"The Warrior Within"

But You O Woman of God, Fight the Good Fight of Faith.
1 Timothy 6:12

Beautiful one, there are times in life that all we seem to know is trouble and in that trouble we find ourselves fighting with everything within us. Sometimes we find ourselves fighting against everyone and everything, including our God.

For many of us, we have known the pain of rejection, abandonment, fear, indifference, doubt, and unbelief. And if we are really honest with ourselves, when faced with these trials, we tend to give up and give in to the lies of our circumstances because deep down we cannot see a way out of it.

Our head may know that God loves us and we hear that He is for us but because of the magnitude of the pain we feel, we sometimes give in to the voice of an adversary and instead of knowing victory we all too often submit to being a victim.

When you hear the word ‘fight’, does it take you back in time to a heated argument or a literal physical fight? Does it remind you of a vicious battle you were in or are in now? Maybe you were fighting for your name, your health, your sanity, a job, a marriage, a friendship, maybe for your child or even for your very life, maybe your fight isn’t just in the past, maybe the fight you're in is now, today.

Webster’s describes ‘fight’ this way; A battle or combat, to contend in any manner, strive vigorously for or against; to subdue, defeat, or destroy an adversary, to carry on and to make ones way by fighting or striving

My friend, no matter where your at today, the good news is; we're supposed to fight, fighting is what we're called to, the only thing is; we're called to fight the right fight and that is for our faith.

If a tally was totaled on the score card of our life, maybe some of us would be found wanting. Maybe we're defeated, maybe we’re losing the miserable battle of addiction; maybe we’ve been abandoned by those who are supposed to have our back not stab it. Maybe we didn’t get the right jump out of the starting blocks, maybe we’ve  had to fight to prove who we are and that we have worth.

....But how we started isn’t as important as how we finish. The Bible tells us that the end of a thing is greater than it's beginning. We may not have had a say as to how we started, but we do have a voice as to how we will end up.

May I gently suggest that we cannot believe what we do not know and if we don’t know who we are and what we have at our disposal, than how will we use what’s in our arsenal?

The Lord says that our destiny and purpose while we are here is; to subdue and rule, not to be enslaved, oppressed and depressed; broke, busted and disgusted.

Our faith is not be taken lightly, but so often because of the fear and the what ifs, we lose the faith for what is. How many times do our hearts dream of something better but because we cannot see it, we quash those dreams and settle for survival?

Here reads a great truth; “Freedom is moving from survival to stability, from stability to success and from success to significance.” Zig Ziglar

How can we be truly free to walk in faith if all we are doing is trying to survive? How many of us have waded in a little pool of stability and settled for a bit of success? But faith is more than settling, or even being successful, Faith Is Walking In Significance!

Does our victory rest in our ability to figure it out or in Him bringing us out?

Faith is knowing who we are, and where we’re going. We walk in what He says not what we feel, we walk by doing, not just thinking. We walk even if the way is unclear, trusting that His Word will be a light for our path and a lamp unto our feet.

To fight the good fight is; to fight the temptation to give up and give in to what circumstances say, to fight off and subdue the doubt and unbelief.

To fight means to; strive and subdue the adversary named fear, to make our way by striving to believe for something better. Do we fully understand that we will act no better than we think, and ultimately we will live no better than we believe?

Beautiful One, it doesn’t matter where we come from, or what we’ve done, believe that the Lord wants to wipe away our tears and give us double for our trouble! I am a living witness that where you’re at today, is not where you have to be tomorrow!

Never Give Up, Never Give In, and Never Back Down! Believe that you are not alone, have faith that you are going to make it, victory is yours, It is coming! If you don’t gain ground, don’t lose any either! Stand and Believe!

Remind yourself that God didn’t bring you through all of that, to leave you like this.

Beautiful One, Just Believe, Let the Warrior Within Arise and Fight the Good Fight!