>&#8221; God wants to transform your life NOW!</p>
<p><span style="color: #AB052D;"><strong>P.S.S. Spiritual Journaling will transform your life!</strong></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><strong>UNCOMMON Journaling is the key<br/>to unlock YOUR dreams!</strong></span></p>
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