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Succeeding Through Prayer.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
1 John 5:14
Philippians 4:6-7

God's help results in success. 2 Chronicles 26:11-15
God wants His children to succeed.
The Bible is full of evidence that God wants His children to succeed. Psalm 1 and Joshua 1:8

The success of God's children glorifies God. Isaiah 49:3-8
God knows when His children succeed in every area that pertains to their life, He gets the glory, because He gets the glory He is committed to your success. Isaiah 42:8

Success is fine, attractive and compelling.
The desire in human beings to succeed is divine! God put that innate desire in you because humanity was created to succeed. Man was not meant to know what failure was.
Human nature is attracted to success because success is our birth right and God's original plan for man. Genesis 1:27-30
Failure was introduced to mankind when the devil introduced sin.
Sin and failure is still not God's plan for you.
Behind every success, there is a lot of effort, failure, disappointment, investment and work people do not always see.

Outwardly people celebrate, admire, identify with and even envy the success of people they know, but they don't know or see the price that has been paid.
Do people see or understand the price Jesus paid?
Christianity is the biggest faith in the world but someone paid a price for that success.
The disciples of Jesus Christ committed their time, energy, and shed their blood for the propagation of the gospel. That is a great price!
There are many modern day martyrs who have died for the gospel, and paid the price for the gospel and the Bible to be made available in parts of the world where it would have been forbidden.

There is something we can also do to succeed.
It is not the only thing we should do to see success but it's one of the major requirements.PRAYER.
Prayer is a vital requirement for the success of the Christian. Prayer helps us stay sensitive to God.

 Prayer helps us succeed because:
1) It helps us stay connected to Jesus - without Jesus,we can do nothing. John 15:5
2) It helps us receive from God - everything we have was given to us by God, and everything we will need has to be supplied by God, so we have to pray. Matthew 6:5,6
3) Prayer can fetch us divine wisdom - you need wisdom to succeed in any area of your life. Through prayer you can receive divine wisdom. Asking is an aspect of prayer. James 1:5,
1 Kings 3:5-15
4) It presents us before God - and in God's presence we can receive fruitfulness and results. Jeremiah 1:11-12. God's Word comes to those who pray.
Fruitfulness is success.
5) It brings divine intervention - in our human affairs, there will be times we need God's intervention. When God intervenes, we succeed. 2 Chronicles 14:8-12

Olutosin Ogunkolade, a Teacher-Pastor shared this message.

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