en-US Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:17:14 +0200 GodRev/My_Devotionalhttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.godrev.com/devotionals/?/539/Find-your-strength-zone.html http://www.godrev.com/devotionals/?/539/Find-your-strength-zone.html We all have equal value in God\'s eyes, but we don\'t have equal giftedness. In their book Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton state that every person is capable of doing something better than the next 10,000 people. And they support that with research. They call this area your strength zone, and they encourage you to find it and make the most of it. It doesn\'t matter how aware you are of your abilities, how you feel about yourself, or whether you have previously achieved success. You have talent, and God requires you to develop it! But you can only develop the talent you have, not the one you want. When it comes to your character, you must never stop working on your areas of weakness. But when it comes to fulfilling your God-given assignment, you must recognize your strength zone and give yourself to it. Dr John Maxwell writes: \'It\'s been my observation that people can increase their ability in an area by only two points on a scale of 1-10. For[...]]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:44:05 +0200 http://www.godrev.com/devotionals/?/538/What-will-your-legacy-be.html http://www.godrev.com/devotionals/?/538/What-will-your-legacy-be.html In 1927, a Georgia real estate and insurance company folded, short-changing 500 stockholders. The owner, a man called Mercer, was a person of integrity who vowed if possible to repay every single penny. But despite his best efforts, his company never did make a comeback. After he died, his son remembered his father\'s vow and twenty-eight years later deposited a check in a Savannah bank to reimburse every last stockholder. That young man was the successful singer/songwriter, Johnny Mercer. One of the songs he wrote from which he earned the royalties to pay the stockholders was, \'Accentuate the Positive.\' You\'ve probably heard it. When you go, leave your children something more than money to remember you by; leave them a legacy of integrity! Listen: \'The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.\' If you can\'t be trusted on all counts, you can\'t truly be trusted on any. Ethical principles are not flexible. A little white lie is still a lie;[...]]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:43:43 +0200 http://www.godrev.com/devotionals/?/537/Noticing-and-nurturing-others.html http://www.godrev.com/devotionals/?/537/Noticing-and-nurturing-others.html Some of us are like the woman who bragged, \'My husband and I have a great marriage. There\'s nothing I wouldn\'t do for him and nothing he wouldn\'t do for me. And that\'s the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!\' Self-cantered, profit-driven leaders often overlook the needs of the very people who can help them reach their goals. They fail to take the time to invest in those they work with. And when a person feels like they\'re not noticed or nurtured, they get restless and start looking for greener pastures. This is particularly true when a leader is so overwhelmed by the tasks at hand that they fail to appreciate and invest in their people which includes noticing skill sets which are right under their nose. JC Penney, now a national US clothing chain, started out as a stock-room worker. King David started out as a harp-strumming shepherd. Jesus took uninterrupted time with His disciples, explaining to them things that the crowd wasn\'t privy to. He knew if you[...]]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:43:19 +0200