
10/01/2025
For my fellow faith based business owners, employees, and corporate leaders: this verse showed up in my timeline memories, and it was such a good reminder! May it encourage your heart today as well.
"Remember to stay alert and hold firmly to all that you believe. Be mighty and full of courage. Let love and kindness be the motivation behind all that you do."
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 TPT
Paul reminds us in several places to be alert to the schemes of the enemy. Not afraid, but alert. Jesus tells us to expect that there will be trouble in this world, but comforts is with the truth that HE has overcome the world. Not that He WILL, but that He has. It's a done deal. That doesn't mean we'll escape the difficulties that come with the world's state of brokenness, but it does mean we can live in victory, and stand courageously because our savior has promised to be with us always. Our heavenly Father - you know, the one who created the universe - has said that we can be still because HE will fight for us.
And because we believe these things to be true, when we stand courageously, we can do it in love - with hearts motivated not by fear or a desire to prove a point, but motivated instead by the desire to make Jesus and the truth of His gospel known, and to be vessels that carry His light into a darkened world.
So stand courageously, my friends, and let ALL you do be motivated by love and kindness.