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Remain in Awe<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cRemain in awe of me so that you aren\u2019t thwarted by the fear of what I ask you to do in the physical.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n God said the above sentence to me one day, and I realized that it sounded similar to something else He said once.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen people realize the awe of Me, they shrink back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He said this right before He entrusted the Warrior Mom movement to me. As the Warrior Mom movement began, I was so excited and dizzy that I had to sit down. Then, trouble and difficulty came. There were obstacles, irritations, and I became exhausted from them. My \u201ctroubles\u201d were all good ones because they had to do with the Warrior Mom movement. Ministry troubles were at least exciting because they meant the ministry was underway, but they were still troubles that had to be dealt with. I realized rather quickly that when people realize the awe of God, they can be tempted to shrink back. I understood that God was trying to warn me that good things were coming, but I had to be strong and persevere because difficulties would arise amid the blessing of beginning a ministry; I had to refuse to shrink back.<\/p>\n The awe of God is an awesome thing; hence the similarity of those words. God will train us though before He enlists us full-time because He needs to know we won\u2019t shrink back mid-battle or mid-blessing.\u00a0 I have come to realize that God\u2019s blessings require something of us. They require us to remain faithful to His blessings even when those blessing don\u2019t feel<\/em> like blessings anymore. I learned a long time ago not to make a major decision or get into an important conversation when I\u2019m extremely tired. Speaking from exhaustion never works very well for me. Further, if I feel exhausted, I must remind myself not to generalize my exhaustion to my circumstance or situation and say, \u201cWell, since I\u2019m tired this thing will never work out.\u201d No, I just get some sleep and get up again!<\/p>\n I think it\u2019s real easy to get excited during the first hour of the blessing, but when the 2nd or 3rd hour approaches and that very same blessing requires us to roll up our sleeves and dedicate ourselves to helping produce a harvest from it, we can get tired and think it\u2019s not a blessing anymore. God will not entrust a large mission to anyone who is merely infatuated with being blessed.<\/p>\n \u201cRemain in awe of me so that you aren\u2019t thwarted by the fear of what I ask you to do in the physical.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Doesn\u2019t this sentence make wonderful sense now?<\/p>\n God was letting me know that I need to remain in His awe \u2013 in His presence \u2013 in His strength \u2013 in His Word so that when I began to feel physically tired, I could persevere!\u00a0<\/p>\n There are many stories in the Bible of people who had work to do for the Kingdom; they faced obstacles and exhaustion too.<\/p>\n Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak set to work to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, helping them.<\/em><\/p>\n Ezra 5:2<\/p>\n I challenge you to read this story. As soon as they got to work, they faced challenges. People came against them telling them they couldn\u2019t rebuild the house of God.<\/p>\n Another story of such is when the wall of Jerusalem was going to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n Then I said to them, \u201cYou see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire.\u00a0 Come let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.\u00a0 I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me and what the king had said to me.\u00a0 They replied, \u201cLet us start rebuilding.\u201d So they began this good work.\u00a0 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us.<\/em><\/p>\n Nehemiah 2:17-19<\/p>\n We all have stories of when we began to do a good work, and people and circumstances came against us. We all know that victory is achieved when we persevere through those obstacles.<\/p>\n Let us go back to the second sentence I mentioned.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen people realize the awe of Me, they shrink back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Do you remember when Moses was on the mountain with God? When Moses came down from the mountain, his face and hair were glowing from being in the presence of the Lord.\u00a0 I think of this when I reflect on the previous sentence. The awe of God is such an amazing thing that when we are in His presence, we can get overwhelmed and run in fear from what we just experienced. I also think that once we experience His presence, and\/or simply just realize His awesomeness, we can get intimidated, thinking, \u201cI\u2019ll never be able to be as amazing as God, therefore, I\u2019m not going to even try.\u201d\u00a0 I think people do this all the time. Many people think they have to be all cleaned up and perfect before they come to God.\u00a0 They don\u2019t realize that they don\u2019t have to do that; they can come as they are, and Jesus will do the cleaning up for them. Many people don\u2019t come to Christ, reach their potential, or experience the blessings of God because they allow themselves to be intimidated by the awesomeness of God, rather than inspired by His ability to do awesome things through them.\u00a0 It comes down to an issue of fear. Whether you are fearful of the awesomeness of God or fearful that if you try you will fail, you are focusing more on fear within yourself than faith in an awesome God. When God talks about \u201cfearing Him,\u201d He is referring to remaining in awe of Him.<\/p>\n So, to experience the full blessing of God we must first realize He\u2019s awesome, and we don\u2019t have to be. And second, we must realize that we must have the faith to step into His awesomeness, relying on Him for the physical strength we need to persevere through trials. When we do this, we will be able to persevere through everyday battles as well as through obstacles within<\/em> the blessings that God has for us. You see, there\u2019s always another blessing on the other side of the one you are currently experiencing, but if you stop mid-blessing, you\u2019ll never realize the awesomeness of the next one awaiting you.<\/p>\n \u201cRemain in awe of me so that you aren\u2019t thwarted by the fear of what I ask you to do in the physical.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.<\/em><\/p>\n Jeremiah 29:40-41<\/p>\n Warrior Moms, today, I encourage you to step into the awesomeness of God.<\/p>\n Warrior Moms Unite!\u2122<\/p>\n Kristina Seymour\u00a0<\/strong>loves to encourage and equip women through the Word and through community. She is the author of The Warrior Mom Handbook, The Warrior Mom Leadership Manual, and The Warrior Wife Handbook; they are available at Amazon.com. Kristina’s Bible studies are for women who desire to live by faith in the midst of their everyday lives. She has learned that women can’t survive on caffeine and animal crackers alone; women in the Word and in community are united and able to stand firm. To learn more about Kristina, please visit her website,\u00a0https:\/\/kristinaseymour.com\/.\u00a0<\/em>G<\/span>od loves to share His story of love and grace through us all, and Kristina believes that everyone has a story to tell.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Kristina Seymour\u00a0<\/strong>loves to encourage and equip women through the Word and through community. She is the author of The Warrior Mom Handbook, The Warrior Mom Leadership Manual, and The Warrior Wife Handbook; they are available at Amazon.com. Kristina’s Bible studies are for women who desire to live by faith in the midst of their everyday lives. She has learned that women can’t survive on caffeine and animal crackers alone; women in the Word and in community are united and able to stand firm. 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