It is your exploration that determines your discovery. There is never an accidental discovery in life. Everything ever discovered was consciously explored by someone. I do believe that God is going to yet make you discover something that would result into outstanding success!
We have been considering the vital laws that bring about outstanding success.
Note that God is a God of process. If you follow the process, you will access the product.
Success has no favourite; it attends to anyone who cares to follow the laws. Success does not answer to colour or age; it answers to scriptural principles.
I do believe that someone is already experiencing those rewards of compliance with the laws. Respect for the laws of success is attraction for greatness.
Laws are not made to restrict us, but to add colour to our lives. They are not made to put us in bondage, but to give us freedom. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).
So, the observance of laws is the pathway to freedom. The more you comply with laws, the freer you become. Let us further explore vital Biblical laws, which are the highways to outstanding success:
The Law Of Love
We have been exploring this anchor law of success. Every truly successful man is a lover of God. Every lover of God is a potential success. You can predict the end of a lover of God. His end will always be successful. I have never seen one who loves God and lost out.
Love for God is exhibited by the love for God’s people. If you truly love God, it will show by the way you love people. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also (1 John 4:21).
Claiming that you love God, without loving people, is the highest form of hypocrisy. How can we say we love God, when we do not love the brethren that we see? Those who truly love God love God’s people.
Let us consider some examples of people who demonstrated their love for God’s people:
- Ø Esther: We have Esther as a very clear example of the demonstration of love for God’s people. Esther had an uncle called Mordecai, a great lover and carer of God’s people.
Mordecai would not bow before men, but unto God alone. A conspiracy was set up against him by Haman. Haman built gallows not just to destroy him, but to destroy the entire Jews.
When Mordecai heard about this, he put on sack cloth, wept and he went towards the palace. Esther being a daughter that he brought up, saw him in nakedness, and sent clothes to him to put on. But because of his love for God’s people, he refused to put on the clothes. Rather, he sent a word to Esther saying, “You better be reminded that it is for a time such as this, that God put you in position.”
When Esther got the message, she followed suit. She removed her royal apparel. She preferred to no longer be a queen, and be identified with God’s people. She made a declaration, “I must be identified with my people. If I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:15-16).
Esther had a choice to remain a queen and have all her people, God’s people, killed. She had a choice to choose identity with the palace or with God’s people. But she said, “No! I got to this place in the first instance by the hand of God. I must protect and project this hand of God. It doesn’t matter if they take me away from being a queen, but I will not lose my covenant identity…”
True lovers of God are selfless. They care less for themselves, but care for God’s people. Also, they care for God’s house, give to God’s people and to God’s house. They protect God’s people and God’s house.
When Esther said, “If I perish, I perish,” there was a switch. God rose up to defend His people and to retain the throne for Esther. When you stand to defend God and His people, He retains your kingdom for you.
- Ø Moses: Moses is another example of one who loved the people of God. He was living in affluence. As a matter of fact, he was a potential Pharaoh. Everything pointed to the fact that Moses would become the next Pharaoh. But when he discovered that he had a people, the people of Israel, and he saw them suffering, he decided to rather identify with them, than to enjoy the throne for a while.
Though he was thrown out of the palace, they had not succeeded in throwing his name out of existence. Have you ever thought of this: Can you remember the name of any Pharaoh of Egypt, if you ever knew any? That is the way Moses’ name would have been forgotten, if he became a Pharaoh. But he chose to love God, by loving God’s people.
You don’t trade with God to become a loser; you don’t love God to end on the floor. I have watched our father, Bishop David Oyedepo, and what I simply see about him is that he is a lover of God. He shows this love by loving God’s people.
He not only loves God’s people in preaching and teaching, but in practical demonstration of care for them. When you care for God’s people, He cares for you. When you defend God’s people, He defends you. The only way to prove that you love God is by loving His people.
What will this love for God do for you?
- Love for God enthrones destinies/ people
David was, as it were, a slave for God, and He became a king among men. He was not just a momentary king, but a generational king. He had died 3,000 years ago, but his name is yet to be forgotten. He was a deep lover of God. Love took him to the throne.
- Love empowers the saints for wealth
Love does not only enthrone the saints, but empowers them for wealth. Real kingdom wealth is a result of your love for God. The state of your heart for God determines your place on the earth.
Solomon loved the Lord and in the end he became a wise king (1 Kings 3:3). I checked through the scriptures to find out the business that Solomon was engaged in. He was simply trading the love of God!
- The best of God is for His lovers
The best of God is reserved for the lovers of God. If you want to access God’s best, you had better subscribe to be His lover. 1 Corinthians 2:9 says: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
- Access to divinity
Love for God is affinity with God which makes you one with God. Affinity with God gives you access to divinity. Because God’s love is God’s nature, when you are in love, you naturally exhibit His nature. God’s Word says: He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love (1 John 4:8).
- God lives with you
Love for God makes Him your permanent residence. He stays with you and lives with you. John 14:23 says: … If a man love me, he will keep my Words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
If God lives with you, then blessings are with you. If He lives with you, everything that He comes with belongs to you.
The Law Of Skill
This is the second Biblical law of success that we are considering. Skill enhances your chances of being successful in life. The more skilful you are, the more opportunities you have. I have never seen a skilful man brushed aside.
Being skilful leads to expertise, and our world today, is busy looking for experts. So, if you are not skilful, you cannot be gainful. If you are not skilful, your life will be painful. Every pain of life is a result of lack of skill.
Skill turns a dummy into a celebrity. It turns a slave into a master. By reason of the skill of Daniel, they were calling him the master of magicians. He was a slave by reason of being taken captive; but he became a master of magicians. With skill, nobody cares about your curriculum vitae (CV) or your nation of origin.
Skill, took Joseph to the senate, not for screening but for lectures. As he came out of the prison and interpreted the king’s dream, the Bible tells us that he was made the second in command to the king. They didn’t ask for his CV, by reason of the skill that he was endowed with. As a prisoner, he was endowed with skill.
Skills prepare you for your opportunities. Destiny thrives on skills. In the words of God’s servant, “Lack of skill will kill vision.” No matter the brightness of your vision, if it lacks skills, it will be killed.
Many have been destroyed today, not for lack of vision, but skills. So, it is not enough to have vision, you must go for skills. From skills, Daniel grew to expertise; from expertise, he grew to excellence.
There are two levels of skills
v Endowed Skill: This is the skill that is given by God. It comes upon children of God as a gift from Him, to make them outstanding among their colleagues.
When they put Daniel, Shedrack, Meshach and Abednego together with their classmates, they were 10 times better than them (Daniel 1:20).
Like we saw in the life of David, we never heard that he went to a formal school. He had no formal military training of any kind. But after he was anointed in 1 Samuel 16:13, something happened not only to his spirit-man, but to his brain. He was endowed with skill.
When he was endowed, the Bible says he behaved himself wisely (1 Samuel 18:5, 15, 30). So, endowed skill makes you angelic (2 Samuel 14:20). It makes you celestial in your operation and you go higher than everyone else around you.
What is unique about endowed skill? Endowed skill enables you to do what you did not learn. You are enabled by God to know what you did not learn. It makes you to know beyond what you learnt.
v Acquired Skill: This is the kind of skill you consciously learn, either by formal or informal education, through reading, observation and apprenticeship. Even though God has endowed you with skill, the endowment must be stirred up.
2 Timothy 1:6 says: …Stir up the gift of God, which is in thee…Here, Paul was telling Timothy to stir up the gift of God in him. So, acquired skill is necessary to stir up our endowed skill.
No matter how endowed you are, if you don’t have access to acquired skill, you may not have full performance. I believe that from today, each of us will take practical steps to improve on our skills.
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Credits : David Oyedepo's ministries
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