Winning Time

4 Ways to Win in the Game of Life

Game: a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck

1. Don't Rely on Luck

Ecclesiastes 9:11–12 NIV

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

Good Luck and Bad Luck

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2. Get a Coach and be Coachable

Proverbs 11:14 KJV 1900

Where no counsel is, the people fall: But in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

Proverbs 11:14 NIV

For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.

Proverbs 9:9–10 ESV

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

John 14:26 ESV

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

3. Play to Win

1 Corinthians 9:24–27 NIV

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.

4. Pick the BEST Teammate

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:31 ESV

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:37–39 ESV

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Summary: Prepare to Win, Plan to be Coached, Play to Win, Pick Jesus, and watch the Supernatural show up in your life.

Winning Time