SCRIPTURE:

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’ (Isaiah 46:10 NIV)

DEVOTIONAL:

Many of God’s marketplace leaders are still designing and executing their plans and businesses without His wisdom and power. As a result, they are still competing with the world instead of taking their place of leadership and dominance in their areas of influence. 

One important piece of wisdom is that God always starts with the end in mind (Isaiah 46:10), and we are to operate as He operates. As a kingdom entrepreneur in any sphere of the marketplace, you must get a revelation that all increase in the Kingdom of God is accelerated. You don’t have to wait ten years to reach a million dollars in profit. Why?

Because first, you are using God’s resources, not your own. 

Second, the increase is not earned but created. 

Third, you don’t learn your strategies for business success, you discern them (revelation from God). When you can download in prayer the wisdom of 30 years of business experience—that’s acceleration!

PRAYER:

Dear God, help me to discern and put into practice Your divine strategies for my situation. I trust not in myself, my intellect, my abilities, or my resources, but in Your wisdom which I download in prayer. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

This devotional is excerpted from Bill Winston’s unprecedented book, Faith and the Marketplace. To order this “God’s way of doing business” book, click here.

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