Topic: Paying The Price
Text: Mark 14:3-9

Success has become somewhat elusive to a lot of people. Many people have failed to achieve success because they are not ready to read to read the pathway of success. Success is not cheap. It is costly. You have to pay the price if you must Savour the joy of success. Many people are eager to get to the top very few are willing to pay the price. Let us examine the price of success:

Work comprehensively: II Timothy 4:5 says: “But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” What you do for God, do it comprehensively. Do it with total joy. Make a full proof of your ministry. If you are a Pastor, for instance, you have to pay attention to all departments in your church:

Concentrate on your own part: Mark 13:34 says, “For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.” To every man his work. You are not to be a “Jack of all trades”. Your portion of the big work will be given to you. Do not try to do other people’s work for them, to avoid getting into trouble.

Be thorough. Do not be haphazard. You have to conclude every assignment. Jesus said, in John 4:34, that: “…My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” Make sure you finish whatever God gives you to do. If you observe these rules of success, you will get to the top.

Memory Verse: John 15:14 - “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”