WorkaHolyc

Talk 1: Success
Talk 2: Significance
Talk 3: Spirituality
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(June 3)

Make Your Work Your Worship

Look around you.

Many people have made their career their god. On the altar of this
fake deity, they sacrifice everything—their marriage, their health, their
integrity, even their identity. They have become their job. For them, to be
a workaholic is a status symbol. People wear it as a badge of honor.

On the other spectrum are those who hate their jobs like poison. They
drag their feet to work every single day.

Is there another path? A happier one? The answer is yes.

Welcome to our powerful brand new series, WorkaHolyc. In this entire

series, we’ll also investigate the human work involved in building God’s
Temple, from Moses’ Tabernacle in Sinai, to the First Temple of Solomon, to
the Second Temple of Ezra. Why? Because all human work should build
God’s Kingdom on earth.

I know that by the end of this powerful series, you’ll bless your jobs.
You’ll find your voice. You’ll harness your gift. You’ll elevate your results.
You’ll anoint your career. You’ll prosper your business. You’ll sanctify your
Monday to Friday. And you’ll be able to say, “My work is my worship.”

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

Talk 1: Success

And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I
told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be
under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce
enough food for you. It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to
eat wild plants. (Genesis 3:17-18 GNT)

The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it
and take care of it. (Genesis 2:15 NIV)

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which
God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10 NIV)

Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of
God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of
skills— 4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, 5 to cut
and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts.
(Exodus 31:1-5 NIV)

Moses said to the Israelites, “The LORD has chosen Bezalel, the son of Uri
and grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah. 31 God has filled him with his
power and given him skill, ability, and understanding for every kind of
artistic work, 32 for planning skillful designs and working them in gold, silver,
and bronze; 33 for cutting jewels to be set; for carving wood; and for every
other kind of artistic work. 34 The LORD has given to him and to Oholiab son
of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach their crafts to
others. 35 He has given them skill in all kinds of work done by engravers,
designers, and weavers of fine linen; blue, purple, and red wool; and other
cloth. They are able to do all kinds of work and are skillful designers.
Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the other workers to whom the LORD has given skill
and understanding, who know how to make everything needed to build the
sacred Tent, are to make everything just as the LORD has commanded.”
(Exodus 35:30-35, 36:1 GNT)

Solomon also had seventy thousand additional laborers, eighty thousand

stonecutters in the hill country, 16 and thirty-three hundred foremen. 17 The
stonecutters quarried and shaped huge blocks of stone—a very expensive
job—for the foundation of the Temple. (1 Kings 5:15-17 TLB)

Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings…
(Proverbs 22:29 NIV)

Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability
to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of
God. (Ecclesiastes 5:19 NIV)

Personal Reflection and Group Discussion Guide:

Do you see a connection between your work and your worship? Why or why
not? What can you do to strengthen the connection?

(June 10)

Deconstructing The Myth of Dualism

“How many attended our Jesus Encounter?” I asked my friend.

He said, “We saved 38 souls!”

Hmm, I wonder if he didn’t get terrified preaching to 38 souls floating

around in the classroom. (Sorry, I think I watched too many Harry Potter
movies.)

Obviously, that’s not what he meant when he said “souls”. But that’s
a common example of our “Dualistic” religious language, not from
Scriptures, but from Plato. We inherited our dualistic thinking from the
ancient philosophy of Plato (428 B.C.)—that the body is bad and the soul is
good, that the earth is bad and heaven is good, that secular work is bad and
spiritual work is good. Or at the very least, that being a priest is holier than
being a chemist, or a missionary is more pleasing to God than a salesman.

Today, get ready to overhaul your mindset!

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

Talk 2: Significance

Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

(Matthew 6:7 NRSV)

God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. (Genesis
1:31 NABRE)

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. (Revelations
21:2 NIV)

See, the home of God is among mortals. (Revelations 21:3 NRSV)

They also told me that the walls of Jerusalem were still broken down and
that the gates had not been restored since the time they were burned. When
I heard all this, I sat down and wept. For several days I mourned and did
not eat. I prayed to God… (Nehemiah 1:3-4 GNT)

In those days I was the emperor's wine steward. (Nehemiah 1:11 GNT)

The emperor asked, “What is it that you want?” I prayed to the God of
Heaven, 5 and then I said to the emperor, “If Your Majesty is pleased with
me and is willing to grant my request, let me go to the land of Judah, to the
city where my ancestors are buried, so that I can rebuild the city.” 6 The
emperor, with the empress sitting at his side, approved my request. 9 The
emperor sent some army officers and a troop of cavalry with me, and I
made the journey to West-of-Euphrates. There I gave the emperor's letters
to the governors. (Nehemiah 2:4-6, 9 GNT)

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a
woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called
Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was
distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and
asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by
myself? Tell her to help me!” 41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you
are worried and upset about many things,42 but few things are needed—or
indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken
away from her.” (Luke 10:38-42 NIV)

Personal Reflection and Group Discussion Guide:

God wants to make you whole. What “walls” or area of your life do you need
repair? What first small step can you do towards repairing this wall?

(June 17)

What Are You Holding?

While in a crowded mall, the mother was shopping with her little girl.
Fearing she’ll get lost, she told the daughter, “Princess, there are so many
people. Whatever happens, hold my skirt. Never let go!”

After two hours of shopping, the mother goes to the security guard
and asks, “Guard, have you seen a small girl holding a skirt?”
 We’re just like that little girl. We make the same mistake. We hold
the empty skirt, not the one wearing the skirt. How? We hold on to our
material blessings, we don’t hold on to the Blesser of those blessings.

Matthew 6:33 says we need to put God first. Some people

misinterpret that passage and think God is saying, “Don’t work. Don’t
pursue. Don’t invest…” That’s not true. Because if there’s a first, then
there’s a second, a third, a fourth, and a fifth in your life.

Today, I pray that you’ll put Him first in everything.

Have a powerful Feast today.

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

Talk 3: Spirituality

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added to you. (Matthew 6:33 NKJV)

For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. (Matthew 6:21,
NABRE)

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay
destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal.
(Matthew 6:19-20, NABRE)

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the
Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Colossians 3:17,
NIV)

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not
yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’” (Haggai 1:2, NIV)

Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this
house remains a ruin? (Haggai 1:4, NIV)

Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.
6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have
enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not
warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.” (Haggai
1:5-6, NIV)

Those who try to gain their own life will lose it; but those who lose their life
for my sake will gain it. (Matthew 10:39, GNT)

Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, gave this message of the Lord to the
people: “I am with you,” declares the Lord. (Haggai 1:13, NIV, emphasis
added)

When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go
back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so
that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
(Deuteronomy 24:19 NIV)

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of
your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 Do not go over your
vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them
for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19:9-19
NIV)

Personal Reflection and Group Discussion Guide:

How else can you make God your first priority? And how can you serve the
poor through your work?

(June 24)

Life Is A Collection Of Buckets

Life is not one bucket.

Life is a collection of buckets.

You can’t expect abundance in all buckets if you’ve only been putting
water in only one of the buckets.

Example? Some religious people think that if they give their time to
their religious bucket, their family life will be abundant too. Sorry, that
won’t happen. (That’s a wrong application of Matthew 6:33 that says that if
we put God first, all things will be added unto us.) I’ve met religious people
who are always in church, but they don’t give time to their family. Thus,
their family life bucket is empty.

Recently, I talked a woman who for the past 21 years was serving her
church fulltime. When she was almost 60, she woke up one day to realize
she has zero savings. She doesn’t regret serving God, but she wished she
read my financial books earlier.

Friend, your work is another bucket. Are you honing your craft?
Developing your skills?

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

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