WHAT
CAN YOU DO NOW?

First
of all, you need to know that:
Success is awaiting
you somewhere
You deserve success
Your definitions of
success and failure are not wrong. This is extremely important
What you want to
achieve is worth achieving
There is no short-cut
to success
There is no point in
becoming a defeatist
It will harm you more
than help you if you envy others for their success
It is not necessary
that success comes by your efforts only
There is GOD of Israel
who is capable of giving you success if HE is pleased with your ways
The
most important of all is that you believe in JESUS. Here I would like to direct
your attention to the success received by the disciples of JESUS, namely,
Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee and two others.
These
were experienced fishermen. At night they went out into the Sea of Galilee to
catch fish. They strove for the whole night and got nothing. But when it was
early morning, JESUS appeared to His disciples for the third time after rising
from death, and asked them to cast their nets on the right side of the boat.

This
miracle happened at the time when the disciples were extremely depressed
because of the death of JESUS. They had set their stores on HIM! They had left
everything, left all, and followed HIM like HIS shadow. And now HE wasn’t
there!
It
was like the end of the world for them. There was such a void in their life that
nothing else could fill it. They were trying in vain to return to their old way
of life – returning to fishing and all that. It was when JESUS came to life
again and when HE met them, they learned that their hope was not a dupe. JESUS now
renewed their hope and reminded them of their real mission in life, that is, the
mission to save the souls of men for HIM instead of catching fish. They were
not to worry about food and all that; because their GOD was there to look after
these needs. What was important for them was to fulfill the mission of
preaching the Good News of JESUS to the world.

All
the twelve disciples of JESUS were killed in different parts of the world in
the same way that their LORD was. But the empire they have built is right
before us. Death does not take away a bit from their success; because their
success lies in the right place - in the heavenly kingdom.
Let
me quote two verses from Proverbs 16 to make my point:
"To
humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the proper answer
of the tongue."
In
other words, man proposes, GOD disposes. And the second verse is, "Commit
to the LORD whatever you do, and HE will establish your plans."
Finally,
I would like to end this post with what JESUS Himself said in Matthew 12:30:
“He
who is not with ME is against ME, and he who does not gather with ME scatters
abroad.”
HEREIN LIES THE REAL SECRET
OF GETTING SUCCESS:
GATHER WITH JESUS
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