Revelation 12:11 NAS
"And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death."
"And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death."
We were built to overcome all obstacles and adversaries. We were built to carry the presence and power of God. We had to be perverted by the enemy of our souls to lose. I recently went to the movies with my husband to see the last "Rambo". The innocence of a young girl just wanting to know her father brought her death. The search for anyone or anything other than our Heavenly Father can take us to places of no return. Once something is altered or perverted it is impossible to remedy--but for God. God sent Jesus to overcome death, hell and the grave. Jesus did it! Jesus led the way. Jesus is the way maker. Jesus overcame the devil with the Word of God. Repeatedly we hear Jesus say, "It is written..." How many "It is written's..." do you know? If the enemy of your soul comes after your mind, do you have an "It is written?" What about if he comes after your body with sickness? Do you have an "It is written", for that. I could go on and on, but you get my point. You don't overcome by what I say, but by what you say.
Then there is our testimony. I always heard if you haven't been through a test, you don't have a testimony. We were built for test. Jesus never said, "If test and trails come." The Word of God says, "When test and trials come...". If you live long enough you will have tests and trials. Yes, I put an "s" on those two words because it's not a once and done. I wish it were, but it is not. Pick up any book that is a real life story and you will run into them running into tests and trials. Sometimes, they win and sometimes they loose. It will be the same with us, but we get stronger in the struggle. We don't wrestle with flesh and blood, but neither does the devil. When he messes with us and we have made God our Father and Jesus our Savior, and we have the Holy Spirit, then the devil messes with four against one. Not good odds. He doesn't stand a chance.
So, what is your testimony? What test have you gone through or are coming through that you were built to overcome? The automobile Ford uses the motto, Ford Tough-Built to Last." In fact BTL is abbreviation that the business world automatically recognizes. Folks like me recognize ATM and can't tell you what it stands for? FYI- it means automatic teller machine.
People have written best sellers on BTL. People that own Cold-Stone Creamery bought them, read them and are living the dream. See below:
"What we found was that while the companies in BTL were indeed built to last, they haven’t all been built to emulate. As for the principles, many of them still hold up today, partly because some of them are so broad as to appear applicable to virtually everyone. “It’s so slippery, it’s like grabbing a frog,” says Richard D’Aveni, professor of strategic management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, of the book. To take this book — or any business book — as gospel is to set yourself up for a fall."
Take it from the masses over time, the best selling BTL book is the Bible. Read it! Let it be your manual that is BTL.
People have written best sellers on BTL. People that own Cold-Stone Creamery bought them, read them and are living the dream. See below:
"What we found was that while the companies in BTL were indeed built to last, they haven’t all been built to emulate. As for the principles, many of them still hold up today, partly because some of them are so broad as to appear applicable to virtually everyone. “It’s so slippery, it’s like grabbing a frog,” says Richard D’Aveni, professor of strategic management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, of the book. To take this book — or any business book — as gospel is to set yourself up for a fall."
Take it from the masses over time, the best selling BTL book is the Bible. Read it! Let it be your manual that is BTL.
ACTION STEP: Go ahead read the greatest BTL best seller there ever was and ever will be. Put into action what The Book tells you to do. Believe what the BTL Book tells you about who you are. Lots of great books have been written by guys (and gals) without a PhD. So go ahead give it a try. And if you're looking for something else? Here is another one I haven't read...but I just might...just because I want to see how it compares to my Daddy's book.
"Such near-fanatical responses to a book by two little-known guys from Stanford, one of whom (Collins) doesn’t even have a PhD, have made Built to Last one of the very few business books that achieve the dual honor of being both a publisher’s dream and a management classic. Now celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its unheralded publication in 1994, BTL has sold 3.5 million copies worldwide, been translated into 16 languages, gone through more than 70 printings, and spent nearly five solid years on the Business Week best-seller list. The momentum continues even today: HarperBusiness, its publisher, is putting out a new hardcover edition in January 2005. Along with Collins’s later solo effort, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don’t, BTL has turned Collins, a rock-climbing 46-year-old, into the Bill Clinton of the business world, a guy who gets stopped on the street and begged for advice (or an autograph) and who is a riveting speaker, pulling $55,000 per session. “It never occurred to me that things would be this successful,” says Collins. “It never occurred to me.”
"Such near-fanatical responses to a book by two little-known guys from Stanford, one of whom (Collins) doesn’t even have a PhD, have made Built to Last one of the very few business books that achieve the dual honor of being both a publisher’s dream and a management classic. Now celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its unheralded publication in 1994, BTL has sold 3.5 million copies worldwide, been translated into 16 languages, gone through more than 70 printings, and spent nearly five solid years on the Business Week best-seller list. The momentum continues even today: HarperBusiness, its publisher, is putting out a new hardcover edition in January 2005. Along with Collins’s later solo effort, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don’t, BTL has turned Collins, a rock-climbing 46-year-old, into the Bill Clinton of the business world, a guy who gets stopped on the street and begged for advice (or an autograph) and who is a riveting speaker, pulling $55,000 per session. “It never occurred to me that things would be this successful,” says Collins. “It never occurred to me.”
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