Success with a Warning Label

Mike Patz Jan 5, 2026

As we begin a new year, we all want to be marvelously helped by the Lord to do well in life. Yet there is an advantage that rookies have over veterans, because they still ask questions and are curious. As long as they keep seeking, they seem to find a way.

Pastor Mike Patz begins a new series on prayer, Winning Where it Matters, opening 2 Chronicles 26. King Uzziah “set himself to seek God… and as long as he sought the Lord he prospered.”

Success comes with a warning label. You can be faithful at 10, 20, 30, even 50 years, and still not finish well. Don’t forget the place of your beginnings. Seeking God is not one priority over many; it is the priority that orders everything else. The secret to success is strength, and the secret to strength is to seek God, all the days of your life.