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Human beings, created by God, were created with infinite potential and possibilities before sinning.
That is why Adam named all the creatures God created in Genesis 2:19.
Before Adam sinned, he named all kinds of wild beasts and living creatures with the knowledge God gave them, but the moment they ate of the forbidden fruit that God commanded, Adam and Eve realized their sin and limitations and hid under the tree to hide their sins and transgressions. was to hide it with leaves.
▣ In this way, the devil took away the peace and true freedom of life that God gave to all human beings through the tree of knowledge in Eden, and closed the door of success while living a limited life.
Adam and Eve, who could not control the desires of sin, had to eat the forbidden fruit by the devil, so they not only lost the joy and peace that God had given them, but also had a limited life.
Humans were originally created to live with God and receive the grace and peace that God gives them, but in the end, as a result of not being able to control the greed hidden in their hearts, they encountered various hardships and limited limitations in their lives. .
} People say “impossible” when they talk about these limitations in their lives.
However, Jesus, whom God sent to help mankind, transcends time and space, transcends material and environment, transcends poverty and disease, transcends time and space in order to save people suffering from the huge barrier of impossibility, and to judge the devil. Because He transcended life, we confess that God is omnipotent.
Because God sent His Son into the world with the power and power to make the impossible possible, everyone who believes in Him and receives Him not only becomes a child of God, but also
} In Hebrews 11:1 and below, it is said that nothing is impossible for those who believe in Jesus.
God has given us the name of his only-begotten Son so that we, who are sinners, can become people of faith. If we ask God in faith after teaching us to pray, we will cross the great mountains of hardship, a wall that cannot be crossed, and the Red Sea that cannot be rescued. He said that he would do it and give him victory.
As such, God is very good to those who have received Jesus as their Savior if they ask for anything by faith, as in the words of this text.
Jacob, who received the name of Israel from God, trickedly seized the blessing of his father Isaac for the goal of success in his life, but God is a very good person who does not hesitate to help those who struggle for success like Jacob. .
▣ After God sent the Word and Son into the world to restore all the power that mankind lost to the devil, He said that there would be no impossible in the lives of those who accepted the Son and obeyed God's Word.
Matthew 9:23- “If it is possible, what do you mean? Nothing is impossible for those who believe.”
But the world we live in is a place where “the powers of Hades” work, which we neither want nor have enough.
▣ Even though most people make many plans for the future and live with great hopes, the dreams and hopes that people dream are so few that we cannot get hold of them.
Satan, who disobeyed God from heaven, was cast down into the world and blinded people's hearts in every way to disobey God, working with envy, hatred, and strife, not only causing people to stumble in limited things, but also , because they are working strongly to take away the wishes of the heart and close the door of hope for the future through the hardships of the present.
▣ However, Paul confessed that I can do everything through the one who gave me strength, and Joseph, the man of dreams, also faced hardships, but he became a success because he did not give up hope until the end and sought God's help.
Just as Joseph lived a successful life because he was with God, we can surely overcome the present hardships and succeed if God is with us.
1. To become a successful person, you must first change your thinking.
Romans 8:6- “The mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.”
Among the things we need to change after being born again, the first thing we need to change is to change our own thoughts.
In the past, before we were born again as children of God, we had thoughts and plans only for the flesh.
We should focus on the thoughts of the soul rather than the thoughts of the body.
▣ Thought is one of the conditions that create behavior and language, so those who dream of success should not cling to physical thoughts, but spiritual thoughts first.
“Think first for the kingdom and its righteousness.” This is an idea that can get God's help.
} The reason why we should put spiritual things first is recorded in verse 16, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, so that you may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may abid. that whatever you ask the Father in the name of it, he may give it to you.” (Because the Lord has called us, we have to think about spiritual things first.)
It is often thought that I chose Christianity among many religions, and I chose God among many gods, but in the text Jesus says that He chose us first.
This does not mean that “only the elect are saved.” He says that all mankind was predestined by God's grace.
It means that human beings were created as beings who live while thinking of God, and who must receive God's help for their own souls.
A person's thoughts are infinite, so he dreams of the fruit of success after clearly transcending the limit of the impossible in his life with the thought itself, but the reality is clearly different from the thought.
So, in the text, Jesus said that if you had the spiritual belief and thought that you abide in me and that my words abide in you, and you have given up your old and decaying heart, now you can overcome the impossible in your life and succeed with God's help. It is to practice a life of prayer.
2. We must live by wisely using the authority God has given us for success.
One of the things God hates the most is a life in which the world negatively acknowledges one's limitations while criticizing oneself and one's life.
I can't! I can't! Our house, our church can't! This pessimistic and negative thought is a common thought of those who do not know God, but as Paul confessed, Philippians 4:13 'I can do anything through Him who strengthens me.' do.
In Exodus 1, when Moses and the people of Israel were afraid because of the Egyptian army in front of the Red Sea after the Exodus, “God, take up your staff, and stretch out your hand toward the sea.” He commands.
Then the sea parted, and Israel crossed the parted sea, and the Egyptian army was drowned in the sea. The staff Moses held is the authority given by God.
You and I have the “Jesus name”, a greater authority than the staff that can remove the impossible in life. Because this authority is the authority that even the demons know, God’s children must live by using this authority wisely and effectively in their lives. .(Mat 8 Gerasa demon, son of God)
To say that God's children living in a world that God overcame through His Son every day, hard, difficult, is like denying what Jesus did on this earth.
Believe that God has already given you the power to overcome the powers of Hades through His Son, and I hope you will live a successful life as you always ask for what you want in the name of Jesus.
3. You must change your language for a successful life.
A person's language is the outward expression of a person's thoughts and inner figure.
In Numbers 14, God is righteous who works according to our language.
If you say negativity, it works in negativity, and if you say positivity, God works in positivity.
▣ Because the believer's faith is to get out of the negative world and live in the positive world, the language used in the state of death due to various sins and transgressions in the past cannot be a virtue for one's life.
During the time of Hezekiah, who served as the 13th king of Israel for 29 years.
King Sennacherib of Assyria, through his servant Rabshakeh, slanders Israel and King Hezekiah.
Then Sennacherib delivered the document of surrender to Hezekiah. Hezekiah took the document and went into the temple of God and showed it to God, praying. The angel of God struck down and killed 185,000 Assyrian troops. Sennacherib, king of Assyria and his servant Rabshakeh, Sennacherib was brutally murdered by his servants. (Sennacherib, king of Assyria, is killed by his son.)
In 2 Chronicles 32, not only Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, was put to death in return for ignoring God and speaking insults, but also in Numbers 16, in the days of Moses, the descendants of Korah, who interrupted God’s servants and work with complaints and grudges, were left alive. They are sucked into the ground and destroyed.
As such, human language is like a wild horse that is difficult to tame, but if we tame it in a positive language that is pleasing to God in the Lord, the highway of Zion will be opened in our lives, and we will be able to live a successful life.
Everyone wants to succeed in their only one life, but the management of life is in God's hands.
For all of us to succeed in the Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus with thoughts pleasing to God, and I pray that you will give grace to people and God with positive words.