No Reserves No Retreat No Regrets

36 • No Reserves, No Retreat, No Regrets: SIAFU Men’s Conference 2016

Session 2 No Retreat Stand Your Ground for Christ, No Matter What Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

Our Greatest Weakness: Giving Up Too Soon Before Victory

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. ~ Mark Twain

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. ~ Jesse Owens Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. ~ Paul, Ephesians 3.20-21

We must learn that retreat is unacceptable. To be a soldier of Christ is to ever engage in battle against the enemy – the world, the flesh, and the devil.

As soldiers of Jesus Christ, called to Kingdom advance, we possess . . .

• No Reserves: we surrender all to Christ, without conditions • No Retreat: we stand our ground for Christ, no matter what • No Regrets: we lose everything for what really counts, without disappointment