But you shall receive power after when the Holy Spirit has come upon you… - Acts 1:8 REFERENCE Acts 1:4-8 We were able to establish from yesterday, that the 2nd thing you need to do in order to be successful, is to ‘HAVE AND PURSUE GREAT DREAMS.’ This sounds like what any motivational speaker would recommend; yes, they can tell us steps to take to arrive at success assuming life was based just on the physical realm. But as it is, there is a spiritual part that supersedes the physical and that is where we operate from. This...
For all the land you see I give to you and your descendants forever. - Genesis 13:15 REFERENCE Genesis 13:14-18 Yesterday we left off saying, the first thing to do in achieving success in life is ‘seeing yourself as successful’ (having a vision of success) because that is how God sees and made you. Today’s text focuses on possessing what you can see, i.e. as far as you can dare to see it, God will take you there, just like He did for Abraham and his descendants. Thus, the 2nd thing you need in achieving success in life...
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. - Jeremiah 29:11 REFERENCE Jeremiah 29:11-14 This week we will be doing a 4-part series on ‘Success in Life,’ looking at a couple of things we can do in order to enjoy all-round success as believers. First and foremost, from our text, you can understand that God never planned a day of failure for you, His original plan is for man to always succeed. Though man fell in the Garden...
For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them. - Psalm 44:3. REFERENCE Psalm 44:1-8 To be favored means, you have been given preferential treatment or shown a special privilege in getting something you didn’t struggle or qualify for. The psalmist here talks about the favor of God upon his ancestors which upgraded them to “landowners’ status” even when they didn’t work for it. A careful study of the...
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. - Psalm 46:1 REFERENCE Psalm 46:1-11 Trouble is anything that gets you worried and agitated; it normally brings discomfort, inconvenience, anxiety, fear and discouragement. In John 16:33 Jesus said: “…In this world, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” So whether you expect it or not trouble always comes, but you can rejoice in the truth that Jesus HAS (past tense) already overcome the troubles in the world for you and stripped it of its power to harm you....
Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God. - Joshua 14:8 REFERENCE Joshua 14:6-12 The things you say can either kill or make (faith) alive. Your mouth and the words you speak hold the keys to the door of your future, prosperity, experience, etc. the earlier you start speaking the right words i.e. God’s words even when nothing around you points to that, the faster the manifestation of those things you have been saying. As leaders in one capacity or the other (e.g. children’s...
Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine. - Ezekiel 47:12 REFERENCE Ezekiel 47:7-12 Uniquely represented in this passage is a life that constantly receives it’s true life from Jesus the ‘River/Water of life.’ Here it describes some features that are commonplace for the tree (man), which grows “Along the bank of the...
Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. - Genesis 40:23 REFERENCE Genesis 40:5-15, 23 Isn’t it typical of us (humans) to easily forget the kindness and goodness others have shown to us? In this passage, we saw how Joseph helped to interpret the butler’s dream who was then restored back to his position from prison. Although the butler made a promise to repay Joseph’s kindness by mentioning him to Pharaoh (who has power to release him from prison), he still forgot about him once he was out of the prison and Joseph remained in his...
Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing,… For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman… ~ Isaiah 54:1 REFERENCE Isaiah 54:1-10 It takes real faith and sacrifice to sing when things are not adding up and you are not seeing fruits from your labor. It seems almost unfair to tell someone who is experiencing a drought to rejoice, because the person doesn’t have any reason to be joyful. However, God who knows the end from the beginning gave the directive for the barren to rejoice in this...
Then the Lord turned to him and said, 'Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?' - Judges 6:14 REFERENCE Judges 6:11-23 When the Angel of God met Gideon in this story, he was hiding in fear because of the enemy. Gideon had so much self doubt that the Angel had to introduce him to himself; i.e. the real Gideon, the way God made him and sees him – a mighty man of valor who can save a nation, but who was in confinement because...