Life is full of challenges, and there is always an opportunity to give up if we will take it. However I know that you won’t, because YOU are a champion. Here are some ways to conquer the every circumstance that life may throw at you.

1. Confront.

Ah that nasty word that not everyone likes to hear. I know it is often easier to avoid or ignore a situation or event than it is to confront it. But avoiding something is to live in denial and conquerors don’t live in denial.

No situation is going to change if we ignore it.

Conquerors face the truth and they face it with faith and a positive mindset focused on winning. You are a conqueror, right?

2. Consult

This is where you can begin to understand the importance of keeping a journal. When you have a record of the experiences of your life and how you conquered them, it serves as a positive encouragement in times when something else shows up to challenge you.

Your journal may contain notes about your relationship with God and how you saw His Hand changing impossible situations for you as you stood in faith. These will certainly inspire you to stand in faith once more and expect to see yet another miracle happen in your life as you face a new and challenging situation.

You will have noted your strategies, your solutions and the advice you received during challenging situations in the past as well as your decisions. These will also certainly serve to once again help you discover the solutions for the present challenge.

3. Challenge

Everything that happens to you in life will either make you or break you. The choice is yours.
Since you are a champion, I know you will choose to take this event and make it into something that will change you for the better.

When there are important choices to make the best thing to do is to find some time alone to be quiet for a while. Of course your journal and a pencil or pen will be with you.

The first thing to do is to make sure your emotions are quiet. You will not want to make any important decisions based on emotions. Your decisions will be based on what is the best for you and your family. The decisions you make should take you closer to your life’s purpose.

Refer to Finding Your Life Purpose

4. Choice

The decision (or decisions) you make that will lead you to conquer will be made after you:

• Face the facts. No burying your head in the sand or ignoring anything hoping it will go away. It won’t.
• Have taken the time to reflect, and consult with your journal.
• Have made sure your emotions are well under control
• Have taken the time to note down the pros and cons, and taken a good hard look at them.
• Face the consequences that may occur as a result of your decision.
• Decide you will deal with these consequences (NOT resign yourself to them).
• Accept the challenge to confront everything that may occur and pursue victory.

5. Create

Let your creativity flow. Lots of very positive solutions can some when your mind is in a creative mode. Above all remember:

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So what does it mean to cope? The dictionary gives several meanings which include “get by, make it, put up with it”.

The word “cope” is actually a very negative word. It is synonymous with resign. The resigned person has usually given up in at least one area of his/her life. You will hear a resigned person say things like:

• Well I tried to make a change, but it did not work, now I will just have to grin and bear it.
• We will just have to cut down on some things. I think we will make it.
• Well I guess I will just have to put up with it, what else can I do? (Have you heard someone say something similar to this lately? I have.)

OK:
** We may be facing difficult times as far as the economy goes.
** We may be facing difficulties in family relationships, work relationships, with friends or foes.
** We may be facing many impossibilities and obstacles that seem to be holding us back from realizing our dreams.

BUT

We ALWAYS have a choice! We are born to conquer!

Are you focused on coping or conquering?

A famous evangelist you may well have heard of, Oral Roberts, often proclaimed in his preaching:

You can’t go under for going over!

Are you focused on going over? Or are you struggling with fears that you will go under?

That can be you! You can live a life that is so focused on conquering it has no time for defeat. It depends on you! You may find yourself having to make a choice many times a day. The choice will be:

Am I going to resign to this situation? Or am I going to find a way to conquer it or in spite of it?

What is your answer? Your answer is the first step in the direction of your choice.

It takes faith to conquer. Here is an excellent book that will help you turn your live around to focus on conquering in every area of your life.

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life.
As Jesse says:, “Somebody is going to succeed…why not you?”

Jesse explores such topics as:
* The amazing power of your God given human imagination.
* The strategic power of “determined” thoughts
* What to do if you feel it’s too late for your dream. (Good news here)
* Use the magnetic power of words to draw in what you know is yours.
* How to overcome discouragement
* What are the “Greatest Weaknesses” and “Destiny Killers”

During the month of February I will be looking deeper into this theme of coping or conquering and we will be discussing some creative ways to conquer no matter what life throws at us!