SECRETS TO SUCCESS
Part 2

“Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,
that ye may prosper in all that ye do”
(Deuteronomy 29:9).

3. OBEY GOD’S COMMANDMENTS

We go back to God’s words to Joshua and find a third principle for success.

Joshua 1:7, 8: “Only be thou strong and very courageous that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.”

The word to Solomon in 1 Chronicles 22:11, 12 says: “Keep the law of the LORD thy God. Then shalt thou prosper.”

God did not write His law and His commandments for a joke. He wrote them for us to obey. He wrote them for us to know how to walk our daily lives. The amazing thing is that He promises that when we obey His words that He will bless us in whatever we do and wherever we go. You can’t get a better promise than that! Look at these promises:

Deuteronomy 29:9: “that you may prosper in all that you do.”

Joshua 1:7: “that you may prosper wherever you go.”

1 Kings 2:3: “that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn.”

2 Kings 18:6, 7: “(Hezekiah) kept his commandments . . . he prospered wherever he went.”

Could you want for anything more for you and your children? To prosper in whatever you do and wherever you go? It all hinges on your obeying God’s words.

4. DELIGHT IN GOD’S WORD

Psalm 1:2, 3: “But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

God looks for those who not only read His word, who not only obey it, but who delight in His Word. That means we don’t read God’s Word as a duty, but because it’s our pleasure. We desire it. We long after it. We are famished in our souls if we don’t eat from it every day.

If we delight in it, we will make it top priority to read it daily. To read it to our children daily. We will never put our family Bible reading aside for other things.

5. CLEAVE TO THE LORD

2 Kings 18:6 says: “(Hezekiah) clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth.”

To cleave to the Lord means to stick to Him, to be joined to him, to follow hard after him. It’s the same word that’s used for cleaving in our marriage. We become one with Him.

How close is your relationship with the Father? Is He part of everything you do and say? Do you include Him in everything in your life, even the mundane duties of each day? Everything you do will prosper when you cleave to Him.

More next week.

PRAYER:

“Dear Father God, fill me with such a longing for Your Word. Please help me as the mother of the home to do everything in my power to establish our daily Bible readings together as a family. I know that this is the greatest foundation for my children to prosper in the plan You have for their lives. Amen.”

AFFIRMATION:

I’d rather be rich in God’s Word than rich in this world’s goods.