Minor Adjustments: "Anywhere But Backward"Sample

"You Must Have Endurance"

Rising to a challenge reveals hidden abilities within you that otherwise would have remained dormant. You don’t know what you’re capable of until you have to cope. Wise people like you and me have always understood the connection between suffering and growth. When there is something great inside of a man/woman, there will be obstacles in their path that are designed to stimulate their minds, harden their natures, and improve wherever they may be incompetent. All the great people like you and me must have ENDURANCE.

• The word endurance means the ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, or stress, or other adverse conditions. 

· What have you had to endure through?

· Where has your greatest challenge come from?

· Did you ever think you would have made it this far?

· Do you learn/grow from your suffering?

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for anything, as well as saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it, and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that because it's endurance. Does anybody think that you didn't get what you wanted because you didn't have the talent or the strength or the commitment to get it? No, you lacked endurance!

An olive has to go through three stages before the oil can run: It has to go through the shaking, the beating, and the pressing. Just like the olive, some of us feel like we went through the shaking, the beating, and the pressing, and we are right. But just like that olive, you went through what you went through just to get your oil (the Purpose in you) to flow. One of the things you must learn to develop in this endurance process is how to handle DISCOURAGEMENT.

• The word discouragement means to oppose by expressing disapproval.

· Who discourages you?

· What encourages you?

· Where do you get the most disapproval?

· How do you think you handled going through the shaking, the beating, and the pressing?

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. Perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes how far you can go with God.