What God Says About Business — Premium Guide | Rick & Isabella Pina Coaching

WHAT YOU GET IN THIS HANDOUT

Watch the video. Work this guide. Apply Myron Golden's Scripture-backed business principles to your assignment.

01 Why I Shared This Video With You
02 Business Is A God Idea
03 Do Your Own Business (1 Thessalonians 4)
04 Slaves, Soldiers, And Business Owners
05 Redeem The Time
06 Time Is Not Money
07 Product Business vs Service Business
08 Hire People To Buy Back Time
09 The Power To Get Wealth
10 Abraham: Businessman And Covenant
11 How Rick Connects This To Grace
12 Interactive Buy-Back-Time Diagnostic
13 Your Kingdom Business Checklist
14 Declaration of Kingdom Business Faith
15 Watch The Video + Related Resources

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WHY I SHARED THIS VIDEO WITH YOU

Too many kingdom entrepreneurs feel torn between ministry and business, between abundance and guilt, between getting a job and building something that lasts.

I share a lot of teaching on grace, systems, and leadership. Myron Golden goes straight at what Scripture actually says about business, wealth, and time. I found this message powerful enough to curate for you instead of reinventing it.

Business is a good idea because business is a God idea. I built this handout so you can watch, work, and apply it.

The video is titled What God Says About Business from Bible Study With Myron Golden. I am not claiming it as my teaching. I am curating it because it dismantles poverty programming and anchors wealth creation in Scripture.

BUSINESS IS A GOD IDEA

Hollywood and culture say business is evil. Entrepreneurship is bad. Scripture says the opposite.

Myron's core claim: Satan did not create business. God did. The Bible is not a book about religion only. It contains truth that works when you do it.

Do not misrepresent Christ in the marketplace by preaching abundance while living in self-imposed lack.

When he was an assistant pastor, a real estate agent asked why he always talked about business and money. His answer: "Because I don't want to misrepresent Christ in the marketplace."

DO YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Paul did not tell the church to avoid business. He commanded them to pursue it.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 AMPC

"To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you, so that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and honorable and command the respect of the outside world, being dependent on nobody [self-supporting] and having need of nothing."

Study to be quiet and do your own business.
Work with your own hands as commanded.
Walk honestly toward those outside the faith. Pay your bills on time.
Have lack of nothing. God linked business to financial integrity and provision.

SLAVES, SOLDIERS, AND OWNERS

Myron found only two workplace job classifications in Scripture (outside kings, priests, and ministry roles): slaves and soldiers.

Almost every major Bible character owned a business. Having a job is not sin, but it is not God's ideal design for your financial life.

Proverbs 22:29 AMPC

"Do you see a man diligent and skillful in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men."

REDEEM THE TIME

Ephesians 5:16 is not a soft suggestion. Redeeming the time, in the Greek, means to buy back, rescue from loss, and improve your opportunity.

Ephesians 5:15-16 TPT

"So be careful how you live. Live as those who are wise, not as those who are foolish. Make the most of every opportunity, for these are evil times."

We were programmed: school, good grades, college, good job, work 40 years, retire. That model broke. God said buy back time. Most people sell time instead.

TIME IS NOT MONEY

Time is infinitely greater than money. When you run out of money, you can get more. When you run out of time, it is over.

Would you trade all your money for three more days of life? Most people say yes. Would you take $100 million if you had to end your life? Nobody wants that check.

Living like "time is money" makes you sell a lot of your time for a little of someone else's money. That is the opposite of redeeming the time.

PRODUCT VS SERVICE

There are only two types of businesses: product and service. Choose the model that can create wealth without consuming all your time.

Myron's Example

House painting vs reading glasses

Paint one house per week at $15,000 and you cap revenue at $60,000/month. You cannot do more because fulfillment takes your time. Sell reading glasses at $20/pair: selling 1 pair or 100,000 pairs takes the same fulfillment effort. Product models collapse time frames.

HIRE TO BUY BACK TIME

Wannabe entrepreneurs fear hiring costs too much. Successful entrepreneurs fear NOT hiring costs too much.

No lawnmower so you are not tempted to cut your own grass.
No mechanic tools even if you know how to fix cars. Not a good use of your time.
Cleaning lady, pool guy, lawn crew, mobile car wash at your office. You are buying back time.
Pay people who love what you hate. Pay people who are better at what you are good at.

The time you spent fixing your car could have been spent reading three books that teach you how to make $40 million.

THE POWER TO GET WEALTH

God gives His people power to get wealth. Not so you can flex. To establish His covenant.

Deuteronomy 8:17-18 TPT

"Never think to yourself, 'I have achieved all this wealth by my own ability and strength.' Always remember that it is the Lord your God who gives you the power to become prosperous, in order to fulfill the covenant he promised to your ancestors with an oath."

James 1:8 TPT

"A divided mind is unstable in all its ways, and it can't receive anything from the Lord."

Double-mindedness blocks blessing. "I'd like to do better but not too much better" keeps you bouncing with no direction. Poverty is always the result of spiritual warfare (John 10:10). Christ came that you might have life abundantly.

ABRAHAM: BUSINESSMAN & COVENANT

Abraham was a powerful businessman. His source was God, so he could tell Lot: look every direction, take what you want, I will take what's left.

318 trained servants born in his house. Abraham armed them and recovered Lot from five kings.
Refused the king of Sodom's offer. "I won't let you say you made me rich." His wealth came from God.
Genesis 15: God established covenant with Abram. Seed as numerous as the stars.
Galatians 3: We are Abraham's seed by faith in Christ. Same covenant promise.

God gives you power to get wealth to establish His covenant. Not for toys alone. For kingdom assignment.

HOW RICK CONNECTS THIS TO GRACE

Wealth is not earned by performance religion. God gives the power. You align by faith. That is grace.
Do your own business from identity, not from panic. You are discovering destiny, not creating it from scratch.
Buy back time through systems and delegation. The anointing needs systems before multiplication →
Think in systems about your business model. How To Think In Systems guide →
Double-mindedness is a faith issue. Rest in what God said. Then act. John 7:17: do His will and you will know the doctrine.

INTERACTIVE BUY-BACK-TIME DIAGNOSTIC

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BUY BACK YOUR TIME

Redeem the time. Rescue it from loss. Improve your opportunity.

YOUR KINGDOM BUSINESS CHECKLIST

I watched the full video. Open video →
I accepted: business is a God idea, not a necessary evil.
I mapped 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 to my current business or career move.
I identified whether my model is product, service, or hybrid and the time bottleneck.
I listed tasks I am still doing that I should delegate to buy back time.
I ran the buy-back-time diagnostic honestly.
I resolved any double-mindedness about wealth and covenant (James 1:8).
I connected wealth to covenant, not ego (Deuteronomy 8:18).
I studied Abraham's businessman faith and source-vs-resource thinking.
I connected this to grace and systems in Rick's related guides.

DECLARATION OF KINGDOM BUSINESS FAITH

SAY IT WITH FAITH

Father, business is Your idea and I receive it without apology or guilt.

I study to be quiet, do my own business, and work with excellence.

I walk honestly, pay my obligations on time, and have lack of nothing.

I redeem the time. I buy it back. I rescue it from loss.

Time is greater than money and I steward both by faith.

I build a business model that can scale without consuming all my time.

I delegate what drains me and invest in what multiplies assignment.

You give me power to get wealth to establish Your covenant.

I am single-minded in faith. I receive what You provide.

I will not misrepresent Christ in the marketplace. Abundance matches my message.

I declare this by faith. In Jesus' name. Amen!

WATCH THE VIDEO + RELATED RESOURCES

Video credit: "What God Says About Business" by Bible Study With Myron Golden (Myron Golden). Shared on Patreon with appreciation. Companion resource by Rick & Isabella Pina Coaching.