Paul Tsika - The Overcomers Edge: Strategies for Victorious Living in 13 Key Areas of Life

ABOUT PAUL TSIKA

Paul Tsika has been involved in ministry for over 45 years. He and his wife Billie Kaye have authored several books including Growing in Grace, Get Married, Stay Married and Parenting with Purpose. Paul has been the pastor of a large international marketing business since 2001. The Tsikas, along with their staff, minister to tens of thousands of people each year and witness many coming to Christ for salvation.

For additional information please contact:

Restoration Ranch

PO Box 136

Midfield, Tx 77458

Office 361:588-7190

Web site: www.plowon.org

ABOUT RYAN AND KAMEO HOSLEY

Dr. Ryan Hosley is a licensed psychologist specializing in treating individuals impacted by addiction and relational trauma. He has been practicing since 2007 in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Hosley was published in Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, and has written for Focus on the Family and Stronger Families of Oregon. He is a professional, an entrepreneur, a family man, and blessed husband.

Kameo Hosley is a wife to an ambitious husband, mother to a large family, and an accomplished businesswoman. She has a steadfast commitment to relationships and all they entailhard conversations, authenticity, forgiveness, and grace. Many people have experienced her love. She lives the words on the Hosley family mantle: Love God, Love People, Leave a Legacy.

OTHER BOOKS BY PAUL AND BILLIE KAYE TSIKA

PAUL TSIKA

Sequoia-Size Success: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness

What You SeedIs What You Get: Seeding Your Way to Success

39 Days of Destiny: Devotions for Destiny Achievers

Releasing Your Full Potential

Flying Right Side Up in an Upside Down World

Understanding Your New Life

Handfuls of Purpose

BILLIE KAYE TSIKA

Operation Blessing: Speaking Blessings into the Lives of Our Families

Dining with the Diamonds (a collection of interesting recipes with funny stories from great friends)

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

WALTER ELLIOTT, The Spiritual Life

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

GALATIANS 6:9

Ive said for years that, Everyone who is where they are, started where they were, using what they had. My friend, you will be no exception.

We live in a throwaway society where most everything is disposable. We seem to so easily discard things in our life without considering the consequences. Honestly, there are some things in our life that probably need to be disposed. Just look in your drawers and youll probably find plenty that should have been discarded years ago. Billie Kaye is always reminding me that I can afford to purchase new socks and shorts. I try to educate her on the importance of well-broken-in socks and shorts, but she wont buy it.

There are some things in life that by Gods grace we should never quit or discard. One of them is our dream, our purpose, our sense of destiny. Too many people quit too soon, give up too easily, and throw in the towel prematurely.

I read a story years ago about a father trying to encourage his son never to give up, never to quit:

A father once said, Son, you gotta set a goal and never quit.

Remember George Washington?

The son said, Yes.

Thomas Jefferson?

Yes.

Abraham Lincoln?

Yes.

You know what they all had in common?

No! What?

The father said, They didnt quit, son! They didnt quit!

Then he added, Do you remember Ozador McIngle?

The kid said, No. Who was he?

See, you dont remember him. Cause he quit!

My friend, success is never final and failure is never fatal as long as you have the courage never to quit.

There is a great truth you need to put in your heart and guard. That truth is that you are being shaped by your future. The more you believe in that future, keep your eyes on it, and move toward it, the more strongly it will influence and shape you today.

When God lists the people of faith in Hebrews 11, without exception everyone saw something that captured their hearts, their future. They all lived and acted and even died on what they saw in their future.

Abel saw the need for a blood sacrifice.

Noah saw a coming flood.

Abraham saw that he would receive an inheritance.

Isaac saw a glorious future for his son.

Joseph saw his escape from Egypt.

Moses saw the deliverance of Gods people.

The whole army of Israel saw the collapse of the city of Jericho.

Seeing created faith, strengthened their backbone, and filled them with the courage to face every enemy, even torture and death.

What do you see about your future?

What do you believe about your future?

We must stop living in the past and look to the future by faith born of what we see. Can you see the mountaintop? Then by faith climb, climb, climb, and climb some more.

The more you reminisce about your past the less time you have to spend believing in your future. We need to spend enough time with God that He can open the eyes of our understanding to see what He sees in our future. Only at that point will you know how you should be acting in the present and how to invest your energies.

You need to learn how to eliminate so you can concentrate.

Eliminate wasting your days, energy, and efforts and concentrate (focus) on what God has for you. Spend enough time with Him and He will speak to you.

We mutter and sputter
We fume and we spurt.
We mumble and grumble
Our feelings get hurt.
We cant understand things,
Our vision grows dim
When all that we need is
A moment with Him.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

When I served in the US Marine Corps during the 60s, I witnessed a lot of brave Marines doing heroic things. But what made them heroes was not that they were automatically braver than other Marines, they were just brave for five minutes longer.

If youre willing to stay with your dream as long as it takes to fulfill that dream, youll win. But if you quit along the way, regret will follow you to the grave. This should not be treated lightly. Its a serious business to say that you have a God-given dream and then abandon that dream. No person should ever live with guilt and shame in their life. But I have found that many people do. And over and over again its because they regret quitting.

The pain of quitting lives long after the decision you make to do it. There are a lot of folks living in the land of woulda, coulda, shoulda!

I meet people almost weekly who live with the great regret of giving up on a marriage too soon or forsaking a child gone astray too quickly. Maybe they abandoned their dream because it wasnt coming into focus quickly enough for them.

But in order to win you must begin!

You want to lose weight? Begin.