YOU CAN HAVE SUCCESS

Post date: Feb 28, 2013 5:19:20 AM

Despite the strongest form of any promise and assurance received from anywhere, despite your being in the best physical and mental strength to manifest it and having the right knowledge in the field of your expectation, success in life does not mean you will never have challenges that will seek to take you away from the promises and your desires. Many people are looking for the non-existing confrontation free road to success and living in almost everything, and they have waiting in vain for too long. Many people think they are still failures despite being assured of the promise, while they are not. Everyone will appreciate having an edge in life over every situation they ever face, and everyone is expected to invest in His expectation. No one desires to fail, and no one wants to be caught in the web of failing tactics. While success is elusive to many, it is still very possible for you to succeed when you deliberately take the necessary steps of correction and to act right in the appropriate time and place.

The secret of success does not depend on your struggles with confrontations, it does not depend on the richness of your daily agenda, it does not depend on your strength and knowledge, and it does not depend on what you have at hand right now. The above things are very necessary in moving you forward but they do not guarantee the level of success you desire. This is what the scripture says: “But the path of the just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more (brighter and clearer) until it reaches its full strength and glory in the perfect day. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and He lifts up. He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with nobles and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and He has set the world upon them. He will guard the feet of His godly ones, but the wicked shall be silenced and perish in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail” Proverbs 4:18, 1 Samuel 2:7-9

King David was a man of several adversities, several confrontations, and challenges; he was also a man of great spiritual strength due to the excellent priority he gave to things that has to do with God, and that was his greatest secret that paid off handsomely for him later in life. David was a sheep keeper yet chosen by God to be a king and a prophet. Had no weapon but was able to kill a lion and bear and deliver his sheep from their mouth. He was not armed but was able to disarm a fearful looking armed giant called Goliath. He was hunted by the entire army of his country to be killed; he was hated and mistreated by King Saul; his children and officers rose up against him; he once feigned madness to escape; he was abused by fellow countrymen and he committed murder to the wife of some else. But despite all that befell him, he was a success.

What was the secret? Despite all the adversities, confrontations, struggles, challenges, hatred and abuses, he concentrated in seeing the Lord always before him. “For David says in regard to Him, I saw the Lord constantly before me, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken or overthrown or cast down [from my secure and happy state]. Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted exceedingly; moreover, my flesh also will dwell in hope [will encamp, pitch its tent, and dwell in hope in anticipation of the resurrection]. For You will not abandon my soul, leaving it helpless in Hades (the state of departed spirits), nor let Your Holy One know decay or see destruction [of the body after death]. You have made known to me the ways of life; You will enrapture me [diffusing my soul with joy] with and in Your presence. Brethren, it is permitted me to tell you confidently and with freedom concerning the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being however a prophet and knowing that God had sealed to him with an oath that He would set one of his descendants on his throne” Acts 2:25-30. David up his mind not to see his problems but the see the mercies of God and that gave him the success he desired. What do you see ahead of you? For prayer Click here