Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

We're continuing our series of Put Your Warrior Boots on,

and today is all about getting strong.

But there's a myth surrounding strength I really want to address today,

and I hope if you're listening and you don't feel very strong,

you especially listen close, because this show is you're listening and you don't feel very strong, you especially listen

close because this show is for you.

I remember reading the song of Deborah in Judges Five.

Deborah remember the only female judge mentioned in the Bible, who says this,

March on with courage, my soul. And in some verses later

in that same chapter, may those who love you rise like the sun in all its power. What a

beautiful picture of strength and rising. If we've ever been in the sun when it's at full

strength, we know that it can be quite overwhelming and powerful, that we as believers in Jesus Christ

are to be like the sun and rise up for God like that in our witness and testimony for him

is such a motivating and also convicting thought. So many of us are much more laid back about Jesus,

I think, and yet he's given up his life for us. Our passion for him

doesn't even come close to matching his passion for us and really never will. So there's a myth

about strength that I know is what's going around because I've been told it over and over again

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