The Success of Your Life Is In Your Hands

What is success? Success is about achieving the purpose of God for your life. It is about achieving your goals, which bring true satisfaction in your life. It is not only about money or riches. These may be part of it. Money is a tool to achieve what we are called to do in life. So our success is accomplished when we are rightly positioned with God.

Romans 12:1-2 says, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

The Apostle is speaking to the Romans. He shows them the right way of worshiping God. It is in worshiping God that our lives become a success. He points out two things from the portion of scripture we read above:

1) Present your body as a living sacrifice

2) Be transformed by the renewing of your mind

Presenting your body for the service to God can only be done by you. God demands holiness for the simple reason that He is holy. He wants you to be a pure vessel for His use. He wants to dish out the holy stuff of His kingdom to the world. His power flows easily through a holy vessel. Just imagine a water pipe supplying water being blocked with dirt, the water will not flow easily. The dirt has to be removed for easy flow.

On the other hand, presenting your body to the Lord is making yourself available to God. One day the Lord appeared to Isaiah before he became a prophet. He saw himself unclean. The Lord dealt with him. He cleansed him and the Isaiah heard the saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me."(Isaiah 6:8).

This happened after Isaiah had seen and acknowledged his condition spiritually.

I hear the Lord today asking the same question, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Present your body to God as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. Minister the Word of God wherever you are right now. Do that in your home, neighborhood, place of work, wherever you find yourself in. Then you shall see the flow of God's power in and through your life.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. When you got born again, your soul or mind was not changed. It is your spirit that was completely changed forever. In order to be in line with God's will, you must be changed. How? By the renewing of your mind. What can renew your mind? It is only the Word of God. The Bible says in John 6:63, "It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life." It is the words of God that give life. They are spirit. They can change the way you think.

Some of us lived an unsaved life for some time. Ungodly words spoken to us and negative things we heard affected our way of thinking. We did not believe in God. So, in order to uproot and destroy all that junk from our lives, we need the Word of God. We are what dominate our thought life. Proverbs 23:7 says, "For as he thinketh within himself, so is he..."

Once your mind has been renewed in the Word of God, you will prove the perfect will of God. You will know what God wants done at the right time. Your life will be properly ordered. Your life will become a success. You will also affect other lives. You do not live only for yourself. You are special and you have something to offer to this world. If you do not do it now, who will? You are not like others. No one can fully replace you. So rise up and be counted for the Lord. You are blessed in Jesus Name.