Dr. Mike Woods vows that if he generates $40 million per week, he'll spend one week each month giving 40 pastors and entrepreneurs $1 million each to start their own ventures. He argues that entrepreneurship and ministry must be anchored in purpose beyond money, or you'll cut corners and abandon the mission.
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He declares the end from the beginning. I'll say it again. He declares the end from the beginning. He tells a pastor, you're going to have 8,000 members. Then he says, back up and start in your living room with 5. Yeah, he declares the end from the beginning. He tells an entrepreneur, you're going to build a multi-billion dollar company. And he says, back up and make an investment of $100. And start building your business from the ground. That's the product. That's where you're going. But you come back and you start here with purpose. We done seen this word a lot today, right? Yes, sir. It's important. It's important, man, to dominion. So this purpose says you got to determine why you want to pursue this product, because it's not going to be easy, right? You're going to be tempted to quit many times. You gotta determine the purpose, and it can't be money, right? Your reason why cannot be money, because if it's money, you'll find another way to make money that's not related to the product. That's easy. Yes, yes, that's good. You'll go get a job to keep from going through what you got to go through to get to that if your purpose is money. Yeah, so you got to find a bigger why. My purpose is I want to build that homeless facility for those homeless people, so I need billions to do that. My purpose is I want to leave an inheritance to my children's children. I need billions to do that. I want to empower other entrepreneurs. I made a vow to God. I told God if he would position me to do $40 million a week— this is real gold— $40 million a week, that's $160 million a month. Oh God, it's $1.6 billion a year. Y'all listen to this. I said, if you do this for me, God, I'll take one week out of every month. Wow. I will line up real prophets and apostles, and I will cause them to be oppressed and cheer. I will call 40 people a week, pastors and entrepreneurs I'll have them come and stand before the president with their business plan, pitch their idea, and we will give away $1 million to 40 people every week to empower new entrepreneurs. Are you hearing this? I said, God, if you do that for me, I'll empower your people. Because there's so many people with ideas that's stuck right here. They don't have the money, so they abandon the purpose. Oh God, if somebody gave you a million dollars for your idea, you could do it. And the reason I got the prophets, because they're going to discern whether you are able to bring it about. Now you do, you do realize there's business connected to that too, right? We ain't gonna just give you a million dollars. Amen. And no, we're gonna take 5, 10, whatever the Lord say, percentage of the company, because we believe in the idea. So that residual comes back into the kingdom, so we continue to bless other people. Are y'all here? So we're going to invest in people so that their dreams can be realized.
