Spiritual Entreprenuer

Vision and Risk are two concepts that I believe are essential to understand if you want to be an entrepreneur in the kingdom of God.  Catching God’s vision, in biblical terms, is the ability to focus on God’s plan for the world, grow in His heart, grow in His mind, and anticipate His power working through us to accomplish His plan. 
What is His plan?  What is His end goal for the world? We can look at the end of the Bible in Rev. 7:9 where it says, “And there was a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb.  They were clothed in white and held palm branches in their hands.  And they were shouting with a mighty shout, “Salvation comes from our God on the throne and from the Lamb!”  This is how it all ends.  This is where history is heading. He will build His kingdom and He will receive all of the Glory.  And for some strange reason He wants us to join Him in making it happen.  I can’t explain that part.

But I do know that when God calls us to His vision, He will invite us to become part of something bigger than ourselves, so much so that if He does not supernaturally intervene, we will not make it.  This is “risk”, when God many times asks us to join Him in meeting a need that is greater than the resources or to say yes to an opportunity that is greater than our ability.

It reminds me of the story in John 6 where Jesus feeds five thousand people using a poor boys lunch with five barley loaves and two fishes.  When asked for his lunch, the little boy could have said “No”, or “why don’t you get your own lunch” or “my lunch wouldn’t make a dent in hunger of this crowd.”  But instead he “risked” his lunch willingly, eager to see what would happen.  The little boy didn’t have much, but He had the materials of a miracle.  You and I don’t have much but we have the materials of a miracle.

God, I give you my lunch.  Do with it what you will.

 

 

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