So we are in our first weeks of screen printing and business 

Step one was hearing God clearly give me a vision for my future. In my case it was an amazing idea to use my gift of art and creativity to start a business of tee-shirt design and making among other things. This wasn't a snap decision. It was something I've been hearing in the spirit for a long time but only recently through prayer felt the urging in my spirit. So to make it transform from a thought to my heavenly reality, my Husband and I decided to go ahead and buy the supplies to make it happen.

I can't stress enough how important and hinged on God this first step is! With out confirmation to your spirit that your work is in God and for him what really is the point? 

here's some scriptural support!

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. 

 Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. 

 Matthew 7:7-11 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 

 Habakkuk 2:3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. 

 Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. 

 Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Step two was to do some serious internet research! YouTube is fantastic at helping anyone  learn pretty much anything you want to learn. It is important to me to operate this business the way God wants me to. So I looked up a bunch of videos on Christian businesses and Business plan writing. 

I'll link some here to help you find the inspiration I did!

The vision!

I have an announcement for you today! 

Orthopathos will soon be an operating Tee-shirt company!

I hope you will enjoy this journey we are taking into the great and exciting unknowns of home business ownership!

Jesus has revealed to me that this is the time to step out and take a chance on him!

Knowing what Jesus is doing in your life and the lives of loved ones around you is revealed through prayer. Spending time in his presence, time set aside, time through out your day, is how you get to know him and understand his perspective. Its how you develop in yourself righteous thinking, and feeling (orthopathos) The Holy Spirit suggest to you in your time spent with him what he thinks about things.

My lifestyle example
Recently some people have been placed in my life. If I looked purely at the physical, their actions and the words they speak (or don't speak for that matter!) I would from my logical mind believe that they were a looooong way off from God.
But God is bigger than my logic!! So the Holy spirit would have me know how wrong I was. He reveals to me in my prayer time how much he's already done with these beautiful souls! He tells me what he continues to do and what I can do when opportunity presents itself. He also shows me what part my actions have already done. In this case, living a life dedicated to God and aspiring to his righteous ways gives these souls another representation of God that contradicts what they've experienced before. It replaces the distaste for church and religion and gives a renewed thinking to them that God is loving, and he loves them. If we believe it so much to tell them then maybe its worth considering. The way God shows them this through my family is through the gift of hospitality that he has truly lavished on us! I find it best to serve God through your gifts. By creating a safe place out of my home open to anyone at anytime for people to come and be themselves it helps people feel comfortable enough to open up and realize their own feelings toward God. It can be, when they are ready, a starting place for their own relationship with Him! Its so exciting to see it develop more in myself through serving him and these souls. And even more exciting to see how he woo's these souls into developing their own relationship with him!!