Turns Out Grant Cardone, Alex Hormozi, and Codie Sanchez Might Have Been Quoting the Bible All Along

Part 2 of 2 — new here? Go back and read part one, then come back.

Last week: five days at WOFBI, Bible school, Winner International, a notebook that turned into two notebooks, and a list of names scribbled in the margin that had no business being there.

Cardone. Hormozi. Sanchez. Next to notes about sowing seeds and divine direction.

I promised you the correlations. Here they are, roughly in the order I found them.

Fair warning — the one that changed me most isn't about business at all. I'm saving it for the end.

The Note Labeled "(Biz)"

Pastor Adeboye opened Thursday's class with a sentence I wrote down twice:

Life will never give you what you deserve. It gives you what you demand, through covenant principles.

Underneath it, in my own handwriting, I'd written three words with a label I don't usually use in church notes:

BIZ:Find a problem. Offer a solution.

That's not a paraphrase. That's the actual note. Underlined, with the label still on it.

The Misconception I'd Believed My Whole Life

Pastor Bolaji put a list on the board of things people get wrong about money, and misconception number one was a line I've heard my entire life.

Money is the root of all evil.

It isn't, and it never was — the actual point was always about the love of money, not money itself. The class went further than that, too: the streets of heaven, someone pointed out, are paved in gold. Wealth was never the enemy. What you do with it was always the point.

Every business coach worth listening to eventually says some version of this. Money is amplification. It makes you more of whoever you already are.

Turns out that's not a business insight. It's a few thousand years old.

The Best Writing Advice I Got All Year

Then there was the line about words that I now can't stop applying to my own emails.

The word of God is quick, powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. It cuts away the fluff. It gets to the point.

I write for a living, more or less — proposals, pitches, the weekly newsletter you're currently reading. Every good editor I've ever worked with has told me some version of the same thing: cut the fluff, get to the point, say the true thing in fewer words.

I did not expect a scripture class to be the best writing advice I got all year.

The One Grant Cardone Would Recognize Immediately

Prayer of importunity — that's the actual name for it in my notes. Fancy phrase for something very simple.

Keep making the same demand. Stay committed. Never accept what you don't want. Do not be discouraged. Never give up.

Grant Cardone has built an entire career saying some version of those same five lines, just with more exclamation points. Refuse to quit. Refuse to settle. Relentless action until the outcome moves.

Different rooms. Same instruction.

The One I Think About Daily Now

Not every thought deserves a seat at the table. Guard your heart, your mind, your body, your thoughts — on purpose, like a discipline, not a vibe.

Every mindset coach I've ever paid for says some version of this: watch your self-talk, control your inputs, protect your attention like it's the asset it actually is.

Same instruction. Much older source.

The One I Told You I Was Saving

It didn't come from a business class. It came from Divine Health, and it's the reason this newsletter exists at all.

Pastor Ernest said something early on that I wrote down and then just sat with for a second.

Will power is not enough. You need the word.

I've built a career on will power. Discipline, systems, grit, showing up. It's not nothing. But it has a ceiling, same as everything else that starts and ends with just me.

Then someone told a story. A woman who had died. And came back.

I don't have the details to hand you the way you'd want them — it was somebody else's testimony, told secondhand in a room full of strangers, and I'm not going to dress it up into something it wasn't. What I can tell you is what got written on the board right after it.

"Lord, let your power flow here. We really need that God. Now."

I sat with that longer than anything else all week. I need to tap into the source, for it's just sitting there waiting to be asked to help.

What Faith Actually Means Now

By Saturday, the word faith didn't mean what it meant on Monday.

It's not just believing in myself. It's not manufacturing confidence out of nothing, alone, and hoping it holds. It's connecting to the Source — the actual Source, the one running the whole universe — and letting that power move through whatever I'm building instead of trying to generate all of it myself.

Nobody walks on water without that. Ha. But nobody builds anything worth having without it either.

I went to Bible school thinking I'd learn more about God. I did. What I didn't expect was to understand my own role in the world this clearly, or to find the leadership books on my shelf sitting quietly inside a book that's been in my house my whole life and even one handed down from my great grandmother with great care.

So here's my actual takeaway, the uncomfortable one: how many life hacks have I paid thousands of dollars for that were free the entire time — sitting on a shelf, in a language I'd stopped taking seriously?

I don't have a clean answer yet.

I just know I'm not done reading.

Until next week, keep reading with an open heart and mind.

-Penny

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