By Archbishop-Elect Dr. Solomon O. Gbakara

 Whether you know it or not once you are born into the world you are born into a battle front. In the book of Job  5:6-7, we read “Although affliction cometh not forth of dust, neither doth trouble as the sparks fly upward”  Also Job14:1 says “man that is born of a woman is of few days and  full of trouble” Therefore we can see that every human being is born into a battle, he either fight to win or refuses to fight and perish. Just as there are strategies to win the physical battles in the same way there are strategies to win the battles of life.

What is a strategy?

It is a plan, system or a method that is put in place or that is applied to position an individual a group of people or an organization for a greater achievement over a long period of time or that makes them to stay at the top or make them to stand out among their competitors
Joshua 1:8.
There are two kinds of people that are born into the world, the winner and the loser. Without adversity or temporary defeat you will not know the kind of stuff that you are made off Exodus 13:7, Exodus 14:8 – 30,  proverbs 24:10. As a matter of fact, without a test or an examination there is no promotion. If you want to be great in life you must strife to be a winner and to be a winner what are the strategies that you must put in place.

Some of these strategies are as follow:

1.    Form a good habit and become a slave to it, Rom 6:16, habits such as dedication and diligence at work, addiction to prayer, studying the word of God and meditating on it, fasting often, forgiveness etc.

2.    Let love rule your life, love all categories of men, the lovable and the unlovable, 1 Corinth 13:1 – 13. Love is the secret of success learn how to relate to all categories of men, Hebrews 12:14.

3.    Apply the principle of persistence in all that you do in life. Persist until you succeed in your endeavor, you must never give up or consider defeat in your heart
Proverbs 24:16.

4.    You must remove negative or impossibility word from the dictionary of your vocabulary. Proverbs 13:2 in other word, let your word agree with your plan of achievement in life. No matter what the situation may be never confess negative.

5.    Realize that God created only one of you and that you are unique in nature.  There is no basis of comparing yourself with another person. Do not try to be like any other person, be yourself and keep improving yourself. 1peter 2:9.

6.    You must refuse to dwell on the past either of success or failure forget the past and look up to the future with hope and desire to succeed, Philippians 3:13.

7.    You must be a master of your emotion, proverb 16:32. The ability to control your emotion will deliver you from making hasty decision.

8.    You must have a goal that you are pursuing in life. Without a goal post the game of football will be an exercise in futility. If you don’t have a goal there is nothing to live for and nothing to achieve, 1 Corinth 9:25 – 26.

9.    Be a man of action. Destroy every tree of procrastination in your life. What you are supposed to do today, do not put it till another day.  Be a proactive personality, James 2:17 – 18.
   
10.    You must be a service prayer addict. Put all your plans under the control of God and seek for his guidance in all your ways finally 2 Peter 1:5 – 10 “And besides this, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness Charity.

For all these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor Unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure,  for if ye do these things ye shall never fall”

It is my prayer that as you apply these strategies you will be a victor in the battles of life.

Last changed: Jul 07 2016 at 3:06 PM

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