Success Strategies That Work!نموونە

The Bible is filled with strategies for success. If you will be diligent to read the word and obey (do as it says), success is inevitable. ⠀

Be Fruitful and Multiply

The Garden of Eden was perfect; everything Adam and Eve needed (for life and godliness) was already provided, even before they got there. To say that success had already been prepared for them is somewhat of a very obvious statement. They simply needed to arrive, live there, and fellowship with God and each other. Bingo! 😄

But God had other plans. He placed them in the midst of abundance, and even though by human standards, they didn’t really need anything else, God gave them a mandate—a mandate for success. 

It was simply this: 

🔥be fruitful, ⠀

🔥multiply, ⠀

🔥fill the earth, ⠀

🔥subdue it, and ⠀

🔥dominate⠀

In other words, God was telling them this: 

“I have created this awesome place for you which contains everything that you’d ever need, but you have to work it to keep it, you have to nurture it to maintain it, you literally have to work at keeping this garden as beautiful as you find it. And you do that by following the five-step mandate that I have given you.” 

While they were in this beautiful place, it was clear that the success of the moment was for the moment, and work was required beyond that moment to sustain it.

God gave them:

• a strategy;
• the perfect foundation;
• the recipe for success (to build upon that foundation); and 
• the responsibility of ensuring that the garden (their environment) remained as luscious as the day He gave it to them. 

This strategy was not just for Adam and Eve, but for all of mankind. 

You see everything that God created and set in place IS perfect, that includes you and I; however, you have been mandated to own, to nurture, to grow, to multiply, to take responsibility for all that God has given you . . . and all of this is done when we are aligned with God, when we trust Him, and when we walk step by step with God. 

Adam & Eve’s subsequent behavior, driven by the desires of the flesh, disobedience, and the persuasion of the enemy, exiled them from their place of security, success, and abundance, and they could no longer walk step by step with God as they did before. But God has restored us by His Son Jesus Christ, and now the choice is ours to take responsibility for the mandate that God has given us and to choose once again to walk with God in fulfilling that mandate. 

Everything you need God has already given to you. It is your responsibility to pick up that mandate and work it, to run to God with it, and then to walk with Him as He reveals to you how you will nurture and maintain the success that He desires for you. 

Question:

1. In what areas have you been fruitful?
2. What does it mean to multiply? What things can you work on multiplying today for the glory of God?
3. How does the mandate to fill the earth apply to you? What are you filling the earth (your surroundings) with right now?
4. Are you subduing the earth? What things can you take charge of right now by the power of the Holy Spirit?
5. Dominate. Ponder on this and consider ways that you can fulfill the mandate to dominate. 

Prayer:

Almighty Father, thank you that everything you created including my very self is perfect and fit for purpose. Help me to understand my calling and to be responsible for that which you have given me. Help me to grow. Help me and teach me by the power of the Holy Spirit how I can be fruitful, how to multiply, how to replenish the earth, and how to subdue and dominate. In Jesus's name. Amen.