How Are You Working?
August 8th, 2007 | Michael Q. Pink
For the next three emails, I have asked my very good friend Eric Beck to pass on three key insights that will help you in business. Besides having a profoundly Biblical worldview, Eric was the International Director of Training for E-Myth. His insights have been adopted around the world, impacting me, and helping shape the way I see and do business. The business analysis methods alone that he uses can help any business eliminate waste and maximize potential. Take another sip of your coffee and enjoy today’s insight…
First off, thank you Michael for that warm introduction. And thank you, for taking time to care about God’s plan for your working life. In an average life of 80 years, you will spend 166,400 hours working. That’s nearly 2/3’s of your waking life. Did you know that Jesus is on record as saying we will all give an account for all that work? “Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.” Luke 19:15
And Paul says the same thing also: I Cor 3:13 “Every man’s work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man’s work.” But in today’s ultra-busy, slave for money marketplace, how can we effectively perform work that will pass the test? Here’s the secret: A system always beats improvising.
Think about it, if you had to have surgery, would you want the doctor to use a systematic approach or just make it up as she went along? A system always beats improvising. Wouldn’t you like to have a biblically-based system for bringing a return on your life’s investment? I mean a strategic system that covers your key relationship, your time, your money, and your skills? In tomorrow’s email, I’ll reveal a biblical system for how you can obey God’s command to be fruitful and multiply.
There are two more emails to follow from Eric that speak to important business issues you won’t want to miss. Plus Eric and I are working out the details for a special FREE offer that will help you take back the gates of commerce and provide well for your family. That email should arrive in your inbox in one week on Tuesday, August 14th.
As a bonus for blog visitors, here’s a clip from Eric Beck. This is taken from the “Taking Back the Gates of Commerce” event in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in October, 2004:
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August 9th, 2007 at 11:08 am
A group of about 18 of us business owners and spouses just finished a 21-day fast with the purpose of standing fully armed while God broke the power of Satan over the marketplace in our geographical area. One of the results was a clear message that we are to be builders in our businesses as well as in our marketplace.
Sustainable success is not only a set of internal processes, but the bold sowing of seeds into the marketplace so that God’s Kingdom holds sway among the clamor of voices around our businesses.
We are now looking for 10 more values-driven Christian business owners to play a Zerubbabel role in and outside their businesses in partnership with us in the East Metro area of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
Please pray that we will be obedient to building sustainable success. (By the way, we are doing this through our membership in a non-Christian franchise. See our website at www.aboutpurpose.com and click on The Alternative Board TAB.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Bob,
Sustainable success is very important to God. You can tell that based on the fact that he invested his only son’s life toward that goal. I hope that in these posts we can make clearer what the biblical system is to gain that kind of successt. We must create wealth without selling our souls to mammon. Sounds like a contradiction, but it’s not. In fact, I believe, it is our destiny.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
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August 11th, 2007 at 6:39 am
ABRAHAM is the Bible Word By Pastor Patrick Bwayo.
Spiritually born again knowledge reveals Abraham to be the Bible Word with two covenants in the Bible: the entire handwritten covenant Bible from Genesis to the Book of Revelation, the letter Law is old read up to this day (2007) and the entire Old covenant Bible explained to us by the Holy Spirit in a New way in the wisdom and knowledge of God is revealed to become a New Covenant Bible. These two covenants in Bible are named Agar for the old and Sarah for the New Covenant. Gal 4:21-24; 2 Corinth 3:5-6, 13-15. www.helpsuprojectsforchrist.ws
The barren Bible Covenant, Sarah that bearest not, must break forth and cry and bring forth Children born of the Holy Spirit! The old handwritten Covenant has many more Children but they are of flesh or carnal. This is as result of explaining the Bible in an ordinary way of the carnal (human) knowledge and wisdom.
Abraham the Bible is the father of two types of children by two covenants, the carnal by the handwritten old Covenant LAW (Agar) and the Holy Spirit born children, born by the promised New Covenant Bible Word (Sarah) explained by the Holy Spirit in the wisdom and knowledge of God. Gal 4: 24-31.
August 12th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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