Run With Endurance: Fight Forward and Surrender

So a lot of times our prayers need to shift instead of God get me out of this. Lord just just remind me that you are with me in this. Because here's the thing sometimes God is trying to get something out of you before he gets you out of something. [00:54:45] (28 seconds)  #PrayForPresence

God is very clear to say that in the bible. Temptation is literally designed with the purpose to pull us away from God into sin. Testing though is actually something that God is a part of because the actual design of testing in our life is actually that we would draw closer to God. Temptation is designed to pull us away but testing is actually designed that we would lean into God and draw closer to God. [00:47:35] (43 seconds)  #TestingNotTemptation

You can run, you can run, and you can run, but you can't hide from God. You can never get away from him. Even in times where you feel so distant from God, he's right there. He's right there. His love will pursue you. Every single person in this room I know has that testimony of how the love of God pursued you. And it may look different. It may have been wrapped in different ways and packages, but we all have that testimony that the love of God has pursued us in our life. [01:16:33] (47 seconds)  #GodsLovePursuesYou

Faith comes from God but then it is up to us with partnering with the Lord and surrendering to his will in our life that our faith is beginning to be developed and grown. Right? So endurance has to be developed. Faith has to be developed. We talk about this that faith is a muscle. Muscles have to be developed. Right? When is endurance developed? When is your faith developed? In times of testing. Difficulty. [00:39:22] (36 seconds)  #FaithIsAMuscle

If you're here for any reason, no matter how you got here, I want you to know this, the love of God has pursued you. It's the reason why you're here. It's the reason why you're listening. Because the love of God has pursued you. [01:13:23] (20 seconds)  #PursuedHereByGod

his goodness, his mercy, his love, his kindness, his grace is pursuing you all the days of your life. Man, I'm so grateful that in my life, his goodness, his mercy, his amazing unfailing grace and amazing unfailing love has pursued me. When I was running, when I was running, when I was running, he was pursuing me. He was following after me everywhere that I went, everywhere I found myself. He pursued me. He pursued me. Where would I be? Where would I be without his pursuit in my life? [01:14:05] (63 seconds)  #GratefulForGodsPursuit

Do you know that we should be fighting to die every single day? Die to ourselves, die to our sinful nature? Because in that type of death is where real life actually happens. And so we have to keep fighting. The righteous keep moving forward. And those with clean hands become stronger and stronger. I love that. [01:01:41] (31 seconds)  #DieToSelfDaily

Let it grow. Other translations say let it finish its work. And here's the problem, so many times, and I've been here in my life before, so many times our prayer is not, Lord, just see me through this. Lord, just remind me that you are with me. Our prayer is, Lord, get me out of this. Has anybody been there? I mean, come on. Get me out of this situation, [00:53:53] (32 seconds)  #LetItFinishItsWork