Business Lessons from the Bible 03

On Sunday afternoon, I lay down on the couch with my 4 + months old Baby sleeping in my arms as I watched a livestream of Elevation Church, as the guest speaker preached on a topic titled "I woke up like this". 

The preacher mentioned a striking explanation of Jacob (Israel) as stock broker, whose investment instrument is (live)stock. Funny right? Yes it was to me, but beyond funny I held on a truth there, that as Jacob got divine direction on the right action to maximise returns, I believe I equally have access to this divine direction as well. 

Almost immediately, I remembered when I had a clear and convincing dream not to make an investment, yet I went ahead believing I got expert direction on that one. I lost almost my monthly income in that one day. I was more pained that I disobeyed than the loss of money. 

So I went to bed Sunday night with an expectation to continually get clear divine direction on my investments going forward. As I woke up, it was clear that I need to close some investments and probably re-enter the trade again later. 

However, I got carried away with my day that I forgot when it was time. I did think of setting a sell instruction even before the market opens but I thought to see the opening price before closing. Anyway like I mentioned I got carried away, only to see the alert one hour later... and average of about 10% slip in  4 of my 6 positions. 

Lest I go on about my story, the lesson I'm here yo extract from the Bible for businesses today is going all in. Once we are convinced of the source of our insight, we should go all in and timely. 

Like Jesus told Peter the next morning after he has struggled for long without any result to cast all the NETS but Peter only cast a NET. Though he got blessed, but the net broke because of partial obedience. 

It is important for businesses to be sure to have corporate prophets in their team, those who get the level of insights that others are not getting. You could call this fellow a Research Analyst, Data Analyst, Strategy & Planning Manager, whatever. One thing is expedient that this individual(s) come up with unusual insights, make the connection that people would have least expected. Furthermore, this individual must have recorded a trend of success i  their prediction and insights. And it is worthy of note that this dimension of operation is not about an ivy league training, it all starts with a divine gift. 

If it was about the top-notch training, so.e big businesses with well trained executives would 't have failed. Although some of them got the insights, they just didn't act at all or fast enough. 

The two lessons from the scripture is for business people to do everything to be rightly positioned for insights. And when the right insights surface, they should go all in, and act fast. Don't be like Peter who casted a net instead of the nets. 

And to add some spice to my opening story, I did 't only get divine insight on negative warnings, I have at least 4 stocks in my portfolio that has done over 100% returns this year alone. One of them has even done about 1200%. I'm not a pro at all, I only relied on divine insights and I took timely action. 

Divine logic can take you from A to B, but divine insights can land you on J and even take you further.