Win Before You Begin

​Do you want to change your week ahead before the week ahead even unfolds? Ok then, change your mind about the week ahead.

We have SO little control over the events awaiting us this last week of October, but we have FULL control over what our mind thinks about how we'll tackle those events.

Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. says, "God wants you to win on the inside before you ever see a win on the outside."

Let me tell you, I've spent a lot of my life with that equation inverted. I've spent a lot of my life waiting for victories in my life - praying for them even - so I'd have the chance to experience victorious feelings.

"Win before you begin," Wilkerson says.

Taking a victorious mind into the week ahead is the surest path to a victorious week. If we're going to wait until Friday to decide if the week has been victorious, chances are suddenly much greater that we'll experience the agony of defeat.

The events of my life rarely go the way I imagine them, so the alternative to knowing I'll be victorious through all events is to put my self at risk for feeling soundly defeated on the other side of them.

Win before you begin.

Before you take a step into your week, win it.

When you know your week ahead is going to be your week, nothing can shake what you already know. Faith doesn't dismiss that the week ahead may be full of challenges, it just refuses to let you easily dismiss that with God, no challenge has stopped you yet.

Don't wait until Friday to count your victories.

Count them right here and now.