06/04/2026
A Word In Time
Monday 25th August 2025
Topic:
The greatest speech ever made
Text:
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(Joshua 1: 8).
This is another day that the Lord has made, and I declare to you that may the positive steps you take this week make you successfully and may delays, detours, and defeats be a thing of the past in your life henceforth in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who gave the greatest speech you've ever heard? Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, or Barrack Obama? What was the speech about? In what way did the speech facilitate your success? In our scriptural text, God gave what I consider as one of the greatest speeches in history to Joshua, and that speech centred on the words SUCCESS AND PROSPERING, two things that everyone desperately wants to have.
If you checked both online and offline publishing platforms and book stores(Amazon, Lulu, Selar, and others), you will find that thousands of books have been written on how to be successful. Everyone wants to know the secret of success. The good news is that the secret of success is not a secret as such. In Joshua 1: 8, God got specific and divulged the all-time secret of success because He wants everyone of His children to become successful. However, the particular kind of success He wants for us is "good success," which is holistic and ultimately lasts.
The late nineteenth century Scottish preacher George MacDonald once said in a sermon, "In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably - or succeed more miserably." Do you know why that statement is true? The answer is simply this: without God, all supposed success merely ends in futility and utter failure. It's why you hear of seemingly successful people who later end up in bankruptcy, alcoholism, drug addiction, and even as su***de cases.
When people think of success, what mostly comes to their mind is this: power, position, prestige, and possessions only. But did you know that God's perspective of success is different? In God's eyes, success means to do what is right, and how would you know what is right and wrong except you are familiar with what is contained in God's wisdom bank - the Bible. That's why God tells Joshua, and by extension, every one of us that if we desire success, then we must take His word seriously, because success automatically follows everyone who learns to tap from God's wisdom bank (Ecclesiastes 10: 10). Have a fruitful week 🙏
Has this post added value to you? Then like, comment, share and follow this pofile/page for more inspirational contents. Would you like to participate in our International Bible Certification courses? Enrolment for the September edition is ongoing. For enquires about the programme, check comments.
,