Be determined.

In the summer of 1921, when he was 39 years old, disaster struck this man and he was stricken with polio. But demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain some use of his legs. He would go on to become the 32nd President of the United States. Franklin D Roosevelt.

Another man was severely burned in an explosion when he was just 8 years old. Doctors recommended amputating his legs and predicted that he would never walk again. But Glenn Cunningham did walk again. And in fact, he competed in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, setting world records for the mile and the 800 m run. Determination.

Born black in a racist society, they didn’t let that stop them. Both Booker T. Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accomplished that which God called them to do.

You don’t have to be the smartest, the prettiest, the most talented, or the gifted one. Instead, ask God to give you a steel-like determination to fulfill the call that He has placed on your life. Never give up. Be determined.

“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13

“Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:30-31