Success In One Easy Step

Kingdom success is always the results of obedience. Counting sheep may get you a plaque, but faithfully searching for the stray will win you a crown.

To put it succinctly, obedience is the key to success as far as God is concerned.

Has God called you to pastor in a small place? Then pastor. Has God called you to be a layperson? Then be a good one. Has He called you to be a missionary? Then be a missionary.

Are your resources limited? Don't worry. God will take care of that. Whatever the case, do your very best. God will take care of the rest.

Gideon found out that numbers did not count when God told him to whittled his little band of warriors down to just a handful of cautious men that cupped water up from the brook in their hands, rather than lapping the water like a dog. (Judges 7:5-7)

Obedience was the key to Gideon’s success, as well as ours.

My job is to train young men and women as ministers. I am obedient to that, even though I am well past retirement age and with limited income.

So, Bonnie and I are headed back overseas to minister and teach. That’s our assignment. So, we will obey.

Where will the funds come from? I don’t know. That’s God’s job—and, I might add, His faithful servants when he asks; so that we, together, may obey His call.

Now, the crucial question for you is not what I am willing to do, but what you are willing to do in obedience to his call on your life.