Luke 2:49 And He said to them, "Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?" (NKJV)
And He said to them, "Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?" (NASB)
The word “must” denotes necessity. To be in Our Heavenly Father’s House or presence, you must be about HIS business, whatever it is. Man’s business ultimately results in lust whereas Our Heavenly Father’s business results in Love. Corporations today serve those in control at the expense of employees, stockholders, and customers. Yes, there is the occasional company who generally helps others as long as things are going well. But the organization is based on profit, the bottom line. In pursuit of profit as the primary goal of the company, all resources are expendable and even the company would be dissolved to insure profits flow to those who control the decisions.
In August of 1987, Our Heavenly Father gave me a vision of a group of Christian businessmen would fund the “end time Gospel”. Of course I assumed that it would happen in 1987. At the time I was working on a software deal with a Fortune 100 company where I had the opportunity to sell 10,000 software licenses to all their dealers and distributors. IBM had done a nationwide search and the application software I developed had been selected to present to this company as the solution to their need. At the age of 36, I thought I was ready. Wrong! For the next twelve years I received countless prophetic messages from various known prophets that I was called to the financial aspects of the Kingdom. I did do business with the Fortune 100 company but multiple management changes caused the original expectation of the multi-million dollar deal to end in a much smaller revenue base.
From 1993 to 1996 I worked with a man in Houston on International funding programs for infrastructure projects. Each deal failed due to greed among those involved.
On April 10-12 of 1997, I traveled to Panama to look at a gold mine and brought back samples to be assayed. Once again I expected the funding to come forth for the Kingdom. The assay results were exceptional but the funding to get control of the mine and begin mining never materialized.
From 2000 to 2004, I made several trips to Zurich, Bern, Geneva, London, and Madrid on International investment programs designed to generate sufficient cash for funding projects. All failed to materialize due to greed.
After each failure and a lot of money spent, I would get frustrated because I simply wanted to walk in the fullness of my calling. I can imagine how Joseph felt as he was biding his time in a prison of a foreign country.
If any of the aforementioned projects had been conducted by men who walked in Love, those projects would have succeeded. Their love of money was their motivation. I received an unanticipated education how not to do business in the global arena. I have been satisfied with going about my daily affairs without hopping on an airplane to Zurich. Since 2005, Our Heavenly Father has been training me in the specific area of Love. I’ve been trained in other areas such as faith and the Law but the last 7 1/2 years have been focused on Love. Why? If I am to be about My Father’s Business, I must take on His Character of Love. Otherwise, I will be just like all those men and women who pursue wealth to ultimately consume it on their own lusts.
A call to those who are committed to be about Our Heavenly Father’s Business will occur soon. A mobilization of people and resources will be needed. Can you imagine a company where the executives serve the employees and the customer? Can you imagine where corporate decisions are Love-based and are designed to serve rather than exploit? Who will answer the call? Is this now the time for those with a burning passion for the Kingdom to come together in Unity? We’ll see!