Michael Pink: Hearing God's Voice in Business and Life
Date: September 15, 2025
Source: YouTube Video Transcript - "How to Hear God More Clearly - Even in Business"
Subject: Michael Pink - Christian Business Strategist and Author
Overview
Michael Pink is a Christian author, sales trainer, and business strategist who has spent decades learning to recognize God's voice and apply biblical principles to achieve extraordinary success in commerce. His story demonstrates how deep relationship with God can transform not just spiritual life, but every aspect of business and daily living.
Most Powerful Insights and Direct Quotes
On Recognizing God's Voice
The Keyhole Miracle:
"I was walking past a car and my attention is drawn strongly to the keyhole of a car... My attention was so drawn to it that I stopped and I stared at it... I walked over to the keyhole that I was drawn to, put my key in it, and I turned it and it unlocked it as if it was my car."
This foundational experience taught Pink about divine guidance:
"As I prayed on it many years, I felt like the Lord was showing me... that he's given me the ability to unlock mysteries, to unlock things that people don't see, they don't understand, they don't comprehend."
On Learning God's Voice:
"God has never spoken to me in Icelandic or in Germany... because I don't understand or comprehend those languages. I wouldn't recognize it if I heard it. So, part of recognizing God's voice is being familiar with how he speaks, which for me is through the word."
Extraordinary Business Success Through Biblical Principles
The Copier Sales Breakthrough: When challenged to accept a 75% failure rate in sales, Pink responded:
"I picked up my Bible and I said, 'I'm going to open this book and I'm going to start with the book of Proverbs and I'm going to find principles and strategies... instead of selling one out of four, I intend to sell one out of one.'"
The results were unprecedented:
"90 days later... I said, I've been here 90 days. I made x number of calls. I've done 22 presentations, and I'm pleased to report that I also have 22 sales."
The Miraculous Sales Day: After learning true trust through a month of zero sales, Pink experienced supernatural breakthrough:
"Every human being I talked to that day bought a copier. 66,000 worth of business just in that day alone. 13 sales. Just every human being bought a copier that day."
The Divine Blueprint for Business
Pink discovered a three-level business model in the Old Testament tabernacle:
"God showed Moses a blueprint... There was an outer court, inner court, and holy of holies... The outer court was illuminated by daylight, natural light. In business that speaks of naturally observable practices... But then when you go into the holy place or the inner court, there's no natural light. It's illuminated by a solid gold lampstand... Holy Spirit is illuminating the word and prayer."
The Third Level - Supernatural Realm:
"Living in level three, the holy of holies... that's the realm of the supernatural where it's not about taking God's technique and his wisdom and applying it out here. It's the supernatural realm where there's no light, there's no candle light, it's just the presence of God."
On Pursuing God
The Guatemala Lesson: When Pink went to Guatemala for profit and lost money, God taught him about covetousness:
"I wanted to deal with covetousness in you... I wired the entire amount [$300] to a widow whose husband had been kidnapped... And that's when those deals started coming in and the networks and the book deals... it just started coming in coming in coming in."
The Core Message:
"I would say this first of all... Marinate your mind in the word of God... Spend time in his word and then ask him to speak to you... I most of the time it comes even when not when I'm saying, 'Okay, Lord, I need a word for this.' It almost never happens that way."
On True Pursuit:
"He said, 'Pursue me.' And I cried and I went in the living room and I said, 'I don't know how to do that.' So I'm just going to read my Bible until two things happen and pray. Number one, until you show up... And then the second part was you stay in it until he leaves until that lifts."
Faith and Trust
The Swimming Pool Vision: During a month of zero sales, Pink received a vision that transformed his understanding of trust:
"I see myself very clearly... I'm in a swimming pool, a big one in the shallow end, waist deep with Jesus... 'How would you like it if I baptized you and I held you underwater for 60 seconds and I will supernaturally enable you to inhale, to breathe while underwater?'... I come up gasping. I did it. I did it. I held my breath. I didn't trust him."
On True Faith:
"What I thought was trusting him was more lip service than heart... sometimes we say we're trusting him, but we're... I do everything I can to make it happen myself."
Miraculous Encounters and Evangelism
The Drought-Breaking Prayer: Pink prayed for a homeless woman in pain during a severe drought:
"I reached my hand through the car, put my hand on her shoulder, and prayed as best as I knew how for her to be healed... out of nowhere, the heavens opened up. The thunderclap came and a downpour of rain came... the drought of 86 ended. And as that happened, she lifted her hands up in bewilderment... All the pain left her body."
Corporate Evangelism: At a multinational corporation, God led Pink to give an altar call:
"45 people in that room stood up and as one man came forward, every single person... And God was giving words of knowledge and they were praying to receive Christ one after the other after the other."
The Rainforest Strategy
Divine Business Revelation: While in Panama, God spoke to Pink about business principles:
"Son, everything you need to learn about business, you could learn in the rainforest... How do you get abundance from scarcity? And the answer to that question is what every business owner needs to know."
This led to his "Rainforest Strategy" - studying God's most successful business model in nature.
On Hearing God's Voice
Practical Advice:
"If you have that leading that that that whatever that is, that tap on the shoulder, that thing, at least check it out... faith sometimes is spelled R I S K... faith is the ability to live with unanswered questions."
The Foundation:
"Marinate your mind in the word of God. get used to that... familiarize yourself with the word. Spend the time in the scriptures so that you understand."
Living in Relationship:
"I don't know how to live other than that... I go into a store. I go into a restaurant... It's not unusual to say, 'Lord, are you... is there somebody here you... got your eye on? Is there something here going?'"
His Mission and Message
Personal Mission:
"I am all about bringing people into a deep, personal, life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ... I don't care about your business. I mean, that's just the context for us to do this stuff and for you to get to know the Lord."
Core Message:
"Two words... Pursue him. Pursue him... that is going to be so important because when trials come, and they always do, they will, a strategy, a technique is not going to be enough. You're going to need him."
Key Principles for Application
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Cultivate Intense Curiosity About God's Ways
- Study both God's word and His creation
- Ask "How did God do that?" in every situation
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Spend Time Pursuing God, Not Just His Wisdom
- Read Scripture until God "shows up" and speaks
- Don't leave when He's talking to you
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Take Risks on Divine Nudges
- Most divine guidance comes unexpectedly, not when seeking
- Act on promptings even when they don't make natural sense
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Apply Biblical Principles to Every Area of Life
- Mine Scripture for practical strategies and principles
- Test biblical insights in real-world situations
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Maintain Relationship Over Results
- Use work/business as context for relationship with God
- Success is knowing God, not just achieving goals
Conclusion
Michael Pink's testimony demonstrates that God desires to speak to and guide His children in every aspect of life, including business and career. His extraordinary success came not from human techniques but from learning to recognize God's voice, trust His guidance, and apply biblical principles with supernatural faith. The key is not just knowing about God, but pursuing intimate relationship with Him through His word and presence.
"This is eternal life that they know you, the one true God, Jesus Christ whom you've sent... it's knowing God, not just knowing about God. And that comes just like anything else comes with time spent with. Not time spent studying, but time spent with."