On Memorial Day, many people look back to past acts to celebrate. This is good and honorable. Many have given much and some have given all, to make our Nation of America, great.

There is another great nation in the earth. It is the greatest, in
fact. It is the Kingdom of God and its growing citizenry.

Where a person puts their focus, will determine where a person
arrives. People tend to end up snared by who, or what, they set
their focus on.

We are exhorted in His holy Word to "look unto Jesus, the Author
and finisher of our faith." That is, put your focus on the Lord,
for it is He who gives your hope, promise, and gives His promise,
manifestation.

An important life lesson, comes alive, when a Believer learns,
problems may come, to your life, but they are powerless to rule
you, unless you empower them with the fuel of fear or unbelief.

In a person's life, problems will come. They cannot, however,
contain or overcome us, if we cast them down.

The enemy of our faith, belongs under our feet. Because, "Greater
is He who is in us, than he who is against us."

Remember, thoughts may come to us, and thoughts may persist in
their opposition to us, but, thoughtts not acted upon, will die, unborn.

Don't let fear or doubt cause you to give birth to bad seed,
(wrong thoughts), by acting in accordance with them, or by
saying, what those wrong thoughts, attempt to provoke you to
say.

Messiah taught a powerful lesson on guarding your faith, in
Matthew 6:31.
"God knows what you have need of, even before you ask...
therefore, do not take, as your own, any thought, which comes
to you, trying to cause you to say any word of doubt or unbelief,
contrary to God's promised provision."

An aquaintance used to say, "Your attitude in life, will
determine the altitude at which you encounter the challenges
of life."

Thoughts must be acted on for them to take root and grow. Wrong
thoughts are defeated easiest, when they are still in seed form.

Faith many times garners strength in one's determination. When
defeat, denial or distress are unacceptable options, victory
will come.

If you do not quit, you will win!

Mark 11:22 have faith in God, your source & supply
11:23 do not doubt in your heart
believe what God said
11:24 when you pray,
believe you have received, what He promised
and they (the promises believed) will come to you

Success is first an attitude. After standing against all opposition,
it becomes a testimony. I win, because I started out, a winner
"in Him".

We can catch a vision of attudinal success, by reviewing what fruit
it produced in a person's life.

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On
May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man, it
was 29,000 feet straight up.

He was knighted for his efforts. He even made American Express
card commercials because of it!

However, until we read his book, "High Adventure", we do not
understand, that Hillary had to grow into this success.

You see, in 1952 he had attempted to climb Mount Everest, but
failed.

A few weeks later a group in England asked him to address its
members.

Hillary walked on stage to thunderous applause. The audience
was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary
saw it otherwise.

He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the
platform. He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain.
He said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the first
time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all
you are going to grow...but I'm still growing!"

The Lord says in Joshua 6:2: "I have delivered Jericho into your
hands."

Did you catch that? It's not in the future tense. The Lord doesn't
say "I will deliver."

He says "I have delivered." The battle has already been won in the
spiritual realm. So the Lord proclaims His promise to them in the
past tense.

I think there are moments when you need to stop asking, and pleading
for God to do something and start praising Him for what He has
already done. Remember, "Praise quiets the lies, and stills the
storms of opposition, the evil one (avenger) throws at you (fiery
darts of doubt).

Faith, is believing that God has already delivered on the promise.

There is a confirmation in your spirit. You sense a breakthrough
in your spirit. The deep things of God's promises, call out to and
resonate with, the witness of His Spirit and His Word deep in your
inner man.

It is faith, that causes us to respond in Praise to the God of
promise, before the miracle or provision manifests.

Why?

Because faith knows God can be trusted,
Faith agrees with, "God said".
Faith accepts God's Word as title to what it promises.
Faith celebrates an "already" of God, before the senses catch up to
what God "has done" in the spirit.

Faith sees Future tense as Present provision, and celebrates the
end from the beginning.

We are in a winning season!

We seize His win in 2010.

His win means we've already won. Praise Him

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