{"id":107,"date":"2012-01-12T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T23:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:23:31","slug":"joy-key-to-economic-vitality-%e5%96%9c-%e6%a8%82%ef%bc%8d%e7%b6%93%e6%bf%9f%e6%b4%bb%e5%8a%9b%e7%9a%84%e9%97%9c%e9%8d%b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Joy &#8211; Key to Economic Vitality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/villarkstrategygroup.com\/pub\/ttfh\/prayerconnect\/120112 Prayer Connect - Joy - Key to Kingdom Vitality.mp3\" href=\"http:\/\/villarkstrategygroup.com\/pub\/ttfh\/prayerconnect\/120112%20Prayer%20Connect%20-%20Joy%20-%20Key%20to%20Kingdom%20Vitality.mp3\">This Week\u2019s Audio Message<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>\u201cBe joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God&#8217;s will for you in Christ Jesus.\u201d \u2013 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we proposed a definition of joy as:\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">happiness in the future that we can see today.<\/span> In joy, there carries the hope of a worthwhile goal to strive towards.\u00a0 It is the fuel that moves us to take steps of faith and persevere through hardships.\u00a0 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) \u2013 founded on the hope of Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>When we begin to see this verse from a kingdom angle, the implications on a nation\u2019s economy can be tremendous.\u00a0 Our economic system\u2019s vitality is driven by our confidence and optimism for investing into the future \u2013 the hope that moves us to take risks and persevere through failures.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Creating more money and dumping it into an economy without joy will only create greater debt that will eventually crush our system.\u00a0 This is why Jesus wants us to be immersed in joy.\u00a0 That hope in Christ is the only way we can bring about true confidence and optimism for our future.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Please click <a title=\"http:\/\/villarkstrategygroup.com\/pub\/ttfh\/prayerconnect\/120105%20Prayer%20Connect%20-%20The%20Definition%20of%20Joy.mp3\" href=\"http:\/\/villarkstrategygroup.com\/pub\/ttfh\/prayerconnect\/120105%20Prayer%20Connect%20-%20The%20Definition%20of%20Joy.mp3\">here<\/a> for last week\u2019s sharing and prayer on \u201cWhat is Joy?\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week\u2019s Audio Message \u201cBe joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God&#8217;s will for you in Christ Jesus.\u201d \u2013 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Last week, we proposed a definition of joy as:\u00a0 happiness in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}