WAITING 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. Waiting For Success
a) David’s success and our success is only possible if the Lord is with us and the Lord was with David for he often had the chance to overtake and kill the evil King Saul. Even though God had already established David as king of Israel, David waited on the Lord to establish his rule. David knew that God had originally anointed King Saul but refused to kill Saul because he was the Lord’s anointed and waited patiently (some say 10 years!) for God to set things right. That’s one of the reasons that David had success “in all his undertakings.”
1 Samuel 18:14
“And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.”
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. Waiting For Success
a) David’s success and our success is only possible if the Lord is with us and the Lord was with David for he often had the chance to overtake and kill the evil King Saul. Even though God had already established David as king of Israel, David waited on the Lord to establish his rule. David knew that God had originally anointed King Saul but refused to kill Saul because he was the Lord’s anointed and waited patiently (some say 10 years!) for God to set things right. That’s one of the reasons that David had success “in all his undertakings.”
1 Samuel 18:14
“And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.”
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