Our focus as business owners should be to honor God with our process, not just to honor Him with our profits.

As Christians in business our focus should be on obedience over sacrifice – switching these around makes God an enemy not an ally.

Balaam – Numbers 22

- Moab

- Balaak (king) was afraid

- Balaam was from Pethor, a city on the River, probably the Euphrates. Possibly Pethor was not far from the great city of Mari, discovered in 1933 in the Euphrates Valley. The discovery of a vast number of cuneiform tablets at Mari, beginning in 1933, revealed among other things the existence of a complex cult of prophets and seers whose activities precisely resemble those of Balaam. The fact that he undoubtedly represented the prophetic customs and practices of Mari and vicinity makes possible a better understanding of Balaam’s narrative in Numbers.

One power attributed to these prophets was that of pronouncing curses on intended victims. These curses would of course be couched in such qualified language that they were bound to come to pass one way or the other

Numbers 22:12 “God said to Balaam, ‘Do not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

NUMBERS 22

BALAAM blessed the people – but lost it all (Sin of Balaam – Numbers 23)

Our focus as business owners should be to honor God with our process, not just to honor Him with our profits.

As Christians in business our focus should be on obedience over sacrifice – switching these around makes God an enemy not an ally.