Success

Success.

It's something we all strive for. Something we all want. I have never heard anyone say "I want to fail at this task I am about to under take.". I didn’t set out to create this show hoping no one would ever see it. No. We all want to succeed.

So how do we do that? How do we succeed?

You might say you would need to study the ins and outs of whatever it is you are undertaking.

Others may say to learn by doing.

They would not be wrong.  Practice and study does help.  You also I would suggest need to pray.

In his letter to the Philippians, Paul told them,

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  -Philippians 4:6

Send your request to God.  And because of the love God has for us and his promise that he would never leave us we know that we can go to him with our request and we know that he will hear them.

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.  -Lamentations 3:25

Now do not take this as just because you asked God is going to give it to you.  That’s not how it works.

James addressed this in Chapter 4 verse 3.  He said When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

God gave us the mission to spread his word.  To tell the people about him.  If you are asking to win the lottery...  probably not going to happen.

When you ask so that you can help fulfill the mission he has set before you.  probably.  

No one ever said life on this earth would be all sunshine and rainbows.  But we do know that God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  -John 3:16.

Eternal life with Jesus.  That sounds like success to me.

Press on and fight the good fight as a Soldier for Christ!