BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

That’s one of the reasons business has gotten a bad reputation. It’s why even many believers view it as totally unspiritual. While they esteem the work of preaching and full-time ministry, they have the idea that business is (at best) just a secular necessity and (at worst) downright evil. Neither of those things, however, is true. The truth is, God created business! He created Adam to be a farmer, not a preacher. (See Genesis 2:15.) His intention was that as people multiplied on earth, they’d each go into whatever line of work He called them to and then get together to do business. They’d trade with each other whatever they produced and be a BLESSING to one another. Of course, when Adam and Eve sinned, that idea, along with everything else on earth, got messed up. The curse came into the earth, human beings fell prey to a fear-and-lack mentality, and instead of helping each other, they began to mistreat each other. But that doesn’t mean God gave up on His original plan. No, He put it in motion again. He found a man named Abram who would believe and cooperate with Him and said to him, “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:2–3). Notice God not only promised to BLESS Abraham, He gave him a job to do. What was it? To be a BLESSING to others. As he did that job, he himself would be BLESSED and promoted. What’s more, anyone who wanted could get in on that BLESSING program. If they came up alongside Abram and helped him, they too would be BLESSED. This is a principle of God: When you stop working “for a living” and start working “to be a BLESSING,” you are going to be BLESSED! God will see to it. He will back you and no one in the world will be able to keep you from prospering. It doesn’t matter if the only job you can find is flipping hamburgers. If you say, “Glory to God, I’m going to be the best hamburger flipper in the whole world!” you’ll keep being promoted. Eventually, instead of just working at that hamburger joint, if you want, you’ll be able to buy the franchise. From No Pay to Highly Paid I’m not just theorizing. I’ve met people who proved this out in their own lives. One man I knew started out his career with nothing but a desire in his heart to be an airplane mechanic. He didn’t care anything about flying airplanes, he just wanted to work on them. So he went to the airport near where he lived to apply for a job. “We don’t have any openings,” the man in charge told him. “We have all the mechanics we need.” “Could I work here if I work for free?” the young man asked. “I don’t care,” said the boss. “If you’re dumb enough to work without getting paid, go ahead.” The next morning the young man showed up ready to work and did anything he could to help the other mechanics. He continued doing that day after day, and after a while the chief mechanic took him under his wing, got him a uniform, and made him an apprentice mechanic. Over time, the young man kept getting better at the job and became a bigger and bigger BLESSING. Finally, one day the apprentice mechanic went to the boss and said, “I’ve been working here for some time now with no pay. I think it’s time you hired me.” The boss refused, so the next day the young man took a day off. When the other mechanics found out what had happened, they practically mutinied. “We need this man!” they told the boss. “He’s as good as any of the rest of us, and if he doesn’t come back, we’re all going to quit.” The boss agreed to hire him, and he worked there for some time. Then he came to work for us at KCM for several years. From here he went to American Airlines where he was hired to supervise 250 mechanics. Think of it! That young man went from making no money at all to being paid very highly just by meeting people’s needs. That’s the way heaven’s economy works. 6 : BVOV

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