Two-Step Process For Prosperity and Success

If I were to ask you ‘Would you like to be prosperous and successful?’ what would you answer?

I dare say that there’s not a person on the planet who would say anything other than a resounding “Yes!”

Though a broad generalization, I believe all human beings seek after these things. Unfortunately, we sometimes seek prosperity and success in the wrong ways and in the wrong places.

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The Bible’s Way to Prosperity and Success

For those of us who believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, His revelation of Himself and His ways, and our guidebook/road map for the best way to live, we don’t have to look anyplace else for prosperity and success.

In my daily chronological Bible reading plan, I’ve been following the account of God’s miraculous deliverance of the young nation of Israel from slavery in Egypt, their wilderness wanderings, and God’s revelation of Who He was and what He expected. (I’ve been even more fascinated this time around, probably because of our own God-following journey of faith in a move closer to our family.)

Over and over in these first few books of the Bible, God reiterates that there is a two-step process to prosperity and success that can only be found in following Him.

God’s Two-Step Process – Step One

The first step to God’s blessings and a life of prosperity and success according to His standards is obedience to His ways as revealed in His Word.

“Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God…” ~Deuteronomy 28:1-2 (NASB)

Before the above passage, God reminds the people of the commands He had given them through Moses. When we obey the commands that deal with our relationship to God we demonstrate our love and devotion to Him. When we obey the commands that deal with our relationship with our fellow man we demonstrate our love for others. This fulfills Jesus’ command to wholeheartedly love God and our fellow man (Mark 12:30-31).

After the above passage, God lists the blessings He will provide in response to their obedience. All the blessings He lists lead to a life of prosperity and success–not necessarily as the world offers, but even better–by God’s definition. God also gives them the consequences for not obeying, which lead to a life of curses, destruction, and death.

All these blessings will…overtake you IF you obey the Lord your God. -Deut. 28:12
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God’s Two-Step Process – Step Two

The second step in God’s recipe for prosperity and success is tied in so closely with the first that it could really be a one-step process.

Faith.

(I know I’ve written a lot about this topic here lately, but that is where my life experiences have me at the moment.)

Think about it. Obedience requires faith. Do we obey what someone says if we don’t trust them? No!

Faith requires that we obey the object of our trust, even when it makes no sense. And we can’t please God without it (Hebrews 11:6).

Faith requires obedience to the object of our trust.
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In Conclusion

The old hymn is correct. There’s no way we can experience God’s blessings–His promised prosperity and success–unless we’re willing to “trust and obey.”

I’ve included the video of the old hymn below, because it perfectly goes along with this blog post and also the story line of CROSSROADS, the latest Miller’s Creek book. Not only do we trust and obey, but we do so because we believe He is who He says He is. God is real, and He’s not dead!

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