Mixing Business and Religion

I used to think like you. But it really is not all that difficult. When you enjoy your job, you are doing it because you want to. That is good. When you make extra money doing it, be grateful. When you are doing your job, because you need food on the table, but you hate your job. You either look for a new job, or except the situation. Either way, no one works for nothing, be it food, be it money, be it whatever. I think we are all entitled to have enough. As long as you are grateful and don't get greedy, there is nothing wrong with having more. God knows, I sure want to win the lottery! Take a look at the secret, that helped me a lot. http://thesecret.tv I don't make anything from this, and it is totally Free. It is great! Take a look at the free gifts and movies.

I think it depends how we try to make that profit whether God approves of it or not. We should put God first before anything else, even making a profit.

well that is pretty interesting. i have never read about business and religion together before. i wonder what it was all about. i think that whatever happens to us is sometimes meant to happen for a reason.

LOL sorry but when I read the title of your discusison the first thing that came to mind was religions or rather religious groups that make money out of their religion. You know, from those big established ones that ask for tithes to the small syndicate-ones that are basically scams designed to defraud gullible people out of their money :p

Of course, God wants us to prosper. In fact, the bible says "for i know the plans i have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". God wants to make us prosper but many things hinder us from this, that's why we have to abide in him and seek him first, so that the devil could not try to take this away form us and the grace of God will be with us. When we abide in him, he could guide us where to go, what to do, what business to choose. Especially, when you do His will, His grace would be upon you, not all good things are His will (specifically those you ask from HIM) we just have to trust Him. I believe that good ideas are not God's idea but God's ideas are good ideas. I actually have a testimony regarding this. I am a business woman. i loved doing business ever since i was in gradeschool. I loved it because it is the only way i can earn money. I tried baking and selling food, selling gadgets, selling clothes. I did everything i could to earn money. I worked so hard. But all my hardwork didnt pay off. After i graduated in college, i finally gave up doing business. When my church needed funds for us to transfer to another place, as if God spoke to me, to start the fund raising committee. So i told our pastor about it. I wasnt really positive about it because of my past depressing experience, but i still did it. And now, we raised more funds than i expected. In this experience, i learned that when the grace of God upon you and when you do it for God: less effort would be equal to more profit, because it would be God who will work it for you. If you really want to prosper here's a suggestion, "Seek yee first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you".