Raising Champions: Your Journey to Greatness

One of GOD’s PLANS for his children this year is to raise champions in all areas of endeavour. He wants your vision to be greater than your memory.

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When God appeared to Moses in the burning bush, he did not try to erase his past but to establish the vision for the future. So, he told Moses what he planned to do. (Exodus 3)

Likewise, God wants you to elevate his vision for your life.

But will you embrace it? Will you seek him to the point where you’ll allow his Spirit to give you the words to say? Will you press in enough to hear his plans for your life?

I hope you know that there are things God will not talk to you about except you probe.

AT ZIKLAG, David did not know what to do until he asked God. (1 Samuel 30:8)

And at Shiloh, Hannah did not stop praying until she found the right words for a praying mother.

(1 Samuel 1:11)

ONE WAY God raises champions is through prayer.

Jesus’ disciples never got over what they saw as Jesus prayed. They saw him transfigured.

As if that wasn't sufficient, he had two other people with such bodies with him, Elijah and Moses. (Matthew 17:1)

God clothes you as you pray.

GOD RAISES champions through revelation.

When Joseph saw his family bowing to him, he believed it and anticipated it.

DAVID knew he was called to be a champion. When he saw Goliath, he asked what the king would give to anyone who killed him. (1 Samuel 17:25-37)

David anticipated victory and celebrated his small beginning.

If you're going to do great things, you must be ready to celebrate small milestones. Then, you’ll honour your season.

Honour your season— celebrate small milestones

JOSEPH honoured his season when he oversaw Potiphar’s household and supervised his co-prisoners; he was grateful for where he was. (Genesis 39)

James 1:2-3 says, “Consider it nothing but joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials.

Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].

EVERYTHING God does begins small. When he made man, he put him in the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 2:15)

David was faithfully tending his father’s sheep when they called him home to be anointed king. (1 Samuel 16)

FAITHFULNESS attracts God. He has keen eyes for diligent, excellent and competent people.

Proverbs 22:29 says, “Do you see a man skillful and experienced in his work? He will stand [in honour] before kings; He will not stand before obscure men.”

PETER had fished all night and caught nothing when Jesus told him to cast his net one more time. (John 21:6)

My prayer for you this year is that you'll be conscious to seize your moments.

FOR YEARS, David did not live in comfort.

When he had the chance to take the king’s life, he didn't. He handed the king over to God. (1 Samuel 25:10)

To be a CHAMPION, you must understand the weapons of your warfare and know what weapon to use.

When Israel faced their enemies, God told them that they wouldn't fight in the battle. (2 Chronicles 20:17)

NEHEMIAH knew only God could do something when the state of Jerusalem saddened him.

So he asked God to give him favour with the King Artaxerxes. (Nehemiah 1:11)

To be a champion for God, anything that matters to him must be important to you.

DANIEL walked in wisdom as he told their handler, the head of the eunuchs, to test them.

To be God’s champion, you must be wise.

NEHEMIAH approached the king, ready to make requests.

God wants you to be prepared as you walk through 2026—it's a year of opportunities.

Champions see tests and temptations as stepping stones to greatness.

GOD’s WORD in your life will be tested and proven. (Psalm 12:6)

So your test will precede your testimony.

Champions anticipate God’s testimonies.

YOU CANNOT become God’s champion without a testimony of God’s goodness.

Paul put it this way: We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:8-12)

Champions see themselves in the volumes of the book.

GOD told Joshua the secret to audacious success was in the scriptures. (Joshua 1:8)

As you speak the scriptures over your life, you become the one you seek.

Champions understand their calling.

When the SYROPHONECIAN WOMAN pleaded with Jesus to heal her daughter, he told her that he was called only to the lost sheep of Israel. (Matthew 15:24)

Jesus understood his calling.

Champions appreciate a small beginning.

Philippians 2:8-11 say, “After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.

For this reason also [because He obeyed and so completely humbled Himself], God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.

Final Thought

GOD raises champions. He will not use a champion not raised by him.