Destined for Greatness

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived is about the principles of wealth and happiness that the King Solomon of Israel lived by... the richest person in his era. "Solomon reveals that the 'laws of living' invisibly govern all aspects of life" according to Steven K. Scott. "They still exist and they will govern your flight."

Scott's acclaim to success is that he was very unsuccessful, failing at every job he had in the first seven years of his job life. Then going from making less than half the average income to $7 million a year now. By 30 he was on his way to the success track financially. He learned there was more that just money…the wisdom of Solomon applies today. Happiness in life is a greater virtue than having it all. Thus his tag line about his book... the Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness.

The key to wining every race is diligence. "Diligence is a learnable skill that combines creative persistence, a smart working effort rightly planned and rightly performed in a timely, efficient, and effective manner to attain a result that is pure and of the highest quality of excellence."
"Even a child is known by his doings." Proverbs 20 :11.

Solomon's steps to bring diligence into your life:
1. Wake up to Reality
"Get up from your sleep, poverty will come on you like a bandit and scacrity like an armed man." Proverbs 6:9-11
2. Define your Visions
"Without a vision, the people perish." Proverbs 28:19
3. Effectively Partner
"Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed." Proverbs 13:22
4. Pursue Wisdom; Build your Life upon it.
"How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver." Proverbs 16:16

The activity that creates extraordinary success is outlined by Scott as a vision mapping process. This is a hallmark quality of Scott's works. "Vision is a precisely, clearly defined goal with a detailed plan and timetable for achieving." Along with a plan comes "hope... a well-founded and confident belief that a specific vision (goal, desire, or promise) will be achieved or fulfilled within a specific amount of time."

The vision mapping process, which he accredits to his turnaround to great accomplishments, includes....
1. Write a clear precise description of your dream
2. Create a goals page with specific and intermediate goals
3. Create another page for a single goal and label "goals to steps," along with intermediate goals, list the steps you need to take to reach the goal.
4. Next take any complex step and list the tasks you will need to do within that step.
5 Then assign completion dates to each step and tasks for the steps. Now you need to complete each task, one at a time, in the time line you set.

This focus brings the dream into a working plan and you have mapped a plan to get it done. He is very emphatic to write all this down, and stick to the plan in accomplishing it, or revise as needed. Having a Vision Mapping Journal gives you a sense of value in this process. This is where success is, the fulfillment you want is maintained in anything you attempt.

This is where diligence comes in. Stay diligent in doing what will bring your vision into reality. Now you have hope as you can see it, and see it becoming into reality within a certain time line.

The "great accelerator" to accomplish anything faster is by partnering. "A partner or counselor is anyone who can provide needed insight, advice, wisdom, or any practical help for the effective achievement of a specific project, goal or dream."

This is essential to great accomplishment. You must align with partners. Every super achiever in history of man has used an accelerator to achieve his dreams. Partners have undeniable benefits and are essential in daring to accomplish anything above average. But he cautions one on the importance of picking the right partners. As wrong partners can be worse than none at all.

Take care to avoid the Wrong Partners, watch for: Lack of integrity, a quick temper or deep-seated anger, foolishness, someone who offers a lot for a little, excessive use of flattery, inclinations to gossip or exaggerate, a disregard for rules, regulations, laws and personal boundaries. Picking partners is important, but picking the right partners is equally important.

Happiness roots lie in
being grateful,
eliminating a sense of entitlement in your thinking,
weeding out envy,
and living wisely.

There are four qualities that make you invaluable:
Kindness and
Truth(honesty)
"Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around
your neck: Write them on the tablets of your heart." Proverbs 3:3-4
Generosity-- the quality that gives receives more than it gives.
"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed." Proverbs 11:24-25
Graciousness-- The attribute that raises you up in the sight of others.
"A gracious woman gains honor." Proverbs 11:16

Scott continues to cover how to resolve conflicts, how to make friends with enemies, and the value of having relationships you build and can count on… again reciting the Wisdom of Solomon throughout.

What will "booby trap" success... greed.
When you want it all and go to all costs regardless of who it hurts or hinders in the process, it will eventually come back to do you in.The Richest Man Who Ever Lived is a powerful, concise book. Steven Scott offers his Vision Mapping Journal on his website:
www.stevenkscott.com

Brian Tracy said if we do one thing every day toward something important to us we will be amazed at what will start to happen over time.

Pursue the greatness of Solomon.
It is within our capability and with Power of Spirit in our lives, if we choose to use the power of Spirit in our lives.
"The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy." Psalms126:3

Solomon was a person of greatness and all through the Psalms the idea of God doing great things was frequently attached to those who placed their faith and trust in the Lord.

We are all called to greatness... to do great things. And with God's Spirit, He uses us to do great feats. God doesn't want us to be defeated. He wants us to do great feats with Him. With God's Spirit working through us, we can expect and we should look to do great things.

As Scott points out in Solomon’s life, there is a path to great accomplishments.

It goes back to the vision in your heart, we call faith. What you see in your heart “that's great,” is it something God is edging you to do? Think great feats. If we don't, we easily fall back to thinking de-feat. Our lives are about victory... not defeat.
All who live in the Spirit of Christ are Victorious!

With wisdom we can accomplish much more than our personal abilities. Jesus said in faith it would be done to that level. Faith is having a very positive vision of God with us accomplishing it. It goes beyond us and to His realm of power and ability. Jesus said that even greater things will happen to you than you can imagine. We will do even greater things than Jesus, Jesus announced to us.(John 14:12)

We need to set our sights higher. We have God's transforming power at work in us, at our disposal around us. Greater is the one in you than anyone in the world. (1 John 4:4)

The world is limited.
With Spirit, what's possible is unlimited power.
Indeed our destiny is one that is to be Super-natural.

In Spirit all things are possible and we should all strive for Great Feats... Bury defeat in the trail of dust behind us. Get on with the Doing of it.

Get started to do what the Spirit directs you to do each step along the way. So many times, Dr. J. Robert Ashcroft put emphasis on that “it’s in the doing.” Faith is action on the vision, the steps Spirit gives you to do. In faith advance with the vision in your hearts for greatness.

Be diligent with the doing of the steps toward the vision on your heart. He will tell you the steps and proceed, do it, and get it in motion.
Ask The Spirit of God, Spirit will give you inside Spiritual intelligence.

Be diligent in pursing greatness using the gifts he is putting in you that are Supernatural in their level of performance.

See it, Believe it, and be Diligent in doing it!

Live to do great feats. Leave the valley of de-feat and look to the mountain of magnificent feats.
Feats of Greatness in Spirit!
Live in Universe-Creating Power of God we are privileged to tap in to.

Indeed, you are destined to do Great Things!