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Why God Wants You to Start a Business The Truth No One Tells You · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: What if I told you that the number one reason
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  Speaker 1: your business is failing right now has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with your marketing, your product, or even your competition. What
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  Speaker 1: if the real problem is that you have been building
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  Speaker 1: it for the wrong owner. Stop scrolling. This is not
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  Speaker 1: another motivational video about hustle culture or manifesting abundance. This
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  Speaker 1: is about why some of the wealthiest people in history
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  Speaker 1: felt empty while some of the most faithful entrepreneurs changed
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  Speaker 1: the world without even trying to get rich. Before I
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  Speaker 1: reveal the secret they do not want you to know,
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  Speaker 1: do me a favor. Hit that subscribe button right now
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  Speaker 1: and turn on notifications, because what I am about to
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  Speaker 1: share will challenge everything you thought you knew about money,
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  Speaker 1: success and purpose. And drop a comment telling me what
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  Speaker 1: business idea has been burning in your heart but you
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  Speaker 1: have been too afraid to launch. Here is the uncomfortable truth.
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  Speaker 1: You have been taught that faith and business live in
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  Speaker 1: separate worlds. Church on Sunday, cutthroat capitalism Monday through Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Pray with your family, but compete without mercy in the
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  Speaker 1: market place. Be generous at the offering plate, but ruthless
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  Speaker 1: in negotiations. But that is a lie. From the pit
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  Speaker 1: of hell, designed to keep you small, stressed, and spiritually bankrupt,
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  Speaker 1: even if your bank account is full. The enemy does
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  Speaker 1: not want you to understand what I am about to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, because when kingdom minded entrepreneurs wake up to
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  Speaker 1: their true calling, they become unstoppable forces that reshape industries,
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  Speaker 1: transform communities, and build legacies that outlast their lifetimes. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Bible Assent. Today. You are going to discover why
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  Speaker 1: your future company is not just a business, It is
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  Speaker 1: a ministry, and I am going to show you exactly
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  Speaker 1: how to build it the way God intended from the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning. Let me blow your mind with something you
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  Speaker 1: probably missed in Sunday School. Before sin, before before the Fall,
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  Speaker 1: before death even existed, God gave humanity its first job.
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  Speaker 1: And it was not praying all day. It was not evangelizing.
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  Speaker 1: It was not even worshiping in the traditional sense. It
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  Speaker 1: was working. Genesis chapter two, verse fifteen tells us that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord God took the man and put him in
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  Speaker 1: the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
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  Speaker 1: Read that carefully. This was not punishment for disobedience. This
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  Speaker 1: was not a consequence of the curse. This was paradise
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  Speaker 1: This was God's perfect design. Adam had won assignment. Take
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  Speaker 1: the raw materials God created and make something meaningful with them.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what changes everything. God did not need Adam
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  Speaker 1: to work the garden. The creator of the universe, who
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  Speaker 1: spoke galaxies into existence with a word, could have maintained
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  Speaker 1: that garden with zero effort. But he chose partnership instead.
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  Speaker 1: He gave humanity the profound honor of participating in creation itself.
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  Speaker 1: He invited us into the family business that is stewardship
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  Speaker 1: and understanding. This will revolutionize how you see your work.
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  Speaker 1: You are not the owner. You never were. God owns everything.
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  Speaker 1: The capital you raised, the skills you possess, the opportunities
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  Speaker 1: that opened up, the ideas that keep you awake at night.
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  Speaker 1: None of it originated with you. God owns it all.
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  Speaker 1: You are the manager. You are the steward, entrusted with
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  Speaker 1: resources to multiply them for His kingdom. And when you
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  Speaker 1: finally understand this, the pressure lifts off your shoulders. You
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  Speaker 1: are not responsible for forcing results through manipulation or hustle.
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  Speaker 1: You are responsible for faithful obedience with what has been
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  Speaker 1: entrusted to you. Success is not measured by market share.
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  Speaker 1: Success is measured by stewardship. Think about your business right now.
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  Speaker 1: That's skill you have that nobody taught you. God wired
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  Speaker 1: it into your DNA before you were born. That problem
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  Speaker 1: you see in your industry that drives you crazy, He
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  Speaker 1: opened your eyes to it for a reason. That restlessness
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  Speaker 1: you feel working for someone else, that might not be
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  Speaker 1: discontent or immaturity, that might be calling knocking on your door.
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  Speaker 1: Business is not worldly. Planting a garden was not worldly.
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  Speaker 1: Taking raw potential and cultivating it into something that serves
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  Speaker 1: and provides for others is one of the most sacred
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  Speaker 1: activities you can do on this planet. Work is worship
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  Speaker 1: when done with the right heart. Now, let me introduce
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  Speaker 1: you to two people who understood this better than any
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  Speaker 1: business guru selling courses online. First, Joseph, you know the
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  Speaker 1: story colorful Coat, jealous brothers, thrown into a pit, sold
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  Speaker 1: into slavery, falsely accused by his boss's wife, prison for
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  Speaker 1: years because he chose integrity over compromise. But here is
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  Speaker 1: what most people miss when they read this story. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: was not just a dreamer who got lucky. He was
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  Speaker 1: a world class supply chain strategist who saved an entire
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  Speaker 1: region from economic collapse. Pharaoh had a crisis. Seven years
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  Speaker 1: of abundance followed by seven years of famine. Egypt had
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  Speaker 1: never seen anything like it. Joseph did not just predict
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  Speaker 1: the disaster. He built an entire infrastructure to solve it.
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  Speaker 1: He designed massive storage facilities to preserve grain during the
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  Speaker 1: good years. He managed inventory across an entire nation. He
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  Speaker 1: created distribution networks to get food where it needed to go.
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  Speaker 1: He negotiated international trade deals when neighboring countries ran out
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  Speaker 1: of supplies. He balanced supply and demand across fourteen years
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  Speaker 1: of extreme volatility. When the famine hit, Egypt did not
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  Speaker 1: just survive, they thrived. They became the economic powerhouse of
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  Speaker 1: the region, and Joseph saved millions of lives, including the
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  Speaker 1: very family who betrayed him years earlier. But here is
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  Speaker 1: the key. Joseph never forgot who the real owner was.
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  Speaker 1: Every decision he made honored God first and served people second.
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  Speaker 1: Profit was the outcome, not the objective. Listen carefully. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: was not chasing profit. He was solving problems. That is
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  Speaker 1: kingdom entrepreneurship. That is what happens when you use business
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  Speaker 1: as a tool for stewardship instead of a vehicle for
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  Speaker 1: selfish ambition. Second, the Proverbs thirty one woman. We romanticize
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  Speaker 1: her as the perfect wife and mother, but read the
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  Speaker 1: passage carefully and you will see she was running multiple
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  Speaker 1: businesses simultaneously while managing a household and serving her community.
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  Speaker 1: She was not sitting at home waiting for her husband
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  Speaker 1: to provide everything. She was actively creating wealth, generating income,
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  Speaker 1: and building a legacy. Look at what she actually did.
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  Speaker 1: She bought real estate after personally evaluating the property and
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  Speaker 1: its potential. She planted vineyards with her profits and managed
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  Speaker 1: agricultural operations. She manufactured textiles and sold them to merchants
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  Speaker 1: in the market place. She created clothing and supplied it
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  Speaker 1: to traders. She managed employees and delegated tasks to multiply
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  Speaker 1: her impact. She woke up early and worked late, not
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  Speaker 1: because she was desperate, but because she was driven by purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And while she was doing all of this, she still
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  Speaker 1: cared for her family, gave generously to the poor, spoke
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  Speaker 1: with wisdom, and feared the lord. Scripture does not criticize
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  Speaker 1: her for being ambitious. It does not rebuke her from
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  Speaker 1: making money. Instead, it celebrates her as the model of
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and virtue. What did Joseph and this woman have
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  Speaker 1: in common? They understood that business is a tool to
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  Speaker 1: serve others and honor God. They created value, They solved problems.
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  Speaker 1: They stewarded resources with excellence. Profit was the result, not
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  Speaker 1: the reason, and that distinction will either make or break
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  Speaker 1: your venture. Here is the truth nobody wants you to
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  Speaker 1: know because it destroys their entire business model. If you
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  Speaker 1: only chase money, you will burn out and lose your
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  Speaker 1: soul in the process. If you chase service and impact,
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  Speaker 1: money will chase you. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew
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  Speaker 1: chapter six, verse thirty three. Seek first the kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God and his righteousness, and all these things will be
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  Speaker 1: added to you. Notice the order, Kingdom first, revenue second,
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  Speaker 1: impact before income, service before success. Everything else is bonus
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  Speaker 1: that gets added when you get your priorities straight. This
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  Speaker 1: is not motivational theory. This is economic reality. When you
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  Speaker 1: pursue profit as your primary goal, you make decisions from
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  Speaker 1: fear and scarcity. You cut corners to save costs. You
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  Speaker 1: manipulate customers with misleading marketing. You exploit employees by paying
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  Speaker 1: minimum wage for maximum output. You lie to investors about
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  Speaker 1: your projections. You compromise your values for short term gains,
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  Speaker 1: and even if you succeed financially, you wake up empty
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  Speaker 1: and exhausted because you were designed for something infinitely bigger
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  Speaker 1: than accumulating wealth. But when you genuinely focus on solving
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  Speaker 1: real problems with integrity and excellence, something supernatural happens. Customers
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  Speaker 1: do not just buy from you, They become advocates who
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  Speaker 1: refer everyone they know. Employees do not just work for you,
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  Speaker 1: they become passionate ambassadors for your mission. Your reputation compounds
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  Speaker 1: over time. Opportunities appear from seemingly nowhere. Doors open that
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  Speaker 1: you did not even know existed. Partnerships form organically, and
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  Speaker 1: profit follows naturally because you are creating genuine value that
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  Speaker 1: improves people's lives. Let me give you a real world
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  Speaker 1: example that drives business consultants absolutely crazy. Chick fill A
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  Speaker 1: closes every single Sunday, one seventh of potential revenue gone.
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  Speaker 1: Their competitors are wide open, the shopping malls are packed
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  Speaker 1: with families, and they deliberately lock their doors and send
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  Speaker 1: their employees home to rest and worship. Every expert said
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  Speaker 1: they would fail every consultant told them it was financial suicide. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they generate more revenue per location than almost any fast
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  Speaker 1: food chain in America. Their average store makes over eight
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  Speaker 1: million dollars per year, compared to three million for most competitors.
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  Speaker 1: Why because they built their business on principles before profit.
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  Speaker 1: They honored God and their employees over maximizing every dollar,
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  Speaker 1: and customers respect that commitment so deep that they line
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  Speaker 1: up out the parking lot six days a week. That
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  Speaker 1: is what happens when you seek first the Kingdom. God
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  Speaker 1: adds everything else, not because He is a cosmic vending
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  Speaker 1: machine granting wishes, but because you are finally operating your
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  Speaker 1: business according to the principles He wired into the universe
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning. So how do you actually do this?
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  Speaker 1: How do you make God the chief executive officer of
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  Speaker 1: your company instead of just slapping a Bible verse on
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  Speaker 1: your website and calling yourself a Christian business. Here are
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  Speaker 1: three practical steps that will transform everything starting today. Step one,
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  Speaker 1: completely rewrite your mission statement. Pull up your business plan
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  Speaker 1: right now and read your primary goal out loud. Be
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  Speaker 1: brutally honest. Does it say make one million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: revenue or quit my nine to five job or achieve
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  Speaker 1: financial freedom by age forty. Those are understandable desires. But
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  Speaker 1: if that is your mission, you are building your house
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  Speaker 1: on sand and the first storm will destroy it. Here
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  Speaker 1: is how you rewrite it with a kingdom focus. Solve
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  Speaker 1: this specific problem for ten thousand people with integrity, excellence,
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  Speaker 1: and love. See the fundamental shift. One mission is about
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  Speaker 1: you getting something, The other is about you giving something.
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  Speaker 1: One is selfish, the other is service. When you realign
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  Speaker 1: your entire operation around serving people instead of extracting money
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  Speaker 1: from them, your marketing changes from manipulation to invitation. Your
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  Speaker 1: products improve because you genuinely care about results. Your customer
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  Speaker 1: service transforms because people are not transactions. They are souls
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  Speaker 1: created in God's image, and your personal fulfillment skyrockets because
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  Speaker 1: you finally found what you were created to do. Step
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  Speaker 1: two practice radical integrity, even when it costs you money.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter eleven, verse one says dishonest scale are an
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  Speaker 1: abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
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  Speaker 1: In ancient markets, crooked merchants used rigged scales to cheat
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  Speaker 1: customers out of fair measurements. They made more profit in
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  Speaker 1: the short term, but destroyed their reputation long term. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we have different scales, but the same temptation. Misleading advertisements
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  Speaker 1: that promise what you cannot deliver, hidden fees buried in
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  Speaker 1: fine print, cutting quality to boost profit margins, exploiting people
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  Speaker 1: who trust you because they do not know better. Radical
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  Speaker 1: integrity means you tell the complete truth, even when a
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  Speaker 1: lie would be easier and more profitable. You honor your
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  Speaker 1: contracts and commitments, even when circumstances change and it hurts financially.
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  Speaker 1: You pay people fairly and generously, even when you could
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  Speaker 1: legally get away with less. You admit mistakes publicly, even
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  Speaker 1: when you could hide them. You give refunds to unsatisfied
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  Speaker 1: customers even when the terms say no refunds. This is
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  Speaker 1: not naive, This is not weak. This is strategic wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Integrity builds trust, and trust is the only currency that
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  Speaker 1: truly matters in the long term. People might forget what
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  Speaker 1: you said, they might forget what you did, but they
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  Speaker 1: will never forget how you made them feel. Step three.
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  Speaker 1: Practice generous giving now, not later when it is convenient.
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  Speaker 1: Most entrepreneurs think like this. First, I will build my
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  Speaker 1: business and get profitable. Then when I have extra money,
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  Speaker 1: I will give back to the community. But Kingdom entrepreneurs
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  Speaker 1: completely flip that script. They decide right now today, before
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  Speaker 1: they are comfortable, what percentage of their revenue, not just profit,
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  Speaker 1: will go toward Kingdom impact and eternal investments. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: is ten percent to your local church that is feeding
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  Speaker 1: your soul. Maybe it is funding clean water wells in
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  Speaker 1: Africa so children do not die from preventable diseases. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it is creating jobs and opportunities for people society has
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  Speaker 1: thrown away and forgotten. Maybe it is supporting missionaries who
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  Speaker 1: are translating the Bible into unreached languages. Whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: commit to it today. Not when you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: can afford it, because you will never feel like you
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  Speaker 1: can afford it. Not when you hit your revenue goal,
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  Speaker 1: because the goal posts will keep moving. Generosity is a
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  Speaker 1: muscle you build through consistent practice, and God honors and
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  Speaker 1: multiplies the resources of those who trust Him sacrificially, even
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  Speaker 1: when it terrifies them. Now, let me get brutally honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, because everything I just said sounds inspiring and
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  Speaker 1: motivating until your product launch completely fails. Your investor backs
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  Speaker 1: out at the last minute, your business partner quits and
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  Speaker 1: takes half your clients, and you are staring at an
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  Speaker 1: empty bank account at three in the morning, wondering if
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  Speaker 1: you heard God wrong or if you are just delusional.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what you desperately need to know in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: Failure does not mean God abandoned you. Failure is not
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  Speaker 1: evidence that you missed your calling. Failure is the training
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  Speaker 1: ground where God builds your character, deepens your faith, increases
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  Speaker 1: your dependence on Him, and prepares you for the success
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  Speaker 1: you could not handle yesterday. Every single entrepreneur you admire
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  Speaker 1: and respect has a graveyard of failed projects, broken partnerships,
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  Speaker 1: and devastating losses behind them. The only difference between them
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  Speaker 1: and everyone else is they absolutely refuse to quit. Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter forty one, verse ten says fear not, for I
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  Speaker 1: am with you. Be not dismayed, For I am your God.
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  Speaker 1: I will strengthen you, I will help you. I will
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  Speaker 1: uphold you with my righteous right hand. Notice what God
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  Speaker 1: does not promise. He does not promise you will never
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  Speaker 1: face hardship or failure or loss. He promises something better.
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  Speaker 1: He will be with you in it. He will strengthen
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  Speaker 1: you when you are weak. He will help you when
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  Speaker 1: you are overwhelmed. He will uphold you when you are
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  Speaker 1: falling apart. I need you to understand something that will
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  Speaker 1: change your perspective forever. Faith in business does not mean
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  Speaker 1: having a perfect plan with guaranteed results. Faith means taking
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  Speaker 1: the next step, even when the spreadsheet looks absolutely terrifying
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  Speaker 1: and every logical voice is screaming at you to quit.
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  Speaker 1: It means launching that offer even though you are scared
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  Speaker 1: nobody will buy and you will be humiliated. It means
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  Speaker 1: having that difficult conversation with that problem employee, even though
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  Speaker 1: conflict makes you physically nauseous. It means choosing quality and
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  Speaker 1: integrity over cheap short cuts, even when your account balance
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  Speaker 1: is dangerously low. Faith is not the absence of fear.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is obedience in the presence of fear. And every
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  Speaker 1: single time you choose faith over fear, every time you
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  Speaker 1: obey God, even when it costs you something significant, you
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  Speaker 1: are building a legacy that will outlast your lifetime and
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  Speaker 1: impact generations you will never meet. So let me bring
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  Speaker 1: this entire message home and land this plane. Your business
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  Speaker 1: is not separate from your faith. It never was. That
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  Speaker 1: is a false dichotomy. The enemy planted to neutralize your impact.
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  Speaker 1: When you work with excellence, you are participating in God's
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  Speaker 1: ongoing creative activity in the world. When you solve problems,
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  Speaker 1: you are demonstrating His wisdom and creativity. When you serve
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  Speaker 1: customers with integrity and love, you are reflecting His character
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  Speaker 1: to a watching world. When you create jobs and opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: you are faithfully stewarding his resources. The entrepreneurs in Scripture
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  Speaker 1: were not perfect people with flawless execution, but they were
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  Speaker 1: faithful people who use their gifts to honor God and
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  Speaker 1: serve others. They understood that business is ministry. They saw
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  Speaker 1: their work as worship, and God used their businesses and
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  Speaker 1: influence to accomplish purposes and impact far greater than profit
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  Speaker 1: margins and quarterly reports. So here is my direct challenge
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  Speaker 1: to you right now. What if that idea you keep
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  Speaker 1: pushing down and dismissing is not just a random thought
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  Speaker 1: or foolish dream. What if it is actually God calling
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  Speaker 1: you into partnership with him. What if He has been
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  Speaker 1: strategically equipping you with specific skills, unique experiences, and burning
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  Speaker 1: passions for this exact moment in history. If you are
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  Speaker 1: ready to stop building for yourself and start building for
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom. I need you to do something right now
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  Speaker 1: that will mark this moment. Type in the comments my
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  Speaker 1: business serves God. Declare it publicly. Let it be your
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  Speaker 1: line in the sand. Let it be the moment you
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  Speaker 1: stopped playing small and stepped into your calling. And if
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  Speaker 1: you know someone who is stuck, someone who has been
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  Speaker 1: dreaming about entrepreneurship but is paralyzed by fear or guilt
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  Speaker 1: or confusion, share this video with them right now. They
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  Speaker 1: desperately need to hear that their dream matters, that their
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  Speaker 1: calling is valid, that business is not secular, and that
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  Speaker 1: what they are feeling is not crazy. But divine. Subscribe
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  Speaker 1: to Bible assent if you have not already, because we
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  Speaker 1: are just getting started with this conversation. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to dive deeper into Biblical principles for leadership, finance, marketing, hiring, scaling,
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  Speaker 1: and building something that echoes into eternity long after you
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  Speaker 1: are gone. Remember this truth and let it transform everything.
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  Speaker 1: Your business is your ministry. Now go build something that
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  Speaker 1: glorifies God and changes lives forever