Made To Win

Your Life is like a tree, it grows up and roots down. God made you to be fruitful and multiply. You were designed to grow and produce great things in life. Never let anyone make you think you don't have what it takes to produce greatness. Let your roots stabilize you and plant your feet on solid ground, for it is God who is able to uphold you!

Fruit is the product of purpose and purpose comes from the core of the tree. The tree was genetically engineered by God to produce fruit. It was made to survive and thrive. to live from the resources that was made for it. Your life is the same. you were made to thrive in life and win.

God did not make you to fail, he made you to win. Failure is a part of your process of winning, but you are not made to fail. Failure is not suppose the goal, or the end. failure is the means to the end of success. As you strive to win you must always keep in mind that you have all the power and capacity to win. There is no lack on your part concerning the ability to win.

If you lose, it is because you choose to lose. Your life is made up of choices that effect your outcome. You can have a successful foundation and all the resources you need to be successful, but if you make wrong decisions, you will ultimately fail. You fail, not because you lack something, or because God failed you or life and people failed you.

You fail because you made the decision to fail, whether you did so consciously or unconsciously. this is not to say that all your failures is a decision on your part. But the failures that are in your control are the ones you are responsible for. The failures that you made decisions for are your responsibility. When you choose to give up, you made a failure decision. When you choose not to try again, you choose to fail. giving up is a failure decision.

Just as you can make a decision to fail, you can decide to win in life. Don't sit back and play a script that someone gave you to live out. Don't let your life just play like a movie and you are the spectator. Take control of your life and you make the decisions. You must make up your mind that you are going to live your purpose and do what's in your heart and live according to your purpose. 

You are the driver in your life. So steer your life where you want to go. God will only give you your hearts desire when you make up your mind what you want and where you want to go. If you want more in life, pursue more. If you want to get up, strengthen yourself and get up. Decide to win and refuse to go down. You are a winner and I know you can do it!

Leadership Training: Phase 1

Leadership Training: Phase 1

The only way God is going to honor your leadership is when you have done three things : 

1 honor him with your life (bearing your cross and following Jesus) 

2. Served another Godly leader with sincere commitment & allowed god to train you through that leader

3. Show love for his people to the point that you will fight for them, even putting your life at risk.  

      Jesus taught very extensively about servant leadership and commitment. he said in Mt 20:27-28 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.  if we desire leadership we should desire to serve. This is one of the most commonly misunderstood truth about leadership. Some people seek the authority, the power the image and yet they have not come up in the ranks of service. They have not qualified themselves by serving others. 

      The best way to learn to lead is first to learn to serve. God will not honor you if you refuse to do it this way. Without following this procedure you will end up being abusive and eventually corrupt. But when you have been in the shoes of those you lead, it will give you a broader view, a greater compassion and a sincere love for the people. While you are in this training phase, you will be tested and reviewed by god. God is going to test your heart. 

      Is there pride, do you complain when given orders? Do you respect leaders? can you take correction? Will you rebel and leave or try to over turn the leadership? these are all the thing that god will test you in. if you fail any of these test, you will be sent back into training until you past the test. 

      Imagine for a moment, what if you hired a baby sitter and immediately on the first you gave her instructions she only followed two of the six instructions you gave her. And when you confronted her, she argued with you, made excuses and then demanded that you pay her in full just because she the two things on the list. She jeopardized your child's life, left you child hungry and neglected your child so that she can meet her own selfish agenda and for her own convenience and comfort. 

      What would you do in this situation? Do you think God is any less wise than you? Why would God appoint a leader over his people who is selfish, greedy and self centered. Why would God anoint someone to lead and they don't know nothing about leadership because they were never trained?

 

Mt 10:40-42 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Let go!

How much time do we waste trying to get back what can never be regained? As I checked my e-mail this morning, there was an old magazine subscription my mother had and my e-mail address was used for it. They sent her a message that said "Catherine we want you back", I thought to myself, "why are you all talking to a dead woman?" The difference between me and the magazine company is, I know she is dead and they don't. 

What about you, do you spend your time talking to someone or something dead that can never respond? Sometimes we spend too much time on things of the past that can never come back and things that we really need to let go. Today make a decision to let go a dead client, dead friendships, loved ones, relationships, dead opportunities and dead things. Let go of some dead past issues and move on to something new! For as long as you hold onto the dead, you cant make room for and embrace the new and the living!

Remember the saying, 'let go and let God', what awesome words we need to keep before us.   We need to let God heal us of our past hurts and past losses. There are some things that only he can do, and if we refuse to let something go, we limit God in his ability to prepare us for a better future with more. What are you willing to let go of today, so that you will allow god to give you more? 

 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Ps. 37:5