5 Biblical Principles For Success In LIfe

Success is accomplishing what God put you in this life to do.

Nobody said they didn't want to be successful in life. Everyone has a different vision of success. We all want success, but very few want to be successful.

To be successful, you must accept all the challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like. There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge of improving yourself.

Last Sunday's service at our church, Word of Hope (A Christian Family Church), Our church Pastor shared with us the five (5) Biblical Principles for Success in Life.

I would like to share it with you. Enjoy and be blessed by the article that you are about to read below.

Commit to the Lord whatever you do, 
and He will establish your plans.

Proverbs 16:3

Love God First

5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart 
and with all your soul and with all your strength. 
6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.

Deuteronomy 6:5-6​

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 
and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:33​

• Doing spiritual basics to deepen our relationship with God.

Man shall not live by bread alone,
    but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

​Matthew 4:4

• Feeding our minds with good and wholesome things that will build our whole being.
• Serving the Lord with gladness​.

2 Worship the Lord with gladness;
    come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the Lord is God.
    It is he who made us, and we are his;
    we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 100:2-3​

Develop and Enrich Yourself with Good Relationships
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• At home, with your Family.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22​

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:1​

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24​

When others hurt you, forgive and let go of bitterness.

Manage your Time and Finances well

15 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,
16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

Ephesians 5:15-16​

• Time is essential. Our life on Earth has an unspecified time limit.
• Occupy or do business till I come.

So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.
‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’

Luke 19:13​

• Work hard and work smart.

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 14:23​

Earn all you can.
Give all you can.
Save all you can.

John Wesley
(1703 - 1791)

• Live a life of generosity.

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work
we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 
‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Acts 20:35​

Stay Strong in Times of Trials and Hardships

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, 
because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

Romans 5:3​

In fact,
everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

2 Timothy 3:12​

• Trials and Temptations

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,
whenever you face trials of many kinds, 
3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:2-3​

Keep your Focus on the Goal

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which
God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:14​