Founder of Called to Build Intl | Host of Christian Entrepreneurs Rise Up podcast | Equipping the Saints for the Marketplace | Faith. Family. Kingdom Impact.
You don't have a strategy problem. You have a "you didn't do it" problem.
Three needle-movers a day is easy to do.
It's also easy not to do.
And easy-not-to-do is why most quit.
Did you do the three things today — or just plan to?
Undercharging feels humble. It's quietly cutting off your own generosity.
The margin you never make funds no mission. The price you're scared to charge is someone's well that never gets dug.
What could you give if your business actually had margin?
You spent three hours on the email and four seconds on the subject line.
No open means no read. No read means no impact.
The subject line isn't clickbait. It's stewardship of the one second of attention she handed you.
What good is the best email she never opens?
Most Christians tithe their paycheck and forget the business has its own.
Give Him the first of the revenue — not the leftover.
Firstfruits isn't a tax on your business. It's a declaration of who you think owns it.
Does God get the first check your business cuts — or the last?
Everyone's chasing the strategy that's finally going to make it click.
"Seek first the kingdom of God... and all these things will be added." —Matthew 6:33
He didn't say seek it and lose the rest. He said seek it first.
The order was always the strategy.
What did you actually put first this week?
We doubt the vision because we can't pull it off in our own strength. That's the point.
When God gives you the vision, He equips you to see it through. It's Him, not you.
What's He waiting on your yes for?
Your business is bigger than your bills. You've just been building it small.
Bigger than your retirement. Bigger than your kids' college fund.
It's grace you're holding for someone else — for their children's children.
Who is your business actually for?
You keep splitting yourself in two.
The business you. The Sunday you.
But it was never two lives.
It's all one life — and God wants to be CEO of every part of it.
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You think your business is for your bills.
What if it's for the overflow?
Small obedience compounds. A kid in school. A tree planted. A family fed.
What would you do if you stopped flinching at the word "more"?
I gave $30 a month and called it nothing.
In college I sponsored a girl named Mary through Compassion. Broke. $30 felt big.
Years later I lived in Kenya and met her — in school, fed, because of it. We planted a mango tree in her yard.
Now imagine that times your business.
You think inheritance means money. It's the smallest part.
Financial — something to actually leave.
Spiritual — time to disciple your kids.
Outward — caring for orphans and widows because your business made it possible.
Which have you never once thought about?
Read it twice and watch what you skipped.
"A wise man leaves an inheritance for his children's children." — Proverbs 13:22
Not just your children. Your children's CHILDREN. Two generations out.
Are you building for next month, or for people you'll never meet?
Everyone asks what their business does.
Almost no one asks what it's for.
Not the niche. Not the offer. Not the funnel.
What is it FOR?
If your business succeeded wildly — what would it be for?
The yeses that bury your calling aren't the big ones.
They're the small ones.
"Sure, I'll join the committee."
"I can squeeze that in."
Ten small yeses you never prayed over add up to a buried calling. Seek Him in the small decisions, not just the dramatic ones.
God cares more about who you're becoming than what you're building. He'll let the launch flop to grow your character. He'll let the wait drag to deepen your roots. He'll let the plan die to resurrect something truer. The business is the curriculum. You're the project.
Money isn't the problem. It never was.
Money in a generous hand feeds the hungry.
Money in a fearful hand gets buried.
Money in a surrendered hand moves wherever He points.
Pick up the tool. Refuse the god.
Your obedience today is someone else's provision a decade from now.
The hire you make this year. The mission you fund next year. The grandchild who inherits a faith that builds.
You won't see most of the fruit. Trust the One who can see all of it.