God’s Promises Bring Good Success

The world measures success on self-effort. The world system is based on focusing all your time, energy, and resources in earning the favor of man. The world feeds our self-centeredness and ego. If you are beautiful, powerful, and famous, you are rewarded. In a world system, we live and define ourselves by our achievements. The world’s model of success is built on an unstable and fragile foundation. Just like earthquakes can shake the ground, the economy, government, and other worldly systems are shakable and are like the shifting sands in the desert.

God’s definition of success is contrary to the world’s definition. God’s system takes the focus off of self and puts the focus on Jesus so we can become more like Him and less like the world. God gives us His favor as a free gift. We are not required to earn His righteousness and His favor. God builds beauty inside of us no matter what we look like on the outside. God builds character in us so we can stand firm during life’s storms. God’s ways are unshakable, timeless, and everlasting. With Jesus in your heart, you are guaranteed good success.

Redefine your understanding of success. Don’t put a limit on God’s blessings in your life. Favor from God is not just seen in material things. God is interested in your total well being. Whatever your desires, hopes, and dreams, nothing is insignificant for Jesus. The presence of the Lord in your life makes you a success. “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access through faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God” (Romans 5:1-3.)

Your success starts with God living in you. “We know that we live in Him and He (lives) in us, because He has given us His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. “If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us” (1John 4:13-16).

The Holy Spirit directs us to truth, guaranteeing good success. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you. Every choice and action must be “screened” through His leading. “I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the Shepard of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice” (John 10:1-5.) Hearing and doing what God would have us do, results in good success.

Meditate on the Word of God. Every time you put God’s Word into your heart and into your mind, you are making an investment towards good success. You are building up an account. This account gets fuller and fuller until it spills over into the other areas of your life, multiplying your good success. “Lay hold of my words with all of your heart; keep my commandments and you will live. Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or swerve from them” (Proverbs 4:4-5.)

God has our best interest. He knows what is good for us. He has given us His word to direct us in good success. "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers” (Psalm 1:1-3.) The Bible promises that when we do what it says, we will be prosperous and successful: “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 1:8.)

Jesus makes you a success. Believe in your heart that Jesus knows you perfectly and accepts you perfectly. Grace is the favor you do not deserve and cannot earn for yourself. Grace will perfect every imperfection and weakness in your life, making you a success. Whatever challenges, or lack in any area of your life, grace will protect prospers, bring restoration, and will transform you into wholeness. It is grace and the goodness of God that gives you strength and success. When you receive completely what Jesus has done, you depend less on your efforts and ability, and begin to see His grace overflowing in you. He gives us more and more grace. God’s grace will be multiplied in your life. “Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord” (2Peter 1:2.)

Success is not what you feel. Feelings tell us how we are doing and we shouldn’t ignore them. Negative emotions help us to make us aware of the reality of an underlying situation or issue that is causing our feelings. On the other hand, feelings are not based on truth. God’s Word is truth. A discerning heart seeks knowledge and understands success comes from being in the presence of the Lord. The Bible warns us of “the malicious man who disguises himself with his lips. Though his speech is charming, his heart is deceitful.” See Proverbs 26:25-26. We must seek Godly wisdom and not rely on our feelings when making choices.

Believe it, think it, and say it: Obeying and trusting in God makes me a good success. I make the choice to minimize my wants of worldly success and maximize my desire for the things of God. I break all past limitations that others, or I, have put on myself regardless of my situation in life. I choose to meditate on the Word of God and receive His truth. I believe in the promises of God and not in my own understanding or how I feel. As I will walk in the presence of the Lord, I speak and pray my faith of the Word into my life and the lives of others. In Jesus’ Amen.