Successful Living!

Everyone wants to be successful!

But how do we maintain a successful life in a world full of emotional ups and downs, unplanned pitfalls, devastating storms, and oh yes and I must include rising fuel costs!

Jesus said;
John 16:33 In the world you will have tribulation; (Trials and Test) but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."NKJV

Jesus said that we would experience rough times, but He also promised that we could maintain a level of victory regardless of what was happening in the world. Jesus said My peace I leave with you, not as the world gives, another words His peace comes from deep within! Not from the outside in, but from the inside out!

So how do we get His peace within? I am so glad you asked!
In order to live in that peace we must experience that peace and we must have that peace deep within! So what produces peace?

Jesus said;
John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."NKJV

It was the words that Jesus spoke that produced peace!
And His word gives the victory over circumstances that sometimes makes a surprising uprising in our lives.
It is through His word that we are able to live a continued successful life.
Josh 1:8-9This 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.NKJV

Whenever God speaks of success in scripture, He relates it to the continuous inner activity of meditation.

Ps 1:2-32 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,And in His law he meditates day and night.3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water,That brings forth its fruit in its season,Whose leaf also shall not wither;And whatever he does shall prosper.NKJV

God does not promise success for memorizing scripture, but He does promise success for anyone who will meditate in His Word day and night!

Another words if His Word is in us, then that which is in us will produce life, and bring a positive affect upon that which is outside of us.

This doesn't mean that you will never experience difficulty, but He does promise that His peace through His word will bring you through the difficulty.
And He also promises that your success will be visible to others;

1 Tim 4:15-16Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.NKJV