Running Your Race Successfully  

Running Your Race Successfully  

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

1. Be Determined

Verse 24

2. Be Disciplined

Verse 25

1 Timothy 4:7-“exercise yourself toward godliness.”

3. Be Focused

Verse 26

2 Corinthians 5:9-10-“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

Philippians 3:12-14 “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

1 Corinthians 10:31-“Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

4. Be Efficient

Verse 27

Colossians 3:5-“Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.”

2 Timothy 4:7-8-“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.”