The way we view success and failure will determine how each of them will respond to us. Some people see failure as part of the necessity for becoming successful while others pray and fast for success. I quite agree with an author who said that failure is good and also another speaker who added that the greatest enemy of your today’s success is your yesterday’s accomplishment.
No matter the success or failure you might have had, know that they are only a sign post to where you are going in life. I also believe that life cannot be good to us all the time. Yes, there are times when even wealthy people around us face challenges, which points to the fact that the rich also cry and what makes them still stand tall is the knowledge that it’s all part of life’s process. This is the reason why we need to change the way we think to get unusual results and the power to get the desired result is in how we live our daily lives. Your choice of how to live can make success become failure to you or make failure to become success to you. I remember when I failed some papers in school. While others were seeing it as a total defect, I chose to see it as a great opportunity that others didn’t have, to learn again. With that kind of mind set, you will always live above any challenge that comes your way. There are things you need to put in place to help you live a better life daily. Living a wonderful life either in success or failure only costs you determination that will lead to victory, and to live a victorious life, you have to conquer yourself every day. Some months ago, I came across this amazing book written by the Senior Pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, Taiwo Odukoya, titled 120 Days of Victory. The book is a daily guild that will help you live a better and more focused life. For 120 days, if you can read a chapter daily and use all the Prayer Points, Confessions and Meditations at the end of each chapter, you will be a transformed person from the inside to the outside. Your life will be a wonder. The author used real life stories and some of his personal experiences to drive home his points on each topic. The book is also divided into seventeen parts with four to five chapters that explain the main topic. For example, in one of the parts, we have BLESSING and in it, the author talked about FRUITS OF THE BLESSING, YOU ARE AN HEIR OF THE BLESSING, BLESSED!, THINK BLESSING, and BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING.
The sub-topics are also backed with powerful and insightful Bible scriptures that will help you see God’s promises in different areas of your life. The part that ministered to me was COURAGE and the sub- topic, COURAGE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. I believe that no matter how courageous you are, you will always need new strength for any new assignment you are embarking on.
The author said something about courage that blew my mind. He said, “the truth is, no matter how smart we are, our potentials cannot be fully actualized, and our assignment cannot be fulfilled, without courage… But courage will drive us on regardless, giving us the fortitude needed to surmount these obstacles.”
The Confession and Prayer for Courage for you to achieve your dreams and goals are things that should be on your lips every day. Also the way Odukoya used stories to bring each topic alive shows that the book is not for a particular class of people. 120 Days of Victory is for all, no matter your age or class, you need a copy of this book.
Another part of the book that I enjoyed was the chapters on FAITH. When I read it, my faith grew to 120 degrees (Laughing). The chapter is titled STEP OUT. He said some powerful things in that chapter that will not only make you take a step of faith, but things that will help you hold on to your faith in God.
Taiwo Odukoya said in that chapter that “great works demand great faith, and great faith involves great risks. No one ever achieved their assignment by staying within the confines of their comfort zone”. He also said, “the truth is we cannot accomplish our assignment without bold steps of faith. We cannot live significant lives without taking risks. Some of the greatest empires in the world were built by people willing to venture out on a hunch.”
There are still more inside this awesome book that will help you everyday of your life. I promise you, if you read this book and follow all the confessions, prayers and meditations for four months, your life will be a testimony to people around you and you will start enjoying life at its fullest.
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