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Success Key #1 = Pray - Positive Prayers!
Success Key #2 = Read the Bible
Success Key #3 = Attend Church
Success Key #4 = Yield your will to God's will.
Now for Key #5... even "positive people" know that hard times might come. Things will try to stand in the way of your Success. Even when it seems like we are doing everything "right", things can sometimes go wrong. Some people may have financial problems, job or business hardships, health challenges, relationship or family difficulties.
How can we get past our times of trouble, and still have Christian Success? How can we be "up" when everything seems to be going "down"? ... The answer includes how we prepare or react to times of difficulty.
Key 5 for Christian Success:
Key #5 for Christian Success is to Expect to Succeed:
In a competition, usually if a person does not expect to win, they probably will not win. We need to expect to succeed! Expectation is a very powerful force in a person's life. Most of the time people get what they expect. Building your faith will give you the inner strength necessary to put forth the effort to be a champion.
If you have inner strength, outer circumstances will not control your life. You know that no matter what happens, God is in control. God is BIGGER than any challenge you face. In the Bible, when the Apostle Peter kept his eyes on Jesus, he could walk on water. When Peter saw the wind, he became afraid, and he began to sink. We need to keep our eyes on Jesus and God's Bible Promises, and not on the “wind” of discouragement or circumstances.
God wants to bless you! Expectation and faith allows you to believe in God’s Promises for your life (even if you cannot always see them). Faith believes in something that is not visible, as though it were visible. Faith believes without seeing. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
God + Faith = a Miracle!
God is an Unlimited God! God will make a way where there seems to be no way.
