Good Success!

Joshua 1:8 (MSG) And don't for a minute let this Book of The Revelation be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then you'll get where you're going; then you'll succeed.
Success consumes much of the mind of the modern man and the modern church. Why? What do we perceive success to be? If we ask anyone I am sure they will say it means making lots of money. Why do we want lots of money? To spend on ourselves? Live indulgently, having a nice car, house with all the trappings?
Deep down is fear the motivator? Is the lack of plenty driving us to get? Fear of being old and living in housing commission homes? Fear of what?
When I was in Art College at CCC Oxford Falls in Sydney NSW in 2004, I was required to paint during student worship services, which were conducted every morning at 8am.
The painting I did one day now still haunts me. Through an open door I could see an abundance of gold and jewels on the floor, yet beyond the pile of loot was a glorious presence. The Lord spoke to me 'don't look at the stuff, look at me.'
Yet in our pain, need and sometimes eagerness will will be distracted. To a hungry person a steak can take a whole lot of attention, yet the giver was requiring all the attention because, like a mirage, looking at the provision we can be deceived, misled, taken off-track.
God has spent so much time teaching me to stay focused on Him and not the stuff. It has taken some doing. It is as if the stuff will not come to birth unless I give all my focus to the provider. I have seen many miscarriages, that helps one to stay focused. I feel like the squirrel in the Ice Age movies, never actually enjoying the pine cone, always having it snatched away, until......
Yesterday the Lord actually revealed Himself to me is such a way I knew He was sooooo interested in my life and how He longs to provide for me. I was in the Post Office and had to pay for some postage, I had chosen the packages, written on them and was at the counter when it hit me, the PO has a minimum spend on eftpos and many a time I would buy unwanted stamps to beef up my spend. Yesterday I had exactly all I needed right down to the last cent and no more as cash.
You might say phooey to that but this is the latest in a stream of minute detail the Lord is revealing to me. I have a bill coming up and He made sure that the exact amount I would need would be in my account. A friend owed me some money and she called, at just the right time and said 'it is in the bank.'
I now know that I know My God loves me and is vitally interested in my finance, but there is more. He is there with my health with just the right answer just when I need Him. My future He is plotting and planning for me. He doesn't sleep, just so I can. He is busily working things out for me. He goes before me all the time, all the while. He loves me, indeed!!!! Amen!!!!

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