John Carver Show - Keep It Going

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus." -- Robert South

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Their expectation is focused.

There is a, constant, battle to not FOCUS on what you SEE!

 David was no joke!  He wasn’t afraid of the lion and the bear as a young man and he SURE is ticked off now…these people took his wives.

David reached an end to his discouragement, got up and FOLLOWED GOD’S DIRECTIONS!

There’s a HUGE difference between staying down when you get knocked down and getting back up when you get knocked down.

"In America, failure is considered a disruption in progress," says Scott A. Sandage, a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University who teaches a course on success and failure. "Even as the understanding of economic challenges increases, there's an intensification of shame around failure."

Jesus Christ (0AD - 33 AD) Jesus stuck to the truth of his message, despite the consequences. On many ocassions, he had the opportunity to escape or change his message. But, he felt the right thing to do was to suffer outer humiliation and pain in order to leave a legacy of spiritual truth.

William Tyndale (1494 – 1536) - Translated Bible into English, which at the time was forbidden. For his controversial views he was later arrested and executed.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”? Winston Churchill