Archive for July, 2009
Introduction Part I — What is the Purpose of the Book?
The book looks at the concept of "abundance" which, technically, isn’t really discussed much in the Scriptures. One of the better known references is found in John 10:10 in which Jesus says that he comes to bring life so that we may live life abundantly or richly.
But I felt that it was important to go through a set of Scripture to help people experience "Abundance" as God wants us to.
So what’s key is that unlike many other programs which just focus on getting what you want, this is about changing both who you are and what you want.
In other words, some people may start with one definition of abundance (or success or wealth or whatever) and my goal is that through a process where we direct ourselves towards God in mind, heart, strength, and soul, we begin to redefine and re-experience abundance today.
Why is this so important?
Some would say that this is *not* important because we are to focus on eternity. Eternity gives us perspective for what we are to do today.
However, I believe that when God’s people are overflowing in abundance — however it becomes defined by your based on Scripture — that it will transform others and allow others to see God’s work in our lives.
My hope is that by bringing into your life a set of steps to experience abundance in this life-time you can share God’s work with others so they may know Him in eternity.
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Introduction Part I — What is the Purpose of the Book?
The book looks at the concept of "abundance" which, technically, isn’t really discussed much in the Scriptures. One of the better known references is found in John 10:10 in which Jesus says that he comes to bring life so that we may live life abundantly or richly.
But I felt that it was important to go through a set of Scripture to help people experience "Abundance" as God wants us to.
So what’s key is that unlike many other programs which just focus on getting what you want, this is about changing both who you are and what you want.
In other words, some people may start with one definition of abundance (or success or wealth or whatever) and my goal is that through a process where we direct ourselves towards God in mind, heart, strength, and soul, we begin to redefine and re-experience abundance today.
Why is this so important?
Some would say that this is *not* important because we are to focus on eternity. Eternity gives us perspective for what we are to do today.
However, I believe that when God’s people are overflowing in abundance — however it becomes defined by your based on Scripture — that it will transform others and allow others to see God’s work in our lives.
My hope is that by bringing into your life a set of steps to experience abundance in this life-time you can share God’s work with others so they may know Him in eternity.
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How to use what you have for much more….
To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance.
Here is a sample track from our audio version of “The King Within: 40 Days to Abundance”. Only, this is a discarded draft.
The content is still good…the music mix didn’t work out so I’m going to have to record it again.
But that means you get a copy of it…for free!
As always, when you’re ready to go to the next step for the full e-book, just go to:
www.theKingWithin.com/NextSteps
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Sowing in Good Soil
In preparation for our second product to help people start their own business drawing on Biblical principles, I started thinking about the Parable of the Sower.
The intent of the parable is to illustrate how different people or “soil” receive God’s word, in particular, Jesus’ Gospel.
However, using it as a “principle” for a business, I think it is valuable. The way, of course, to make the business most aligned with the principle is to treat the building of relationships with customers and potential customers the same as you would be sharing the Gospel.
In fact, as I am exploring further, they should be seen as the same. The business is a “vehicle” in which you can sow the real seeds of Jesus’ salvation.
Anyhoo. Here is the parable from Luke:
A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. 6Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. 7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. 8Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.
Here is my rambling, raw, think-out-loud on the subject:
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God’s Economy – The Engine for Growth
Now that we have completed and released "The King Within" which is to set the right posture — in mind, body, strength, and soul — towards Abundance and abundant living, I’m getting ready to explore the next arena, which is God’s economy.
What do I mean by that?
I want to first think about how an Engine, in simplistic form, functions. There is a "pumping" nature of contrasts. A car engine as a space which explodes, driving the piston into the space. The way our muscles work relies on one side of the gradient having potassium and the other side sodium, which creates a "charge." In other words, there is a tension of one side giving way to the other side.
I need to clarify this thought better, but I wanted to capture this down.
Luke 16:9 says:
Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your earthly possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.
This fires one side of the engine. In other words, the worldly possession we have are to fuel the growth of God’s kingdom. If the stay on this side of the gradient, it becomes stagnant. And one way, according to this verse, to fuel the Kingdom of eternity is to "benefit others and make friends." It is by tending to the needs of others and, as a result, forging relationships.
There is, on earth, a gradient between the rich and the poor. In God’s economy, giving from our wealth and abundance into the poor seems like a zero-sum game. But under God’s economy, doing so drives growth in the Kingdom.
How then, can the growth in the Kingdom result in impact here on earth?
Through God’s Multiplier:
And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life.
Still toying in clarifying this idea, but to me, I believe as I read further, there is a component of creating and building out of what we can to fuel the engine of growth in those parts in need.
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