Spirit & Life Devotional
Sunday, 12 June 2016
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim
Prayer: Achieving Success
"Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established." Proverbs 16:3 NKJV
"Turn to the Lord for help in everything you do, and you will be successful." That's the Easy to Read Version.
A paramount ruler (a community leader) in Akwa Ibom said to me years ago, "Live a clean life and have something to lean on." I don't know what he leaned on, but that was a great advice and I'll never forget his words. If there's something achievers know, it's that they need some form of supernatural support in order to achieve their goals. That's why some of them are into occultic activities. But we are children of the Most High; the Most Powerful One; what a great privilege we have!
The reason that a lot of us don't succeed is because we don't pray well enough. We trust in our experience, in our contacts, in our skills and in our own knowledge to achieve success; no wonder we either do not succeed or we underperform. Proverbs 3:5 says to "Trust the Lord completely, and don’t depend on your own knowledge." We express our trust in Him through prayer. Daniel was a man of prayer; he prayed thrice daily, and he kept on rising until he became the second in command. Be like Daniel: Pray!
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