The pastor opens the service by expressing his joy at being in the presence of the Lord on the first Sunday in May. He invites the congregation to worship, to lay their burdens at the foot of the cross, and to recognize that God’s presence is better than a thousand other experiences. Through multiple “Amen” and cheers, he creates an atmosphere of gratitude where every heart is invited to surrender fully to the Lord.<\/p>\r\n
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He asks the beloved to stop and, from that moment on, to see the whole month of May “with the eyes of the spirit.” He proclaims that God will extend His hand over this month, bringing victory, grace, and provision to everyone. The pastor says that May is now “entrepreneurship month,” a season when God stirs up economic activities in his children to meet material and spiritual needs.<\/p>\r\n
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Through biblical illustrations (Isaac, the Israelites in Egypt, the widow with the oil), he shows that moments of drought or crisis are the most conducive to the emergence of entrepreneurial ideas. He asserts that the greatest entrepreneur is God Himself, and that, as the ancestors received abundance in difficult times, believers today must stand up, start businesses, sell their products (oil, by analogy) and thus pay their debts and bless their families.<\/p>\r\n
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The pastor insists on respecting divine instructions: not to sell out one’s service, not to “put the price low” but to apply God’s principles without taking into account negative economic circumstances. It encourages them to pray, fast, give their tithes and offerings, take communion standing, and declare victory over family curses. Faith is manifested in concrete action \u2013 opening a society, setting a fair price, seeking the connections that will come.\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n
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He concludes by proclaiming that through the blood of Jesus and communion, all curses will be broken and wealth transferred to believers. He invokes God’s grace to multiply business, clients, resources, and professional networks. The congregation is invited to acclaim the Lord, share their plans, register for the weekend sessions where a Christian entrepreneur will come to give teachings, and experience this month of May as the season when divine entrepreneurship will transform the desert into an oasis of abundance.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messages","category-teaching","category-winners-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanministries.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}