ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR SUCCESS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Success
a) What does the Bible say about success? Are there biblical principles about how we can be successful?
b) Definition of Success: The World Versus The Word
i) As the world sees success, it is the achievement of a social status, completing a goal, reaching an objective or the achievement of an action in a specified set of time.
ii) The way God defines success is so much different than the way the world does. Success to those in the world means achieving something that is useful in this life on earth. Success as God sees it is something that is achieved that is of infinite, eternal value in this life and in the life to come. That is a huge difference indeed. The Bible describes success in a much different way than the world does.
2. Acknowledgment For Success
a) When God straightens your paths that is true success. This success is tied to acknowledging God for all of His marvelous blessings. Perhaps the greatest sin is that of ingratitude but when we acknowledge that God has blessed us, He will straighten the crooked paths so that we will not stumble and who can make crooked what God has straightened?!
Proverbs 3:6
“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
b) To delight in the Lord is to want to please Him and striving to do so. When our delight is in God, He promises to give us the desires of our heart. Read all of Psalm 37 to see exactly how God can grant our desires. God is pleased to give us what we most desire but He will only do so if our delight is in Him and not in the things of the world.
Psalm 37:4
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
The End ...
1. Successa) What does the Bible say about success? Are there biblical principles about how we can be successful?
b) Definition of Success: The World Versus The Word
i) As the world sees success, it is the achievement of a social status, completing a goal, reaching an objective or the achievement of an action in a specified set of time.
ii) The way God defines success is so much different than the way the world does. Success to those in the world means achieving something that is useful in this life on earth. Success as God sees it is something that is achieved that is of infinite, eternal value in this life and in the life to come. That is a huge difference indeed. The Bible describes success in a much different way than the world does.
2. Acknowledgment For Success
a) When God straightens your paths that is true success. This success is tied to acknowledging God for all of His marvelous blessings. Perhaps the greatest sin is that of ingratitude but when we acknowledge that God has blessed us, He will straighten the crooked paths so that we will not stumble and who can make crooked what God has straightened?!
Proverbs 3:6
“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
b) To delight in the Lord is to want to please Him and striving to do so. When our delight is in God, He promises to give us the desires of our heart. Read all of Psalm 37 to see exactly how God can grant our desires. God is pleased to give us what we most desire but He will only do so if our delight is in Him and not in the things of the world.
Psalm 37:4
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
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