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LIVE your faith, BUILD your business, CHANGE your world. Simply put, that's what LBC is all about. My name is Carey Green and you could call me a "Business Pastor," I guess. I've served local churches for over 20 years as a pastor and in 2013 sensed that the calling to shepherd a local church family was over. That's when I took steps to create my own online business and I've been amazed to see what God has done with it in a short amount of time. The main thing I've discovered is that authentic Christian faith serves as the best foundation for successful business and that when the two are joined together great things can be accomplished that are truly able to change the world. I invite you to join me as we discover together what it might look like for you to LIVE your faith, BUILD a business, and CHANGE the world. www.LiveBuildChange.com or contact Carey(at)LiveBuildChange.com

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LIVE your faith, BUILD your business, CHANGE your world. Simply put, that's what LBC is all about. My name is Carey Green and you could call me a "Business Pastor," I guess. I've served local churches for over 20 years as a pastor and in 2013 sensed that the calling to shepherd a local church family was over. That's when I took steps to create my own online business and I've been amazed to see what God has done with it in a short amount of time. The main thing I've discovered is that authentic Christian faith serves as the best foundation for successful business and that when the two are joined together great things can be accomplished that are truly able to change the world. I invite you to join me as we discover together what it might look like for you to LIVE your faith, BUILD a business, and CHANGE the world. www.LiveBuildChange.com or contact Carey(at)LiveBuildChange.com

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@careyngreen

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https://www.livebuildchange.com/

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Episodes

Is Claiming God’s Promises OK in Business? [Ep 46]

4/4/2018

There is a phrase that we hear in the church fairly that is something I fear we say without knowing what it really means - or how to apply it rightly: claiming God's promises. Okay so someone says, “I'm claiming the promises of God” for this, or this or this… In this episode of the podcast I ask the questions, “What does that really MEAN - and is it OK to do when it comes to business endeavors? Subscribe to Live Build Change On Android | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Podbean | Spreaker | Email Here’s a rough outline of TOPIC OR GUEST… How we are often the means of God’s promises coming true It’s important that we have our thinking straight when it comes to “claiming the promises of God.” Anyone - you or I - can go off in all kinds of directions, claiming that we are taking one of the many promises of God in scripture and actually be on the wrong track - both in our thinking and in our behavior. It’s easy to do. So how do we avoid that mistake? I've seen this practice done a couple of different ways throughout the twenty years I was a pastor and just in my life as a believer. I’ve seen it happen in the lives of people I rub shoulders with and in my own life at times. And what I’ve learned is that there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. From what I've learned of scripture and through what I have seen people put into practice, let me give you a couple of scenarios. Say you have somebody who is struggling to put food on the table. They don't have a job. They are not actively looking for a job. But they are praying and hoping that something is going to come through for them and they say things like, “I am claiming the promises of God... that He will never let the righteous be forsaken.” (Psalm 37:25) I think it's probably pretty obvious - at least I hope it is - that it's not really a very wise or proper way to “claim the promises of God.” God's promises are not isolated. When God makes a promise to the righteous, He's making a promise to a person who has certain characteristics, certain things true about them. That's what He means when He uses the word “righteous” to refer to them. And to be clear - all of the righteousness any of us have is righteousness that comes to us through Christ - and it includes having Christ Himself in us to strengthen us and fill us with wisdom. He motivates us to go and do what we need to do in order to be a part of God's promises coming true. We are often the means God uses to fulfill His promises to us. So we can't just “claim promises of God” if we are unwilling to step into the situation by faith, trusting God is going to help us, and actually put our faith into action. I think that's a wrong way to apply this idea of claiming God's promises. What would the right way to claim God’s promises, look like? That’s what the rest of this episode is about. Psalm 37:4 is and example of rightly claiming the promises of God In scripture there are some keystone kind of verses - verses that lots of other theology or lots of other beliefs rest upon. They are foundational because they communicate foundational concepts or truths that support everything else. One of those statements I believe is often overlooked in this regard and is easily misapplied in this kind of thing is Psalm chapter 37, verse number 4. It says, “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” As we stop and think about that, it could be taken one of two ways. It could mean: If you delight yourself in the Lord, He will give you everything you want. And so the desires of your heart is being defined as everything you want. I don't think that's what the verses is saying. The sentence is an if/then statement - so the last part of it (the desires of your heart part) is contingent on the first part. In order for us to understand the verse we have to understand what that first part really means. Okay - so, “Delight yourself in the Lord” - that's a statement about...

Duration:00:17:13

Stay Hungry For The Right Things Christian Business People [Episode 45]

2/7/2018

Stay hungry... It was the summer of 1980. I was 13 years old. And I was the hungriest I'd ever been in my life. I was in the middle of my "ordeal," an initiation exercise to gain entrance into a special group within the boy scouts known as the "Order of the Arrow." There was a group of 25 of us who were invited to participate. It was an honor and I was glad to be there. But it was difficult for a 13 year-old because we had to: Weird? Maybe. Consider it an early testosterone-laden initiation. But you can see why I was so hungry. Staying hungry impacted my thinking Of course, I was nowhere near as hungry as many people in the world are every day, but for a teenager who'd never missed a meal in his life, it felt like I was starving. Though I was plenty busy, it only took about 12 hours of not eating for my thoughts to be on one thing only - food. I wanted to eat. Badly. I couldn't sleep because my growling stomach kept me awake. I was consumed with the thought of consuming something, anything, to satisfy the gnawing in my belly. And to make matters worse, the light at the end of the dark hunger-tunnel was that we were promised that if we made it to the end, we'd be given a lavish banquet. That focused my thoughts on food even more. Staying hungry as an adult When I hit adulthood I began to hear the phrase "stay hungry" in a variety of circles. Because of my boy scout "ordeal" I had a pretty good idea of what was meant by it. Hunger drives you. Hunger keeps you focused (on the thought of food). Hunger won't let you rest. So when I heard sports figures or business gurus say that success requires that you "stay hungry," I knew exactly what they were getting at. They meant that you had to set a goal and keep it before you at all times. You had to desire something, one thing, more than you'd ever desired anything before. They meant you had to become obsessed with that one thing. How should a Christian business person stay hungry? All of that is great advice... if you are your own man or woman. If you call the shots in your life. If you don't answer to anyone. Ever. But those are not descriptions that fit a Christian. [tweetthis]We have a LORD (Jesus). He's made claims on our lives. Yet, He still wants us to "stay hungry."[/tweetthis] How? Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. - Matthew 6:5 It doesn't really matter what your lot in life is (business, homemaking, trench digging, plumbing, etc.), you have the same calling as every other Christ-follower. You are to stay hungry - for righteousness. Nothing can take the place of that desire. Nothing should outshadow it. It's difficult to be THAT kind of hungry in business because there are so many other things to be hungry for... so many other things that vie for that place of obsessive attention: and the list goes on. So what do you do? It's not easy, but it begins at the beginning of every, single day. Getting hungry in the morning Your morning is vital to your day. Even non-Christ-following people know this to be true. (See this post from Lifehacker called, "Do you have a morning ritual?" and this one, "5 morning rituals" from Entrepreneur Magazine.) Whether you've ever taken to a morning "quiet time" or "daily devotional" is not the point. The point is that morning is the time you've got to set your mind and heart for the day ahead. In the context of what we're talking about, the morning is when you've got to stoke your hunger - for righteousness. If you don't do it then, I can guarantee you the competing options that rise up through the busy business day will squelch it altogether. [tweetthis]You've got to set aside some time at the beginning of every day to get your head and heart right...[/tweetthis] ...to put yourself in a place where God is able to create the hunger in you that you desperately need. I'd suggest you create some sort of regular, methodical routine that you follow...

Duration:00:11:48

2018 Update - What's Going On With Live Build Change?

1/23/2018

I appreciate you taking the time to listen to this short update - the LORD has been doing significant things in my life and heart recently and I wanted to let you know how those movements of the Spirit are impacting with I've been called to do with Live Build Change. Contact me at https://www.LiveBuildChange.com/contact

Duration:00:03:18

When I Feel Like Giving Up On My Business [Ep 44]

1/3/2018

You know somebody once told me, “Never make decisions when you're under the cloud - wait until the sun comes out. “ And that is great advice. Get some space away from the situation. Let me tell you about the time I most felt like quitting my business... Subscribe to Live Build Change On Android | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Podbean | Spreaker | Email When I feel like giving up on my business… OUTLINE I think it was about a year and a half into my business, Podcast Fast Track that some events happened all kind of right in a row that made me want to quit. I was discouraged, I was down, there were things that made me doubt myself and my abilities - and whether or not should have started this crazy entrepreneurial journey in the first place. In particular the thing that made me want to quit was that I had a client who canceled his subscription to our podcast production and show notes service. Then another one. Then another one. Three customers in a row who bailed out.just when I thought I'd been doing a really good job for them. To be honest I saw the first one coming. The businesses had been growing pretty rapidly and I was scrambling to keep up with the workload. I was trying to create systems so that I could bring others on to help me out - I was doing all of that at the same time. It was during that time frame I'd made a handful full of mistakes on that particular client’s work. I made the mistakes, not my team, me. It's strange how that happens - all of the mistakes happening on one client's account. I mean if they'd been spread out over two or three client, I don’t think I would have lost any of them. But that's how it all started, that's how I began wondering if I should quit my business. Then when the second client cancelled her subscription, and the third one just on the heels of that, you can imagine my state of mind. I mean if you've been there before you're asking all kinds of questions… And sometimes the worst case scenario you hear in your own mind… “This just isn't going to work.” What should you do when you hit that point? And if you haven't hit that point yet and you are starting a business, I’m pretty certain you will come to everyone. So I want to answer the question here, “What do you do when you want to quit your business?” The first thing I would say is you need to get some space from the issue. I learned the hard way that I don't make good decisions or good assessments when I'm in the pit of despair. You know I had to get some space, to get away from the situation for a little while so that I could look at it unemotionally even eventually, dispassionately. Because I want to see what's really happened, not what I feel has happened. When I was able to do that in the situation I told you about here's is what I was able to see... Number one, the first client’s issues were entirely my fault. I had made mistakes. He lost trust in me - and trust is the most valuable thing that I can give to a client so that was completely understandable. That he said, “No thanks, we're gonna to handle this another way” is completely understandable. The second client was reorganizing his business and decided the podcasting didn't fit into his plans. Okay, that kind of thing happens in any type of business there's nothing I can do about that one. The third client was in the middle of some heavy life issues. There were two deaths in his family within one month. It makes total sense that they were off-loading all the non-priority things. Again, there’s nothing I can do about that. You know somebody once told me never make decisions when you're under the cloud. Wait until the sun comes out. That is great advice. I'm am glad I thought clearly enough to do that in this situation, and I highly recommend it for you too. Get some space away from the situation. Secondly, don't be afraid of the possibility that it could be quitting time. There's always the possibility that the LORD is using a...

Duration:00:19:40

HAPPY NEW YEAR! December 31 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/31/2017

Get the Morning Mindset every morning via Facebook Messenger https://manychat.com/l2/LiveBuildChange ***************** Get Daily Email Encouragement every morning in your Inbox http://careygreen.com/DE-List ***************** Find out more about Christian Life & Business Coaching http://CareyGreen.com ***************** Connect with the LIVE BUILD CHANGE Movement and Community Website: www.LiveBuildChange.com Facebook Community: www.LiveBuildChange.com/FB Email: Carey@LiveBuildChange.com

Duration:00:04:52

December 30 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/30/2017

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December 29 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/29/2017

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December 28 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/28/2017

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December 27 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/27/2017

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December 26 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/26/2017

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MERRY CHRISTMAS! December 25 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/25/2017

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December 24 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/24/2017

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December 23 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/23/2017

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December 22 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/22/2017

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December 21 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/21/2017

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The First Step is the Hardest [Ep 43]

12/20/2017

It’s true, though we don’t like to admit it: the first step is the hardest. Getting started, moving out into the unknown, stepping out to discover something new, taking a risk… all of these are ways to describe the emotion we sometimes feel when it comes to doing new things. But it’s those new things that bring about the changes we want most in life. We can’t expect the future to be better, to be different if we are unwilling to make it different. That means we’ve got to get started, and the first step is often the hardest. Subscribe to Live Build Change On Android | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Podbean | Spreaker | Email Here’s a rough outline of taking the first step… [0:57] The significance of the first step in anything[2:08] The most common reason people don’t get started[3:40] Why it’s vital to step past what is familiar into the unknown It’s a bit dysfunctional, but we humans tend to prefer something that isn’t working but is familiar, to something that might work but is unfamiliar. Think about it. Often the reason we don’t take the first step into a new opportunity or adventure is the fear of what might happen. What if it’s too hard?What if I fail?What if I can’t handle the pressure?What if it’s not what I’m expecting?What if I’m not ready? The “what if”s are many. But so are the reasons to move ahead. Among those reasons are… Nothing you want to change will change if you don’t get startedWishes don’t make things reality, diligent, informed action doesNothing great in history was accomplished by doing nothingEven God makes things happen through action - God so loved, He gave… You get the point, right? So the real question is this: What is keeping you from taking the first step into something new, something that could change your life and future for the better? You’ve got to answer that question and attack what you find. You won’t build anything that improves your life or the lives of others unless you do. So find a friend, maybe your spouse, and sit down to talk it through. Identify the things that keep you from taking that hard first step. Know what they are. Get to understand why they scare you so much. Then go to prayer. Ask God Himself for the courage to not only take that first hard step, but to take the next one, and the next one as your faith in Him increases. And don’t forget, He’s with you every step of that journey, through the easy steps and the hard ones. And HE is the one who will build anything you do. So step out, even when the first step is the hardest. Trust Him. Trust Him to do the hard things that you can only imagine happening. And watch what He does. Join the LBC Community On Facebook Follow Carey on Facebook Follow Carey on Twitter (@CareyNGreen) Subscribe to Live Build Change On Android | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Play | Podbean | Spreaker | Email

Duration:00:06:36

December 20 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/20/2017

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December 19 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/19/2017

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December 18 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/18/2017

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December 17 Morning Mindset from Live Build Change

12/17/2017

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