Key Verse: Verse 8 - "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
Key Words: and then thou shalt have good success
Many people are waiting for their ship to come in. The problem is they’ve never sent one out.
Let me ask you: How do you define success? To me success is based upon attaining those things that can attain heaven, souls of men, and giving to God (Matthew 6:19-21) or certainly two of those things.
January 6, 1850, was bitterly cold in Colchester, England, a hard-biting blizzard keeping most worshippers at home. At the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Artillery Street only about a dozen showed up. When it became apparent that even the pastor would not arrive, an unlettered man rose and spoke haltingly from Isaiah 45:22, then the crowd dispersed, thinking the day’s service a loss – not realizing that a fifteen-year-old boy had ducked into the room to escape the snowstorm, and, hearing the sermon, had been converted.
Years later that boy, Charles Spurgeon, wrote: “Don’t hold back because you cannot preach in St. Paul’s; be content to talk to one or two in a cottage. You may cook in small pots as well as in big ones. Little pigeons can carry great messages. Even a little dog can bark at a thief, wake up the master, and save the house…. Do what you do right thoroughly, pray over it heartily, and leave the result to God.”
Success is carrying out Joshua 1:8. Do this and you will be successful in the eyes of God.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Don’t just read and memorize Joshua 1:8. Live it.
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