The Making of a Champion.
1John 5:4. Amp. For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.
Champion is someone who has been a winner in a contest.
Life is a battle and it's required from you to know how to fight triumphantly.
2Timothy 2:5. Amp. And if anyone enters competitive games, he is not crowned unless he competes lawfully (fairly, according to the rules laid down). There's laid down rules to strictly adhere to if you desire to become champion in life. God made no junks. Everyone born of God is champion in life. David a shepherd boy became champion in his contest with Goliath because of his faith in God and the skilfulness of his hands. Against all odds Joseph became prime minister in Egypt. Moses the murderer who ran from Egypt because of fear but he returned back to Egypt and became a champion because he's God's backing.
It's neither your stature nor status that determines your victory in life battle but thorough and vigorous preparation through training. Energy without strategy always leads to tragedy. Wisdom is more than power. The fact that you're 6fts tall doesn't mean you will become a basketball champion like Michael Jordan without a devoted coach whose training you've went through.
Here are five principles that begat a champion:
1. Dreaming. Champion has dream in his heart that's driving his daily routines. The future you can't picture in your heart you can't feature. As far as you can see shall be giving to you. Seeing precede being.
Acts 26:19. Amp. Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. Whatever you do against your dream mean that you're disobedient to your vision. Life is created in two ways: within and outside. You see it first in your inner eyes before it can become physical reality. If you don't have dream, you don't have future. Eyes that looks are common but eyes that sees are few. What do you see? What's worse than been blind is to have eyes and not see. Your mind is your inner eyes where you picture your future. You've different sets of sights which are: Insight, foresight and hindsight. See within, without and also extract lessons out of your past experiences.
2. Digging. You can't find anything with value on the surface of earth without digging deep. To get gold you must dig deep. To get diamond you've to travel to the heart of the sea. If you're not informed, you will deformed. If you intend to become champion in life you must know what your competitors don't know. Proverbs 25:2.Amp. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a thing. There's someone out there who knows what you don't know. Go and humble yourself to him or her and learn from him or her. Knowledge or information don't jump on anybody, you've to acquire it. If you desire to acquire your desire, you don't retire but refire. Life in phases, men are in sizes. You've three phases in life: Learning, Earning and Resting. What you learned determine what you will earn. Information applied give you edge ahead of your contestants. Go for information. Learn something new everyday.
3. Daring. You must be strong and be courageous to achieve anything worthwhile in life. You must be confident in the face of life battle or you will be sidelined. Confidence is the ability to move forward in spite the trials and opposition on your way. Things that will scare you away is always ahead of you but you must hold firm to your faith. Three times God said to Joshua fear not but only be courageous. Joshua 1:6-9. Amp. Be strong (confident) and of good courage, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only you be strong and very courageous, that you may do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you. Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. ... Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
365 times in the Bible it's written fear not. Meaning that every day you've to take one dose of fear not. The opposite of faith is fear. When fear knock your door let faith respond and fear will disappear. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real.
4. Dying. If you've not find what to die for, you're not fit to live. No seed become fruitful until it die through planting. You must die to self if you want to live a worthwhile life. Be dedicated to the course you've chosen in life. Martin Luther King Jr died because of his dream. Nelson Mandela pay the price for the freedom of his nation. Mahatma Gandhi sacrifice in order to command attention. Gold must past through fire before it's useful. Until your talents is refined it's useless. Can you die for what you believe? Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego defied Nebuchadnezzar's order and prevail against fiery furnace through their faith and they became champion in a foreign land. Until you're tested, you can't be approved.
Fire of life must test your faith and your dream before it becomes useful.
Galatians 2:20. Amp. I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Until you go downwards, you can't go upwards.
5. Doing. You will only be pay for what you do in life not what you know. You've not learnt until you're able to apply what you've learned. Hard work doesn't kill it only refine and fine tune your skills. No food for a lazy man. Dreamers are hard workers.
Proverbs 22:29. Amp. Do you see a man diligent and skilful in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Put your dream to work. Understand that your life has time bound. Make haste when the sun shines.
John 9:4. Amp. We must work the works of Him Who sent Me and be busy with His business while it is daylight; night is coming on, when no man can work.
Work in the morning so that you can rest in the night. Work strategically not like a fool. The secret of a champion is hidden in his daily routines.
1Corinthians 15:10. Amp. But by the grace (the unmerited favour and blessing) of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not [found to be] for nothing (fruitless and without effect). In fact, I worked harder than all of them [the apostles], though it was not really I, but the grace (the unmerited favour and blessing) of God which was with me.
Any dreamer who's not a worker is a joker. Put all what you know to work and you will be rewarded.
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