Name your wages.

Genesis 30:28 God says to me: “Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”

Wait a minute, you may think. Laban said that to Jacob. But I know that God says it to me because He also says in First Corinthians 9:8-10: “Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also? For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about? Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.”

You may think I have taken an obscure verse and made it to mean what I want it to mean. But many times throughout the New Testament, Jesus and Paul quote “obscure” verses and apply it to their own lives and the lives of those they taught.

God says in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

Furthermore I have a testimony that I declared the wages I wanted to receive when I applied for an internship and the letter I received two months later confirming the internship, also confirmed the exact dollar amount that I had declared.

Dream big, Believe God and Speak the Word out loud.