10,500 Global Prayer Connect

This Week’s Audio Message 本週的錄音信息與代禱

“ If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.” – Philippians 2:1-2

Last week, we saw how joy is essential to a kingdom’s vitality, especially in its market place or economic system.  Please click here for that short message.

In asking the question, how does joy come about in a fellowship, a kingdom, or any network of people?  Paul’s writing in Philippians 2 tells us that joy manifests when a body of people are like-minded in one purpose and love one another.

• Like-minded in one purpose means that we know our Kingdom destiny and are fully pursuing after it.
• Love one another means that we have strong confidence in God’s abundance as we pursue destiny – showing grace, sacrifice, and the heart to build up others.

Market Place Prayer

May God raise up the “priests, prophets, and kings” of this generation to bring joy into the market places, to solve some of the toughest problems in the economies of nations.  May these “anointed servants” impart powerful messages of Kingdom destiny and demonstrate love in Christ’s full abundance.

This Week’s Audio Message

“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Last week, we proposed a definition of joy as:  happiness in the future that we can see today. In joy, there carries the hope of a worthwhile goal to strive towards.  It is the fuel that moves us to take steps of faith and persevere through hardships.  Paul reminds us that God desires us to constantly be fueled by joy through prayer (connection to His throne) and a thankful attitude (heart of faith) – founded on the hope of Christ Jesus.

When we begin to see this verse from a kingdom angle, the implications on a nation’s economy can be tremendous.  Our economic system’s vitality is driven by our confidence and optimism for investing into the future – the hope that moves us to take risks and persevere through failures.  In other words, joy will release the capital flow crucial to bringing about value creation through creativity and innovation, which is the engine for economic recovery and growth.  Creating more money and dumping it into an economy without joy will only create greater debt that will eventually crush our system.  This is why Jesus wants us to be immersed in joy.  That hope in Christ is the only way we can bring about true confidence and optimism for our future.

Our market place prayer this week is that God will raise the 10,500 network to be a people immersed in joy, bringing about powerful testimonies of economic vitality and hope to a world crushed under the weight of it own debt.

Please click here for last week’s sharing and prayer on “What is Joy?”.

This Week’s Audio Message

“I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good.” – Psalm 54:6

As we approach the final week of 2011, we thank the Lord for growing us through three years of continuous Global Prayer Connect.  This weekly “blogging” and recording of messages and prayer have been a key “10,500 portal” for many throughout North America and Asia.  The Lord has solidified key relationships in our 10,500 fellowship through this forum.

Developing the 10,500 global connections has been a process of testing, learning, and strengthening our faith – such that in the end, we are left with seeing only the hand of the Lord.  In this spirit, we close 2011 with the ancient prayer David uttered as he went through a similar process of testing, learning, and strengthening of faith:

We will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; we will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good.

If you have not connected into GPC for a while, please try connecting in this week and join us in this “freewill offering” for 2011.  Let’s launch into our 2012 destinies together!