Charles Capps - Success motivation through the Word

Contents

Introduction

The power source of life is the Word of God. It is your responsibility to keep your heart with all diligence for out of it proceed the forces of life. God's Word is truly life to those that find it. He has shared His wisdom with us and that wisdom is a tree of life to those that lay hold on it.

Many lose their values of life as they climb the ladder of success. God is always interested in your success in life. But He is not interested in your losing health and family to become rich.

God's Word will motivate you to a positive and successful life. When you prosper through God's Word, you are prospering in a way that will work an eternal value in you. The wisdom of God is the Word of God. The Word of God is that tree of life that produces riches, honor, pleasantness, and peace.

There is only one way to achieve true success, and that is through the Word of God. The image that God's Word builds inside you can become the most powerful force in your life. That image will cause you to succeed when others fail.

The teaching in this book is based on principles instead of formulas. Read it carefully.

Gods Will Is Your Prosperity

Many books have been written on the subject of positive thinking and success, but most of them deal only with the mental realm and lack a spiritual tie-in.

A little power exists in the mental realm and it can change you to some extent; but it takes more than mental assent or a mechanical action for you to prosper abundantly in all areas of your life.

God's Word is spiritual motivation to the human spirit. It will build an image within you and bring you success in every area of your lifefinancially, spiritually, physically, and socially. These spiritual truths from the Word of God can change your life.

Diligence in Gods System

God said through His prophet Hosea, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hos. 4:6). In Luke 16:8, Jesus said, The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. This is true, but it ought not be. The children of the world should not be wiser than the children of light!

The children of the world have been diligent to find out how the world's system operates. Then they operate the system. The world's system is plain: "Grab and hold! Whatever you get, keep!" Work day and night. Seek for riches. Give yourself totally to your work.

God's system is exactly opposite. Give, and it shall be given (Luke 6:38).... he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully (2 Cor. 9:6). My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (P hil . 4:19).... godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come (1 Tim. 4:8).

Godly men and women can and will prosper as they become diligent in God's system. If you have been obedient to give, then you should be expecting to receive a better job, a raise, or new direction in business.

Down through the years, many Christians have somehow decided that it is not God's will for them to prosper on earth. They all believe it will be wonderful when they get to heaven. But we must deal with the "here and now." God's Word gives us the wisdom for prosperity.

To be truly motivated to success, we first must know that it is Gods will for us to prosper!

Your Soul Must Prosper

God told Adam to have dominion over the earth. From the beginning it was God's intention for man to prosper. Third John 2 says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soulprospereth .

The word wish in this verse in the literal Greek can be translated "pray," so we could read it this way: Beloved, I (pray) above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth .

One of the problems in the Body of Christ is that their souls are not prospering. The soul of man is the inner link that connects the spirit with the body. The soul and the spirit of man are not the same, though for years many thought they were. The Bible divides the two.

So often we hear this statement: "He has lost his soul." We think of the soul as being the spirit, but the Scriptures tell us differently.

Man is a spirit; he has a soul; and he lives in a body. The soul of man is composed of the mind, the will, and the emotions. It is the guidance system for the natural man.

Man is a spirit being, having been breathed out of God. In the beginning, God breathed His spirit life into Adam. That spirit life became the human spirit which operates beyond the intellect in the higher realmthe spiritual realm.

The gifts of the Spirit come out of the spiritual realm.

The spirit of a man can receive revelation before his intellect becomes involved. Quite often, I have known something in my spirit, but was unable to put it into words. It was real and strong in my spirit before my intellect could grasp it. Some of the things I am sharing in this book became a reality in my spirit several years ago; but it took time for that to be transferred from my spirit to my intellect in order for me to be able to share it with others.

The Apostle John received many things by revelation into his spirit. He wrote: Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).

He didn't say, "Maybe you'll overcome one of these days." He said, "You have already overcome because the Greater One is inside you!" This revelation was transferred from God's Spirit to John's human spirit.

John said you should prosper, even as your soul prospers. Your soul must embrace prosperity. A prosperous soul will produce a prosperous image inside you.

In the fifth chapter of John's Gospel, Jesus approached a crippled man at the pool of Bethesda and said to him, Wilt thou be made whole? (v. 6).

That seems a strange thing to say to a man who is crippled. The man had been lying there for years waiting for the "troubling of the water" so he could go down into the water and be healed. He wanted to be healed, but Jesus asked him, "Will you be made whole?"

The first thing the man did was to begin talking about his problem: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me (v. 7).

Jesus was trying to get him to speak his faith, but the man zeroed in on the problem instead.

A Desire To Prosper

Do you have a will to prosper? Before you can obtain true prosperity, there must be a desire within you.

Proverbs 13:12 says, When desire cometh, it is a tree of life. This verse can be interpreted two ways:

1. When the thing you desire comes, it is the tree of life.

2. When desire is in you, it is a tree of life.

I believe the second is the correct interpretation. In other words the thing you desire is the thing you will pray and the thing you will say. You will speak in line with your desire and faith comes by hearing. (Rom. 10:17.)

Jesus said, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:24). He said believe you receive the things you desire, not the things you already have.

If your soul is not prospering, you will have a bad imagean image of failure and defeat or sickness.

Several years ago, I was having problems both financially and physically. Because I had an image of failure inside me, I saw everything I did as a failure. I often said, "It doesn't make any difference what I do. Nothing will work out anyway." I was disgusted with life because of a bad business deal.

I had "put out a fleece" before God as Gideon had done. It worked for Gideon; but when I did it, I really got fleeced!