Better-oiled and equipped business groups are in constant search of good investments. They will pick on your enterprise and bump you off the road if it’s worth it. Reveal your formula only after you have abandoned the business for good. If you must reveal a part of it for the meantime, reveal only how Y’shua has been helping you.
14 Keep your secrets to yourself and be very careful, for you are always walking on dangerous ground… 3 If a rich man wrongs someone, he can afford to add insult to injury, but if a poor person is wronged, he is forced to apologize for himself. 4 A rich man will use you as long as he can profit from it, but when you need him, he will leave you helpless. 5 He will live with you as long as you have anything and he will gladly drain you dry. 6 If he needs you, he will trick you with his smiles and cheerful, kindly words. “Do you need anything?” he will ask you. 7 He will feed you until you are embarrassed. Finally, when he has drained you two or three times over, he will laugh at you. If you see him later, he will pretend he doesn’t know you, and will pass you by. SIRACH 13
Refrain from making negative confessions.
Your words can do or undo your enterprise. If you say you are having a difficult life while enjoying God’s favor, you will end up having a difficult life. On the other hand, say God has been blessing you while having a difficult life and you will be blessed. Positive confession can make the poor rich and the rich richer. It can make the sick man whole and the failure a success. Conversely, negative confession can make the rich poor and the poor poorer. It can make the healthy man sick and the success a failure.
28 As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very things I heard you say. NUMBERS 14
Be charitable.
Charity is giving to the needy motivated by love. Sow generosity and Divine Justice will be generous to you, your family and enterprise. Sow selfishness and Divine Justice will be selfish to you, your family and enterprise. 2 Corinthians 9:6 says, “Whoever sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will reap generously.”
7 Just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us—see that you also excel in the grace of giving. 2 CORINTHIANS 8
Be faithful in prayer.
What happens when the TV is unplugged? No power, no show. What happens if you are disconnected from the Power-Source? No power, dead enterprise. Death brings no success and prosperity. So stay connected and thank God in all circumstances (1 Thessalonians 5:18 tev).
24 Don’t think that you have everything you need or that nothing can go wrong for you in the future. SIRACH 11
14 Enjoy prosperity whenever you can, and when hard times strike, realize that God gives one as well as the other [both come from God]—so that everyone will realize that nothing is certain in this life. ECCLESIASTES 7 tlb
6 I will destroy those… who do not come to Me or ask Me to guide them. ZEPHANIAH 1 tev
Do not waste your blessings.
Live within your means (Luke 3:14). Sirach 5:2 says, “Don’t think you have to have everything you want.”
Be sure to save for the lean months. Proverbs 21:20 says, “The wise man saves for the future but the foolish man spends whatever he gets.” (tlb)
Avoid pocket-draining activities like gambling or drug-addiction or womanizing. Chinese proverb says, “He who restrains his appetite avoids debt.”
32 Don’t indulge in expensive living; the expense of it will ruin you. 33 Don’t make yourself a beggar by borrowing for expensive banquets [feasts] when you don’t have enough money of your own. SIRACH 18
Do not be stingy with yourself, however.
5 If a man is mean to himself, to whom will he be good? He does not even enjoy what is his own. 6 No one is meaner than a man who is mean to himself, and this is how his wickedness pays him back…. 11 My son, treat yourself as well as you can afford… ECCLESIASTICUS 14
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