Succeeding Where Your Father Failed.

Friend, I have come with a Good News for you today!

You can succeed at that point where your father failed.

You can break through the mark where your father stopped. And you can cross the mark at which your father was defeated. Yes, you can!

Friend, you heard me right; you can break through your father’s limitation.

I am sure you’re aware that the utmost desire of every father is to see his son scaling greater heights far beyond every achievement he had in life?

It is also God’s desire to see you scaling greater heights far beyond the mark made by your father.

Yes, I know your father was a great man; but you can be far greater than him in everything.

You can make the greatest achievement of your father a child’s play by your own greater exploits!

This is the plan of God for you and that is what I am here to announce to you today.

But there are a few things God wants you to know if this must come to pass in your life.

Follow me to the Word of God as we look together into this truth.

Gen 11: 29-32 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

In the scripture above, Terah, the father of Abraham was moved to take his family and relocate to Canaan. He sensed the signal so strong and the move so irresistible that he couldn’t hesitate than to rise up immediately. He carried all his family members and took his journey to Canaan. But when he got to Haran, he stopped, and could no longer proceed with his journey.

Terah eventually died in Haran without getting to his destination.

To the father of Abraham, Haran was his limitation and Canaan was his failure.

A few years after, his son Abraham also had the same vision of going to Canaan; the same task in which his father could not succeed.

But the good news is that Abraham succeeded! He got to Canaan where his father couldn’t.

Gen 12: 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

That thing which stopped his father couldn’t stop him. He made it to Canaan; that place his father could not.

What was the factor that helped Abraham to succeed where his father failed?

Ø  Terah’s decision to go to Canaan was born out of a human ambition while Abraham's was from a divine direction.

Gen 12:1-5 ¶ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

 4 ¶ So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Ø  Terah was led by human intuition while Abraham was led by the voice of God.

Ø  Terah’s confidence was in his strength while Abraham’s was in the God of all possibilities.

Friend, the thing that stopped your father is also waiting to stop you. And so you can't succeed by your own weak human ambition. You must be a man of vision.

If you think your intuition is all you need to succeed, you will fail miserably like Terah, Abraham’s father. You need to be led by the Spirit of God (Zech 4:6).

And finally, if you think your educational qualification, your social status, and human connections are enough for you to succeed, then you’ve out rightly missed the point.

Without absolute trust in the God of all possibilities, you are nothing (Ps 20:7).

If you must succeed therefore,

·         You must be a man of vision and not of ambition.

·         You must be led by the voice of the Holy Spirit

·         And your confidence must be in God not your human qualifications.

With these, you won’t only succeed where your father failed, you will also make all his achievements a child’s play.

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You will succeed!