 Some of the benefit things about business is that you can open up and get extra cash flow on the side which can replace your day job and also able to help you to give the money that you want that you don't have to be able to work for for a boss not saying it's wrong to work for a boss but there's some people say you know I do not like rules I do not like to be told what to do and if you have a business idea if you have something in your life that God has given you you can use that to provide some income and with that you can able to be your own boss how many people want you to be your own boss here yes everybody wants to be their boss awesome also you can have the freedom the benefits of business you can have the freedom to do what you want where you want how you want want it and with whomever you want it and that is the the ability to have a business yes it's not all starts off perfectly but you have an idea God can help you and to give you the ability to make it happen amen I just want to show some some pictures real fast about some fun facts about some fun facts I'll take out the tv by myself no worries some fun facts about business so if you can play the first slide 70% of small businesses are owned and operated by a single person by a single person 70% of small businesses we know in America a lot of businesses are are the what drives the economy is small businesses and many of them are just run by one person with an idea to be able to solve people's problems and that solving problems creates income for them to be able to do what they want how they want it and with whomever they want to next slide small businesses employ 57% of the country's private workspace workforce my bad it's hard to see next 60 to 80 of all new jobs come from small businesses and that's also another benefit of having a business that you can also provide jobs to other people next slide only this is a little depressing but hang on only 50% of businesses survive five years though most 70% hit the two-year mark next slide faster we go through those slides the easier it is only 2% of small businesses are franchised most 54% are home-based small businesses it takes just six days to start a business in the US compared to a whooping 38 days in china so you're glad that you don't live there and also cost six times as much to start a business in india than in us in india cost 2049 you go back and in um go back to in us it takes $325 to start a business so if you have an idea if you have something that you love doing if you have the how if you have that that idea god will begin to accompany and give you the grace to accomplish the things that you want in your life and let's go to the last slide immigrants make up 12.5 of small business owners nationwide put your hands together for yourself and i just want to i just want to share a little testimony of my own that you know when we came when we came first to america our pastor who's my dad also encouraged each one of us he said you know think of ideas there's so many ideas that you can think of to be able to have extra income on the side and something that when i came back from nigeria i lived there for a bit and i came back and something that i kind of love doing is buying cars fixing them and selling them and as i had my regular job i was also doing little small things on the side which that began to provide some income for myself and now uh it's it's bringing much more income than you know than i would ever thought before but it all started off as a dream where i wanted to say god i want to you know give away vehicles i want to give cars away and me and my wife last year we gave away two vehicles in the four months that we were married and that was a dream that i dreamed since i was a kid and god gave me the opportunity to that and as you are here in church and say what does this has to do with everything when you give your money god will give you the ideas the ability and the wisdom to bring that to pass to be able to open a business to be able to open a daycare is it hair salon is it painting photo photoshop is it you know taking photos whatever it is as you give god will give you the grace to be able to make it to pass that you don't have to work you know from nine to five and and you know wait till you're 65 which is nothing's wrong with that if you love doing that that's totally fine but if you have an idea and you want to expand and have a little extra income on the side and even that income later on to become your main income god can give you the idea and the ability to do that and as me my wife last year we gave away two cars and i was praying god you know i want to see breakthrough in my finances and just a few months later after that god gave us the grace to open our own dealership right now where we have over 20 something cars and god has been having grace upon that let's put our hands together for jesus christ and one thing that that i've learned from this is that if you have a business idea you know wisdom says not to just drop everything and you pursue that business you also have to be wise enough to to have at least it's a good rule rule of thumb to have at least six months of bills enough money for bills to pay the bills then you can go into your own business you know but other than that keep your day job collect some money if you have that business idea begin to ask god give me grace give me wisdom to make things happen and i promise you one thing when god puts a hand upon your life it puts a hand of blessing nothing will begin to stop the blessing coming for your life amen church let us put our hands together one more time for jesus christ and that's just you know i'm not saying i know everything about business but that's just from my personal experience some things that i went through and how god has blessed me as you give tonight this is where it comes down you know as you give you're not giving you know to an organization to a church you're giving to show your faithfulness to god say god you know i trust you with my finances as i trust you with fine my finances i believe that you will equip my mind equip my hands to be able to accomplish things that nobody has done before then nobody in your history of your family has ever done god can give you the ability to do that and that comes through our offerings through our giving it's basically saying god i trust you i know that you know everything about me the way the way i was formed i know that you know everything about me and i simply say my finances are in your hands and would you please bless them and multiply them amen church