"Then
Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son
can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever
He does, the Son also does in like manner."
John 5:19 (NKJV)
Have you ever made a mistake and done something wrong? You might say that is a foolish question, because everyone makes mistakes and does things wrong. It is just a fact of life, no one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes, and no one has 100% success. Success is something we all want, but 100% success is not really attainable and not something that will be achieved in any long-term way. But no one wants to fail; everyone wants to succeed and to know how to succeed.
The Bible gives us many great examples with the lives of the people we see in the Bible. Sometimes we see positive examples and sometimes it is a negative example, but we can learn why some people succeeded and some did not. The best example in the Bible of how to succeed comes to us from Jesus: He was successful in His life and ministry. The reason Jesus did so well is because He only did what His Father directed Him to do. Jesus was successful because He followed God's plan.
Too often, the reason we do not succeed is because we are not fully following God's plan but we are following our own plans and ideas. The key to success in the life of Jesus was His obedience to doing the Father's will and not His own. Jesus knew the Scriptures and He spent time with God in prayer, which is how He learned the Father's will. How can we have a successful life and ministry today? We need to follow the example of Jesus and learn from our Heavenly Father what His will is and then do it; that is how we succeed.
John 5:19 (NKJV)
Have you ever made a mistake and done something wrong? You might say that is a foolish question, because everyone makes mistakes and does things wrong. It is just a fact of life, no one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes, and no one has 100% success. Success is something we all want, but 100% success is not really attainable and not something that will be achieved in any long-term way. But no one wants to fail; everyone wants to succeed and to know how to succeed.
The Bible gives us many great examples with the lives of the people we see in the Bible. Sometimes we see positive examples and sometimes it is a negative example, but we can learn why some people succeeded and some did not. The best example in the Bible of how to succeed comes to us from Jesus: He was successful in His life and ministry. The reason Jesus did so well is because He only did what His Father directed Him to do. Jesus was successful because He followed God's plan.
Too often, the reason we do not succeed is because we are not fully following God's plan but we are following our own plans and ideas. The key to success in the life of Jesus was His obedience to doing the Father's will and not His own. Jesus knew the Scriptures and He spent time with God in prayer, which is how He learned the Father's will. How can we have a successful life and ministry today? We need to follow the example of Jesus and learn from our Heavenly Father what His will is and then do it; that is how we succeed.
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