THE BEST BUSINESS COMES FROM RELATIONSHIF BUILDING. STOP TRYING TO GET STRAIGHT TO THE MONEY AND INSTEAD FOCUS ON GETTING TO KNOW PEOPLE. THEN AFTER YOU GET TO KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE THE MONEY WILL FOLLOW SWIMMINGLY.
“But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first!Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.( Revelation 2:4-5 NLT )
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!( John 15:4-7 NLT )
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?But I, the LORD , search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. At midlife they will lose their riches; in the end, they will become poor old fools.( Jeremiah 17:9-11 NLT )
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, ( 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 NASB )
For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime; Weeping may last for the night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.( Psalms 30:5 NASB )
Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth. ( Colossians 3:1-2 NASB )
But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE , A royal PRIESTHOOD , A HOLY NATION , A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S own possession , so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were NOT A PEOPLE , but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD ; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY , but now you have RECEIVED MERCY .Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul. ( 1 Peter 2:9-11 NASB )
Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth. After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it. So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.But you, Timothy, are a man of God; so run from all these evil things. Pursue righteousness and a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. ( 1 Timothy 6:6-11 NLT )
Blessed is one who considers the helpless; The LORD will save him on a day of trouble.The LORD will protect him and keep him alive, And he will be called blessed upon the earth; And do not turn him over to the desire of his enemies.The LORD will sustain him upon his sickbed; In his illness, You restore him to health.As for me, I said, “LORD , be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”( Psalms 41:1-4 NASB )
And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among mankind by which we must be saved.”( Acts 4:12 NASB )
So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do. Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, ( Ephesians 5:15-18 NLT )
The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let’s rid ourselves of the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let’s behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and debauchery, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.( Romans 13:12-14 NASB )