"Observe people who are good at their work—skilled workers are always in demand and admired; they don’t take a backseat to anyone."
Proverbs 22:29 (MSG)
"Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank."
Proverbs 22:29 (NIV)
V. Commitments and doggedness (Proverbs 10:4; 21:5)
- One of the ways God blesses someone is through the increase of what the person is doing.
IF God wants to bless you, He will increase your responsibilities—your works. IF you are not ready to work hard and smart, you are not ready for success. - You must not be lazy: "DO NOT LOVE SLEEP, LEST YOU COME TO POVERTY; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread" (Proverbs 20:13).
- Avoid procrastination, what you need to do today do not postpone it till Tomorrow.
- Procrastination is an enemy of success. Procrastination is the mother of laziness, and laziness gives birth to failures, and failures to poverty: "THOSE TOO LAZY TO PLOW IN THE RIGHT SEASON WILL HAVE NO FOOD AT THE HARVEST" (Proverbs 20:4 NLT).
WHAT you need to do by yourself, do not delegate, and if there is a need to delegate, you have to supervise.
VI. Integrity
- Someone said charisma can lift you up, it is the character that that will keep you up.
YOU must be a man or woman of integrity, in order to experience Success in God's Way. - Integrity is defined as the quality of being honest and upright in character!
- Stop deceiving the people you are dealing with in business or Ministry: "Therefore, REJECTING ALL FALSEHOOD [whether lying, defrauding, telling half-truths, spreading rumors, any such as these], SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE WITH HIS NEIGHBOUR, for we are all parts of one another [and we are all parts of the body of Christ]" (Ephesians 4:25 AMP).
READ: Colossians 3:9
STOP lying to the people! - If you are an artisan, someone rendering services, stop telling those who are patronizing you lies (Zechariah 8:16).
DO not give them an appointment you will not keep. DO not be shoddy in the works you do for the people. Do not give them substandard things. - Render services based on the money you have charged—the money you have collected from them for the work.
- Look beyond the gain, the money you want to make, when you are rendering services.
YOU should be concerned about the satisfaction of the people, not about the money you want to collect from them. - Add to your services love and friendliness. Have concern for other areas of their lives, and not only the money you want to collect from them. Be interested in their well-being or welfare.
- Be interested in their souls as well, give Jesus to them.
- The secret of success is being honest and truthful. Be a man or woman of integrity!
- If you are serving under somebody, do not swindle the person. Work and pray for the progress of your Boss or establishment.
- Do not embezzle someone else's money to start your own Business. That is pilfering, or thieving.
GOD does not want it, and He would not bless a Business you start with such A money. Such would not prosper because the blessing of God is not on it.
9 "EXHORT BONDSERVANTS TO BE OBEDIENT TO THEIR OWN MASTERS, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,10 NOT PILFERING [thieving], BUT SHOWING ALL GOOD FIDELITY [honesty], that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things" (Titus 2:9,10 NKJV).
VII. Have a right heart
- Your heart should be right for you to succeed in God's Way. WISH other people WELL.
DO not be part of the downfall of another person.
DO not conspire with other people to bring someone else down, if you do, you have just sown, and you will REAP whatever you have sown: "Don’t be misled—YOU CANNOT MOCK THE JUSTICE OF GOD. YOU WILL ALWAYS HARVEST WHAT YOU PLANT" ( Galatians 6:7 NLT).
READ: Proverbs 1:10,11; Psalm 1:1-6 - Be part of the making of others. If you have the opportunity and be in a position to help others in the fulfilment of their visions, do help them.
IN the process of doing that, your own vision would also be fulfilled. - Joseph interpreted the dreams of others in the prison, that led to the interpretation of his own dream that he had HAD for several years.
HE interpreted the dreams of the Butler and Baker and that led to the fulfilment of his own dream (Genesis chapters 40 and 41).
VIII. Prayer and fasting
- Champions in the Faith use the weapons of fasting and prayer.
YOU have to know how to deal with the opposition in the place of prayer. - The devil is an accuser of the Believers (Revelation 12:9,10). HE is our archenemy. He hates Believers with the perfect hatred.
- You have to pray and destroy his works and Plans about your assignment: "12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against Powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand" (Ephesians 6:12,13).
- When you engage in fasting, your spirit gains ascendancy, the mind is tamed, and the flesh is subdued.
YOU are more sensitive to the things of the Spirit, to receive directions and alerts from the Holy Spirit.
YOUR words are weighty in the realm of the spirit. - Angels Carry out your words, and demons are moved, they at your command in Jesus' name (1 Samuel 3:19).
THERE is power in Prayer, and much more when added with fasting! - At the time of fasting and praying, table your matters before God: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN TO GOD" (Philippians 4:6).
- Before you embark on any project, take it up in prayer.
IF you cannot prevail in prayer, you cannot prevail in the physical.
LET fasting and prayer be part of your life!
• You will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace!
TO BE CONTINUED