Hello, thank you for joining me today for giving 15. I really do appreciate it.

Our friend, Gina Goldston, felt the need to break weariness, discouragement, hope deferred, the pain of past wounds and other weights, hindering believers, off of believers at this time.

And I'm glad she did. We need you free and healthy to run the race. You'll find her words encouraging

and powerful. The title of the post is free to run.

Many within the body of Christ are experiencing a deepening passion for God. There's an unshakable feeling that we've crossed into the unfolding of a

history-making moment, provoking a deep longing to know, walk with God. There's a clarion call

from the Lord, she says, piercing the hearts of all who have ears to hear. Christ is calling

his body to rise and shine with the light of his glory. Recently, the Lord spoke to me, she says,

that 2024 will be a year of his revealed glory. This means the church must be alert and move in high

levels of wisdom, authority, boldness, enabling Christ to work through us. Undaunted faith in God, undaunted faith in God is required at this time. I've said many times,

Gina says. Real faith takes real courage. And we are in our real faith and real courage season.

Faith comes from knowing God and His Word.

As we spend time with Him, focusing on Him and His Word, faith arises within us. That faith gives us the courage and confidence to advance. It's an urgent yet exciting time, the moment we've

longed and prayed for. However, some are finding themselves hesitant in their response to his calling.

This hesitation could be, for many reasons, some fear what is ahead.

Grief and trauma from past wounds control some.

Many have grown weary and well-doing, while others have become shrouded and hope-deferred.

Though some of our reasons seem justifiable, it is critically important that we overcome all that is detrimental to our focus forward

and refocus back onto God.

Our love for and trust in Him must outweigh and overpower all fear and uncertainty of the future.

Our desire for his glory must outweigh and overpower any shroud

that seeks to confine us to emotional entanglements from past experiences.

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