INVOLVE GOD IN WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Involve God in what you are doing.

¹⁸ Make plans by seeking advice; if you wage war, obtain guidance. PROVERBS 20 

³ Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed. PROVERBS 16

¹⁴ Everything comes from the Lord: success and failure, poverty and wealth, life and death… ¹⁷ If He approves of you, you will be successful. SIRACH 11

With the Omnipotent and Omniscient as your partner, everything is possible. Success is certain. Your enterprise is bankable.

⁵ First seek the counsel of the Lord. 1 KINGS 22

¹⁰ And find out what pleases the Lord. EPHESIANS 5

⁶ Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take. PROVERBS 3 nlt

²⁸ We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. ROMANS 8

⁴ Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you your heart’s desires. PSALM 37

But without Him in it, the enterprise is like a bet on the roulette of a cheat, a sure loser in the end.

¹ Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain. PSALM 127

¹ Woe [curse] to the obstinate children, declares the Lord, to those who carry out plans that are not Mine, forming an alliance, but not with My Spirit, heaping sin upon sin. ² who go down to Egypt without consulting Me; who look for help to Pharaoh’s protection, to Egypt’s shade for refuge. ISAIAH 30

³⁷ Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? LAMENTATIONS 3

³¹ The horse is made ready for the day of the battle, but victory rests with the Lord. PROVERBS 21

Stay clean.

God will cover your sphere with an invisible, glass-like shield. It will be impregnable to the demonic forces but entertain an enemy stronghold—like skip a Sabbath observance or omit your tithes and offerings—and it will crack. An opening smaller than a needle prick is all the demons will need to get into your sphere and do serious damage to you, your enterprise and family.

¹⁹ Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. LEVITICUS 19

⁹ Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard. If you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled. DEUTERONOMY 22

²⁴ Wealth is good where there is no sin. ECCLESIASTICUS 13

The demons will telepathy you, saying, “Lie to your customers. Short-sell. Create artificial shortages to jack up the price. Delay payments to suppliers. Overprice the contract. Rig the bidding. Bribe the approving body. Pirate intellectual property. Overwork your employees and ill-pay them. Do not pay taxes. If you get caught for an illegal act, do not admit guilt. Bribe the regulator, the police, the judge, the jailer. Silence the witnesses.”

²⁷ Keep your foot from evil. PROVERBS 4

²⁷ Do not give the devil a foothold. EPHESIANS 4

²⁷ A wise man will be cautious in everything, and in sinful days he will take care not to offend. ECCLESIASTICUS 18

¹¹ Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another… ¹³ Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him… ³⁵ Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. ³⁶ Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. LEVITICUS 19

¹⁰ Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods. PSALM 62

⁸ Do not set your heart on ill-gotten gains, they will be of no use to you on the day of disaster. ECCLESIASTICUS 5

⁸ Better to have little with godliness than to be rich and dishonest… ¹⁹ Better to live humbly with the poor than to share plunder with the proud. PROVERBS 16 nlt 

¹⁴ Do not take advantage of each other. LEVITICUS 25

²¹ You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. ²² You must not exploit a widow or an orphan. ²³ If you exploit them in any way and they cry out to Me, then I will certainly hear their cry. EXODUS 22 nlt

¹⁴ Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns. ¹⁵ You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don’t, they might cry out to the Lord against you and it would be counted against you as a sin. DEUTERONOMY 24 nlt

¹ Masters, be just and fair to your slaves [employees]. Remember that you also have a Master—in heaven. COLOSSIANS 4 nlt

²² It is murder to deprive someone of his living or to cheat an employee of his wages. SIRACH 34

Resist the temptation. In war, you don’t win battles by giving your enemy an opening. Or by abusing, shortchanging or betraying the trust of your partners. Lay the groundwork for an attractive personal reputation. Your character will prompt people to take a chance on you.

¹³ Doomed [cursed] is the one who builds his house by injustice and enlarges it by dishonesty. JEREMIAH 22 tev 

¹⁷ My son, be gentle in carrying out your business, and you will be better loved than a lavish giver. ¹⁸ The greater you are, the more you should behave humbly, and then you will find favour with the Lord. ECCLESIASTICUS 3