735: How to position yourself for blessings, with Mark Batterson

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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“Blessings” is right there with the word “success” as far as having a lot of baggage connected to it, and I don’t bring the term to the show lightly. But right now, do you feel more or less, blessed? And before you think, “Well of course. My family, I have a job, I’m in decent health, of course I’m blessed…” This isn’t a count-your-blessings pitch. I mean right now in your day to day life. Are your relationships all you desire them to be? How are feeling financially? Do you feel purposeful and hopeful? How about just your level of ongoing joy? How is your stress level? How is your self-talk? Do you feel things generally work out for you and fall in your favor? Do you really feel like you are living within a flow of blessing? Then the question is...to have blessings and if I can say, “favor”, are there any requirements from you? I know, this is a slippery slope issue because the idea of “do this and get that” regarding God and blessings has really been misused. So I have someone for you today, and we’ll hit it head on. Back in 2006 I got ahold of a book with a crazy title, “In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day,” by a guy named Mark Batterson. He was pastor of a church in D.C. Today, he is still that pastor, but now a prolific, best selling author and speaker. He has a new book titled, “Double Blessing - How to Get It. How to Give It.” Right off the bat in our talk together he hits on the “prosperity gospel” issue and actually cites, “The blessings of God will complicate your life”. I feel I brought the tough questions up and this show will open up some new perspectives for you on how you tangibly orient your life. If you don’t know Mark, he is the author of 15 books including the USA Today bestseller "Chase the Lion," which inspired the recently published "Chase the Lion Weekly Planner" and the New York Times best-seller "The Circle Maker." Mark is the founder and lead pastor of National Community Church (NCC), one church with 7 campuses throughout Washington D.C. National Community Church, known as one of the most innovative and influential churches in America, also owns and operates Ebenezers Coffeehouse, the Miracle Theatre, and the DC Dream Center. Connect with him at https://www.markbatterson.com/ and find his books...everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.
0:06.0	Welcome everyone. I'm Kevin Miller and this is a Ziegler show inspired by the grandfather of Inspiration himself Zigg Zigg
0:13.3	Zigg. We've surpassed 40 million downloads because we bring messages that help people
0:18.5	make the change they need to get the results they want. In this episode, how to position yourself for blessings.
0:26.2	All right, right off the bat, blessings, right along with the word success, probably at the top of the heap for having a lot of baggage connected to
0:35.1	those words and I don't bring the term to this show lightly but right now do you
0:40.2	feel more or less blessed and before you you think, well, of course, you know, my family, I've got a job, I'm in a decent home, I've got good health, of course I'm blessed. I'm not really talking about the count your blessings pitch.
0:53.5	I mean right now in your day-to-day life,
0:56.2	how are your relationships?
0:57.3	Are they all you desire them to be?
0:59.6	How are you feeling financially?
1:01.3	Do you feel purposeful and hopeful? How about just your
1:03.9	level of ongoing joy? How's your stress level? How's your self-talk? Do you feel
1:09.2	things generally work out for you and are falling in your favor. Do you really feel like you are living
1:14.8	within a flow of blessing? Well then the question is to have blessing and if I can say favor,
1:20.8	are there any requirements?
1:22.6	And I know this right there, there's a slippery slope issue
1:25.6	because the idea of do this and get that regarding God
1:28.4	and blessings has really, really been misused.
1:31.5	So I have someone for you today and we're going to hit it on the head. Back in 2006, I got a
1:37.1	hold of a book with a crazy title, In a Pit, With a Lion, On a Snowy Day, by a guy
1:41.4	named Mark Batterson.
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