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Pour your heart out to God and thank Him dearly for listening.   The Psalmist David knew one thing about God; He loves to be turned to.   God is always looking for someone who is looking for Him.   And more so, He is looking for people to trust Him.   David poured his heart out to God and while still asking for God to rescue him, David was already thanking God for his provisions.   How do we thank God while still asking him to help us – by praising him.   Praise is “thank you” in God’s language.   Prayer: My Father, my love, how I need you.   I need you to guide me and to show me the way you want me to go.   I am lost without you.   You, who knows my beginning and my end.   You, who wants the best for me.   Lead me by your blinding light so my feet cannot go astray.   Lead me by your love and show mercy on me as I stumble left to right, trying to get it right Father.   Make those who oppose me observe your glory as you take me higher.   Help me to be obedient.   Strengthen me by your s

Let me caution you before we go any further that the Road to Success is not the road to riches.   Riches and success are not interchangeable or equal.   Though some would argue that riches are the gateway for success, it is not so.   Let me define a unique group of people our society currently concedes: The Unsuccessful Rich.   This group of individuals has acquired money through a source of minimal work or value.   It is a fact that anything obtained without effort, sacrifice or labor is treated as carelessly as it was acquired.   Our eyes are on them as they spend so frivolously and wastefully, riches without purpose; finances without direction.   We watch on as they destroy themselves through various indulgences, and through exorbitant spending trying to fill voids that riches or material things will never fill. Perhaps the pursuit of riches alone is its own destruction. When we desire riches without a framework in which those riches can serve the greater good, we have given money d