Take Him Down

Valiant, unwavering, steadfast, strong, inviting, captivating.

That's me, warrior princess. But the battles I fight are not what you'd think when you hear of a "warrior." The battles I fight we all deal with, but most do not realize it. And some of the warriors I fight with, most will never see with their eyes. We fight against the warriors of darkness. They are all around us yet too many do not even take seriously their existance, or power, or do not believe they even exist at all. it is ther downfall. The enemy is sneeky, he is not reasonable, and does not play fair. He uses any means necessary to take I and my people down with him. He even disguieses himself as an angel of light, and he will work to twist scriptures so that we think his lies are the truth of God.

And it's my mission to find him out and take him down by the greater power in me.

Pay Day

There is a track by Sterling Elementary that I've been trying to go to at least once a week to run a mile (since I finally found a pace I could keep up for the entire way without slowing to a walk at intervals). And the place to park (legally) is somewhere across the street in the neighborhood. At least that's where I've been parking (mainly because there's shade for my car). So I have to cross the street and deal with any stares or honks, or waves, or phrases that those in the vehicles passing by have to throw at me.

But lately, the verses that have been going through my head while I run made me think differently today as I left the track. I run the verses through my mind of perseverance (even if it wasn't meant for physically training my body). It also had to do with something DR Carlson said on Sunday, about encouraging words and compliments from other people are coming from God through those people.

So I thought, after one truck drove by and the guy honked and waved, that it's a good thing. It's a compliment and encouragment to my hard work. The hard work is continuing to pay off. God is proud of me and with me in doing what is hard to keep my body healthy. As He is when we work to keep all other aspects of ourselves healthy as well -- mind, spirit, and body alike.

"But I discipline my body and bring it
into subjection lest,
When I have preached to others,
I myself should become disqualified."

-1 Corinthians 9:27

Psalm 139

Oh LORD, You have searched me and known me

You know my sitting down and my rising up

You understand my thought afar off,

You comprehend my path and my lying down

And are acquainted with all my ways [good and bad: my thoughts, my feelings, my tendancies, my habits, my strengths and weaknesses. He knows them all well]

For there is not a word on my tongue

But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether

You have hedged [covered] me before and behind

And laid Your hand upon me

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

It is high, I cannot attain it.

For where can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your presence?

If I ascend into heaven, You are there,

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there

If I take the wings of the morning,

Or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Even there Your hand shall lead me,

Your right hand shall guide me

If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me."

Even the night shall be light about me

Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You

For the night shines as the day,

The darkness and the light are both alike to You

For You formed my inward parts

You covered me in my mother's womb

I will praise You,

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made

Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well

My form was not hidden from You

When I was made in secret

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth

Your eyes saw my substance,

Being yet unformed,

And in Your book they all were written,

The days fashioned for me

When as yet there were none of them

Oh that You would slay the wicked, O GOD!

Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men!

For they speak against You wickedly,

Your enemies take Your name in vain

Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?

Do I not loathe those who rise up against You?

I hate them with perfect [complete] hatred,

I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;

Try me, and know my anxieties

And see if there is any wicked way in me,

And lead me in the way everlasting.

God is obsessed with us. Who else would bother to learn all this information about us, and then, once it is found out, still wants us?! I am humbled and amazed, every time, by what the LORD has to offer. How do I stray? How do I mistrust Him? It is craziness to trust and respect that which is an image of God, over God Himself.

I actually remember these

The four verses that stuck out to me over today and yesterday. I actually remember them all:

"I consider my life worth nothing to me if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given to me: the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace."

"Therefore I discipline my body and bring it into submission, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified."

"Most men will tell of their goodness,
But who can find a faithful man?"

"For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."


The first two I thought of while running two days ago. The first one I already had memorized, the second one I could only think, "into submission, into submission" and looked it up when I got home. I forced myself to slow down to a pace that I could keep up, and I ran a mile :-D go me! (and scripture that keeps my mind occupied so I don't get so bored I stop running to walk while I read a book). I didn't know I could run a mile! Of course, I had also asked God to show me amazing things...so that could certainly have something to do with it.