Steps To Finish Well Series

We started out with a video of Lindsey Jacobellis not finishing well.

I want to show you another video of someone finishing well. Remember though, it is not about coming in first, but about finishing well.

Video – Heather Dorniden - 2008 Big Ten 600m championships

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Unbelievable is right. I will tell you that while it appears that this race was won as she stepped across the finish line, and that was the “glory moment,” but the reality is that she would have never been in a position to with this race after a fall like that if not for her faithfulness in training, her perseverance to get back up even after she fell, and all the steps that occurred before she even stepped onto the track on that day.

If she hadn’t trained hard and kept focus in her training she would have not been able to recover from that fall.

If she had fallen and just quit and not persevered, she would have not finished well.

She fought to the end, she was faithful to all of the training she put in, and she finished well.

What are the steps in front of you that will help you finish well?

“What can you do now that can put you in the position of finishing well?”

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For some it is baptism. We have a number of people getting baptized today.

Do you need to be baptized?

You can do it today if you have believed in and received Jesus Christ as your Savior.

Maybe you need to be more faithfully working at your job.

Ask the Lord to help you to work at your job as if we are working for Him.

Do you need to be more faithfully raising your kids in the Lord?

Do you need to trust God more and be a godly spouse, even if your spouse is not deserving of it?

Do you need to be sharing what God has done in your life with someone else?

Maybe you think God hasn’t done much in your life.

Maybe that is because you are stuck in neutral unwilling to take the step of faith that God has placed in front of you.

On the back of your outline are a couple of lines.

I want you to write on it what God is laying on your heart that you need to do now that will help you move in the direction of finishing well.

It is only by God’s grace that we can finish well.

We are not going to be able to finish well in our own strength.

That is why we need to seek the Lord’s strength and help. It is only as He works in our life that we will be able to bring glory to Him and truly finish well.

Let’s pray.

Worship team come up.

Jesus is the one who finished very well. He perfectly accomplished what the Father gave him to do and He paid the price for your sins. He paid it all.

If we are going to finish well, and hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant” then we have got to recognize our need for Jesus and the fact that He paid it all.

We are going to close worshiping the Lord in song as we sing, Jesus Paid it all.

Let’s worship.