KEYS TO SUCCESS

Success Buttons


• You are destined for success

• God has made a master plan of success for you in all aspects of life.

• He is absolutely interested in the ultimate realization of your success (III John 2).

SUCCESS IS YOUR COVENANT RIGHT

- At New Birth you entered into a covenant relationship with God and the covenant covers every areas of your life.

- It is the knowledge of your covenant right to success that sets you free from failure and throws you to a life of consistent success.

- Many believers like the elder brother of the prodigal son are only serving God; they do not know their right to God’s blessing.

- When God cut a covenant with Abraham. He did not cut the covenant with him alone. He cut it with his seed, and that seed you are. (Galatians 3:29).

- So, your success story started the moment God said to Abraham “You shall be a blessing”… because you were in Abraham’s loin as at that time.

- God wants you know that He has destined you for success in an absolute sense (Matt. 5:14-16).

YOU ARE ABOVE ONLY

- God’s intention for you is to be ABOVE ONLY (Deut 28:13).

- The church was misled in the past to think that success is anti-godliness. People got the idea that mediocrity is synonymous with consecration.

- It is God’s heart desire for you to be an outstanding success and remain so. He is saying, “I have reserved a place for you at the top. I have no plan for you at the base of the ladder.”

- Divine success is being like God in all areas of life – an all round success!

- Most people who claim to be successful in business, academics or in their respective professions are worse than failures in other areas of life…that is not success. Success is being successful all round.

- Success is not a symptom of backsliding or carnality. It is an attribute of divinity.

- You need a completely renewed mind to get into the full consciousness of God’s success plan for your life.

- God takes pride in your success even more than you take pride in your child’s success (Matthew 7:11).

- As it gets tougher and worse for the wicked in this present generation, it will get easier and better for God’s people

- His righteous ones. So make up your mind to be above only all the time.

THE WAY TO SUCCESS

- There is always a way to enjoying every provision God has made available for you in His word…You cannot push God’s method aside and expect to get results.

- The Bible is God’s blue print of success for the whole of mankind. It is full of prescriptions that cannot fail.

 Speak The Word

- You can not amount to anything until you begin to talk right (Joshua 1:8).

- The only thing you can have is what you have said (mark 11:23). Notice that God never does a thing without first saying it.

- Your success begins with the loud and bold declaration of the word of success.

Meditate On The Word

- Meditation enables you to get a full of understanding of what God has said about you, and grants the ability to act on the word.

- Your success seed is the word. As you think on the word of God concerning your success, the seed will begin to take root and germinate.

Act On The Word

- Success belongs to those that do the word… a diligent application of gospel truths brings spectacular success results.

- Divine success is conditional not automatic. If you want success, you must pass the test or meet the conditions for success.

- Your success level is determined by your availability to the word.

GUARD YOUR MIND

- The mind is the battle ground for success or failure, prosperity or poverty…

- You can determine what you think by controlling your observation, association and what you are taught.

- Saturate your mind with success truth. Associate with successful people. Observe successful materials and success teachings.

- As a man thinks in his heart so is he (Prov. 23:7). If you not desire to fail, don’t think it (Phil. 4:8)!

WISDOM – THE PRINCIPAL THING

- The reason princes have had to start walking on foot while servants ride on horses is folly; the princes have begun to operate foolishly.

- There are things that do not require prayer to solve. A mere application of wisdom brings the situation easily under control. Likewise things that have been cultivated vigorously and carefully over the years can be destroyed in a matter of minutes, for lack of wisdom (Prov. 4:5-7).

- Even Jesus had to be filled with wisdom and had to increase his wisdom level from time to time. If Jesus needed and used wisdom, you must know that you CANNOT do without it (Luke 2:40, 52).

- Wisdom simply put, is the ability to compute knowledge to lay hold on your desire. Wisdom helps you to know how to walk with God so as to bring your desire to pass.

- If you don’t apply wisdom in all you do, you will work yourself out with only very little to show for it (Eccl. 10:10).

- IT does not matter how much time, money or energy you have invested doing the wrong thing, wisdom demands that when you notice your fault or mistake, do not hesitate to switch over or good.

DISCIPLINE - THE CONTROL VALVE

- Wisdom in knowing what to do but discipline is training yourself to do it.

- One who is not living or walking in discipline is like a child. No serious thing can be committed into his hands (Galatians 4:1).

- Discipline is knowing what to do, doing at the right time and at the required rate.-Your success will always elude you until you begin to mature in discipline.

- You have great potentials that can be harnessed but you cannot do that in careless circumstances.

- Make positive realistic plans. Do not follow after trivialities.


HARD WORK

- If you really desire success you must work hard for it.

- The requirement for failure is laziness and idleness (Eccl. 10:18).

- Diligence is God’s formula for success (Prov. 22:29).

- Hard work exposes you and brings out certain latent potential in you.-Note that it is not your efforts primarily that guarantee your success. You only fulfill your own part and God produces the results (Psalm 75:6-7, Psalm 127:1).

Book marks from “Success Buttons” – By Bishop David Oyedepo

Enter The Ark!


Noah was preaching warning the people that flood was on its way coming. But everybody was laughing at him. It took him 120 years to prepare the ark. Only those who hearkened to his warning and entered that ark survived the flood (Genesis 6-8).

God has been building an ark in the past years now, an ark of rescue that appeared stupid to some people. It is no longer stupid! An immanent economic collapse was a prophecy before, now it is reality. People are exchanging property for food, they are selling their television sets to eat and their cars to pay their house rents. Landlords have become tenants!Friend, this seemingly foolish ark is your only way of rescue.

The COVENANT is the New Testament ark for rescue in the time of famine. You either enter inside it, stay there and be preserved or despise it and be destroyed.

God will not allow any flood until an ark is set. For 120 years, Noah was building an ark and nobody thought it would ever be of any use. But the day came, when the ark became the only way of rescue. God is preparing an ark for your financial safety right now. If you mock it you will be carried away by the plague of lack and want.

God has promised, He will never fail! We can trust Him. We can take Him at His word. He is always ahead for the safety of His people. The world is coming under the greatest plague of want. It is so clear in God’s prophetic agenda (Isa. 60:2-3). When God speaks, whether it has been or not, you netter shiver, for it is coming to be! God will not bend His word because of you.There is surely a flood of economic collapse coming upon humanity! Only those who stay in this ark shall be rescued.

God will not feed on your tithe, He created you. Out of His fullness, He gave you just a tip of the iceberg. He cannot be envious of you. Your position is irrelevant to God. The whole earth is like a drop of water in a bucket to him. You are not even an electron. You are just like the ant in your house. Salvation is the only thing that gives you value. If you despise it, your value is lost! God knows only Christians. He said, “I know my sheep and I call them by name” (John 10). You do not have a name outside salvation. God does not know the people in power in your country, if they are not Born Again. Their names are not in His list.

They are too short for God to see. All the things that look important to you here are nothing. This ark of safety is filling up already and the flood level is rising. It is time to flee to the covenant mountain, where there is rest.I am sent to tell you an ark is being prepared, and wise men are entering into it. Do not be the last to enter. The gates may be shut at any time! God sent Joseph to tell the children of Israel they do not have to die in Canaan, there is room for them in Goshen. So, Jacob and his sons crossed over from Canaan of dryness to the Goshen of milk and honey. May you cross over before the gate is shut!

You Need The Rain Of The Word!


For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it- Isaiah 55:10-11

The word of God can be likened to rain that comes poring down from heaven. It is God’s major way of ending the drought in a man’s life. When the word is received and applied, no matter how harsh the climate, results are inevitable. Responding to the word is the ay to end the dry seasons in your life.

For instance in the time of Isaac, there was physical famine in the land but Isaac despised the famine and obeyed the word of God – sowing inspite of the weather condition; and God blessed him. Isaac became great because he operated God’s word.

God’s word is your access to healing, deliverance, abundance, promotion, etc. And just like no amount of energy applied can force open a firmly locked door, it is only the application of the word to a given circumstance that can produce favourable results – not the use of force (Luke 5:5).

God’s word is powerful. It is able to shatter the hardships of your life to pieces. When you issue commands based on the authority and integrity of the word, you trigger the word present in it to arrest all contrary situations. When there is an outpouring of the rain of the word and your spirit absorbs it, you bring forth and bud in all areas of life. That’s why you need the rain of the word to fall upon you.

CONSECRATION FIRST, THEN REVELATION!

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.- Prov 1:23

You turn at His reproof first before He pours out His Spirit upon you and makes His words known unto you. The Holy Spirit is prepared to teach you the ways of God but until you turn away from iniquity, He will not teach you; and except the Holy Spirit teaches you a thing, you cannot know it (1 Cor. 2:13).

So, carnality disqualifies you for the rain of insight because the natural or carnal man cannot understand the things of the Spirit since they are spiritually discerned. So as long as you remain carnal, you have no access to insight into the word. You must first clear the ground of your heart, then invite the Holy Spirit to come and teach you. You cannot be confused when He teaches you.

THE RAIN RELEASES HEAVEN’S TREASURES

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.- Deut 28:1-2

Blessings are triggered off by the word of God but the journey begins with consecration. Consecration begets unction, unction results in revelation, which in turn produces manifestations of the goodness of God.

IT BRINGS SATISFACTION

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.- Isaiah 55:2

God’s word satisfies because it is bread indeed. As you reorder your life to make hearkening to the word the centre of your desire, you will be satisfied with goodness and fatness. Some are hunting for blessings but blessings come only after you have had encounters with the word of God.

The word of God is food for the spirit (Jeremiah 15:16). No food is useful to the body until it is digested. Likewise, God’s word can only have impact in your life when you digest it. That is when it’s profits begin to appear. So, take time to ponder on the things you are hearing and reading, give more earnest attention to them (1 Tim. 4:13-16).

The word of God satisfies! Anything that stands between you and the word of God is out to destroy you. There is no substitute for the word, it is your ticket to genuine and lasting satisfaction!

You Can Break That Control


“For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns” (Jer. 4:3). I believe your fallow ground is the hardened area of your life that you have not been able to find an answer to. Now God has shown you that it’s some forces in the air that has been responsible for those negative habits and lifestyle. God has also made available to us what it takes to break those things, and seek the Lord. Break up your fallow grounds! The unplowed grounds of your life, the hardened habits that control your life. Don’t say, “It’s my nature.” It’s not your nature, it’s the devil’s nature! Break it! Every influence inside you that is trying to move you against the will of God, break it, in the name of Jesus! This is how to do it:

Cast Off !“…Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light” (Rom 13:12). “Cast off” connotes a force. It implies that you can get yourself out of it. Jesus said, “In my name they shall cast out devils.” So, you say to that spirit of adultery or that spirit of lying, “Loose your grip off me in the name of Jesus!” And it goes. Listen to me, after you have made your choice, and have entered into a covenant with God with an oath never to be found in that thing again, and the motions of that sin is still trying to move in your body, cast it out! It’s a stranger in a hiding place, waiting to devour and destroy your destiny. Cast it off! The disciples of Jesus returned in Luke 10:17 with the report that, “…Even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.” You have power given you by Jesus, to cast out all manner of unclean spirits.

Command It To Enter No More!“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first…” (Matt 12:43-45). The atmosphere is charged sir! The unclean spirit is roaming about, looking for where to land- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, all looking for who to capture. But you can deal with it! The Bible says in Mark 9:25, “When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.” When you cast the evil spirit, command it to enter no more forever, and secure the place with the blood of Jesus.

Put Off!“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth” (Col 3:8). Just the same way you put off your clothes you can put off unrighteousness. That means the works of the flesh are as lifeless as the clothes and shoes you put on. So you can put them off at will! I want you to have a superiority complex against controlling spirits, to be able to see them as things you can handle.

Put On! “…Put off the old man with his deeds. And have put on the new man…” (Col. 3:9-10).It’s like changing clothes! You put of this and you put on that. “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering…And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness” (Col 3:12,14). So, you can put off anything you don’t want and put on the one you want. This is the reason God will judge anybody who continues in sin; because sin has no more power over us. Is that habit your choice? If you say, “No” then put it off!

Lay Aside!“…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Heb 12:1). You can lay aside that spirit of whoredoms, that lying spirit, etc. You have a choice. You have the power to lay it aside or God wouldn’t ask you to do so.

Mortify!“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience” (Col 3:5-6). To mortify means to destroy. You can destroy fornication, you can destroy lasciviousness, envy and all the likes. They that are in the flesh cannot please God but through the Spirit we can mortify the deeds of the flesh so that we can live. “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Rom 8:13).

Purge Yourself!“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work” (2 Tim 2:21). You have to accept the responsibility to purify yourself. Stop looking for who to blame.

Exercise Yourself!“But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness” (1 Tim 4:7). No one excels in anything without exercise. Godliness is not cheap, the opposition is tense! It calls for a lot of exercises. Say to the Lord, “Lord, help me to accept total responsibility for a life that pleases you.” All it takes is you coming out to say, “No” and knowing what it takes to maintain that “No!”

Follow After Righteousness!“Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.” (Isa 51:1-2). The word “follow” connotes the presence of certain instructions. What God wants to do in your life these last days requires that you follow after righteousness. For God to establish that restoration, you must follow after righteousness. Paul said, “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after…” (Phil 3:12). So, righteousness is a thing to follow and a thing to learn, so that you can know. When that is in place everything else works.

Appreciate the fact that on the cross of Calvary, sin lost it’s dominion over your life. Now you can make your choice. And if you choose to be holy, because God has put in you all it takes to be holy, He will establish it in you.

Make Friends With God!Jesus said, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you” (John 15:15). It is revival that makes you a friend of God and creates enmity between you and world. It enables you to say, “No!” to sin, to the spirit of the world, the spirit of whoredoms, lying spirit, covetousness and pride. So, whatever is contrary to the will of God in your life, don’t nurse it, fight it now!

*To enjoy the full teaching on how to break negative spiritual controls, you can get your copy of the book; Conquering Controlling Powers By Bishop David Oyedepo