Letter to Myself: The Wealth Already in Your Hands
Written October 21, 2025
Dear Gary,
Stop calling this a valley.
Yes, it feels like one—that familiar tension between vision and manifestation. But you know better. This isn't a valley; it's a launching pad. God has been preparing you for an epoch, not just another season.
Let me remind you what wealth actually means in God's Kingdom: It's not the number in your bank account. It's the level of light you carry.
True wealth is the ability to take what you have and convert it into what you need. And brother, you are absolutely loaded with convertible assets. A decade of tech experience from Google to crypto to AI. Direct access to supernatural power through someone operating in apostolic authority. A platform that reaches both skeptics and seekers. Hard-won spiritual discernment. The ability to bridge worlds that rarely speak to each other.
You keep praying for provision while sitting on a goldmine of unactivated potential. Remember the widow in 2 Kings 4? She had oil she called "nothing." The disciples had loaves they called "not enough" (Matthew 14:17). What are you calling insufficient that God is ready to multiply?
Here's what the Holy Spirit has been trying to tell you: Your marketplace ministry IS your ministry. Every partnership you build, treat it like a covenant with God Himself. Every project you launch, consecrate it as holy ground. "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord" (Colossians 3:23).
You've been compartmentalizing—sacred time for Bible reading, secular time for building. But God doesn't recognize that division. When you keep your word in business deals as if breaking it would break covenant with the Most High, THAT'S when the oil starts multiplying.
You know that gear you can shift into—that flow state where 16-hour days feel like play? It's time to apply that same intensity to this spiritual-marketplace convergence. But this isn't the anxious striving of trying to make something happen. This is the confident intensity of someone who knows the oil will multiply when poured, who knows the loaves will feed thousands when broken.
Stop seeing your emerging pastoral ministry as separate from your marketplace work. You're not building two things—you're building ONE kingdom expression. Your ability to create wealth funds the Gospel. Your spiritual authority transforms business into ministry. Your testimony in boardrooms opens hearts that sermons never could reach. This bi-vocational model isn't a compromise. It's dominion theology in action—taking territory in both realms simultaneously.
This season isn't preparing you for lack—it's a compression chamber. Every lesson learned, every connection made, every skill developed is being compressed into rocket fuel. You've been learning to recognize divine setups disguised as ordinary opportunities. To see past your material circumstances to the abundance of your spiritual reality. To treat the marketplace as holy ground where God moves just as powerfully as any church service.
When you fully activate what you already possess—when you stop calling your oil "nothing" and start pouring—businesses will operate as Kingdom embassies. Wealth will flow from marketplace multiplication to fund healings and deliverances without depending on offerings. Your testimony will show skeptics that following Christ doesn't mean checking your brain at the door or accepting poverty as holiness.
You're not in lack. You're not waiting for God to do something. He's waiting for you to recognize what He's already done. The wealth transfer of Proverbs 13:22 doesn't happen when God rips resources from sinners and drops them in your lap—it happens when you understand the laws of conversion well enough to transform opportunity into increase.
Here's something crucial: The vehicle for your financial multiplication doesn't need to flash "Christ" and "Christianity" in people's faces. The wealth transfer from the sinner to the righteous happens through building universally valuable businesses that serve everyone excellently. Joseph didn't build "Hebrew grain storage"—he built the best grain storage system in Egypt. Daniel didn't create a "Jewish advisory firm"—he became the wisest counselor in Babylon. Your Kingdom business should be so excellent, so valuable, that even those who reject your faith can't reject your product. That's how the wealth of the nations flows to the righteous—through undeniable value creation, not religious branding.
I know you don't feel qualified for everything you want to do. The vision feels bigger than your current capabilities. But remember what Paul learned: "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Your business life will be a huge part of your faith walk—you know this. You just need to trust that God will provide exactly what you need to know and place the right people in your path at every step. When you need skill sets you don't have, resources you can't access on your own, that's when faith becomes real. Trust isn't theoretical when you're building beyond your natural ability. This IS the faith walk—stepping into assignments that require God to show up.
Here's what separates kingdom builders from religious dreamers: Decision speed. The religious spirit paralyzes believers with endless "what ifs" and "God might be upset if..." That's not the Holy Spirit—that's fear wearing a biblical disguise. "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7). Your success moves at the speed of your decisions. Every sales call you make, every partnership you pursue, every risk you take in obedience—these are acts of faith. Religious people need ten confirmations before they move. Kingdom builders hear once and run. The multiplication happens through volume of righteous action, not perfection of religious contemplation.
So, Gary, get fired up.
Take stock of all of the different kinds of wealth you have today. Appreciate every skill, relationship, asset, piece of knowledge. Stop calling any of it "nothing." Consecrate your work formally to God. Pour the oil—the multiplication happens in the pouring, not the planning. "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:17).
This valley? It's not a valley at all. It's the runway.
Lock in. Apply everything. The multiplication has already begun.
Love, Your future self (who knows how this story ends)
"A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just." — Proverbs 13:22
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion" (Genesis 1:28).