Fast Track to Victory, A Christian Guidebook

By Cheryl Rogers

Fast Track to Victory, A Christian Guidebook is an unusual devotional book based on real-life experiences. Written and compiled by a former newspaper reporter, Cheryl Rogers, the book shares relevant life lessons including the retelling of her miraculous healing from Environmental Illness. Cheryl shares from the depths of her heart the lessons God taught her, lessons she wished she would have known years earlier. They include how to really love and forgive others (even when they've hurt us badly), why it's important to set aside pride, and how to deal with tragedy and death.

In short, Fast Track to Victory, A Christian Guidebook distills the biblical wisdom we need to live victorious Christian lives. A non-denominational book based on the King James Authorized Version, Fast Track teaches practical lessons that help unify the body of Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cheryl Rogers
• Release date: Jun 14, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452338781

Cheryl Rogers

Former journalist Cheryl Rogers writes around the edges of farming and family life in the Swan Valley, near Perth. Her short fiction has been published in Australia, the UK and USA, and she is a three time winner of the Henry Lawson Society of New South Wales short story award. In 1998, a memoir co-written with fellow University of Western Australia graduate and friend, Gun Dolva, was short-listed for the WA Premier’s Book of the Year Award. A longtime member of Sisters in Crime (Australia), Cheryl loves a mystery. 

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Fast Track to Victory

A Christian Guidebook

by Cheryl Rogers

Smashwords Edition

Scripture quotes are from the King James Version of the Bible and are used with permission. In the United Kingdom rights in The Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Bible) are vested in the Crown and administered by the Crown’s patentee, Cambridge University Press.

Fast Track to Victory, A Christian Guidebook

Copyright (c) 2007 by Cheryl Rogers, Tampa, Florida

Cover photo and design by Cheryl Rogers

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Preface

One of the biggest mistakes I made in life was not completely believing God was real. That doubt permeated my life, hindering my obedience, and more importantly, hampering my ability to have a relationship with the living God.

My conduct was based on religion, a set of rigid rules I tried to obey to feel good about myself — and to look good to others.

It wasn’t until I desperately needed God that I truly surrendered my life to him. It wasn’t until I surrendered my life to him that I really found him. It wasn’t until I found him that I learned the truth: You and I were made good. The things I didn’t like about myself ... weren’t me. Those things I didn’t like about others ... weren’t them. The devil and his demons had been lying to me, holding me down, and trying to keep me from being the person God made me to be!

Fast Track to Victory, A Christian Guidebook, is about encouraging you to seek and find the living God. It is about helping you know him better. It is about learning, in 40 quick lessons, how to live in the freedom he has for you.

In Fast Track to Victory, A Christian Guidebook, I share what God has taught me in bite-size, easy-to-digest portions. I offer biblical truths we often fail to get in other places: Lessons like how to love, how to cope with tragedy, why it’s important to avoid pride, and why it’s just plain smart to put God first.

I also include individual prayers to aid you on your quest towards spiritual growth and freedom.

While it’s possible to read Fast Track in one sitting, I believe you can get the most benefit from the book by reading one lesson every day for 40 days. My goal is to help you establish a regular prayer/worship time with God, or encourage and inspire you as you spend time seeking God on a regular basis.

Take time to pray over and reflect upon these lessons and study the Scriptures. Take God’s word into your heart.

If you prefer to undertake this study with the support of a small group, by all means do so! But start your journey; it begins with a single step!

It is my hope — and prayer — that these practical tools will put you on the fast track ... towards living the victorious Christian life. — Cheryl Rogers

Acknowledgments

When God miraculously healed me from Environmental Illness, he used people of many different faiths to reach out to me in my need. It was impossible to credit anyone but him.

Besides my family, there were many others who prayed for me and taught me what they knew about God. All of them helped make this book possible. They contributed to this book because they contributed to who I am today. I am not a perfect, finished work — yet I have learned and grown, or was somehow blessed by their teaching, intercession or help.

I believe it is my turn to share what I have learned from God, the pain of my own life, and from many other people. Symbolically, it is like the baton, in this relay of life, has been passed to me.

Thanks to all who helped.

Special thanks to Pastor Henry Wright, of Pleasant Valley Church in Thomaston, GA, and his staff, who played a major role in my spiritual growth and who have graciously allowed me to share their teachings; Pastor Sid Roth of Brunswick, GA, and his Messianic Vision radio show prayer team, who prayed for and declared me healed of Environmental Illness; and my pastor, Dale Brooks, from Centerpointe Community Church, Temple Terrace, FL.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Starting the Race

Getting a Jump Start

God Lives and Heals Today

Getting to Know God

Accepting the Gift of Salvation

Making a Decision to Accept Jesus

Moo-oove over Betsy

Jesus Waits to Speak to Us

Surrendering to God Means Victory!

Scripture Songs: A Positive Note

Getting to Know God — Better

Made in His Image

Bringing Little Gifts

Section 2: Running the Race — Lessons to Live By

Ignorance is Not Bliss

God Made You Just Right

Learning to Love Starts with Wisdom

Seeing with the Eyes of Faith

Praying the Scriptures

Doing What Jesus Did

Take a Lesson from History:

Credit God for Your Success

The Little Orange Tree:

A True Story about Sowing, Reaping and God's Love

What is the Will of God???

All Authority is from God

What About God's Worthy Cause???

The Importance of Giving Thanks

The Gift I Gave Early

He Heard my Voice

A Gift from Daddy God

Section 3: Jumping Life’s Hurdles

God Knows Our Needs

How to Defeat the Devil

Fear is Our Enemy

Dealing with Death

Battling Bulge, Bible Style

The Forbidden Fruit, New Testament Style

Making the Most of Getting Older

Look for the Rainbow when Tragedy Comes

It is Enough

Are You Carrying the Wrong Backpack?

Dealing with Stress

Giving Our Hurts to God

Declaring God’s Victory

Conclusion

Postscript: What Comes Next?

Questions and Answers from the Bible

Section: 1 Starting the Race

"let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith... Hebrews 12:1, 2

As with any race, the run towards victory begins with a decision ... to run!

The lessons in this section involve deciding to believe in God, seek God, know God better, and surrender our lives more completely to him.

These lessons can be used during private time with God as a starting point for reflection, prayer, and meditation upon his word.

Getting a Jump Start

A relationship with our maker gives us great advantages in life.

Have you ever wanted the inside track? A jump start? Or the ability to cut to the front of a long line?

All of us have.

Life sends us many challenges. We may lack the wisdom, experience, time, or patience the challenge requires.

Sometimes, we just may want an easier way. But no matter how big