{"id":380,"date":"2011-05-26T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=380"},"modified":"2012-06-29T22:27:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T03:27:45","slug":"modeling-this-romans-121-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Modeling this Romans 12:1 principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>\u201cTherefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God&#8217;s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your spiritual act of worship.\u201d \u2013 Romans 12:1 <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s exhortation to the church in Rome provides a basic principle for leaders of Kingdom companies.\u00a0 That principle is to live as a living sacrifice for the sole purpose of pleasing God.\u00a0 In other words, nothing will compete with our striving to fulfill God\u2019s agenda and satisfying His desire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>God has a clear agenda for the restoration of Christ\u2019s earthly Kingdom.\u00a0 His desire is to allow the rising of a great darkness to bring about the great harvest.\u00a0 For more a more detailed description of this agenda, please refer to the following article:\u00a0 The Kingdom Economy \u2013 a Key Tool for the Great Tribulation Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of Kingdom companies living the Romans 12:1 principle will align their corporate agendas with Christ\u2019s Kingdom agenda.\u00a0 They will consider everything that they steward as a living sacrifice \u2013 meaning that they give up the rights to pursue personal ambitions in order to fulfill Christ\u2019s Kingdom desire (Isaiah 9:7, Hebrews 12:2).\u00a0 Such leaders understand how their company assets will build the Kingdom economy and are actively preparing this \u201cEnd-Time ark\u201d for the coming great darkness and harvest.<\/p>\n<p>In the following weeks, we will highlight the following company leaders who are modeling this Romans 12:1 principle:<\/p>\n<p>Elder Andrew Chang (\u7ae0\u555f\u660e) \u2013 President of Pacific Construction Company and Founder of Tabernacle of David Prayer Center;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hsin-Chia Chao (\u8d99\u4fe1\u5609) \u2013 CEO of Twintech Industries.<\/p>\n<p>For this week, we encourage you to begin interceding for these two individuals as they submit their enterprises to the Romans 12:1 principle.\u00a0 Let us also continue last week\u2019s intercession for Brother Gary Wang as he strives to build a Christ-centered company.\u00a0 Please click here for last week\u2019s sharing and intercession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTherefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God&#8217;s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your spiritual act of worship.\u201d \u2013 Romans 12:1 Greetings! Paul\u2019s exhortation to the church in Rome provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/?p=380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/380"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpc.168prayer.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}