Running the race and Finishing with Gold

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Today's sermon is about running and finishing the set race with gold;

Before we were born, a race had been set for us to run. Everybody has an individual and specific race to run. How everyone runs their race differently. For example, the way a Pastor to be ordained will run his race will be different from the way a General Overseer will run his race as the gravity of both responsibilities (race) are different.

Jer 1: 4-5;

⁴ The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

⁵ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

In order to run the race,  you need to understand the race that has been set for you. You need to get the clarity that will lead to the focus on the counsel of the Lord.

Proverbs 29.18;

¹⁸Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

You need to discipline yourself for the race, if you don't know where you are going it is difficult to focus on the race set for you.

Do you know what the vision (race) before you is? What is the vision (race) before you that is worth the price?

You cannot run a race with heavy weight, it is a lose-lose situation to run a race with weight. To run a race, you need to let go of heavy weights.

You need to run the race with patience and endurance. This helps to keep the focus on the goal.

Distraction can also lead to lose of focus. Avoid every distraction possible. Place your focus on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Heb 12.2;

²Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

In running the race this year, our focus should be that 'what is the verdict of God on your life by the end of 2012?

Seek the face of the Lord to know the race that He has set before you.

Pray to the Lord that this year, 'You will not run in vain the race concerning every area of my life', 'The verdict of the Lord will be sweet to hear by the end of year'.

Have a blessed week and God bless

Regards

Team Christ Church Leeds

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