SUCCESS
BREAD
8 He has
showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
(NIV)
23 The
warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him
success in whatever he did. Genesis
39:23 (NIV)
11 “Now,
my son, the Lord be with you, and
may you have success and build the house of the Lord
your God, as he said you would. 12 May the Lord
give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel,
so that you may keep the law of the Lord
your God. 13 Then
you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that
the Lord gave Moses for Israel. Be
strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.” 1 Chronicles 22:11-13 (NIV)
7 Be
strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses
gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be
successful wherever you go. 8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your
mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Joshua 1:7-8 (NIV)
2 A wise
servant will rule over a disgraceful son, and will share the inheritance as one
of the brothers. Proverbs 17:2 (NIV)
7 But
the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not
consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man
looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought
nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have
food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 People who want
to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful
desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of
money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have
wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 11 But you, man of
God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
endurance and gentleness. 12 Fight the good
fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when
you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 1 Timothy 6:6-12 (NIV)
8 Finally,
all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers,
be compassionate and humble. 9 Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but
with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a
blessing. 10 For, “Whoever
would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips
from deceitful speech. 11 He
must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are
on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of
the Lord is against those who do evil.”
1 Peter 3:8-12 (NIV)
1 The Lord
is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie
down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my
soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Even though I
walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you
are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a
table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my
cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days
of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalms
23:1-6 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with
heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.” St. Ignatius Loyola
“It is natural
for us to wish and to plan, and it is merciful of the Lord to disappoint our
plans and to cross our wishes. For we
cannot be safe or happy until we are weaned from our own wills and made simply
desirous of being directed by His guidance.
Although we understand this we seldom learn to put it into practice
without being trained for a while in the school of disappointment. The schemes we form look so plausible and
convenient that when they are broken we are ready to say, ‘What a pity!’ We try again, and with no better success; we
are grieved, and perhaps angry, and plan another, and so on; eventually, in the
course of time, experience and observation begin to convince us that we are no
more able than we are worthy to choose correctly for ourselves. The Lord’s invitation to cast our cares upon
Him, and His promise to take care of us, appear valuable; and when we have done
planning, His plan in our favor gradually opens, and He does more and better
for us than we could either ask or think.
I can hardly recollect a single plan of mine, which if it had taken
place in the time and the way I wanted would, humanly speaking, have proved my
ruin; or at least would have deprived me of the greater good the Lord had
designed for me. We judge things by their present appearance;
but the Lord sees them in their consequences.
If we could do the same we would be perfectly of His mind; but since we
can’t, it is an unspeakable mercy that He will manage for us, whether we are
pleased with His management or not; and it is regarded as one of His heaviest
judgments when He gives any person up to the way of their own hearts, and to
walk according to their own wisdom.” John
Newton
“Inside
the will of God there is no failure.
Outside the will of God there is no success.” Bernard Edinger
“Nothing that is attempted in opposition to God can ever be successful.” John Calvin
“What is my greatest fear? What is my greatest motivator? What is Truth? Who is God? What is Success? Unless you ask yourself the right questions, your life will never live into the right answers.” Ann Voskamp
“God
measures success by faithfulness, and He bestows fresh layers of mercy as we
serve Him day by day, all the days of our lives.” Robert J. Morgan
“A
primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing
God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle,
strong in his own might, when he boasts, ‘I know that I shall conquer, my own
right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory’, defeat is not
far distant. God will not go forth with
that man who marches in his own strength.
He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for ‘it is not by
might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts’. They who go forth to fight, boasting of their
prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their
armour stained with disgrace. Those who
serve God must serve Him in His own way, and in His strength, or He will never
accept their service. That which man
doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away;
He will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by
grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love.
God will empty out all that thou hast before He will put His own into
thee; He will first clean out the granaries before He will fill them with the
finest of the wheat……Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being
filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.” C. H. Spurgeon
HEART
SAVOR
- · I will always be successful in the center of God’s will.
- · True success is not based upon worldly standards rather on God’s standards.
- · If God is on my side, who can be against me? Success is guaranteed.
