Leviticus 19:13
You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.

Deuteronomy 25:13-15
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house
differing measures, a large and a small. You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Job 31:13-14
“If I have despised the claim of my male or female slaves when they filed a complaint against me, what then could I do when God arises? And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?”

Psalm 112:5
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.

Proverbs 10:4
Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is His delight.

Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is made fat.

Proverbs 13:11
Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, but the one who gathers by labor increases it.

Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness than great income with injustice.

Proverbs 22:16
He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Jeremiah 22:13
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, who uses his neighbor’s services without pay and does not give him his wages.

Malachi 3:5
Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me, says the LORD of hosts.

Luke 16:10
He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

Ephesians 6:9
And masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.

Colossians 4:1
Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

1 Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, “Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.”

James 5:4
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

Are there any bible verses that I missed? If we did, add them in the comment section!

Suggested Reading:

Faith Entrepreneurs

Dr. Michael Simms. iUniverse, Inc. 2006, Paperback, 150 pages, $8.47

My Business, His Way

Andrea J. Wilson. CreateSpace 2009, Paperback, 212 pages, $13.58

In today’s downsized and streamlined work force, it is quite stressful for employers as they will typically be given many tasks to delegate and each client will want it done “yesterday” as they like to say. Trying to do everything at once is a prescription for going insane. But for the Christian there is a model we can follow for getting our jobs done through prioritization and sticking to the task at hand. The model we can follow is that of Nehemiah in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Nehemiah was charged with the overwhelming task of having the walls rebuilt around Jerusalem. Without those walls, the city was open to attack. It is said that people were building the wall with a trowel in one hand and a weapon in the other. Yet there were those who wanted to interfere with this task. This passage in Nehemiah chapter 6 describes how Sanballat, Geshem, and Tobiah were trying to interfere with the project:

Nehemiah 6:1-3 (KJV)

1 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

You can only do one task at any given time. Although you may have many open and outstanding projects, you can still only focus on one task at a time. For Nehemiah, the task was to get the wall built as quickly as possible because the people were discouraged and Jerusalem was vulnerable. Others like Sanballat tried to sidetrack the leader of the project yet Nehemiah’s only response was that he was busy with a very important work.

If you work in an office environment, it is not hard to find the numerous time wasters that can remove you from the task at hand. There are those who love to hold meetings just to remind everyone who is in charge. There are the office “clowns” who spend more time making everyone laugh than they do getting any work done. And we all know the office busybody who walks from cubicle to cubicle looking to see what everyone is doing. There are groups congregating at the copy machine and around the box of donuts.

But as a Christian, you need to avoid these time wasters and learn how spot them before you walk across them. Then, you can stick to the task at hand and be much more effective and have a better Christian testimony too.

Suggested Reading:

Management

Peter F. Drucker. Harper Paperbacks 1993, Paperback, 864 pages, $14.50

Getting Organized

Chris Crouch. Dawson Publishing 2004, Paperback, 192 pages, $15.89

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Simply put, being Incredible is the realization that you were born that way. So many of us allow life to beat us down and prevent us from walking into our birthright. Sound familiar?

Do you want to live an Incredible Life? Do you desire to be considered Incredible in your own right? Are you ready for this, it will be mind blowing….The only thing separating you from the Incredible You is yourself. Your mindset is the key to unlocking passion, abundance, confidence and expectation in your life. Get excited, you are only a step away from living a PACE life.

Being Incredible has absolutely nothing to do with what others think of you, being Incredible is about self-esteem, self-worth and self-love. Do you believe that you possess the keys to an Incredible life? I believe you do!

When I was twenty-five years old, the bottom fell out of my life. I felt like I had lost everything because I allowed a man to define my worth. When the dust settled and I began to pick up the pieces of my shattered existence, I realized that I already possessed everything I needed to turn my thought process and mindset around. I was the master of my mind and mediocrity was removed from my vocabulary. Because today, I know that I am living an Incredible Life, I was able to finally write a book about that chapter in my life. If You Understood My Past, You Would Understand My Praise chronicles that life’s chapter. But if you understood my past, you would understand why today, helping others define their Incredibleness is so important to me.

What changed? Something simple, I started to believe in myself and I developed a personal relationship with the Lord, giving myself permission to be my best and march to the beat of my own drum. I forgave myself for the past, those wrongs suffered me as well as those wrongs I did to others out of anger, rage or sheer discontentment. I began to dream and think about what I wanted to do with my life whereas before, I wanted what others wanted for me. My passion was born out of my brokenness and I desired to change my outlook so that I could later help others to do the same.

As I underwent this transformation, I stumbled upon these self-determined keys to an Incredible life. I now desire to share them with the world. The keys are simple and indicated below. Stay tuned for my upcoming book, which will highlight these keys, expand upon them with supporting biblical text and offer solutions to make the key changes and mind shifts necessary to walk into your Incredibleness.

These keys will lead you to unleashing the Incredible You, a you bursting with passion, abundance, confidence and expectation:

1. Trust that God has your best interest at heart.
2. Have a heart that is ready to serve others.
3. Experience life through eyes of faith.
4. In all things, be grateful. An attitude of gratitude fills your cup.
5. Never give up on yourself no matter what others may say.
6. Create a life where everything is in proper balance and perspective.
7. Release yourself from the issues, hurts and struggles of your past.
8. Expect God’s unmerited favor in your life.
9. Decide that vision is your key to victory.
10. Increase your self-image; you are who you say you are.
11. Be who you were created to be.
12. Live a life that is pleasing to God.
13. Execute your goals and dreams with enthusiastic expectation.
14. You already possess the keys to Incredible Success, believe it!
15. Offer yourself the opportunity to overcome obstacles and adversity with passion and promise.
16. Unleash God’s promises for an Incredible life!

You can do it, I can help.
Be Incredible!

Suggested Reading:

Goals!

Brian Tracy. ReadHowYouWant 2009, Paperback, 408 pages, $21.99

Guiding Growth

Mark Lipton. Harvard Business Press 2003, Hardcover, 288 pages, $14.95

As a Christian in business (see my previous article) I talked about the need for congruency between life outside of the office and the way in which we as Christians should do business.

How do you then be in the world but not of the world?

How do you not bow to the idols of the world and keep strong in your resolve that that the relationship with God is honoured through all that you do in and out of the business life you lead?

“Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.” 1 John 2:15-17 (The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

When you first made that life commitment before the Lord to follow Him and trust Him for all things, the ‘first love’ led you to go after Him with all you had.

Many Christians, not all, loose this ‘first love’ mentality when they get secure in their own life, family, home, church, the same seats each Sunday, attending the same small group week in week out… and if they are not careful it becomes tradition and even religion.

Each day we should try to remind ourselves of our first love encounter with Jesus and how this changed our lives for the better. This should motivate us to continually ask the Holy Spirit to guide us in the decisions we make in business., moving forward with the want for this same joy every day.

This message from John tells us that if we love the way of the world and rely on it and it’s ways, the the love of the Father will be squeezed out – do you want Him ‘squeezed’ out of your life or your business?

Every area of your business should be aligned with the values you hold and this need for God to be in it all.

Think about your finances – how you manage them, how you give back into the Church from this income, where you bank it, how you steward this well and don’t waste this provision.

Think about the way that you treat staff – Jesus came as a servant King, do strive to be like Christ in all you do, do you serve your staff well?

Think about suppliers – do your printers use environmentally friendly processes, do they only use FSC paper, what is their recycling policy, is the correct stewardship of the Earth and creation important to them and it should be for you? …the list could be endless.

Acting this way and ensuring that every decision you make is in-line with biblical principles will ensure that you are putting God first in your business. Putting His ways above the ways of the world “is set for eternity” – are you set for eternity?

Suggested Reading:

Just Business

Alexander Hill. IVP Academic 2008, Paperback, 276 pages, $10.00

About My Father’s Business

Regi Campbell. Multnomah Books 2009, Paperback, 240 pages, $7.43

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