Before The Cock Crows

TEXT: Mark 14:26; Matt. 26:30-35

I - HOLD ON TO YOUR VISION

• It is not what happens that matters but what you think about it. Isa. 41:8-14
• What you can't hold, you cannot have and what you cannot maintain cannot stand. Ps. 78:9-12
• The zeal that pushes your life forwards is your insight and foresight in what you are doing. James 5:17-18
• When you hear or see victory, it does not mean there were no problem, it simply mean a decision to fight to the end and win. Isa. 41:15-16; 2 Cor. 4:13-18
• Don't go behind the time nor before the time, just be on time. Psalm 27:1

II - OPPOSITION AGAINST YOUR POSITION

• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Rom. 8:31-32
• Opposition simply means fighting your position and reducing your personality not to excel. Psalm 27:2-6; Psalm 3:1-6
• Negativity makes you smaller while positive thought forces you to grow beyond what you are - look beyond what you see Psalm 78:9-12; Num. 13:31-33
• What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you Job 19:25-27
• Do what you can with what you have where you are no matter the opposition Phil. 1:6; 1 Thes. 5:24

III - ARISE AND FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT

• Greatness does not *** is being strong but I the right use of your strength Jer. 51:20-23
• A man is not finished when he is defeated he is finished when he quits. 2 Sam 23:8-12
• Nothing is as productive in the day of hardship like being optimistic toward matters. Psalm 18:1-16; Psalm 30:5-11

IV - YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL

• Though no one can go back. And make a brand new start. Any one can start from now and make a brand new ending. Isa. 1:18-20
• The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. When you lack understanding it is finished. Psalm 82:5-7; Prov. 4:7
• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation and the hand is the cutting of the mind. Nothing is yet wrong you can move forward and make it. John 15:16