Success and Failure in Ministry

1. Principles of success.
   1.1 All success in gospel work comes from God above.
   1.2 God is abolutely sovereign in giving success.
   1.3 It pleases God to give success to his word.
   1.4 In God's wisdom, times of prosperity are mixed with times of adversity.
   1.5 Beleivers should have a concern for gospel prosperity.
   2 Failure.
   2.1 It is possible to see situations as failures when they are not.
   2.2 Small beginnings sometimes yield great successes.
   2.3 We do not always see the success.
   2.4 Patience is needed to wait for success.

Pray for greater success, but not success judged by man's standards.