Life,Training,Adversities...Wi DIY Life Training - Adversities...Will You Succumb to it or over

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } If not for Goliath David wouldn’t he have stayed as a lowlyshepherd boy?  By besting Goliath Davidbecame a phenomenal King! A rodeo rider wants the meanest bull he can get!  He’ll get a better score.  You need to keep in mind, that it’s not whatyou are going “through” that is of prime importance but it’s what youare going “to” that matter! Adversity will make you stronger ifyou let it!             Wilma Rudolph wasthe 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and the doctors didn't expecther to survive. But she did, at the age of 4 she contracted double pneumoniaand scarlet fever, which left her with her left leg paralyzed.              One beautifulSundayat the age of 9 she detached the metal leg brace shehad relied on for the past five years and began walking down the aisle of herchurch.              By age 13, shehad learned a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year,she was determined to begin running. Thus she entered her first race but camein last.              She came in dead last for the nextthree years, in every race she entered. But, she persisted on running until theday came that she won a race.              She becamemore determined than ever and in 1958, she began college at Tennessee StateUniversity and became a member of Ed Temple’s “Tigerbelles” track team. In 1960,she was able to set a world record for the 200 meter dash during the Olympictrials.              Eventually, thelittle girl who was not supposed to live and then who was not supposed to beable to walk would win three Olympic gold medals            Hergreat testimony was a direct result of her great test since she absolutelyrefused to let her adversity deny her dreams. It is an established fact that you can’t runbefore you walk. You can’t sing before you talk.  There is a natural progression togrowth.   Everybody wants those great testimonies.  But I’m here to tell you, you can’t have atestimony until you’ve had a test. Let’s look at some of the lyrics from a songI wrote that I think are pertinent to our discussion.              Thevictor’s crown only goes to those who’ve been in war. Eagles can’t stay intheir nest if they want to soar.  Sitting on the side lines you’ll never be your best. You can’thave a testimony ‘til you’ve had a test.”  And the chorus goes,  You can’t have a testimony ‘til you’ve had a test.   First the trial of your faith then you willbe blessed.  A seed must die, and be buried before it has success. You can’thave a testimony till you’ve had a test. Isn’t that like life? Listen to the next verse.  “God won’t send thirsty people to an empty well. Heaven’s cup sureis sweeter once you’ve tasted hell. There’s no wine until the grape had gone through the press. Youcan’t have a testimony ‘til you’ve had a test.  Some of you want that sweet fragrance of wine. You want your lifeto be like a fine wine getting better with age. But, you can’t have the “wine”until the “grape’- your life, your struggles - has gone through the press.  Challenges can cause the muscles to grow. Think about this ... youwouldn’t be what you are today unless you had walked through what you’ve had towalk through. You had to deal with those adversities. Unless you had known whatit’s like to fail ... unless you’ve tasted the bitter cup you won’t understandthe sweetness of success when it comes. And it will come! It’s how you “re”act that will help determine your destiny.It’s not how you act in the midst of adversity... it’s             Before the on setof the Civil War, Edmund McIlhenny operated a sugar plantation and a saltworkson Avery Island, Louisiana. Yankee troops invaded the area in 1863, andMcIlhenny had to flee. When he returned in 1865, his sugar fields and saltworks were ruined.  Oneof the few things left were some hot Mexican peppers that had reseededthemselves in the kitchen garden. McIlhenny, who was living hand to mouth,started experimenting with the ground peppers to make a sauce that would livenup his dull diet. His new found sauce is known today as Tabasco sauce. To this day, over a hundredyears later, the McIlhenny Company and its Tabasco business is still run by theMcIlhenny family. Heallowed his adversity to build him rather than break him. It has become a tritesaying none the less it’s true ... when life gives you lemons ... makelemonade! Didyou know that when a baby chick is born and you try to help it by taking offthe shells that you are probably dooming that chick.  Because the struggle to free itself it whatdevelops it’s lungs and muscles.  Thefight to survive keeps it alive. There are battles we must fight if we are tolive! Oftentimes when our struggles seem lost and we face criticism, we have to realizethat the only way we can avoid it easily is by saying nothing, doing nothingand being nothing!             Think about this... The higher we fly the smaller we appear to those who choose to stay on theground! Here’ssome free advice ... a freebee from Eby ... Don’ttalk to cynics and don’t address critics. It’slike this, folks, sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. IfGod allowed us to go through all our life without any obstacles, that wouldcripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. As spiritualbeing of renowned benevolence he gave us the will power to decide what would befitting to our self worth, our personal mission and choose our path based onthese assumptions. Don’tlet adversity break you.  Make up yourmind to break through!