Amen!

You are most welcome!

Good morning Nostriches! Sometimes reading scripture you are like “oh that was cool” or “I’ve read this 50 times before but never caught that nugget…” Then other times you are “🤯 whoa!!! You mean to tell me…” This morning was one of those days as I studied Jesus ordaining Peter to build His church (the body of Christ, not a building, institution, or legal entity). “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the forces of Hades will not overpower it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven.”” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭16‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ ‭HCSB‬‬ What grabbed me was the concept of “bind and loose”. TIL this is heavenly authority and was common rabbinic language. • Bind = to forbid or prohibit (declare something off-limits according to God’s Word). • Loose = to permit or allow (declare something permitted according to God’s Word). The Greek tense is important: “whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven.” This means you are not creating new spiritual realities — you are declaring and enforcing on earth what God has already established in heaven. Practical meaning for believers today: As the church (the people of God), we have been given authority in Jesus’ name to: • Declare what is forbidden by God (bind). • Declare what is permitted and released by God (loose). What this means is this: The church is not just a group of nice people meeting on Sundays. We are an advancing army that the gates of hell cannot stop. This passage directly connects us (the church) to the spiritual battle we are in. We have been given real authority (keys + binding/loosing) to push back darkness, proclaim the gospel, and enforce heaven’s will on earth through prayer and the Word. Man…Amen! https://bible.com/bible/72/mat.16.18-19.HCSB

Found a Nostrich with too few followers. He’s building the Bitcoin economy like and others. Give a follow and try his product! You know what to do…now let’s #grownostr

Amen

Don’t feel too bad. It’s common in all businesses regardless of size. Having team members actually helps if structured correctly

Well you essentially have something like this within most mainstream (tech giant) social media platforms via their communities function. A more narrow example would be wherein the app is built around the specific community topic of Bitcoin. The issue I see with what you are thinking through is no idea exists without a person…without people…without relationships. So the profile does somewhat need to be front and center; otherwise you run the risk of having to spin up thousands of different instances of the app; one for each idea/topic. At which point, one of the core rules of technology is broken, “Technology will never be the cause of greatness only an accelerator thereof”. So to set out to build something (anything) solely for technology’s sake isn’t prudent unless there is the underlying connector; that is human to human relationships.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/staceyansley_felt-compelled-to-share-this-today-the-right-share-7467611975208992770-9_en/

I’ll add to this… Think of documenting your business in two fashions: 1. Like an operating system that will require or otherwise benefit from updates and upgrades. Your computer, phone, and tech devices don’t sit stagnant month after month or year after year. Neither should how you do what you do in your organization. 2. Your business is a living, breathing, organism. The old adage, “when is the best time to plant a tree? 100 years ago…when is the next best time? Today!” The same goes for your business, life, and impact. As Stacey Ansley says, start now and start small. You don’t have to plant the entire forest, blocking off your schedule and taking a month off to execute this project…no…find one high leverage repeatable thing that is required for your business to thrive; and document that. Soon you’ll discover you have a handful of steps that can be handed off to a team member or that you will have simply offloaded from your brain, freeing up mental power to focus on your business rather than purely in it!

I was meditating on this the last day. “Summoning the crowd, He [Jesus] told them, “Listen and understand: It’s not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭15‬:‭10‬-‭11‬ ‭HCSB‬‬ While contextually Jesus was replying to His disciples regarding the Pharisees being disgruntled with His preaching, there is truth for us as well. What we speak has power! The power to bless and heal or the power to curse and defile. The choice is ours! https://bible.com/bible/72/mat.15.10-11.HCSB

I’m reading through Mathew right now in my devotions. Just finished chapter 15. So much good stuff in there. I like the detail Mathew provides compared to some of the other Gospels. Also this week I did a word study on Ephesians 6:10-19 (Armor of God) really neat when you look at the Greek and compare translations. It brings a whole new life to God’s word!