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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"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Luke 2:14 This Christmas, it is time to hit the pause button. Not on joy, not on celebration, but on all the noise that tries to replace the reason we are celebrating in the first place. Christmas is not about the jokes, the gifts, the shopping lists, or whether everything turned out the way you hoped. It is about Jesus. It is His birthday. And the response of heaven was clear and unmistakable: Glory to God in the highest.
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"I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth." Psalm 34:1 (NIV) Life will throw fear, worry, and uncertainty at you. Sometimes it comes quietly, other times it hits like a storm. But God's Word tells you exactly what to do: don't let fear run the show. Choose praise. Choose faith. Decide to focus on God instead of your problem. Look at Abraham. When God called him to leave everything familiar and go to a place he had never seen, fear could have paralyzed him. But Abraham chose faith.
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"See that no one misses the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble, and by it many become defiled. Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord." Hebrews 12:15–14 (NKJV) Think about Daniel. He was called to the king's party, but before he ever stepped foot there, he made a decision. He would not defile himself with the king's food.
