Run the Race

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. 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, Run the race with Me to completion. I am handing the baton to you. 

 
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.

Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

 Proverbs 13:12 (NKJV)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.