Think about these questions and answer them honestly. <\/p>\n
(1) Do you believe you can be successful and spiritual at the same time?<\/i> Some folks equate poverty with humility and conclude that successful people can\u2019t be humble. Not so. \u2018As long as [Uzziah] sought the Lord, God gave him success.\u2019<\/i> Success doesn\u2019t give you the right to look down on others but, when successful people speak, others listen. Leaders like Joseph and Daniel influenced entire nations for God. The fact is, we\u2019ve a message of hope others need to hear, but without adequate resources, how will they hear it? (See Romans 10:14\u201317.) If you\u2019ve been settling for less, pray for greater faith and start aiming higher in life. <\/p>\n
(2) Are you afraid of success?<\/i> Perhaps you fear the pressures and the price tag that accompany it. Leadership is lonely; maybe you\u2019d rather be with the crowd. Or maybe you\u2019ve been knocked down and you\u2019re afraid to get up again. When Thomas Edison was asked about his success, he replied, \u2018I start where other men leave off!\u2019 John Foster Dulles, former U.S. Secretary of State said, \u2018The measure of success isn\u2019t whether you\u2019ve a tough problem to deal with, but whether it\u2019s the same problem you had last year.\u2019 Paul wrote, \u2018We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a04:9\u00a0TLB) <\/p>\n
(3) Are you satisfied with the way things are right now?<\/i> If you\u2019re not, accept responsibility for your life and take a step of faith. Ultimately the only one who can stop you from becoming the person God intended you to be\u2014is you! Bottom line: God wants you to succeed.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Think about these questions and answer them honestly. (1) Do you believe you can be successful and spiritual at the same time? Some folks equate poverty with humility and conclude that successful people can\u2019t be humble. Not so. \u2018As long as [Uzziah] sought the Lord, God gave him success.\u2019 Success doesn\u2019t give you the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}