Keep pressing forward even when exhausted

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[Applause] [Applause] My leaders, my leaders, my leaders, my leaders. leaders. Yo, first things first. I don't know if this video is going to record. My front camera has been messed up, but I just got to spit this word. Hopefully, it's it's focus right now. It could be blurry, but I need you to hear this. Let me tell you something about over 10 years of running. 10 years of running has taught me something so crucial is that it don't always get any easier. Your endurance may go up, but it don't mean it gets any easier.

What you realize how to do is you realize how to keep pressing forward even in the midst of the pain. And what I've been seeing now, even with the people that I'm coaching, there's some things that ain't been getting easier, right? We walking with Jesus. And there's some things that seem like it ain't getting any easier. It seems like we still going through the same thing everybody else going through. It ain't easier. But what I do know is while I'm walking with Jesus Christ, I'm able to take him with me. And it makes it easier to endure the pain. It makes me easier to keep pressing forward.

I see the transformation. I see the change. I see the difference. I know how I was running 10 years ago. I I couldn't run this long. I couldn't run and record. I couldn't run without thinking about how my body hurts. I can't I couldn't run without thinking about the water that I don't have, the food that I need right now. And many of us are running right now, including the people that I'm coaching, we running and we need some things. We need some resources. We need some love. We need some healing. We need something.

So, my leaders, I'm just saying regardless of what we lack, the one that makes it easier to run this race is with Jesus. It's with Jesus. I've been so ignited lately. God has been giving me so much fuel. But you know what he's been doing? He's been pushing me. And I feel the pressure, right? And I feel the pressure. And every time I feel the pressure, I give him the pressure. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. And every time I give him the pressure, oh God, there's a peace that surpasses my understanding. And I'm able to do way more than I thought I could do.

I'm able to push way longer than I thought I could push. I'm able to have more discipline than I thought I could have. I'm able to go to places that I thought I couldn't go to. But I'm doing it with God. Somebody got to hear this word. Somebody got to hear this message. I need you to keep pressing forward. I need you to keep pressing forward because it's in the times when you're exhausted. Many of y'all have been exhausted. Y'all just been tired. It's those times when you're exhausted that the enemy thinks, "Hey, oh, I got him now.

I got him now." We were playing, we were playing a a game, five game series. One of my boys, one of my clients, we were playing basketball. I had beat him the first three games and I was fatigued. I was fatigued and because I was fatigued, I slipped up and let him win a game. Okay, he's nice, but I slipped up and he won a game due to my fatigue. Okay, then I realized I said, "Oh, "Oh, this how the enemy works. It don't matter how good I can play. It don't matter how skilled I am. The moment I get tired, the enemy sees that it's an opportunity to strike.

And what I want to tell you is watch what you do when you're exhausted. Watch what you do when you ain't got no strength left. Don't try to rely on your own strength, but get the strength that comes from only Jesus Christ. Meaning, we got to keep praying more. We got to keep we got to keep literally getting strength from our Lord and Savior. I'm just ignited today, my leaders, because I I I need you to know something. something. It ain't always going to feel like you got the strength to do what it is that you need to do. I'mma promise you that.

But what I'mma promise you is this is that you have everything you need to keep pressing forward. My leaders, I love y'all. If you made it to the end of this message, you're a real one. But somebody got to see this because you've been feeling exhausted. And at the moment you feel exhausted, the enemy is trying to attack you at that moment. No, no, no, no, no. Keep pressing forward. What you do when you exhausted is the truth. What you do when you exhausted is all that matters, my leaders. So watch right now for what you do when you exhausted. Go to Jesus Christ, my leaders. I love you.

We out.

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