by John Garfield | October 12, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Kingly Mindset
Entrepreneurial types are thoughtful, creative people (IQ). Successful businesspeople also have good people skills (EQ). There is a movement, a yearning in their hearts to gain Spiritual Intelligence (SQ). God is inviting businesspeople into sonship. The Holy Spirit...
by John Garfield | August 19, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Uncategorized
Seasons – The transition into a kingdom age right now is very exciting. Everyone can feel it! If I described it as a shift from Pisces (fish) to Aquarius (water bearer), you might conclude I study horoscopes! Rest easy; I don’t. But I recognize Father’s times and...
by John Garfield | July 23, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations
Necessity is not the mother of invention, it’s the mother of temporary fixes and Band-Aids. Real creativity and long-term solutions are driven by purpose, seeing the big picture. And, the best solutions come from seeing Father’s Kingdom purpose. What does Reformation...
by John Garfield | March 4, 2023 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Uncategorized
10 keys to your purpose, and the Kingdom Business Coaching Field Guide. Purpose is one thing, but Kingdom purpose implies you want to do what Father is doing. That’s where the real juice is. Is your Purpose prophetically correct (anyone can discern its authenticity)?...
by John Garfield | September 22, 2022 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations, Uncategorized
Culture is built around shared values that flow from a common purpose. That’s how we know “These are my People.” These are three that I can get excited about. Building a Kingdom culture that has a clear purpose for both the business and the...
by John Garfield | August 12, 2022 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset, Uncategorized
Authenticity is one of the keys to the Kingdom. “Is it OK to be myself? Isn’t that way too carnal?” That question has roots in a prideful belief that we can live a good life by cleaning up our own act. So, religion tries to hold us accountable for reshaping, renewing,...
by John Garfield | July 20, 2022 | Blog, Creativity
Father, Thank you for creativity. It’s motivating to bring new things into the earth and see them bless people. Working on a God-idea is life-giving. After I made my own list of creative ideas, I was surprised how it moved my heart. I was on the phone with three...
by John Garfield | July 16, 2022 | Blog, Creativity
Father has a strategy to overwhelm tyranny with creativity in sons and daughters. He invited me to decree new inventions, new ideas, and new initiatives in sons. The Cabal is in the process of being overthrown, and we’re being invited to play a role in replacing...
by John Garfield | June 21, 2022 | Blog, Creativity, Kingdom Corporations
A good friend found this quote, “People buy 4 things and 4 things only. Ever. Those 4 things are time, money, sex, and approval/peace of mind. If you try selling something other than those 4 things, you will fail.” This secular summary is what makes copy and products...
by John Garfield | June 4, 2022 | Blog, Creativity, Discipleship, Dreams, Greatest Hits
The business, marketing, and motivational worlds believe that mindset causes feelings, and feeling motivates actions. So, if your life is in the dumpster, simply change your perception of who you are and what is happening. New neural pathways will be created in your...
by John Garfield | August 8, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Kingly Mindset
There is another Reformation in the wings. Awakening is part of the process of coming alive to what God is doing. It helps to put this move in the context of the first two: #1. Jesus came to earth – History records Jesus as an influential figure, a teacher, or a...
by John Garfield | March 19, 2021 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset
When we bring up the topic of knowing the purpose God wrote in your heart, I often hear, “I already know my purpose and I’m doing it.” Quite often that means my business is working, it’s making money, and I’m too busy to have this conversation. I’m busy making bread...
by John Garfield | September 13, 2020 | Blog, Creativity, Initiative, Kingly Mindset
Ps. 37:4 – Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. NIV Delight (H6026) – To be soft, pliable It’s not that hard to focus on our dreams and the desires of our hearts. We should, God wrote them there. This blog is about how to move...
by John Garfield | May 29, 2020 | Blog, Creativity, Discipleship
Help! We’re launching John’s ebook for $99 cents on Amazon Kindle this Friday (Today, May 29). Why? – It’s 5 steps to the dream God wrote in your heart – It’s useful, practical, and engaging (and short) – We’re going to make it a best...
by John Garfield | February 16, 2020 | Blog, Creativity
Have you ever been to a conference where a nervous speaker so missed his audience that it was painful? Have you ever been that speaker? The fear of public speaking ranks higher than the fear of heights, rattlesnakes, divorce, pulling your wisdom teeth, and death. The...
by John Garfield | April 7, 2018 | Blog, Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingdom Corporations
The video is here. The age of Kingdom includes some exciting developments in the way God speaks to us. Historically our evangelical heritage was very cerebral, and truth centered. Sound doctrine is important, not just for doctrine’s sake but because it influences our...
by John Garfield | April 2, 2017 | Creativity
The video is here. Coming up with new thoughts and ideas can be intimidating. It starts with our identity, when we Feel permission from God to collaborate with Him to birth something brand new. It’s a discipline that leads to words, works, destiny… and eventually...
by John Garfield | February 27, 2017 | Creativity, Kingdom Corporations
The video is here. There is something brand new in the air. New ideas, new agendas and new initiatives are being released that are blessing people and cultures around the world. I really believe it’s in the context of a Kingdom reformation that will bless people and...
by John Garfield | November 20, 2016 | Creativity, Greatest Hits, Initiative, Kingly Mindset
The video is here. Giving ourselves permission to be creative is the birthplace of new ideas. New ideas are the currency of spirituality, prosperity and calling. Ingenuity flows from personal identity that is not boxed into the self-concept being a servant or the...
by John Garfield | March 13, 2016 | Creativity, Kingly Mindset, Politics
The video is here. Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. Dan 6:3-4 NKJV The gold – A spirit of excellence is shown in people who can always...
by John Garfield | December 14, 2015 | Creativity, Greatest Hits, Kingly Mindset
The video is here. See prior blog, Your Father Believes in You. The beginning of wisdom – The fear (reverence) of God is the beginning of wisdom. We’ve all had the experience of doing things our own way, without seeking God, and ending up in some kind of painful dead...
by John Garfield | December 14, 2014 | Creativity, Discipleship, Dreams, Education
The video is here. We usually put releasing Kings in the context of business and wealth creation because of my own personal bias. However, releasing hearts is a Kingdom principle that works in every mountain. Education is a great example. Since we were all full time...
by John Garfield | November 16, 2014 | Creativity, Kingdom Corporations
The video is here. Creativity is important because great ideas give meaning to our lives and profit to our businesses. We often think of their arrival as magic and mysterious, or mundane in the sense that new ideas are just part of the planning process… or we can just...
by John Garfield | September 14, 2014 | Creativity
The video is here. Leverage is simply the Kingdom concept of multiplication; the way God does things. Most people work for dollars per hour. The hard truth is that wealth is created when we begin to leverage what we have and develop other streams of income. That means...
by John Garfield | March 9, 2014 | Creativity, Kingdom Corporations
The video for this blog is here. One of our Releasing Kings coaches sent me a 10 minute video by Daniel Pink on his book, Drive. It’s really good! His thesis has to do with what motivates people to be creative or productive… at work, in life, everywhere. He found that...
by John Garfield | September 1, 2013 | Creativity
The video version of this newsletter is here. The concepts of being spiritually fruitful and financially profitable both have roots in crafting value for others via a creative process that is being emphasized in the Kingdom right now. People tire of retreading...
by John Garfield | May 19, 2013 | Creativity
We shared great article on How to Connect With Your Own Heart. This week let’s focus on how you can release the freedom that comes with being a King in touch with our own heart. The implication of heart is that we have a plan in place to make our own dream come true,...
by John Garfield | February 24, 2013 | Creativity, Dreams
A tool of destiny – I want to suggest that our imagination is one of the ways that we discover our Kingdom purpose (aka the will of God). Here’s how it works: imagination or meditation is our journey through the desires of our heart to find the desires on God’s heart....
by John Garfield | September 25, 2011 | Creativity
Wealth Creation – A door is open for Kings to create wealth. We don’t preach so much as we do it. I’ve come to the place where I believe (for Kings) that creating wealth is a spiritual discipline that ranks right up there with prayer. We can use money in this life as...
by John Garfield | March 20, 2011 | Creativity
Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. Isa 9:7 NIV The “Chicken Little” mentality – I have lived all of my life under the threat of catastrophe…. over-population, nuclear winter, peak oil, acid rain, global cooling, ozone layer depletion,...
by John Garfield | February 6, 2011 | Creativity, Kingly Mindset
Information and Motivation – Have you ever been to a motivational seminar? …where you see the possibility for something brand new? Then we go home with our new knowledge and excitement and it lasts until our first encounter with our old lifestyle, whereupon it...
by John Garfield | October 11, 2009 | Creativity
exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 1 Tim 4:7 KJV But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Heb 5:14 KJV Mind vs. Heart – Western Christianity is prone to...
