In the light of the passage above, we see how Abraham with a paltry 318 servants in his household went to war against and prevailed over four kings and their armies. There is no better definition of a formidable team than that!
We are all products of our environments. And environment is not limited to physical location alone; much more than that, it includes our mental (the places we get the information we feed our mind), spiritual (the place(s) we go to for spiritual nourishment), career (factors affecting our discipline), business (industry and location of our commercial activities), as well as emotional (relationships) factors. All of these constitute our environment.
We ought to learn from his example and note that no matter how successful we become, or how secure we feel, there can never be any substitute for God. It is to the extent that we are aligned to Him that we are hedged by Him which therefore makes us invulnerable.
When we praise God, He swings into action on our behalf. The devil will do everything in its power to keep you from praising God because it knows the power of praise. The more you praise, the more you are raised.
This is the secret of sustaining greatness, prosperity, success, wealth and other privileges of life. You have to seek God in them. It takes God to keep what God gives.
We know it takes a lot of hard work and concentration to achieve success. Also, it is a generally accepted fact that success is easier attained than maintained. Once success is achieved, it requires a lot more efforts and resources to keep and grow it than what was expended in the process of acquiring it.
