What has the Lord called you to? What has the Lord put on your heart? How many times have you had someone come into your life and you knew that you were to speak into their lives. How many times have you heard a still small voice, only to ignore it because you believed it to be your own mind and not the Lord.
Have you ever heard the Lord speak life into you and you so desperately wanted to share that life with others, but maybe you shrunk back. Has the Lord spoken to you about your job, to speak boldly to someone, to take a step of Faith, but you shrink back? What does it take to move from the fleshly dimension of fear and failure, to the spiritual dimension of Faith and boldness?
When we are preparing for a marathon race, we condition our bodies, we give it the right fuel, we get our mind in the right place to take us forward. You have to do the same thing with moving out in Faith.
You have to feed your Spirit with Spiritual food, which might actually mean you have to fast earthly food in order to be able to fill up on the Spiritual food that the Lord has for you. Oftentimes, we are so full of the earthly food, earthly materialistic garbage and earthly successes that we have no room or time for us to fill up with the Lord's bread of life.
When preparing for a marathon you have to exercise and stretch your body...when preparing for a spiritual marathon, you have to exercise your Faith. If your Faith is weak and hasn't been exercised, like an atrophied muscle, it may not be able to hold you up, or carry you.
And last, but not least, in order to run a marathon, you must have your mind prepared. You must be prepared to tell yourself to push on when you are at the point of quitting. When you are preparing are walking in spiritual marathons, you must prepare your mind. You must feed it with the living word and fill it with the living water. The Lord says that He has all that we need to run the race. We must decide to step out in faith believing that what the Lord has in store for us is better than anything that is behind us.
We know what happened with Lot's wife when she looked back. If the Lord has called you to fulfill a purpose, put your hand to the plow, and don't look back.
