This past Wednesday, Inspired Faith introduced our new inspirational movie, A Time for Prayer. If you didn’t get a chance to watch it, then please click here.
Today, we introduce the book,Today, we introduce the book, A Time for Prayer. Both the book and movie are an inspiring and powerful reflection that “prayer is our pathway to a personal, ultimate relationship with God.” —Shirley Dobson, Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force . Both the book and movie are an inspiring and powerful reflection that “prayer is our pathway to a personal, ultimate relationship with God.” —Shirley Dobson, Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force
In the excerpt below, Shirley Dobson illustrates how prayer is a vital component that enriches our lives and our relationships with God. She also highlights the significance of praying for others and the impact it will have on their lives.
You are going to love this book. It’s beautifully designed. You’ll find the content inspiring and empowering. A Time for Prayer is filled with quotes, prayers, and excerpts from spiritual leaders such as Billy Graham, Charles Swindoll, Beth Moore, Max Lucado, Luis Palau, and many others. The book also includes a foreword by Franklin Graham, the National Day of Prayer Task Force’s 2010 spokesperson.
But don’t take my word for it, click here to learn more about the book. It makes a great gift for friends, family, your small group study, and more. Give a copy to your church pastor or to a lay ministry leader.
We have so much to be thankful for as a nation, but simultaneously so much to pray for on a daily basis—for needs and requests close to our hearts, as well as around the globe.
Praying for you, our nation, and the world,
An Excerpt from A Time For Prayer, writings and compilation by Lance Wubbels
Introduction by Shirley Dobson, Chairman, National Day of Prayer Task Force
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:1
In today’s tumultuous times, we all have moments where we are afraid, anxious, and worried. But there’s an antidote for this anxious age. It connects us to the greatest source of peace, hope, and security that we could ever imagine. The cure is the remarkable gift from our loving and merciful God. It’s called prayer.
Though many may call the twenty-first century the Age of Anxiety, our current troubles are not new. Mankind’s future has always been uncertain. Since the days of Noah and his family, Moses and the nation of Israel, the persecuted early church, the Pilgrims, and America’s founding fathers, the answer for people facing adversity has always been the same: Almighty God.
Simply put, there is no security apart from Him. When problems threaten to engulf us, we must do what believers have always done—turn to the Lord for encouragement and solace. We never need to face the fury of life’s storms on our own. He keeps His promise: “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). He stands just to the side, ever watchful, waiting to embrace us the moment we ask His presence. His words to Jeremiah apply to us all: “Call to me and I will answer you” (Jeremiah 33:3).
Prayer is our pathway not only to divine protection, but also to a personal, intimate relationship with God. The Lord desires a personal, two-way conversation with me and with you. You are His child. He wants you to seek Him, to love Him, and to spend time daily with Him. When you do, He hears and responds (Matthew 6:6). You prayers never go unanswered. Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes it is no, and sometimes it is wait. But our heavenly Father is there even in the most troubling of circumstances.
Are you ready to renew or increase your commitment to prayer? Do you want contentment in your heart and peace in your world? If your answer is yes—or even maybe—keep reading and discover God’s remarkable gift called prayer. It will change your life, the lives around you, and even the course of history.
P.S. To get your copy of “A Time for Prayer” today, click here.
Fuel your belief and determination with the Finish Strong attitude!
The Finish Strong philosophy was adopted by Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints in the
spring of 2009.
Every member of our team received Dan Green’s book ˜Finish Strong at the
beginning of the off-season, Brees said. The inspirational book is filled with stories
of people overcoming adversity with courage. It then became a mantra for our team
throughout the off-season program, preseason and regular season. We recognized that if we
could indeed finish strong in everything we did, we could achieve the lofty goals we had
set for ourselves.
Finish Strong is more than a statement, it’s an attitude. When you combine the word
finish with strong, you create a powerful platform for action. Persevere
through your 2010 goals with a Finish Strong Attitude.
Use the above content and to inspire others to Finish Strong this month,
quarter or year! It makes a great gift for sales teams, students, athletes, and anyone
else that appreciates a shot of inspiration.
**** Look for the upcoming title, Finish Strong for Teens*****
Kind Regards
What’s keeping you from achieving what you really want? If you’re like many of us, you’re not sure how to get from Point A to Point B to successfully achieve your dreams.
In his new book for Simple Truths: Goals…The 10 Rules for Achieving Success, author Gary Ryan Blair has a no-nonsense roadmap that will allow you to fulfill your purpose. For more than 20 years, Gary has been helping business owners, corporate executives and sales professionals manage their time, set their priorities and build sustainable competitive advantage.
Today, I’d like to share Gary’s first rule of success:
Be Decisive:
Success is the intentional, pre-meditated use of choice and decision. Unless you choose – with certainty – what it is you want, you accept table scraps by default!
The world is plump with opportunity. With boldness and conviction, stick a fork into the goals you want by being decisive.
You are born with great capabilities, but you will not achieve your potential until you call upon yourself to fulfill it. You will rise to the occasion when it presents itself; yet, to assure self-fulfillment, you must provide occasions to rise to. Clearly defined goals allow you to travel toward another horizon that represents the end of one experience and the transition to a new and better existence. The objective is to choose the right goals, and then to create the necessary causes – the effects will follow!
The difference between what one person and another achieves depends more on goal choices than on abilities. The profound differences between successful people and others are the goals they choose to pursue. Individuals with smaller talents, intelligence, and abilities will achieve different results because they select and pursue different goals.
Each decision affects what you become. We form our decisions and our decisions form us. There is no escaping this; the smallest choices are important because – over time – their cumulative effect is enormous.
Never overlook the obvious: The nature and direction of your life change the instant you decide what goals you want to pursue.
Once you make a decision, you start down a path to a new destination. At the moment the decision is made, your decision to pursue a goal alters what you are becoming. Just one spin of the lock’s dial – a single choice – can alter your life, your destiny, your legacy.
Think about it – your goal decisions represent and express your individuality. You seal your fate with the choices you make. You define yourself by your decisions.
Your dialogue with success is ultimately a solo one. Decisions and goals made must be your own if you are to call your life a success.
Always establish the best goals you can. Goals are the seeds of success – you become only what you plant. The quality of your harvest is a direct reflection of the quality of your seeds-your decisions!
Indecision is the big eraser of opportunity and potential. Risks and costs accompany every decision; however, the price of decision is far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. When it comes to decisiveness, squatters have no rights.
Everyone has an official wish list of things they think are “reasonable”. What about the unofficial wish list? The one that common sense tells you to ignore? The list that exists deep in your mind, the list that keeps you up at night, that makes your toes wiggle when you think of it? Why not choose that list for a change?
How long have you dreamed of being, having, and doing what you really want? Think big, as when it comes to your goals, the size of your ambition does matter.
No matter what you want to achieve, Gary’s book on Goals can be your blueprint for success. As he says, “Embrace these ten rules of goal setting and give witness to a powerful transition in your life.”
Today, we’re pleased to offer Goals…The 10 Rules for Achieving Success, For more information or to look inside the book, just click here.
All the Best,
Mac Anderson
Founder, Simple Truths
Goals, The 10 Rules for Achieving Success
Fuel your belief and determination with the Finish Strong attitude!
The Finish Strong philosophy was adopted by Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints in the
spring of 2009.
Every member of our team received Dan Green’s book ˜Finish Strong at the
beginning of the off-season, Brees said. The inspirational book is filled with stories
of people overcoming adversity with courage. It then became a mantra for our team
throughout the off-season program, preseason and regular season. We recognized that if we
could indeed finish strong in everything we did, we could achieve the lofty goals we had
set for ourselves.
Finish Strong is more than a statement, it’s an attitude. When you combine the word
finish with strong, you create a powerful platform for action. Persevere
through your 2010 goals with a Finish Strong Attitude.
Use the above content and to inspire others to Finish Strong this month,
quarter or year! It makes a great gift for sales teams, students, athletes, and anyone
else that appreciates a shot of inspiration.
**** Look for the upcoming title, Finish Strong for Teens*****
Kind Regards
It’s a society where teamwork, loyalty and communication are the norm rather than the exception. Sound like utopia? Actually, it’s already present in nature – in a wolf pack. The wolf pack knows who it is. Those in the pack exist for each other.
Twyman Towery, Ph.D., a professional speaker and consultant who studied the lessons of leadership in nature, has captured them in a new book for Simple Truths called Wisdom of Wolves. Twyman shares the parallels between the wolf pack and human behavior…in business life, family life, and personal life.
Today, I’d like to share a chapter from Wisdom of Wolves. Who knew that the key to success might just be patterning your attitude after that of a wolf?
The Introduction from
Wisdom of Wolves
by Twyman ToweryThe attitude of the wolf can be summed up simply: it is a constant visualization of success. The collective wisdom of wolves has been progressively programmed into their genetic makeup throughout the centuries. Wolves have mastered the technique of focusing their energies toward the activities that will lead to the accomplishment of their goals.
Wolves do not aimlessly run around their intended victims, yipping and yapping. They have a strategic plan and execute it through constant communication. When the moment of truth arrives, each understands his role and understands exactly what the pack expects of him.
The wolf does not depend on luck. The cohesion, teamwork and training of the pack determines whether the pack lives or dies.
There is a silly maxim in some organizations that everyone, to be a valuable member, must aspire to be the leader. This is personified by the misguided CEO who says he only hires people who say they want to take his job. Evidently, this is supposed to ensure that the person has ambition, courage, spunk, honesty, drive – whatever. In reality, it is simply a contrived situation, with the interviewee jumping through the boss’s hoops. It sends warnings of competition and one-upmanship throughout the organization rather than signals of cooperation, teamwork and loyalty.
Everyone does not strive to be the leader in the wolf pack. Some are consummate hunters or caregivers or jokesters, but each seems to gravitate to the role he does best. This is not to say there are not challenges to authority, position and status – there are. But each wolf’s role begins emerging from playtime as a pup and refines itself through the rest of its years. The wolf’s attitude is always based upon the question, “What is best for the pack?” This is in marked contrast to us humans, who will often sabotage our organizations, families or businesses, if we do not get what we want.
Wolves are seldom truly threatened by other animals. By constantly engaging their senses and skills, they are practically unassailable. They are masters of planning for the moment of opportunity to present itself, and when it does, they are ready to act.
Because of training, preparation, planning, communication and a preference for action, the wolf’s expectation is always to be victorious. While in actuality this is true only 10 percent of the time or less, the wolf’s attitude is always that success will come-and it does.
Because of training, preparation, planning, communication and a preference for action, the wolf’s expectation is always to be victorious. While in actuality this is true only 10 percent of the time or less, the wolf’s attitude is always that success will come-and it does.
Wisdom of Wolves is one of the most fascinating books I’ve read. I could not put it down! Just click here for more information or to look inside the book.
How do you get through tough times? The Best Way Out is Through movie is a wonderful dose
of inspiration to get through challenging times and envision triumph. Take a few minutes
to enjoy this message of perseverance that is filled with encouragement and inspiration
to stay motivated to make 2010 the best year yet!
Mark Twain said it best…
“The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. The moment it arises, all your irritations and resentments slip away and the sunny spirit takes their place.”
What a perfect quote for today’s world! Who do you know who couldn’t use a good dose of laughter?
That’s why I love this little 3 minute movie. Â Just relax, sit back and give yourself a treat. It’ll make your day!
And don’t forget to forward it to friends and co-workers! They’ll appreciate a little “shot of inspiration.”
Just click here to watch
Move your dreams forward with the book and movie Dreams Are Whispers from the Soul. This
little book is your own personal life coach and author Marcia Wieder will show you how to
turn your dreams into reality with real life stories, motivational quotes and beautiful
photography. Enjoy this 3 minute movie to get you started today on realizing your
dreams!
Look for upcoming information about our newest titles, Pink Bat, The Best of Success and
Wisdom of Wolves.
Kind regards,
After a speech one day, Zig Ziglar was approached by someone in the audience who said:
“Zig, it was a great speech, but…motivation doesn’t last.”
Zig said, “Bathing doesn’t either. That’s why I recommend it daily!”
Like me, Zig loves quotes and believes that the right quote can provide “a-ha” moments and can help to reinforce a positive attitude. Here’s what he said:
“Reading has been my fuel for motivation. If the “a-ha” I get when I’m reading is not already reduced into one or two sentences, I’ll take the essence of what I’ve read and chunk it into easily remembered bites of information. That information is what becomes “quotable.” You would not sit still for me to read every book I’ve ever read to you. But if you’re the least bit like me, you’ll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top – that is what quotes are…the cream of our learning.”
To say I’m honored to publish a book of Zig Ziglar is an understatement. Sixty Minutes said, “He’s a legend in the industry. He’s the Bill Gates, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison of enthusiasm.” What I love about Zig, however, is his heart. His ability to help people realize their potential is unsurpassed and his belief that, “You can have everything you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want,” has been the foundation of all he’s accomplished.
The book we’ve created together, Inspiration 365, is one of the most beautiful we’ve ever published. It’s a 160 page, coffee table edition that will be a perpetual source of inspiration for years to come. It’s a collection of 365 quotes (each day of the year) from Zig himself, and many others that have motivated him over the years.To read Zig’s favorite quotes or look inside the book, just click the banner.
To Life,
Mac Anderson
Founder, Simple Truths
Lombardi! Perhaps no single word in the English language communicates such strong visions
of excellence, discipline, commitment, and of course, winning. The Lombardi philosophy,
however, transcends football. He had the unique ability to articulate the fundamentals of
success for football, business and life unlike any leader. Enjoy
this three minute inspirational movie that shares Lombardi’s keys to success in an
unforgettable way with vintage photos, great Lombardi quotes, and the rare audio segments
from Lombardi giving his famous speech : What It Takes To Be #1.
Inspire leadership, teamwork and commitment in others by sharing this superb movie on
your website, blog or in an email today!
Get Inspired and Stay Inspired!
Kind regards,
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