How are your communication skills? Have you taken a course on how to be an excellent communicator? Have you journaled, asking the Lord specific questions about how you can improve your communication style?

According to the Carnegie Institute, 85% of financial success is communication skills. My guess is this 85% success rate extends to every area of life, not just financial success. We need excellent communication skills with our spouse, our family members, at church, at the workplace, and in social gatherings. What are the skills that God would have you develop to become a better communicator? The two-way journaling questions below will allow God the opportunity to instruct you concerning enhanced communication skills.

Do you understand  the premise of your faith as surrender to me? Is this an unpleasant prospect because the word has such a negative connotation? What does surrender mean to you? Do you see it as passive, detached, and disengaged? This is not the type of surrender I have called you to. Can you practice surrender in a way that is intentional, active, and engaged? Sacrifice is a spiritual concept and in the original version required death. I have called you to be a living sacrifice. This calls for total involvement on your part. Can you embrace this more animated version of surrender?

Children need adult supervision and so this phrase has been commonplace for a long time. More recently the same phrase has been used with comic effect regarding adults who themselves need adult supervision. This is not normally intended as a compliment. Is it true? Is it true for you? The premise that it is not suggests that a person can be complete in themselves, independent and autonomous. Do you know anyone who thrives and grows in such conditions? Do you know that you cannot provide the total guidance that you need for your own life?

Do you have a job? Did it require an application and an interview? Do you perform a ministry? Did you have to fill out a job application for that or did it fall in your lap? Perhaps you were requested to do it. There are many more ways to enter my service than there are to get a job in the world of commerce. The concept of destiny does not appear in the commercial world, but it is essential in the Kingdom of God. Do you live with a sense of destiny? Are you aware that the work you do for me is uniquely assigned to you whether you got the assignment by conventional means or not?