– 1 Samuel 17: 32
Let's Get Ready To R-U-M-M-M-B-L-E!
What are the Goliaths in your life? You know, the things that just seem too big and too out-of-control to take on; scary, ugly, crazy things that weigh heavy on your soul and cause you to wonder if you're capable of getting out from under their oppressive strangle-hold. Things like family problems, and kid issues, and car problems, and debt, and bill collectors, and stress at work, and layoffs, and unemployment, and unexpected home repairs, and bad doctor's reports, and even things like Prop 8 and the downward spiral our society seems to be too willing to slide into. On-and-on the "Goliath" syndromes go and sometimes all you want to do is crawl under the covers and hide because the enormity of your situation is just too overwhelming.
We've ALL got them, and while we are in the middle of our Goliath season, our usually valiant heart of efforts just seems a bit too inadequate and we become deflated, defeated, derailed, and depressed, and all we want is for someone to rescue us from our selves. But here's the thing . . . inside each one of us is a little something that God, OUR Father (who, by-the-way, LOVES us so very much!), hid away for occasions just like these. That little something is called FIGHT!
That's right . . . F-I-G-H-T! And even if you think you were in the washroom and missed getting yours when God was handing them out, your FIGHT is tailor-made and custom fitted, just for you. It is in you, and it's always ready for use, BUT (and there always is one), YOU, ME, WE . . . have to be willing to muster the "want to," the "desire" to use one of the most important grouping of gifts God has given us . . . our RESOLVE, our HOPE, and our FIGHT! Otherwise, we will just continue on in ineffective mediocrity, allowing life to get the best of us and letting the rest of the world know that "Victory In Jesus" is just a nice song.
So get up, stand up, step up, and muster up the FIGHT that is in you and start slaying your Goliaths, one ugly giant at at time until you stand in Victory over your circumstances. Let the world see what a true Champion of Christ looks like! Let them know that NO weapon that the enemy can throw your way will even begin to make a dent in your God-Armor. Let's all let this liberal crazy world know that our God, the God of the Angel Armies, has given us, the perfect amount of FIGHT for any and every battle! Let's get ready to Rumble and knock the enemy flat on his bony back side! Let us stand in Victory every day, for all our days!
Prayer
Father, thank You for the FIGHT that You've gifted each one of us. Thank You for giving so freely, the desire to survive and to stand in Victory with and for You. Forgive us for the times when we doubt and we fear, and we see more of our problems that we do of You. Help us to never give up Hope and to always be ready to go and fight the Goliaths that the enemy has sent to discourage and destroy us.
Have a Blessed day Everyone!
– Richard
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