Take Hold

I accept my circumstances
But I don't give in to them.

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There are two things you can do;
Retreat and give in
Or
Confront and fight.

And if you fight,
Fight to win.

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I didn't know how to
Gain dominion
Over my life and my environment.

But after I know the
Most powerful Person -
The Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omniscient -
I engage beyond
The three-dimensional
And see what he's prepared for me -

All that I need;
Ideas,
Solutions,
Methods,
Wisdom -
To win.

It took a prince to suffer and die
For what you can have.
Don't make it lay waste
And have who you should hate
Rob you of it.

The thief has stolen enough.
And enough is enough.
If he has to be around you,
He will have to play by
Your rules.

There are some things
We cannot be kind to -
Including our piteous and willful selves
That always let that scumbag win.

Get up.
Shake yourself out of being a victim.

Reach in,
Enage,
See,
Ask,
Take hold, and
Win.

How many times do we do this?

Lifetime.

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'Not that I have already
Obtained all this,
Or have already been made perfect

But I press on to
Take hold
Of that for which
He took hold for me.

I do not consider myself yet
To have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do:

Forgetting what is behind
And straining toward
What is ahead,

I press toward the
Goal
To Win
The prize for which
He has called me heavenward in him.'

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