[Discoveries] 07-23-08 On the winning team -- Isaiah 14:24

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*Exactly as I planned, it will happen. Following My blueprints, it will 
take shape. -- Isaiah 14:24*/

Confidence. When I was a high school student, I took a class in 
competitive debate. At first I thought, "What have I gotten myself 
into?" I hated it! I was so, so bad at it.

Back in those days we would research a topic and write quotes from 
experts that we thought might support our position on index cards. Well, 
in the beginning, I got up, read my pile of index cards and sat down. 
I'm sure some people in the room had to bite their tongues to keep from 
laughing out loud -- or from falling asleep.

The only person who had any confidence in me whatsoever was my dear 
mother. She kept telling me what a great job I was doing. It was a lie. 
But she believed it. And, after a while, I believed it. I got up and I 
started to really believe that I was good enough to win.

Guess what? I started to win. I went from being the worst of the worst 
my Freshman year to being one of the top ten debaters in the state by 
the end of my Sophomore year. My sights were set on winning the national 
high school debate tournament before I left for college. (That's another 
story.)

It's a great feeling to be on the winning team. And that's what we are. 
We are on the winning team. God doesn't have any doubts about His 
ability to turn everything in your life and in mine into triumph.

It gives our little failings and temptations and lapses a little 
different spin, doesn't it? God is going to win. And because we are His 
children, we will win with Him.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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