{"id":33,"date":"2012-04-12T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:32:20","slug":"love-of-the-husband-love-of-christ-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Love of the Husband, Love of Christ &#8211; Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.\u00a0 \u2013 Ephesians 5:25<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Li-En and I just returned from Asia last night.\u00a0 This may have been one of our most encouraging trips as we saw the Lord\u2019s amazing handiwork in preparing His market place leaders for perhaps the greatest harvest the Church has yet to see.<\/p>\n<p>As we worked with market place leaders to bring about \u201cKingdom culture\u201d into their companies, I am reminded once again of Christ\u2019s love for His Bride, the ultimate expression of Kingdom culture.\u00a0 In our travels, we have seen many challenges faced by Kingdom minded leaders in their companies and organizations.\u00a0 I believe that the answers to these challenges lie in the love that defines Christ\u2019s Kingdom culture.\u00a0 This love that brought Christ\u2019s Bride forgiveness, redemption, purification, elevation, and partnership, is the power that will eternally expand Christ\u2019s Kingdom.\u00a0 It is also the power that will solve many of today\u2019s toughest market place problems.<\/p>\n<p>To help us understand the \u201clove for the Bride\u201d, Paul reminds the husbands to love their wives as Christ sacrificed Himself for the Church.\u00a0 In other words, by understanding a husband\u2019s willingness to sacrifice for his wife, we can uncover the principles of Christ\u2019s Kingdom culture, the secrets that can turn around families, companies, and entire economies. \u00a0Let\u2019s continue <a href=\"http:\/\/villarkstrategygroup.com\/pub\/ttfh\/prayerconnect\/120405%20Prayer%20Connect%20-%20Market%20Place%20and%20the%20Family%20Institution.mp3\">our prayer from last week<\/a> to understand the deep wisdom of the love of the family, of the love of sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Market Place Prayer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We call upon the Lord in the promise of James 1:5 to impart to the <a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.cascchurch.org\/mtc\/what-is-the-10500\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cascchurch.org\/mtc\/what-is-the-10500\/\">10,500<\/a> market place leaders a divine understanding of the love of a husband for his wife, the deep wisdom in sacrifice.\u00a0 May these leaders witness to the world as restorers of families, companies, and economies through the love of the family, through the love of a husband committed to his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.\u00a0 \u2013 Ephesians 5:25 Pastor Li-En and I just returned from Asia last night.\u00a0 This may have been one of our most encouraging trips as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=33\">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":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}