If the Foundation Be Destroyed

By Pastor O.O Abel 

Kings-1 5:17
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

Psalm 11:3 King James Version (KJV)
" If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"

Definition of foundation:
 The lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level
This is synonymous to the plan you have for your life at the beginning of a year,your goals and objective.

WHEN A FOUNDATION IS FAULTY 
 Sinking and finally destroyed.
Meaning if you fail to plan this year you have successfully plan to fail in this year.
This will not be your potion in Jesus name.


PEOPLE WHO ONCE FAILED BUT EVENTUALLY SUCCEEDED. 

According to Bloomberg, entrepreneurs who fail find more success the second time around. The research found that the experience entrepreneurs gain from business ventures, even if they result in failure, is invaluable as a stepping stone to future success. That's good news for any entrepreneur whose business crashed and burned.
1. Believe in your vision says Bill Gate who was college drop out
In an excerpt from when he first introduced the Windows platform to the world, Gates tells entrepreneurs to believe in your vision. He stresses that, to be successful as an entrepreneur, you have to have a sense of vision that far surpasses your present status quo. Even if you do not have a plan as to how you are going to make your vision work, you must always keep it in mind if you are going to reach your goals.
Like many other successful tech entrepreneurs, Gates was a college dropout. He left Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft.
Gates' net worth is $110 billion. Now
2. Thomas Alva Edison When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." "Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy." Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7.


YOU WILL MAINTAIN THE POSITION YOU ARE NOW IF YOU DON'T BRING A CHANGE. 
Doing things the way you have been doing it in the past will never yield a new result , if you really need a new result you must introduce a change (change is what most people hate) then new result will come up.


MAINTAINING YOUR SUCCESS OR MAINTAINING THE POVERTY ALL DEPENDS ON YOU.
The only way to maintain poverty is to keep ignoring the opportunities around you as well as the importance of success.
  MAINTAINING SUCCESS IN YOUR BUSINESS.
Strategy 1: Planning
Strategy 2: Customer Service
Strategy 3: Don't be Afraid of Risk
Strategy 4: Retain a Competitive Edge .To gain and keep customers, you need to provide a product or service that is better than anyone else has. It is always important to keep an edge over your competitors. If a rival business overshadows what you do best, you will need to discover another competitive edge.


SUCCESS TIPS FOR THOSE WHO WANTS TO CROSS FROM THE LINE OF POVERTY TO SUCCESSFUL LINE.
1. Focus on commitment, not motivation. Just how committed are you to your goal? How important is it for you, and what are you willing to sacrifice in order to achieve it? If you find yourself fully committed, motivation will follow.
2. Seek knowledge, not results. If you focus on the excitement of discovery, improving, exploring and experimenting, your motivation will always be fueled. If you focus only on results, your motivation will be like weather—it will die the minute you hit a storm.
3. Get rid of stagnating thoughts.   Thoughts influence feelings and feelings determine how you view your work. You have a lot of thoughts in your head, and you always have a choice of which ones to focus on:
4. Stop being nice to yourself.      Motivation means action and action brings results. Sometimes your actions fail to bring the results you want. So you prefer to be nice to yourself and not put yourself in a difficult situation. You wait for the perfect timing, for an opportunity, while you drive yourself into stagnation and sometimes even into depression. Get out there, challenge yourself, do something that you want to do even if you are afraid.
5. Get rid of distractions.   Meaningless things and distractions will always be in your way, especially those easy, usual things you would rather do instead of focusing on new challenging and meaningful projects. Learn to focus on what is the most important. Write a list of time-wasters and hold yourself accountable to not do them.
6. 8. Don’t rely on others. You should never expect others to do it for you, not even your partner, friend or boss. They are all busy with their own needs. No one will make you happy or achieve your goals for you. It’s all on you.


BE DETERMINED. Firmness of purpose; resoluteness. You have no excuse, you just have to be successful   in this year.
Remember psalm 90:17 “And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.”
Deuteronomy 28: “The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”
Meaning ,if you don’t get occupied (if you are not doing anything) there is nothing God will bless.