Bible Passage: “Never
be lazy in your work, but serve the Lord enthusiastically.
Be glad for all God is planning for you. Be patient in
trouble, and always be prayerful. When God’s children are in need, be the
one to help them out." Rom. 12:11
The journey to good success is a tedious one. One needs to
know the proper routes to it. Yes God has
made promises to us in His Word (Deut. 28:2-4) but if we take the promises
without following the prescribed routes to attaining them, we shall be chasing
the shadows. The promises don’t just
come to pass without one lifting a finger!
There are many routes that lead to all-round good success. They are all subsumed under the word “Obedience to God’s sure principles” – the
breakdown of which are: Prayers, Hard
Work generousity and Patience. One
recurring decimal in whenever God makes promises to us is, “If you fully obey the Lord your God by
keeping all the commands I am giving you today…” Deut. 28:1, Josh. 1:8-10,
etc.
Many seem to think that when we talk of success, it is
limited to being financially buoyant alone.
No, making ample money is just one of them. God takes care of that in Deut. 28:12 where
the Lord said “You will lend to many
nations, but you will never need to borrow from them.” However, to have the
money, you must be prepared to work because in the preceding sentence in the
same verse, God talked about blessing
the work of our hand. This means, it
is a promise that has a condition attached to it. The condition is, if we must have abundance
of money, we must work. “The
Lord will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens to
bless all the work you do.” . Hosea
4:6 says “My people are being destroyed
because they don’t know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you
yourselves refuse to know me.
Another condition we must obey is that to succeed, we must know God. If we don’t know him, then we are undoing
ourselves and we are far from true success because He is the granter of it. How do you know God? It is simple, we need to study His word
diligently day and night “Jos. 1:8-10”, fellowship with Him always, and never
forsake the assembly of His brethren. We
need to pay our tithes and offerings and donate generously to the work of God. In doing these, the cankerworms destroying our
lives will be dealt with by God. We need to be prayerful and hard working in
our business Rom: 12:11. We need to be
hospitable Gen. 18:1-14. We need to
manifest the prophet in us Jer.
1:5. In terms of health with is part of
the success deal by God, His promise is that we prosper in our body, soul and spirit
that is, to enjoy excellent health. But we can’t expect these to happen when we
are unforgiving, envious of other people’s success, intolerant of one another,
always angry, (Gal. 5:19-21). We can’t enjoy excellent health when we are
ruled by the spirit of gluttony which is the case with many people.
It is therefore imperative that for us to truly enjoy good
success in all facets of our lives, we need to be obedient to God’s
commandments to be hard working, prayerful, generous to one another and be
patiently waiting for God’s appointed time for the blessings to
materialise. But what happens in real
life is that we don’t follow these principles and we want God to prosper us
even inside of our sins.
Action point: examine
your lifestyle today and see where disobedience to God’s principles for living
has been violated and be ready to make amends.
Prayer point: Lord
grant me the grace to be obedient to you in all my ways in Jesus name.
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