Have you experienced privilege? The truth is we all have. The bigger question for you to answer is have you experienced GRATITUDE through a personal and powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit of God?
Last night I was watching a video from the Convicted Conquer website. Abut ¾ of the way into it is a young teenage boy named Mario listening to a preacher talk with him. Was it being faked for drama – I don’t think so. You can see his lip quivering, his eyes are squinting back the tears and you get the sense that your witnessing a profound and miraculous transformation deep inside Mario. Maybe it’s more real to me because I remember when I was just 7 experiencing that same overwhelming gratitude for a grace that I knew I could never fully comprehend or understand.
The April/May 2021 issue of Faith & Fitness Magazine was designed to help all of us explore a Godly definition of privilege that we can in turn live daily among every person we encounter to build and strengthen them in Christ. Think about that. You have the ability to respond to God – the responsibility to make a positive influence for God in the lives of others. To be the “spiritual physique” that is compelling, impressive and useful for God to attract them to Him. That’s a tremendous privilege.
Start being the privileged person you are. Do your purpose! The place where you are, the position you have in life, the challenges, pain, vision, strength – – – everything about you is a God-given privilege. If you workout at a really nice, expensive, well-equipped gym – you’re privileged. If you’re simply doing a walking challenge in a rural community with only 7 women – you’re privileged too.
I’m glad to be hosting my Walking Challenge, but God is stretching me by having me step out of my comfort zone by being a host and putting myself out there. God showed me that it doesn’t matter if there are only 7 ladies in the challenge. All 7 are significant and God is using me to work in their lives!
My #1 thing that I did before starting the Walking Challenge was to completely give Him the whole event and rely fully on Him to do his work through me. I feel that this really is the very beginning of what God has in store for me and this ministry.
-Christine F., Personal Fitness Ministry program participant
It’s time that we all get down on our face before God – before our workout and ask Him to give us strength to rise to the occasion, “Use me God.”
If you’re a follower of Jesus Christ you may be thinking, “That’s more than I bargained for.” As the preacher in the following song says, “We don’t come to God on our terms. This is not a negotiating conference. This is not a God who says, ‘Well what do you like – here’s what I like, let’s go talk about it.’ He’s given us the privilege of not just coming and singing about him but entering into His actual presence.” That’s where the power is!
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