3_The Price of Success
Channel: CCSeguin
Date: 2021-01-20

The Price of Success
Win the Day – Week 3

1 Corinthians 9:24:27
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
    
1. Fully commit. (establish your grand gesture)


2. Play for the long game.

Hebrews 12:2
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

- It’s the stuff nobody sees that brings the results everyone wants. 
- We tend to overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what can be accomplished in 3-5 years. 


3. Start small. Aim low.

Zechariah 4:10
Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand."