{{It is Friday. Today I link with Lisa Jo Baker for Five Minute Friday. Here is how it works…. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Lots of women. Everyone writes on the same word. Equals a great time.}}
Today’s word …. Fight.
Fight. Not something I enjoy. Yet life is a fight. We engage in battle every day. I fight to get myself out of bed in the morning. I fight to get myself to bed at night as I want to watch just one more episode of House Hunters, especially when it is International. I fight not to eat more sweets than I should. I fight to make myself exercise (which I probably do not fight this one strongly enough!!).
And then there is the greater fight. I have fought ……
- to keep my marriage healthy and alive and strong
- to hold onto pregnancies
- to grow my children to love God
- for the lives of friends battling cancer
- for the safety of friends
- for finances
- to make the right choices and have not always won 🙁
There has never been a fight that I have waged alone. I am grateful for those whom God placed in my life to come alongside of me, to pray with me, to pray for me. They helped to keep the fight alive in me so that I would not give up. They never let me wave the white flag in surrender to the enemy, who was also engaged in a fight for my soul and the souls of those I love.
And I am grateful for a God, my God, Who also will fight for me … “The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, and in the desert. (Deuteronomy 1:30).
And I am grateful for a God, my God, Who equips me for the fight …. “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5).
My God will fight for me.
My God equips me to fight.
And I will fight in His Name.
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“There has never been a fight that I have waged alone” – oh yes…such truth and so grateful for that myself today!!
So very grateful that we fight shoulder to shoulder 🙂
Beautiful words and so very true. We don’t do this alone.
So grateful that we do it in His strength!
Energizing post!!! Have a grand day!!
Thank you for stopping here today. May we be strengthened to fight well today!
This is beautiful! God fights for us. We don’t fight alone. LOVE. Here from FMF. Happy New Year!
I realized this morning that when He says, “He will never leave us”, it also means in the midst of the fight. Happy New Year to you as well. Looking forward to all that He has for us in 2014!
Perfect examples of the use of the word “fight”. Man, how do you do that, Joanne? Well…that was a silly question…I know how you do it…God has blessed you with such an incredible gift!
Blessings,
Debby
Thank you, Debby! At times, my mind makes me wonder too! So grateful for our God Who weaves His thoughts through our minds all day long. Thank you for encouraging me today!
AMEN! I’m so thankful that all I have to do is surrender it all back to Him, and He fights for me. Even when I choose to not let go, He still fights, although on my end it feels more like a struggle as I hang on to things I wasn’t meant to. Blessings!
Funny you should use the word “struggle”. When I find myself struggling, I am beginning to learn to step back & see if I am supposed to release something to Him. Grateful that you shared, Barbie!
So good to know that with Him, I have all I need to fight and win! This will stay in my heart as a press forward. Happy New Year Joanne!
Lisha, may this be a year of many victories for us both!
Never alone! So eternally thankful that He is with us and enable us to fight the good fight of faith. What a gift!
Happy New Year!
May He deposit into each of us all that we need in the days ahead, Rebekah. Blessings!
I think we all fight our own battles and it’s tough, but worth it. I also fight to stop watching House Hunters International – especially when I dream of moving abroad. The hardest part is to see the support you have as you do fight. We are never alone.
The trick to winning the fight again House Hunters is to shut the TV off before the next episode starts. The intro always sucks me in for another 1/2 hour 🙂 Your comment made me realize I need to be more faithful to make sure my loved ones know they have my support in the fight. May we always remember that we are never alone – He is always there with us. Thank you for sharing here.