FRIDAY JANUARY 17
“By
love serve one another.” Gal 5:13
IF
YOU WANT TO SUCCEED, REACH OUT
You won’t succeed in life unless you are connected
to the right people. And those who enable you to succeed won’t always come to
you; usually you must go to them. Why do you think there’s a newspaper machine
on every corner and a soft drink machine on every hotel floor? Success won’t
come knocking on your door, you’ve got to go and find it. Jesus didn’t set up a
throne in the middle of each town and say, “This is the only place you can meet
with me.” No, He went to the marketplace, to the boats of fishermen, to the
synagogue, to the homes of people. He “went through the towns, preaching the
gospel, and healing everywhere” (Lk 9:6).
What is keeping you from reaching out to others?
Rejection? Until your dream becomes more important to you than your fear of
rejection, you will never succeed. Successful people dread rejection too; the
difference is that they believe their goals are worth it. There are two kinds
of people in your life: those who already know you have something they need,
and those who don’t know it yet. So start a “people list.” The law of
relationship says that every person is only four people away from the person
they need. This simply means that you know Bill, who knows Judy, who knows
Charles, who knows the person you want to get to. You are already networked.
Follow the dots and you’ll get to your destiny. Success always begins somewhere, at some moment, with someone. The
secret is, you must reach out.
Taken
from The Word for You Today Devotional
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