Participants: Lynell LaMountain
Series Code: FC
Program Code: FC000342
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00:31 Welcome to Faith Chapel. My name is Lynell LaMountain
00:34 the Speaker and Director for Life Ignited. 00:36 Today, we are gonna talk about How To cross 00:38 The Finish Line. But, before we get into our study 00:40 please bow your heads and let's have prayer together. 00:43 Father in heaven we thank you so much for Jesus Christ 00:44 and his powering presence in our lives. 00:47 Lord as we study from your word today how to actually 00:49 finish the race, how to cross the finish line, 00:51 I pray that your Holy Spirit would inspire us 00:53 and enlighten us with your truth, the truth that 00:56 keeps us going on to the very end when we enter your 00:58 arms in eternity. This is our prayer in our name, 01:01 Amen. Olan Hendrix was preaching at his church 01:06 when his wife while she was sitting on the front row, 01:08 he makes his crack about his wife. He says 01:11 my wife thinks the slumming in means spending a night 01:14 at the Holiday Inn. She didn't think he was funny 01:17 and she didn't laugh, the others did but she didn't. 01:20 So, what did he do to make it up to her? 01:21 You think he went brought some flowers and took 01:23 her out to a nice meal or brought her a gift probably 01:26 an expensive gift you think maybe that's way he did? 01:29 No, that's what most husbands probably would 01:31 have done, but not him. Nobody did to make it up 01:33 to her. He took her to Africa, now she didn't have 01:36 any interest in going to Africa, in fact she didn't 01:38 have any interest in going anywhere. She wanted to 01:41 stay home. But, he wanted to take her to Africa 01:43 because he knew in his heart there was one thing that in 01:45 Africa that would capture her soul, if he could 01:48 just get her there. One thing that would dazzle her, 01:50 one thing that will make her eternally grateful that 01:52 she would travel thousands of miles from home 01:54 and had endured rough travel, and that one thing 01:58 he knew that would capture her heart was 02:00 Victoria Falls. One look at Victoria Falls in Africa 02:05 would be in our heart forever. Yeah personally 02:07 seen a majesty of Victoria Falls, he would hike to its 02:09 end and he saw had seen as stately brown statue 02:12 of David Livingstone. The first white man to have 02:15 seen Victoria Falls and he had seen that statue just 02:18 Livingstone purring out over the water and Olan 02:20 Hendrix was just captured. Well the day came they left 02:25 for Africa. Mrs. Hendrix she wasn't a very happy 02:29 camper at all. During that trip, though he kept trying 02:31 to pump her up, you know, how it goes when the people 02:33 going on a trip with you don't wanna be there, 02:35 you try to pump them up and describe what they are gonna 02:37 be experiencing, what they are gonna seeing, 02:39 in order to try to get them excited. You remind her 02:41 about the legendary splendor of the falls. He describes 02:44 the romantic missed building upward from the thunders 02:46 raging water. He helps her imagine the luxurious 02:49 greenery lining the soft soggy river banks. 02:52 He described in vivid detail. The rainbow that 02:55 arch to cross the falls in a spectral burst of color. 02:58 Finally the day came, she had battled bugs and 03:02 mosquitoes and spiders, snakes, frogs 03:05 and other bugs. She was sweaty and frizzy, and 03:07 frumpy in her baggy safari clothing. Not to mention 03:11 she was tired and she was thirsty and she was achy. 03:14 Her nails were broken, her arms had scratches on them, 03:17 but she had done it. They had reached the end of 03:20 their journey and her husband showed her the 03:22 heavenly Victoria Falls. Then he excitedly grabbed 03:26 her hand and he led her to that famous statue of 03:29 David Livingstone that great missionary statesman and 03:32 an adventurer, who is eternally frozen in time 03:35 like I say with his hand raised to his brow 03:38 as if shading his eyes from the sun, gazing out 03:40 over the water. This was the moment they have been 03:43 waiting for. This is the moment he had been talking 03:46 about incessantly since the day they had left 03:48 for Africa. This is the moment that would make his 03:51 trip worth it, her trip worth it, and all the 03:54 controversy they had experienced between 03:56 each other. This would make it worth it. In this moment 03:59 of rapture is wonder, caught up in a moment he 04:02 turn to his wife and he said this, he said this 04:05 he said there he is David Livingstone. Look at him 04:09 gazing out over the falls, what do you think 04:12 he is thinking. She looked at the statue of 04:16 Livingstone thought a moment and turn toward 04:18 her husband and said I think he is thinking 04:22 that I had it up to here with Africa. When was the 04:26 last time those words came out of your mouth. 04:28 I have had it up to here with my job. I have had it 04:31 up to here with my relationships. I have had it 04:34 up to here with whatever it is that's pressing you in. 04:37 When was the last time those words tumbled pass 04:39 your teeth. When was the last time you had it up 04:41 to here with someone in our life. Perhaps your teacher 04:45 and you would never admit this, but there is a 04:46 kid in our class that makes life difficult, day after 04:49 day and you have had it up to here or maybe this people 04:51 at work, you know I'm talking about the kind that 04:54 make work miserable and you had it up to here with them. 04:57 May be that person was a person that beat you 04:59 out for a promotion or raise and do you had it up to 05:02 here with that person, it's a phrase we here often 05:06 is something we speak often, I've had it up to 05:08 here. Maybe this is a tricky one, maybe you are a pastor 05:14 and you would never admit this, not publicly, 05:17 but in our church there are two or three people 05:19 that seem to have this spiritual gift of giving you 05:21 ulcers. And you've had it up to here with those 05:25 people or maybe you've had it up to here with 05:27 a situation that no matter what solution you offer, 05:31 it seem solution resistant, and you had it up to here 05:34 with this chronic problem that just keeps going on 05:36 and on and on with no end in site. I've had it up to 05:41 here wow. Maybe you've had it up to here with 05:45 spiritual complacency. You have plenty of religion, 05:50 but you tired of going through emotions. 05:54 If had it up to here with a complacency, you are ready 05:58 for something real, something authentic. 06:01 You are ready to feel alive to be fully filled 06:04 with the presence of Christ in our heart. 06:08 How do you handle the on slide of these situations 06:10 that wear on you, squeeze on you and grind against you. 06:13 How do you, how do you survive when you have 06:15 had it up to here, well you only have two choices 06:20 you can keep going or you can quit. You can keep going 06:24 or you can quit and there is a word for it. A word for 06:26 keep going, but I wanna tell you a story from my life 06:29 first and I really cant believe I'm sharing this 06:31 with you, but I think this story probably will 06:33 illustrate quite clearly what I'm talking about. 06:36 It was an eighth grade and I had a crush on 06:38 a certain girl. Now she is one of those girls I want to 06:42 talk to, your inside is gonna melt, you know what 06:45 I'm talking about? And when she talk to me 06:48 I found myself stumbling over my words, which I do 06:50 even when I'm not nervous, but when a girl that I like 06:52 a cute girl is talking to me man I can't get a 06:55 sentence out of my mouth. She was nice, 06:57 she was pretty, she was perfect what more 07:00 that I need in eighth grade. Well the first year 07:06 that I tried capturing her heart nothing, 07:09 nothing happened, she wasn't interested at all. 07:12 Second year we are in quire together, so I had a little 07:15 bit more opportunity to be near her. So, on towards on 07:18 the bus we would sit beside each other when I got 07:20 a chance and we talk and joke and stuff like that. 07:23 But, nothing happened the second year, and I could 07:27 since as I entered my third year of trying to vow her 07:32 to me that time was getting short for me. My window of 07:36 opportunity was closing and I had to pull out 07:38 all the stops, it was the time to step up to the 07:40 plate to swing for the fences to make something 07:43 happen. Well complicate matters even more, 07:46 this girl that I like that had a crush on 07:48 she started falling for the campers heart throb, 07:51 you know who that is. That's the person that you just 07:53 love to dislike. You don't like them at all. 07:55 And it complicated even more than that, my best 07:58 friend who worked with her over at laundry on the 08:01 campus, he started to like here. Bible says by 08:05 beholding would become changed so I guess he would 08:07 talk so much about this girl for all these years, 08:09 there is finally rubbing off on him. And he is starting 08:11 to have feeling toward her, so I knew if I didn't 08:13 do something radical my chance to get her forever 08:16 I mean it would be gone, so what I did? I talk to her 08:21 boss and I worked it out for me to drop by one day 08:24 drink break where she worked. You are gonna think 08:28 this is really cheesy, but I got to tell you 08:30 because it illustrates what we are talking about here. 08:33 I went to her to the place of work on her break 08:36 and I had this paper sack with me and inside that 08:38 paper sack I had a mix tape of her favorite songs, 08:42 I had two candles and I remember to bring the 08:44 matches that surprising in itself. And in addition 08:47 to that, I had brought her favorite soft drink 08:49 in four Styrofoam cups, yes four. One for her, 08:53 one for me, one for my best friend who was there working 08:55 with her and one for her boss. Well I took the 08:59 liberty to dim the lights, I poured her soft drink, 09:03 canned our soft drink into the glasses and then I 09:05 handed them out, lighted the candles, got the music 09:09 playing, I'm telling you what. It was romance 09:12 extraordinary, right there in campus laundry with 09:16 washing machines and dryers all around us 09:18 and piles of dirty laundry on the floor and on the 09:21 tables around us. But, I had to do something to try to 09:24 let her know. If she could just spend a moment 09:26 with me and see how nice of a guy, how good of a person 09:30 I was, how much I had to offer then she would just 09:32 totally stop chasing the campers heartthrob when she 09:34 saw what a wonderful guy I was, you know what I'm 09:38 talking about? Well I was there for few minutes 09:40 and then later that afternoon she sought me 09:43 out, she actually came to see me. We were walking 09:47 down the sidewalk and she says you know you really 09:50 made me so special, thank you so for dropping by. 09:52 She said Lynell you are a real sweet guy. 09:58 As soon as I heard the word sweet out of her mouth, 10:00 I knew it was over, I had no chance. 10:02 Any guy who has been in that situation trying to 10:04 vow a girl and she calls and says he sweet or he is 10:08 nice, he is lost there is no hope at all. 10:11 But, this one situation, year one nothing happened, 10:15 year two nothing happened, year three nothing 10:18 happened, nothing ever happened. 10:20 We did part as good friends in fact a matter for 10:22 the first time in 22 years last summer and she 10:26 was doing great she had forgotten about the whole 10:28 laundry room thing, which I'm thankful for. 10:31 But, she is doing fine. Now there is one thing 10:37 probably why this didn't work out maybe more then 10:38 one thing, but when I was in eighth grade she 10:43 was a sophomore, when I was a Freshmen she was 10:46 Junior, when I was a sophomore she was a senior. 10:49 So, she was two or three years older to me, so it 10:51 probably was doom from the start but you never, 10:53 you never would been held of convince me that 10:56 there was no hope for me in this girl who was 2 or 10:58 3 years older then me in an high school that's a 11:00 big deal, now there is one more word that describes 11:04 my actions. Besides the word desperate there is no 11:07 another word, that kind of puts it perfectly what 11:12 I was doing those three years and no stockings 11:14 not the word that came to my mind either, 11:16 there is another word that describes my actions with 11:19 this girl as trying to vow to me during those years. 11:22 And the word is perseverance. I didn't quit, 11:25 I kept going, I kept tying to do all I could do to get 11:29 the girl of my dreams. When you had it up to here, 11:35 when you can't take it anymore, you can either 11:37 quit or you can continue. You can stop or you can 11:41 persevere those are the only two choices you have. 11:45 But, you didn't get the girl you say, 11:46 well you are right, I didn't get that girl. 11:48 But, a few years later I did I happened to marry 11:51 the girl of my dreams. So, I might have lost that 11:53 battle, but I won the war, I persevered. 11:56 Perseverance what is it? One of the definitions of 11:58 perseverance is this, is adherence to a course of 12:01 action or belief or purpose without giving away. 12:04 Endurance to push through despite hardship grit, 12:08 how much grit do we have? We are talking about 12:11 cross the finish line and across the finish line of 12:13 life you have to have grit. You have to have 12:16 perseverance and you must endure, and I ask 12:18 you today and I ask myself, what is our tendency? 12:22 Do we tend to quit when things get hard, do we 12:23 tend to quit when we get pressed in, do we tend 12:26 to quit when we feel the heat at the moment. 12:27 Do we try to find shelter away from it at all or 12:30 do we persevere and push through and keep going no 12:32 matter what it takes. If you wanna cross the finish 12:35 line you have to persevere. I remember reading 12:39 that people who make New Year's resolutions. 12:41 That over 80% of the people who make New 12:43 Year's resolutions they've stopped, 12:46 they've quit their New Year's resolutions by January 12:48 18th. They even take three weeks before they 12:51 give up, what they said they wanted to do. 12:53 Oh! I'll start my diet tomorrow, I go to the gym 12:56 next week, I'll start having quite time with God 12:59 tomorrow. I'll start returning Tyson offerings next 13:01 paycheck. I'll start saving money in a month 13:04 or two when I've gotten caught up. Perseverance, 13:07 endurance, grit with it you will cross the finish line 13:11 without it, you not even in the race, you might think 13:13 you are, but you are not. To pray when you don't 13:16 feel like it is perseverance. To forgive someone who 13:19 has hurt you that takes perseverance because 13:21 those feelings of hurt well up inside, time after time, 13:24 after time and you have to keep forgiving and forgiving 13:27 and forgiving to forgive someone how is deeply 13:29 wounded you is perseverance, takes perseverance. 13:32 To stick with the job that makes you miserable because 13:34 you know that that's where you need to be right 13:36 there and right then that takes perseverance. 13:39 To stand up for right and to stand up for God when 13:41 it's inconvenient and uncomfortable and unpopular 13:44 is perseverance. To remember God in the good 13:47 times and remember him in the bad times is 13:50 perseverance. To blow it spiritually, but to get up and 13:53 keep going is perseverance. To never give up on our 13:56 mission mandate or calling is perseverance. 13:59 Grit that's what we need today and God gives it 14:03 to us, he keeps us going. Perseverance is saying to 14:06 yourself, I refuse to quit by the grace and indwelling 14:10 power of Jesus Christ I will not be shaped by my 14:13 circumstances because in my partnership with God 14:16 circumstances don't master me, I master them. 14:20 This is perseverance, this is grit and this is our 14:23 Christian privilege in heritage. Ministry of Healing 14:27 page 500 has this awesome quote, Man can shape 14:32 circumstances, but circumstances should not be 14:35 allowed to shape the man. We should seize upon 14:37 circumstances as instruments by which to work. 14:40 We are to master them, but not permit them to master 14:44 us. Paul puts it like this in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 14:50 versus 7 and 11, 7 through 11 and I'm reading 14:52 from the New King James Version. But we have this 14:56 treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of 14:58 the power may be of God and not of us. 15:01 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; 15:04 we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, 15:07 but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- 15:10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the 15:12 Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be 15:15 manifested in our body. For we who live are always 15:18 delivered to death for Christ sake, that the life of 15:20 Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 15:25 Hard-pressed but not in despair, persecuted, 15:27 but not abundance, struck down, but not destroyed 15:30 this is perseverance, endurance and grit. 15:35 Power of God, the power of God is unconquerable. 15:39 I mean the power of God is in you, you are 15:42 unconquerable. You are unconquerable in your 15:45 mission. You are unconquerable in your 15:47 purposes, you are unconquerable in our ambitions 15:50 you and everything about you in a power of God 15:52 is in your life is invincible, you cannot be beaten. 15:55 So, persevere you have ever right to endure, 15:58 it's your heritage, it's your destiny. So, live 16:01 with grit, I've to ask you what has struck you down 16:05 lately. And it's okay to admit that we gotten 16:09 struck down, we all get struck down. 16:13 There are moments in life when you stand and you 16:15 walk and you go as far as you can, for as long as 16:17 you can. And there is a one last thing that just 16:21 takes the life out of you in your fall, which struck 16:24 you down lately. What caused you to quit, 16:29 what's cause you to take a break and sit on the 16:33 bench for a while. As loneliness gotten the best 16:37 of you? Has frustration over certain situation or 16:40 a certain person gotten best of you? Is it finances, 16:48 relationships that are crumbling, broken dreams, 16:52 sadness, discouragement, ill health, you prayed and 16:57 you prayed and you prayed and still you have this 17:00 illness and you have this disease it doesn't seem as 17:02 if God has gonna take it away and that was the final 17:05 straw what is it? What struck you down, 17:09 what's discouraged you of anything? What's the 17:12 life been throwing at you to trip you up and only 17:16 trip you up, but keep you down. Ephesians 3:20 says, 17:23 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly 17:26 above all that we ask or think, according to the power 17:28 that works in us. God is at work in our life the power 17:32 of God is operating in your life, he is real and he is 17:35 in you if you invited him to be in you and I believe 17:39 that you have, you would be watching this show 17:42 today, you wouldn't be here in Faith Chapel with me 17:44 today, if you hadn't invited Christ to be an operating 17:47 presence in our life. So, persevere, endure, 17:51 conquer have this within your reach. Bible prophecy is 17:55 being fulfilled before very eyes. Jesus is coming soon 17:59 this is not a time to be discouraged, this is not a 18:01 time to quit, this is not a time to say well at least I 18:04 give it my best and I tried. This is a time to keep 18:07 going forward, no matter what is thrown on our way to 18:10 keep walking and walking and walking to persevere 18:13 to endure. We are knocked down, but we are not 18:16 knocked out. We might take a beating, but we never 18:19 beaten, we might loose a battle, but we won't lose 18:21 the war, persevere, endure. Consider Paul he 18:27 writes this in 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 24 and I'm 18:30 reading from the New King James Version. Do you not know 18:32 that those who run in a race all run, but one receives 18:35 the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain 18:38 it. Did Paul live on easy street? Absolutely not 18:42 he knew one thing or two about perseverance and 18:44 enduring and having girt. Do you realize that the 18:48 Jews had him whipped five times and in each of 18:52 those five whippings he was lashed 39 times. 18:56 And it was well known that a few lashed someone 18:58 40 times they would die from it. So with five 19:01 different times he was lashed with an interim of 19:04 his life, so to speak. He was beaten with rods 19:09 three times, he was stoned once, he was 19:11 shipwrecked three times, and he spent a day and a 19:14 night lost at sea. He endured sleep deprivation, 19:19 hunger, and thirst. He had been left without 19:21 clothing in the cold. He was falsely in prison to 19:24 more than once. If anyone had a reason to go 19:26 silently into the night with a soft whimper it 19:29 was Paul, but he didn't, he had right to say, 19:32 he had a right to say. I've had it up to here, 19:34 but he didn't say that. In study says in 2 Timothy 19:37 chapter 4 verses 6 through 8, For I am already being 19:42 poured out as a drink offering, and the time of 19:44 my departure is at hand. I have fought the 19:46 good fight, I have finished the race, 19:48 I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid 19:51 up for me the crown of righteousness, 19:52 which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to 19:55 me on that Day, and not to me only but 19:57 also to all who have loved His appearing 20:03 Seize the day, seize the day by the power of 20:07 God, rise up and shape your circumstances 20:09 because faith without action is useless. 20:13 Act, follow, seize the day, many people have 20:17 confused perseverance with patience, I say here 20:21 is the patients of the saints and the saints and 20:23 believers are certainly patience, but in the 20:26 Bible there is a big difference between 20:28 patience and perseverance. Perseverance, now listen 20:32 to me, perseverance is not patience, the Greek 20:37 word for perseverance is hypomone. 20:39 Hypomone is more than patience. It's the spirit 20:42 that doesn't passively endure, but the spirit 20:44 that actively overcomes. When Beethoven was 20:49 threatened with deafness he said, 20:50 I will take life by the throat that's hypomone. 20:54 Most of the railroad executives treated 20:56 Westinghouse like he had lost his mind 20:57 because he believed and theorize that a train 20:59 could be stopped by wind. But, he 21:02 persevered and sold the airbrake. Leonardo Da 21:05 Vinci worked on the last supper for 10 years. 21:08 And to really put into perspective God been 21:11 working on you all your life, he is persevere 21:14 with you, he is not quit on you, he is enduring 21:16 with you, however, long it's been God doesn't 21:19 quit, he doesn't give up. He is believed in you 21:23 your whole life even when no one else has, 21:26 even when you have it. As long as you with 21:30 him, as long as you are with God you will cross 21:33 the finish line guaranteed. All you need is God in 21:39 gumption. As the old saying goes, doesn't 21:41 matter where you are, only matters where you 21:43 had it, some don't, so don't make excuses, 21:46 don't rationalize, don't quit, dare, and dare 21:49 again and keep on daring. We can do all things 21:54 through Christ dare, dare again and go on 21:57 daring. Think bold, believe bold, act bold, 22:00 be bold because when the power of the Holy 22:04 Spirit is operating in you and you are 22:05 surrendered to the control in the will of 22:07 God anything can happen or do as Christians. 22:12 As sons and daughters of God is to proceed as 22:16 if limits to our ability do not exist this is our 22:22 calling, this is our power, this is our destiny, 22:26 no conflict, no crown. How do we develop the kind 22:29 of perseverance it gets us across the finish 22:31 line? How can we cross the finish line when we 22:33 so far way and out of breath and our muscles 22:35 are on fire. How do we keep going when 22:37 quitting seems to be the easier option? 22:40 Well, first we preserver in Christ and his power. 22:44 Our power is limited, our power runs out, but 22:46 Christ power is unlimited it never runs out. 22:49 Preserver in Christ invites him to abide in 22:51 your heart and you will share with you the 22:53 source of perpetual hope and energy and 22:55 power that is your experience joyfully 22:57 from day to day. Philippians 4 verse 13 23:01 it says, I can do all things through Christ who 23:04 gives me strength. If you want to cross 23:06 the finish line then you must preserver in Christ 23:09 power not your power, Christ power. 23:13 Secondly in addition to preserving in Christ we 23:15 must submit to Christ. The Bible says in James 23:19 chapter 4 verse 7. Therefore submit to God. 23:24 Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 23:27 Preserving Christ, submit in Christ and the 23:29 sky will split apart in God's glory will come 23:31 down and move mountains out of your 23:33 way in the light of his glory and is truthful 23:35 right your path if you submit to him. Jesus 23:38 preserved in God, he submitted to God. 23:40 He crossed the finish line for every human 23:42 being who has ever wanted to cross the 23:44 finish line, who has ever wanted to cross 23:45 over from the death on to life. Jesus Christ was 23:47 an exempt from preserving. He need a 23:49 grit and he had it. Bible records this about him 23:52 in Hebrews 12 verses 1 through 3. Therefore we 23:56 also, since we are surrounded by so great 23:58 a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every 24:00 weight, and the sin which so easily 24:01 ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the 24:03 race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, 24:06 the author and finisher of our faith, who for the 24:08 joy that was set before Him endured the cross, 24:10 despising the shame, and has sat down at the 24:12 right hand of the throne of God. Our destiny is 24:16 with Jesus Christ although it's true that he 24:18 walks with this here. What we really want is 24:20 to walk with him there. So, we press on, 24:25 we push through, we prevail. 24:27 The Greek word for race is agonu and we 24:29 get the word agony from it. Make no 24:31 mistake, have no misunderstanding, don't 24:34 be fool the Christian walk isn't easy expect 24:36 resistance. The devil will through everything 24:38 he can into your path, he will do everything 24:40 he can to make you stumble and to scrape 24:42 your knees. He will shape you into thinking 24:44 that you are not worthy of the race, that your 24:46 failures have disqualified you in some way. 24:49 But, there is no condemnation because 24:50 we are in Christ Jesus, we have been redeemed 24:52 by his blood, we have been covered with his 24:54 grace, we have been empowered by now 24:55 pouring and in filling of the Holy Spirit. 24:59 The devil will do everything he can to 25:00 to keep you down, to disqualify, 25:03 to discourage you. He even use death itself 25:05 to scare you into submission. Jesus never 25:08 promised, we wouldn't go to the grave, but he 25:10 did promise we wouldn't stay there. 25:13 There is a resurrection morning for every 25:15 person, who follows Jesus Christ was put his 25:17 or her trust in Him. So, when you think about 25:19 it in reality Satan is left with nothing, he can't 25:22 keep you down. He can't disqualify you, 25:24 he can't discourage you, he can't even keep you dead. 25:29 You have what it takes to cross to finish 25:31 line because you have Jesus Christ. You are 25:34 determent, you steadily go forward each day, 25:37 you refuse to be deflected. Obstacles 25:39 won't dawn you, delays won't depress you, 25:41 discouragement won't still your hope away 25:43 I know it. Jesus Christ is with you walking 25:46 with you right now. Nothing from within 25:48 stops you, nothing from without can block you. 25:51 You will stead fussily endure and you will 25:53 carry through to the end. How do I know 25:56 you are gonna cross the finish line because you 25:59 are about to promise me something. 26:02 You are gonna live from this standard from 26:03 this day onward. What standard am I talking 26:06 about, is of this one. Always get up one 26:13 more time then you fall, always get up one more 26:18 time then you fall, fall down 3 times get up 26:21 4 times. Fall down 5 times get up 6 times. 26:24 Fall down 7 times get up 8 times. 26:26 You always get up one more time then you fall. 26:29 Maybe you think you too weak to get up and 26:31 to keep going, but is not true the Bible says in 26:33 2 Corinthians 12 verse 9. And He said to me, 26:37 "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength 26:39 is made perfect in weakness." Therefore 26:41 most gladly I would rather boast to my 26:43 infirmities by the power of Christ because it 26:45 rests on me. You've got the power, you are not 26:47 weak, you can't fail because Christ power is 26:50 in you, you cannot have fail Christ because 26:52 Christ doesn't fail. If you fall down 7 times 26:55 he picks you up an 8th time, a 9th time, a 10th 26:58 time, a 11th time and 12th time. There is 27:00 nothing you can do to make him stop 27:02 believing in you. As long as you never let 27:05 go and you will hold down, you will make it 27:08 cross the finish line. So, I tell you today dare 27:11 something worthy, then dare again and keep on 27:13 daring. Preserving Christ, submit to Christ. 27:18 You have to master failure in order to 27:19 master success and you do that by getting up 27:21 one more time then you fall, do this and you 27:25 will cross the finish line with Christ. 27:27 You will cross the finish line right on into 27:30 eternity into the open welcoming arms of a 27:34 Father in Heaven, who loves you more than 27:36 anything else on earth, have you fallen? 27:40 Get up, grace will pick you up, grace will keep 27:45 you going and as you cross the finish line 27:47 everything live in worthy, as you begin 27:49 experiencing an exhaustible satisfaction 27:54 that you will find in God. |
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