MAJOR INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS
1. Right time (Gal 6:8-10)
2. Right opportunity(Eccl 9:11, Deut 28:1, Mat 26:15-16, Isa 6:8, Acts 8:35-36, Gal 6:8-10, 1 Sam 1:11, Est 4:16, John 2:5)
• What is an opportunity? An opportunity is a possibility due to a favourable combination of circumstances.
• An opportunity in the house of God can come disguised as a challenge.
• Don’t take too long to decide.
3. Right actions (1 Chron 12:32, Gal 6:8-10, Gen 26:2-3, 12-14)
• Right actions are actions that are taken at the right time, when the opportunity avails itself.

James 5:13, Col 3:16, Ps 23, 91, Prov 15:15, Is 30:29
• Your merriness of heart will facilitate feasts from above at all times.

ENEMIES OF PRAISE
1. MURMURING AND COMPLAINING (1 Cor 10:10, Gen 1:2-3, Num 11:1)
• Discipline yourself to speak what you want to see and not the negative you are seeing.
• Faith has a language.
• It is easy to complain.
• Every complaint you’re making is part of the life you’re carving for yourself.
• Throughout creation, God never spoke about the darkness but spoke what He wanted to see.
• Don’t say what you don’t want.
• You’re actually recreating the negative things you’re complaining about.
• It is natural to complain.

2. SORROW (Prov 17:22)
• Sorrow that is in the heart will eventually reflect itself in the flesh as sicknesses.

3. HOPELESSNESS (Eccl 9:4, Jer 29:11, Isa 51:11)
• As long as you’re alive, there is hope.

4. FOLLOWING OTHER gods (1 Tim 6:10-11)
5. OFFENCE (Luke 8:15, Mat 11:3-6)
• People get into offence because they lack patience and they think the things God promised are not happening.
• Such people compare what is happening in other people’s lives to what is not happening in their own lives.
• Life is an individual race.

6. PRIDE AND REPUTATION