Just a Daisy in the Meadow

“Do not cry to Me in the hour of crisiis and distress as though I would extentd some miracle in answer to prayer.  Of course, I do answer prayer and I can perform miracles and bring deliverance, but if I do this, I have only rescued one of my own out of trouble while you yourself have won no victory at all. . . . I want you to experience Jericho’s not Ai’s . . . Ye are not qualified to be used for My purposes as long as you are being harassed by the enemy and I keep needing to rescue you from a constant parade of distressing predicaments . . . ” -  Frances J. Roberts

. . . Run with the passion of Elijah

Elijah – a Rabbi -  (people in Jesus time confused him with the Messiah!) Whom do ye say that I am?  Some say Elijah, some say . . .

Elijah had a passion,a intense commitment at all costs . . .

Remember Mt. Carmel?

Elijah climbe up Mt. Carmel and had a contest with a pagan cult

He climbed back down and forsaw their punishment, climbed back up and prayed passionatly, climbed back down and ran 20 miles ahead of Ahab’s chariot . . . He gave everything he had!

Paul says in IICorinthians 12:15 ” And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls . . .”

In the New Testament time they used sports to declare their gods.  Athletes ran to declare “He is god!”  Paul says our Christian “walk” or our run says to the world the “He ALONE IS KING!”  Our walk with Jesus is an olympic event.   The way we try to be like Jesus becomes a flat-out, all-out run . . .

We’re to give it all we got.  At judgement the question might arise, “Whatcha got left?  Ya know you’ve just finished running with allyour worth here in this life and your panting because of the exturtion . . . We want to be able to say  . . . I!  . .  .have!  . . . nothing!  . . . left!

Hebrews 12:1″ . . . Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us,and let us RUN with ENDURANCE the race that is set before us,looking unto Jesus . . .”

The heroes of faith – picture your self running in a huge area, as in New Testament times with the “bleachers’ full of these people . . .

- Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samual and the prophets .  . . all these having obtained a good testimony through FAITH . . .

Hudson Taylor, Amy Charmichael, Willam Tyndale, David Livingstone, George Mueller, John Wesley, Gladyas Alward, Nate Saint . . . .

And then those heroes who’ve you’ve known who have gone on before, LeRoy, Krystal . . . Your own grandparents, or family or  dear friend . . .

These witnesses  are your fans  . . . and they are saying . . . “IT’S ! WORTH ! EVERY! EFFORT! YOU!  MAKE!  Run!  Don’t quit!

The biggest barrier, to be genuinely like Jesus, in our world today is that it takes this kind of fight!

Habakkuk 3:2 ” A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, ‘Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord, Renew them in our day, and in our time make them known . . .”

Isaiah 40:29-31 ” Do you not know, Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.  He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.  He gives strength to the weary, and increases  the power of the weak.  Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength!

They will soar on wings like eagles!

THEY WILL RUN AND NOT GROW WEARY!

They will walk and not faint!”

It’s only by the power of God that we can run and not be weary!  Where are you getting your strength from . . .

Ok, that’s my “sermon” for the day . . . No, actually it’s just what I am sharing with the sewing circle ladies . . . my turn for devotions . . .

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