Follow instructions on the road to greatness

On the road to greatness

If you’re to make progress

You must follow instructions

And avoid distractions.

Hold on to what you have heard

Do not depart from what He said

Always stand on the word

With the word be well-wedded.

Laugh at the winds of adversity

Laugh at the taunt of penury

Laugh at demonic confrontations

Laugh at enemy oppositions.

If He said it, it must be true

Because He is faithful and true

He’s not a man that He should lie

And so on His word you can rely.

Do not listen to the opinions people

Know very well that people can be fickle

One moment they are with you

In the next moment they are against you

Do not listen to the world around you

Know that they are not for you

And so they will only deceive

And cause you to abort what you have conceived.

Therefore keep making the right confessions

And keep taking the right actions

And your confession will bring manifestation-

Manifestation that will result in your promotion.

⁸     I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.

⁹          Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle,Psalm32:8-9

‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ “

Matt4:4

⁸     This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Josh1:8

¹³        Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; Keep her, for she is your life.

¹⁸        But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

²⁰   My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

²¹   Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;

²²   For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

²³   Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. Prov4:13,18,120-23

Abraham also obeyed God when he was told to take his only son, the son he had waited for twenty-five years and sacrifice. His obedience opened a door for him- a ram caught in the bush which he used in place of Isaac.

¹     Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

²     Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

³     So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

⁴     Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.

⁵     And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you. Gen22:1-4

Abraham departed from his home town, his father’s house, his family to a strange place on God’s instructions and he obeyed and God did not disappoint him.

¹     Now the LORD had said to Abram: ” Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.

²     I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

³     I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

⁴     So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

⁵     Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

Gen12:1-5

Isaac followed instruction to stay put in spite of famine in the land and he obey and was not only blessed with a hundredfold return but made such progress that he waxed great and became very great.

¹     There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

²     Then the LORD appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.

³     Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

⁴     And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

⁵     because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

⁶     So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

¹²   Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.

¹³   The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;

¹⁴   for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.

Gen26:1-6,12-14

Joshua followed instructions and the wall walls of Jericho fell down flat.

¹     Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.

²     And the LORD said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.

³     You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days.

⁴     And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

⁵     It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.”

⁶     Then Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.”

⁷     And he said to the people, “Proceed, and march around the city, and let him who is armed advance before the ark of the LORD.” Josh6

²⁰   So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Jehoshaphat followed God instructions and obtained protection, God’s presence and super-abundant prosperity

¹⁵   And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the LORD to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

¹⁶   Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel.

¹⁷   You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD is with you.”

¹⁸   And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.

¹⁹   Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with voices loud and high.

²⁰   So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”

²¹   And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: ” Praise the LORD, For His mercy endures forever.”

²²   Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.

²³   For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

²⁴   So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.

²⁵   When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, they found among them an abundance of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days gathering the spoil because there was so much.

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