To be a fighter in any capacity means that the enemy will always try in all their might to get you to identify as a runner. The enemy would also want others to identify you as a runner.

What is a runner?

A runner is one who runs away. One who wants to run from its present situation.

Believe me when I tell you that, that is what the enemy wants you to do. He wants you to run from the situation that has made you uncomfortable. He wants you to run and have no other option but to admit and identify that you are a runner. Once you run, you can’t deny that you didn’t run.

To be honest, I never paid much attention the word runner until I was reminded of the things, I’ve been through and even some before I even came to Christ, that even then I never ran, I stayed and to fight. When I say the enemy wants you to IDENTIFY with being a runner, I’m telling you, he banks on it, he puts all his focus and strategies on that fight because IF you run, that would be his victory. Genesis 50:20 ^– You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people. It would be you running from what God has called you to do. It would be the race the enemy want you to run from and walking away from every promise He gave you but more that you ran away from Him and His kingdom. In the process of running, you also robbed those he would place in your path to introduce them to HIM and entering His kingdom.

The fight or battle you are in, I do not doubt that it is tough, hard, overwhelming, and / or heartbreaking but running proves nothing, only that you didn’t trust in THE ONE that you everything was going to be okay. (I trust those words because has said them to me and sent others to tell me. )

Will you be the runner and run or a fighter and press forward?

Philippians 3:14 – I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

I am a fighter! Just let me tell you something: I did want run. I did want to quit but I kept remembering and being and reminded of how much God has already done and will continue to do and that even if I did run the battle will still be there only it would be harder without Christ. Battles are fought on a daily basis. Maybe you are in a season where everything is going great and if that is the case Praise God! Maybe you are in a season where is seems like you are fighting battle after battle and it’s getting so hard all you can think to do is run. To run doesn’t even mean the battle stops, to be completely truthful they will keep coming. To be honest, I feel I been in a season where it feels like battle after battle is coming my way. I admit, I have said “Again God? Another thing God? I try to always remember that God never said this walk would be easy. John 16:33 – I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.” Even through the fight and even as God sends another person to tell me that even I crawl but keep going, I’m still getting through it because I trust THE ONE, I know goes with me, even when that other person tells me, “Get up! What are you doing there?” that turns out to be confirmation of what I did not want to admit, I have been hearing God ask me, “Melissa, what are you doing here?” In that emotional moment, I would find myself replying I don’t know. But the one thing I did know was that…

I was still standing! I AM A FIGHTER!

I am still standing because despite the battle that the enemy wanted to count me out, despite the fact that he punched me right in the face and thought he knocked me out and surely thought I was out for the count…. HE WAS WRONG!! Instead, he saw he was defeated because I got back up. I got up because through it all and receiving prayers, support, and encouragement and I’m not saying it was easy because there were many times I wanted to run. I thank God that I never let go of the hand of God, even in the moments I felt like letting go was just easier, He never let me go simply because HE chose me and calls me HIS. I AM A FIGHTER! Even if in the moment I didn’t see it or believe it myself, he always had a plan for me. Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

He has a plan for you too! He created fighters to fight the good fight.

THE FIGHTER IS ME!

THE FIGHTER IS YOU!

KEEP FIGHTING!!!