402 Not a Loser

You were created to be more than a conqueror, a champion. A total winner in life. But sometimes we feel like a loser don’t we? Sometimes we wake up feeling defeated, overwhelmed, outmatched, incapable, and anything but champion-like. But God isn’t concerned about your feelings, he’s concerned about your training. You’re in training my friend. Training to become all you were created to be. And you were NOT created to be a loser. Life wasn’t given to you to waste. God has a plan for your life, and whether you believe it or not, it’s a good plan. In fact, it’s better than your plan. But I wonder how often we’re delaying God’s good plan for our lives because we get in the way? It is our procrastination, not God’s that causes delay. It is our hesitation, not God’s that hinders our potential. How many times will you sit and rethink the scenario in your head, over and over again, planning every detail, without consulting God? I’m a big believer in the power of written goals. Every single person I mentor is encouraged to write goals on the first of every month throughout the year. They’re taught to read their goals several times every day until they are memorized. I know the statics, you are 300 times more likely to achieve your goals if you not only write them, but read them daily. 300 times! I like those odds, that why I personally do it. And, I’ve seen women who are slaying their goals and doing every single thing they set out to do … and they’re still miserable. I’ve seen women get totally lost in the process, slaves to their own goals, no longer enjoying life but checking the boxes and continually striving for more, more, more, never satisfied with any level of success. This isn’t what God wants for us. His desire for you is to live a balanced life. A life that glorifies him with your success and yet still has time for him in your schedule. A life that has faith to move mountains and a shovel to make it happen. A life that prays as if its up to God and works as if its up to you. This is balance, and this is where 97% of us are struggling. Will you work your butt off and trust God with the results? Will you show up and do all you can while fully trusting God will do all you can’t? Will you show up and get on the ride, then remember to enjoy the ride instead of white knuckling your way through life? Will you get in the game, give it your all, and resist the urge to stare at the scoreboard to see if you’re winning? Let’s take a holy pause here. Take a step back and look. God didn’t create you with a loser in mind. His will is not for you to lose … permanently. But he will let you lose right now so you grow. He will let you struggle right now so you are strengthened. He will let you taste defeat so when victory comes you appreciate it with every ounce of you. He wants you to be a winner with a humble spirit. Humility comes in the struggle to get there. He will let your story be full of twists and turns and ups and downs so that one day you will be able to personally help someone else. Your unmatched overnight success is no good to someone who is in the middle of their struggle. However your real life hardship and experience with setbacks and obstacles makes you the perfect person to help them. You are God’s hands and feet here on this Earth. That’s why you’ve gone through it all. You’ve been set up to help someone else step up. God will not allow one moment of your hardship to be wasted if you will hand it over to him. If you will refuse the invitation to get bitter, God will help you get better, then he will use you to help someone else get better. Proverbs 3: 5-6 is our guide here: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him,