TERRI: You've heard that phrase, to throw in the towel. That
means to quit the struggle, to give up the fight. You may be
feeling that way today, but it's about to change. I'm going to
teach you how to fight for your dreams and outlast the devil.
(Music)
TERRI: Hey, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, and you're watching
Live Your Dreams. I pray that as you invest in yourself today,
you're captivated and you're catapulted to live your dreams.
One of the biggest battles we all face is the battle to not
give up. You know, when a dream has taken too long, when
circumstances aren't working out the way we thought they would,
when the breakthrough is just not happening, the tendency is
to want to just give up. Well, I want you to know today that you
are not in this battle alone. You have almighty God, you have
Jesus, you have the angels on your side helping you. In fact,
I was thinking about you ever watch an NFL football game, and,
all of a sudden, you see that referee. He might be 150 pounds,
five foot seven, and he has that whistle around his neck. When he
blows that whistle, a 350 pound linebacker will stand at
attention. Well, what kind of power does that five foot seven
referee have over that 350 linebacker? Well, that
linebacker knows the moment he blows the whistle, he now has
all of the NFL backing him up. Well, I want you to know the
same thing happens in the spirit realm. When you feel like you
can't take anymore, when you feel like this breakthrough is
just wiping you out, when you call on the name of Jesus, you
now have all of heaven backing you up. You're not in this
battle alone. You're not trying to fight it on your own. God is
going to come alongside you and help you win the battle. I want
to encourage you today that Satan is trying his best to wear
you down. He's trying to knock you down, to get you to give up,
to give up the fight. In fact, my dad always says, "When you
feel like giving up the most, that's always an indication your
breakthrough is just about to happen." In fact, when your mind
is telling you it's never going to get better, get ready, it's
about to get better, or even this, when your circumstances
are screaming no way, that's an indication the way is about to
show up. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life." I
want you today to make up your mind that you're going to fight
for your dream, whatever that dream may be. You may have a
dream to conceive a baby, and months are going by and it seems
like it's never going to happen. You may have a dream to see a
marriage restored, and years are going by and it looks hopeless,
or a dream to be healed in your body, and you keep getting a
negative diagnosis, or even a dream to launch a ministry or a
business idea. Today, I want to inspire you to fight for your
dreams. Fight for those dreams that are only inside of you. In
fact, speaking of fighting, I'm not into boxing, but my dad is a
boxing enthusiastic or a boxing nut, and there were times
growing up, I would try to be the son he never had kind of,
and I would go in his study with him and try to watch a boxing
match, but I do not understand that sport. I don't even
understand why it is a sport. But I would try to enjoy it with
my dad, and they'd be fighting each other, and then, all of a
sudden, they stop, and it's like they're just hugging. I'd go,
"Dad, why are they hugging each other? I thought they didn't
like each other," and my dad would say things like, "Terri, I
think I hear Mom calling you in the kitchen." I was like, "I
don't hear anything." Nobody was calling me. He just didn't want
me in there ruining the match. But my point is I've never been
into boxing, but I have discovered if you want to
achieve your dreams, you have to learn to fight. You have to
learn to fight. In fact, I heard this phrase years ago and I've
never forgotten it. This is what it says, "You will never outgrow
warfare. You must simply learn to fight." I don't like that
phrase, but it's the truth. You will never outgrow warfare. You
must simply learn to fight, and Satan hopes that you'll just
keep taking it, and he'll pound you over, and over, and over. He
hopes you eventually give up. You quit on the dreams that
God's put in your heart. But I want you to get out of character
and learn to fight back. In fact, Ecclesiastes 5:3, it says
this, "A dream comes about with much business and painful
effort." Don't get in your head that success is going to be
easy. If it was easy, everyone would be successful, right? In
fact, Thomas Edison said this, "I failed my way to success." I
want you to listen to some of these stories of people who had
to fight for their dreams. Some of these stories, you're going
to recognize. Of course, I'm sure you've heard about Michael
Jordan, one of the greatest basketball players of our time.
He was cut from the sophomore basketball team, told he
couldn't make it in basketball, didn't make the team in high
school. He could have given up, but he fought for his dream. Or
Mickey Mantle, one of the greatest. Do you know he went
seven and a half years without ever hitting a ball. But today,
last I heard, his rookie card is worth over $30,000. Or what
about this handsome guy, Albert Einstein. Did you know that he
was expelled from school for being mentally slow? This guy.
Or Oprah Winfrey. You know I've heard stories about Oprah, how
she was told that she was too emotionally invested in her
stories, and then they told her she wasn't fit for television. I
think she proved them wrong, but she had to fight for her dreams.
Then this guy I heard about named Charles. He said his dream
was to be a cartoonist, and he loved to just draw. Well, he
said every cartoon he submitted was rejected, even from his high
school yearbook staff. They didn't even think he was any
good at drawing. He said even after high school he applied and
was rejected for a position working with Walt Disney. Well,
today, he has gone down in history as one of the greatest
cartoonists of all time. That was Charles Schulz, who created
Snoopy and Peanuts. Well, my point is that anybody who has
succeeded has had to learn to fight, to not quit, to not give
up when everyone else would, or when it didn't happen in the
timeframe that they thought it would happen. You know one of my
favorite stories in the Bible? You remember the story in Second
Kings of the four lepers who were sitting outside the city
gate. They're sitting there year after year. They're begging for
food. They're just basically wasting away year after year.
Finally, one of those lepers just piped up and said, "Are we
just going to sit here until we die? I mean we could die
eventually anyway. We could either sit here and die, or we
could get up and go for our dream, and die in the process.
But are we just going to sit here until we die?" Well, they
got up and they went after what belonged to them, and, of
course, God made them sound like a mighty army, and they got
everything that they deserved, that belonged to them. Do you
know the moment you make up your mind you're going somewhere, you
become a threat to the enemy? The moment you decide, "I'm not
staying in this place another day, another month, another year
of my life, when I know God has more for me," the moment you get
that resolve, God will make you sound mightier than you really
are, and, listen, God's the one who said in Hebrews 13:5, I want
you to listen to this scripture, "God Himself has said, 'I will
not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you
without support.'" Then he said this three times, "I will not, I
will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless, nor
forsake you, nor relax my hold on you." Then it says,
"Assuredly not." God is telling you He will help you fight in
this battle. You're not alone, and I don't know what you've
been through in your life. You may have been abused as a child.
I want to tell you today get up and fight back. Fight the devil
for what he's put you through. You may have been violated by a
relative, a boyfriend, a stranger. Get up and fight back.
You may have been put down all of your life. You may have lost
a job, lost a spouse, lost a promotion, lost a baby. It's
time to get your fight back. I believe you're watching this by
divine appointment. It's not a coincidence that you just
happened to flip this on, and you're wondering, "Who is this
girl, and what is she saying?" I want you to make the devil pay
for what he's put you through. Torment him back. Make all this
backfire on him. You may have had some precious things stolen
from you, your family, your husband, your children, your
dignity. Get up and fight back. It makes me think about in
Second Chronicles, the story of Jehoshaphat. Remember the armies
were coming against him. He was outnumbered. It looked
impossible, and he even just said, "Lord, I don't know what
to do. Even if I did, I don't have the strength to do it." But
he said, "My eyes are on you," and he made up his mind to seek
God and to let him fight the battle. Well, you're going to
have to make up your mind that you will not quit. There is
nothing more powerful than a made up mind, and I believe
today you're going to get that resolved to no longer entertain
the thought of giving up, no longer entertain the thoughts of
quitting. God needs to see your faith, and He needs to hear you
say, "Lord, I don't know how you're going to do this, but I'm
going to have fun watching you do it." I want to challenge you
today to get that resolve and get that determination back. In
fact, I was thinking about the great Abraham Lincoln. In fact,
next time you see a penny and you see the face on that penny,
I want you to think about some of the things that Abraham
Lincoln went through, how many opportunities he had to give up
on his dream of becoming the president of the United States.
Listen to some of these. Do you know that at 22 years old, he
failed in business. One year later, he ran for Legislature
and lost. At 24 years old, he experienced a second business
failure. At 26, he lost the woman he loved. She died. The
next year, he suffered a nervous breakdown. At 29 years old, he
lost another political race. At 34, he made an unsuccessful run
for Congress. At 37, he did get elected to Congress, only to be
defeated again two years later. At 46, he lost his bid for the
Senate, and the next year, he failed in his attempt to become
Vice President. How many people would keep going after all that?
Then listen to this. He had four sons, and only one lived to be
an adult. Three of his children died. Finally, at 51 years old,
Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States,
and he successfully led our country through one of the most
difficult periods. Most people would have said, "No way. Forget
it. I've got the wrong dream," but not Lincoln. He was
determined to fight for his dreams. So every time you see a
penny, remember to fight for your dreams. One of the things I
want to really point out right now ... I actually preach this
message at one of my Icing women's conferences, and I
preached in a boxing ring, and I was teaching them how when we
fight for our dreams, it's compared to what happens with a
boxer. Before he ever gets in the ring, he has to train. He
has to train with a good coach, right? My point is you need
somebody speaking into your life. You need someone coaching
you. You need a mentor who can start building you up on the
inside before it shows up on the outside. Who you have in your
corner is vital to your success. When I was studying for that
message, I was looking at how one of the most important roles
for that corner man, the guy who is over there in the corner, is
to keep the boxer refreshed, whether it's squirting water in
their mouth, wiping off the blood on their forehead or their
nose. They're continually ready to do whatever is necessary to
keep that boxer focused. See, that's why you need a coach
speaking into your life, and one of the things I love is a lot of
times nowadays people talk about a success coach, and sometimes
people introduce me as a success coach. Well, do you know that
word coach, it came from the fifteenth century, you know the
horse drawn coaches that were used to transport royalty? Well,
I love how it talks about a coach, they would transport
goods, and valuables and things. But here's the thing, they knew
that if you had a coach, you would get to your destination.
Well, today a coach remains the same thing. It's someone who
takes a valuable person from where they are to where they
want to be. In other words, if you have the right coach that's
speaking into your life, you'll get to your destination. So I
want to come back and talk to you about five internal
distractions that you must avoid if you're
going to fight for your dreams. I'll be right back.
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TERRI: Welcome back. We're talking about fighting
for your dreams, and I'm believing today you're going
to fix that battle in your mind once and for all to never even
consider throwing in the towel. Well, we're comparing
this to what happens with a boxer before he
ever gets in the ring to fight his opponent. He
has to train. He has to do certain things to
fight for his dreams, and we have to do the same thing in our
lives. One of the things is that you always have to be aware of
your weaknesses. I notice with boxing, before a fighter ever
gets in that ring, he studies his opponent. He watches him. He
views films about him. He's watching his every move. He's
listening to him. What's he looking for? Weaknesses. Do you
know Satan does the same thing with you? He watches where
you've demonstrated weaknesses in your past, and you can count
on it. He's going to bring that temptation over, and over, and
over to try to knock you out and get you to lose the fight. In
fact, I heard T.D. Jakes describe it like this.
He didn't use string cheese, but he said,
"You know, the best any of us will ever have in
life is 80%," and he said, "80% of the good life,
it's not a bad life." However, Satan will dangle this 20% in
front of you, and he'll say, "This is what you're missing.
This is the one thing you don't have. How could you go your
whole life without this 20%," until you're so convinced that
you can't live without this 20% that you give up the 80 you have
for the 20 you don't have, and look what you're left with, 20%.
That's the result of being distracted, not being focused.
We have to be aware of our weaknesses when we're in the
fight, because, like I said, Satan knows your weaknesses. Now
you need to know them. So, it's going to require intense focus.
You may have heard that phrase before, "The only reason men
fail is broken focus." I want to mention to you the five internal
distractions that Satan will strategically use to try to get
you to lose your focus. The first one is time. In other
words, how many years have gone by, and it looks like it will
never happen, so you might as well give up, or maybe you feel
so behind already. You've lost sight of your dreams because how
much time has passed, or other people are moving at a quicker
pace. It's taken so much longer than anyone else to get to the
next level, and it could be to get out of debt. You've been
trying for years, and it just looks like it's never going to
happen, or to sell a house, or to lose weight, or get married,
or have a baby, or see a relationship restored. Now I
heard someone say, "Don't trade your deadline for God's timing.
Don't trade your deadline for God's timing." His timing is
always right, and it doesn't always make sense to our minds,
but you have to trust Him that He knows what He's doing. He's
not withholding good from you. Be patient during this season.
You ever heard that phrase that, "Even the snail made it to the
ark." Don't stop, because maybe you're moving at a slower pace.
In fact, there was a guy, he said he went through 15 years of
his life savings trying to invent this vacuum cleaner. 15
years, and he's going for the dream. 5,126 prototypes he
invented, and they still didn't work. Talk about a delayed
dream. Finally, on the 5,127th attempt, he got it right, and he
invested the Dyson Vacuum. That was James Dyson, one of the best
selling vacuums in the United States. Well, don't let time be
a distraction to get you to lose your focus. The second
distraction is age. How old are you now? Have you lived more of
your life than you have left? Is your mind telling you that
you've missed your golden opportunities to fulfill your
dreams? You're getting old. It's too late now. Just forget it. Or
maybe you just wish you'd got started a long time ago, and
it's so easy to compare yourself to other people, and look at all
they've accomplished, and they're younger than you, or
maybe they're your age, but they have so much more than you.
Well, we have to stop comparing and stop complaining, and that's
why I end every broadcast by saying, "Don't look at the years
you've lost. Let's look at the years you've got left, and do
something with these years." When you think about people like
Joyce Meyer, she was 42 when she got started in ministry. Me, I
started this TV broadcast at 47 years old. I'm still 47, but I
didn't even get started until 47. Winston Churchill, 62 years
old when he became the Prime Minister. KFC, 66 when he
launched Kentucky Fried Chicken. I read where Vera Wang, she said
she failed in her attempt to be an Olympic figure skater, so she
started designing wedding gowns at 40 years old, which is now a
multi-billion dollar business. Don't fall for the lies that
you're too old, you're too young, it's too late. That's
just a distraction. Just remove it. Then the third distraction
is words, words spoken against you. Negative words can distract
you from your dreams, if you allow it, and I want you to just
think about that. Are you allowing someone else's words
spoken over you, determine whether or not you're going to
do what God's called you to do? I heard a story about a guy who,
he said he sang at the Grand Ole Opry, and afterwards, the
manager came up to him and said, "You won't be singing here
again. You're better off going back to Memphis and driving
trucks." Well, that guy was Elvis Presley, but, thank the
Lord, the hunka, hunka of burning love, he didn't allow
words to stop him from his dream. Another guy was told by
movie executives, they said, "You simply do not have what it
takes to be a star." Well, last I heard, he's the third highest
grossing actor of all time, Harrison Ford. There's something
powerful about words, and you can either allow it to cause you
to give up or give you that momentum to say, "I'm going to
prove them wrong. I'm going to do what God's put in my heart to
do." In fact, I love this story. I heard about Coach Dale Brown.
He's the coach of the LSU basketball team, and he said he
was speaking to a group of soldiers at this military base
in California. Well, when he finished, this young man came up
to him. He stood nearly seven feet tall, 250 pounds, and he
said, "Coach Brown, I really want to try out for our
basketball team, but I can't dunk a basketball. I can barely
jump. When I run up and down the court, my legs get so tired that
I can only play for a few minutes." Well, Coach Brown, he
asked him, "How long have you been in the military?" He said,
"Oh, I'm not in the military. My father is. I'm 13 years old." He
wore a size 17 shoe. Coach Brown just took him under his wing,
and he began to mentor him, and he said, "When I get back to
LSU, I'm going to send you my training program, and it's going
to help strengthen your legs, and it's going to give you the
endurance you need." Well, three months later, he got a letter
from the young man saying, "I've done everything you told me to
do. I have spent hours in the gym working out, in the weight
room, and my coach just cut me from the team. In fact, he told
me I'm too big, too slow, and too clumsy. I'll never be able
to play basketball." Those were the words he heard. Coach Brown
wrote him back and said, "Keep working out. Keep being your
best, and keep asking God to help you." Well, he had to make
a decision, "Am I going to allow someone else's words spoken over
me determine my destiny, or am I going to change the dialogue and
start believing in myself, no matter what other people have
said?" Well, he decided to believe in himself, to fight for
his dream, and, today, Shaquille O'Neal ended up becoming one of
the greatest basketball players that ever played. What would
have happened if he had allowed those negative words spoken over
him to define him? Well, we wouldn't be telling his story
today, would we? So don't allow words to stop you from your
dreams. The fourth is your past, and that's a big one. As soon as
you get a little hope again on the inside of you, Satan brings
up your past. Well, you just got to do like the Apostle Paul
says, "This one thing I do, forgetting those things which
are behind and reaching for those things which are ahead, I
press toward the mark." And, of course, the fifth one is a
lack of money. That's a big one. Satan will always tell you
you're never going to have the money. Let me just remind you,
nobody ever has the money before the dream. The vision always
comes first. The provision comes second. I wish I could teach you
more. There's so much more I want to tell you about how to
intimidate your opponent, and how to make him pay for what
he's put you through. But, real quick, I just wanted to mention
how excited we are about this offer. Like I said, I've taught
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what it takes. God's given you a dream. He's given you what you
need, but you have to train for it. You have to prepare for it,
and preparation time is never wasted time. God's going to get
you ready for this fight, but there are certain things you
have to do. I'm going to teach you step-by-step some real
results that I've seen in my life on how to train, and how to
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always wondering, "Is this God's dream, or am I just making this
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give you the advantage over the devil. The funny thing is I got
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it right from his notes. I said, "Dad, this is good stuff. Can I
have it," but I shared my own experiences, and this just
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God. I believe you're going to avoid years of wasted time
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Never worry again whether or not you've heard from God. I believe
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you need, the training you need to get in the ring and to fight.
So, I want to thank you so much for watching today. I believe
God's speaking to you. If you were even considering throwing
in the towel, I believe this is going to give you the fight you
need to get back in the ring, and make it backfire on the
devil. So, as I said before, I love to encourage you with this
message, don't look at the years you've lost. Let's look at the
years you've got left, and start living your dreams. Be sure to
connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, so I can
continually keep you motivated to go after your dreams. You
can get started now. You don't have to wait for the
perfect time, next month, next year. Get started now.
If God's speaking to you, the time is now.
Fight for your dreams. Thanks for watching.
ANNOUNCER: God has given you dreams to achieve, but
how do you know if you have the right dream, and what do you do
when times get tough? With Terri's newest resource offer,
you'll gain confidence in knowing you've heard from God,
and discover how to overcome any setbacks. As you listen to The 7
Indicators You Have A Dream From God, you'll put an end to worry
and confusion, and start walking in your destiny. Fight For Your
Dreams will give you the hope and motivation needed to walk
out your dreams victoriously. Plus, for a limited time, we'll,
also, send you this boxing glove as a convenient reminder to keep
fighting for the dreams God puts in your heart. Don't delay,
request this special package offer today. Put an end to the
frustration, and begin to see real progress. Call or go online
now, and request your copy of The Fight For Your Dreams CD
bundle, including the bonus boxing glove. Call
toll free, 800-795-5597 or visit us online at Terri.com.
TERRI: I think it's one thing to have a
plan, to have a dream for your life, but when
you discover God's plan, that's the icing on the
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