Chase The Roar! by Jentezen Franklin
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By Jentezen Franklin
"Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow, the Lord will do amazing things among you." Joshua 3:5 In 2 Samuel 23:20, there is an extraordinary story. The passage says, "One snowy day, a man named Benaiah chased a lion." Normal people don't chase lions. Lions chase normal people. But God wants you to have a bold and courageous mentality that will allow you to chase after what has intimidated you in the past.
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“Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow, the Lord will do amazing things among you.” Joshua 3:5
In 2 Samuel 23:20, there is an extraordinary story. The passage says, “One snowy day, a man named Benaiah chased a lion.” Normal people don’t chase lions. Lions chase normal people. But God wants you to have a bold and courageous mentality that will allow you to chase after what has intimidated you in the past. If your dream doesn’t scare you, it’s too little. And the next verse says, “God gave him a great victory.”
God has not called you to be a scaredy cat. He has called you to be a lion chaser. When your life is over, God is not going to say to you, “Well, SAID my good and faithful servant. You thought great thoughts and wrote out a great life plan.” He is looking for people to whom He can say, “Well DONE, my good and faithful servant.” Faithfulness is not just holding down the fort and maintaining the status quo. God has called us to play offense with our lives.
A famous screenwriter from NYC held a seminar for up-and-coming writers. Aspiring writers paid thousands to sit under his teaching, and the biggest takeaway from his seminar was, “If you are going to be a great storyteller, know this: no conflict, no story.” Out of great challenges come great victories. For Davi,d it was picking a fight with a giant. For Elijah, it was facing off with 450 false prophets. For Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, it was being thrown into a fiery furnace.
You may have experienced a challenging season, but you can’t let hardships intimidate you into giving up. God is in the business of helping us overcome our fears. Don’t wait until everything is perfect to try something hard. Most first-time parents weren’t ready to have a baby, but they learned as they went. Faith means you take the first step before God shows you the second.
Psalms 91:13 says, “You will trample the lion.” Run to the roar today! With God, you can do more than you ever imagined.
Jentezen Franklin
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Our American diets are loaded with sugars, toxins, processed foods, meats, etc. Yet it is possible for us to be eating large meals, be overweight and still be malnourished. In that sense, it is easy to see how our physical lives again parallel our spiritual lives. We can become over-nourished on a hefty diet of church programs and activities, religious structure and traditions of men and yet be severely undernourished when it comes to the deeper things of God.
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You never forget the feeling of sorrow and loss that occurs when someone close to you dies. I loved my father dearly. When he passed away in 1991, it took me weeks to get beyond the initial impact of grief and mourning. Each day when I awoke, that sense of loss would hit me again as I thought, "My daddy is dead." He was a wonderful father and grandfather. I am thankful that we had the opportunity to make so many wonderful memories together. His life was indeed a celebration. Though I knew Dad was with the Lord, his absence from this life left a void that took awhile to get over.
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It seems unnecessary to point out how God's priorities are seldom our priorities. That is the difference in the nature of man and the nature of God. He even said so: "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts," (Isa. 55:9, NIV). So, how do we position ourselves to hear from God? How do we free ourselves from our own desires in order to know His will? Well, I can tell you from firsthand experience that fasting causes you to take that sword of God's Word and separate what you "want" from what you "need."
