WHO ARE WINNERS?
Winners are successful people, they are people who make
outstanding achievement here on earth. Winners are record breakers, they carry
the intelligent quotient of Jehovah God.
Winners are celebrity, they are stars to their generation, they
are solution to the problems of men, they command attention and attraction in
their generation. Winners are risk takers, impossibilities are not in their
dictionary, success is their lifestyle.
WHAT IS ATTITUDE?
Attitude means your behavior, it is who you really are, it is the
reflection of your true self, its roots are inward but its fruit are outward, your
attitude is your best friend or your worst enemy, it is more honest and more
consistent than your words and Your attitude is your future outlook based on
your past experience.
Your attitude either draws people to you or repels them, it is
never content until it is expressed, it is the librarian of our past, it is the
speaker of our present, it is the prophet of our future, Your ATTITUDE
determines your ALTITUDE, your attitude determines where you get to in life
It is quite unfortunate that many people pursue ALTITUDE without
considering their ATTITUDE. Apostle Paul was speaking in Phil 2 v 5
“Let this mind be in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus”
Your
attitude should be the same as that of the Lord Jesus Christ, When
Apostle Paul was telling the Philippians
“Let this mind be in you”
He was simply telling them: Let this attitude be in you, let this
life style be in you and Let this behavior be in you
“…..which was also in Christ Jesus”
Jesus Christ
was successful and was able to fulfill His mission because of His attitude. The
7 attitudes of winners include:
1.
Purpose
2.
Prayer
3.
Planning
4.
Picturing
5.
Pursue
6.
Patience
7.
Presence of God
I call them
the 7 Ps of winners, lets consider them one after the other
1. PURPOSE
Your purpose
is the reason for your existence, A man without purpose is a man without a
future, your purpose is your aim and objective in life and Purpose gives
determination and strength. In Jud 13 v 5, the purpose of Samson’s creation was
to deliver his people from the hand of the Philistines
“For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and
bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a
Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of
the hand of the Philistines”
Samson could
not even deliver himself let alone delivering his people, Samson never fulfil
his purpose. In Jud 16 v 30, he died with the enemy
“And Samson said, let me die with
the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and
the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein.
So, the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which
he slew in his life”
Hear this,
until you discover your God’s given treasure you will not be treasured by men
2. PRAYER
A prayerless
Christian is a powerless Christian, A prayerless Christian is like a toilet
paper in the hand of the devil, show me a praying Christian and I will show you
a terror to the kingdom of darkness. In Mk 1 v 35, Jesus prayed before he
succeeded in ministry
“And in the morning, rising up a
great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and
there prayed”
Before you
can achieve anything in life you need to pray, the strongest action you can
take in any situation is to go on your knees and ask God for help. In Ph 4 v 6,
Apostle Paul counsel us that we should
“Be careful for nothing; but in
everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God”
John Knox
singlehandedly prayed and interceded for an entire nation, at a time when there
was moral decadence in the land. He told God: “Give me Scotland or I die” and
God heard him.
The great
Apostle Ayo Babalola in 1930 brought the greatest revival ever recorded in the
history of Nigeria, he was a man of prayer.
3. PLANING
Jesus tells
us in Lk14 v 28, 31
“For which of you, intending to
build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he
have sufficient to finish it?”
“Or what king, going to make war
against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able
with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?”
These are
effective power of planning, Jesus lived a planned life, even His mission here
on earth was planned. Your good plan will determine where you get to in the
journey of life. Planning makes things easy for a man, there is a popular
saying that “he who fails to plan will plan to fail”.
4. PICTURING
You need to
visualize your plan, there is a need for you to have the picture of your plan.
God told Habakkuk in Hab 2 v 2
“And the LORD answered me, and
said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he
may run that readeth it”
The vision
must be written, what do you see, where do you see yourself in the next 10
years? While others are seeing giant, Caleb and Joshua only saw the promise
land. The question is what do you see?
Until you
picture it, you cannot pick it. When picturing, we need to picture Jesus
because our lives depend on Him.
Heb12 v 2
gave us an important insight that the secrete of winning is to picture
Jesus.
“Looking 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”
5. PURSUE
A man
without plan is not different from a man that doesn’t pursue his plan. When God
sees someone who does not quit, He look down and say: “This is someone (a
winner) who I can use”.
There is no
future for the lazy, it takes faith to pursue. In 1Sam 30 v 8, the scripture
says
“And David inquired at the LORD,
saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered
him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail
recover all”
Without
pursuing there is no winning, to pursue require a lot of energy.
6. PATIENCE
Of all the
virtues patience is the least dramatic, Patience is the ability to wait or
persevere. The Bible refers to patience as perseverance, long suffering.
Somebody said “Patience is calm down before blasting”. The hardest lesson to
learn in life is patience. Ecc 7 v 8b says
“And the patience in spirit is
better than the proud in spirit”
Patience is
one quality we all admire but no one can pay the price, how beautiful is the
word patience. There is a saying that “The patience dog eats the fattest bone”.
Patience is a protection against wrongs, Patience put JOHN in a place of
REVELATION. Patience is the vehicle that took Abraham Lincon to the White
House. Patience put the name of Thomas Eddyson in the history of greatest
inventor, it is a power of holding oneself calmly. It is a needed ingredient
for achievement in life.
We cannot
learn patience from book but we can only learn it by experiencing it, if you
need patience you need Jesus. Patience is the virtue and lifestyle of the
kingdom. Peter, John, Mathew and others followed Jesus patiently and the story
of their change for better. If you must be a winner then you need Patience.
7. PRESENCE OF GOD
Jesus
carried the presence of God and that was what made Him a winner. The Bible
speaking in Act 10 V 38
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all
that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him”
Out of all
the attitude the presence of God is most important, the presence of God is the
abiding presence of God, when a man carried the presence of God, he carried the
intelligent quotient of Jehovah God Himself. No man can become a winner without
the presence of God.
Men who
carry the presence of God in the scripture are men who commanded attention and
attraction in their generation. When you carry the presence of God, you carry
divine rest from every struggle. God told Moses in Exo 33 v 14
“My presence shall go with thee,
and I will give thee rest”
When you
carry His presence, you become separated from them Exo 33 v 16b says
“So shall we be separated, I and
thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth”
His presence
distinguishes a man
What the consciousness of the
presence of God would do for you
1.
It prevents you from committing sin
Joseph said
in Gen 39 v 9b “How then can I do this great
wickedness and sin against God”
2.
It gives confidence to challenge every form of opposition
David told
Goliath in 1 Sam 17 v 45 “Thou comest
to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in
the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast
defied”
3.
It will make you understand the mind of God
4.
It will make you to see what others couldn’t see and hear
what others couldn’t hear
How to bring down the presence of
God
I.
Praise Him
II.
Communicate with Him in prayers
III.
Love Him with all your Heart
When you add
all the alphabets that make up the word ATTITUDE, it gives you 100. This means
your attitude must be 100%, it must be good, perfect, positive and complete. If
you must be a winner, you must be perfect in your ATTITUDE towards God and man.
You’re a winner, don’t settle for anything less.
