Christian success starts when your will, your desires, what you want clashes with what you know God wants and you choose to do what God wants.
There is no example of this more powerful than in the night before the crucifixion where Jesus prays “Not my will, but Yours be done” (Luke 22.42). That’s the master key to success. You have to deny your flesh, deny your selfish desire for comfort and ego, and do what the Father wants.
There are many instructions in the Word of God, and you will in your life receive many instructions from the Spirit that will contradict what you fancy doing. and unless you learn to do His will not yours, you will never live a life of success, not to the level God wants you to!
Aren’t you glad Jesus successfully redeemed us by doing the Father’s will not His own? What an example for us. There will be many people glad you chose to obey God as well!
It all comes down to one question. Is Jesus your Lord or not? If He is, do what He says. That’s what it means to have a Lord – to have a source of authority that says what to do and you listen and obey. The question underlying that question is this – do you think the Lord is wiser than you, or do you trust yourself more than Jesus?
Right now the news is getting dark in the UK, the economy is in a bad place, there are moral failings everywhere we look, and much more. But here is the question – is Jesus Lord? Is He capable of leading you into victory, success and increase even when the world gets darker? Do you think God has experience leading His people even when their nation abandons Him? God has not run out of His ability to lead you into success, no matter what is going on around you! Some may trust in chariots and some may trust in horses, but we will trust in the name of the Lord (Psalm 20.7).
We have to trust that whenever God gives us an instruction, no matter what it looks like, it will work out better for us if we obey it. Turning the other cheek, tithing, loving your enemies, telling the truth – all of it can look like it will lead to problems but if you do God’s will, it will work better! Life will work better – you will walk into success better!
You have to accept God is right, all the time, even when you do not feel like He is. Trust in the Lord, and do not lean on your own understanding!
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