Title: The Victor's Blessing (Psalm 127:1-5)
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Everyone wants success and victory.
And for success and victory, they run from early in the morning to late in the evening without an eye, nose or wing.
However, even if you work hard and work hard, it is not easy to succeed or win.
No, rather, there are stories of failure and defeat.
It's really unfortunate," says 'Alfred Tennyson'.
"Many fail, one succeeds"
Dear all!
Do you want to be a success or a winner?
Then check the following 4 things.
First, what is success for me? That is, what do you think success is?
This is a question about 'the purpose and goal of life'.
So 'Pastor Rick Warren' in his book 'Purpose Driven Life'
It is said that 'those who glorify God and worship are successful people'.
That's right. Even if we gain a lot, if we don't get the one thing that matters most, we're a failure. On the other hand, even if you get a small thing, if you achieve the most important thing, that person is a successful life.
Those who want to go on a journey of success without an exact direction (goal) will inevitably fail.
Second, how do you succeed?
To his purpose, he must go his worthy way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
To be successful as a scholar, you must focus on your studies without losing sight of it. At the same time, you must also have a proper personality.
To be successful as a businessman, you need to make reasonable investments and practice hard work.
Success cannot come from an improper process.
You have to walk the distance. The only way to win is to stand in the ranks of success.
Third, am I paying the price for success?
That is, are you doing your best every day? is.
No matter how much you have thoughts and intentions, if you don't put all your heart into it, it will be in vain.
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What successful people have in common is that great effort is hidden behind their appearance.
When I heard this, I really thought I was on the diligent side, right?
Is it really that far? Along with that thought, I got the impression that successful pastors were somehow different.
If you expect to be successful while sleeping and having fun, then that person is probably unconscionable.
Finally, are you admitting success?
There is no end to man's desires. If you have 10 million won, you want to have 100 million.
Teacher! How much more money would you be satisfied with?
Then 'Rockfello' said 'A little more. little bit more.'
Everyone! This is the human heart.
A little more with endless greed. little bit more...
However, you must know that you can never enjoy the satisfaction of success with this greed.
Because successful people have the humility to admit success.
Therefore, if you do not know how to be grateful for small successes, you cannot be satisfied with big successes.
So if you look at 'Spurgeon's Prayer of Thanksgiving'
' I thanked God for the candle and gave me moonlight.
I thanked God for the moonlight and gave me sunlight
I thanked God for the sunlight, and the candles, the moonlight, the sunlight
You have given me that bright heaven that I do not need. Amen - Please believe.
Dear all!
Are you a true victor or successor? No Do you want to be a winner and a successor?
Then you should know that there is one thing that must be a prerequisite for all of this.
It must be 'accepted of my limitations and given the ability to overcome situations'
That is, we must have the strength to overcome hardship, failure, disease, and death.
that power! God is grace. God's blessing. It is God's grace.
I hope you believe it.
And you have to confess that you humbly ask for that strength.
because? If God does not give grace, success seems to be successful, but not success.
because of. Because it is a failure.
Therefore, the text teaches how to become a victor (successor).
That's verse 1 first.
“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman keeps watch in vain.”
I beg your pardon? If Jehovah God does not build or protect the house and the city, it will be in vain (failure).
If there is no God... if God does not exist... everything we do is a failure.
do you believe
Dear all!
There is a proverb in our country that says, 'Does the public tower collapse?
In other words, it means that a human ball is not easily destroyed.
Do you think so? no.
I've seen a lot of 'Gongden Tower collapses easily'.
It is the people who ignore God without God and live by people working hard.
This was it.
Among the praise singers I know, there is “Deacon Gu Soon-yeon.”
Her husband is the owner of a small business. This man has a foreign business and amassed a lot of fortune, and everyone envys him as a successful man.
But at first, I went to church diligently, but after a week or two I fell in love with the church.
People were worried and encouraged me to go to church, but every time my husband said, 'Your business is a little
When it expands, I will go to church. I don't have enough time right now'.
Then, one day, the whole family went to the ski resort on Saturday and had work at the company on a Sunday, and while my husband was leaving his family and going to meet a customer, he collided with a car in front of him and died on the spot. Is it enough to live now that he has passed away?
At that time, Goo Soon-yeon said, 'Honey, I can't. It's so sad to go now. Now that I can live, what if I die? I cried.
And now, forgetting everything and glorifying God as a singer-songwriter.
Without God, if only human effort is put in, this kind of result can be achieved.
For a similar example in the Bible, in Luke 12:13-21, the Lord
He tells us through the parable of the rich fool.
A rich man that year produced so abundantly that he built a barn and stocked up grain and goods.
When God said, 'My soul, we have many things to use for many years, let's eat and drink in peace, let's rejoice
'You fool, tonight your soul will be retrieved, and whose will be your preparations? Doesn't the Lord say don't be foolish and rich?
Dear all! Do you want to buy it this way?
Or do you want to live as a true successor, victorious person?
Then, what does the victor look like, the figure of a successful person that God gives grace to?
I find it in 'David'.
He went through countless hardships and trials of death, but he always sought God.
I saved God.
Therefore, in the confession of Psalm 23, he
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
You are with me; you comfort me with your rod and your staff." Amen-
Because David believed that the Lord was with him, he lived the life of a successful and victorious person in any situation.
The same goes for Jacob and Joseph. They too had countless difficulties and pains, but because they believed in God, they were able to live a victorious and successful life.
Do you know what kind of people God gives this life of victory and success?
First, "It is to us who believe"
Victory is not in talent or ability. It is for those who believe in God.
We who believe in Jesus Christ have the victory.
So, in the hymn, "Victory will be mine, Victory will be mine. Victory will be mine through the blood of the Savior."
“Victory is given to those who ask”
That is, victory is given to those who pray. So, above all else, we must pray.
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We think that God is busy putting the universe in order, so we don't want to hear about my trivial problems. If I don't pray, and if I pray for my own needs, God thinks of me as a selfish person, so if I really love God. I don't pray because I put myself at the very end, and I know that everything in the universe belongs to God, but that's just a metaphor, we don't pray because we think that God won't take care of us.'
But that's it.
In Ezekiel 36:37, God knew everything the people of Israel needed during their captivity in Babylon.
Nevertheless, God said, “Thus says the Lord GOD, yet so is the house of Israel.
They must ask me to do it for them.”
I bless you all who believe in this word and save it.
Everyone! Why do you pray?
It's because we think that when we receive something without prayer, we get it by our own efforts or by chance.
However, if we receive something when we pray, we think of it as an answer to prayer.
So we must pray.
Because you can go on the right path and live a successful and victorious life.
That's why George Herbert said, "Prayer is the key of the day and the lock of the night."
That is, when you pray, it becomes the key to unlock the heavenly treasures, but if you do not pray, it becomes a lock and you cannot get anything.
'Jacob' prayed until his hip bone was broken,
Wasn't the 'Syrophonic woman, Canaanite woman' answered by praying while being treated like a dog for her daughter?
The scientist who discovered universal gravitation "Newton" confessed:
“I can see space millions of miles away with my telescope, but putting down the telescope and kneeling in prayer gives me a greater view of the sky and more access to God than with all my telescopes and equipment.”
That's right.
Please believe that our true victory (success) can be seen and obtained through prayer.
Two woodcutters were digging firewood all day.
However, one man cuts firewood all day without rest. And another person works for an hour, takes a ten-minute break, works for an hour, takes a ten-minute break, and works leisurely like this.
And in the evening, when I saw that the two men had been cutting firewood, the one who worked while resting had much more
That's a lot.
Then the woodcutter with the medicine asked. 'What happened? .I never rest
You've cut down trees... You've been chopping down trees, how can you get more than your own firewood?
Then the other woodcutter answers. 'I sharpened my axe'
That's right. No matter how busy you are, you must change the day of prayer.
To be born as a successful person or a victor, you must believe in God, believe in God, and pray.
Now is the time to pray.
I pray with this faith and pray that you will become a victor (success).
See the text?
There is God's blessing to those who pray with this kind of faith.
First of all, 'our toil will not be in vain' in the second half of verse 1.
It is said that there is more income and results than the amount of sweat.
And He will give us "sleep" (peace = shalom) and give us children's corridors in verse 2 and half.
Not only that, but as verse 5 says, we will not be put to shame by our neighbors.
Now, me and you who are living as victors (successful people) by praying with this kind of faith
I sincerely congratulate you on being.
I pray.