Success Blockers

London weekend and touchpad tax return greed and self-centeredness have led many to really help the Scriptures to avoid a similar fate. What is it that causes people to fail.

The real true calls of their faith with us will want to talk about this message of this is our series entitled success God's way. Were talking about success blockers. What is it that keeps those from succeeding in life and remember that our definition of success is not the accumulation of wealth. All the successful completion of a project, but rather the continuing achievement of becoming the persons that God wants us to be in accomplishing the goals that God has helped us set for a life.

The continuing achievement of becoming the persons God wants us to be and achieving those goals that God is help us to set in our life will turn if you will to Hebrews chapter 12, I was look at a passage and I'm not going to expound this passage.

I just want to look at one primary phrase because what I want to talk about one of these blockers. One of these things that keep us from reaching the goals and life that God would help us to set live in the 12 chapter of Hebrews the first verse says therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us levels also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfected our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, that is set down at the right hand of the throne of God like a business. He talks about the race that is set before God has a plan and a will for every single one of us and he says it is set before us. God is the one who shows as a sense of direction for our life. You don't have to flounder through life wondering what am I here for where my head what is my purpose God is more than willing to show you what is purpose, his will and his plan for your life. It what what we will do in this message is to identify seven blocks those things that absolutely it will hinder you, keep you from accomplishing the goals that God is simply a lie. Keep you from achieving what God desires you to achieve that is to become the person they want you to be an achieve and accomplish those goals he has for you with your homemaker, raising godly children and being a godly wife with you, the president of some cooperation with your secretary, salesman, plumber, preacher, carpenter makes no difference what you do.

God suddenly chooses and is chosen, and what it be God you to do in life that you would do well at it that you would succeed at it that you would reach the goals that he set for your life now. With that in mind.

One of these blockers were the first one is fear.

The first blocker is fear. Fear is that uneasy feeling that alarm that goes off and allied when we feel threatened when we feel suddenly that we are unable are incapable. We lack the ability that is all of a sudden when we feel in adequate something goes off inside of us. One of the primary reasons people do not achieve the goals and got a set for the life one the primary reasons they fail and what they could succeed. That is because they fear they have. I God says in his word not given you the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

So fear does not come from God.

Whatever God calls you and me to do whatever goal he sets before us. We had toward that goal. The promise of his presence. The promise of his power, the promise of his protection. We have everything we need. The promise of his provision. When ever you and I head to the goals that God would have is the set we have the great enabler the Holy Spirit to provide every single thing we need you want to succeed at whatever God told you to do. You must learn to deal with fear and he says not giving you the spirit of fear but a pallet of love and of sound month. That's one of those entangling things on the road of life that you must lay down and walk away from and you walk away from it by focusing your attention when Almighty God and claiming his promise in your head. Second block second block is down is there.

Well, what he mean by that simply this, that is that is that uncertain feeling that you and I have that feeling of of lack of assurance you recall the Scripture says that he that that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek.

I must believe it now.

If I'm validating is what's happening. I'm thinking well maybe I can, but maybe I can maybe I will, maybe I will.

A person who is a downer is very unsteady while James warns us against is looking you in the first chapter of James. You recall he's talking about the wisdom and the praying for wisdom and asking for God's guidance and so forth. And he says you know, if you ask for wisdom then not believe don't doubt, don't be like the waves of the sea blowing back and forth. He said that this is what he said about a person who does that verse six James one, but let him ask in faith without any doubting of the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven by the winds and tossed visitors. Now let not that man expect that he will receive anything we can expect to be unsuccessful of these without being a double minded man that is in these double minded.

He's wishy-washy that you don't expect anything unstable in all his ways. What James is not in one verse is to describe for us the attitude of the person who lives in doubt and a person listen is unsuccessful, unsteady, and emotionally continue being thrown are based not going to succeed when God sets a goal for your life. It gives you a sense of direction God already knows what's this, he already knows every single event is going to take place from the time he gives you that to the bird time that you succeeded that are achieve that he knows all the pitfalls he knows all the narrow places all the ballads you're going through all the dark storms. He knows all about that you know what he has already and will as you move along step by step equip you for the next step is what happens when you and move in the next step that God wants us to take what does he do but each step prepares us for the next step and so what happens is people say well I just don't know what's going to happen and I don't know how no work all this out.

We take one step at a time of their focus upon God, trusting him listen. He said last the block of fear left side the block of doubt. They don't fit who we are. They will block you from succeeding at whatever God is called you to do another third one is that is what I call excuse Ibis is or how you spell that EXT USTR TRS is that the right witticism will not listen. My computer will even tell me how to spell that. So that's my my spelling of excuse Ibis what you mean by that.

Well, what's appendicitis is a problem right well excuse. I this is a problem to someone is visible. How would you define excuse Ibis excuse Ibis is simply the habit of excusing myself are offering an excuse for not doing what God's call me to do or taking that first step to the goal, whatever it might be why go through life excusing ourselves for failure excusing ourselves with things we don't feel like we can do because of fear and doubt oneself image and all the rest.

They listen instead of working so hard coming up another excuse get busy developing the skills or whatever is necessary in order to achieve what God has becomes one of these days.

The thing you don't want to do is to end up in life sing.

If not, if either, just listen back, if Anna just listen. If I just taken the first step you don't end up like that because this over the people in the penlight just like that, they end up having given got all these excuses in their life, having wasted their life excuse I this is absolutely unacceptable eyes of God, and it will affect the person every area of their life. Well, not only is that a block but his mother block that's procrastination now as person who is a procrastinator could give us all kinds of reasons for procrastinating Liz look at the real issue here. When a person is a procrastinator.

What is it, for example, if you should say to somebody enough why did you not do well sometimes. For example, if a person is a perfectionist and I don't mean by perfections that they do everything perfect, but they would like to. They tried to they walked to their driven to get it perfect a person is a perfectionist is what they do. They are absolutely masters of procrastination and they can justify because just what happens then even allows what's going on. A person who is a procrastinator is what I call discomfort dodging discomfort dodging numbers in order to dodge this discomfort. I'm putting off for example, you see procrastination is delaying what all to do today for tomorrow because I'm not comfortable doing it. You know what I have to do as a lay down my feelings every week about a lot of things in life you cannot operate on the basis of comfort or discomfort. You gotta take a step lay aside your fears, live music, listen you. Still, I can't let was, I guess you can he say listen last all those things that entangle you keep you off God's way keep you out of God's will block listen we talk about success.

Berkeley talk with the things that block you from the blessings God has already prepared and set in mind for you in the reasonably come on strong about is because I want you to indefinitely missing in life.

Listen if you miss it in life. It'll be because you chose the missing excuses procrastination and what what what happens with procrastination is what happens some very important decisions.

Don't get me some wonderful opportunities we lose and because other people frustration because their time limits and and time deadlines and what happens if we procrastinate and we don't make the decisions that we ought to make and what happens they suffer as a result, procrastination is a block. All right number five greed what in the world is greed greed is that insatiable hunger craving for more than I need and more than I can use. Greed is an adulterous attitude and here is something that is first for most of gotta have more and more and more of it in order to satisfy something in me which will absolutely never be satisfied under any condition whatsoever. Yet that is exactly what people try to do greedy. Gotta have more pre-doesn't fit who we are as long as you agree to his what you do.

You're saying I'm going to be a success on my own because not God's not going to help.

God is not going to help you take from others and hold it for yourself when, on the other hand, you could be a blessing to other people. That's the kind of person God bless, is the person who's willing to be a giver. Well another roadblock, and certainly greed is one of them and then number six is the violation of our conscience. What we mean by violating our conscience well our consciences alarm system where you call the bail or will you call it the and alarm are with you call it the red light that goes along that is that part of our personality that part of our life that God has given us in order to warn us against danger against something that threatens us, but also to warn us against moral dangers in our life. And so we all have a conscience now cannot really interest God to enable me to succeed in whatever I'm doing. Can I ask him to help me to reach the goals I babysit for my life.

Are you set for your life. At the same time deliberately, willfully violate my conscience that's been program of the word of God know we cannot because you see what I call are: static, that is when you not violate our conscience. Something happens on the inside we know immediately when we violate our conscience.

If your conscience been program by the word of God, they would listen. We violate that it's like something hits our grid and it is. It is absolutely listen absolutely in violation of the principles of God's place for the greater amount we know immediately it doesn't fit who I am. How can I ask God to enable me to succeed in life and to achieve the goals of these headsets in my life. If I'm going deliberately willfully violate his word.

This is why I've spent so much time Tobit setting goals how to reach those goals that God indeed is for our success that he desires for us to be successful and then the come with what may appear to you to be a bunch of negatives that are not negative they're very positive warning that if you reach my goals in life. If Teresa goes that God has enabled me to set it led me to set then I have to deal with all those natural roadblocks that are that these it is natural thing fearfulness down procrastination, greed, all the states in developing anybody's life. When we violate our conscience deliberately and willfully validate a conscience. We surrender our right to ask Almighty God and his sovereign power to enable us equip us and guide us to the success of the goals that he set for life. So what you have is looking like you think you read all these books about setting goals and being a success in all that listen, you don't deal with the principles of Scripture you know there were godly living.

Listen, you may be able to make a lot of money and achieve some things that they'll be no peace, no joy, no contentment, no happiness, no real happiness and certainly no security, no real security cannot biology conscience number seven. Watch this one slothfulness. That's a big word. Slothfulness is a big word for four letter word which is called lazy slothfulness. Look at Proverbs 18 very clear what God says different words in the Bible for slothfulness or laziness verse night. Listen. Verse nine says he also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys these as a person slothfulness. A person who will destroy things 24th chapter. Look in the 24th chapter of Proverbs and the look, if you will, in verse 30 reread several these verses I passed by the feel of a slugger. That's a slothful person and by the venue. The man lacking since the mid-lazy people. Now, and behold it was completely overgrown with thistles, its surface was covered with nettles and stone wall was broken down when I saw I reflected upon it. I looked and received instruction a little sleep, a little slumber, little folding of the hands.

The rest, then your poverty will come as a robber and you want like an armed man is got approval slothfulness know it is not that what we talk about simply this, God has a will the plan. One of our lives. God moves those to succeed in whatever he calls us to do.

God will help us set goals will help us to succeed. What is colors of the evil enable is known for sentiment.

He will enable us to reach those go, there are those things that will block them and we talked about so you have to ask yourself this question, this fear keep me from doing what I know God wants me to do in my life is one of our problems doubt am always making excuses MR procrastinator Dennis out of EMR so greedy is that part of my thinking God violate my conscience and I'm just a busybody, diligent in my work, my friend, listen, God loves you. He wants the best for you and he's willing listen.

Nothing I've mentioned has anything to do with these outward circumstances do not have the awesome promise of the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us to enable us to achieve everything that God has set out for us wise men and women identified as a lick of the path of their life. Any block that keeps them from achieving the goals the good things the best things in life that God has set for them will push them aside and move on. One by one to become the person's God wants them to be and achieve the goals God would have them set. What is the first decision trusting Jesus Christ as your personal savior, asking him to forgive you of your sins, telling him that you're laying your life before him, and that you want to see what God will do in your life once you let your life before him, and if you want those persons who says will I know that I am safe.

What's the next thing.

What is the next decision you should make in order to move forward toward reaching your goal. Is it the Jonah church somewhere where someone is teaching and preaching the word of God isn't the follow the Lord Jesus in baptism. You've been sabertooth, you procrastinated a very very important aspect of the Christian life. What was the next step in your life. I would never ask you to do anything but take the next step.

Whatever God tells you to do you want to succeed. If you want the best that God has for you. Take the next them and take it as soon as possible.

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