Well, welcome to week three of Fight to Flourish. It's going to be an amazing day together. I just want to invite you to come back next week for the grand finale and I'm so excited for next week's message, but today we are talking through some things that I really feel like God is speaking to each and every one of us in our journey in what we're going through.

And I want to talk today about when life feels more than we can bear. I want to talk today about not giving up on what

God has called you to do. I don't know where you're at right now at this moment right now in your life.

Maybe you're losing heart.

Maybe you've already lost heart.

Maybe you don't have the courage, any courage. Maybe you're feeling like you're running

empty. Maybe you don't even see the reason for showing up or fighting. Maybe you

think I'm not even in a fight.

What do I have to contribute?

I'm not fighting.

I'm just trying to survive.

I'm just trying to live my nominal, normal life.

Well, there comes a point in our journey

where we've cried all our tears

and then we're literally left with asking the question, what am I going to do now? Am I

going to keep going? Am I going to keep showing up? Or am I going to throw in the

towel? Am I going to give up? In the silver chair, the book,

the silver chair by CS Lewis, he wrote,

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts but you have to stop sooner or later and

then you'll have to decide what to do and emotions are good we And emotions are good.

We know emotions are good.

What you feel, what you're going through is real.

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