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SUCCESS GOD’S WAY!
Joshua 1:8-9
"This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.
"Have I not commanded you?
Be strong and courageous!
Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
And don’t for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind.
Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it.
Then you’ll get where you’re going; then you’ll succeed.
Haven’t I commanded you?
Strength!
Courage!
Don’t be timid; don’t get discouraged.
God, your God, is with you every step you take.”
– THE MESSAGE BIBLE
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If you asked ten people what the definition of success was, no doubt you would get ten different answers.
There are probably just as many definitions, ideas and opinions about what success is as there are people in the world today.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. said that success is doing common things uncommonly well.
Someone has said that behind every successful man there’s a woman who’s surprised!
Someone else has said behind every successful man there’s a woman who’s exhausted!
Some men think that success would be to have the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the golf game of Tiger Woods, the face of Danzel Washington, the brain of Albert Einstein, the corporate accomplishments of John H. Johnson and the money of Bill Gates!
Many sisters believe that success would be to have the beauty of Halle Barry, the political savvy of Hillary Clinton, the grace, poise and mind of Maya Angelou, and the notoriety, fame and financial resources of Oprah Winfrey!
Some people think that success is having lots of money.
But success and money are not necessarily the same thing because there are a whole lot of things that money can’t buy.
Money can buy you a palace of breathtaking splendor filled with the priceless art of Michelangelo, Picasso, Rembrandt, and Monet, but money can never buy you a home filled with people who love and respect you there.
Money can buy you the services of the finest doctors in the world, but money can never buy you the blessings of God-given health.
Money can buy you the company of lots of people for a while, but money can never buy you the genuine fellowship of true friends.
Money can buy you a companion for the night, but money can never buy you real love.
Money can buy you a bed of solid gold and the softest mattress in the world, but money can never buy you one minute of rest or one moment of inner peace.
Success is not having money.
Some people think that success is having power.
But success and power are not necessarily the same thing.
Hitler had power, Mussolini had power, Idi Ameen had power, Jim Jones had power, the southern land owners and slave traders of the antebellum slave community had power, The nineteen Islamic extremists who hijacked those planes on September 11, 2001 had power, the warlords who are raping and pillaging the various countries of Africa have power, but no one would call any of these men successful.
Success is not necessarily having power.
Some people think that success is avoiding criticism, but if the truth be told, there are only three ways to avoid criticism, BY DOING NOTHING, BY BEING NOTHING, AND BY SAYING NOTHING.
Success is not avoiding criticism, but learning how to receive criticism from a friend with love, honesty and forgiveness.
Success is not having money, power, or avoiding criticism.
Success is not having prestige, position or prominence.
Success is not having your name up in lights and enjoying the applause and accolades of men.
Success is discovering and doing the will of God for your life.
Success is fulfilling the purpose for which God created you in the first place.
Success is discovering your God-given gifts and using them to fulfill your God-given destiny.
God created us to succeed; you and I were made to win! God has given us everything we need to succeed in life, but we need to understand today that Biblical success is different from the world’s definition of success, and Biblical success is not something we just stumble into, if you want success God’s way then you’ve got to go after success God’s way!
You and I will never possess what we will not pursue!
If you want a deeper relationship with the Lord, you’ve got to pursue it.
If you want a happy marriage, you’ve got to pursue it.
If you want a degree, you’ve got to pursue it, If you want to get out of debt, you’ve got to pursue it.
if you want to own your own business; you’ve got to pursue it!
If you want to loose weight, you’ve got to put down that candy bar, step away from those cookies and doughnuts and pursue it.
If you want to live a successful life God’s way, then you’ve got to stop waiting for your ship to come in and get on board with God’s program and set sail towards the horizon of God’s destiny for your life!
Let me let you in on a little secret: Ed McMahon is not coming to your house.
The people at the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes are not making plans to knock on your door!
You have a better chance of being struck by lightning in the middle of a snow storm than you have of winning the lottery!
Stop wasting your life waiting for someone else to come along and solve all your problems!
Stop waiting for prince charming to come through your door and sweep you off your feet and get busy living the life of success that God created you to live!
And you and I are blessed this morning because we have been given the Word of the living God! God’s Word is our blueprint, God’s Word is our road map, God’s Word is our play book, God’s Word is the authoritative standard for every detail of our lives and in His Word He has given us all the information we need to start living a life of success.
The Bible gives us the keys to living a life of success God’s way!
The Lord said to Joshua in our text, “/This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it.
For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”/
If you’re going to have success God’s way then you’ve got to do things God’s way.
Success starts with changing your perspectives and practices and embracing God’s perspectives and practices.
Someone said that it’s crazy doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results.
And if you want success God’s way, then you’ve got to change from doing things your way to doing things God’s way and in this text, God gives us three things we must change if we’re going to live a life of success His way.
First of all, if you’re going to live a life of success, then YOU MUST CHANGE THE WAY YOU SPEAK.
The people who have found God’s way to success have realized the enormous power that words have in their lives.
The Bible says in Proverbs 18:21 that /“Death and life are in the power of the tongue…”/ Our words can bring life to us and I believe our words can bring death to us.
Our words can bring blessings to us and our words can bring curses to our lives.
If a person constantly says, “I WISH I WERE DEAD” then I believe that that person is inviting the spirit of death to come to their lives.
If a husband says “I want out of this marriage, then he has pronounced the death of that relationship.
If a pregnant mother says, “I don’t want this baby” then I believe that that mother is pronouncing a word curse upon that unborn child and is risking loosing that pregnancy through the words that are coming out of her mouth.
How many children have been discouraged from even trying because of some teacher who spoke a word curse over their lives by telling them they were too stupid to learn?
How many people are locked inside an emotional prison cell of self-hatred and failure because their parents spoke a word curse over their lives when they were young?
Words have a supernatural power and what we allow to come out of our mouths has a way of becoming reality in our lives because life and death are in the power of the tongue.
The Bible says in Proverbs 15:4 /“The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
“/ The Bible says again in Proverbs 18:7-8 /“A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.”
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God told Joshua in our text, /THIS BOOK OF THE LAW SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF YOUR MOUTH…”/ In essence, God told Joshua and the people, “IF YOU WANT TO LIVE A LIFE OF SUCCESS, THEN YOU’VE GOT TO WATCH WHAT COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!
IF YOU WANT TO LIVE A LIFE OF SUCCESS, THEN YOU’VE GOT TO LEARN TO SPEAK OUT OF YOUR MOUTH WHAT I’VE ALREADY SPOKEN OUT OF MY MOUTH!” God told Joshua and the people of God, “IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE, NOT THE GREEK LANGUAGE, NOT THE HEBREW LANGUAGE, NOT SPANISH OR JAPENESE, BUT ITS TIME FOR YOU TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF FAITH!
ITS TIME FOR YOU TO SPEAK THE LANGAUGE OF THE BOOK!
Let me ask you a question, is your mouth a source of healing or a source of hurting?
Is your mouth a wellspring of truth and praise or is your mouth a garbage can of gossip, lies and innuendo?
Do you use your mouth to encourage, edify and build up, or do you use your mouth to discourage, nullify and breakdown?
Success begins with speaking the language of faith!
Success begins with speaking those things that aren’t as though they were!
Success begins with the words of your mouth and the meditations of your heart being acceptable in His sight!
Success begins with us taming our tongues and allowing the word of faith to come forth out of our mouths.
Brothers and sisters, we must develop the habit of speaking success even before our success is manifested in the natural.
When David faced Goliath, David didn’t crumble in fear, David didn’t acquiesce in weakness, but David looked that ugly giant in the face and said, “YOU COME AGAINST ME WITH A SWORD AND A SHIELD, BUT I COME AGAINST YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOST…” David spoke success even before he experienced success in the natural.
In 2nd Chronicles 14 when Asa faced Zerah and the Ethiopians who had an army of a million men, Asa didn’t shrivel up in fear but Asa called on the Lord, He said in 2 Chron 14:11 - LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude.
O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
Asa spoke success even before success was manifested in the natural.
I told you in my message last week that a victorious life comes form those who have an I CAN attitude, well, not only do we need an I CAN attitude, but we also need an I CAN vocabulary!
We need to stop saying “MAYBE” and start saying “I WILL BY THE GRACE OF GOD!” We ought to stop saying “THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE.”
And start saying, “ WITH GOD, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!”
We ought to stop saying “I DON’T KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE” and start saying “I KNOW GOD ALMIGHTY AND HE’S MORE THAN ENOUGH TO MEET MY NEEDS!” we ought to stop saying “I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH EDUCATION” and start saying the words of the apostle James “IF ANY OF YOU LACKS WISDOM LET HIM ASK OF GOD.”
We need to stop saying “I’M TOO OLD TO GET INVOLVED” and realize that Moses was eighty years old when God called him into the ministry and he died at the age of 120 after walking right into his own funeral.
You need to make up in your mind today that you are going to speak the Word of God over you life.
If you’re going to be successful God’s way, you must begin by changing the way you speak.
But secondly not only must you change the way you speak but you must also change the way you think.
The Bible says in Proverbs 23:7, AS A MAN THINKS, SO IS HE.
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