Good morning people with determination and resolve

I am reading ‘The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham’ and I highly recommend it to you. We need to learn from greatness and I think Billy Graham, by God’s grace and Billy’s focus, is one of the greatest example of Christ we have today. In this book, the writers share a famous speech by Theodore Roosevelt which was so powerful I felt it good to share it with you. Theodore was a man who knew deep personal loss and hardship very intimately yet went on to achieve greatness. Here’s an insight that I pray we can all learn from.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Here’s my prayer for every one of us.

“Father, let us know the greatness of doing your will. Let us hear clearly and obey boldly. Let us step out of the boat of comfort onto the waters of possibilities. Let us believe that ‘all things are possible’. May we be ones who make the most of this precious life you’ve given us and dare to believe that our lives can make a difference. For your Name’s sake Jesus, amen.”