Many Christian men today quietly feel the weight of needing greater provision—enough to win a wife, buy a home, and raise a family in a hostile age. Proverbs 14:23 confronts this need head-on: “In all labour there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” The message is simple but world-altering: your ability to be a wise man produces your ability to do real work, and that work—especially the painful kind—produces the profit necessary for Christian manhood. Wisdom is not religious performance or articulate theology; it is a soft, obedient heart built on the fear of the Lord, His law, and His covenant sanctions. Where the inner man is wise, work becomes fruitful. Where he is foolish, life collapses into talk, excuses, and lack.

This proverb diagnoses why so many modern men remain stuck: too much consumption, analysis, discussion, and “mere talk,” and not enough labour—especially the kind that presses through the pain built into our post-Fall world. Scripture reveals that this pain is not a sign to quit; it is a God-designed signal that profit lies ahead. Every man—whether shepherd like Abraham or junk-yard owner like the richest man you ever met—can prosper in the calling God fitted him for, if he rejects cultural lies about wealth and embraces God’s pattern: be transformed, do the labour, and have the profit. Work done in obedience, even when it hurts, becomes the very means by which God restores dominion, provides for families, and shapes men into who they must be to fulfil their calling.

Young men today are facing pressures far worse than anything their fathers or grandfathers experienced. Marriage rates are collapsing, home ownership is out of reach, and an entire generation is drifting toward an empty, wasted life—far from the meaning God intended through work, wife, and family. This “war on men” is real, but God has not left His sons without hope. Scripture reveals a powerful, often-ignored open secret that transformed Isaac in famine, Jacob in poverty, Daniel in exile, Job in devastation, and Joseph in prison. The same God who lifted them above their circumstances can lift you above yours.

In this episode, I uncover the simple—but not easy—biblical pattern that unleashes God’s blessing in real time and real history. Not the cheap promises of modern self-help, but the covenant path God Himself guarantees: “If you obey… then I will bless.” When men return to God’s ways, His hand reaches down from heaven to transform their work, multiply their efforts, and exalt them in ways no economy, background, or obstacle can prevent. I’m Nathan F. Conkey with God’s World, God’s Way, helping God’s men rediscover God’s law, God’s order, and God’s blessing. Brother—if you’re ready for real change—this message is for you.

This episode tackles the mental barrier Nathan calls “spiritual religion” – the idea that the Bible is only for “heavenly” or non-material things and not for real-world issues like money, business, and vocation. He argues that this false divide between spirit and matter is a satanic lie that keeps Christians poor and ineffective, because it separates God’s Word and God’s World. Using Solomon as the central example, Nathan shows that God used very practical means to connect Solomon’s God-given wisdom to extraordinary wealth—not as a prosperity gimmick, but as hope grounded in Scripture for men who want to provide for a wife, a family, and a home even in an uncertain economy.

Nathan then walks through 1 Kings 10 and Solomon’s broader story: Solomon sought God-centered wisdom for his specific calling as king, wrote and published thousands of proverbs and songs (the “social media” of his day), and became a magnet for rulers like the Queen of Sheba, who traveled far with immense wealth because she believed his answers could save her kingdom. From this, Nathan urges Christian men to ask God for wisdom in their own vocation (rancher, mechanic, teacher, builder, etc.), to meditate deeply on Scripture, and to generously share their hard-won insights with their peers instead of hiding them. Over time, faithfully serving others with God’s wisdom in your field attracts serious people willing to pay for real help—building wealth “little by little” in a way that honours Christ, embraces long-term growth, and refuses the lie that the Bible has nothing to say about business and money.