God wants to Teach Your Ministry How to Profit
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By Ricardo Butler / ReAsOn DiSciPLe
Every believer is called to both work a job (or start a business or trade) and serve in a ministry. Adam did both when God created him. The same anointing for ministry can be used for business. If you have a teaching anointing in the ministry it’s the same teaching anointing that will work in the marketplace. God said,
“But thou shalt remember [keep in remembrance, put in remembrance, think on] the LORD thy God: for it is He that giveth thee POWER [Heb: 'to be firm. Vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce):--ability, able, force, fruits, might, power, powerful, strength, ANOINTING'] to get wealth[Heb: ‘the means or other resources; wealth, goods, riches, substance'], that He may establish His [the NEW] COVENANT which he sware unto thy fathers [Abraham (and His SEED—which is Christ and the Church), Isaac, and Jacob], as it is this day.“ (Deuteronomy 8:18).
God also said,
“Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer [Jesus Christ], the Holy One of Israel; I AM the LORD thy God which teacheth [Gk: 'Properly to goad, i.e. (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive):--+ unaccustomed, × diligently, expert, instruct, learn, skilful, teach, teacher, teaching'] thee to profit [Heb: 'Properly to ascend; figuratively to be valuable (to be useful, to benefited {and be a benefit to others}):--do good, profit, have profit, be profitable'], which leadeth thee by the Way [by Christ because He is the Way] that thou shouldest go.” (Isaiah 48:17).
If you look back at the word “teacheth”, one of the definitions of the word is “goad.” This word means several things that I want you to think about in God’s urge to “teach you to profit.” The word “goad” means:
- A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals.
- An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
- To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.
- A sharp pointed stick for urging on cattle, etc.
- Anything that acts as a spur or incitement.
- A pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion.
- A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
- Give heart or courage to.
- To urge or force (a person etc) to do something by annoying (him etc).
And to be “profitable” means:
- Profitable (of a business or activity) yielding profit or financial gain; moneymaking, profit-making, commercial, successful, solvent, in the black, gainful, remunerative, financially rewarding, paying, lucrative, bankable.
- Beneficial; useful, advantageous, valuable, productive, worthwhile; rewarding, fruitful, illuminating, informative, well spent.
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