Engage in Wealth Creating Activities

 Written by Uyoyou Charles-Iyoha

To make money and create wealth, you have to engage in an income generating activity.  Lydia was a business woman who sold purple – Acts Chapter 16 verse 14. The virtuous woman of Proverbs Chapter 31 verses 10 to 31 was a business woman – knitting and sewing, designing gowns and sweaters for sale. She also invested in agriculture. The widow of the indebted prophet was a business woman – she sold oil and became debt free, 2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 1 to 7. Aquila was a tentmaker and worked with her husband. At some point, the Apostle Paul joined them – Acts Chapter 18 verses 1 to 3.

Preachers and teachers are also engaged in the tasks of money making through the knowledge they share. That is why the Bible says that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel. Acts Chapter 9 verses 1 to 14.

In every instance of financial lack, insufficiency, and indebtedness in the Bible, the recourse was always on how to access financial resources either through paid employment (hiring your time, skills and expertise out for money as in the case of the prodigal son (Luke Chapter 15 verses 11 to 19); production and sales of products as in the case of the indebted prophet’s widow (2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 1 to 7); and engagement in  a trade as in the case of Peter who went fishing to get the required tax money.

In all of these instances, we find people engaging in income generating activities to raise the required financial resources. None went begging or borrowing or stealing. They engaged in economic activities. They also were not instructed to give away their financial lack, insufficiency or indebtedness by either begging or borrowing to give in order to receive a hundred fold return. They also did not mope around to say they were trusting God, pray against the enemies of their financial resources, divine as to who or what was responsible for their financial lack, insufficiency and indebtedness. They simply went in search of the money by engaging in income generating activities.

This is not to say that the enemy and his cohorts do not interfere in the financial activities of the children of God. They do. Examples include Job, the Israelites in Judges Chapter 6 where the Midianites continually inflicted lack, penury and impoverishment on the Israelites by always destroying whatever plants the Israelites had planted (Judges Chapter 6 verses 1 to 7). Such instances including absolute financial lack, insufficiency and indebtedness require urgent short term approaches such as finding an economic activity that yields immediate financial returns, get a job if one is readily available, sell goods and services that are in great demand, ask God for a miracle as you engage in a trade – Peter went to fish to get the tax money. He did not have to sell the fish. The money required for their tax was already inside the fish.

You serve by offering your skills and expertise for hire through paid employment, consultancies to access money to resolve financial indebtedness, lack and insufficiency as well as create wealth. Joseph, Daniel, Mordecai, Nehemiah, the prodigal son, and Huram, the master craftsman from Tyre are examples of people whose skills and expertise were hired and were financially rewarded.  

You can also transfer knowledge and wisdom through teaching sessions (seminars, conferences, knowledge and wisdom sharing meetings like King Solomon. In the case of Solomon, it was wisdom – 1^st Kings Chapter 10 verses 1 to 10, 23 to 25, 2^nd Chronicles Chapter 9 verses 22 to 24.

You may also possess a unique gift that people desire and present you with gifts in order to see or hear. For you it could be singing, dancing, telling jokes (comedy), preaching, praying results oriented prayers, prophesying, designing, software development, interpretation of dreams, that is providing solutions to challenges and problems (an ideas smith), editing of books and any kind of write-ups which makes you a wordsmith, 2^nd Chronicles Chapter 9 verses 1 to 5, especially verse 2, 1^st Kings Chapter 10 verses 1 to 7 especially verse 3, football, wrestling, boxing, acting, tennis, track and field. Whatever the gift is, do ensure that it translates into an income generating activity that will multiply and compound into wealth.

Agriculture is a great wealth creating activity. Many biblical people became wealthy from the different forms of agriculture they engaged in. They include Nabal in 1^st Samuel Chapter 25 verses 1 to 2, Job in Job Chapter 1 verse 3, Jacob, Isaac and Abraham.

Trade resources – the parable of the talents best illustrates the principle of fruitfulness and multiplication. The servants who traded their talents multiplied them while the one dug his own in the ground had nothing to show for it. He was unfruitful, therefore, no increase. Please see Matthew Chapter 25 verses 14 to 30. The Bible describes him as an unprofitable servant. To be fruitful financially, resources such as time, skills, expertise, knowledge, wisdom, contacts, money etc have to be traded for financial resources. That is how financial increase and abundance comes. King Solomon is a classic example. Start today and build lasting wealth.

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