Finding Strength on Our Daily Walk: Stop Stumbling and Start Soaring: Finding Strength, #1

By Lee Davis

Kick your stress to the curb and start navigating the roadblocks on your path. In Finding Strength on Our Daily Walk, author, and fellow strength seeker, Lee Davis shares some simple tips to add to your strength toolbox.

 

Learn how to:

• Muster the courage to live up to your holy calling;
• Start walking;
• Overcome obstacles on your path;
• Find your strength;
• And finally reach your destination.

A fresh look at some familiar Bible characters helps to understand their struggle with strength and the lessons they left for us.

 

Use this book as a self-study guide, or a group study guide. Discussion questions are included at the end of every chapter for further reflection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blue Spruce Press
• Release date: Feb 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393471974

Lee Davis

Lee Davis is the founder of FindingStrength.ca, a website designed to encourage and inspire people to build their strength toolkit and live with more joy, peace and confidence. As an author and life-long Bible student, she’s been sharing her strength tools for over a decade. When she’s not writing, you can find Lee immersed in research for her next book in the Finding Strength series.

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INTRODUCTION

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40:31 NIV

SOME DAYS WE DON’T need extra strength. We’re good. We’re golden. The sun is shining. We are on top of the world.

But then we get sucked backed into the mire of news feeds on the latest Covid-19 cases.

Or we run out of milk and bread and now someone needs to grocery shop.

Or we wake up with a sore throat.

Or we lose our job, but the bills continue to come in.

Or worse—we lose a loved one.

On days like these we need all the strength we can muster.

WE ARE ALL FAMILIAR with various characters from the Bible. Men and women we look up to and admire. People full of strength and wonder.

But were they always that way?

Esther, Rahab, Joseph, Paul, and even Moses all lacked strength at one time or another. They all stumbled on their way. Yet, they carried on. They found their strength. They shone their lights. They helped others. And they soared.

Maybe our families aren’t facing the same annihilation that Esther and Rahab’s families faced, but our families and friends need our help too. Especially now.

Maybe we haven’t been thrown into a literal pit like Joseph, but if we’ve hit rock bottom, we must find a way to climb back up.

Maybe we aren’t leading thousands of slaves out of Egypt like Moses, but we can help lead our families and our businesses away from the waves of distress surrounding us.

Maybe we aren’t trekking from city to city doing missionary work like Paul, but we do travel every single day. Even when we find ourselves confined inside our homes, we still move from one task to the next.

OVER THE YEARS I HAVE struggled with my own lack of strength. Chock it up to the joys—and perils—of life experiences. Like a roller coaster, the journey to strength is an interesting, wild ride. Some days the ride is high, and we soar free with the strength of Superman. Other days we ride low and crawl through the mud, crushed under Superman’s boot.

But we can’t stay down in the mud. We need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and get busy doing what we are meant to do. We must find our strength. And that is what this book is about—Finding Strength on our Daily Walk.

I have broken the book down into three separate sections. Each section offers different strategies and tips to add to our strength toolbox.

Part 1 discusses our daily walk. What exactly is our daily walk? How do we muster the courage to live up to the challenge?

Part 2 examines the definition of strong along with some unique ways we can use these definitions to build our strength.

Part 3 shares different approaches to finding our strength.

Along the way, we will look at some Bible characters. How did they manage their daily walk? How did they find their strength? What lessons did they leave for us?

This book can be used as a self-study guide, or as a group study guide. Discussion questions are included at the end of each chapter for further reflection. If you are using this book as a group study guide, I recommend choosing a couple of Bible characters to study further as you go through each chapter.

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