{"id":727,"date":"2017-04-12T12:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2023-01-30T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:43:41","slug":"are-you-a-wimp-or-a-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/are-you-a-wimp-or-a-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Wimp or a Warrior?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is NOT, a dress rehearsal\u2026the play has already started and we are supposed to be ready. We are supposed to be in the play not just spectators. But we\u2019ve lost our script\u2026we don\u2019t know our lines and it\u2019s time for us to go on stage\u2026<\/h6>\n
The battle is raging and our weapons are rusty, broken and we can\u2019t find half of them. How in the world do we expect to fight in the war like that?<\/h6>\n
The cloud of witnesses is cheering for us, but we\u2019re running with our tails between our legs in the opposite direction.<\/h6>\n
I\u2019m talking to the Mighty Warriors of God\u2026or should I say the terrified, petrified, full of fear and doubt, wimpy children of God\u2026 do you even know who your God is?<\/h6>\n
It\u2019s Exhortation time\u2026it\u2019s time for a spanking\u2026<\/h6>\n
When and if, you pray, are you praying hoping God will hear you? Or are you praying like your pants are on fire and you know in whom you are praying too!!<\/h6>\n
God hasn\u2019t changed. God hasn\u2019t moved. God is still the God of I Can and I Will!<\/h6>\n
But he\u2019s not going to answer unbelief. He\u2019s not going to honor doubt and fear. He\u2019s not going to listen to lies.<\/h6>\n
When Jesus prayed Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name\u2026Thy kingdom come, Thy WILL be done\u2026on earth as it is in heaven\u2026<\/h6>\n
Did you catch that\u2026GOD\u2019S WILL BE DONE\u2026His will is that we prosper and be in health even as our soul prospers\u2026His will is that all would come to repentance and be saved. His will is that we draw near to Him resist the devil and he will flee from us\u2026<\/h6>\n
God\u2019s will is the covenant he made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob\u2026His, will, is the New Covenant he gave to us through the Blood of Christ Jesus.<\/h6>\n
The early Christians, they were a force to be reckoned with\u2026they didn\u2019t back down\u2026They knew who their God was and IS\u2026eaten by lions\u2026ripped in half\u2026hung on stakes and burned alive\u2026boiled in oil\u2026and still they served the Living God\u2026<\/h6>\n
What is wrong with us today?<\/h6>\n
Jesus said, \u201cCan you not stay awake and pray for just one hour?\u201d<\/h6>\n
People are dying in their sins and are broken and diseased and following the crowd right into hell\u2026and we, \u201cChristians\u201d are worrying about who unfriended us on Facebook. Get real\u2026<\/h6>\n
WAKE UP!!! God is calling laborers to the harvest\u2026Can you not hear him calling?<\/h6>\n
He\u2019s searching throughout the world for those who will believe Him and serve Him with their whole heart, mind, body and soul\u2026The harvest is great, the laborers are few\u2026<\/h6>\n
If you\u2019re not hungry and thirsty for the word of God.<\/h6>\n
If you\u2019re not seeking Him on a daily basis.<\/h6>\n
If you\u2019re not in fellowship with other believers and praying.<\/h6>\n
If God\u2019s not constantly on your mind\u2026then something is terribly wrong\u2026<\/h6>\n
Get alone with Jesus and ask him to make you hungry and thirsty, ask him to put a deep desire in your heart to seek him. Find a church that preaches the true word of God and go there regularly. Then watch God pour out His Spirit on you and give you new dreams, new visions, a new heart for him and his people.<\/h6>\n
Time is short\u2026it is not time to be complacent about the things of God. It is not time to play around like you have all the time in the world. It is not time to be a wimp. It is time to fall on your face before God and cry out for the souls who are dying and going to hell. It is time to put on your armor and know the word of God and speak and preach and pray and devote your life to Him\u2026<\/h6>\n
I am talking to you! The ones who call themselves Christians\u2026Followers of Jesus Christ the Messiah.<\/h6>\n
I hope you get real mad at me\u2026I hope you get so mad that you tell Jesus on me\u2026when one of my kids used to come pointing a finger at their brother, I knew they were guilty of something. They would be the one who got the correction.<\/h6>\n
God loves you and He wants the very best for you.<\/h6>\n
When Jesus said the greatest commandment was to Love God with ALL your heart, all your mind and all your strength and the second to love your neighbor as yourself. He meant what he said.<\/h6>\n
Because that\u2019s exactly how much he loves you. Actually he loves you more!<\/h6>\n
If your faith is shallow, that just tells me that you aren\u2019t hearing the word of God\u2026because Faith comes by hearing.<\/h6>\n
If you are full of doubt and fear that just tells me you aren\u2019t spending enough time alone with God in prayer. Because I promise when you get into the presence of God, your doubts and fears will vanish.<\/h6>\n
I said all of this because God put it on my heart.<\/h6>\n
You are in a war\u2026an invisible war with an enemy so strategic in his plans and diabolical in his tactics that unless you have the POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT you will not win\u2026<\/h6>\n
I\u2019m praying for you. I\u2019m praying that the HOLY SPIRIT will get ahold of you and turn you every which way but loose. I\u2019m praying that the Fire of God will come down and consume your heart, mind, body and soul. And when He is through with you, you will come up out of the pit\u2026Praying, singing, marching, preaching, the Gospel, Good News to everyone around you. And that because of your new hunger and thirst for God that they will run to our Glorious, Almighty, Powerful Loving God, and be transformed for his glory!! Amen.<\/h6>\n
Don\u2019t go back to sleep\u2026be watchful, be praying, be diligent\u2026the devil never sleeps but he will lull you to sleep in a heartbeat. Let the Fire of the Holy Ghost keep you alive, awake and on guard at your post for God. Amen.<\/h6>\n
–Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill April 12, 2017<\/h6>\n
Encouragement:<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.<\/em> 1 Corinthians 14:1-3<\/strong><\/span>New King James Version (NKJV)<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n
The Race of Faith<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares <\/em>us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,<\/em> Hebrews 12:1 New King James Version (NKJV)<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is NOT, a dress rehearsal\u2026the play has already started and we are supposed to be ready. We are supposed to be in the play not just spectators. But we\u2019ve lost our script\u2026we don\u2019t know our lines and it\u2019s time for us to go on stage\u2026 The battle is raging and our weapons are rusty,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-bJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}