Limited Resources

The entrepreneur’s journey is full of moments of limited resources; either you are raising capital to launch or expand that unique business idea or trying to ensure you have enough cash to make it through.  Sometimes it seems like everyone else is fully funded except you, but the reality is there is no great vision…

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Waiting well!

How much seed do we have to sow before we get a decent crop? A lot! How much is a lot? What ever it takes or “How long is a piece of string?”. The good news is that God knows. God calls people into business i.e. One’s “calling” or “assignment”. If we obey His calling we can…

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T.E.A.M.

T.E.A.M –—  this was the word God gave me at the beginning of this year , as we met together with our TEAM to pray and agree about our dreams and aspirations for Business Edge 2015  The acronym is To Effectively Arm the Marketplace. In New Zealand, one of the things that we felt was…

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Boundaries

Wow – October already!! Before we know it, the season of work “Christmas parties” will be upon us and we will be booked out most nights, running madly from one event to the next!  With the end of the year looming, how have things progressed for you over the last 9 months?  Sometimes things don’t…

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From the ends of the earth to middle earth!

 Our adventure from Here to There begins…. A year ago I was preparing to travel to New Zealand with my mum. It was an unexpected trip as my Dad was supposed to go with my mum, but for some reason he just wouldn’t go.  With much excitement our mother-daughter adventure began with the long trek…

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Workship!

“Whatever you do, no matter what it is, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father.” Colossians 3:16 At Business Edge we have coined a phrase which we often use to remind oursleves daily …  WORKSHIP… it obviously is a   combination of…

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Enter into His rest!

Carrie-Anne and I have just returned from a wonderful 10 day holiday with friends in Thailand. The weather was fantastic and the food was amazing! One of the realisations I had while over there was how blessed I am to call NZ home. It is so beautiful here, and so peaceful compared to the hustle…

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The Art of Coping with Extreme Busyness

Every so often we are faced with an avalanche of busyness that is unavoidable and just has to be overcome. Very recently I was directly involved in the leadership and running of four separate and unassociated events (three marketplace, one church) all within a 48 hour period. Fortunately there was much prior planning for each of…

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Keep going toward your Prophetic Promise

“Yet I am as strong today as I was the day God called me, as my strength was then, so is my strength now.. so give me this mountain which the Lord spoke that day” Joshua 14: 11-12 It has been a whole week of celebration at the Clarkie household! (70 years young!) Thank you…

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The Shrewd Manager

Jesus said to his disciples, “There was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man was told that the manager was wasting his master’s money, so he called him in and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in a complete account of your handling of…

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