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I’m a fighter. I love to fight. That is my heart.

Some people may view this as something terrible and un-Christlike – I would beg to differ!

God is conditioning me and strength training me and building my endurance. He is also building me up in grace and wisdom and love. I can't do anything without love!

Round 1 on the World Race lasted 3 months, and I got tired quickly. (I wrote a blog about how my love waned, and I started feeling super defeated regarding team life.)

I got beat up, I lost my edge, I grew weary – but I also needed to be made weak so that God can be my strength. The battles in the ministry were fruitful and victorious, but on the home front not so much. (I have a lot to learn from the Master.)

I can distinguish the difference between strife and fight.
I declare that I am not a woman of strife. Strife is evil, and if God is teaching me anything, it’s that division within the body is never of Him. That is not the kind of fighting I am talking about here.

I’ve even been called a fighter to my face and have had people attempt to admonish me for this part of my character in the past. They were right, somewhat. Others have found loyalty and safety in getting to know me as a fighter.

Yes, as a fighter I am quick to hear the battle call and answer.
Yes, as a fighter I will defend others.
Yes, as a fighter I am easily riled up and ready to run into conflict.
Yes, as a fighter I will speak up and stand on Truth.
Yes, as a fighter I have a hard time backing down.
This is all true.

The fact that God has given me a heavenly armor and an immense love of wielding His word as a sword and seeing souls delivered confirms that I love being in the midst of the battle with Him. I love the frontlines. I love being a forerunner and a scout. I will gladly take some heavy hits (but this is really scary sometimes, and when no one is alongside you or behind you keeping your eyes fixed on Jesus is vital!)

I truly, truly, completely and absolutely love a good fight.

When I get to heaven I want dents, scratches, claw marks as signs of armor well-worn. I want enemy blood all over my sword. I don’t want to scooch in past the finish line, and barely make it to heaven.

No! I want to finish strong, and be breathing hard when I take my first celestial breath and bow down before the Warrior King.

(Seriously, I do envision my entrance to eternity quite often in the midst of any spiritual battle. I cannot wait to see Jesus!!!)

I am not a runner.
I am not a duck-and-hide type of woman.
I am not a scaredy cat.
I will not turn a blind eye.
I am not a stand-by-do-nothing-slow-reaction chica.
Jesus is showing me the good in all of this.

Have you got a problem with a spooky bump in the night?

No problem, watch my back I’m going in to kick some butt.
 

Have you been getting thrashed by the voice of accusation and are all caught up in your sin?

Let me pray for you, rebuke those lies and exchange them for the truth of the word in the name of Jesus!
 

Are you alongside me in the battle getting beat up and weary in the ministry?

Lean on me, as I call on Jesus for you, and encourage you set your eyes on the prize! We are going from glory to glory together!
 

Don’t believe you’re fit for the fight?

Let me raise an anthem and banner to Jesus and rally you up – because God has commissioned all of His children to be a part of Heaven’s armies!

I am the woman whose battle stance is with knees bent and head bowed in prayer.

I am the woman whose battle cry is “Be of good courage! Do not be afraid! The LORD, your God goes with you!”

I am the woman who will not be idle in the presence of evil, but instead I will worship and fight back hard.

I am the woman who knows who she is in Christ and when the devil comes sniffing around and asking “Who do you think you are?”
I yell at the top of my lungs with a flint face and a crown on my head: “I am a child of God!”

I am the woman who hears the cries of the captive and follows Jesus to those situations, peoples and places to unleash the power of the Gospel.

I fight and contend for the faith that Christ has given me, because He came to destroy the works of the devil and give me victory over sin.
And that’s the straight truth.

 Family and friends, know that I fight for you.
Church, know that I fight for you.
 

Future husband, know that I am fighting for you. I will be the woman who is not afraid to battle the good fight of faith alongside you. I will fight for you. Fight for your ministry. Fight for your children. Fight for what is right in the eyes of God almighty.

I will be fighting faithfully unto death.

I fight because I love.

I am fighting for you all, will you fight for me too?

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
[1 Timothy 6:12]

Please pray for me.

 
 

Jesus, please help me to be the woman of God who will stand up and fight when no one else will. Help me to never stop fighting the good fight of faith. The battle is Yours, O LORD, for you have given us the victory!