December 8, I will be running a marathon relay with four other members of my Core family. We will each be running 5.2 miles to complete the marathon as a fundraiser for our internship at the Honor Academy. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to run with these amazing men and women of God (team pictures to come later)! We began training last week starting at about 2.5 miles for our run. Yesterday we ran our first 3 miles stretch, and it was amazing to experience God using a painful thing like running to draw us closer to Him. As we ran, for the last 1.5 miles we prayed and quoted scripture to each other which empowered us to run when we wanted to stop. It gave us extra breath and life when we felt tired and dead. God is using this training and will use this race to bring us closer to Him and to remind us that it is not by our strength that we are going to finish but by His. That is why we are calling our team THE OVERCOMERS. Because through this year, and through the rest of our lives, we will constantly have to OVERCOME adversity in order to do all that God has called us to do. This race is just a symbol of the battle that we are being called into. And just like this race, the only way we will OVERCOME is by calling on the name of Jesus and understanding that on our own we are nothing, but in Him we can be anything!
Please consider joining the race with us by sponsoring our team! You can click HERE to go online and donate. Just select our team, THE OVERCOMERS. All donations will be split between the team to go towards our internship. But it's not just for us, it's for every person God is going to impact through us. It's for every dream we are going to come closer to as we pursue God through the Honor Academy. We need your help, please consider becoming a sponsor.
Also check out our facebook page: Dallas Marathon (Overcomers)
