Growing Financially As You Build Your Family's Legacy Ronnie D. Joyner, D.Min. For more than 16 years I have longed to be used of God to create a biblical stewardship ministry which allowed our families to meet two financial needs at the same time. One, create the financial income to meet your family needs and two, that this creation of financial income will come from the Faith and Word/Work ethic of each family member. I believe for too long we have relied on companies and corporations who are not native to our family giftings to provide their products, marketing plans and fundraising structures to raise funds for them with a portion to come back to you, such as candy and donut companies. They provide the products, we provide the labor, the time, and the gas to deliver these items or mail them with hopes of reaching a certain goal. Their products drive and motivate our efforts. I think it is time we change this practice. I Thessalonians 4:11,12 states, "And that ye
study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without and that ye may have lack of nothing" KJV.
The Family Legacy Institute What is native to us should be researched among us, identifying the gifts and talents we possess then do a serious assessment of these gifts and talents for their ability to create the framework for an enhancing work which may be structured, marketed and promoted to create the income for our Churches and our Households. All of us are working for someone else, helping them reach their goals of income and continued viability as a business entity. The workforce sustains the life of that particular company. Where you work depends on you. If you were fired or laid off, they would either do without you or get someone else to replace you. In every business, you the worker become the producer and is rewarded for it weekly or monthly. But in the back of my mind, I keep hearing the command of God to Adam in Genesis 2:15 "and the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it".
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