Success is a Journey

Dear Partners, family and friends,

Success is a journey, not a destination.- John Maxwell

Success has a price. You have to be willing to pay the price for success.  You must be determined to pay the price in order to succeed.  Success involves serving; it involves loving others.  You will never be a success in God's eyes, if you don't love others.  You will never be a success, a true success, if you don't learn to serve and keep serving.  

Jesus said, "If you want to be great in God's Kingdom, you have to be a servant of all."  There is a price to servanthood that we must pay, if we want to win.  It involves delayed gratification, because we get out of life exactly what we put into it.  It is the law of sowing and reaping.  

Our mind, or the field of our mind, works the same way as a field in our world.  A farmer must weed his ground.  He must plough his ground. He must prepare the soil to receive the seed!  Then he must seed his land, with the very seed of the type of harvest he desires.  Every seed produces fruit after its own kind.  It is the law of Genesis; it is the law of the harvest.  

The farmer must tend his crop, keeping the pests away if he wants to reap a good harvest.  This is the same way our bodies and our minds work.  We are what we eat, physically and spiritually, we are what we consume.  Our mind is like a computer, it computes and outputs the information we feed into it.  We are drawn to our predominate thinking patterns.  

If we want to reap abundance in life, we must have an abundance mentality and we must sow seed in abundance.  The amount of seed reflects the size of the harvest.  However, every seed contains the miracle power of increase.  If we want God's best, we must think God's best.  We must replace our thoughts with God's thoughts, God's word, God's ideas.  We must meditate on these things and take them down into our heart.  Our heart, not just our mind, must be with God.  Our inner desires, our passions must seek God's will first.  We must only think God's thoughts on prosperity but also positionally as well.  

Jesus had an abundance mindset, although He came to save and to serve.  Jesus lived in the Mark 9:23 mindset, "Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”  ALL THINGS were possible for Jesus and we can live in this mindset too!  Jesus knew His call, His destiny and His purpose. He came to do and to fulfil the will of God.  He knew that God would provide everything for Him to fulfil that purpose.  

Is your heart with God today?  Is your mind full of the thoughts and praise of God today?  I dare you to listen to your "life talk". Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."  What is your "life talk" telling you?  What is your "life talk" revealing to others about you?  What you think about matters.  It is forming the basis of who you are or who you will become.  

Proverbs 23:7 says, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

I dare you today to look in the mirror and listen to your "life talk".  I dare you today to think, mutter, imagine the word of God until you fill your heart and your mind with His word.  May you be and become all you are destined to be in Jesus! 

God bless and much love,

Ps. Shaun Marler

Apostle World Harvest Ministries

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