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I'm In The Fight Of My Life
Contributed by Charles Jones on Jan 20, 2019 (message contributor)
Summary: When challenges come you begin to realize that there is fight in you. I know that we wish that life would slow down.However I have found out that life doesn’t make an appointment. Life just happens. So when it happens you have to be prepared for what’s coming.
I'M IN THE FIGHT OF MY LIFE
Hebrews 10:35 (DBY) Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.
All of us have faced or are facing challenges and some of our challenges are intense. My Brothers and Sisters you need to know that challenges are not sent to knock the wind out of you and cause you not to pursue your purpose. Challenges help to define our meaning and purpose. As you encounter life, you have to realize that there is another side to suffering.
Its called Confidence or Boldness.
Boldness defined: is the quality of having a strong, vivid, or clear appearance; it involves the willingness to take risks and act innovatively; to have confidence or courage.
There are certain people in the world who live their lives BOLDLY.
Doing something big and bold — means taking risks that benefit you and can benefit society — means overcoming extraordinary hurdles.
It means attacking a challenge with all of your energy and focus, and many times remaining motivated for years to come.
Such passion and commitment can only come when you are emotionally committed with all of your heart and soul. And this level of commitment only materializes when your goal is powered by intense emotional energy.
There is nothing more powerful in your life than a cause you would willingly die for, whether it is your family or a belief you hold fundamental to your existence.
So Boldness is necessary because you don't want your life to be lived in vain. You don't want to come to the end of your life and say, "I feel empty." "It was all in vain."
We don't want to feel that way or say that. And so boldness is necessary to keep that from happening—so that our lives are not in vain.
Tell your neighbor, "Go and Live your Life BOLDLY!"
When challenges come you begin to realize that there is fight in you. I know that we wish that life would slow down.
However I have found out that life doesn’t make an appointment. Life just happens. So when it happens you have to be prepared for what’s coming.
1 Peter 5:8 says
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
When it comes to the enemy, you have to fight from a place of faith because you’re battle is not physical but it’s spiritual.
2 Corinthians 2:14 says
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
This is a 100% guarantee from God that you will always be triumphant if you allow God to lead you.
Story has been told of a mental hospital that many years ago devised an unusual test to determine when their patients were ready to go back into the world. They brought a patient for release to a room where a water faucet was left on so that the sink overflowed and poured water all over the floor. To see how comprehensive they were they would hand the patient a mop and tell them to mop up the water. If the patient had enough sense to turn off the faucet before mopping up the water, they were ready to be released. But if, as in the case of many, the patient started mopping while the water was still flowing, they kept the patient for more observation and treatment.
As Christians, all of us face the world in which we live and are confronted with the need to do battle with the evil that dominates it. But, like the patients in the mental hospital, until we realize where the source of that evil is, we will make no real contribution. To see less evil in the world means that we must conquer the evil that is pouring forth from our own heart. That is conversion. Then, to deal with the evil around us, we need a “mop and bucket,” which is the spiritual armor that God has provided for us.
The Lord gives us to understand who and what our real enemy is. It is not the individual as much as it is the spirit in the individual. The enemy who is at the heart of the matter is satan. This is why you have to learn how to love the person and hate the spiritual influence that controls their actions.
Ephesians 6:12 says For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
We are fighting with everything that we have to hold on to what we have.
But this is more than us having the power to hold on to God, the strength of our salvation is knowing that He is also holding on to us.
