The joy/will/race of the Lord is our strength... glory!!! Run your race, my friends, it's yours... no one can run [it] for you. And no one, other than the Lord, can lay it out and make it so clear before you. If I could trust and look to Jesus for you, I would... but I can't, that's something ONLY you can do for yourself
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His race for you is often referred to in Scripture as the will of God for your life, the joy of the Lord, the way of the Lord and also your course. All these phrases are saying and meaning the same thing: God has a specific assignment or mission for us to accomplish. And the authority and power we have to accomplish them are found in the orders He gives us to fulfill the mission or complete our race. And no matter the assignment/race we've been given it will always include reaching people for Jesus, teaching people about Jesus, equipping people to serve Jesus and mobilizing missionaries to go with Jesus.
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Therefore, I encourage you to embrace your race gladly, endure your race gratefully, explain your race graciously, and enjoy your race gloriously. And as you make much of Jesus, on the course He's assigned for you, Jesus will continue to make much use of you.
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It's your race...no one else can run [it] for you. So let's sum it up. I encourage you to:
1. embrace [it] gladly,
2. endure [it] gratefully,
3. explain [it] graciously, and
4. enjoy [it] gloriously...with your eyes fixed on Jesus, so you don't flicker or fall apart when the road gets ugly or when the view, along the road, gets "too pretty" to continue. |
