Length2h 15m
About this audiobook
Leonard Avery did everything right: he studied, worked, paid his taxes, stayed out of trouble. One morning he found the company gate chained shut with a brand-new padlock. At thirty, with two kids and seventy-seven days of money in the bank, losing his job was only the first bite. More come: a blessed investment, family at his table, the 3 a.m. fear. Until an old professor in a bank line reminds him of a forgotten book, a ten-square board, and a first move on no list: surrender.
The First Rung rebuilds a life from the floor. Through Leonard’s temptations, marriage, nights of fear and small victories it dramatizes the five Inflows and five Outflows from God Desires Your Prosperity: life as a business, the board as balance sheet, God as majority Partner who already put up the capital. Not a sermon or a manual. An ordinary man learning, one move at a time, that prosperity isn’t luck: preparation meeting opportunity… and a Partner who never fails to open the door.
Audiobook details
GenreChristian & Inspirational
Length2 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The First Rung
2Copyright
3Acknowledgments
4Chapter 1 — The Day the Door Closed
5Chapter 2 — The Professor in the Bank Line
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6Chapter 3 — The Folding Chair
7Chapter 4 — The Inventory
8Chapter 5 — The Snake in the Living Room
9Chapter 6 — The Rules of the Game
10Chapter 7 — Forty Sandwiches
11Chapter 8 — The Four-Minute Phone Call
12Chapter 9 — The Night at the Jabbok
13Chapter 10 — The Speckled Flock
14Chapter 11 — The Board on the Closet Door
15Chapter 12 — The Ladder
16Author’s Note
17Did This Story Help You?
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