14
Mar '18
FAITHPRENEUR D1W1
14
Mar '18
And so we begin! Day 1.
Congratulations on your decision to join us on this 10 week FAITHPRENEUR journey! Prosperity is not simply a desire or an ambition, it is the will of God for our lives. No matter what we’re endeavoring to do, become or achieve in life, our faith focus establishes a foundation for achieving extraordinary results.
God’s plan for our lives is to prosper us for the cause of Christ. Your success is Kingdom success, your prosperity is Kingdom prosperity and through faith in action, God works through us to accomplish his will.
“For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13)
Every week we’ll kick off with a ‘Stretching Your Faith’ message. As a FAITHPRENEUR, anchoring each week with a powerful faith focus is critical for our Faith Momentum. We’ll go into Faith Momentum later but for now, consider Faith Momentum to be the result of starting each week by intentionally fanning our gift into flames (2 Timothy 1:6).
Before we begin our journey, I want to provide a few guidelines that will help us to achieve our goals and to ensure that this experience is both rewarding and transformational.
- To illustrate different faith principles, we will incorporate diverse business and leadership concepts and strategies. The primary focus of the FAITHPRENEUR devotional however, is our faith and the faith strategies that will impact the way we approach our business, goals and challenges.
- Each devotion will be identified as “FAITHPRENEUR” followed by week number and day number — i.e. today’s devotional is W1D1.
- To reread or catch up on FAITHPRENEUR devotionals book mark this page or the FAITHPRENEUR blog home page. Click Here to go to the FAITHPRENEUR blog home page.
- Each devotional blog post will have a comment section at the bottom. Sign in is required (Name and email) to provide feedback or to ask questions. You can choose to be notified by email when comments or questions are posted. Please use the comment section to engage each other, ask questions about concepts or strategies or for additional information about resources discussed.
Now, let’s get started!
I don’t want you to put a single finger to work until you’ve been reminded that you have been created for a purpose and that God has a plan for your days.
Knowing this to be true, we should approach our business with powerful enthusiasm but that isn’t always the case is it?
The truth is success is not easy, anymore than a faith walk is a cake walk. Maintaining momentum and keeping a positive attitude can be challenging. A FAITHPRENEUR is human and yes, there are days when fighting, climbing, growing and managing can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the old adage is true, “No pain, no gain.”
In future weeks we’ll definitely be covering the importance of choosing work that you enjoy. For today I want to simply encourage you to approach your day with an attitude of powerful meditation and expectation.
Maybe you don’t love what you’re going to have to do to make a dollar today – but you have the opportunity to make one and that is worth being thankful for. The key to keeping Faith Momentum is, “An attitude of gratitude determines our faith altitude.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 says “give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
Whatever you do as FAITHPRENEUR, do not give room for the enemy to steal your gratitude by grumbling and groaning about anything that you put your faith to work for. Why? Because the words you speak matter.
Proverbs 18:21 says: “Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life.”
If you’re going to talk about your business, your vision, your plans or even your challenges, do not speak words that contradict your faith position. Negativity pours water on the flames that you intentionally fanned to start out your week – which can, and often does, kill your Faith Momentum.
We’re going to end today’s devotional with this real-life example:
Gert has a young Virtual Assistant business that has no steady clientele yet and she’s worried about whether her marketing efforts are ever going to pay off.
Option A: She can wake up stressed, spend some time doubting her efforts and complaining to friends that she may have chosen the wrong business, the wrong target market or the wrong marketing tools. She finally gets down to work discouraged, faithless and demotivated.
Option B: She can wake, make a habit of praying for her business, the days expectations and divine inspiration, and tells a friend how she expects her day to be prosperous, impactful and rewarding. She tackles the day with excited expectation.
Attitude is everything. The power position of a FAITHPRENEUR is that attitude and the words we speak DO matter.
If you tend towards negativity or if your situation is really stressful right now, choosing to be positive with your words may be challenging – but I’m asking you to stretch your faith and practice, “Speaking those things into existence as though they were.”
No one, that I know of, has ever expressed regret over having been positive all day!
Looking forward to tomorrow’s powerful session. Be blessed.
Thank you Pastor Weaver for this valuable and important teaching. Much needed in the Body of Christ!!!. I am planning to start my own Business soon. This teaching comes at a great time in my life !!!!.
Thank you Pastor Weaver !! Be Blessed always!!
God has fantastic plan for my days! This is so refreshing and right on time. Thank you for your obedience. Love love love this and looking forward to this 10-week journey.