“I refuse to forfeit a victory that God has already given because of a battle that I don’t feel like fighting.”

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2014-02-11) from his book, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others (Kindle Locations 3380-3381). The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

It’s Wednesday, the middle of the first week of June and I thought you might need some encouragement to keep fighting, to not give up, and to not listen to the lies of the Enemy. I don’t know what you are going through but God does and He wants you to not forfeit a victory the He has already given to you because you don’t feel like fighting.

Today is a new day, there are new victories available for us but there are also new battles. That is the reason why I always start my day with a Psalm from the Bible. This is what I found today, Psalm 33:20 (NLT), “We put our hope in the Lord. He is our help and our shield.” And I wrote down in my journal the words, hope, help and shield. Today is a new day.

Listen I need encouragement to keep at it. It would be easy to just stay in bed and not fight anymore, to just give up. Many of you are fighting the desire to do that. Yes you made it through yesterday but you are not sure you have what it takes to fight another day. And you are right but you don’t have to do it alone. But you have to keep fighting. He is our hope, help and shield. You are not alone.

I gained some weight over the weekend. That is a battle I have every day. But I started today with a new determination to do what I know I need to do. To get up, to get out and walk and to eat right. It is a battle but there is victory even though it is easy to quit fighting.

I had a victory over the weekend and I wrote about it but there was another blog to write yesterday and then to post and the same today. Those are battles that I must fight everyday but there is victory when I do.

You also have your battles that you face every day and you get to the point that you just want to forfeit the victory because you just don’t feel like fighting. But don’t quit fighting. The victory is yours and remember it is worth it.

So make this commitment today, “I refuse to forfeit a victory that God has already given because of a battle that I don’t feel like fighting.”

So are you going to quit or are you going to keep on fighting?

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