Welcome back to another episode of the Faith in Business podcast. I'm your host, Mia Renee, and this is

the place to be if you want to keep God at the center of everything you do as an entrepreneur,

as a leader, and as an influencer. Let's get into another powerful topic. In today's faith episode,

we're going to talk about the importance of having our peace in the giver and not in the gift. And how do we know

if we're putting our peace in the gift? Well, all the blessings in our life are blessings.

But the minute our peace is shaken by those blessings coming or going or being disrupted at all shows us and

reveals to us that our peace is in the gifts and not in the giver. Because these things are

going to come and go, and especially in entrepreneurship and leadership and being in any

position of influence. All of these things, first of all, we're not going to take any of

this with us when we go. All of these things can fluctuate in entrepreneurship, finances, bank

account, success, clients, revenue. You know, all of this can go up and down depending on what's

going on and what's happening in the world. There's always going to be circumstances that we can't control. The blessings in our life can come and go. And we always want to be

having them in open hands. I think of it like this because I tend to struggle in my life with,

I'm fine when everything's going well. These areas of my life and all these gifts are just there

and everything's great. But the minute one of those goes out or is, you know, taken away or something

happens and my peace goes with it, then I know my peace was in that gift and not in the one who gave me

the gift, right? If you think of the story of Job, he was the ultimate test of being blessed

with so much, having so many blessings, and losing it all, losing all, every, all of his

possessions and his loved ones and everything that he cherished and everything he had

been blessed with, even losing his health, he was covered in boils. And he still continued to

praise God and thank God and trust God. Why? Because his peace was in the giver and not in all of the

gifts. And God restored him and restored everything back to him and then some,

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