JUNE 3 FRI
The Business Missionary Who Moves the World
Acts 1:12~15 / They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. (14)
Hymn #370 The Trusting Heart to Jesus Clings (Unified Hymn 455)
[Message Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5AKKlCtfg&list=PLOCBKggOTU7yqOj4BUIgI_1Yx-MldYCO-&index=22
Although goals are important for businesspeople, they must direct everything toward receiving grace. For the sake of their goals, the entire process for the people of this world is a fight and competition. However, for you, that process is prayer and grace. Furthermore, hardships and conflicts are the process of prayer. The meeting of Acts 1:12~15 included very important businesspeople who knew why the Israelites faced slavery, wars, captivity, colonization, and wandering. Even now, these five reasons follow a certain stream and Satan uses that to his advantage. Unfortunately, the world is following this stream and many people unknowingly follow it as well. Here, you are a business missionary who possesses the Gospel and gives tremendous answers. Then, what kind of people were the businesspeople who gathered at Mark's upper room?
1. People Who Possessed the True Gospel
If you aren't careful, it can be difficult to possess the true Gospel. You must escape from what aren't essential such as the ideologies of Elijah, John the Baptist, and Jeremiah. In addition, you must be stripped of the greatest problem which is self-centered thinking. In doing so, it'll be over. The members of the Early Church escaped from this and received the messages of "only Christ,"(Acts 1:1) "only God's Kingdom,"(Acts 1:3) "only Holy Spirit,"(Acts 1:8) and the Second Coming(Acts 1:11) and gathered.(Acts 1:12~15) If it's the true Gospel, then the "21 Points of the Essence of Life" will come. Within those, the businesspeople of the Early Church changed into missionaries.
2. People Who Changed the Shape of Business and Industry
Tabitha used her sewing skills to change Joppa.(Acts 9:36~43) Even Simon the tanner,(Acts 10:1-45) Lydia who was a seller of purple goods,(Acts 16:11~15) the married couple of Priscilla and Aquila who made tents,(Acts 18:1-4) and Gaius who was a businessperson(Romans 16:23) changed the shapes of their businesses for the sake of the evangelism movement. The answers that took place for them were the "10 Mysteries" of surviving on their own and saving others no matter what the circumstances were.
3. Missionaries Who Conquered Instead of Yielding
For these businesspeople, God began to give what had been hidden from long ages past. They were none other than the "9 Settings."(Romans 16:25) Even now, God gives them.(Romans 16:26) Furthermore, they are eternal.(Romans 16:27) The answers that emerge from there are the "10 Foundations of Faith" that don't waver under any circumstances.
The "21 Points of the Essence of Life," the "10 Mysteries," and the "10 Foundations" are the answers that businesspeople must absolutely receive. If those are experienced just once, everything will be different from then on
Dear God, please grant the amazing grace of starting anew to the businesspeople around the world. May a new life of receiving new answers begin. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen