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Success Through Strategic Partnership with God

Whenever I have had the opportunity to speak or write on the subject like this, I have always laid the foundation on the premise that God desires for us to prosper (3Jn.2). It is His will for all men, for all time. As the renowned faith apostle Kenneth Copeland puts it, “faith begins where the will of God is known.” Therefore, if you are not convinced that God wants you to succeed, you cannot effectively exercise your faith for success. Repeatedly, throughout both the Old and New Testaments, God makes it clear that He desires His people to prosper and succeed. One of the most remarkable success stories in the Bible is that of Jacob. This was a man who fled from home after taking his brother’s birthright, fully aware that his brother intended to kill him. He journeyed to a distant land and began working for a man named Laban. Laban attempted to exploit Jacob in many ways, even altering his wages to suppress his progress. But how do you keep down a man who carries the Blessing of ...

How to Attract Success 2

In the first part of this piece, I shared two important principles you need to succeed as a believer (you can catch up with the first part using this link: Part 1 ). I shared that although God has set laws in motion and placed abundant resources in the earth for our benefit, there are principles we must imbibe and things we must do to attract success. In this piece, I will quickly share the remaining three principles. As I mentioned in the introduction of the first part, these principles are by no means exhaustive, but I believe that if you practice them faithfully, you will experience great success. 3. Be Diligent Prov. 22:29: Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Diligence is the steady, earnest, and painstaking effort applied to work, reflecting a strong work ethic, persistence, and careful attention to detail. It is surprising how some believers think that God will prosper anyone without the quality of dili...

Stretch

Isa. 54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes. The concept of stretching is very important for anyone who desires to make any meaningful progress in life. God has so designed everything in a manner that makes it almost impossible to make progress without any stretch. Even the human body grows by this same concept. It has been revealed that for a muscle to grow, it must first undergo "micro-tears." When you lift a weight that is slightly too heavy, the muscle fiber stretches and tears. It is only in the repair of those tears that the muscle becomes larger and stronger than before. If there is no tension, there is no transformation. The "pain" of the stretch is actually the signal that growth is happening. So If the human body grows by stretching, it follows to say that to reach anything significant in this life, we must stretch. God will always require ...

How to Attract Success - Part 1

Success is often described as a journey rather than a destination. However, for the purpose of this piece, let us view success as a phenomenon that can be cultivated. God desires His people to be successful, and He has set laws in motion and placed abundant resources within our reach to help us achieve it. Yet, with all that God has provided, not everyone experiences success in the way they should. This is not due to any failure on God’s part, but on ours. Are there things we can do to better attract success into our lives? Absolutely. There are many, and in this piece I will highlight just a few. This list is by no means exhaustive, but if you apply these principles, you can be assured that success will follow by the grace of God. 1. Trust God Absolutely Proverbs 3:5 – “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Trusting God completely is the primary key to attracting success as a believer. You may have heard stories of people who claime...

Steady Increase

Perhaps one of the greatest realisation that you will have in life is that the journey of life does not start and end in one day. If you have not come to that realisation yet, I believe you will eventually, at the right time. There will always be another day, so long as we are on this part of eternity. This realisation is fundamental to understanding why God also, being God, will not do everything He wants to accomplish in and through you in one day. God is systematic and He follows a process. Unfortunately, not too many believers realize this, many are only used to the suddenlies of God - sudden miracles, sudden outburst of power, which are all good, but for the most time, I have seen that God is systematic in His approach and if you are only fixated on those suddenlies, you are likely to miss Him. The scriptures make a solid case for this discussion. God led the children of Isreal out of Egypt to a land He had promised them before hand. The expectation was that God will suddenly deli...

Dare to Dream Again

Gen. 37:9 Then Joseph had another dream, and he told his brothers about it. He said, “I had another dream. I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me.” (ERV) Everyone grows up with a dream—big or small. And at certain stages of life, we truly believe those dreams are achievable. But as we mature and come face-to-face with the realities of the world, it can sometimes feel like those dreams may never move beyond mere imagination. That seemed to be the situation with Joseph, the son of Jacob—a young man with remarkable dreams. He shared his dreams with his older brothers, men who probably understood “how the world works” better than he did. Instead of encouraging him, they mocked him. If mockery was all they did, it might have been easier to bear, but...