Many times as business owners we are grappling with one of 2 issues or both:
- Will somebody actually pay me for my service or product???
- How do I get customers?
1. What if they don't like my product?
2. What if they are not interested in my service?
3. How do I get them to even talk to me and not brush me off?
4. What if I make a mistake during my presentation or forget something?
5. What if they have a question that I don't know how to answer?
6. What if they don't like the way I look or how I speak?
7. What if they don't like me??
8. What if I cannot deliver what I claim to be able to deliver?
WHAT IF I FAIL?
How do we use God's word to address these insecurities we all experience in business. First lets see if you actually believe God. Keep in mind Numbers 23:19, which says "God is not a man, the He should lie". Titus 1:2 says the God cannot lie. God only has truth, He is not capable of lying. He can only give what He has and He only has truth. It is impossible for God to lie. Remember what Jesus said in John 8:32 He says that "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free".
Where does the whole concept of lying come from? If it didn't come from God, how did it come into the world? Lets see, John 8:44 says that the devil is a liar and the father of it. It also says that when the devil speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources and there is no truth in him. Now if "the truth" makes you free, what does a lie do to you?
Let's go back to the Garden of Eden where the first human beings lived (Adam and Eve) let's examine what happened when the "father of lies" stepped on the scene. We are going to look at 2 opposing statements made in the Garden of Eden not long after the creation of man:
Genesis 2:16,17 (God's instruction to Adam)-" And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Now let's look at what Satan had to say about this:
Genesis 3:1-4 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die."
Right here you have 2 opposing statements. God says you will die, Satan says you won't. Who was telling the truth? Well Adam and Eve ate the fruit, lets look at what happened after that. Let's see who was telling the truth.
Genesis 3:22-23 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Adam and Eve believed "the serpent" instead of believing God and they were cut off from being able to eat from the tree of life, so they could live forever. Death enters. One of the trees that God told them they could freely eat from was the tree of life. Believing "the lie" that Satan told them
Got them kicked out of the garden and cut off from the great life God had originally planned for them.
Believing lies can cause you to be cut off from the great life God has planned for you.
There you have it. according to the bible, the truth originates from God and the lie originates from the devil. We want to bring the truth into our businesses. So now lets address our insecurities with God's truth. Coming on the next blog post. Stay tuned....................
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