Hey there, I'm Christine, and I'm so excited to welcome you to the Equipment in Power

podcast.

Now my prayer is that our time together each week encourages you, awakens you to the

purposes of God in your life, and activates you to follow Jesus wholeheartedly as you

live on mission for him.

Hey podcast listeners, if you have ever found yourself wanting to give up,

you're going to want to hear what we're about to share with you.

Christine has put together a list of 10 of her favorite scriptures to encourage you to

keep going when you just want to quit.

Go to Christinecane.com forward slash don't quit to get your copy so that you'll have

encouragement ready for the next time you're finding it hard to keep believing that the

best is yet to come.

Now let's dive in to today's message.

Hey everyone, I am so grateful that you've joined us today and I know that God has a word

for you.

And we're talking about running this race that God has put us on this earth to run.

The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 9, he talks about the fact that we have got

a race to run and that we need to run this race with conviction.

We need to run it with discipline and it's a spiritual race that I'm talking about.

Now we're using a lot of analogies from marathon runners in the natural.

I wish I could tell you I was a marathon runner but I'm not but I have plenty of friends

that are marathon runners and I've done a lot of research on marathon runners because

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