Success

“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.

So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!

But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”

The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

So I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem.”

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.

He who acquires wisdom loves himself; one who safeguards understanding will find success.

I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.