Introduction

Good day to everyone! The title of my sharing today is Management is God's Will for Us. It may sound like a lecture on corporate management, but whatever it may be, management is God's will for us. It is a tragedy when Christians are incapable of management, and everyone must know for certain that a Christian who cannot manage is not in accordance with the teachings of the Bible.

If you walk into a hotel and see that the service is well-organized and everything is done very well, what is the reason? It is because there is a management team in the hotel, and there is someone above them managing the management team. Because the management team manages things well, you will see orderliness when you enter the hotel.

If you walk into a company and find that everything is very orderly, that is because there is a group of people in the company, or someone above this group of people, managing things very well. If you see a country developing normally, it is because there are people managing the country.

If you walk into a church and find that the ministry, courses, training, various locations, and various ministries are managed in an orderly manner, it is because there is a management team in that church, so management is very important. If these places lose management, no matter how good a hotel, company, country, or church it is, you will find that it will soon become chaotic.

In this generation, we will see some countries that were originally very wealthy become very chaotic. Crime, poverty, and various problems follow one after another. This is due to a lack of management. There are actually rules to management. When future generations look at today's history, you will find that people will make a good judgment and evaluation.

One is Gorbachev, who led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and won the Nobel Peace Prize; another is Mandela of South Africa. South Africa used to be the richest country in Africa. After Mandela took over, the country today, compared with the past, has not progressed, and it would be good if it did not regress. In the future, someone will definitely make a fair judgment. What I said may not represent anything, but it is a phenomenon. If a country is destroyed by another country, do not be surprised. It is because there is a problem with the management within the country. All problems start from internal chaos.

Several brothers established a company, and their business spans fifty or sixty countries around the world. Once, when I was having dinner with the boss of this company, he said that if their company collapses in the future, it will definitely not be because of the external competitive environment, but because of internal strife. Therefore, management problems all start from internal chaos, is it not?

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a very famous Cao Cao. Later, when historians recorded these histories, we liked to listen to the stories of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms the most. It was not that Cao Cao coerced the Emperor to command the feudal lords. During the reign of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the buying and selling of official positions and national corruption had become chaotic to an outrageous extent. In fact, Cao Cao was really a management genius, who stood up in that era to manage that war-torn country. I am not praising Cao Cao, but saying that he is a talented manager. Why do we value management so much? You need to know: You need to manage your life and manage your ideas. A country is like this, and so is a person. If a person does not manage his inside well, if the inside of a person is not right, it will not work at any time.

Church Management and the Pastor's Responsibility

Brothers and sisters, the church must also implement various management measures well. A sister suffered from severe depression. She took the phone directory of churches in Singapore and called each church one by one. Surprisingly, some answered and talked nonsense, not caring about her problem at all, and some simply did not answer. Do you know what happened later? She called our church, and I answered. After the call was connected, what I cared most about was her problem. I am the best customer service person, and it does not matter if you disagree; I just like to say that.

Another sister wrote an email when facing despair. I am customer service. I read this email at three o'clock in the morning and replied at four o'clock in the morning. I am really a very good customer service person. Later, these two sisters were released through my ministry and were able to live normal lives and were very healthy. Our brothers and sisters need to understand again what exactly happened.

Customer service is a facade. In my personal experience, what I hate most is making customer service calls. When you call customer service, you are asked to press one for this and press two for that. To contact a human customer service representative, please press zero. After pressing zero, you are asked to press one, two, or three again. My God! How much patience does it take to listen to this? It is very annoying.

I actually had a very bad experience. Because of a ministry matter, I needed to contact a church. People gave me a phone number, but when I called, they did not answer. They did not return my missed call, as if it never happened. This is a pastor. Is that not awful ? I finally got through, and I was very happy. It turned out that it was in the pocket and the call was accidentally answered. No one spoke at all, and I only heard the sound of children coaxing. This job is pretty good! How great it is to be a pastor in the church! You can take care of your children at home. What job can do this? What is management? There is no management at all. Can you understand? I cannot understand. Think about it. There is no management at all!

I will tell you a phenomenon: The same group of people are well-organized when managed by a good leader, but they quickly become chaotic when changed to a bad leader. In fact, living in this generation, I am really grateful to my God! What am I thanking my God for? Singapore produced a Lee Kuan Yew, who transformed a poor and backward Singapore into a world-class country in just a few decades. That is Lee Kuan Yew's management. However, Goh Chok Tong and Lee Hsien Loong also managed Singapore very well later. China produced Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and the current leaders. In just a few decades, they have managed a poor and backward China better and better, in an orderly manner. These are all examples and results of management.

In fact, our brothers and sisters must not think that they do not believe in the Lord. We can learn from them, and we have many things to learn from them. They have used all their efforts to manage the country. We who came later must thank our God. Do you hear me? I tell you that kings are all established by God. As a Christian, you must know for certain that management is God's will for us. God created man on earth to manage everything on earth.

The title of my talk today is: Management is God's Will for Us. Do not be a Christian who makes decisions blindly. I am most afraid of Christians who have no management ability, do not understand, and listen to God's voice all day long. After listening to the voice, they pat their heads and say what they heard. But I have not seen this in the Bible. Where is this in the Bible? Is it not?

If two Christians are like this, after listening, they find that they heard different things. One heard to go east, and the other heard to go west. Should they go east or west? Just do not move. Is that not troublesome? We need to know that chaos and acting arbitrarily are the result of no management.

Scientific Management and Personal Growth

There is an interesting sister. She says that she is very annoyed because she has to tidy up her computer desktop every week. Why do you have to tidy up your computer desktop every week? From Monday, Tuesday... after a week, the computer desktop is messed up. Then on Sunday, you have to start tidying up. What is the reason? There is no management on Monday, Tuesday... You can't even manage your computer desktop. What else can you manage? Is it not? You say you can't even manage your computer desktop. Can you manage someone else's computer desktop? What is that state? No management, acting arbitrarily. It is like this every day, and you do not know how to figure things out and clarify them. Of course, sooner or later she will figure it out among us. If she does not figure it out, she will be managed.

What is management? When I talk about management, I talk a lot and get very excited! I like management. Management is very interesting. I used to be an engineer, and I did not like management very much. I thought it was great to solve technical problems! It was so much fun to dive into technical problems! Later, after doing management, ah! It was so annoying! Later, I kept persuading myself that I wanted to like this job. Of course, the salary must be high when doing management! I certainly do not want a low salary! Am I stupid? I want a low salary! Then I started studying management. Later, I figured out management, wow, it was amazing!

Speaking of management, we must mention the term invented in modern times, which is scientific management. When mentioning scientific management, everyone must know that scientific management is a product of the industrial revolution. We used to watch a movie called Modern Times. It has a character named Chaplin. He is a product of management in the industrial age. How is he managed? He twists a screw in two seconds. How fast is two seconds? Very fast! Not only is it fast, but it is also twisted well! That is scientific management, how to manage the production line; this is all very powerful! In Modern Times starring Chaplin, after he got off work on the bus, his hands were still twisting screws. He couldn't stop at all. Of course, this is not a good thing. Management is to manage twisting a screw in two seconds.

Everyone needs to know that it is said that a mobile phone is produced in tens of seconds. Awesome! Why are many things in our lives so cheap today, such as clothes? You go up and buy them, wear them, throw them away when they are old, and buy them again. Plastic boxes and disposable take-out boxes are all terribly cheap! These are all products of the industrial revolution and are the result of management. Without management, these things would be very expensive. If you carve and sculpt them slowly by hand, you will see that they are very expensive! Because there is no management! Is it not?

Scientific management later developed into managing intellectual workers. These intellectual workers are difficult to manage! You can count the number of screws you twist. How many screws do you twist a day? How can you manage intellectual workers? It is very difficult to manage! Therefore, science is studying the laws of management. In the past, it was to make people's physical strength fully utilized. Now they are starting to study how to release people's brain power. Later, scientific research confirmed that huge changes have taken place as a result of management, which is improving efficiency, improving benefits, improving happiness, and reducing costs.

Living Out God's Image and the Mission of Management

Google's working environment is very good! Why? Because they are all intellectual workers. Everyone needs to know today that I like to study management, and I have also invented a management system. Management is to discover people's potential, enhance people's value, and live out God's image. This sounds good! It turns out that this was originally God's will, to turn a chaotic thing into an orderly one and to stimulate the potential in people. I tell you this is God's will. A person who walks with God must be a person who manages things in an orderly manner. There are too many stories of management. Therefore, I have a dream in my heart that everyone among us will be trained to be a manager and will be more valuable.

I hope everyone can know that we all have God's glorious image on us. Remember: Absolutely can! As long as you are willing, because this is God's will, God has been waiting here for a long time. We will discuss how to manage this matter. Some time ago, I talked about a word, rules. Management is actually a set of rules.

Scripture

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (Genesis 1:26-28)

Prayer

God, we long to live out the glorious image you created us to be. Today, we ask your Spirit to move in us. May you speak to us, reveal to us, and restore my faith in you, so that we can know that through the salvation you have accomplished, we can live out your image, act according to your word, and become a manager. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!

Scripture Background and Theme to Explain

I ask everyone, do you want to be a manager? Do you want to be someone who earns a high salary? Everyone wants to! I tell you that management is related to money. You have to listen carefully! Do not think that housewives do not need management. Can housewives live out God's glory? Yes! Absolutely! Today I want to tell you that no matter where you are, you need to know that God created you on this earth to let you manage. Do you want to walk with God? Can walking with God fill your stomach? Yes! Not only can it fill your stomach, but you can also eat very well!

Do you know why Genesis records God's creation of man at the beginning? Because people often do not know. People think that people have the image of monkeys. The image of monkeys is not very good. It is not difficult for people to live out the image of monkeys! You just need to be decadent. If you go to the monkey circle, you will definitely be the most powerful monkey. But if you mix with people, you will still lack competitiveness. So brothers and sisters, do not compare yourself with monkeys. Is it okay to compare yourself with God? If you want to live out God's glorious image, if you want to know that management is God's will, if you want to, although you cannot, but as long as you are willing, God will also help you and shape you. Do you want it?

Restoring God's Image and the Mission of Management

The background of this scripture talks about how man was created in God's image. What happened later? Man ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and lost God's glorious image. Today, the salvation we are talking about is to restore our original glorious image through the salvation of Jesus Christ. Adam and Eve in Genesis Chapter 1 enjoyed, where very happy, and full of creativity and inspiration. This scripture is to tell us that people could have lived like this! This is the theme that God wants to tell us: God created man and woman according to his own image, and then God blessed them, let them be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, govern the earth, and manage the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and all kinds of living things on the earth.

Some people say: There is no need to live so hard. When we get to heaven in the future, we will just clean up. I heard that something was not right. The Bible does not say that God created you and put you in heaven to clean up. There is no hygiene to clean up in heaven! Heaven is very clean. A sister's boss said: You have already cleaned this small area. Can you clean more areas? This sister said: Yes, but can you increase my salary? The boss did not increase it. You could have managed more areas. She felt very unhappy and told her pastor that she was going to retaliate against her boss! Retaliate what? It was originally what you should be doing.

We often get confused. Whom does God bless? God blesses those who are fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, govern this earth, and manage the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and all kinds of living things on the earth. Everyone needs to know that God created man on earth to manage the things on earth. Do not go wrong. You do not need to manage the things in heaven. God manages the things in heaven himself. Why did God create man on earth in his own image? It is to manage these things well.

Let me tell you a little story: God created man according to God’s image. Then, according to what image did God create these living things? The earthly creatures were created according to the heavenly angels. There are horses in heaven, and there are horses on earth. There are cows in heaven, and there are cows on earth. They are all created according to the heavenly pattern, so that man can manage all things on earth as God manages all things in heaven. God created man on earth so that man can live out God’s image on earth, manage everything on earth in place of God; this is God’s good will! Therefore, management was said at the beginning, but many Christians today do not know that salvation is to restore the glorious image when God created us, and the task God gave us is management. Does everyone understand now?

The background of this scripture is talking about this matter. If you read Genesis Chapter 1, you will find that what you see is good and each according to its kind is called management. Therefore, how God does it is how we do it. In the process of management we human beings often encounter the state of emptiness and chaos. At this time, you let the Spirit of God move there, you speak, and many things will be accomplished. Do this by God's ability. That is great!

From this scripture, we can illustrate a theme: People need management. If you cannot manage and only shout Hallelujah! When the first chapter of the Bible talks about creating man, it does not give them a will to let him shout Hallelujah there! It is not comparing who shouts Hallelujah the loudest; there is no such thing. Nor does it make them constantly thank God! Thank the Lord! Why thank the Lord? It is not because he managed well that he thanked the Lord, but because he had food and drink. Then what are you like? That is raising pigs. It is not that you have to thank the Lord because you have food and drink, but because we live out God’s glorious image that we thank the Lord. Do you understand?

Managing Our Emotions

When did a person's emotions become bad? After eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A person's emotions are closely related to the thoughts in his heart, that is, the logic of the thoughts inside a person is not right. Originally, you were asked to manage more things, but what you think in your heart is: I cannot suffer losses. That is what you think is a loss. If you are asked to manage too much, you will feel unhappy in your heart. If you feel unhappy in your heart, you will start to discern good and evil, then you will feel even more unhappy in your heart, and your emotions will be very bad!

Our inner emotions, including all kinds of things, including our stress, and inner emotional distress, are all related to our lack of understanding. Of course, I will talk about the following points. I will also talk about how our inner emotions are closely related to our thoughts.

A sister got married. You marry your husband, and your husband was originally like that. It is not because you married him that he will change. If he changes after you marry him, thank God! But in fact, people will not change because you marry him. As a result, she discerns good and evil and feels uncomfortable all day long and then gets cancer. After getting cancer, she prayed and got better. Then she started to discern good and evil again, and the cancer relapsed.

Today, we must remove this from the root. This sin cannot be committed; it is difficult and hard. Therefore, if the logic of a person's thoughts is wrong, if the logic inside a person is the logic of the devil, what is lived out is the image of the devil; if the logic inside a person is the logic of Jesus, what you live out is the image of Jesus Christ. Think about it. In fact, where have we been wronged? It was not originally what you should have gotten; it is just that you think you should have gotten it. Is it not? If you cannot get it, you will feel uncomfortable; if you think you should not get it, you will not feel uncomfortable if you do not get it. If you think it is not what you should get, then getting it is grace to you! People are happy because it is a free gift.

If you do the work that you think you should do, you will not feel uncomfortable; if you think that these jobs are not what you should do, you will feel like people are bullying you if you do them. The impact of this person's inner logic is very deep. Therefore, what I do is to manage people’s thoughts and intentions and let you learn to manage your inner thoughts and intentions; after managing them, you can live out God’s image. If you live out God's image, I ask you, will you be poor? Will you be short of money? You will not be short of money. If you live out God’s image, will you lack joy? You will not lack joy. If you live out God’s image, will you lack creativity? You will not lack creativity. If you live out God’s image, will you be stressed? You will not be stressed because you will live very efficiently. Understand?

This defining of good and evil is not a straight forward defining of good and evil, there would be a lot of emotions, which lead to a lot of problems. Some time ago, amongst us there was a brother that's quite interesting. He has problems with bowel movements, and after praying it got better. After urinating he has similar problems, and after praying came right again. Then he has kidney stones and we prayed again before the stones were passed out. When they were out, his heels started to hurt.

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Brothers and sisters, I must tell you, problems in the body represent the dirtiness in your mind. Of course! This applies to me as well. You say your heel hurts, and the wife tells her pastor, Teacher! I know what his problem is! My husband says he’s got immense pressure from his work. Doing, doing, doing, but achieving nothing. Her husband insists, I have no pressure. Yet, he's stubbornly holding on, causing all these problems. Then his wife says, Teacher, you know, he always feels inferior to me deep down. How far off could her observation be? Our emotions are indeed like that. And what are these emotions related to? It's related to our inability to manage our time and our methods of doing things, let alone managing anything else.

## The Wisdom of Emotional and Time Management

So, ultimately, there is also a spirit of competition. Do we have a spirit of competition among us? Absolutely. Therefore, I want to tell everyone, **you are in charge of your emotions**. Even if you feel like you're not, you're deeply uncomfortable inside. Let it slowly discomfort you! That’s called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Everyone, rethink your emotions and figure this out. Where exactly did the problem arise in my thoughts and intentions? Remember, **when people eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they lose the glorious image in which God created them, and then their eyes see only the bad**.

Humans are strange; their eyes specialize in seeing the bad. Not only do they see their own shortcomings, but they also see others' flaws with great accuracy. Sometimes, I even encourage everyone, Just manage yourselves well! What? Can't I offer suggestions? I say, Okay, okay! You can offer suggestions, and we must listen. It's a good suggestion. I won't say anything anymore; I'll never suggest anything again. It's not about whether to suggest or not; it's about the wrong emotions inside. Does everyone understand? If the emotions inside are off, even if the suggestion you make is a good one, it's useless. Why? You corrupt yourself by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil inside. Adam and Eve changed after eating just one; what about you, eating basket after basket? Take your time to sort it out.

I just lament: **Why can't people manage their emotions? Because the ideas and logic inside are wrong**. Correcting such problems, correcting the logic inside, takes tremendous effort! Can everyone understand? It's not easy to correct! Sometimes, saying too much hurts, saying too little is useless, so the degree must be carefully managed! This work of mine requires creativity and management. I often say, God, give me wisdom so I can manage. Please understand me. Why? Because saying too much hurts!

If we remove competition from within us, you'll be much healthier. A few days ago, I said that a certain sister could finish something in a few hours, and someone among us heard, What? Are you saying I'm slow? Oh, I slapped my forehead and said, My goodness! Ah, this competition thing is quite evil! My intention is that everyone can consider whether doing things can become more efficient.

## Managing Our Time

Everyone, think carefully about what you spend your time on. This is a good question. Where do you spend your time? **Doing one thing unsatisfactorily, then another unsatisfactorily... Doing one thing unsatisfactorily is a problem**. The logic of your mind is flawed, so you don't enjoy working, and then you dawdle. Everyone must know that **dawdling is a bad habit**! The Bible tells us long ago **to redeem the time**. Everyone knows that time is money! You waste time dawdling, how much is what you do worth? Doing five dollars' worth of work but spending five hundred dollars' worth of time, is it worth it? It's not worth it. So, brothers and sisters, we must cultivate the habit of redeeming the time.

Do you all know that I have a set of management mechanisms called volume? Recently, I have been constantly working on persuasion. Why volume? **Only after you achieve a certain volume can you enjoy the work; only after you achieve a certain volume can you find the rules of doing things; only after volume can you find innovative methods. Volume leads to effectiveness and efficiency, finds the rules of doing things, and enjoys the work**. Do you know how difficult it is to bring people to this point? It's very difficult.

Two months ago, a sister among us was doing Korean translations. Every time it was brought up, she would say, No! Koreans won't understand what I've done. I said, I don't care if Koreans understand. No! I said, What I care about is your growth. Just focus on volume, listen to me, okay? No! I would say a few words, and she would immediately say, No! choking me hard. My temper, sometimes I lose my temper. Losing temper with those who are close enough, but with those who aren't close enough, there's nowhere to even lose temper.

## The Wisdom of Time Management and Growth

After much persuasion, she finally came around. What I did is called management. I'm managing, not managing my time, but managing your time. I know that the work should be done this way, the time should be spent this way. As a result, recently, she began to change, began to focus on volume. You know, my words are very direct. At first, I said, I give a one-hour sermon, you can translate it into Korean in ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes, whatever. Do whatever you want, just get it done. But she still said, That won't do!

Later, she managed. January and February were like this, and eventually, her efficiency started to improve, and her enjoyment increased. I just finished preaching the Book of Proverbs on Friday, and at one-thirty in the morning, she sent me the recording, and I uploaded it to the website. She also spoke eloquently for forty or fifty minutes. I can't understand if what she said is correct, and I don't care if Koreans understand. **I care that after she does this, she can grow**. As a result, she showed her work to a professor at a Korean university, and the university professor said, Wow! How could you do this! She was incredibly surprised. He said, Even local Korean churches can't do this.

**Volume, that’s redeeming the time**. Where do you spend your time? Never spend an hour on a ten-minute task, or a day on an hour's task. Some people spend a day on an hour's task, that's not even the end of it; they spend ten days. Then nobody knows whether it's an hour's task, ten hours' task, or a hundred hours' task. Then **all of a person's potential is consumed in dawdling**. Why? **Because dawdling can't lead to growth**! What I mean is, what you do is not important. Some people then say, what if people are just cutting corners? I have a way. Do you think you can get away with cutting corners? It doesn't matter if you cut corners initially, you must develop a habit of speed. That’s the trick.

The other day I saw the ones among us managing the Cantonese ministry. In the past two months, some people have done twenty-plus pieces, some have done ten-plus pieces, some have done seven or eight pieces, five or six pieces, all different amounts. I'll tell everyone a concept. Later, I asked those who had achieved high volume, those who had done twenty-plus pieces in those fifty days. He said that at first, it took three to five days, even five to six days to complete one piece, then later every two to three days to complete one piece, then later every day to complete one piece, and then sometimes two pieces a day. That's pretty amazing!

Why? He **gradually discovered the rules of things and did things faster and faster**. Brothers and sisters, this is called growth. Actually, with Cantonese, I really don't care if Hong Kong people understand. **I care about whether you can grow by speaking that stuff, whether you enjoy doing this. In growth, it is good to learn to manage**. Manage what? **Manage your time**. If your time, which is highly valuable, is spent dawdling, how much is that recording of mine worth? What's more, after finishing, there’s no growth, which is distressing. After being distressed, what happens? Problems with urination, problems with bowel movements, and I still have to bring you for prayer. Your time is wasted, and my time is wasted. Everyone's time is wasted. What did we accomplish? Something related to urination and bowel movements. Then where can you even find reason in that?

Can we manage our time well? **If everyone understands the rules of doing things, we can manage our time well, not only effectively but also efficiently, and also find the rules of doing things**. I tell you that time is money, and money can't buy time. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. Understand? Brothers and sisters, where has your time gone? If you've lived for sixty years and wasted the past sixty years, don't waste any more. If you're fifty years old today and you've wasted time dawdling for fifty years, you might as well be called Zhang Dawdle if your surname is Zhang, Li Dawdle if your surname is Li, Liu Dawdle if your surname is Liu, how can that be? You have to change here, and if you don't change, I'll definitely push you to cherish time and be efficient in doing things.

People's time isn't squeezed out. Why do some people always have time? Everyone knows I always have time, why? Because **I'm efficient in doing things, I manage my time**. You know that doing things one way versus another, changing the order slightly can make a complete difference, you know? So **time management is about what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and to what extent; it's all about learning**. If you're not good at this, still listen to my advice and try implementing what I say for a while, okay? Once people get into the habit of focusing on volume, I'm telling you, you will definitely find the rules of things. This is managing the method of doing things.

## Managing the Method of Doing Things

**Doing things is a critical component of a person's life. People spend their whole lives doing things, and not being able to do things is a very serious problem**. Whether you're a housewife, a househusband, an engineer, an accountant, a lawyer, a pastor, a teacher, you're all doing things, you have your specialty, and everyone specializes in their field. But **if you don't know how to do things and don't improve, you are a dawdling person**.

One employee asked me to raise his salary, and I refused. He said, What about inflation? I said, Inflation hasn't affected you. Let's go take a look at the work you're doing together. He took me to see the work he was managing, and I said, How many years have you been managing like this? He said, Five years. I said, You haven't changed it in five years, have you? He said, Yes, I haven't changed it. Then why should I raise your salary? You haven't improved in five years. I said, I'll give you five minutes to think about how you should do it. He said, Boss, I should do it this way. I said, You understand everything, why don't you change it? As long as you improve and become more efficient, and your method of doing things is correct, I will definitely raise your salary. Understand?

Look at some people, whether housewives or househusbands, they get up early to prepare breakfast, they're slow at doing things, they eat slowly after they're done, they clean up slowly after eating, and after cleaning up, they start making lunch, which takes a long time. After eating, they clean up again, then they start making dinner, eating dinner, and cleaning up after dinner. Oh, my goodness! They're busy, they're the busiest people in the world, but they're also the unhappiest people in the world. Why? This is a tragedy in life. People say: Of the three unfilial acts, having no descendants is the greatest. I say: Of the three misfortunes, dawdling is the greatest. What are you doing with your time? What would happen if the time spent cooking, eating, and cleaning up was shortened? What's more, if you change three meals to one, you'll save even more time. Otherwise, your whole life is spent cooking, eating, cleaning up, then cooking again, eating again, cleaning up again; what is that? The method is wrong.

Where does time come from? **Time comes from the method of doing things**. Many people are surprised at how I can do so many things. I'm surprised myself. I have a method for doing things. Because I have nowhere else to squeeze out time, there's only one place, and that's squeezing the method I use to do things. I'm fast at doing things, I don't dare boast about anything else, but that I'm fast. So no matter what you do, **you must constantly innovate, constantly update, constantly improve the method of doing things**.

Have you all noticed that after you come to our church, you change after a while, we always have tricks. Some people say, What tricks? They're making us incredibly busy. No, you're busy because you haven't corrected your method of doing things, understand? If your method of doing things is wrong, can you not be busy, can you not have pressure? Who told you to be such a dawdler? Can you find the method of doing things? If you start **inheriting my method of doing things, you can not only do what you're doing now, you can do many times what you're doing now**, understood? Manage the method of doing things.

I teach other classes, like carpentry, cleaning, cooking, programming, many of which have methods. That's why I teach these things because without these things, how would I know you're a dawdling person? You shout Hallelujah louder than I do! **Therefore, through doing things, we can shape the glorious image in which God created us, so that we can manage everything in the sea, in the air, and on the earth**? Be able to manage and govern this land, manage all things, understood?

## Managing Interpersonal Relationships

Interpersonal relationships are very important. If I have no connection with you, and I scold you, wouldn't you throw stones at me? Because there is a connection, after I manage you, I can correct you, so interpersonal relationships need management. I won't go into too much depth today. Interpersonal relationships are very important. If you want to manage interpersonal relationships, **you must first learn to speak**, otherwise, if your speech is harsh and unpleasant, what can you do? If you ask me how I learned to speak, we have speaking courses.

Doing things, speaking, building relationships, these are all very important. Our church is good. You can learn these things here. Recently, we talked about the pastoral care course, with one crucial part called Managing Interpersonal Relationships. You have to be able to speak, right? If after you speak, you only care about your own problems, why would people want to build a relationship with you?

Recently, we talked about the pastoral care course, with one crucial part called Managing Interpersonal Relationships. You have to be able to speak, right? If after you speak, you only care about your own problems, why would people want to build a relationship with you? You have to care about other people's problems. If you can't even do things yourself, can you care about other people's problems? **Therefore, you must be an efficient person, then establish care so you can pastor**. **Building a healthy relationship is essential for management**. Maybe you are managing a company, and your relationship with your employees is bad. They could have handled ten kilograms, but in the end, they don't even bother with five because they're upset with you, the boss. They only pick it up when you're around, and put it down as soon as you leave. It’s nothing more than going through the motions for show. Without a relationship, many things go wrong.

## Team Management and Future Missions

What is the relationship? It's building a healthy relationship where you want to help them grow, you are managing what they care about, the issues they care about, their growth. Therefore, everyone should learn human resource management. Why do I often encourage the sister who translates Korean to study human resource management? Because many of the things I talk about are terms used in human resource management. If you want to learn, read it yourself first, otherwise you can't translate it! It's hard to translate. So, interpersonal relationships must be managed correctly! You must learn to speak, and what you learn must be in place, and you must describe things clearly. How are relationships between people built? **They are built together while doing things, completing a project and a task together**. Do you want to become a manager? First manage your time, then manage your methods of doing things, and then manage your interpersonal relationships.

## Managing your team

People must be able to do things, train people, and motivate people. Being able to motivate employees is the core part of human resource management. Everyone must know that **using money as motivation is the worst motivation**. A factory was about to go bankrupt and received a project from a large military enterprise. This project needed to be completed with overtime. The factory director said to his subordinates, We finally got this project, but everyone lacks enthusiasm! When he asked the production department, they said, We need electricity! When he asked the equipment department how to get electricity, they answered, We need money! He then asked the financial department, We must have money! In the end, the factory director was so angry that the work couldn't proceed.

Problems in management lead to a lack of enthusiasm, and no one wants to solve the problem; everyone is just waiting, I look at you, you look at me, a bunch of useless people. This is deadly. To manage a factory well, but unable to pay salaries for three months, the factory director said, Everyone must tighten their belts and work hard! Everyone said, No problem, we can definitely do well by following the factory director. Like the early eighteen Arhats of Alibaba, if they told people in a restaurant that they were from Alibaba, people would think they were scammers! No one had even heard of Alibaba.

Employees who are motivated are completely different from those who are not. **Everyone must learn to manage a team. Not only will you be able to do things, be able to work with people, be able to train people, be able to motivate people, but also solve the problem of motivation**. Know that our textual ministry is done very well. A pastor from another church is also learning to do textual ministry, but he can't keep doing it. Do you know how he does it? He paid people to do an article for a certain amount of money, but the price wasn't high enough to motivate people. In the end, it fizzled out and no one did it anymore. The pastor from another church asked me to build them a website, but no one in their church would do it, even for money. So managing a team is critical.

When Joseph arrived at Potiphar's house, he was put in charge of everything except Potiphar's wife. God was with Joseph, and Joseph managed Potiphar's house in an organized manner. Later, when Joseph went to prison as a prisoner, he entered the management level of the prison and helped them manage the prison. Joseph was a management talent; very impressive.

## Prepare Yourself to Manage Five Cities and Ten Cities in the Future

There is such a prophecy, a story told by Jesus. He said that he was going on a long journey and called his ten servants and gave each of them a mina, some of whom earned ten minas. When the master returned, one person said, Master, I have earned ten minas, and another said, Master, I have earned five minas. The master said, You will be given ten cities to manage, and you will be given five cities to manage. Some people still had only one mina and were scolded by the master. There were also some people who did not want the master to return to manage, and the master returned and killed these people.

## The Mission of Management and God's Will

We must know that management is God’s will. It is not that God loves money; one mina becoming ten minas is the result of management. What is management? **Management is one mina becoming ten minas or five minas**. Everyone must know that we are that one mina. If we become worth ten minas, we can give an account before Jesus and manage five cities and ten cities in the future. If each of us manages five cities and ten cities, multiplied by one hundred, that is five hundred cities and one thousand cities. If multiplied by one thousand, that is five thousand and ten thousand cities. That is incredible. It's not that I want to reach far beyond what’s possible, but this is God's good will.

Management is God's good will. Today, salvation has come to us, and God wants to restore His glorious image in us. Today, we are managers walking with God. How to walk with God? This is called walking with God. In the future, we will still manage everything on the earth, and God's glory will be manifested through us, and even kings will come to the radiance of our dawn.

Is everyone ready? To become a blessing to many people. What does it mean to become a blessing to many people? It is **management, let him be worth five minas instead of one, and ten instead of five**. Our church is not a place to train religious people, not to train people to go out into the streets to protest; we are training people to learn management. We are training people to manage the small things that have been given to you, then to manage the bigger things, and then to manage even bigger things well.

Don't let what you manage become Ukraine, and then Afghanistan; that will be troublesome. **Prepare yourself to manage; everything is not caused by external pressure but by our internal corruption, the problem caused by internal rottenness, and internal rottenness is the absence of management**. In this place, learn to be a devoted person, a manager, may God bless you all!