Get Your Brave On

I was reading a short paragraph by author and speaker Lisa  Bevere and one sentence jumped out at me. "Get your brave on".  Yeah.  Sometimes we just have to intentionally pick up our brave and put it on.  Wearing it like a shield.......a cloak of protection.......or a pair of brave girl boots.....  Sometimes God says to a friend or to a daughter.........tell her not to give up.  A crossroad that begs an answer to the question, "Fight or give up"?   Sometimes a person needs to hear, "You got this!"  "Hang in there Mama".  Sometimes a person needs to tell themselves........We have this!  There is power in our own words.  So many also stand with us in our battles, don't they.  Friends and family, even strangers that encourage and pray.  Wow. So blessed.

So how do we get our brave on?  We remember we are not alone.  We remember God is fighting with us.  We remember what the promises of His Word tell us.  The truth found in the pages of our Bible.  We remember and we trust.  We trust that He is who He says He is.  We trust His promises.  We seek the prayers and encouragement of others.  Remember when Moses needed help to keep his arms up?    And we are especially kind to ourselves.  When we are battle weary we love on ourselves even more.  We ask for God to help us get our brave on.  When we hear from God we hold his words tightly.  We embrace His love and promises and we walk forward with the Lion of Judah.  In the mystery, in the struggle, in the battle, we lean into the Lion of Judah and we get our brave on!