GOOD SUCCESS
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, Bible in one year:
Isaiah 61:64, Acts 12:6-25
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.
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