No Sissy's Allowed!

How do you like that for title? Funny thing, that is what my family calls me. I will have to say though it is not because I feel like I was a Sissy. It's just that my older brother had a problem calling me by my real name and my mom always tried to teach him I was his sister, so... that's how I got stuck with the name "Sissy". Bet some of you didn't know that did you?

As some of us had the privilege to go hear & see Beth Moore, Kay Arthur and Priscilla Shirer this past weekend, we came away with SO MUCH! I have to keep pulling my notes out daily and read them so I can just grasp it all. One of the things we heard was "NO SISSY'S ALLOWED"! Now, I am sure that when we all thought of a "sissy" growing up or if we were playing a game and we wanted to win and we needed some tough people on our side, we wouldn't pick someone who was a sissy would we? No! We would pick someone who we knew would face whatever was before them, no matter how scarey it looked and press right past it. You know, like Red Rover. I knew that when my name was called and I wanted to break through, then I was going to have to pick a spot in the line that looked weak. You know "the weaker link". :) Anyway....on the flip slide of that, if we wanted to keep someone from breaking through our line we would call the weaker ones/sissys over and hold on tight. I always hated it when there wasn't really anything but strong people left because you knew you were going to have to hold on for dear life so they wouldn't break through and steal one of your players back.

You know something though? When I get called out to run in life and look at what is before me and all I see is a barrier before me that is no way I can break through and all of Satan and his cohorts are calling out to me "sissy", you can't make it, you aren't going to break through, I have to call upon the name of the Lord. Who is mighty to save. Who when I am weak (a sissy), He is strong and "remember whose I am" and run with all of my heart, with all my strength and with all of my soul" and know that though everything is saying there is no way I am going to break through, there are a whole host of angels behind me pushing me and and whole crowd of witnesses that have gone before me cheering me on saying "you can do all things through Christ who strengths you Marty". You can "run upon a troop, leap over a wall", "You overwhelming conquer", "Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world". So I keep running, I run with all of my heart, and bust through that line and grab the prize to take back to the winning side.

Maybe there's someone that the "other team" has taken to their side and God has called you out to run and break through, through prayer, fasting, quoting scripture, etc. in order to win them back. I want to encourage whatever you have been called out to do, to not see yourself as a "SISSY". To not see yourself in your strength, but to see yourself as who you are IN HIM and that IN HIM you can do all things! Woo Hoo so Red Rover Red Rover RUN WITH ALL YOUR HEART RIGHT ON OVER and claim that ground!

BLESSINGS TO YOU TODAY!

Hello Everyone!!!


I know, that you seem to probably always here this from me but I feel a need to say it today. "RETREAT IS NOT AN OPTION"! Now, here's what retreat means...it means to withdraw, move back, run away, back down, flee, but now get this one, it means to give ground.

Here's the picture, circumstances, people, finances, jobs, etc. are staring you in the face and they look big. Impossible, no way you are going to be able to outlast, endure, etc. Well..that's how it looks but I want to tell you that those may be the facts but that is not the truth. My friend Lori always tells me, "rehearse the truth".

The truth is that although I may be facing a situation that appears as if there is no way I have what it takes, that the scriptures (the truth) say "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength". That though the fact is this sickness continues to linger, the truth says "He is our great Physician". Our Jehovah Rophe. That even though the fact is there is no way I am going to pay my bills this month, get out of debt, etc. Truth is "He shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory." That "my father owns the cattle on a thousand hills." That He says to test him in this bring your tithe into the storehouse and see if He will not open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings upon you that you cannot contain.. WOO HOO!!! HOW ABOUT THAT FOR TRUTH???? How about that for telling your "giant" "you may come at me with a javelin, a sword and a spear, but I come to you in the name of the Lord." The truth says "the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are safe". The truth tells me I can go into that fiery furnace and say "My God is able, My God will, but even if He doesn't I am not bowing... I am not retreating....I am not giving up ground!!!

The Lord has told us to go forth and conquer, not retreat!

Sooo...Do you get my point? Retreat, NO WAY!

DA DA DA DA DA, CHARGE!

Blessings to you today!

Marty