How is your Life's Race going? Are you bogged down and in a rut? Do you know, deep down,
that you have unused potential, potential that is going to waste?
Discovering God's plan for our lives and then submitting to His plan enables us to become the person God created us to be.
Winning Life's Race: Messages With Meaning offers practical insights to help us become all God intended for us . Examples from each of the three sections follow below.
Our prayer for you is that reading the right message at the right time reveals to you that "Winning Life's Race" comes from surrendering your heart, head, and body over to Jesus Christ. This will allow the Holy Spirit's guidance to light up the truths of God's Word: the Bible, so that your daily focus on God's leading will be reflected in your life.
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In Section 1: Spirit of God Bible-centered messages, Bible verses, and memorable quotes,
remind us of our dependence on the Lord's strength and guidance.

God's Cake
Sometimes we wonder, 'What did I do to deserve this?' or 'Why did God have to do this to me?' Here is a wonderful explanation!
A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away.
Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, 'Absolutely Mom, I love your cake.'
'Here, have some cooking oil,' her Mother offers. 'Yuck' says her daughter. 'How about a couple raw eggs?' 'Gross, Mom!''Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?''Mom, those are all yucky!'
To which the mother replies : 'Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake!'
God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!
God loves you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance!…and make the cake too.
Section II: Stories With A Message presents inspiring, encouraging, and sometimes humorous reminders that our values and principles determine our choices. Our choices determine our life's path.

Buttoning Our Shirt: Starting Right
Have you ever buttoned your shirt, and placed the first button in the wrong hole? We quickly learn that we cannot start wrong and come out right.
How we begin something is of utmost importance. Each of us stands today at the beginning of our future
We cannot change what has happened, but we can change what will happen.

Section 3: Living Life Fully, lays out some daily situations we often take for granted - those "little" things that we ultimately find really mean so much to us.
The One In The Glass
When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
and the world crowns you ruler for a day,
just go to a mirror and look at yourself,
and see what The One In The Glass has to say,
For it isn't your father or mother or spouse
whose judgment upon you must pass.
The one whose verdict counts most
in your life is the one staring back from the glass.
Some people may think you a straight-shooting chum,
and call you a wonderful one, but to
The One In The Glass you're only a bum,
if you can't look that one straight in the eye.
The one to please, never mind all the rest,
is the one who is with you clear to the end.
And you have passed your most difficult, dangerous test,
if The One In The Glass is your friend.
You can fool the whole world down the pathways of life,
and get pats on your back as you pass,
but your final reward will be heartbreak and tears,
if you cheat The One In The Glass.