Recipe For Success

Everything that happens in our lives, every good thing, comes from the lord:

“those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.“- Ps 34:10

God has already laid out plans and details concerning our lives here on earth. When we pay attention to to His call and follow His direction, we will be successful and prosperous.

Last night I studied Joshua 1-5. Here the Israelites are planning to take possession of the Promised Land for the 1st time. They are excited, anxious, and afraid and mostly they are under a new leader. The leader who led them from captivity, Moses, is dead, most of the old generation is gone and now we have a new people, most of who were born in the wilderness, waiting on the out skirts of Jericho, ready to take possession of it. God is aware of all these feeling and fears, so he encourages them, even Joshua their leader. He promises to make them successful and victorious and finally inherit this land, only if they do one thing: Obey his commands!
He tells them exactly what to do, to say and at what time.
Many times God speaks to us the same way. We hear Him tell us what we need to do and where we need to be, but how many times do we follow His instructions? One may say that they are not sure it Is God speaking. Well then, how about all the commands and instructions that are already laid out in the Bible, how often do we obey those?

Joshua conveyed the instructions, as given to him by God, to the Israelites. God told him the conditions that need to be fulfilled for the Israelites to be victorious.
This got me thinking, we have all received instructions from God. In many places, the Bible tells us explicitly what we need to do to obtain what we want. We have a basic idea of what is good and what isn’t. this of course depends on how much time we spend, reading, studying and meditating on the word. You cannot know all the commands and promises of God if you do not read the Bible:

“Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night”

Many a times we have chosen to disobey these commands and bend them to suit ourselves. How then can we expect o be prosperous and successful?
“do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; 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.”

Needless to say, we need to be blameless.

Asa Allozo Allen, a great man in spiritual history wrote that he realized that in order for him to have miracle-working power he needed to understand 13 things, two of which were:
1. He must be blameless like God Himself.
2. He must do away with sin in his body.
We are all called to conquer, just like Joshua did, however, our weapons are not against flesh, but against spirit, the worldly spirit. My friends do not let yourselves be defeated. We have God on our side who has given us all weapons and armory to succeed and be prosperous, let’s take heed.