Memorise:
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Proverbs 1:32
Read: Joshua 1:8
8 This book of the law
shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and
night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein:
for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have
good success.
Message
The Bible classifies
success into good success and negative or bad success. Of course, to the carnal
mind, the idea of bad success is an irony. The Lord defined the type of success
that emanates from Him in Proverbs 10:22
“The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he
addeth no sorrow with it.”
In other words, if a
so-called blessing is not from the Lord, certainly there will be some sorrow
attached to it. This kind of success cannot be said to be good. Little wonder
God Almighty prescribed what will bring good success to Joshua, as there are
other type of success.
The blessing of the Lord
makes you live long to enjoy the fruit of your labour (Psalm 91:6). The Lord
who blesses is the same one who protects. If you are afraid of calamity after a
breakthrough, maybe the source of that so-called breakthrough is not God. No
man can temper with good success that emanates from God. Some people are afraid
of success because of what people will say about them. You can go ahead and
continue to run from success if the success is not coming from God, because it
cannot be good success. However, when your breakthrough or success is directly
from God, no witch, wizard or herbalist can tamper with it.
In Genesis 26:12-14, we
read about a classical example of good success record by Isaac. This man was so
blessed that even the king of the Philistines envied him. The secret of this
good success is found in the Genesis 26:2-6. Isaac obeyed the voice of God,
stayed where God asked him to stay and he became prosperous with good success.
Good success is not far from those who determine to obey God all the way. In
today’s Bible text, God revealed the secret of good success to Joshua which
every child of God must pay attention to. God told Joshua that for Him to have
good success, the book of the law should not just be in his mouth, he was to
meditate therein constantly in order to observe to do according to its
contents. This truth is reinforced in James 1:25:
“But whoso looketh into the
perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
If you want to obtain
good success therefore, be a doer of the work in God’s Word
Prayer Point
Father, please grant me good success in all of my
endeavours this year in Jesus’ Name.
BIBLE
IN A YEAR: Isaiah 61:64, Acts 12:6-25
AUTHOR:
Pastor E.A. Adeboye
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