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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6:19-21
Through last week’s sharing on “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth”, we asserted that one aspect of storing up treasures in heaven is to create treasures on earth under heaven’s Kingdom mandate. For this week, I would like to share a practical way of how to store up heavenly treasures by connecting our earthly careers and businesses to our God-given destiny – heaven’s Kingdom mandate.
In our market place call to raise up strong Kingdom companies, the Holy Spirit has recently led us to understand the power of Core Values in transforming an enterprise. From studying the explosive cases of Facebook & Apple, we see that Core Values can have great impact on a company’s product strategy and brand delivery – key elements that can determine not only a company’s financial success, but also the ability to impart its value systems to the world, whether positively or negatively.
In the following message from MTC 2012, I convey the case that, if Facebook & Apple can storm the world with Core Values that were founded on theft and a false god, then how much more can we testify for Christ through our enterprises with Core Values founded on God-given destiny.
Building a Kingdom Brand Identity (MP3, PPT)
Key points from the message are:
- The world’s most influential companies have shown that Core Values play a key role in the success of a company, organization or individual;
- One key mandate of Kingdom advancement is to help today’s business leaders develop the right Core Value, and thereby, strengthening their company’s product, brand, and internal culture;
- For our enterprises to impart the “brand” or testimony of Christ to the world, the right Core Values must flow from our God-given destiny;
- Our destiny comes from our Kingdom DNA – Psalm 139;
- Articulating Biblical and relevant “Destiny Statements” forms a powerful basis for establishing a company or organization’s Core Values, and most importantly, brings clarity to their Kingdom mandate.
The earth is important to God and He will entrust its treasures to people who flow in a meek spirit – to those who embrace heavenly value systems and know how to store earthly treasures in heaven. Meekness is God’s “secret weapon” for today’s market place believers to connect heaven and earth. We will press into this powerful spiritual discipline in greater detail during the coming months.
