Success is the effective use of your talent(s), gift(s) and resource(s) to achieve set goals per time. This means that there can be small sucess and huge success.
What makes you outstanding in life is not the family you are born into but the secrets you know and right now, I will be uncovering some of those success secrets. There are too many great and mighty things we do not know until we have access to divine secrets.
Note that whether you have always been an “A candidate” in life or not, whether you have struggled a lot to date or not and regardless of what you do (in terms of your career), you will be successful if you give room for success. Success is achievable and measurable. Measurable mostly by results and satisfaction not necessarily by income alone, businesses one has nor by what is seen. Once you have the drive God will fulfill it. Fear not! do not worry!! God wants you to trust Him to handle things!!! π
Life can be quite complicated sometimes, however, I will try my best to share some pathways to becoming successful in lifeGod’sway:
1. Desire Success and have a positive mindset for it
Be intentional about wanting to succeed and have a good and positive mindset towards success.
Know this, you are what you think and believe! the Bible says that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. It’s no joke! Condition your mind to the standards of what you want. Dare to think, dare to imagine. Even if you have to say “I am a success” to yourself everyday till it sinks, please do! You lose nothing from dreaming and believing, so dream and believe! When God told Abraham about His descendants, he Believed it and here’s what is written: For the Scriptures tell us, βAbraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.β
Making a decision to be successful is also very crucial at this point. Taking that step from desiring to deciding with all your being propels you to the next step which is to get the vision.
2. Pursue the vision
Going for the vision deals with the question of what to do. Every one is created to fulfil purpose on earth. Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Ask God what it is you need to do, what problems you are suppose to solve etc.
He’s a loving father and He’ll answer you (Jer 33:3 NLT).
When the vision is received, do not underestimate the power of writing materials. Write the vision so you can see it clearly. It is often said that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Brian Tracy, in his book ‘Goals!’, wrote: “I have found, over and over, that an average person withΒ clear goals will run circles around a genius who is not sure whatΒ he or she really wants.”
Writing out your vision, plans and goal(s) give you a clear picture of what you want to achieve; which leads to the next point on “Divine Direction”
3. Seek Divine Direction
This is about how to go about what to do. God has a glorious destiny for you but you have to find out how to access it. Ask God to show you the way to walk in, that is, the place to direct your net for a net-breaking catch because some roads look promising but they lead to destruction.
Open your mind’s eyes very wide to allow enough light into it so that you can see and attain success. It will be extremely difficult to run with utmost speed in the dark. Divine direction is required to know where you are headed. Not all movement is directly proportional to progress. The fact that a hamster move about on its wheel does not mean that it is progressing.
Divine direction accelerates your success and guarantees your shining in life and more importantly, brings you satisfaction and fulfilment. Always seek God’s direction!
Vision and Divine direction can come via revelations from:
The Word
Dreams
Visions
Good counsel
Inner witness
4. Be disciplined, diligent and hard-working
Discipline means delayed gratification and the efficient management of time, energy and resources for a more profitable reward.
There’s time for everything, and you must also have an understanding of the times in your life. That’s maturity.
A disciplined person will control his/her speech, dressing, appetite for food, sleep, sex. etc.
Being diligent is also very important because it shows that you care about what you do and the details of it. This attitude will make you to stand in the presence of Kings.
When it comes to hard-work, I define it as doing my best per time. Do what you can and let God give the increase. The Bible says Paul planted, Apollos watered but GOD gave the increase! 1 Cor 3:6
5. Don’t cheat people nor look down on anyone
Time and chance happens to everyone of us (Eccl 9:11). We are all at different phases of our lives so never compare yourself with anyone, that is indeed a foolish thing to do. You don’t need to be envious of anyone nor cheat anyone. If you lift up someone, you’ll be lifted also, likewise if you pull down someone, the same lot might befall you. When it is time for your blossoming, you will blossom so be patient.
Sometimes, it is still not yet time for some “A candidates” of life to shine so do not look down on them. Indeed their time is coming sooner than you probably know.
In conclusion…
To succeed, follow the right principles to success, and as a Christian, trust and hold on to God like without Him you are nothing (which is what is it).
Always remember that, you are born to be a huge success on earth, God loves you more than the devil hates you and you have Christ in you so success automatically flows in your veins.
God is faithful! He doesn’t cheat anyone!! He knows exactly what we all need and I believe he gives it to us accordingly and as at when due.
It is by God’s Grace that we succeed for by strength shall no man prevail. In whatever we do, it is still God that will give the increase.
know your rights also in Christ and take hold of your heritage via prayers. Do what you can, business or whatever (watch) and then pray.
The success will come, the money will be yours, the businesses and the income will all come. Just give it time! Wait for it! I cannot overemphasise how important it is for you to WAIT!
One small (but big) thing…
Kindly do this little assignment for me will you?: Close your eyes for 10 to 15 seconds and think of something, anything, that you really wanted or desired at some point in your life that has become a reality…
Gotten any? I bet you have. Now smile to yourself because you are nothing short of a huge success! π
There is indeed gloryinyou for you are born to win! β€οΈ
P.S. Just one word, phrase, clause or sentence can bring the positive change that you need. Find it here @gloryinyouβ
CHECK OUT my YouTube channel on Daily Use of English with Cheryl Udomessien if English language pronunciation is your cup of tea. That’s something else I’m passionate about. I bet you will find it very interesting.π
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Nathaline Okorie
December 19, 2020Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on this very important topic. I pray you keep growing in wisdom.
Daniel Udo
April 7, 2021Visiting your page is always delightful; reaping from your mental wealth.
Thank you for your liberality and keep succeeding!