I know that with God, nothing is impossible, and every good and perfect gift comes from Him. So, as I move forward with anything I want to accomplish, I need to place it in His hands so I can see good, honest results. It's like, I'm not just working for anyone, I'm working for God Himself. That puts things in perspective, you know?
It really makes me want to give my all to everything I do. I'm not just trying to impress a favorite client or the ones who can do something for me. I want to do my best all the time because I know that's how I receive God's blessing and see it overflow in my life.
Proverbs 16:3 says, "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans." That's something I'm really trying to live by.
to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.
He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, as designers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and in fine linen, and as weavers. They are craftsmen in all the work and artistic designers.
Commit your future to the Lord! Trust in him, and he will act on your behalf.He will vindicate you in broad daylight, and publicly defend your just cause.
Make your tent larger, stretch your tent curtains farther out! Spare no effort, lengthen your ropes, and pound your stakes deep.For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.
His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.
“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.
He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.
The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.You will go insane from seeing all this.The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you.These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.
The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do – yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.
The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.
May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!
You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day.
I will give you hidden treasures, riches stashed away in secret places, so you may recognize that I am the Lord, the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.
And my God will supply your every need according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. This is what the Lord will do for his servants – I will vindicate them,” says the Lord.
The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master.Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him kindness. He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.The warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care. He was in charge of whatever they were doing.The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph’s care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.
You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.
Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.
The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in skill, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,to make artistic designs for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze,and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.
Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.
and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God.
How blessed is every one of the Lord’s loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands!You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.
You are the source of wealth and honor; you rule over all. You possess strength and might to magnify and give strength to all.
You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.
His master answered, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’
And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.
His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful.So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar appointed Joseph overseer of his household and put him in charge of everything he owned.From the time Potiphar appointed him over his household and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s household for Joseph’s sake. The blessing of the Lord was on everything that he had, both in his house and in his fields.
Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.
The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.
For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
Command those who are rich in this world’s goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.