My child, I have seen your tiredness and frustration even as you live to follow and obey Me wholeheartedly. I know this is a time in which you are walking on a narrow cobblestone path with high grounds and deep valleys which are out of your comfort zone, but I am allowing this because I have a purpose that awaits you. The honing and refining are part of My plan for you. The hurdles are there to teach you how to lean on Me completely in every circumstance, so that you won’t be scared or taken aback as I start to shake what needs shaking in your life, in the Church and in the nations.
I am training, preparing and strengthening you so that you can help and show the Way to those I will send you. Even your life has to set the example of what it means to trust Me no matter what. It is for this reason that I am stretching you to the limit, for only then will you be certain that I will catch you when you jump off the cliff with no net underneath.
Therefore, continue to run the race that I marked out for you. Remember that I am with you all along and ask Me to fortify you when your limbs feel weak. Fix your eyes on Me and receive My joy that makes you invincible.
For the race is not over, but your breakthrough is near.
Activation:
Take time in God’s presence to speak to Him about this period of your life and its challenges. Invite Holy Spirit to comfort you, wash away any exhaustion and fill you afresh with His living waters. Then ask Him to reveal what has pulled you down and what is the heavenly plan of attack to reach that breakthrough that’s on your heart.
Jesus, the Example
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of [a]witnesses [who by faith have testified to the truth of God’s absolute faithfulness], stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us,
2 [looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, [b]disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].
Hebrews 12:1-2 (AMP)
Footnotes
[a] Hebrews 12:1 i.e. the people commended for their faith in ch 11. See 11:2, 39.
[b] Hebrews 12:2 Sometimes the public shame of the cross is overlooked when one thinks of the pain and agony inflicted by it, but in the Roman Empire crucifixion was a shameful and disgraceful way to die, a form of capital punishment from which Roman citizens were exempt; and in Roman comedy it was used in a curse: “Go to a bad cross!”
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.Proverbs 13:12 (AMP)
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Unapologetically Marcia 