Financial Discipleship @ Work Part 1Sample

Planning

Most financial plans are based on what happened in the past. For a financial disciple, a strategic financial plan should be made based on God’s vision for the business! This is faith planning! God will make His desires for His company known to those who genuinely seek him. A faith-based plan is made on the basis of God’s revelation, with the consultation of advisors. Without faith, we cannot please God! Through this planning process, the disciple, through prayer, seeks the Lord’s revelation, and godly advice, and makes plans which reflect God’s vision for the enterprise.

A financial plan is a description of the financial implementation of God’s vision and His goals for the business. Amos advises that God wants to make his plans known and reveals them to those who seek him in prayer. Develop a faith-based plan by taking time to discover His will! Getting advice is an essential aid in evaluating plans and making sure they are healthy! With many advisors, your plans will succeed.

Habakkuk tells us that making a good financial plan takes time and patience. The Lord will reveal His plans for us to write down!

In our business, delivering special services to human spaceflight activities, working on the International Space Station, we had developed a successful niche, which we could easily manage. During our weekly two-hour, business prayer time, we felt the Lord wanted us to spread our activities to reduce the risk of being too specialized. However, we did not know what to do. The Lord showed us, through some advisors, that the area of satellites was expanding quickly but we had no expertise in that area. However, we made a faith financial plan to help us invest in hiring engineers with the right experience and plan for this expansion. They helped us to get contracts to support the Galileo, European GPS program – a network of 31 satellites. This was a lifesaver because, soon after, the Space Shuttle had to be taken out of service, which seriously curtailed our basic activities.

Can you take time to be still before the Lord and ask Him to reveal the direction in which He wants His business to grow? He will show you!