You are not stuck! Keep going forward

"Endurance builds character, which gives us hope that will never disappoint us."

Romans 5:4-5 CSV

Keep doing what you are doing; keep pressing forward in the darkness set before you because perseverance and endurance bring victory! My friend, there is light shining through on the other side, but you must be determined to push through until you see it.  You can do it.  You can be your own light, just focus on God's voice in your heart - the more you push through, the louder it will become; and the more you move forward in darkness, the brighter God's light will shine through for you.

Go! Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?

“... Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands.  Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?”

Judges 4:14

Go already!  Today is your day.  God has already done the work for you; he’s already gone where you’ve been wanting to go and given you the victory - yes, he’s already cleared the path for you.  So what are you waiting for?  Why do you fear?  Yes, it will take some deep faith, some deep determination, and it may not be as easy as you want, but it’s yours... now go and take it.

Discipline and determination

“… Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?  Run in such a way that you may win, run with determination and discipline…”

Adapted from 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Discipline and determination  to win in life aren’t to be waited for, they are something to grab hold in order to win the race in which you were called.  Without them, you’ll never get pass the starting line.

You can conquer all your fears!

"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?  Did you take God into your mind only, or did you also embrace him with your heart?  Did he get inside you?" - Acts 19:1-2 MSG

How deeply rooted is the Spirit within you?  This is a great question to think about and answer honestly. If God isn't deep-centered in your heart, then healing and wholeness are going to be a constant battle, a constant uphill struggle.  Yes, you might believe with your mind, but until you open your heart to let him in, nothing that you are holding on to right now that has to do with your unhealthy habits, hurts, and hang ups will ever be set truly free from within you.  So really dig down within yourself and see what is at the root of your core:  Is it God, or is it you; your flesh, the world in which you live and try to please, your fears, your upsets, your worry...?  Whatever it, or who, it may be, if it isn't God then it is time to focus on Him with more determination and hope than you ever have before.  Soon, your world will lighten, your lungs will fill with a fresh new air of life, and the road to recovery will be set, ever-so-clear, before you!  

You are God's child! And with him you can face and conquer all of your fears, hurts, habits, darkness's, and upsets!

Hold on! Hold on tight!!

"And I will bring back the exiles of My people... they shall build... and plant... they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.  And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be torn up out of their land which I gave them, says the Lord your God." Amos 9:14-15 AMP

Don't give up!! You may be at wit's end! You may have lost everything! You no longer feel as if you have the strength, faith, or determination to do it all again, to start at the beginning, but God is here with you! He has a plan for you, and if you will just keep your faith in Him, dig in with both feet, believe like never before, and have the faith of a thousand men, then the breakthrough you thought would never happen, will happen!  It is going to happen at just the right time, at just the right place. 

So, hold on! Hold on tight, my friend, because the doors of His glory are getting ready to burst wide open, and your entry into a grand, sparkling new beginning is about to come to pass.

Praise God - Hallelujah!

Consider Jesus

"He considered the contempt and abuse and shame [borne for] the Christ (the Messiah Who was to come) to be greater wealth than all the treasure of Egypt, for he looked forward and away to the reward (recompense)." Hebrews 11:26 AMPC

When you are tempted to sin; when you are tempted to fall into the world for what you think is a certain ease (although it is only a moment of ease, eventually leading to a long term heartache), remember the determination of Moses, and, like him, consider Jesus.  Jesus prevails over all worldly ease and quick satisfactions.  So, if you can focus on Him, not on the moment, then your decisions will be God-blessed, God-beneficial, and will bear God-bearing fruit of which you will never be ale to receive from the world.

Considering Jesus equals actions, thoughts, and decisions that reach into your eternal destiny, which is being seated in Heaven at the right hand of Jesus Christ himself.

When the righteous fall

“For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again…” Proverbs 24:16

Never, ever, ever, give up!!

When we stumble, when we fall, and when we make mistakes in life, we should bounce right back up knowing that it is at those times when we get to start again, but we get to start again with more wisdom, more compassion, more determination, and more faith than ever before. Eventually we even realize that our stumble, fall, or mistake, was a miraculous blessing in disguise, because it pushed us forward into a whole new element of life ~ a huge step forward to our eternal destiny. 

Praise God - Hallelujah