On Business 11

COURAGE AND PATIENCE INVOLVED IN STARTING A BUSINESS FROM THE SCRATCH 11
Do not be discouraged, do not entertain fear as if to mean when you are doing your business you won’t get to heaven by not closing your shop for 7 days when you go and attend the week long program as others who are chanced have done o are doing. You need to always remember the word of apostle Paul to one of his spiritual sons that says, “for God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of sound mind” (II Timothy 1:7). This wonderful Apostle in his epistle to the Romans also made it clear that the spirit of fear is the spirit of bondage and he was explicit in his words to them that our God, Yahweh, Jehovah has not given us such spirit.
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15)
That fear that has been deeply sitted in your heart is not from God, it is from the devil and as God’s children you have to let command such spirit of fear to get out of you never to return into your hearts again.
“And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17)
Thus, as a business person, I am equally admonishing you not to for any reasons close your shop for days on the pretext that you are going for some special prayers or programs.
(b) Let people, customers, know your fellowship days and times and they will key in to it. I have studied that customers respect business person’s religious beliefs and know it for them. When I was in Ekiti this became verily clearer to me, because majority of my customers know my fellowship days and they would not come during such hours except perhaps those who are just discovering or knowing my business outlet for the first time, they are those who could be surprised that I was not around during so and so hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but immediately they got familiar with me, they respect the decision and make provisions for such hours. They may come early and at times if they could not make the time, they may come when I return from church and they will phone me before hand of the urgency attached unto what they wanted to buy from me. This also happened when I was in Ilorin, but that of Ilorin, Kwara State Capital was not as profound as in Ekiti state, because while in Ilorin, the Fellowship starts at 7:00 pm (19:00 hours) and it is expected that I should have closed by then, but that of Ekiti state starts at 5:00 pm (17:00 hours) and for me to make the time, I would have closed around 4:30 pm to go and board vehicle going to the state capital where the church is, because I live in a town outside the state capital and that was where my shop is equally situated. So, it was in Ekiti-State that I got to discover that customers respect business person’s individual religious rights.
Let your customers know your time schedule, and they will abide by it with you. This in other words shows that you cannot say it is business that prevented you from attending midweek programs, anyone who fails to attend midweek programs definitely failed to attend willingly but such a one should not attach the failure to attend to his/her business ventures.
This is where God’s factor comes into view, when you put God at his position he will always make do for you those things, sales you may per-adventure have missed during the hours you have spent before him. If on the other note however, you decide not going to fellowship during the week you will discover that one usually misses, customers won’t come, and at times one may not make good profits from the goods one sold during such times. That is God’s factor! That is how God works. God wants us to always put him first in all of our dealings in the world. God loves our worshipping him.
(c) Make provisions for special programmes by telling people ahead of time that you won’t be available. Once a session if not in a year we do meet for this kind of programme, KLC, which usually starts Friday evening except now that the on campus brethren wants it reviewed to be starting from T
hursday evening. Students and some selected people who are chanced may be arriving Thursday’s, but let us put it tentatively that you as a business person will arrive on Friday evening. The notification for program as this would have been released months ahead. After knowing the date what is next for you as a business person to do is letting your regular customers to know that you will be travelling on so and so weekend for a special program. This is once a year and for some it may not really affect their business much, but for some who will be coming in from far places like Abuja, PortHarcourt, Lagos, Ibadan, etc, it is verily likely tha you won’t open the shop that day, that is why telling them ahead is needful.
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