7-Step Boaz Process

Introductory Text

Our aim is to develop the attributes of Boaz in everyone who joins the family. Boaz is introduced to us in the Bible in Ruth 2:1:
“There was a relative of Naomi’s husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz.”

The objective is to teach widows and their children how to become wealthy through trust in God. God encoded this path in the Bible, demonstrating it in how He turned around the life of Ruth, a stranger and widow in Israel. This path is what we have termed the 7-Step Boaz Process.

Step 1: Set in a God-Governed Family (Ruth 2:1-3)

The first thing God did for Ruth was to put her in a God-governed family. Boaz was an example of a man who led a God-governed family. He was a man of God who owned a business with many workers under him. God set Ruth in a God-governed family by guiding her footsteps to request permission to be a worker on Boaz’s farm. This is the first thing God does to help widows and their children. In a God-governed family widows and their children are provided with livelihood support and training to do things God’s way. Bible-believing churches and ministries are a prime example of such families. The Boaz Family is also a God-governed family. Have you been set by God in one of them?

Step 2: Work for Your Own Necessities (Ruth 2:6-7)

Having been set in a God-governed family, Ruth ensured that she worked hard each day to earn a living. This is the second stage in God’s way of taking widows and their children out of poverty. The provision of food, clothing, and shelter for you and your family is your responsibility! God expects that we work to fend for our own needs. You can get a job or do your own small business. If no one will employ you, start working by volunteering your expertise and skills for free. What you are doing today may be generating very little. Keep on! That is the place where God will meet with you.

Step 3: Training in God’s Word (Ruth 2:8-12)

In this stage, God’s representative that governs the family takes on the responsibility of teaching God’s word to the widow and fatherless child. And the individual being trained takes on the responsibility of learning and obedience. In the Boaz Family, we organize training sessions for our beneficiaries. We train on God’s word as regards finances, business, and economic prosperity.

Step 4: Rich in Faith (Ruth 2:11-13)

This is the first type of riches God gave to Ruth. She believed when Boaz told her that God would repay her for her kindness to her mother-in-law. As the widow and her child continue to understand the word of God, faith is released in their hearts. This faith is the title deed to access God’s blessings. Without faith in God, the widow/fatherless child will give up on living right and doing the right things. With faith in God, you can please Him and receive blessings from Him.

Step 5: Rich in Liberality (Ruth 2:14, 17-18)

This is the second type of riches God gives to the widow and her children. They must cultivate hearts that are rich towards God through giving. By this, we mean you must financially support God’s work in the world. This includes giving towards the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, giving to the poor and vulnerable in society, and any other thing God has asked to be done. Ruth always kept back some lunch which she took back home to Naomi, her mother-in-law.

Step 6: Wisdom for Creative Enterprise (Ruth 3:1-4)

The ‘Wisdom for Creative Enterprise’ that we are talking about is God’s plan for your financial security. Things have not worked out well for you until now because this plan is yet to be revealed to you. God wants to give you wisdom by which you will access the things God reserved for you from the foundation of the world. You did not come into the world as an accident (2 Kings 4:1-7). Pray for God to reveal His wisdom to you. God can reveal this wisdom to you directly (vision, dreams, etc.), or He can speak to you through advice from those around you, as He did for Ruth through Naomi.

Step 7: Mighty to Provide Economic Leadership (Ruth 4:11-12)

This is the last stage in the promotion of the widow and her children. As they do their businesses/jobs given to them by God, they become wealthy over time. They become role models for righteousness in society. Their lives and achievements become a story that teaches people to obey and serve God (Job 36:5-12).