This column deals with the biblical principles needed to obtain freedom from financial bondage.

FAILURES ARE PART OF SUCCESS. Be truly successful at building true wealth in your personal, business, and ministry endeavors by always making God’s will and support of His great commission your top priority. Yet failures will occur and your effort is not in vain if you stay focused and persevere. Everyone suffers earthly failures on their road to building greater wealth in the things they do. However, some people are looked at as successful on earth when they’re really failures in eternity and vice versa. The difference lies in whether or not the person assigns all the glory to God for profits, revenues, income, assets, services, and products and whether or not he faithfully and consistently tithes and gives offerings for the gospel to reach the whole earth. When you fail to act upon and communicate this belief in your work and personal time you are not successful in God’s eyes, no matter how famous or powerful you become on earth. Many steps to success are called failures on earth, but these situations are used by the Master to strengthen us, build our endurance, and give us wisdom to make good choices down the road. When you are about your Father’s business, He doesn’t count previous wrong circumstances as failures when you long to do His will and support His work throughout the future. He counts them as steps in your progression that will mature you to handle more responsibility in His kingdom. May God bless you richly as you follow His plan!!! Deuteronomy 8:17, Judges 7:2-7, Luke 12:16-21, Acts 7:39-41, James 5:1-11

Randy E. Parlor is the author of “Common Sense: Receiving God’s Financial Promises.”