Setting vision for successful living

Everyday success wisdom for your daily living. If you were to ask me as I am often asked by many people "What is the most outstanding key to success?" I would say to you it is vision. The challenge I have is that of identifying the number one key between the two top keys that are very closely related, one is vision and two is wisdom. Wisdom gives you vision and vision places a demand for wisdom. So which one is most vital is I am going to succeed? Well I would say get both. 

Like I mentioned above vision and wisdom go together true vision cannot exist without manifesting wisdom and true wisdom will birth vision. Many people go further to say I have a vision but there is nothing happening in my life. The truth is you probably don't have vision you may have some thoughts or ideas but when you have vision it will have you and change your whole life. 

Proverbs 29:18 is true is saying where there is no vision the people perish but he that keep the the law happy is he. There are few things the Bible says will result in death. Sin, lack of knowledge, lack of wisdom, and taking another mans wife. If you look at these carefully you will learn that they are all related. A person with a God given vision will not indulge in the above mentioned. Vision is a guiding tool that helps you stay in the right path, it is a governing structure that brings focus. Vision makes you walk past a million women and go home to your wife, vision makes you make the right decisions about your life. Vision protects you from immorality and greed. 

Vision is a vital component to your success factor. I encourage you to invest greatly into your vision and lay good foundations for where you are going and what you want to accomplish. In fact if you invest more time clarifying vision you will not have to exert so much energy or effort in making it happen. Your biggest step toward success is clarifying vision or what success looks like to you. I define success as the progressive realization of a God-given mandate.  

I have been living successfully ever since I discovered what God wanted me to do. I am progressively fulfilling Gods assignment for my life and it fulfills and satisfies me. When I eventually log out I will do so happily because I have lived a successful life. Set yourself up for success get some wisdom and establish your vision as the central motivation factor in your life. 

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Fruitful Living.

Blog 3 January 2017

Finding ways to win in life is not always easy, particularly in a world that is full of so many pseudo answers and solutions. I have learnt to measure everything I hear or read with what the Bible says. The Bible is my foundation for everything I do and I have never gone wrong. Lets quickly look at how we can produce good fruit in our lives, and this is talking about every area. Success is about producing fruit, bringing results to the table of life. 

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. (Matthew 12:33)

That is Jesus speaking and giving us wisdom on how to produces good fruit. You are either a good tree or a bad tree and you produce fruit based on whichever tree you are. So the focus of my energy should be on being the right person. The first step is being saved and becoming a child of God. That is just the beginning and unfortunately many believers stop there thinking this is all there is. Career fruit, financial fruit, health fruit, good marriage fruit and so on comes as a result of how you are investing into yourself and the kind of person you are becoming.

Yesterday we looked at Proverbs (as a man thinks in his heart so is he...) by influencing my thinking I can manipulate the direction of my life. That means by putting the right information into my spirit I am becoming the right person and the result is I am becoming a producer of good fruit.

My wife and I have in the last 14 years ministered to many couples both pre and post marital ministry. We have noticed the big difference when ministering to couples that have great foundations compared to those that have no foundations. You become a good husband or wife before you get married so that when you do get married you can produce the right fruit. A bad marriage is fruit produced by people that never invested enough time in becoming the husband or wife that was able to produce the right fruit. We find that couples that had more deliberate intense premarital ministry are able to produce happier healthier marriages. This principle applies in every area of life. 

To become wealthy or produce wealth fruit you have to become the wealthy person before the wealth comes. If wealth comes before you become the right person as seen in people that win the lottery, that wealth will disappear. But if you become the right tree wealth will come and if it is stolen then you are not moved as you are able to produce more wealth fruit.

Here are some vital questions to ask yourself

1. What kind of tree am I?

2. What kind of tree should I be?

3. How can I become that tree? Or what investments should I make to become the right tree?

4. Am I determined enough and willing to pay the price for the desired change. 

“And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, 'Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?' And he answered him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'"”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭13:6-9‬ ‭ESV‬‬

As a Pastor I find myself in this similar place where I have to negotiate with the Lord and say give me one more year to work on this person I am sure next year we will have fruit. Let 2017 be a fruitful year for you.

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Love meditating in the Word. Success Coaching: Right Meditations

Success Coaching: Right Meditations: Control your thoughts control you life For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not...

Right Meditations

Control your thoughts control you life

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. (Proverbs 23:7)

Our text today is one that has blessed my life for years and I want to share it with you. Focus on the phrase "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..." My life is the sum total of my thoughts. If I can manage my thoughts I can manage my life. My success factor therefore is determined by my most prevalent thoughts. If I thoughts of defeat and failure then the natural result is failure, if I fill my mind with thoughts of wealth, health, success, and prosperity then the result will be success and prosperity. 

Now we see why God told Joshua in our article yesterday to meditate on the book of the law day and night and not let it depart from his mouth Joshua was to set his heart and mind on the Word of God as the foundation of his success. The principle has not changed. Let me highlight another important point here. Please note the text said "in his heart" not his head. Your heart is the vital ground where we are to sow the Word of God and think thoughts that line up with the Word of God. 

What I fill my heart with will influence my head but if I am careless to listen to junk then my heart will be filled with failure sickness and disease. My primary responsibility as a believer is to fill my heart with the Word of God and my life will change. Wow this is glorious I feel like shouting and running. When my heart is filled with the word of God then my life will be filled with good things. Look at this scripture below.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

Hear is my question to you... what meditations are filling your heart? What is the focus of your heart? Whatever it is, it is seen in what is manifesting in your life. Whatever you are meditating on in your heart is evidenced by the quality of life you are living. We try and get rich and prosperous by getting more academic qualifications (and there is nothing wrong with that) but if this does not change the quality of our thinking there will be no change in the quality of our living. Many believers have been caught in a trap of trying everything else but that which God has given as the solution. Let me show you one more scripture.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. Proverbs 4:20-27 KJV

(I would have put the whole scripture but the article would be long. Read it all and you will be blessed)

This passage is really powerful. Notice life and health (the two things we are all looking for) is not in education nor even in a good job and a good six figure income... it's in the Word.

If we will fill our lives with the word and set out focus in the Word we will have good success. We will get all that life has to offer including good health, a good income, comfortable living etc. notice also the scripture gives you the responsibility to guard your heart diligently because failure to do so will result in you failing. 

Let me close with a little story of my life. When I came into the church world I was very broke and poor I walked every place I went. I carried a big bible with me everywhere I went (I still do) I was taught to say "I hate poverty with a passion" I have said this many times in the past. I noticed however that this did not change my position financially. I discovered later that there was no scripture that said this it was just a phrase coined by well meaning people that were ignorant of the scripture. I discovered that there are many scripture that spoke of loving the Word, loving God, loving wisdom and prosperity. Then it dawned on me. You cannot become prosperous with a negative mindset. Hating poverty is a negative position not a position of faith.

When I began to speak the Word everything began to change. As a man thinks in his heart so is he. Just hating poverty does not remove it. Probably all the people living in the slums hate poverty, they would rather be living in the nicer places but they do not have the tools to get them to move. The key is change the way you are thinking and change your life. Set your mind on the Word and you will see your life changing. 

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Coach Tich

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Planning For Success

Blog 1 JANUARY 2017

Planning for success

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:8 KJV

God gave us a simple formula for success that is followed anyone can succeed in life. Most people I meet desire to succeed in life and are pursuing success in many different ways. Some are ill informed and others are well equipped on knowing both what success looks like and secondly how it can be achieved. The first step I advise you to stop is the definitions corner. Begin by defining what success looks like to you. 

This obviously means having a clear vision or picture of a desired reality. The clear picture gives motivation and focus of the resources that one has in hand. The scripture above encourages you to meditate in the Word of God so that you can have good success. That means having success that does not destroy you or compromise your values. Take time everyday to read and meditate on the word of God as this gives you a clean slate on which to paint. It rewires your brain and mind to see success as the only alternative and then helps you to chart the part that you will then navigate to achieve the desired success.

Joshua had a daunting task ahead of him of taking the Israeli nation into a land that was filled with enemies. Needless to say you are going into a new season a new year a new territory and there will be some enemies that you will have to face. We'll be strong and courageous face then deal with them overcome them and walk into your new season and take territory. If Joshua could succeed by meditating in the Word so can you learn from him. Get yourself spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically ready for this new season.

Let the Word of God be the center of your success and it will be good success. 

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