The GWM™ composite for the Lagos network at Year Two was 63.1. 847 direct employees. 94% living wage compliance. 1,240% revenue growth across the ten-year history of the network. The measure is not the money. The measure is what the money is doing: producing dignity for specific workers, funding the governance reform programme, resourcing the school's inquiry room, investing in the reconciliation institute. The economy of abundance is not a higher standard of living for those who participate in it. It is an economic architecture that generates Kingdom outcomes across every pillar it touches.
NB: The GWM™ (Generational Wealth Multiplier™) is a proprietary framework of the Heal the World Network. You can read more about it in Novel 4 of 12 of the heal the world series. Get a copy of the novel at www.healtheworldnetwork.global website. Read about the Economy of Abundance from the 'NOVEL UNIVERSE' section--- Read about the protagonist- their biographies, watch introductory video of the book, and join our live conversation at the Discussion. Check 'BOOKSHELF' section and buy yourself a copy of the novel for just GHc57 (Digital copy downloadable)
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
This week, assess what your economic activity is doing, not only what it is accumulating. Is the velocity of your generosity increasing? Is the abundance being generated reaching those who need it?
The GWM™ — Generational Wealth Multiplier — measures not accumulation but velocity: what is being generated, what is being distributed, at what rate, and toward what purposes. Samuel's father measured wealth by what it was doing, not what it was holding. The enterprise that is generating dignity, funding mission, building ownership, and caring for creation is generating a return that no conventional balance sheet captures.
- Enterprises measuring success by accumulation rather than by the dignity and abundance they are generating for others
- Communities whose economic activity is visible but whose economic benefit is invisible because it leaves the community in returns to external capital
- The Kingdom vision of abundance remaining aspirational rather than structural
Proverbs 11:24-25: One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. The economics of abundance: the giving that gains, the withholding that loses, the refreshing that is itself refreshed.
The world measures economic success by the size of the balance sheet and the rate of return to capital.
God measures economic success by the abundance generated for the community — the dignity of workers, the sustainability of creation, the resourcing of the common good.
John 10:10: I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. The word is perissos — superabundant, exceeding what is necessary. The economy of abundance is not about meeting minimum needs. It is about the superabundant life that Jesus came to bring — including in the economic domain.
"Lord, let the wealth I generate be measured not by what I hold but by what it is doing — the dignity it produces, the mission it resources, the community it serves. Make me an economist of abundance. In Jesus' name, Amen."
| Time | Duty |
|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Morning Prayer & Scripture |
| 7:00 PM | Evening Reflection & Journal |
| Daily | Act of Kingdom faithfulness |
The thief comes to steal and destroy, but Christ came for the opposite — life, and life more abundantly, in every domain including this one. He is not offering you a minimum you can scrape by on. He is offering superabundance: more than enough, so that you become a source of enough for others. Come to Him today, and receive the life that overflows
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