Success, Failure, and Conqueror
What is Success? This I find to be truth {success, failure, conqueror} is all in how you think.
Success is the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors, the attainment of wealth position, honors, impressive of an achievement and fame triumph in performance.
We as people believe that everything has to come from by what we see, in some cases that could be true. I am reminded what the scripture says:
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!” he says to you, But his heart is not with you.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favor to men of skill or ability; But time and chance happen to them all.
Success, Failure and Conqueror work like a seed. It is all in what you plant, that is the outcome of growth. If you plant love, you will receive love. If you plant peace, you will receive peace. If you plant evil, you will receive evil, this how success and failure works. What you think is only what the mind will do.
David and Goliath
This is one of the greatest stories in the bible how a little boy name David put all his trust in the Lord.
1 Samuel 16:1 teaches us that we must understand we must be anointed by God for any great task or work. It takes a Heavenly Kingdom mind to bring down forces of darkness.
The Lord told Samuel to go and anoint David as King. God was ready to bring down the coward spirit of the Philistines who brought fear on the children of Israel.
God Always Has a Plan
Saul was the King at this time and no man could bring down this Philistine giant, Goliath. He was very boastful. His statement was “Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.”
Goliath said to the children of Israel, “If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us”.
The time had come where the Philistines gathered their armies together for battle and where gathered at Sochoh, which belong to Judah; they encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim.
1 Samuel 17:12 – 16 Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men. The three older sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. David was the youngest. Now the three oldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's flock at Bethlehem.
The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand.
1 Samuel 17:17- 19 Then Jesse said to David his son, "Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers.
"Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back news of them.
"For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines."
1 Samuel 17:20 So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and took the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry.
David ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers. As he was taking with them the champion, the Philistine from Gath named Goliath was coming up from the army of the Philistines and he spoke these same words, AND DAVID HEARD THEM. All the men of Israel saw the man, and fled from him and were afraid.
Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What would be done for the man who killed the Philistine and take away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living GOD?” The people answered David according with this word saying, “Thus it will done for that man who kills him.” And David brother Eliab was angry against David.
So the time came when the words David spoke were heard they told it to King Saul and he sent for him and began to say, “You are not able to go against the Philistine to fight with him.”
“When a lion or bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I David went after him, attacked him and rescued it from its mouth and when it arose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has both lion and bear, and this Giant has taunted the armies of the living God.”
So Saul said to David, “Go and the Lord be with you.” Saul dressed David in his tunic. He put a coat of armor on him a bronze helmet on his head and David fastened his sword over the tunic and tried walking around because he was not use to them.
1 Samuel 17:37, 38, 39 & 40 And David said, “I cannot go in these, he said to Saul. I am not use to them.” So David took them off.
And David took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream and put them in his shepherd's bag with his sling in his hand.
The Philistine approached David with his shield bearer in front of him. He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him.
He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with a stick.” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. “Come here”, he said, “And I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beast of the field!”
David said to the Giant, “You come against me with a sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord almighty, the God of armies of Israel, whom you have defied.”
“This day the Lord will hand you over to me and I will strike you down and cut off your head.”
“Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beast of the earth. And the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle is the Lord’s and He will deliver you into our hands.” As the battle began and the Philistine moved closer, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.
David reached into his bag taking out a stone. He slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead and he fell face down on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and stone.
Always know with God all things are possible to those who believe. It wasn't how big the GIANT was, it is knowing who is on your side. David believed that his God of Israel would deliver this Philistine into his hand. Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
QUOTATION
Trust is the first secret of success, the belief, believing in GOD and yourself.
Failure - the act of falling or the state or condition.
1. A losing of power or strength
2. A breakdown in operation or function
3. Not succeeding in doing or becoming
4. Decline in strength or effectiveness
5. To be unsuccessful in obtaining a desired, to be useless or not helpful.
QUOTATIONS
By Thomas Edison: Many of life Failures are who people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
By Sophocles: Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. "Sophocles"
By Henry Ford: Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently" Henry Ford"
By Jackson Brown: If you're doing your best, you won’t have anytime to worry about failure.
GOD DID NOT CREATE YOU TO BE FAILURE
Proverbs 24:16 For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again.
James 1:2 My brethern, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
James 1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
James 1:4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect, and complete, lacking nothing.
CONQUEOR, SUBDUE, OVERCOME, PREVAIL
GET THE VICTORY IN SUCCESS
Romans 8:37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loves us.
Romans 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created things, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
QUOTATIONS
No Conqueror, believes in chances "Friedrich Nietzche"
You just conqueror in what you believe "Sharon Spikner"
