The Secret To Winning

The secret to winning

I have some amazing friends in Northern California who love everything about
Texas except the Dallas Cowboys. Bless their hearts, I have to allow them
some stupidity. 



They call our beloved football team "The evil empire" and refer to Jerry
Jones as "The Emperor". They believe our new stadium to be an unholy place
and say it looks like the death star. Of course, they are just jealous
because the 49ers stink and the bible says where envy is there is every evil
work.  As my kids would say, get over your bad self.



Blue & White Blood 

I was raised to be a loyal Cowboy fan. If someone in my family doesn't like
the Cowboys it is believed to be a manifestation of a demonic spirit or
proof one of my grandmothers jumped the fence and polluted our DNA.    



I totally left our families tradition of being a GMC fan and bought a new
Dodge truck several years ago, I have converted from PC to Mac but it would
be a fatal blow to my dear old mom and dad if I didn't root for the cowboys.
My rebellion can only go so far.



As a Cowboy fan, I have paid close attention to what our coaches have said
through they years. The great Tom Landry didn't speak very much but when he
did, sometimes it was brilliant. In a 1979 interview with dandy Don
Meredith, Coach Landry said, "A winner never stops trying and the real
secret to winning is being constant and consistent.



Constant, Consistent and Faithful

I was thinking about Coach Landry this morning while listening to my friend
Graham Cook preach from a conference several years ago. Like Coach, Graham
believes that having victory is all about being consistent and constant. He
went on to say that in order to tap into a consistent and constant walk of
progression in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must understand how God
persistently and constantly keeps us. He's not on again and off again with
us. He is for us and loves us all the time.  I know a lot of people don't
believe that but I do and this is Fresh From The Brewer. Ha!



"The great thing about journeying with the Lord," Graham says, "is that He
knows how to keep us. Day after day.there is no situation or no circumstance
.where He does not have the power to keep us and to prosper us in all those
things.".



"That's a fabulous thought for me because in all of the ups and downs of
life, God is the one remaining constant. What The Holy spirit is teaching us
today is how to be constant like God is..and the biggest part of that deal
is that you can not know what it is like to be constant, consistent, and
faithful unless you know what it is like to be kept by God and experience
him as all those things.What God wants from you, He first of all gives to
you."  Graham says.



Well I tip my hat to Graham and to coach Landry both for mapping out this
important Kingdom principle of victory. You can't give away what you do not
have. If we are going to be really victorious people we have to be
consistently constant in our pursuit and love for the Lord. The only way
that can happen is if we first understand how God never gives up on us. He's
just really neat like that.  



Troy Brewer Pastors Open Door Ministries near Joshua TX and can be reached
at troy@opendoorministries.org



Troy Brewer



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