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Jos 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall

meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

The secret of success if to do the common things uncommonly well. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Success is getting what you want out of life without violating the rights of others. Anonymous The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether its the same problem you had last year. Anonymous

Success is not measured by how you do compared to how somebody else does, but by how you do compared to what you could have done with what God gave you. - Zig Ziglar Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. - Zig Ziglar Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - Gen. George Patton

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably or succeed more miserably George MacDonald Success is getting up just one more time than you fall down. Anonymous What is success? In my book, one ingredient of success is meaningful time with my children. As a friend of mine observed, I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished hed spent more time at the office. - Joseph Stowell

WORLD VIEW

From the Lips of Millionaires


I have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness.Rockefeller The care of $200,000,000 is enough to kill anyone. There is no pleasure in it.Vanderbilt I am the most miserable man on earth.John Jacob Astor What can I say? I only know I am desolate.J. Paul Getty I was happier when doing a mechanics job.Henry Ford Millionaires seldom smile.Andrew Carnegie

3 Areas
3 John 1:2 - I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. Gods desire is that you would prosper in your SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY.

Jos 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

GOOD SUCCESS
Success from the biblical perspective, means much more than attaining material prosperity, or achieving fame or wide recognition. It also means much more that all the definitions the dictionary contains such as accomplishment, achievements, attainment, prosperity, mastery, victory. From the Biblical perspective, success is only success when Gods purpose for our lives is fully accomplished.

BAD SUCCESS?
THERE ARE BASICALLY THREE WAYS IN WHICH A PERSON MAY BE SUCCESSFUL, YET THEIR SUCCESS IS BAD SUCCESS:

1. Achieved at the expense or hurt of others. 2. When ones character is damaged in the process 3. Which does not have a lasting result.

GOOD SUCCESS
ecure Gods purpose for your life. nleash the person God wants you to be, for time and eternity; hoose the Word of God as your compass for success ommit yourself to God to live a life of excellence for His Glory xtend your life as a channel of Gods blessing to others eize every opportunities to grow in character eek to apply all of the above.

Success is speaking words of praise In cheering other peoples ways, In doing just the best you can With every task and every plan. Its silence when your speech would hurt, Politeness when your neighbors curt. Its deafness when the scandal flows, And sympathy with others woes.

Its loyalty when duty calls; Its courage when disaster falls, Its patience when the hours are long; Its found in laughter and in song. Its in the silent time of prayer, In happiness and in despair. In all of life and nothing less, We find the thing we call success.

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