04- 15- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (Genesis 39:20- 23)
GOD’S MERCY AND GRACE THAT LEADS TO JOSEPH’S SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY
20- “And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. 21- But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22- And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. 23- The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.”
Here are some of the best ideas and words of wisdom from people who experienced success in life. This was taken from the book of Wynn Davis, The Best of Success (A Treasury of Success Ideas). “Success means doing the best we can with what we have, success is the doing, not the getting- in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard- reaching for the highest that is in us- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are success.”
Zig Ziglar; “Success is the Maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
H. G. Wells; “The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the hand, and the thing we have made and the thing we have made of ourselves on the other.”
Michael Korda; “Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement…”
Mack R. Douglas; “When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.”
Abraham Lincoln; “I do the very best I know how- the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
Colonel Harland Sanders; “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it, I know.”
No one can refute the Word of God from the Book of (Romans 8:31; 37) 31- “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 37- Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” The words of Apostle Paul should serve as an encouragement to all of us that God is in control and we can conquer… by His grace and mercy.
