Day Twenty Five
Perseverance for Your Body
Hebrews 12:1 And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Run? How could I run when I am barely managing to walk? My life shuffles by and I feel like I simply can’t keep up the pace. How can I get my feet to move at the rate of modern life?
Suspended one, come swallow perseverance for your body.
Today I Pray for You:
· To shift your focus from the finish line to the Hand Who marks out the race
· To run with the confidence of God’s strength
Today You Pray:
God of Endurance, I want to finish the race but I also want to make each step count. You are the hand that offers Living Water to weary runners. Your refreshment is extended to me; I have to embrace the gift.
I choose to pause here at your roadside stand to drink deeply of the One who restores my soul and reinvigorates by body. As I begin the race once more, I realize I run with You. Your presence in the race ensures I will run and not grow weary.
Wow, Shannon, I can't tell you how this speaks to me. I was very weary of "the race" yesterday, having just moved into a new apartment, and discovered that we are facing yet another financial crisis. Just when things were looking up. My response was, "Lord, when is this going to stop?!?" Your post is encouraging to my spirit. It reminds me that while I do long for the finish line, God wants me to run with Him instead of trying to get ahead of Him and figure things out how to make things work on my own (which is so my tendancy. :-) Blessings to you!
ReplyDeletenice post thanks for sharing..loves...
ReplyDeleteShifting our focus from the finish line to the one who marks the race.... Wow this speaks to me so much today!! Thanks girl for this nugget of truth to het me through today!!
ReplyDeleteHi Shannon - beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
ReplyDeleteGod bless
Tracy
Your post catches me on a weary-from-the-race kind of day... Battles with a tousle-headed toddler refusing to nap, battles with a towering teen who disagrees with homework choices, and battles with my mind, needing to choose grace counting instead of discontent. Thanks for letting God chase me down through you today, Shannon.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Dougan
www.jenniferdougan.com
Great post! I can too often find myself trying to get through the day and forgetting that I'll never another "today" and I need to make it count and find value and purpose in each day. It all counts!
ReplyDeleteShannon, having just run my first half marathon for the glory of God, you must know how much I can relate to the words of this prayer. Life is a race indeed. We can run it alone or we can have God carry us to the finish line. I'm feeling firsthand what it means to have God carry me. It's wonderful! :-) Thanks for this great prayer today.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Rosann
We're to stay in the race, but only in His strength... praising Him for my weaknesses!
ReplyDeleteGwendolyn, I am sorry to hear you're having a rough time. I am praying for you right now to have peace in the storm under the shelter of God's tender care.
ReplyDeleteSoraya, Thank you so much for your visit. So thankful you stopped by!
ReplyDeleteKelli, so love being a little nugget in your God-honoring day!
ReplyDeleteAwwww, Tracy, you are so sweet. You know that?
ReplyDeleteJennifer, are you sure you're not living at my house instead? :)
ReplyDeleteDonna Lynn, love what you said. I wonder how it would change my attitude if I shifted my focus from get through to get to...as in naming all the things I get to do today. :)
ReplyDeleteRosann, love this "have God carry us to the finish line"!
ReplyDeleteHeidi, staying in the race through His strength. The ultimate perseverace!
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ReplyDeleteHi Shannon - just a quick note to say I've passed along a bloggy award to you because your blog has inspired me. See my post today
ReplyDeleteGod bless
Tracy
Focus plays such a big part in perseverance. Great post, Shannon! I am so glad to have met you!
ReplyDeleteI read this yesterday. Great post! I read it again today and it spoke to me! Praise God :) Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteCrystal, thanks for stopping by. So thankful for your visit!
ReplyDeleteAwww, Tracy, that is so sweet. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteJamie Joy, love that you saw the tie between focus and perseverance. Focusing on Christ today and right now I'm thanking Him for you!
ReplyDeleteAmy, thank you so much for your visit and your encouragement. Excited you've found this oasis and pray you are refreshed!
ReplyDeleteShannon, this was a prayer that speaks to my life right now. So many things going on, some which I can control and others that I can't. But as you say, through His strength we endure.
ReplyDeleteMaria @ A Blooming Spirit
Maria, it is both terrifying and exhilarating to relax into His arms. His strength will carry you...
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this prayer, Shannon. And I will take my eyes off the finish line and keep them on the One who marked out the race! Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLove you, Sister!
~Erin
Erin, running with you as we keep our eyes on the Marker... :)
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