Any spiritual sweat lately?

"The successful Christian life is always, without exception, a stripped-down, disciplined, sweaty affair."

~ R. Kent Hughes

Are ALL of your energies and resources dedicated and consumed upon godliness?

No Manliness = No Maturity!

No Discipline = No Discipleship!

No Sweat = No Sainthood!

"...Exercise (constant, unhindered, intense, self-sacrificing commitment) thyself rather unto godliness (everything that is in complete accordance with God). For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. For therefore we both labour (strenuous toil) and suffer (agonize) reproach, because we trust (faith is the source and reason) in the living God (the giver of willpower and strength), who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." ~ 1 Tim 4:7-10

Resolved to Run - To Win!

"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." ~ 1 Cor 9:24-27

"No one attains remarkable eminence or success without a resolute and habitual self-denial in subordinating every secondary point to the primary object." ~ Charles Bridges

"Greatness is never achieved nor dreams realized apart from great discipline." ~ Kay Arthur

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." ~ Heb 12:1-4