Quitting Is Not An Option

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So oftentimes I get people come to me and then they ask me,

do you ever feel like quitting?

Does it ever feel like giving up?

And most people think that a lot of people who are doing amazing things out there

never hit a place where they crash or they never hit a place where they go through the pain

that does not have a voice.

And so most of the times I get people asking me,

mb, it's like you are always on the go.

You are always putting in the work.

Does it ever feel like quitting?

Does it ever feel like giving up?

And oftentimes I tell them yes.

And most of the times people do not believe that I also hit that moment.

But then I tell them that I oftentimes go through that experience.

I do not quit.

That's literally the only difference.

The only difference is that I do not quit.

I make sure that I find something that gets me more strengthening in my life.

And then I keep pushing.

And so today's conversation on the Thought Become Things podcast,

I'm going to be talking to you about quitting, not being an option.

Which is why you want to understand that if you want to excel at destiny,

then quitting is not an option for you.

The reason being that there are moments in life when quitting feels very reasonable.

I remember about somewhere last year we were building solar residents,

our 25 units, six-story apartment,

and I got into a place where that they are literally stood on the site

and I asked myself,

who even sent me to be this audacious?

Who even sent me to even try this thing?

And I've gone through those moments countless times,

especially when I have thought about trying to do something that is usually beyond me.

And here's a cue I want you to take,

that most of the times if you want a certain version of you to show up,

then you must attempt things that you haven't done before,

because the process will teach you,

the process will make you better, the process will refine you.

And so there are moments in life when quitting feels very reasonable.

Some of the times the weight is heavy,

some of the times the progress is slow,

some of the times the strength that you have feels spent.

I know a lot of you who are going to be listening to today's conversation

are going to be blessed because you know,

I want you to know if the weight has felt heavy,

you are not the first person to go through it.

If the progress has been slow,

you are not the first person to go through it.

If the strength feels like it's all been spent,

you are not the first person to go through it.

The only thing is your disposition and what anchors you end for me.

There's a truth I found in God's Word that really, really anchors me whenever I feel like quitting.

And like I always say, if you're listening to an MBA content,

I'm definitely going to bring a certain perspective of Scripture

to bring you into a place of great enlightenment.

So the Scriptures give us a language for moments like that.

And that particular language does not permit us to surrender.

I was looking at second Corinthians,

the chapter number four, the verse number eight,

in the TPP translation or the Passion translation,

second Corinthians, the chapter number four, the verse number eight.

And then it says that though we experience every kind of pressure,

we are not crushed.

At times we do not know what to do,

but quitting is not an option.

And so you see where today's episode is coming from,

quitting not being an option is right there in the Scriptures.

It says that though we experience every kind of pressure,

we are not crushed.

At times we don't know what to do.

And that is the reality.

From whoever you think you admire so much that is doing amazingly well,

we all get to that point where sometimes we just do not know what to do.

But the only difference is that we do not quit.

And for me, that phrase alone carries defiance, not arrogance.

It brings you to a place of resolve that if you are doing this thing called life,

life will apply pressure.

And the truth is that when it comes to life,

pressure is inevitable.

Resistance at the end of the day is what is guaranteed.

But pressure does not get the final weight if you want to really win at life.

So what will pressure do?

Pressure will really test what you are at your core.

Pressure will test your structure.

Pressure will test everything about you.

But I want you to settle it in your heart that pressure does not define your destiny.

Paul does not deny the hardship that he was going to.

He just names it honestly that he was going to a certain kind of hardship.

He just names it that he was pressed.

He just named it that he was perplexed.

He just named it that he was being persecuted.

He just named it that he was being knocked down.

But he refused to let the hardship rewrite his identity.

He refused to let the hardship make a huge toll on him or take a huge toll on him.

So I want you to understand that it's okay that as we do life, we are pressed.

It's okay that we're as we do life and we journey through the cause of destiny.

We are pressed.

But not crushed.

That we are perplexed, but we are not in despair.

That we get persecuted often, but we are not abandoned.

We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.

The reason being that the defeatist mindset will always ask, how do I escape?

But fate will ask, how do I endure?

So for lots of people who are doing life, whenever they feel pressured,

whenever the storms of life come to them, the next thing they think of is how to escape.

It's like people literally are running away from that aspect of responsibility.

But fate will truly sit down with you and ask you, how do I endure?

So most of the times when I'm going through something that does not have a voice,

I don't think of how to escape.

Rather, I sit down and I ask, how do I endure?

Do you know the beautiful thing, guys?

As I learn how to endure, the process begins to teach me.

And you see, for most people who are doing life, and for most people who have always come under pressure,

quicks and feels attractive to them.

Especially when the pain feels permanent.

When they have gone through their thing, year one, year two, year three,

and it feels like nothing is just working.

At that point, it feels attractive for them to do.

But pain is rarely permanent.

Giving up is what is permanent.

Pain is rarely permanent.

Giving up is what is permanent.

So most of the times I tell my mentees that quitting is not about relief.

It's about agreement.

Quitting is not about relief.

It's about agreement.

The reason being that the moment you quit,

you agree with the light that this moment defines the whole story.

So I don't know what you are going through today as you are listening to me,

from whichever part of the world you are in.

I don't know what you are going through,

but I want you to understand as your mentor from afar,

that the moment you quit, you have agreed with the light that that challenge

that you are going to define your whole story.

And I do not want that to be your reality.

But again, looking at that scripture,

I'm looking at it and I understood that Paul had something very vital in his consciousness.

That momentary pressure cannot cancel eternal papers.

So that's how come I said that your challenges,

your struggles do not define your destiny.

Paul understood that very much so in his consciousness that momentary pressure

cannot cancel eternal papers.

You may not know what to do,

but not knowing does not mean stopping.

And oftentimes I always say that confusion is not a signal to quit.

It's a signal to stay uncalled in there and find the clarity

in that situation that you find yourself in.

Not knowing is not the end.

It's the doorway to dependence.

Abraham is called by God,

but Abraham does not know the exact details of what God wants him to do,

but he takes that leap of faith.

And that's the same thing Paul also brought himself into now.

For somebody like Abraham,

I can imagine what the pressure will feel like,

living everything you've lived for.

Some of you are listening to me today in different parts,

going to different experiences.

And your story may either look like Abraham.

Your story may either look like Paul

or your story may either look like MBA

who is in that constant place of quitting.

But then he does not give up.

So most of the times we don't know what to do.

But your ability to admit that you are in that uncertainty.

But you do not surrender.

You are not breaking on your resolve.

It's one makes the difference.

So strength is not the absence of confusion.

It's the refuse out to abandon your destiny.

It's the refuse out to abandon your assignment.

It's the refuse out to cave into whatever pressure.

Life is dealing with you.

Or whatever pressure life has thrown at you.

A lot of people quit not because they are incapable.

But because they interpret struggle as failure.

Which is why I always say nothing has a meaning.

That's the meaning you give to it.

A lot of people do not quit because they are incapable.

They quit because they interpret struggle as failure.

But the scripture reframes struggle as an evidence of life.

There is a mean that dead things face no resistance.

It is only living things that do.

Dead things do not face any resistance.

It is only living things that do.

And so if you are facing pressure,

it means something is being built inside of you.

If you are facing pressure,

it means that something is being built inside of you.

The enemy of perseverance is the belief that rest equals quitting.

This is one of the enemies of perseverance.

It is the belief that a lot of people are the moment they rest.

It's equals quitting.

But rest is recovery.

Quitting is retreat.

Just like a soldier, you are retreating from battle.

Quitting is saying that I won't do it again.

I'm tired enough is enough.

God never condemned rest.

Even him he rested.

But he commands perseverance.

Jesus rested.

But he did not retreat.

Look at Jesus and the garden of Getsemane saying let this cup pass over me.

He is looking at the pressure that is going to come because of destiny and assignment.

All he had to do was rest.

He did not retreat from it.

He wept.

But he did not withdraw from the situations.

He was wounded.

But he did not walk away.

For the joy that was set before him, he endured.

And so endurance is vision sustained under pressure.

That's basically what it is.

For the joy that was set before him, he endured.

So your endurance is your vision sustained under pressure.

And so most of the times when I'm going through the pain that does not have a voice,

I sometimes sit down and think about the end.

And that becomes my strategy.

And the truth about endurance is that endurance is lent.

Endurance is like when you are hitting the gym and you want to build your muscle.

At one point you might be able to lift a certain kg of weight.

At another point you may have to increase it because you've been able to endure.

And so there's more, there's more, there's more to you.

Hit that please.

And that is the truth.

Because MBA as I'm speaking to you today and as I'm teaching you today,

I was not born resilient.

Paul was not born resilient.

None of us were born resilient.

We became resilient.

We trained our minds to interpret hardship correctly.

And that is what the world keeps celebrating.

We have understood over time that being knocked down does not mean we are disqualified.

Staying down on the floor is rather what defines that we have been disqualified.

So we knocked down and we pick ourselves up.

I feel like giving up.

I go to bed the next morning and I'm back at it again.

And that is why we always say that though we are knocked down,

we are not knocked out.

Though we are knocked down, we are not knocked out.

And so quitting, I want you to understand,

becomes tempting when we internalize pain.

When we personalize resistance.

And when we assume that delay equals denials.

But delay is oftentimes development.

Delay is oftentimes development.

What may be delaying in your life probably God is developing you in a certain way.

And how do I know?

God uses pressure to refine.

He doesn't use pressure to remove.

So pressure teaches you and I dependence.

Pressure builds resilience.

Pressure reviews character.

And character is what sustains calling.

Bapol ends that passage with a very interesting thing.

It says that while we look not at the things which are seen.

For the things which are seen are temporal.

The things which are not seen, they are eternal.

Meaning that what we see is temporal.

But what we cannot see is eternal.

And that is the anchoring truth.

That temporary pain cannot cancel eternal peoples.

And so as your mentor from afar,

I want you to know that when you feel pressed,

remind yourself that I am not crushed.

When you feel pressed, remind say to yourself, I am not crushed.

When you feel confused,

remind and say to yourself, I am not hopeless.

When you feel attacked,

remind and say to yourself, I am not abandoned.

When you feel knocked down,

remind and say to yourself, I am not destroyed.

And when quitting with space,

unsights with this scripture,

that quitting is not an option.

Some of the times when I hit that place,

and it just hits me to quit,

I just say to myself,

most of the time, quitting is not an option.

Some of the times you may be married,

you may go through married challenges,

and it may feel like divorcing.

It may feel like going apart.

Just remember, quitting is not an option.

Some of the times you are in a working environment,

your boss is more treating you and disrespecting you,

and seeing all kinds of things about you.

But I want you to understand that quitting is not an option.

Or for all you know, that process is teaching you

to build yourself to a place where when you also become a boss,

you do not look down on other people.

Quitting is not an option.

You may have written a number of reset examinations,

all in the aim of trying to complete your first degree,

and it looks like everything is crashing.

It looks like you are knocked down.

I want you to say to yourself,

I am not destroyed.

Quitting is not an option.

Not because you are stubborn,

but because you are assigned.

Not because you are strong,

none of us really are,

but because you are sustained.

Not because it is easy,

because the truth of the matter is that it's not easy,

but does it really matter?

Yes.

And so today's conversation is very simple.

Do not quit.

Do not quit.

As your mentor from afar,

I want to encourage you

that if you have hit a place where you felt like quitting,

or you have even been knocked down

and you have been on the floor, stand again.

I want you to breathe again.

I want you to give it another try.

I want you to give it another try,

because perseverance does not just finish the work.

It completes the man.

Perseverance does not finish the work.

It completes the man.

And the guy who refuses to quit eventually

discovers that endurance itself becomes victory.

I hope that this episode has blessed you

and I hope that you go through the year

irrespective of the storms that life will throw at you,

not quitting.

You have this as a mentality.

When quitting with space,

you would answer with that scripture,

quitting is not an option.

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