Success is realizing and completing your divinely ordained purpose in life.

Obviously that's not as easy as it sounds, but Dr. Tony Evans says we're not

intended to make the journey alone. He's already worked and now all you doing is

walking on what's written work out. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and

president of the Urban Alternative. Dr. Evans believes every Christian has the

power and potential to succeed. Today he'll explain with the doorway to success

looks like and how to use the keys God's given you to unlock it. You want to

turn to Joshua chapter one as we join him. Everybody in here I'm sure wants to be

successful. Nobody in here I'm sure wants to be a failure. But before we can talk

about how to be successful we've got to know what success is. For many people

success is having a lot of money. For other people is having a certain position

or certain amount of notoriety. We talk about people being successful because

they become well known as an actor and actress or as a superstar and a sport.

That is accomplishment. It's certainly is accomplishment. But it's not necessarily

success. We've seen people at the top of their game who wind up being failures.

Even though their bank accounts may be full and everybody may know their name.

When we say or when God says success he's talking to Joshua about getting

a promise later. That's what he's talking about. That he promised to God's people

Israel. He says I will make your way successful. But what the success mean to Joshua it

meant him realizing the promises of God to him and to the nation is real. Jesus defines

success very nicely in St. John chapter 17 when he said I have finished the work

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