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Due to their growing hatred his brothers found an opportunity to sell Joseph into slavery. Even in his slavery Joseph continued to be faithful to the Lord. He was successful and lived in the household of his Egyptian master. So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar appointed Joseph overseer of his household and put him in charge of everything he owned. Testing was to come, however. But Joseph repeatedly refused her due to his spiritual insight and integrity, as well as his allegiance to Potiphar.
Nevertheless, to placate his wife he had Joseph put into prison. Poor Joseph thus once again found himself a prisoner. Even greater success lay ahead for Joseph, for God had given to him the ability to interpret dreams cf. Thus individual success can become the basis for meeting successfully the needs of others. The second person is the prophet Daniel. Daniel together with three friends was taken captive in the first Babylonian invasion of Judah in B.
Moreover, the Lord had given Daniel the ability to interpret dreams, which enabled him to achieve great success in the court of King Nebuchadnezzar e. Belshazzar was probably the grandson of Nebuchanezzar and served as co-regent with his father Nabonidus B. On the night of October 12, B. Nabonidus had prepared a great feast for his nobles, in spite of the fact that the invading Persians had camped outside the city walls. When Belshazzar ordered the sacred drinking vessels of the Hebrews that Nebuchanezzar had taken from Jerusalem during the capture of the city, as the king and his wives and concubines drank from them, the fingers of a hand appeared and wrote on the wall.
Neither he nor his wise men were able to decode the message. At that time the queen mother came into the banquet hall and learning of the situation advised Belshazzar to summon Daniel. It should be noted that the wise men probably could read what had appeared, but did not understand it. Accordingly, Daniel once again achieved great success, being proclaimed: True to his interpretation, Babylon fell to the invading Persians under King Cyrus that very night vv.
Like Joseph, Daniel was faithful and whole-heartedly committed to the Lord. In what follows, we shall explore several keys to godly success as indicated in the Scriptures. Perhaps a good place to begin our discussion of biblical keys to success is the advice of Moses to his fellow Hebrews as he drew closer to his final days;. I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.
What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. Simply put, Moses was telling them to demonstrate their faith in God by willingly obeying his commandments and standards for them. Failure to do so, however, would lead to inevitable disaster vv. Acceptance and obedience would bring life and prosperity lit.
I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Success begins with a life of full faith in and faithfulness to the Lord and his standards. Make sure you are very strong and brave!
Carefully obey all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful in all you do. This law scroll must not leave your lips! You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper and be successful. It was necessary for Joshua live obediently to the Lord and his commandments, even as Moses had declared.
They were not just to be read but to be so internalized and followed that they became a way of life.
The combination of strength and courage is one that is echoed throughout the Scriptures e. When David was close to death, he told Solomon his son: Be strong and become a man!
Do the job the LORD your God has assigned you by following his instructions and obeying his rules, commandments, regulations, and laws as written in the law of Moses. Then you will succeed in all you do and seek to accomplish.
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He was to be strong and show himself a man. Among these the most significant and well known, however, is his building of the Temple of the Lord 1 Kings 6: Now, my son, may the LORD be with you!
Trust in the LORD and do what is right! Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!
Then you will take delight in the LORD, and he will answer your prayers. Commit your future to the LORD! Trust in him and he will act on your behalf. Wait patiently for the LORD!
Therefore, in his farewell address he could challenge the people to trust in the Lord and keep his commandments:. You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Listen To Audio Teaching. These things are in the Word, and God is no respecter of persons. Even in his slavery Joseph continued to be faithful to the Lord.
Wait confidently for him! Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your ways straight. Solomon should have realized that true and lasting success comes from a whole-soul faith, commitment to the Lord, and obedience to his Word. Therefore, in his farewell address he could challenge the people to trust in the Lord and keep his commandments:.
Nehemiah is another example of godliness, for in his life he was a man devoted to prayer. Nehemiah served as the cupbearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes Longimanus B. Nehemiah was also a man of great courage and fidelity to the Lord. When he learned of the terrible condition in the city of Jerusalem since the fall of the city, he went into a prolonged periods of fasting and prayer, praying earnestly for his people.
He also prayed specifically that Artaxerxes would allow him to return to Judah so as to aid the people in rebuilding the city of Jerusalem cf. Because Nehemiah was a righteous man who lived faithfully before the Lord, the Persian king granted his request 2: After he had succeeded in arriving safely in Jerusalem, on a certain night he inspected the conditions throughout the city.
Subsequently he encouraged the local officials and citizens there to begin rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem Neh. This angered the non-Jewish officials in the area first to deride Nehemiah and his followers and then to threaten them Neh.
Nevertheless, Nehemiah prayed fervently through all of this dangerous period 4: Nehemiah remained a living example to all of a man of complete trust in the Lord, while doing his part and being one who was faithful in prayer—even in the face of personal danger. No weapon formed against you will succeed and you will refute any accusation raised against you in court.
You stretched out you right hand, the earth swallowed them. By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to you holy dwelling place.
Yes, Moses declared that it was God who would protect and successfully guide his people into the Promised Land. Acknowledge him in all you ways, and he will make your paths straight. The wise believer would understand that true knowledge comes ultimately from the Lord and brings with it genuine success:. For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity, to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of the pious ones.
Such enabled him to escape many occasions of danger successfully. By way of summarizing these Old Testament keys to success, we note three very vital factors: All of this would seem to be sufficient. But there is more! There are several texts that promise a transition to eternal fellowship with God.
If a man dies will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, TIll my change comes. You will call, and I will answer You ; You will desire the work of Your hands. Although he has just discounted the possibility of life after death vv. After my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God, whom I will see for myself, and my one eyes will behold, and not another. Here Job appears to reassert his hope of seeing God, his Redeemer cf. Although the meaning and emphases of both passages are hotly debated by scholars, it appears almost certain that Job does have an underlying belief and hope of a life with God after his own physical death.
Thus considering both passages together Kaiser concludes,. Job had been assured that just as a tree would sprout again even if it were cut down, So would a man live again Job In fact, he longed for the opportunity to look upon his Redeemer with his own eyes even after the worms had destroyed his body.
Several other Old Testament texts tend to point to a belief in immortality for the righteous e. Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. Here not only is an afterlife clearly declared but the assurance of an everlasting bodily resurrection. This may contain a veiled hint of the coming of the Messiah. Archer puts it even more certainly:.
It is hard to believe that the Hebrew listener would gain any other impression… [i. Some give details of his life and ministry e. This verse says that God knows His thoughts toward you, and His desire is to give you an expected end. That end is promised in the Word of God. You can walk in victory like Moses. He actually climbed a mountain the day he went home to be with the Lord.
These things are in the Word, and God is no respecter of persons. What we have today is superior to what Moses had in the Old Testament. We can be guaranteed success. God created every one of us to be something special, but I also feel that we live in a culture that has totally misrepresented true success.
As a matter of fact, I looked up the meaning of the word. I mean, some people are aiming at nothing and hitting it every time. I hate that definition. That is not a godly definition of success at all. Lots of people have fame and prosperity, but they do not have true success. In my opinion, success needs to be redefined.
In fact, not everybody is called to do something big. I try to get this across to our staff all the time. We have people on staff here in the U. We really count on and appreciate those who keep our facility clean and looking good. And without the individuals who keep the roads plowed and sanded in the winter, we would be in trouble. We need all of these people to help us be good stewards of what God has given us.
Their jobs may not seem as significant as others, but they are being faithful in what God has called them to do. Those who are faithful in a few things will also be faithful in much. His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: