Faith Community Podcast Amos Johnson Jr, PhD

On a regular basis, most of us face the "success dilemma," which involves choosing between following our calling from God or doing something else "we think" will make more money. I know I do. However, this success dilemma is a trick of Satan to get us out of the will of God. But the truth is, if we simply stick to our calling, we will be in God's will and achieve financial success.

A major problem many people need to overcome is "success depression." Success depression occurs when someone feels depressed until they achieve a goal in their calling. Once the goal is attained, they are happy again. However, the real problem is that this happiness is short-lived. This is because they immediately set another goal, and the "success depression" roller coaster starts all over again. Obviously, this is not sustainable. If this feeling sounds familiar, then listen closely and let's examine the Word of God to find the solution to get off the emotional roller coaster of success depression.

The Kingdom of God is God’s way of doing things. In the Kingdom, there’s a way to approach marriage, and the Kingdom way of marriage is straightforward and simple. If we follow God’s blueprint for marriage, we will have a healthy and successful marriage. Creating our own version of marriage will lead to frustration and confusion. Therefore, let’s discover the Kingdom blueprint for marriage.

The success you desire to create through your endeavors is created with words of faith. Yes we need to put in work, but success created God’s way starts with words.

I have been guilty of this many times. Here is the story: God gives me an idea. I start implementing it, and then I run into some challenges. At this point, I throw up my hands and say, “God is going to work it out.” However, it crashes and burns. Did God let me down? No. The problem is that “God is going to work it out” is not a strategy for success. God needs us to plan.

We hear many stories of successful non-Christian businesspeople in the news, and every now and then, we hear about a few Christians who have achieved success in business. Why does it seem like secular people are more successful in business than Christians? Well, the reason is that they have fully committed to their worldly system of success, whereas many Christians in business are wishy-washy. They try to do business God's way mixed with worldly principles, which is a recipe for frustration and failure.