Jeremiah 17:5-8 (NIV)

5 This is what the Lord says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,
    who draws strength from mere flesh
    and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
    in a salt land where no one lives.
7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.
8 They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
    and never fails to bear fruit.”

My friend, there are essentially two ways to live this life. The first is for us to depend and trust entirely in the Lord, while the other is to depend on our efforts, and strive and struggle for success. We can never bring about good success that comes from God by depending on our self-efforts. No matter how we strive and struggle, we cannot work for our own righteousness or attain our salvation. Any success that we may achieve is only partial.

On the other hand, God's kind of success is complete, whole and permeates into every facet of our lives - spirit, soul and body.
God's Word says,"The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it (Provb. 10:22). God never gives us success at the expense of our marriage, families or health.

When you depend on your efforts, you can struggle for many years and get a certain measure of success. But God's ways are higher. With just one moment of His favour, you can experience accelerated blessings and promotion that years of striving and struggling can never achieve. Look at Joseph's life. He was nothing but a lowly prisoner. Yet, within an hour of meeting Pharaoh, he was promoted to the highest office in the entire Egyptian empire.

Beloved, even if you are down and out (like Joseph was) at this point in your life, the Lord can promote you supernaturally in an instance when you choose to put your eyes on Him!