
2023 Word of the Lord, RUN YOUR RACE!
In this year, 2023, The Prophetic & Intercession will spearhead the way.
(Spearhead: a leading element, force, or influence in an undertaking or development)
There will be, and is happening now, an increase in the Gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy, and a return of tongues and interpretation of tongues in your church and in your meetings.
God’s Word will become a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path. It will be your guiding light shining in the darkness. Darkness is increasing, yes gross darkness. But the glory I have put on you will shine brightly. It will expose the darkness around you. I say shake lose of the darkness that grips your feet and ankles!
In this season I hear the Lord saying run your race, run your race!!!! Prepare yourself for the long-haul, for those who endure to the end shall be saved. Don’t grow weary and stop short of the upward call, but press on to the prize. Keep your eye on the prize. Don’t look to the right or the left, and don’t look behind. For what I have for you is in front of you. Stay in your lane, the path that’s been marked out for you. Your gifts and callings are without repentance. Be a good steward of what has been invested in you. (Interest on the talents given by the master.) What have you done with what I’ve given you? Time is short, My coming is near at hand. Run I say, run as fast as you can. Lives are hanging in the balance, eternal lives. No more delay, it’s time. Step up, step in. Run your race. On your marks, I say, on your mark! Be poised and ready to go! Remove the distractions. Lay aside your weights. Run YOUR race with endurance, says the Lord!
I Corinthians 9:24-27 NKJV
“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
Run Your Race Series
- Run Your Race
- Training
- Fueling Your Run
- The Mental Games
- Rest Day
- Goal Setting
- Elements of the Race
Spirit of Excellent Series
Spirit of Excellence - Son or Hireling
John 10:11-16(NKJV)
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
Spirit of Excellent - Walk Humbly
Micah 6:8(NKJV)
8 He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justly, To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?
Spirit of Excellent - Good, Better, Best
Romans 12:1-2(MSG)
1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Words of Encouragement from the Lord
Never Give Up
Luke 11:5-8 (NKJV)
5 And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? 8 I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.
Unity
Genesis 11:4-7(NKJV)
4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Adversity to Victory
1 Peter 5:9-11(NKJV)
9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 11 To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
He Never Fails
Numbers 23:19 (NKJV)
“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Voices And Choice
Self, Satan, Others, God/Holy Spirit
The Love, Mercy, and Forgiveness of God
The Cross
Galatians 3:13-14(NLT)
13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” 14 Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.
For the Sins of the World
1 John 3:1-3(NKJV)
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Healing in His Wings
Malachi 4:2 (NKJV)
“But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.”
The Gift of Repentance
Romans 3:23-26(NKJV)
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit
Isaiah 61:1-3 (NKJV)
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, 3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”