The Truth About Business Failure and Prosperity

There are so many business lessons to be found in Nehemiah. If you have not read through that book yet, do it. It's short but packed with insight. Nehmeiah had what seemed like an impossible task, to rebuild the entire city wall while facing possible attack for even attempting it. It offers great insight into the truth about business failure and prosperity.

Biblical Business Lessons from Nehemiah

God gave the vision to take on this project to a willing person. Even though Nehemiah and his workers were unqualified, the mercy, wisdom, and community that God gave these people was enough to get this job done in record time.

A job of rebuilding the walls around the city that had been broken down for over 150 years that people had lived in fear of doing. He was given a job that none of them felt technically qualified for, and yet they pulled together.

With the gracious favor of God, in spite of attacks and criticism, working with their tools in one hand and their weapons in another, in case they should have to defend themselves. It got done in record time, 52 days to rebuild the stonewalls of that city.

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The Truth about Business Failure and Prosperity

What could you do in your business over the next 52 days? Is the fear of failure keeping you from trying?

What is the worst that can happen if you try and you seem to fail?

Even if you feel like it was a failure, it's not a failure if you learn from it. There's no such thing as a failure because you fail forward. (I love that idea of failing forward from my mentor, Jeff Walker). If you trip and fall, when you stand back up, you're further ahead on the path than you were before you fell.

Have you ever thought about that? Even falling pushes your forward. When you fall forward and stand back up, your feet are now further ahead than where they were when you tripped and fell. So what happened? You're further ahead than when you were standing before. Nothing is a failure when you're doing it for the Lord.

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Celebrate Success in Your Business and Life

What did they do when they finished the wall? They celebrated, this was an amazing feat. It was a job that needed to be done for 150 years. They pulled together even being unqualified and they did it. Plus, they did it in record time, in spite of attacks, criticism, and lack of resources and qualifications.

Not only that, but look at what God did. Look how God pulled them together, how he pulled all of them, who were unqualified, to do their own little pieces of this job. So, together, they got it done, a testimony to God's grace and his favor, a testimony to God doing the work through them because they were not qualified in and of themselves.

The people who had come before them had lived 150 years in fear and anxiety over that wall. They didn't dare do anything about it. Yet, these people had the legacy of saying, “I was there. I stood up and helped rebuild that wall!”

Thousands and thousands and thousands of years later, people are still being protected by that wall.

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Legacy in Business and the LORD: Business Failure and Prosperity

What do you have to celebrate? Where have you fallen forward and walked by faith when you weren't qualified? You are worthy and capable because He has called you to this mission and message.

Take some time, even just 5 minutes, and sit in gratitude and praise. Thank God, and celebrate, what you have done this year, this week, this hour.

There are amazing things ahead of you, my friend, you are right where you need to be, and you walk in the favor of God

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