Keys to success...Prayer

Keys to success...Prayer

Is it really okay to pray for success? Yes! If you aren't praying for success, what's the alternative? Are you going to pray for God to make you a failure? No. The bible says to take all things before God because you want to make sure you stay in his will and not your own.

Eliezer (Gen 24:12) clearly shows us that it is okay to ask God for success in accomplishing a goal as long as the motive is right. When your success helps people and honors God, praying for success does not become a selfish act.

Are you praying about your goals? Are you praying about your future? Are you praying about your dreams or are you just kind of keeping them to yourself?

Your prayers reveal a couple of things. First, they reveal how serious you are about your goals. If you don't pray about them, you really don't care about them that much. If you only pray about them once, they are not a desire, they are just a whim.

The other thing your prayers reveal is how much you are depending on God to reach your goals. If you never pray about your goals, never pray about your job, never pray about your finances, never pray about your marriage, you are not depending on God in any of those areas. The more you depend on God, the more you'll pray about that area to him.

Today, those areas that are not going well in your life, pray and ask God how does he want you to address them, and those area going well pray and ask God how to continue giving him the glory in them.