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Kings Come Forth Press Release November 02 2014

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A Peek Inside The Make It Happen Journey November 01 2014

Author’s Prayer

May God bless all who read this book with a spirit of wisdom and excellence to “Make It Happen,” serving people and solving problems that make a difference in life.

A Make It Happen Dedication

This book is dedicated to all of the wonderful people at Ochsner Health System, especially the Make It Happen people in the business services division. As the Vice President of the Finance– Business Services division, it was my privilege and honor to serve the extraordinary people in business services as their Chief Make It Happen Leader. The Make It Happen people in business services “made it happen” every day for our physicians, our patients, and our colleagues, with outstanding excellence of service. Without their support, commitment, and belief in the Make It Happen team values this book describes, this book would be nothing more than a compilation of words printed on paper. However, because the Make It Happen people at Ochsner Health System believed in Make It Happen team values, the words written in this book actually draw the face of real-life people on a real-life Make It Happen journey.

As only one person, I could not have accomplished all of the really neat things that the Make It Happen people in business services accomplished as a team. Plus, I would never have had the opportunity to learn, grow, and develop into the leader I am today, as well as the leader I am becoming tomorrow, if my team had not believed in me enough to follow me. For their belief in me, I thank each and every one of them. And, because the people in Business Services Make It Happen every day as world class service enthusiasts, I dedicate this book to them. They are the greatest people I have ever had the opportunity to share my life, my love, and my laughter with. I am simply a better person and a more competent leader because of them.

Preface

Philippians 4:13 says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (nkjv). In the make-it-happen language of the marketplace, this means, “I can make it happen through Christ who gives me strength.” The Make It Happen Team Values in The Make It Happen Journey can help business leaders in the kingdom of God build their businesses and their teams on the “can do” principles of the Word of God with excellence and wisdom. Because Joshua and Caleb possessed the “can do” Spirit of God, in faith they gave a good report of the Promised Land and declared in Numbers 13:30, “Let’s go up and take the land—now. We can do it” (The Message).

God has given the body of Christ the land of the business community, but business leaders in the kingdom of God must believe we can take the land and make it happen in Christ. The Make It Happen Journey is written as a leadership tool to equip godly business leaders with practical faith-based values that create team cultures of excellence by reaching people in business, unleash their God-given potential to make a difference in life, and glorify God. While The Make It Happen Journey is written for the secular marketplace, Kings Come Forth, my next book, will engage and empower faith-based business leaders through deeper scriptural clarity and referential support for the cultural mandate of the kingdom of God in the business community.

The Make It Happen Team Values ©

Make It Happen People Possess a Positive Make It Happen Attitude
Make It Happen People Are Led by Servant Leaders
Make It Happen People Are Service Enthusiasts
Make It Happen People Take Calculated Risks in the Pursuit of Excellence
Make It Happen People Work Extremely Hard and Have Lots of Fun
Make It Happen People Invest and Participate in Training and Development
Make It Happen People Celebrate Individual and Team Accomplishments with the Abundance Mentality
Make It Happen People Foster a Safe Environment of Teamwork and Mutual Respect
Make It Happen People Are Professionals.

The Make It Happen Team Values are copyright protected by the Make It Happen Learning Institute. You have permission to print and use the Make It Happen Team Values with your team, provided each value is printed in its entirety. All other rights reserved.

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Most Strang Communications Book Group products are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchase for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, and educational needs. For details, write Strang Communications Book Group, 600 Rinehart Road, Lake Mary, Florida 32746, or telephone (407) 333-0600.

The Make It Happen Journey by Gary Borgstede

Published by Excel Books

A Strang Company

600 Rinehart Road

Lake Mary, Florida 32746

www.strangbookgroup.com

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Design Director: Bill Johnson

Cover design by: Justin Evans

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926535

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61638-168-4

First Edition 10 11 12 13 14 — 987654321

Printed in the United States of America

A Peek Inside Kings Come Forth November 01 2014

Author’s Prayer

May the Lord empower all who read this book by the anointing of His Holy Spirit to be an overcoming servant leader who prevails with God in the business marketplace.

And He [God] changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding.

—Daniel 2:21

A Make It Happen Dedication

This Make It Happen Book™ is dedicated to all of the godly leaders in business who every day fight the good fight of faith in the marketplace to honor God with their gifts and talents and bring Him glory by the way they represent Jesus Christ to the business community. As a business leader for many years, I have personally experienced the challenges and struggles that godly men and women face each day to practically live their faith and build the kingdom of God in the business world. I know firsthand that the marketplace environment can be a difficult and challenging place for people of faith to travel their faith journey; however, I also know that the marketplace is where the Lord is raising up kings in these last days to build His kingdom, glorify His holy name, and take the good news of the kingdom to the whole world. And the really cool thing about this chaordic frontier (the spiritual battleground where chaos meets order and good meets evil) is that kingdom ambassadors get to play an awesome part in this marketplace revival as the Lord changes the hearts of modern-day kings and revolutionizes the business world for His glory. All praise, glory, and honor to the King of kings and Lord of lords, forever and ever! Amen and amen!

Foreword

I was first introduced to Gary Borgstede while attending a small group of local community business leaders five years ago. In short order, we became friends, and over the next few years I had the privilege of helping to coach Gary in the ways of the kingdom of God. At the time, Gary was vice president of finance at a very reputable hospital in our region. Over time, Gary began to share with me his fifteen-year journey in the healthcare industry. Because of my own experience and background working in a corporate environment before making the transition into full-time ministry, his story captivated my attention.

In Kings Come Forth, Gary addresses the delicate interfacing of the kingdom-minded business leader with the marketplace environment. He squarely and with scriptural precedent challenges business leaders to use their God-given positions to be change agents in their respective spheres of market influence. In our litigious world of exactness and political correctness, most Christian business leaders, out of fear, have a tendency to skirt the perimeter of their business environments and shy away from integrating real biblical standards and values. This is understandable. However, there is a real need for godly, Christian business people to rise to the occasion of desperate moral, character, and spiritual need in the world of business and facilitate change. As a pastor, I applaud those who are out on the highways and byways of the business world who are bold enough, with godly wisdom and a spiritually deft hand, to take a stand and entreat a spiritual climate change.

To affect this change, Gary explores the scriptural links between kings and priests and addresses the roles that each play and how they are to work together in advancing the kingdom. Gary addresses the frequently tentative nature of church leaders to properly understand and embrace the role the marketplace leader has and, as such, underutilize their God-given talents and marginalize them in their churches. Gary submits a challenge to church leaders to understand that God throughout Scripture placed kings and priests together for divine kingdom partnership. As a church leader who has been in ministry for more than twenty years, I have personally experienced the benefit of partnering with many wonderful, Christ centered business leaders. I have had the opportunity to see the kingdom of God advanced and accelerated due to business leaders who realized their business acumen and talent were not just for their personal enrichment but, rather, for the advancement of the greatest cause on planet earth.

Gary Borgstede embodies the essence and balance of the corporate business leader and one who partners with the vision and mission of his local church with his time, talent, and treasure. Gary does not live in the world of concepts, ideas, and theories of being a king, but each day he lives it out as a servant leader in his natural and spiritual families. Today, Gary serves on our church staff as the chief administrative officer and has the opportunity to serve his local church from within the organization. He is challenging us all to “make it happen!”

- Randy Craighead, Executive Pastor, Church of the King

Introduction

For more than nineteen years, I have served the Lord as a king in His kingdom in the realm of business. As with many leaders of faith written about in the Bible, I have had my share of successes and failures on my personal faith journey. This book, Kings Come Forth!, is not about my successes nor my failures as a man of God in the Lord’s kingdom; however, I am open and transparent regarding many aspects of my personal relationship with the Lord. In The Maxwell Leadership Bible, one of John Maxwell’s leadership lessons includes this statement, “Without hope in the future, we lack power in the present.”1 With that in mind, I believe that the Lord has directed me to write Kings Come Forth! to inspire hope for the future and foster empowerment in the present for the many spirit-filled business leaders in God’s kingdom on earth today.

The Holy Spirit has compelled me to write the message contained within the pages of this book as His message, not mine, from the perspective of a king in His kingdom. Through personal fellowship with the Lord, I believe it is His desire to awaken His anointed kings to their original purpose in the kingdom business through healthy kingdom partnership with His anointed priests. Since my educational background and professional experiences are entirely comprised in business, all supporting references to Scripture and biblical principles in the book are not the result of a formal Bible college education, but rather a real personal relationship with the actual Author of the Holy Scriptures, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Any personal revelation of the Scriptures is because of the Lord’s faithfulness to fulfill the promise of His Word to personally lead His people into all truth and teach them all things through His Holy Spirit. For me, there is no greater fulfillment than that which comes from the leading and teaching of the Holy Spirit through my personal daily relationship with Jesus Christ, my Lord, Savior, and Friend.

In developing the literary style of the book, it is also very important to note that while I discriminately refer to godly business leaders throughout the entire book in the masculine form as kings, my purpose in doing so is nothing more than a matter of literary prose and contextual consistency and not a lack of respect for the many outstanding Spirit-filled female business leaders in the kingdom of God. In fact, I know full well that the business community is filled with many intelligent, competent, and influential business leaders who are outstanding women of faith committed to making a difference in life through their leadership. Therefore, for all of the female readers of Kings Come Forth!, please feel free to mentally substitute the context of the book from a masculine reference point of kings to a feminine reference point of queens since all of the material contained within these pages is completely gender neutral as well as kingdom applicable.

And lastly, as each reader begins to digest the message of Kings Come Forth! I pray that the Holy Spirit will fan into flame a renewed desire to become everything He created you to be as a Spirit-led business leader in His kingdom. To come forth in the power and might of the Holy Spirit and fulfill your God-ordained kingdom assignment as a king in God’s kingdom can be one of the most rewarding aspects of your personal faith journey with the Lord. I look forward to taking this faith journey with you to build God’s kingdom in every sphere of influence, especially the sphere of the modern-day business world.

Copyright Notice

Most Strang Communications Book Group products are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchase for sales promotions, premiums, fundraising, and educational needs. For details, write Strang Communications Book Group, 600 Rinehart Road, Lake Mary, Florida 32746, or telephone (407) 333-0600.

Kings Come Forth! by Gary Borgstede

Published by Excel Books, A Strang Company

600 Rinehart Road, Lake Mary, Florida 32746

www.strangbookgroup.com

This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law. Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked NLT are from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

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Cover design by Justin Evans

Design Director: Bill Johnson

Visit author’s website: www.makeithappenlearninginstitute.com

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010940915

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61638-440-1

First Edition 11 12 13 14 15 — 987654321

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