How do we stop being overwhelmed by the harmful and hateful anger that bombards our hearts during these troubling times? #GainConfidence

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Ambition can be a good and a bad thing for entrepreneurs. As Godpreneurs, is it possible to be ambitious in our business ventures and still have our identity... COURSE HERE Ambition can be a good and a bad thing for entrepreneurs. As Godpreneurs, is it possible to be ambitious in our business ventures and still have our identity and self-worth come from God? Because we’re Godpreneurs, we don’t follow the worldview that we have to make a name for ourselves and accumulate fame and fortune. Godpreneurs replace these improper ambitions with motivations to work to glorify God and serve others through our businesses. Discover practical wisdom from the Bible about ambition at work — the good and the bad. TAKE COURSE HERE #GodpreneurAcademy #BusinessBibleStudy #WorkLifeBalance

This course provides needed strength and faith, in the truth of God’s holy Word, for breakthroughs in both your business and marriage. COURSE HERE Financial setbacks in business and marital issues at home affect entrepreneurs around the world. This course provides needed strength and faith, in the truth of God’s holy Word, for breakthroughs in both your business and marriage. Each day contains a testimony, a bible verse, and questions to build up towards your breakthrough! TAKE COURSE HERE #GodpreneurAcademy #BusinessBibleStudy #MarriedEntrepreneurs

In this course, I show you 8 lies that keep Godpreneurs bogged down in feelings of inadequacy, insecurities of owning a business, and 8 truths to combat lies. COURSE HERE As entrepreneurs, we often hear lies in our head that we’re not good enough to own this business, smart enough to sell that product, rich enough to launch… just not enough, period! In this course, I show you 8 lies that keep Godpreneurs bogged down in feelings of inadequacy, insecurities of owning a business, and 8 truths to combat those lies. Silencing the lies can only happening by shouting the truth – that you serve a God that says you’re enough, you’re incredible, you were uniquely fashioned, and the marketplace needs you! TAKE COURSE HERE #GodpreneurAcademy #BusinessBibleStudy

We all want to become a reference point in our niche. We all want to, someday, be an authority in our field. COURSE HERE Becoming an authority is not about reaching fame, fortune or power. This comes as a consequence of following God’s lessons and fulfilling our role in His greater vision. Godpreneurs understand their value and act in accordance with it. They stay humble and focus on their tribe, as Christ did. They follow the true and only God, and not fake gods such as fame, fortune and power. Join us on this pilgrimage as we learn how to change our identity according to God’s demands and become a real authority in our field! TAKE COURSE HERE #GodpreneurAcademy #BusinessBibleStudy

Achieving greatness starts with realizing you need help and ends with coming to terms with the fact that you NEED haters in order to thrive whilst learning how to handle them. COURSE HERE As soon as we understand that we need help in order to bring our visions to life as Godpreneurs, it’s time to take action. Come up with solutions to common problems you see on the daily, we hurt thinking about the things we can’t fix, but what if we can? Be inspired to create and come up with new solutions. Achieving greatness is a long process of self reflection and hard work, keeping our composure is key for us to maintain long term relationships with clients and even make them stronger! Submit your business power to God and let Him exercise control over it. TAKE COURSE HERE #GodpreneurAcademy #BusinessBibleStudy #StrengthenIntegrity

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My answer was “I like learning from a dead person that is very much alive today.” buried, he rose from the grave, defeated death, and is alive in me working through me in my business and personal This means that we don’t need to follow every living guru expert or wise person that lived. If Jesus wouldn’t have died and been resurrected, he’d be just another dead wise person that made his with no thought of afterlife leaves a purposeless business that’s only our for selfish pleasures and personal

(Hebrews 4:14‭-‬16 NIV) Like no other person in history, Jesus was unique because he was both fully God Only because he shared in our humanity is he the perfect person to follow.

spoken with so many Christian entrepreneurs who share similar and sometimes deeper strongholds than I’ve personally How do you develop a spirit of humility during your waiting season? For me, I became more humble as I developed my habit of reading the Bible every morning.

There’s a pathway out of the valley of the anxiety and stress of entrepreneurship. God used the apostle Paul to sketch a map for us in this passage from Philippians 4:4-8. "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." A business owner would be hard-pressed to find a passage more practical and applicable to the rollercoaster ride of entrepreneurship, wouldn't you agree? Paul lists some helpful ideas for winning the war on worry. If you want to move on from chaos into calm in your company, consider what Paul is saying. Step 1: Celebrate God's Goodness First, he says to celebrate God's goodness, to "rejoice in the Lord always." Mind you, he's writing this from a Roman jail with no money and the thought of execution looking likelier every day that passes. He's not just saying to rejoice in the Lord always, his point is: don’t meditate on the mess. The more you stare at the problems facing your business, the bigger the problems get. So when you have a problem and you're powerless over the circumstances, lift up your eyes and rejoice in the Lord. Rather than giving in to the anxiety, when you start to feel it, you lift up your eyes and rejoice in the Lord. Find some way to celebrate God's goodness - to see the glass half full in any business situation - and to be grateful for it. This is the counsel of the Psalmist that wrote: "I lift up my eyes on to the hills. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth." (Psalm 121:1) Do you see this intentionally in the words, "I will lift up my eyes?" This was the decision that the Psalmist made. This is the decision we entrepreneurs need to make when powerlessness shows its face. The apostle Peter is a testimony to this verse. You remember how when the storm struck the Sea of Galilee, he knew exactly what 10-foot waves could do to a fishing boat, and Peter cried out: “Lord if it is really you, command me to come to you in the water,” and Jesus said, “come.” Then Peter left the boat and walked towards Jesus, but when Peter saw the wind and the waves, he became afraid and he began to sink. As long as he kept his eyes on Jesus, he was able to do the impossible. But, when he saw the wind and the waves, he turned his gaze away from Christ and he began to sink. The next time you feel like you're sinking in your business, and maybe that's today for you, lift up your eyes, set your gaze on Christ, rejoice in the Lord, and rejoice in his sovereignty. Is God greater than your company problems? Has God faced this problem before? Does God have solutions you haven't even thought of? Has God taken you through these types of things before? Does God have a good track record? Is God strong? Is God sovereign? Is God still on the throne? Is He over everything else? Do you see how this is done? You're rejoicing in the Lord, you’re lifting your mind away from the business problems and you’re setting your mind on the one who can solve them. Don't meditate on the mess, instead, you rejoice. That's what it means to rejoice in the Lord. Step 2: Ask for God's Help The Apostle says having celebrated God’s goodness first, you’ll then be ready to ask God for help. "Let your request be made known to God." You see, fear for entrepreneurs triggers either despair or prayer, so choose wisely. God said: "call on me on the day of trouble." (Psalm 50:15) Jesus said: "ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7) The entrepreneurial path free from anxiety and stress is always paved with prayer. That’s why the devil doesn’t want you to pray. The path of peace is always paved with prayer. The enemy would love to shut down your ability to pray in faith. When you pray, and you take a promise of God, and you declare it over your business in whatever area, the Bible says to "believe you have received it" (Romans 10:17). Worry doesn't believe you received it. Anxiety doesn't believe you received it. Stress doesn't believe you received it. The enemy will attack your unbelief. The enemy wants your worry to start a domino effect into areas you've never even worried about before. It's crazy, all of the sudden you feel like your problems come in 3's. That's what's happening. It's a domino effect of worry. Cut it off through prayer and belief in the answer to that prayer. Prayer and anxiety go hand in hand because God wants you to pray, and walk away. Don't sit around waiting to see if God has come through or not. That's not how it was designed. That would defeat the purpose of prayer. You'd still be stressed out and anxious if you had to wait around checking in every 5 minutes if God answered your prayer. No. You walk away, stress-free, anxiety-free, confident that God is going to answer the prayer, leaving you to continue running your business! You'll see new ideas and fresh perspectives - the very creativity God might use to answer the prayer. Step 3: Practice Gratitude And with anxiety now gone from your mind, you can now replace it with gratitude. The apostle says, “in everything, by prayer and supplication, with Thanksgiving!” Anxiety and gratitude can't share the same heart inside of an entrepreneur. The next time you're anxious, begin to make a list of things for which you’re grateful. Your anxiety will begin to fade as you write because anxiety and gratitude refuse to share the same heart. Step 4: Meditate on Good Things Celebrate God's goodness in your business, leave your strategic concerns with Him, fill your heart with gratitude along your entrepreneurial journey, and lastly, meditate on good things all along the way. As a financial provider to your family and employees, it's easy to let anxious negative thoughts in business take over your mind. Listen, you can't control your circumstances, but you can control how you think about them. Peace comes from a stream of thought patterns. It's a mindset. You can be a Christian business owner, born again and on your way to heaven, yet still have no peace. Why? Because of what you’re thinking, because of what you’re meditating on, because of what you're dwelling on, because of what you’re focusing on. You're fixated on what’s going through your ear, what’s going on in your head, in between your ears. Listen, this is why so many Christian entrepreneurs fail - it's because they're stressed and anxious over a situation for which Jesus has already given the victory. For example, if God promised that big contract, and you think about the fact that my God says "He shall supply all my needs according to his riches and glory," then your mind is constantly on the fact that God will supply you. Rich or poor, contract or no contract, the freedom from anxiety doesn't come from the situation or its outcome, the freedom from stress comes from our ability to keep our minds thinking victorious thoughts about what God said in His word and your confidence that He would do it because He’s done everything else that He said He would do. So, the next time that anxiety awakens you at 2:30 in the morning, would you believe what I’m suggesting to you? I'm simply saying that it's not God’s will that you lead an entrepreneurial life of perpetual anxiety. Your Heavenly Father will help you in your business endeavors. God will help you pull out the roots of your anxiety. Your #1 business partner and a wise counselor will help you deal with the fears that face you daily along your entrepreneurial journey. #GainConfidence

There is no business unless there’s another person involved that’s receiving or adding value to the product

As I’ve already shared, when I would face problems in my marriage, I would immediately go upstairs and start working on one of the thousands to-do’s on my business. Sometimes I would get so upset that I would get dressed and leave to work…On a Saturday, on a Sunday, at night…Whenever. No rules. Just get up and go. I’ve never shared this with anyone, but since I’m being vulnerable…Sometimes I would fake a meeting at the office just to leave the house sooner and not have to deal with the issues at home. Yup. That’s me. I found releif and comfort in working. It felt productive. It felt like I was getting back at her while getting work done. Hey, two birds with one stone…Right? It gets worst. When my wife would complain about me working too much, I always took it as an attack on my identity, covering my addiction up by telling her I was working towards our future so we didn’t have to work so much later. Biggest lie ever. There will be no “future us” if we don’t survive the “present us“. When we face adversity and stress in our lives, we Entrepreneurs will tend to work more. Working feels good to us, so we fall back on it. The bigger the problems, the more we want to work. It doesn’t matter if the problem is from family, finances, clients, employees…We just fall back on working more. Ironically, we fall back on to-do lists, which are the most unproductive tasks. We can’t get to the productive tasks because our mindset isn’t right. It’s a vicious cycle. What’s going on here?  Why is our identity so wrapped up in entrepreneurship that it’s become an addiction?  How can we get our minds back in line with the right way? What’s the right way anyway?. I believe the Bible tells us what’s going wrong here. The Bible says "Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry. I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols." Ezekiel 14:4‭-‬5 NIV We hear about this thing called idols all throughout the Bible. We think of them as little statues that symbolize God, but they can also be other things we can physically touch…Like idolizing our businesses. An idol is anything that we place at a higher value than God. The first commandment of the bible is “Have no other Gods but me” (Exodus 20:3). So how can we tell if we’ve turned work and entrepreneurship into an idol? Work has power over us Addiction and idolatry in entrepreneurship both occur when it has more power over us than God does. When we’re addicted to our businesses, we give more value or importance to the growth or to clients than it deserves. Nothing other than God should have ultimate power over us. In my case, instead of turning to God and praying about my marital problems or turning to Jesus’s example of love and patience and forgiveness, I let work soothe me. That’s an idol. Work Masters Us Addiction and idolatry happen in business when work masters us. When our businesses dictate our behavior, we might have fallen into addiction and idolatry of entrepreneurship. We also might deliberately change our behavior to be more acceptable to someone. These are also signs of addiction and idolatry. In my case, my businesses ups and downs absolutely change my behavior. Work Becomes Our God Addiction and idolatry in entrepreneurship take place when we worship or glorify our businesses rather than God. Where do you spend the majority of your time? Work? Why does it feel like death when our spouses tell us to turn off the computer and come downstairs to spend time with them? What do you spend most of your money on? What do you give most of your energy or effort to? All of these questions can be helpful in discerning an addiction or idolatry of work. In the last post, we defined an addiction as anything you do in your business that is harming you in some way and you can’t stop it. Combining that with today’s biblical definition, here’s a fuller definition: Pursuing our business more than God in a repetitive, habitual, or patterned way to get our needs met and bring us comfort, even though it’s harmful to us. Now that we are aware of the idol of entrepreneurship, we can begin the work needed to destroy the idol and put it in it’s right place in our minds. Godpreneur Rule #45:  When Godpreneurs face adversity in our business, we turn to God for relief and comfort, not addictions. #FindMyCalling #ArticulatingMyIdeas #StrengthenIntegrity