With God’s help, we will choose what we want most over what we want now.

Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! ²⁵All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. ²⁶So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. ²⁷I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. …

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!

1 Corinthians 9:24 

Key Points:

• You’ve been trying to hard for too long.
• Stop trying/ Start training
• Trying never achieves consistent results. Training does.
• TRYING: is an attempt to change with minimal commitment. 
• TRAINING: is wholehearted commitment to achieve a specific result.
• When you train , You tend to your own fire

Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training.

1 Corinthians 9:25

… train yourself to be godly.

1 Timothy 4:7

Training is doing what I can do today to enable me to do even more tomorrow.

 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. ²⁷I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. …

1 Corinthians 9:26-27