I'm super excited about because I feel like it's custom made for Texans.

I am going to be talking about the grit factor.

And you're probably thinking, what did she just say?

Well, I'm going to define it for you.

The grit factor is a passion for long-term goals,

coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve objectives.

It is a perseverance that overcomes obstacles that lie in or on an individual path.

Grit has actually been acknowledged as a virtue

since the time of Aristotle, so I'm not making this up. You can actually find

out how gritty you are. There is a test you can take online. It goes from one to five. It is important that you tell the truth when you take

the test or you'll get a false result. When I was truthful I found out I only am a 3.9 on the 5 scale which means I need to up my grit level a little bit.

One of my favorite historical figures who is gritty is Winston Churchill.

And he said, if you are going through hell,

you just keep going.

Gritty people have this awareness of what they are looking for, what they want to see,

and if they have not arrived at that destination, then they understand it is not the end of the story and they are going

to just continue to keep going.

I know as a grandmother, what I see in my spirit is not what I see in the natural

right now and so I believe it is time for the church to just keep going. The attack that we are seeing all around us is not about

our history. It is about our destiny and so I need to up my grit factor, but I also need to up my godly factor.

And so because I am a Sicilian grandmother, I am going to take you to the Book of Romans to

unpack the grit factor for you. First we're going to talk about the reality of God.

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