Build Your Name Not Your Fortune.

Proverbs 22:1 says “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches”. To give a practical application of this Word of God, consider the true case of Tina Turner. When she was splitting with her husband, Ike Turner, Tina told the court to allow her husband keep all their money but that he should allow her keep the name Tina Turner which he had given her. The judge so ruled and Ike left with all their money and Tina in 1976 left the marriage with just 36 cents (as she claims in her biography). Nine years after Tina Turner, who had just 36 cents on a particular day in 1976, starred in a movie, Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome, which grossed $36 million. By 1986 Ike Turner had finished the money he and Tina made, however, Tina Turner had used her name to make enough money that she became a multi millionaire. God’s Word cannot lie. Focus on building your character and your name and your character and name will build your fortune for you. But even better than building a name, build a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.