“Secrets of success,” it says on the front cover of the Franchise New Zealand magazine Summer 2017, and I am immediately interested.

And who does not want to be successful? The article deals with the question how to choose a quality franchise, how to choose a good franchise.

I notice that the words “success” and “successful” occur quite often in the above mentioned magazine.

SUCCESS

But that is not the only place where we read about success; there are many more.

In fact you find quite a number of posts on success on this blog.

THE BIBLE TELLS US ALSO HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

We must be obedient to what the BIBLE says.

• We must not turn from the Bible to the right or to the left.
• The Bible must not depart from our mouth.
• We must meditate on the Bible day and night.

You find that in the book of Joshua 1:7,8. (Read also First Chronicles 22:13)

The founder of the Salvation Army was once asked for the secret of his success, and this is what he said:

“I WILL TELL YOU THE SECRET. GOD HAS HAD ALL THERE WAS OF ME. THERE HAVE BEEN MEN WITH GREATER BRAINS THAN I, MEN WITH GREATER OPPORTUNITIES. BUT FROM THE DAY I GOT THE POOR OF LONDON ON MY HEART AND CAUGHT A VISION OF ALL JESUS CHRIST COULD DO WITH THEM, ON THAT DAY I MADE UP MY MIND THAT GOD WOULD HAVE ALL THERE IS OF WILLIAM BOOTH. AND IF THERE IS ANYTHING OF POWER IN THE SALVATION ARMY TODAY, IT IS BECAUSE GOD HAS HAD ALL THE ADORATION OF MY HEART, ALL THE POWER OF MY WILL, AND ALL THE INFLUENCE OF MY LIFE.”