Principles to Guarantee Success In The New Year! Joshua 1:8

Joshua 1:8 - 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.

1 Peter 1:6 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8  Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

I. Care To Ask God’s Thoughts

1. Pray for Instruction.

Psalms 25:4 - Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

Job 33:16 - Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 17 That he may withdraw man from his (Their own) purpose, and hide pride from man. 18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Proverbs 4:13 - Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Proverbs 5:23 - He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Proverbs 8:10 - Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 13:18 - Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

II Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2. Pray for Illumination.

Psalms 118:27 - God is the LORD, which hath showed us light:

2 Samuel 22:29 - For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

Psalms 13:3 - Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Psalms 34:5 - They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Psalms 112:1 - Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. …4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Psalms 19:7 - The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Psalms 119:18 - Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Psalms 119:130 - The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Psalms 119:98 - Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

Ephesians 1:18 - The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Acts 26:18 - To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

3. Pray for Intervention.

Isaiah 45:2 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Job 5:19 - He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

Jeremiah 1:19 - And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

God proved this in the life of Daniel the man of Prayer!

Daniel 6:16 - Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

Daniel 6:20 - And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? 21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. 22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

Psalms 50:15 - And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.