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How to Win Against All Odds

DAY 1 OF 3

Wake Up!

It may seem hard to believe that your life has a purpose when negative things are happening around you. Have you ever sat down to watch TV or to read a book and quickly drifted off to sleep; and woke up hours later?

This is how hardships affect your life when you fall asleep on your dreams. When you allow what you have been going through to take control of your life and make decisions for you, you wake up days, months, or even years later, further away from your dreams and goals.

Stagnation slowly creeps upon you; then, you’ll find yourself going through the motions feeling lost and depleted. Life continues to happen without your input, and you sleep through it all.

According to dictionary.com, sleep is to become dormant, inactive, careless, and unaltered.

If the devil can get you to fall asleep by using your emotions to make you feel defeated, discouraged, or disappointed, he wins. He plans to make you give up on yourself; he does this by overwhelming you with life’s circumstances, disappointments, and situations causing you to go into a deeper sleep. In other words, you become dormant, inactive, and careless about life; you lose your motivation and drive to fulfill your purpose.

This is a trap!

The enemy is very subtle in his attacks. Initially, you don’t see them coming. Then one day, you’ll hear yourself saying, “How did I get here” or “I never expected my life to be like this.” While you’re in your pity party, the devil continues to gain control of your life - little by little by planting seeds of doubt and discord in your mind about God, and not long afterwards, you’ll start to lose faith in God’s power to save you. You become comatose, which means you may require special assistance and services to learn how to function again!

But you can change the narrative of your life starting today - if you wake up!

Wake up in Hebrew means to reconsider. Reconsider means to consider again, especially to change a decision or action.

Use today to reconsider that what you are going through is temporary and God has a plan for your pain. Just look back over your life with a new lens and remember that what He promised you before will still happen in your life. Wake up!

He is the same GOD that brought you out before and will bring you out again!

This is what I want you to do:

Stretch your arms and wipe your eyes as if you are literally waking up from a long sleep, and declare TODAY your comeback!

Your comeback is not about your finances, career, business, family, or anything tangible changing in your life immediately. The truth of the matter is that things may not change externally today. Still, you can experience an immediate comeback internally if you wake up your mind and reconsider the fact that you’re on the winning team!

And soon, you will begin to see a change in your life and even look at what you’re going through from a different perspective. YOU’RE A THOUGHT AWAY FROM CHANGE.

You will win against all odds!

Day 2