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Today's Focus: It is time to move from achieving bad SUCCESS to good SUCCESS in Christ in this World!
Many genuine Christians do not know or take into account that before God, there is:
1. Bad SUCCESS.
Success that is NOT a product of thinking, speaking and living (carrying) out by a WORD of GOD received from a place of personal devotion with Him par time as they journey in Christ from Earth to Heaven. True!
2. Good SUCCESS.
Success that is a product of thinking, speaking and living (carrying) out by a WORD of GOD received from a place of personal devotion with Him par time as they journey in Christ from Earth to Heaven. True!
The Bible reveals to us that everything created in the World are products of God's WORD, including Jesus Christ and us. True! (Hebrews 11:3; John 1:1-14).
The truth to be told, God has NO regard for anything carried out or success achieved by His Children in Christ in this World that is outside of His WORD received from a place of personal devotion with Him. To Him, such success is a bad SUCCESS on Earth. True!
Though bad SUCCESS may seem good in the eyes of men, but, it is bad SUCCESS in the sight and side of God. This is simply because they are not products of His WORD from a place of personal devotion with Him before they were desired, planned, prepared for, pursued and achieved by the achiever of such success par time. True!
Satan is good at inspiring and motivating lots of genuine Children of God in Christ of this age to unknowingly desire, plan, prepare for, pursue and achieve SUCCESSES that seem good in the eyes of men, but bad in the eyes of God, because they fell short from being products of His Word in Christ ordained for them in this World. True!
Many genuine Christians do not know that they are saved or created by God in Christ to carry out already ordained good WORKS (vis-à-vis to achieve already ordained SUCCESSES), which God has ordained for them to walk in in Christ in this World. So sad, so bad!
The Bible reveals thus:
For by grace are you SAVED through faith; and that NOT of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, CREATED in Christ Jesus unto good WORKS, which God had before ORDAINED that we should WALK in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10).
You and I are saved and empowered in Christ in this World to do God's bidding, not our own bidding. True! (1 Peter 2:9,10; 1 Corinthians 3:6-15).
Jesus Christ our ultimate Role Model went about doing His Father's business or bidding on Earth, not His own. And the Bible in 1 John 4:17 reveals as HE is, so are WE in this World. True! (Luke 2:48-52; John 4:34; John 17:1-5).
However, ignorantly many genuine Christians go about doing their own BUSINESS, WORK or pursue their own SUCCESS in this World, the way the people of the World does. Instead of them first seeking the WORD of GOD for them by the help of the Holy Spirit of Christ that is within them, to know what to desire, plan, prepare for and then pursue (that is, obediently carry out the revelations or instructions given them as their good WORK or good SUCCESS to achieve for God and humanity in Christ in this World), they go about their WORK or after SUCCESS the way the World as defined work or achieving success for themselves. So sad, so bad! (Matthew 6:24-34; 1 Corinthians 2:9-16).
Jesus Christ our ultimate Role Model for living victoriously and successfully God-wise on Earth said thus:
In the mean while His disciples prayed Him, saying, Master, eat. But He said unto them, I have meat to eat that you know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, had any man brought Him ought to eat? Jesus said unto them, My meat is to DO the WILL of Him that SENT me, and to FINISH his work. (John 4:31-34; John 17:1-5).
If I may ask you, who sent you to do what you have done, achieved and men have praised and given you awards or you currently pursuing as SUCCESS chase? Who?
The Bible counsels us on good SUCCESS in the sight and sides of God thus:
This book of the law shall NOT depart out of your MOUTH; but you shalt MEDITATE therein day and night, that you mayest OBSERVE to do according to ALL that is written therein: for then you shall MAKE thy way prosperous, and then you shall have good SUCCESS. (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:1-3).
Now, know and note that the Holy Spirit is given to you and I to inspire in us to know what we are to desire, plan, prepare for, pursue and achieve good SUCCESSES in Christ before the sight and side of God in this World. He is to reveal specific and unique things (priorities, projects, programmes, etc) we are to desire, plan, prepared for, pursue and achieve as good SUCCESSES for God in Christ in this World. True! (1 Corinthians 2:9-16; John 16:13-16).
The Bible counsels us thus:
But the ANOINTING (Holy Spirit) which you have received of Him abides IN you, and you need NOT that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of ALL things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it had TAUGHT you, you shall ABIDE in Him. (1 John 2:27).
Only those who are following the TUTORSHIP and LEADERSHIP of the Holy Spirit of Christ that is in them are truly the sons and daughters of God in Christ in this World. They are the ones truly living and enjoying God's GRACE (the supports and supplies of the Spirit of God). True! (Romans 8:14; Galatians 5:18; Philippians 1:19).
Jesus Christ we claim to be our ultimate Role and Model said clearly and boldly how He got His WORK idea and done thus:
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can DO NOTHING of Himself, but what He SEES the Father DO: for what things soever He does, these ALSO does the Son likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that Himself does: and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. I can of mine OWN self do nothing: as I HEAR, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek NOT mine own will, but the WILL of the Father which has SENT me. I receive NOT honour from men. But I know you, that you have NOT the love of God in you. I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. HOW can you believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek NOT the honour that comes from God only? (John 5:18-20, 30, 41-44).
In achieving good SUCCESS in Christ in this World before the sight and side of God and not bad SUCCESS, Apostle Paul revealed to us 1 Corinthians 3:6-15 thus:
1. That each of us has and is to carry out a specific and unique good WORK (vis-à-vis achieve a specific and unique SUCCESS) in Christ in this World. True!
2. That each of us is co-labourer with God in Christ in this World. True!
3. That each of us will be REWARDED according to our individual WORK (vis-à-vis SUCCESS) in Christ Jesus in this World. True!
4. That each of us WORK (vis-à-vis SUCCESS) will be tried by fire to see if they are bad WORKS or good SUCCESSES in the sight and side of God. That only good WORK (vis-à-vis good SUCCESS) will be rewarded by God. True!
5. That each of us is to build our WORK (vis-à-vis SUCCESS) only in this World., on the one and only divinely ordained sure and safe foundation, Jesus Christ. True!
That is why the Bible counsels us thus:
Let the WORD of CHRIST dwell in YOU richly in ALL wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And WHATSOEVER you DO in word or deed, DO all in the NAME of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. (Colossians 3:16, 17; Matthew 7:24-27).
Jesus Christ said to His earthly parents, do you not know I should be going about my Father's BUSINESS on Earth. (Luke 2:47).
If I may ask, whose business are you going about each day to do?
Yours? other people's? or your heavenly Father's own for you?
Think about it and do something about it now, because the time is short and judgment and reward are sure coming soon than expected. True! (Revelation 22:12; 1 Corinthians 3:6-15; 2 Timothy 4:5-8).
Apostle Paul sent an urgent message to Archippus, to take up His good WORK in Christ and finish it (vis-à-vis to achieve his good SUCCESS in Christ in this World) thus as I am SENT today to YOU:
And say to Archippus, TAKE HEED to the ministry which YOU have RECIEVED in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. (Colossians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 3:6-15; Philippians 3:13,14; 2 Timothy 4:5-8; John 4:34; John 17:1-5).
This is because apart from the fact that carrying out our individual and collectiveness good WORKS will please our heavenly Father:
1. It is by it, we will RECEIVE both earthbound and heavenbound REWARDS by it. (Luke 18:18-30).
2. It is by it, we can truly and really SHINE as divine lights before men on Earth and not by any other kind of works or any other kind of successes. Yes, it is only through them, the people of the World can truly SEE us in amazing manifestation in Christ on Earth and GLORIFY our Father in Heaven. True!
Jesus Christ confirmed this when said thus:
You are the LIGHT of the world. A city that is SET on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house. LET your light so SHINE before men, that they may SEE your good works, and GLORIFY your Father which is in Heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16; John 9:4,5).
Jesus Christ finally said thus:
And, behold, I COME quickly; and my REWARD is with me, to give EVERY man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. (Revelation 22:12; 1 Corithians 3:6-15).
Don't be deceived!
Today's Focus from Scripture:
This book of the law shall NOT depart out of your MOUTH; but you shalt MEDITATE therein day and night, that you mayest OBSERVE to do according to ALL that is written therein: for then you shall MAKE thy way prosperous, and then you shall have good SUCCESS. (Joshua 1:8; Proverbs 19:21).
Take note, take heed!
Prayer Direction: According to today's revealed truth, pray as you are led by the Spirit of God.
God bless you.
MODIBO GODWILL
Divine Destiny Messenger,
Author & Speaker
@The Purpose-costal Movement (TEPUM)
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