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Putting Yourself in the Way of Success Part II

The Bible teaches a divine law and how you can make it work. It teaches two things: obedience to the law brings reward, disobedience to the law brings punishment. The Bible does not say you have to wait until after death to receive a reward, although you will receive a reward then, which will be far greater than you could ever imagine, because of your obedience now. You can also, through your obedience to the written Word of God, receive right here, right now. The Word teaches us that we can have health, happiness and prosperity here and now on this earth, and in the world to come, eternal prosperity, eternal happiness and eternal life. This is practical religion, practical Christianity. The Word (Bible) says, prove all things, hold fast that which is good. Joshua 1:8 teaches us to meditate on God’s Word (law) day and night. Be careful to do according to what is written therein (obedience), and then you will make your way prosperous and you will have good success. Empowering you to wi...

Putting Yourself in the Way of Success

If only I could repeat it over and over so that you could remember this fact: You have within you all of the qualities and elements that are necessary to make you a success. Your chief work is the development of the thing that God has already placed within your being. “You are endowed with the seeds of greatness, you have been designed for accomplishment and you are engineered for success. You are a somebody, you are not a nobody, God doesn’t waste His time to make nobodies, you were made by God. You are God’s Plan A, He doesn’t have a Plan B. You are it, you are special, God made you that way. You are unique; one of a kind, and God never created a failure when He created you. You have His ability, His productivity and His creativity abiding on the inside of you, for you were made in the God class of being, in His image, in the image of God.” Today, we have image-makers in our world, people who take politicians, movie stars, business executives, CEO’s, Mum’s and Dad’s and ordinary peop...

I Have the Capacity to Think Big

Proverbs 23:7(a) “For as a person thinks in their heart, so are they.” Or, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” You have the capacity to think big. Only big thinkers will achieve big things. If you can conceive things in your mind and see them in your imagination, you can receive them. “Conceive it, and you can achieve it!” God wants you to think BIG. I have never known God to give a person a small vision. The visions that come from God may ask you to do small things to see your heart, your willingness or your obedience, but when God gives you a vision to achieve something, it is usually always beyond what you could do in your own strength, resources or abilities. God wants you to trust in Him, rely upon Him and look to Him for your supply and source. Remember, God is your resource. If you can think big, then you can do big because your God is big and it is His strength, His power and His ability that will go to work on your behalf. Think big and do big things for God. Pastor Sh...

“Do the feared jobs first!”

One of the greatest ways I have learned to maximize my days is by doing the feared jobs first. By this, I mean those jobs you don’t want to do. Those phone calls you don’t want to make. Those activities you wish you didn’t have to do at all. Do them first, tackle them first up in your day. In so doing, you get them out of the way early and then your energy can be put into the work you love, without the drain in the back of your mind of the thing you have been dreading or fearing to do. You can prioritize your day, making a list of what needs to be done and ticking them off as you go. In so doing you can look back over your day or week and be encouraged by all you have achieved. Proverbs 27:23 says, “Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks (business, ministry, family), and look well to your herds (people, ministry, possessions.)"

“Make every day, a successful day for it is the successful days that make you rich.”

You can’t get rich on failure days, but you can’t fail to get rich on successful days. So then, make today successful, full of success, seek first the Kingdom of God and you day will be successful. Put God first in all you do, and God will make you to prosper! That’s God’s solemn promise, His covenant to you! You can’t bring back yesterday, you can only fully maximize today. Live life with purpose, live life with urgency. Don’t live in “Woulda! Coulda! Shoulda!” Forget what lays behind, yesterday is gone, learn from your mistakes so as to not repeat them, but don’t live in your mistakes, move on, live in today, not yesterday. Believe for a better day, dream of a better day. Dream of victory. The number one form of failure in all our lives is excuses. Get over your own excuses, you were born to overcome. Propel yourself forward to get results. You can’t buy back yesterday, but you can own today, you can make today a winning day, thereby affecting your tomorrows. Your tomorrows are estab...

“Do the feared jobs first!”

One of the greatest ways I have learned to maximize my days is by doing the feared jobs first. By this, I mean those jobs you don’t want to do. Those phone calls you don’t want to make. Those activities you wish you didn’t have to do at all. Do them first, tackle them first up in your day. In so doing, you get them out of the way early and then your energy can be put into the work you love, without the drain in the back of your mind of the thing you have been dreading or fearing to do. You can prioritize your day, making a list of what needs to be done and ticking them off as you go. In so doing you can look back over your day or week and be encouraged by all you have achieved. Proverbs 27:23 says, “Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks (business, ministry, family), and look well to your herds (people, ministry, possessions.)"

“Desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow through it” 1 Peter 2:2.

Here the word of God is telling us to have a desire for God’s pure truth, found in the Bible. We should make it a daily practice to feed on the good Word of God. As we can see from this scripture, this desire and habit will cause us to grow. That is what God wants; God wants mature Christians that are ready to serve Him. As we grow, we will become powerful in faith and powerful in spirit, which will work out in our lives. Some people wonder why they can’t have faith for healing. Yet they feed their bodies three hot meals a day and their spirits one cold snack a week. Just imagine if an elite athlete only fed their body once a week. It would not matter how talented or gifted they were, it wouldn’t matter how hard or often they trained, soon they would be left behind in the field. We as Christians need to learn that our strength is in the Word and as we feed on it, we will digest it and it will go down and nourish our inner man. This word in us will transform us and cause us to walk in t...