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Beating the Air – Fighting Failure with Your Eyes Open

Your Logo Here. Beating the Air – Fighting Failure with Your Eyes Open. Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits By Bishop T. D. Jakes Rev. Dr. Shelia Yvette Smalley Bible Study Instructor Macedonia CLG. Chapter 2 – Read I Cor. 9:24-27 (CEV).

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Beating the Air – Fighting Failure with Your Eyes Open

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  1. Your Logo Here Beating the Air – Fighting Failure with Your Eyes Open Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits By Bishop T. D. Jakes Rev. Dr. Shelia Yvette Smalley Bible Study Instructor Macedonia CLG

  2. Chapter 2 – Read I Cor. 9:24-27 (CEV) • Self-Discipline: Running for EternalRewards(The Maxwell Leadership Bible) • Paul, the leader, challenges his readers to run the Christian life with focus (v.24) • train (v. 25) – This refers to months of severe training before a contest of wrestling or fighting with an opponent. • See contrast between corruptible and incorruptible crown

  3. Chapter 2 – I Cor. 9:24-27 (CEV) • compete with passion and fight with purpose (v. 26) - Paul claims to be running the race to win, and fighting the fight for the knockout blow. • Fight with absolute confidence in victory. • master their flesh (v. 27) – Keep the body under and bring it into subjection. • To strike one under the eye; to beat black and blue.

  4. Chapter 2 – I Cor. 9:24-27 (CEV) • This is Paul’s explanation of how he was boxing. • Figuratively speaking, he was not boxing, but beating his body black and blue to bring it into slavery lest he should become a castaway (Christless and literally rejected). • He considered his body an enemy with which he must contend in moral combat to keep it under control by self-denial, abstinence, and severe mortification.

  5. Chapter 2 – I Cor. 9:24-27 (CEV) • He acted to keep the body a slave to the soul. • Not permitting the soul to be the slave of the body. • He did this constantly lest after he had preached to others he would become a castaway. • Paul asks, If athletes work to get a trophy, why not we who receive eternal rewards?

  6. Chapter 2 • How do you get rid of the restrictions of past failures? • Page 26, paragraph 2 • Read and discuss: page 27, line 3 • What is involved in reaching your goals and dreams? • Page 27, paragraph 2

  7. Chapter 2 • As you reposition yourself to live life without limits, have you adjusted your thinking? • Page 27, Paragraph 3 • What role does continual reassessment play in repositioning yourself to reach your goals? • Reflect on and discuss page 29, paragraph 1

  8. Chapter 2 • Are you fighting without a purpose? • Page 29, paragraph 2-3 • What impact does change have on your life? How does change assist you in transformation? • Page 31, paragraph 1 • Answer questions on page 32, paragraph 2

  9. Chapter 2 • Read: I Corinthians 9:24-27 (NIV) • To obtain success in any area of your life, you must be intentional! • Page 33, paragraph 3 • How do you educate yourself from your past mistakes? • Page 36, paragraph 1

  10. Chapter 2 • What is your purpose in life? What are you doingto nurture your God-given gifts? • Page 36-37, paragraph 3 • Have you done an inventory on yourself? • Page 37 • What does adaptability have to do with you reaching your goals? • Page 39, paragraph 1

  11. Closing • Answer questions on page 39, paragraph 4 (top of page 40) • Complete Workbook Exercises in Chapter 2

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