Joint Venturing with God

Two is better than one; especially when one of the two is God.

One of the latest and greatest marketing tools in internet marketing is the joint venture or JV. Those of you who are familiar with using the internet to market your products and services are probably familiar with this term and its many benefits.

But, for those of you who are new to using the internet to make money, a joint venture is simply a strategic alliance where two or more people or organizations agree to contribute goods, services and/or capital to a common commercial enterprise.

As I was thinking about the general definition of a joint venture, an idea came to me. What if, as Christian business owners, we made a commitment to be joint venture partners with God? What benefits would there be to us and to the Lord’s kingdom?

I can think of several, but here are just five of them.

1. Not Having to Do All the Work
Just like doing a joint venture with another human being, when you choose God as your JV partner, you don’t have to do nearly as much work as you would if you go it alone.

In fact, there are some things in your business that only God can handle. If you’ve had those moments when something has just gone incredibly right with your business and you’re absolutely amazed at how easy it was to accomplish, that’s God making it happen for you. When you commit to a partnership with Him, He’ll, make miracles happen in your business.

2. Leverage from the Lord’s Resources
God has numerous ways of taking care of the things that need to be taken care of in order to make our businesses successful. When you invite Him to be a joint venture partner with you in your business endeavors, He’ll unearth resources in the form of people, time, and money you never realized you had before.

3. Great Way To Separate Yourself from the Competition
When I first started my business, I wrestled with whether or not I should publicize the fact that I’m a Christian. After much prayer and talking with those close to me whom I know have a close relationship with the Lord, I decided that not only should I make this information known, I should include it in my marketing campaigns.

I decided that letting my customers and prospects know that I’m on a team with God was a good idea because first, it helped weed out those who I would not best serve. And second, and more importantly, my faith helps separate me from everyone else out there who does what I do and offers the services I offer.

Those who are drawn to me because I’m a Christian are people I know God has decided I should do business with and those who are offended by it are those with whom a business relationship would not be beneficial to them or to me.

4. Gain Credibility with a Particular Target Market
Christian business owners make up a target market that’s not tapped into as much as business owners in general. So, when you joint venture with God and other Christian business owners know it, you have access to that market because they know that as a fellow Christian who owns a business, you can truly relate to them.

And, if your target market isn’t business owners at all, but rather some other target market, allowing the Christians in that group to know that God is your JV partner opens up new opportunities for sales and growth in your business.

5. More Abundant Financial Rewards
Just like in a traditional joint venture where both sides pull their capital together to increase the amount of money making opportunities, a joint venture with God allows you to share in the financial abundance God has waiting for you.

When you partner with God in your business, part of your commitment should be to give God his share of the profits. He’s definitely going to be doing the “heavy lifting” and we should cheerfully give back to him 10% of what He’s given us.
The Bible assures us that when we do, God will continue to give us back more than we could ever return to him.

In this respect, joint venturing with God is more powerful than joint venturing with anyone else because with anyone else you’d combine your money with your JV partner and the two of you would split the profits 50/50. With God, you give Him the 10% He requests and He puts back a hundred times that. That’s a deal I’ll take any day.

There are a lot of reasons why we should choose to joint venture with God and the benefits definitely outweigh the demands of doing so. But, the number one reason I chose to make God my JV partner is because I didn’t want to find what would happen if I didn’t.

~ by jlstanfield7 on May 19, 2009.