Become a Bad Loser-- How to Always Win

I heard about a conversation between my brother-in-law and sister.

“I don’t want to become a good loser!” He was saying.

My sister was arguing you didn’t need to throw a fit or take on a bad attitude if you did lose.

But my brother-in-law stuck to his guns. “I just won’t lose,” he said.

I laughed when I saw a friend wearing a shirt: I’m not good at losing. I don’t get enough practice.

Then I heard a man of faith sharing:

“I never lose. No matter what I do, I don’t lose.”

“Okay, that don’t add up,” I thought. “He’s a guy. Like me. I’ve sure lost plenty before. What’s he mean, he doesn’t lose?”

I kept turning over that until I realized what it was. He had confidence–no matter what that man did, he believed God was in it and God would meet him in it.

Crazy thing was, I saw God move more in that man’s life than anybody I had ever met. So–it wasn’t just bravado. God was in it. No matter what, he believed God would show up.

People who believe God have way more authority than we realize.

Someone told me: “Man, I feel like people just walk all over me at my job. People laugh at me.”

“They give me the worst jobs. They talk bad about me behind my back. They’ll avoid work so they can give it to me. It’s not fair.”

“Why are you there?” I asked him.

“That’s a good question! I don’t even know why I do it!”

“God led you there,” I reminded him.

I had watched as God had spoken for him to take that particular job.

He resisted initially, until he finally bowed and obeyed what God said. Then I watched him have to face his fears.

There was an item of his he’d been stressing about for years. I always heard about how he wanted to sell it.

Because of his obedience, the day he finally bowed and took the job God spoke for him to take, God sold that item. Miraculously!

God had brought him there. Not to get trampled on. Oh no. To walk above the circumstances.

But, man. I mean, I can relate. When people are making fun of you, treating you like garbage, or just in general, it’s easy to feel like a loser.

A parkour athlete was once asked how he could leap between buildings without panicking.

“You can’t focus on what isn’t there,” he replied. “You have to focus on what IS there.”

That quote changed me. You can ALWAYS find something to stress about. You can ALWAYS find something that’ll afflict you.

If you see what God is doing in the middle of it, you’ll realize that you’re absolutely not a loser.

You’re being shaped into a winner–if you’ll let God work. God turns EVERYTHING for good. God has delivered me from destructive patterns and spirits in my life. Literally changing me in real time.

Even with the guy who was getting walked on.

I could see God working in his life.

He was getting delivered from feeling like a victim.

“God’s greater than the situation,” I told him. “You just can’t keep focusing on the lousy coworkers. You have to keep your eyes trained on Him, and what He’s doing. Keep fellowshipping with others to keep your spirit charged up.”

Somebody else told me that recently.

“I wanted to get frustrated with this seemingly hopeless situation. I invested years of my life into it. I felt like all that I had done was for nothing. But then I realized something. If I chose hopelessness and frustration–that would be right. It WOULD all be for nothing. The only way God could do something more with this bad situation is if I chose to give it to Him. The only way is if I chose to believe.”

That’s super powerful!! The only way we can see God and win is if we keep our eyes on Him.

In Christ, we can do all things. In Christ, we have incredible power. In Christ, we can walk in great authority.

Someone said: “I tell my body how it feels. I bring my body in order under God’s word.”

That’s not Christian Science. That’s Biblical. After all, Jesus told the woman with the issue of blood(and multiple other people in the Gospels) in Luke 8:48: “Your faith has made you whole”.

Jesus hadn’t instigated her healing. Her faith had.

That’s not the only thing we have authority over.

Our relationships, our situations and more will change as we continue to operate in God’s authority and agree with what God said.

God made us to be winners.

God made us to be more than conquerors. God didn’t create us to be victims, enduring and merely suffering until we get to paradise someday.

Rise up, and take the inheritance God has left in His Will.

Don’t let anyone steal it away.