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Old 07-10-2014, 09:23 AM   #65
04ctd
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WITHOUT ME, YOU CAN DO NOTHING

by Bill Moeny

"Without Me, You Can Do Nothing." (John 15:5)


Why do you think you can run the business God has entrusted to you on your own?





Do you trust your own abilities more than you trust God's abilities? Or, are you afraid to trust God for your business? Are you afraid that He might not run the business the way you want to?



There can be only one CEO for the business.

Either you are in charge or God is in charge. Let's pretend that we are the Board of Directors of the company God has called you to run, and we are to choose between two candidates to be CEO of the business: you and God.

Let's look at God's qualifications for the job:






* He knows what's going to happen in the future so He can make absolutely the correct strategic decisions to grow the business.

* He knows the character of every new employee so He can make exactly the right selection of every new hire.

* He knows which customers are going to buy the product and which are not. He knows which customers you should make a sales call to, and which will be a waste of time.

* He already knows which new regulations are going to be promulgated next year that will affect the operation of the business, and knows how to adjust corporate operations to compensate for new regulations.

* He has unlimited resources and may be willing to invest those resources into the business.







Now let's look at your qualifications for the job:


* You have some limited experience in business, with a very limited understanding of business dynamics.

* You have some education in business, perhaps in the product field for the company, but are quite limited in your understanding of the marketplace for the product line.

* You have a very limited ability to discern which customers are going to buy your product and which are not.

* You have almost no understanding of new regulations that may affect your business and very little understanding of how to adapt the business to those new regulations.

* Even if you have an extensive interview process, you have almost no ability to discern the heart of any new hires and are greatly at risk for making a poor hiring choice.

* You do not know the future, and even if you did, would not know how to respond to what is coming.

* You have very little access to capital and have difficulty bringing significant capital resources to bear for corporate growth.




As a member of the Board of Directors, who has fiduciary responsibility for the company, I vote to have God as CEO.

No offense, but I believe He will do a much better job than you will.

So why are you trying to do it on your own? Why are you resisting yielding control of the business to God? Do you not trust Him? What part of His character is not trustworthy?

Or is this an ego problem? Are you willing to sacrifice the company on the altar of your ego?

Are you now ready to do the right thing? Are you ready to put God in charge?

Perhaps you should remove CEO from your business card, and put President in its place, to remind yourself and others that God is the CEO of the business and you are just a hired hand.

And did you really make the change? Does your prayer life show an utter dependence upon God? By just looking at how you spend your time, could you be convicted of operating a company in dependence upon God? Well?

This also applies to our daily lives, we need to give everything to Him and seek His will for everything.
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1 Timothy 3:16
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the Gentiles,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory.
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