The Bible's Business PlanSample

“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NIV

BUSINESS BIBLE

Our ambition to do business, earn money, and not be dependent on anyone is good. The Bible says, make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, mind your own business, and work with your hands. Mind your own business doesn’t mean keeping to yourself. “To mind” means to do, practice, perform, and accomplish in business. These all require ambition!

To mind your business means taking care of business. When we are ambitious, our work is productive, and it benefits ourselves and others. When we lack ambition, we miss the opportunity for our work to be profitable, multiply, and produce wealth. When we’re not ambitious and don’t work, we rely on others’ work. When you don’t work and rely on others, you’re stealing from their work, and you’re not contributing to God’s economy.

Minding your own business requires ambition and hard work. Do you have the ambition to work for yourself?

PRAY

Lord, give me ambition to work for myself and others!