August  15 Fight for Life ©C DIEGO 2015

Matt 9:38 AMP So pray to the Lord of the harvest to force out and thrust laborers into His harvest.

I’ve never really considered myself much of a fighter and in the past I actually used to brag about how much of a quitter I was and how I didn’t like trouble and how my mum was the fighter and how I’m just in awe of her.

Well, in recent times I’m realizing the importance of being a fighter and teaching our children to fight! Life is not for sissies and if you live long enough, you’re going to have to fight for something otherwise, you are going to have a nondescript life and you’re going to hate yourself for it.

Through my writings and the few friends I’ve garnered along the way, I am sometimes asked for counsel and in recent times I found myself answering questions such as when will my husband/ child / job come? With less and less certainty and clarity so I knew I had to go back to the one who owns me.

And what I hear is to FIGHT THE FIGHT OF FAITH! I know you’ve done all you know to do, but all you know to do is not all there is to do. There’s so much apathy in people’s voices and actions that I wish I could shake them and say: this is your life! It’s not a dress rehearsal FIGHT! Don’t just wish and hope…Another year is rolling away, are you going to just watch it roll by?

Today’s verse shows that even for something that God so expressly wills- Salvation, HE ASKS THAT WE PRAY! How dare you give up saying, if God wills it, it’ll be done? Get a praying!

Lord, I refuse to be apathetic, this is my life and I’m fighting for it!!

August  16 Fight for Life (1) ©C DIEGO 2015

Matthew 6:9 AMP Pray...like this: Our Father Who is in heaven...

I’m entering contentious waters but, despite what you have been told, all issues are not spiritual, some are physical. Some issues have a physical presentation but in reality are spiritual. Physical solutions do not solve spiritual problems and spiritual solutions do not solve physical problems. Sometimes, some issues require both a physical and spiritual solution. ONLY GOD CAN GIVE A TRUE DIAGNOSIS AND HE WON’T GIVE IT IF HE’S NOT ASKED. Are you asking!

Consciously or unconsciously, we have turned prayer into diabolical sessions in which we can actually enter and exit without really KNOWING this God as father. Using the many ‘sacrifices’ available- fasts, offerings, etc. we plead seemingly with an ‘unwilling’ God to give us our desires and if we don’t get them, we shrug ‘God knows best’ outwardly unperturbed, but inwardly confused and uncertain of his love. Some even venture towards witch doctors- God can use anyone, they tell themselves.

A lot of the times God uses nature to give us insight into him so I’m thankful I had a great relationship with my father, I believe it gives me insight into genuine prayer to God the father. First, audience with God isn’t always to ask for something! Some days, pray just to hear His voice, tell him something funny, laugh, play, seek his opinion, ask questions, just chill. If all you do in prayer is to command the hosts of angels and demons, you miss out on a vital relationship element to prayer and we know, relationships opens doors like nothing else can.

It’s at fellowship times like this that God can tell you things others may have told you but you didn’t hear; lose some weight, forgive your brother/sister/ stepmother/father…Go out more, laugh more, consider that not so fine looking brother… take a battle position against your village, see a doctor.

Lord, help me really seek you