HARD WORK

If you really desire success, you must work hard for it. Success does not fall on people’s laps. It is not obtained on a platter of gold. You have to work your way through to it.

If you look at people who are lazy and idle, you easily see on them that they are not ever going to make any success. They are such failures. The requirement for failure is laziness and idleness.

Ecclesiastes 10:18 says: "By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through"

You cannot be successful in any area of life if you are not hard working. It is one other factor of great significance. You need to be diligent in business, at school, in ministry, if you must be a success. The Bible says in Proverbs 22:29,

"Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men"

That is God’s formula for success - diligence. He said if you do not want to fail (stand before mean men, men of no repute, men of no substance), be diligent in your work. Work hard and you will not keep company with those strugglers at the base of the ladder. You will be up there with kings.

You must know that the more you apply yourself to hard work, the better you become. Consider the example of sportsmen. The more they train, the better they perform. Why do you think they are called into camping before major outings? It is to perfect their diligence, to prepare them for the task. And you see more likely than not, they always come out stronger, better and more experienced.

Your hard work will expose you. It brings out certain potentials that have been latent. It will bring such into dynamic manifestation and you will begin to discover that you are worth more than what meets the eyes. You can make it! You can be better than you are. You can be more successful. You can be more prosperous. You have no limit in God.

All you need now is all that is outlined to you WISDOM, DISCIPLINE and HARD WORK. These three will cause an explosion in your life for good. You will easily see the bright and wider horizon. As you move in one direction the horizon will get broader. You can exercise yourself more. You can get more than what you have now. You can be much better.

Note that it is not your efforts primarily that guarantee your success. Remember that it is not by power nor by might but by the Spirit of the Lord. The Bible says the horse is prepared for war but the victory is the Lord’s. Except the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain that build it. So you only fulfill your own part and God produces the results. But He will not produce it until He sees you actively involved.

You must meet His requirements for promotion. Promotion (success) does not come from any human source, it is from above.

"For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south; but God is the Judge. He putteth up one and setteth down another"
Psalm 75:6-7

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning"
James 1:17

Success is a good thing. It is from above. It comes from God, not primarily from your efforts. But when you put in your efforts, He will bless it and make it successful. He said anything you do will be successful (Psalms 1:3). Even in the great book of blessings of Abraham, Deuteronomy 28:1-15, He still said, it is what you do that He will bless. In the field, in the storehouse because you are busy there! He said if anybody will not work he should not eat. That is to say, no success without diligence.

Don’t be lazy, if you really want to succeed in life. Go out there and do something. Be guided by wisdom, apply yourself through discipline and get out there to do it diligently. With this, your success is guaranteed.

God wants your success. He desires it. It is yours to decide. He has made all the provisions. You just need the conscious exercise of your will to get into it and stay in it.

Start today. Do it now. Decide against failure. Choose success and follow it through. It may not look an easy thing to do, but start. Somebody said, "it is better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."

DO IT NOW. Take a bold step towards success and your life will begin to be meaningful to you. DO IT NOW and SUCCEED!