EXPLORING THE SECRECT OF SUCCESS

Quote from the Book

“The highways of God are what will place the Church on the highways of success; it shall always know what to do to succeed” (p.15)

For more than three decades, David O. Oyedepo has been part of the current charismatic renaissance sweeping through the African continent. His faith-based teachings have literally transformed millions of lives. Oyedepo was called with a specific divine mandate to liberate the world from all oppression of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith. He is the Founder and President of Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a Winners’ Chapel International, with a network of over 5,000 churches in Nigeria and near a thousand across 60 other nations on five major continents of the world. He has published over 60 highly impactful titles covering a range of issues, with about ten million copies in circulation. He is the Senior Pastor of the 50,000 – seat church sanctuary – the renowned Faith Tabernacle, Canaan Land, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria reputed to be the largest church auditorium in the world, where currently four services run on Sundays with near 200,000 worshipers recorded every Sunday morning. He also founded the renowned Covenant University and Landmark University.

Insights from the Book

This book covers 223 pages captured in 13 chapters. The central theme of the book is very clear right from the beginning that as a child of God, He has destined you for all-round success: success in your walk with Him, in your business, career, finances, health, home, academics, etc. You are a born star and are required to stand out wherever you are. However, he states very clearly that it takes a discovery of the secrets of success as outlined in the bible before it becomes an actual experience. So, what the author sets to do in the book is to unfold such secrets to the reader. He insists that a strict and consistent pursuit of these secrets will grant you an eternal access into the reality of the covenant of success. The author makes very conspicuous reference to such covenant secrets of success in the book. One of such secrets is what he described as “Triggers for Success.” He described this in terms of recognizing and making the most of the opportunity God brings our way per time.  Another secret is what he called “Creativity” which he described as productive mental activity. This means, sitting on God’s word through conscious meditation until it produces a result because creative thinking makes for colorful living! The third secret, according to the author is, “Responsibility.” He argues that the first law of success is to take 100% responsibility for one’s action.  Responsibility requires that one positively responds to the demands of life or scriptures. To be outstandingly successful, one must positively apply oneself to certain demands of life and scriptures. He concludes with a provoking challenge that what made Job the greatest rich man of his time was the secrets of God that he traded with as far back as when he was a youth (Job 29:4).