10 Kingdom Laws for Business Success

In a recent overseas mission trip, I have the opportunities to share the "10 Kingdom Laws for Success" to many young professional and entrepreneurs that are believers on 3 separate meetings. The original posting Kingdom Laws & Principles is too much to share in a 1-2 hour session. A shortened version in Chinese is shared and it is available here.

This post is the English version of the "10 Kingdom Laws for Business Success".

Understanding Work is a Ordained & Not a Curse

1. Work is Ordained by God. Gen 1:28, 2:15
2. Work happened before Sin & Curse. Gen 1:28,2:15 comes before the Curse in Gen 3:17-19.
3. Work is Worship. Hebrew Avodah = Work = Worship =Serving
4. Work is Our Calling Eph 2:10
5. The Curse of Work has been removed by Jesus. Work is stress-free & joyful. Gal 3:13, Col 1:20.
6. Work is not Worry. God provides when we sleep.
   Ps 127:2 . Just following the Kingdom Principles and have worry free & fruitful work.

The 10 Laws are:

1.   The Golden Law - Righteousness brings success
2.   Law of Parallel Universes - Begins in Spirit
3.   Law of Execution - Walk the Talk
4.   Law of Harvests- Sowing and Reaping
5.   Law of Seasons -  Watch & Ride the Cycle
6.   Law of Reciprocation Change begins with you
7.   Law of Greatness - Servant Leadership
8.   Law of Perseverance To Mission & Values
9.   Law of Amplification Growth with Care for Details
10.   Law of Humility - Learning & Renewal

1  The Golden Law - Righteousness brings success
    Spiritual Health brings True & Total Success.  Mat 6:33
    God is in charge - Righteousness is Gain. Quality in Character & Quality in Offering (competence and performance) are both important. Between the two, Character comes first; Character over Competence. Venture Capitalists invest in people of Character.
    Prov 23:5 Chase Money and it will fly away. This is the negative way of expressing the Golden Business Rule.

2  Law of Parallel Universes - Begins in Spirit

•     What is seen is influenced by the things unseen Heb 11:3.
•     Things seen is originated in the Unseen - From the Dream / Vision
•     Get your calling and vision from God
•     Inside determines outside
•     Intrinsic Motivation is better than Extrinsic Motivation
•     Have a Mission & Vision - Unique Customer Value Proposition

3  Law of Execution - Walk the Talk

•     Doing realize the Vision. Mere talk does not. Remember to execute your plan.
•     The Wise and the Foolish Builders - Matthew 7:24–27
•     Hear + Do build strong & lasting thing
•     Pro 14:23  Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!
•     Joh 13:17  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them
•     We must close the gap between knowing and doing.

4 Law of Harvests- Sowing and Reaping.

•     Invest to Gain -     Luk 6:38; 2Co 9:6-8
•     You sow what you have; You get what you sow
•     Hence, You sow what you need
•     Invest in
•       tithes & offering to the Lord
•       people in needs;e.g. widow, poor, etc.
•       business
•       See the values of generosity
•     It is also know as the Law of Proportional Returns: the more you give the more you get

5  Law of Seasons -  Watch & Ride the Cycle

•     Watch the Opportunity & Timing - Ride the Trends - Ecc 3:1-8
•     Be watchful - Observe the changes and trends
•       Strike at the Right Time
•       Be at the leading edge and not the 1st mover bleeding edge
•     Be Agile & Ready to act
•     God provides the Growth and Set the Timing & Man does the Following of the laws of nature, the seasons & timing  established by God.

6   Law of Reciprocation Change begins with you

•     You changed 1st to cause others to change     Luk 6:37
•     Law of Empathy- Do on to others what you want to receive.
•     Reaction is a multiple of the Action
•       Newton's Law is Reaction = Action
•       Kingdom Law is Do good and Receive Better

7  Law of Greatness - Servant Leadership

•     Lead by Serving - Mat 20:26
•     Serve your staff to serve your customers who repay you with $$$
•     People follow your actions rather than your words
•     How to become Great in influence
•     Leadership is about
•       1 lead at the front with shared mission and vision
•       2 serve from the back with as example and support
•       3 coach in the middle with encouragement & correction

8 Law of Perseverance To Mission & Values

•     Perseverance in righteousness Law#1 ; Luke 18:1–8
•       Don't take short-cut, cut-corners due to pressure
•       Plans/Methods can and should change,
•       but the Purpose-Mission & Values remains
•     Stick to your Vision to accomplish it
•       Once the goal has been set, it must be pursued with a burning desire. The desire must be maintained and sustained with discipline - Fred Smith

9  Law of Amplification Growth with Care for Details

•     Growth & Scalability
•  Get it right before you scale or multiply
•  take care of the details
•  unless there is character transformation, greater responsibility will show forth greater weakness
•     Faithful in Little leads to faithfulness in large - Luk 16:10
• Warren Buffet, "In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you."
•     Law of Promotion - Luk 16:11-12
•     Strength or Defect get magnified with time and growth
•     Also known as Law of Fidelity or Honesty

10  Law of Humility - Learning&Renewal

•  Glory goes to those that are humble - ever learning & contributing. Mat 5:5
•  Renewal is
•       prepare for the future
•       ride the changes
• Learning
•       New capability building
•  I Ching #15 謙 Humility - means:
• “have it” - resources, ability. If don't have them, there is nothing to be humble about.
• “don’t show it” and
• “use it”. When the situation calls for it and if you have it, humility requires you to use it to help and not to hide it!
• It is not passive but quiet aggressive actions without drawing attention to self.
• 6 stage lines provides additional teachings of:
•         1. develop humility
•         2. let your action do the talking
•         3. accomplished and yet don’t claim credit but give credit
•         4. do more good things
•         5. do corrective actions to remove bad things
•         6. expand humility to others that they may have it too