Victory is Yours

Victory is Yours

Frederick Smith founded the large multinational company called ‘Federal Express.’ As he was affected by a bone disease, his parents raised him up carefully. He was not allowed to play or do things like any other child would do. His father died when he was 4 years old. Smith had a great fancy for airplanes.

As a student of the Yale University, he did his research in Economics. He drafted a plan for delivering ordered goods in a single night, to all the cities of America. The Professor who evaluated his Research Report gave him low marks, ruling it out as impossible.

Graduating from the Yale University, he entered the commercial world in 1970. He discussed his scheme of over night delivery of goods, which he had prepared in the University with Commerce Experts. They, who believed that everything was possible, encouragingly gave him a ‘Go Ahead’ signal.

In 1972, when he was 28, he boldly launched his venture, with his Head Quarters established at Memphis, located almost in the central region of America. Every night, planes carrying goods from 100 cities in the country would arrive at Memphis and the goods would be assorted there and redistributed to various destinations through trucks.

He had secured quite a good number of investors to meet the expenses regarding the purchase of planes and trucks and the engagement of different types of employees. He had an invincible faith that everything would turn out to be good!

But on the inaugural day, there emerged a suspicion that the University Professor had, perhaps, been right! Smith’s 25 jet planes had brought about 18 parcels only. A piquant situation arose, in which the pilots had to meet the fuel expenses from their own pockets!

In two years, Smith had to incur a loss of 24 million dollars. Commerce Analysis probing various deficiencies of the project concluded that the scheme was a failure. But Fredrick Smith was positive that it would be a success! He mustered more capital for interest and gave an assurance to the commercial empire that goods would be delivered the next day. Thus he turned the tables and his company began to steadily earn a profit.

Today, his company “Federal Express” is delivering 1.5 million packages all over the world and employs 85,000 workers and has assets worth billions of dollars. The secret was Smith’s unflinching faith in the Biblical concept, “Everything is possible” while others said it was impossible.

With the Lord on your side, you will accomplish great and mighty things for Him. Do not be disheartened at failures. The Lord through our failures will guide us and teach us new suggestions toward success. When we follow his guidance and put His counsel into action, success and honour will follow us. We will be exalted to high levels.

The Lord will turn your failures into stepping stones of successes. That is the nature of God’s mind! No failure can be a stumbling block against God’s plan of lifting us up. After defeat, He Himself strengthens our spirit and honours us!