🔥 Growing Your Sons in Business

The surprising nature of Kingdom business is that our Kingdom purpose is a huge drawing card for staff and customers. They like what we’re doing and the atmosphere in our staff doing it. Leaders realize the privilege of pulling sons into the dream of their own Kingdom purpose. It’s not a church, it’s even better! We have 40 hours a week to equip the staff for the work of the ministry in our business. We end up building a culture that facilitates building people. How?

• Culture – Relationships, Respect, and Love happen when purpose is known. Ecclesia is build on purpose: When two people understand one another’s purpose; When shared biz purpose, managers purpose, and individual purpose are all on the table. We use 1-on-1 conversations to get there.
• Initiative – Manager and leaders own a shepherding mindset to love people. They pursue purpose in sons, listen to hearts, ask the questions, listen to answers. Those same managers experience being loved… because they unveil purpose, the dreams father wrote in hearts.. They know how to help people experience God choosing them.
• Kingdom Purpose is first – Purpose is drawn out and discipled in sons like gold. Our stated goal isn’t just a good staff doing good work. We want people engaged in their anointing working on their purpose. We’re looking for what God can do through them. We’re equipping our staff beyond procedure compliance and quality. We want them to share their portion of a higher Kingdom purpose and experience co-laboring with Father in the space that leads to Intentional Reformation of People, Business, Cities, and Nations.

Modeling Sonship – This all sounds intimidating for the average manager. It should scare you because it’s impossible in your own strength. Jesus said it best in Jn 5:30, I can of myself do nothing. If we want what God can do through our employees, it starts with what God can do through you. Can you spell humility? Kingdom leaders are not the ones with all the answers and a propensity to preach. They are relational father’s who can say, “I don’t know, we will have to ask God how to handle this.”

Overwhelmed to Overcoming – Paul was perplexed, but not in despair (2Cor 4:8). Aporeo means he didn’t have a way out, he was at a loss mentally, he was entertaining doubts, overwhelmed by his circumstance. Modeling sonship means you know where to find purpose and direction, not that you are a walking fount of wisdom and prophetic anointing. Your sons need to see you squirming and desperate to hear from God because that’s how they feel.

The religious spirit is a big turn-off because of its snobbish intellectualism. It’s full of formulas, rules, recipes, and advice. It’s controlling, sermonic, and condescending. Delegation and time management are superficial answers to overwhelm. People facing problems want to know how to hear from God themselves as sons, rather than being treated like serfs with an instruction set. The answer to overwhelm is a person not a principle. The answers are in the Council and in co-laboring, in living words, not letters. When we meet the person of Jesus and engage His purpose, we find out His Yoke is easy, and His burden is light.

Who are Sons? – In a nutshell it’s not our definition of spiritual or professional maturity. It’s not our depth of character and wisdom. Sons are the ones who ascend to Father’s Courts and Council and bring something of heaven back to earth to build His Kingdom. Kingdom business isn’t a rehash of Christian business. Old things are passed away, and this stuff is new, to us! What Jesus spoke of is here now! The sons all creation has been waiting for are here now.

Jn 1:51 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened,
and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Your business has been waiting for this – Access to the manifold wisdom of God is found in the 7 Spirits of God; Truth (Holy Spirit), Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Might, Knowledge, and Fear of the Lord. Access to Father’s Council is good for business. There are many answers waiting for you there.

So, our task as leaders becomes more straightforward: we’re going to the Courts and Council ourselves and we’re discipling sons who can do the same. We have a seat in heaven, and we’re learning to ascend and occupy that seat and why it’s a central part of sonship. We’re seeing how it transforms people and businesses who learn to co-labor and release what Father can do through them. We learning to look up and go up.

Col 3:1 – Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, (you have access to Father’s Council)
set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2)   Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

The Place to start – Humility

• Jn 5:30 – I can of myself do nothing
• Rom 7:18 – I know that nothing good dwells in me, my flesh
• Phil 4:13 – I can do all things “in” Christ (in the Council, in His purpose, in His name)

Salvation is receiving Jesus into your heart. Kingdom is responding to the invitation to be in His heart. Intentional Reformation is sons co-laboring on the purpose Father shares with His sons. It looks like greater works: In business it’s creative, exciting, adds value and cashflow, and blesses people, and Nations.

Father’s purpose is real, practical, possible, knowable.

Father is honored when:
When you go to the council and hear, participate in conversations.
When you have the clarity to put what you get in writing.
When you put it in practice (Seers and Doers).

It’s worship when sons bring Heaven to Earth (Ascending and Descending). Father delights in every ascension.
That you come to His house delights His heart… it is worship. Being present in your seat in heaven honors Father.

Here’s the big secret, even Father is giving you over to death (opportunities for resurrection), so that His life is revealed in His sons. He’s giving you things bigger than you can handle in your own strength and wisdom (overwhelming you), trusting that you’re smart enough to invite His help. It’s inspirational for the rest of us!

2Cor 4:7 – But we have this treasure in jars of clay,
to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
8)  We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
9)   persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
10) always carrying in the body the death of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
11)  For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake,
so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

This the inspiration for this blog came from three of my own council sessions: They are insightful examples, with links to help you do the same.

• 2024-07-13 Council – Sonship in Business
• 2024-07-14 Council – Humility and Authority
• 2024-07-16 Council – Cure for Perplexed

We help Kingdom Businesses find and fulfill their unique purpose while producing value and cash flow. We integrate Father’s Courts, Council, Purpose and Passion for Business leaders in a 1-on-1 format.
Axiom – Have fun, make money, love people, and build the Kingdom!

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  1. We start with a Purpose Profile to get your Kingdom purpose in writing.
  2. Have DIY options and a fleet of coaches with different specialties to choose from.
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To: Progress Sons, CEOs, and leaders through Prophetic, Priestly, and Kingly stages of maturity,
So that: They can bring Heaven to earth; bring Reformation to People, Biz, Communities, and Nations.

Cutting Room Floor

From Busyness to Kingdom Business – People are always “busy” when they don’t know their book. They have no way to set priorities. They want to do it all from their soul, instead of from the Council (doing what Father is doing). The fruit of not knowing our “one thing” is the instability of “many things” from being double-minded (Ja. 1:8). aka “busyness”

• Rest, doing less, and slowing the pace doesn’t help; it misses the point of the “one thing.”
• The difference between busyness and Kingdom business is purpose; Co-laboring with Father.
• The purpose written in my heart and mirrored in the current strategy of Heaven (Reformation).
• I see today’s topic in Father’s Council with insight from 7 Spirits (Kingdom is dynamic, flowing).
• We “live” by every word that proceeds out of Father’s mouth (Mt 4:4, Deut. 8:2-3)
• When others see your book, they will resonate with its “prophetic correctness” and help you.

 

From God With Us, Or Us With God – Sons have a huge place of favor in the Kingdom. The difference is night and day. The question is, “How does it happen.” Does God sovereignly pick a few favorites, or do we volunteer somehow?” listen to the to these examples of favor: