You Will Win If You Don’t Give Up

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CONTENTS

Parable of the Persistent Widow

My Own Win

PART 1: MODELS OF WINNERS

1 Make Giving Up Not An Option

2 Talk to the Challenge

3 Expect the Wall and Break It

4 Keep Moving Up

5 Stare Down the Broken Walls

PART 2: STRATEGIZE YOUR WINNING

6 Define Your Strategy/ Strategize Your Success

7 Execute Your Strategy /Listen to People You Trust

8 Remain Up to Date/ Avoid Microwave Results

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography/ References

PARABLE OF THE

PERSISTENT WIDOW

One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that

they should always pray and never give up. He told

the disciples that even an unjust judge rendered a just

decision to a widow that came to him repeatedly. So

don’t you think God will surely do the same for His

chosen people who cry out to Him day and night? Yes,

He will grant their request quickly! (see Luke 18:1–8)

When you spend time in worship, meditation, and prayer, work tirelessly hard and smart, or perhaps multiply your efforts, inevitably you will gain God’s attention if you don’t give up.

MY OWN WIN

If there is one thing you can believe in your life, it’s the essence that you are the image of God (Imago Dei), and you are to become one with Him (Genesis 1:27).

It implies that the next time you stand in front of a mirror, you need to know that the picture you see is God’s likeness, a conqueror, a winner, and not a quitter. It depicts in particular that you contain the greatest mystery in all of nature and can exercise dominion to win by the power of the Great I Am. If you make the right decision, whether short term, long term, or eternal, you will win. In life, whether or not you make the right decision, the path to your victory will not always be smooth going. This is reassuring when you realize that winning is not an errorless footpath but one of growth into maturity.

There is not one person alive who has not been confronted with discouragement and frustration. Each one of us, at some point, wakes up to the reality that our journey has reached a dead end, and our only choice is to give up. Does that sound familiar? In fact, almost everyone experiences such an awakening in their existence. How do you develop the courage to make decisions to break the walls that stop you from reaching your dreams? How can you make the most of your potential here on earth and thereafter? Did you know that the power to win your victory resides in you?

I am deeply humbled knowing that you’re reading this book, and I assure you that your life will never be same again from this initial point until you reach the very last page. For in Scripture, it says: ‘Though the mountains be shaken, and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the LORD, who has compassion on you (Isaiah 54:10 NIV). Since God created mankind, we have been surrounded by the voice of the devil telling us to go the opposite direction from winning. It seems that the door that leads to defeat is widely open while the door that opens to success is narrow. Let me reassure you that regardless of the size of the door of success, you will get through because you are in the right place.

Certain laws or principles are unavoidable in life, and when you know that they exist, half of your problems are solved. When I consider the heavens, the work of His fingers, the moon and the stars, which He sets in place (Psalm 8:3 NIV), I have full confidence that God exists. A total of 4,473 is the number of times God appears in the canon Bible. The Old Testament (OT) regularly employs the emphatic plural form ʾĕlōhîm with singular verbs and modifiers to refer to Israel’s deity, who is depicted as the only true God (e.g., Deuteronomy 32:17, 21) and hence the only deity worthy of worship and sacrifice (e.g., Exodus 23:24; Deuteronomy 4:28). For example, the word ʾĕlōhîm often appears after יְהוָה (yhwh, Yahweh), the proper noun of Israel’s God; most English translations render the construction LORD God (e.g., Genesis 2:4; Exodus 9:30; Judges 21:3; 1 Samuel 23:10; Nehemiah 9:7).¹ Also, God is a triune God composed of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19), For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one (1 John 5:7–8 KJV).

The Greek word for God is theos, meaning the supreme divinity, or creator of all things. Therefore, God is light, purity, eternal life, positive energy, and success. In Him there is no darkness at all, and He is the most dependable source to accomplish great things (1 John 1:5 KJV). Given the love feast nature of God, this leads us to the best news ever: God our Savior wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:3–4).This process becomes possible by one Mediator (one God) who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus, who gave His life to purchase the freedom for everyone (1 Timothy 2:5–6).

The same way God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth, Satan stands for the complete opposite. Who is Satan? In the OT, Satan is primarily signified with the Hebrew root שׂטן (śṭn), which means to oppose, to slander, or to be hostile² (Satanas): a celestial being who opposes God, His purposes, and the people of His kingdom. The Greek term derives from the Hebrew noun שָׂטָן (śāṭān). In the New Testament (NT), Satan is attributed with being the source of all sin and evil in the world (Mark 4:15; Luke 22:3; 1 Timothy 5:15) and a cause of sickness and death (Luke 13:16; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 12:7). In addition to the name Satanas, he is referred to by several other terms or titles, including the enemy (Matthew 13:39), the evil one (Ephesians 6:16; 2 Thessalonians 3:3), and the devil (diabolos, e.g., Matthew 4:5; Ephesians 6:11). Revelation 12:9 (NLT) piles up several titles for this figure: This great dragon-the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world-was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.³ You are exempt from Satan’s limited world if you belong to God’s eternal and everlasting kingdom.

The concept of evil is generally used to describe behavior or attitudes characterized by wickedness and intent to cause harm. The first references to evil (רַע, raʿ) in the OT canon define the concept in opposition to good (ṭôb), with reference to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:9, 17; 3:5, 22).⁴ Clearly, this explains the nature of humans to be good and evil having been eaten from the forbidden tree. Regardless of the choice our first parent made to eat from the tree of good and evil, those that accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior will eat from the tree of life again (Revelation 22:2). Oh! I can only imagine.

It is a fact that God exists, and it is also true that the devil existed in the realm way before God created humankind. That is life, and it is a reality that we must endure and live with. The devil opposes everything that is right, eternal, light, encouraging, or full of life, success, and truth. In short, evil is everything that contradicts what God stands for.

Some of you I may shock by what I am going