God Owns My Business

1 Chronicles 29:11 states, “Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is Yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; You are exalted as Head over all.

Psalm 24:1 states, “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

Haggai 2:8 states, “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the Lord Almighty.”

Deuteronomy 8:18 states, “Remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth.”

God owns my business; I am only his steward or manager. This essential concept requires and demands that you adopt a steward’s mentality. A steward manages assets for the owner’s benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It’s his or her job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

With a steward’s mentality, you can begin to understand the Treasure Principle stated in Matthew 6:19-21 where Jesus says, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasure in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Since God owns your business, He’s focused on eternal purposes—not for our temporal pleasures and hoarding of wealth. However, we learn from the parable that Jesus taught in Luke 19:12-26 He wants us as His business stewards to grow our businesses as much as possible. This parable states, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. So, he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’ But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’ “And so it was that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’ And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’ And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’ Likewise, he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’ “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief. For I feared you because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’ And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’ “And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’ (But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’) ‘For I say to you, that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

Not only does God want us to grow His business, but He gives us more responsibility and more resources to grow if we do a good job with a steward’s mentality and an eternal perspective. We must walk hand-in-hand with God, our Master, in our faith journey of our business. As stated in Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve 2 masters. You cannot serve both God and money.”

God, the Owner, wants each steward to check in with Him regularly and involve Him in every decision. He loves hearing the words, “Thank You,” regardless of something that appears to be negative or positive.

“In everything give thanks for this is the will of the Father concerning you through Christ Jesus.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18