BEING A CONTENDER 4-6-24 by Mary Dorian VIDEO CRAZY PEOPLE
Are you someone who wishes for the best and wants to see something wonderful happen but in reality, never takes an action or are you a contender? Someone who wont give up-A fighter who keeps going to you see the results. Beloved spiritual power is not for the faint of heart. It is for the Contenders.
1 Cor 9:24 You've all been to the stadium and seen the athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win.
25 All good athletes train hard. They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You're after one that's gold eternally.
26 I don't know about you, but I'm running hard for the finish line. I'm giving it everything I've got. No sloppy living for me!
27 I'm staying alert and in top condition. I'm not going to get caught napping, telling everyone else all about it and then missing out myself. MSG
1Corinthians 9:24 Athletes run a race to win; their aim is to receive the prize not just to compete! This is why I preach, to persuade you and not just to entertain you!
25 The athlete knows how to draw from focused inner strength in order to win the crown; for them all their effort translates into a mere moment celebrated by a fading wreath of honor. For us to win your faith is of imperishable value!
26 I run with certain victory in my every step! I am not shadow boxing when I preach!
27 I deliberately compare myself to the sacrifice and dedication of a champion athlete; in similar fashion I would pummel my body and subdue it! I would deny myself many things in my pursuit to win your faith so that you will not have any excuse to reject my message. I want you, not your money! Mirror
Prov 28:4 Those who forsake the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, but those who keep the law [of God and man] contend with them. AMP
Isa 50:8-9 The One who makes me righteous is close to me. Who would dare challenge me now? Who would be my opponent? Let him stand before me! Who is my accuser?
Let him confront me!
9 It is the Lord Yahweh who empowers me; who would condemn me? My accusers will all fade away like worn-out, moth-eaten clothes. The One who makes me righteous is close to me. Who would dare challenge me now? Who would be my opponent? Let him stand before me! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me! TPT
Mic 6:1 HEAR NOW what the Lord says: Arise, contend and plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. AMP
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Mic 6:1 Listen now, listen to God: "Take your stand in court. If you have a complaint, tell the mountains; make your case to the hills. MSG
John 18:33-37 Than Pilate went back into the court room and summoned Jesus to him and asked him, Are you the king of the Jews?
34 Jesus responded, Are these your own thoughts or did others suggest this about me?
35 Pilate replied, Am I a Jew, why would I bother to speculate about you? Your own people and priests handed you over to me. What have you done to make them do this?
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom has nothing in common with the political or religious systems of this world; it does not originate out of their structures. If it did my subordinates would fight for me and resist my handover to the Jews.
37 Pilate then said, So you are a king? Jesus replied, You say that I am a king. My destiny was to be born in the flesh and for this purpose have I come into the world to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who recognizes their true origin, hears my voice.
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1 Tim 6:12 Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.
13 I'm charging you before the life-giving God and before Christ, who took his stand before Pontius Pilate and didn't give an inch: MSG
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1Tim 6:12 So fight with faith for the winners prize! Lay your hands upon eternal life, to which you were called and about which you made the good confession before the multitude of witnesses!
13 So now, I instruct you before the God of resurrection life and before Jesus, the Anointed One, who demonstrated a beautiful testimony even before Pontius Pilate, TPT
2 Tim 4:7 This is the only race worth running. I've run hard right to the finish, believed all the way.
8 All that's left now is the shouting God's applause! Depend on it, he's an honest judge. He'll do right not only by me, but by everyone eager for his coming. MSG
2Tim4:7-8 Like a champion athlete I have run my race and completed the course; I have carefully 1attended to the faith! (The word 1tereo means to attend carefully, to guard.)
8 My wreath of righteousness awaits me as testimony to the Lords righteous judgment. He will crown me in that day, the moment I step out of this body. I will not be the only one receiving a wreath of honor; everyone, 1loving the brilliance of his appearing will be jointly crowned! Mirror
Romans 8:37 On the contrary, in the thick of these things our triumph remains beyond dispute. His love has placed us above the reach of any onslaught.
38 This is my conviction; no threat whether it be in death or life; be it celestial messengers, demon powers or political principalities, nothing known to us at this time, or even in the unknown future;
39 no dimension of any calculation in time or space, nor any device yet to be invented, has what it takes to separate us from the love of God unveiled in our Lord, Jesus Christ. Mirror
Acts 23:9 This sparked an even greater uproar among them. Finally, some of the separated ones who were religious scholars stood up and protested strongly, saying, We find nothing wrong with this man. It could be that the Spirit has spoken to him or an angel came to him.
10 When the shouting match became intense, the commander, fearing they would tear Paul to pieces, intervened and ordered his soldiers to go in to their meeting and seize him and take him back to their headquarters.
11 That night our Lord appeared to Paul and stood before him and said, Receive miracle power. For just as you have spoken for me in Jerusalem, you will also speak for me in Rome. TPT
EPH 6:12 People are not the enemy, to target one another is to engage in the wrong combat. We represent the authority of the victory of Christ in the spiritual realm. We are positioned there (in Christ); we confront the mind games and structures of darkness, religious thought patterns, governing and conditioning human behavior.
13 It is most important therefore to acquaint yourself with every aspect of Gods armor. You are fully fit to powerfully defeat any onslaught or contradiction on any day of confrontation, triumphantly standing your ground. The days where the law of hardships, annoyances and labor dictated your life are over!
14 Take your position: you have the truth [of who you are in Christ] wrapped around your hips like a soldiers belt, holding the complete body armor together. Righteousness covers your heart like a bulletproof breastplate.
15 You wear your eagerness and passion to communicate the Good News like soldiers shoes. Announce peace; the battle has already been fought and won!
16 It is most important to engage your faith as a man-size shield that covers your whole person and empowers you to extinguish the flame in every arrow of contradiction that you might face. The only visible part of you is your faith! Mirror
Jude 3 Dear friends, I've dropped everything to write you about this life of salvation that we have in common. I have to write insisting begging! that you fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish. MSG
Phil 1:27 Meanwhile, live in such a way that you are a credit to the Message of Christ. Let nothing in your conduct hang on whether I come or not. Your conduct must be the same whether I show up to see things for myself or hear of it from a distance. Stand united, singular in vision, contending for people's trust in the Message, the good news,
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John 12:30 Jesus replied, This voice was not for my sake but for yours!
31 Now is the judgment of this world; this is the moment where the ruler of the world-system is 1conclusively cast out!
32 When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all of mankind and every definition of judgment unto me! Mirror
Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of the quitting kind; we possess a persuasion of soul that believes against all the odds. But we are not of the quitting kind; we possess a persuasion of soul that believes against all the odds. Mirror
Hebrews 11:6 'And without faith living within us it would be impossible to please God. For we come to God in faith knowing that he is real and that he rewards the faith of those who passionately seek him.' TPT
Hebrews11:13 These heroes all died still clinging to their faith, not even receiving all that had been promised them. But they saw beyond the horizon the fulfillment of their promises and gladly embraced it from afar. They all lived their lives on earth as those who belonged to another realm.
14 For clearly, those who live this way are longing for the appearing of a heavenly city. 15 And if their hearts were still remembering what they left behind, they would have found an opportunity to go back.
16 But they couldnt turn back for their hearts were fixed on what was far greater, that is, the heavenly realm! So because of this God is not ashamed in any way to be called their God, for he has prepared a heavenly city for them. TPT
Heb 12:1-3 Do you see what this means all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.
2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed that exhilarating finish in and with God he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
3 When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through all that bloodshed! MSG
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Hebrews 12:1 1As for us, we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds. So we must let go of every wound that has pierced us and the sin we so easily fall into. Then we will be able to run lifes marathon race with passion and determination, for the path has been already marked out before us.
2 We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faiths perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!
3 So consider carefully how Jesus faced such intense opposition from sinners who opposed their own souls, so that you wont become worn down and cave in under lifes pressures.
4 After all, you have not yet reached the point of sweating blood in your opposition to sin. TPT