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Whatever you’re facing right now that is uncomfortable or a challenge to accomplish, believe you’ve got this. Believe you can. If you don’t believe you can, then you can’t. You’ll back away and allow something to stop you.
Listen, nobody can stop what God has for you. It’s meant for you. Hear that. This is meant for you. The success, that accomplishment, the ability to overcome or make something good happen. It’s in you. You’ve got this.
That means it isn’t out of your reach. What you must do isn’t beyond you. How can it be, when God has put Himself in your spirit and set you up so you’ll do well. This is a belief that Christians who have seen God’s will done in a great way for them have inside them. You’ll do well.
This is to where a young man had to come when he was competing in the Olympics. His name has been famous for many years because he competed in the Olympics in Germany just before World War II. Those were tough conditions in which to compete.
But the man, Jesse Owens, was on the track team for the U.S. that year. He had much going for him. Good coaching, good experience, and great talent and he had been winning his competitions. One of his best events was the broad jump.
All that taken into account, he should do well. It was expected. But all it was about to be tested. As you know, in the Olympics those athletes wanting to compete must qualify in some competitions that take place before the final one. If they don’t perform well in the qualifiers, they cannot compete in the final. In fact, the Summer Olympics for 2024 begin on July 26, and many of the young people will be working to qualify or they cannot compete.
So it was important that Jesse Owens do well in the qualifying events. But when it came to the broad jump, he was having trouble. He was supposed to win that event with ease because in the past he had won first place in every track meet in which he competed except one.
But on that day, he said this, “Something was going wrong. I couldn’t imagine what was happening to spoil my jumping technique, but I had jumped only 23’6” as a qualification effort and apparently was about to be eliminated.” He couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t doing well. He knew he had the ability and experience and that God’s hand was on him. But things weren’t working out. He was stumped. He just needed someone to tell him he would do well.
We’ve all been at that place. We know who we are in God, we have believed, but why isn’t this working? “Why am I not seeing the results I need?” We may feel stumped, but we won’t stay there! That’s when God sends the words we need so we can do well.
In those moments, a young German man who was Jesse's opponent came up to help him. He had been watching Jesse trying to qualify in his jumps. He knew he had just one more opportunity and he would miss out.
Oh, when we are in that moment that we have just one more try, one more moment, one more opportunity, and then it will be over, that’s when we depend on God.
In those moments, the German came over and remeasured the steps Jesse was taking and then he remeasured his takeoff mark. Afterwards, he took Jesse’s sweatshirt and put it right next to the takeoff board as a marker to help him judge his jump. That was all it took. Jesse took his final try and was able to produce the results so he qualified. In the final jump for the competition, Owens jumped over 26 feet and won it! He just needed someone to say to him by their actions, "You'll do well".
You may feel stumped right now and don’t understand why conditions aren’t better. Why aren’t you doing well? Believe that God will send just what you need. Believe that when you’re tested, you’ll do well. You just needed someone to tell you that today.
Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I’LL DO WELL!”
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