Secrets of Success

Take God as Your Partner

`Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.' (Proverbs 16:3)

`No man can succeed in the service of God unless his whole heart is in the work and he counts all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. No man who makes any reserve can be the disciple of Christ, much less can he be His colabourer.' (DA273)

`I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.' (Isa 45:7)

`I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.' (Jer 17:10)

`There is no limit to the usefulness of one who, by putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon his heart, and lives a life wholly consecrated to God.' (DA250/1)

Examine Your Motives

`Successful work for Christ depends not so much on numbers or talent as upon pureness of purpose, the true simplicity of earnest, dependent faith.' (DA370)

Impeccable Honesty

`If you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?' (Luke 16:11)

Do not expect God to entrust you with spiritual undertakings until you have proven faithful in temporal undertakings.

Get Money In Its Right Perspective

`Win friends for yourselves by the right use of your money, which so easily tends to wrongdoing.'  (Luke 16:9 Wms)

`Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.' (Eccl 5:10)

`No-one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.' (Matthew 6:24)

Be Worthy Of Trust

`If you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own.' (Luke 16:12)

Keep your eyes ever on Jesus

`Why are so many of us so weak and inefficient? It is because we look to self, studying our own temperaments and wondering how we can make a place for ourselves, our individuality, and our peculiarities, in the place of studying Christ and His character.' (9T187).

Keep your eyes off your problems

`Instead of strengthening their faith by prayer and meditation on the words of Christ, they had been dwelling on their discouragements and personal grievances.' (DA431)

Think Big

Let's Think Big About Our Plans

`When we give ourselves wholly to God and in our work follow His directions, He makes Himself responsible for its accomplishment. He would not have us conjecture as to the success of our honest endeavours. Not once should we even think of failure. We are to co-operate with One who knows no failure.' (COL363)

`The time has come when we must expect the Lord to do great things for us. Our efforts must not flag or weaken.' (1SM111)

`With Him there can be no such thing as failure, loss, impossibility, or defeat; we can do all things through Him who strengthens us.' (DA490)

Let's Think Big About Ourselves

`The Lord is disappointed when His people place a low estimate upon themselves. He desires His chosen heritage to value themselves according to the price He has placed upon them. God wanted them, else He would not have sent His Son on such an expensive errand to redeem them. He has a use for them, and He is well pleased when they make the very highest demands upon Him, that they may glorify His name. They may expect large things if they have faith in His promises.' (DA668)

`There is no limit to the usefulness of one who, by putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon his heart, and lives a life wholly consecrated to God.' (DA250/1)

Think Big,
But Remember The Small Things

`Life is not made up of great sacrifices and wonderful achievements, but of little things.' (HP226)

`In the little matters some do not think it necessary to be so very exact, but this is the deception of Satan.' (TMK325)

`In order to accomplish this work we must follow His example of faithful, conscientious attention to the little things. This is the secret of success in every line of Christian effort and influence.' (COL358)

`Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.' (Luke 16:10)

Strive for perfection - not `even in the smallest things' - but especially in the very smallest thing - this is not only a matter of doing small things properly, but a matter of training the mind to function properly.

Until you are performing the slightest task perfectly, how can God entrust you with more weighty matters?

`Every act of life, however small, has its bearing for good or for evil. Faithfulness or neglect in what are apparently the smallest duties may open the door for life's richest blessings or its greatest calamities. It is little things that test the character.' (PP158)

`Examine under the microscope the smallest and commonest of wayside blossoms, and note in all its parts the exquisite beauty and completeness. So in the humblest lot true excellence may be found; the commonest tasks, wrought with loving faithfulness, are beautiful in God's sight.' (ML172)

Jesus' Example

Jesus, at one of the most momentous junctures in history, paused a moment to attend to a small thing. `The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.' (John 20:7)

`In His sight who guides alike the star and the atom, there is nothing unimportant. Order and perfection are seen in all His work.' (DA789)

`In the life of the true Christian there are no non-essentials; in the sight of Omnipotence every duty is important.' (PK488)