My longtime mentor and teacher, Sandy with Sight Ministries at the Vineyard in Grafton, explained to me that the human experience is an event with spectators, where you are the only person on the field. There is nobody with you and nobody against you—it’s just you.
Every person you cross paths with in your life is sitting in the stands: people whose names you know and people you do not. Your parents, your siblings, your children, your friends, and even the person you married—all of them are sitting on the bleachers of your life. They are not on the field with you.
Some will ignore you. Some will encourage you. Some will speak negatively. Others will speak life. Some will cast disbelief, while others will cast optimism. Some will be dismissive. Some will be your biggest cheerleaders. Some will abandon and cast you off, but others will desire your companionship. However, they will all engage with you through their own journey, wherever they are in their race. They are only spectators in your life. It’s the way it was meant to be.
When I keep my eyes straight ahead, fixed on Him. I find that the things I desire most have become the reality that I walk in. Safety, stability, consistency, being delighted in, provision, and protection. My life is about Holy Spirit and me walking the journey together as I find my authentic self—the woman I was created to be.
Hebrews 12 :1-2 – TPT
As for us, we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds. So we must let go of every wound that has pierced us and the sin we so easily fall into. Then we will be able to run life’s marathon race with passion and determination, for the path has been already marked out before us.
We look away from the natural realm, and we focus our attention and expectation onto Jesus, who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!
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