We ARE warriors!

I have so many feelings and emotions flooding though me right now. I fear I won't be able to express them all correctly. I pray that this post will lift someone up and encourage them even if I can't say it right.

I've learned that there is not enough paper in the world to express the story of my heart!

That being said--
Failure and Success, sometimes there is a thin line that separates the two. I've found in my life that God is faithful to turn my failures into successes.

Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

We must then learn from them and fight on!
"But I'm tired of fighting! As soon as I whip one problem, there are a hundred more knocking on my door!"
Many times we feel weary from the battles of life and the failures. Tired of trying to push back the flesh and the powers of Satan.

But what is an army for, if not to fight?! We'll be fighting or retreating from now until Jesus returns!

We don't like to hear that as humans. We don't want to be warriors. We want a comfortable, easy life where we can lay back and go on a spiritual vacation. But that is not what we are called to do. We are called to:

1 Timothy 6:12 - Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Ephesians 6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

God gave us spiritual weapons and His own armor:

2 Corinthians 10:4 - (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

Ephesians 6:10-18

The battle is hard as a warrior, but we must fight on and look to the future in Christ. Continue to trust God and learn how to fight by reading, praying and living out Godly lives. Being doers of the Word and not just hears.

Philippians 3:14 - I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Teddy Roosevelt said-- "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."

C. S. Lewis said-- "Safe? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good."

I could write on and on.... but I just won't say it right. Please feel free to comment on how the Lord has taught you to fight on. How you have been encouraged and how He has carried you through life so that we all might be blessed by your words and experience.
Love you all.