Monday, June 01, 2009

 

Preface for Refresh II - Psalms for Business Victory

I write as an entrepreneur for Christ not as an expert, but as a pilgrim. I write not as the most successful businessman around, but as one that has received the grace from God to overcome my challenges and difficulties. 

 In my business journey as a Christian the messages from many pastors on (1) prosperity and (2) grace, has spurred me on.

 I discovered that the 21st century is not a period of prosperity that God is showering on His entrepreneurs, but rather He had always been a God who is wealthy and looking for co-workers in His kingdom.   

Moreover, which parent, be it our heavenly Father or our earthly father would want their children to be poor? To be successful we must have an image of a Father (even with our earthly parents) who is loving, forgiving and full of grace (Eph 6:4). If we harbor an image of our Father as a harsh, judgmental and one that will bring brimstone and fire for failing to toe-the-line, we will never succeed in life. 

When we were young and in our early adulthood, we indeed need discipline. We needed messages like 10 commandments and the consequences of following or not following God’s laws. But as you get older and having made some mistakes in life -business, relationship, family – we really need grace messages to get us out of our mess. Having made many blunders in life, it was the constant grace messages that kept me going. It was always grace that was going to see us through. It was always God’s grace and the indwelling Holy Spirit that guides us to success, not laws or ‘being good’, though it is still important that we abide by His commandments.

This book:

Part 1

My journey through the tough and trying times

Part 2

The breakthroughs


The living God is a God of grace. We don’t have to earn our salvation. Jesus has done it all for us on the cross. The danger when we stop believing in who is our real Father (Creator), is not that we will believe in nothing. The danger is that we will believe in absolutely anything – fortune telling, mediums, feng shui, and other gods. [An orphan will go around looking for all sorts of adopted parents till he finds his true parents]. Some claim that feng shui is harmless as it is about ‘nature’. But God created nature, and He can change and direct ‘nature’ as he did for Joshua by holding the course of the sun for a while and by holding back the raging storms. If you have God in your business, your feng shui is always good without having to shift pieces of furniture or the changing the direction the main door is facing.


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