Run Farther, Leap Higher: A Christian Spiritual Journey Handbook

By M. Lizzette Foster

Run Farther, Leap Higher provides principles and insights I gained that helped me advance and seize the opportunities that were concealed in the problems, situations, and circumstances that come while pursuing the purpose of God.

You can flourish as you encounter God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit; are transformed and motivated; are inspired to rest in Gods plan; and soar to new spiritual heights.

You can be victorious when facing unfavorable situations! Run Farther, Leap Higher is a springboard into spiritual maturity.

Love makes us enjoy walking in the rain. Rainy days come into each of our livesthose days when dark clouds hang low and the sky looks threatening. Yet, the exchange between lovers makes them times to hunker down in front of the fireplace and fan the flames of love. When you are experiencing rain, get closer to the Lover and fan the flames by offering the sacrifice of praise and loving worship. The flames of love will remind you that the rain is not for today, but it is preparing your ground for your future harvest.

from Run Farther, Leap Higher

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490815589

M. Lizzette Foster

Myra Foster is a mother and grandmother, singer/songwriter, and inspiring Bible teacher who desires to “have the Word so alive in me until I can bring it alive in someone else.” Myra is a living example of the healing power of God over cancer.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013921014

WestBow Press rev. date: 01/21/2013

Contents

Foreword

Dedication

No Excuse: Loving God

No Excuse: I Wish You Love

Correct Your Position, Adjust Your View

You Would Do That For Me?

Go the Extra Mile

Unlimited Potential

Nothing to Lose

After Thoughts

Foreword

My mother, Beatrice Mother Foster, as she lovingly came to be known, was a Prophetess of God whose words are still coming to pass today. She spoke many things into the lives of the people of God that inspired change that saved natural lives. Many souls were saved under her ministry including my own. Before her visit on Earth ended in 1989 she spoke into my life that I would write a book. I did not disregard the word because I knew she spoke for God but I did not pursue it either. I simply folded it and hid it in my heart. Well, you are holding the manifestation of the prophetic word in your hands.

Mama believed the Word of God should and could be lived out. She took seriously the scripture in Proverbs 22:6, Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Her premise was that everyone, young and old, should know God. When I was a child, as a result of this training, I would spend hours with God developing my relationship with Him.

As I got older I began to neglect that relationship in pursuit of another. Eventually, I got married and abandoned the relationship all together. Then as a wife and mother I found a hole in my spiritual heart that could not be filled even though I tried all I could. Before I came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ my life was hopeless. Everything was dark and dismal. I could not cry, scream, drink, drug, or party the despair away. Yet, through all I was doing, as I searched for relief, I found none. No rest for the weary.

One day I came to the end of myself which was also the end of my search. I gave in to the still, small voice that had been wooing me all along. I remember it as clearly as the day it happened. The seconds were ticking 1979 into history and ushering 1980 in with all of the hope and promise a new year brings. Standing there with tears streaming down my face, I knew I could not face another day, let alone another year, in the condition I was in. I stood in front of my children’s bedroom window crying quietly so I would not wake my children or my husband. While gun shots rang out as others celebrated the entrance of a new year I cried out to Jesus. Between the tears and sobs I said, Jesus, if You are real, come into my heart. I had to say if You are real because I had wandered far from home base, and I had removed the boundaries that had been my lighthouses. The power of sin was like room darkening shades in my life. It was so dark until I did not know if Jesus was real anymore.

My childhood encounters with Jesus were completely wonderful. Our daily encounters felt like falling into the most soft and fluffy down blanket imaginable but those times were long gone. My life without Him was more miserable than I can explain. I heard that He would take me back but I was not certain that He would. After all, I would have to be fixed and my life had to be straightened out. When I came back to Him I was broken, and lacerated, and my back was bent under the heavy weight of sin. To my joy, He did not ignore me and leave me in my pain but He spoke back to me. He said, While you were searching for me here and there, in this person and that person, I was in you all the time. All you had to do was go inside of you and find Me. The Bible says in Jeremiah 29:13, And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. Even though I had a hole in my heart He enabled me to search for Him with my whole heart.

From that very moment I had a tremendous heart change. The deep black hole in my heart was filled to the point of overflow with love, hope, joy, and faith. Peace flooded my very being. I believed again. I believed that I could be someone because God loved, wanted, and accepted me just like I was. He knew He had a plan for me. He gave me songs to write, there were so many until I could not write quickly enough. I began to sing again. I got up early in the morning to practice and strengthen my voice. I sang old songs that I learned in the church when I was a child. Those old songs had new meaning. My favorite was He Touched Me, so often I would find myself walking down the street singing it. For the first time in years I saw light at the end of the