A Fighting Chance: Blood, Sweat, Tears

By Ricka Reeha Joseph

To fight for your dreams, to fight for your marriages, to fight for your relationships, to fight for your healing that you just cannot afford to saythats just who I ambitterand thats who I have always been. Now it is time to start fighting because the only way you will get a chance in this world is only if you fight. The only way God can do anything with you is only if you fight, and his chance depends on your fight.
You are the answer to the very thing you are praying for, but because you have been wounded in the past, because you have been thrown into fights, youre not fighting the way youre used to. Youre not believing the way you use to. Youre allowing hurt to define you in a way that you dont even have to anymore because you got thrown into fights.
I believe that God wants to break that thing off you today, that he wants to show you that the fact you had to fight these lions and bears is not to keep you from growing. It is actually to show you that you can survive anything, that I had a hedge of protection over you all in the midst of it, and I know you did not come out without scars and wounds, but I am so good that I will use the scars and the wounds to work together for your good, so if you will get back into the fight I promise you that my word is true, that I am not a man that I should lie. I will heal and restore everything that you have lost in the fight.
The lions and bears you thought were gone in your past, I am going to actually use them to show you who you have always been. You have always been a fighter. Dont stop fighting now. You have always been victorious. Dont stop now. Dont let the pressures of where you are now make you forget that you were once comfortable under pressure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Oct 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781546283812

Ricka Reeha Joseph

Ricka R. Joseph (2017) was an Author and Entrepreneur of “YASS KWEEN”, who addresses issues we face as individuals from Social to Spiritual Development.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1   A Fighting Chance

Chapter 2   The Wait

Chapter 3   Dead On Arrival

Chapter 4   Finding Your Identity

Chapter 5   Secrets

Chapter 6   Stretched

Chapter 7   Service Without A Mission

Chapter 8   Who Am I

Chapter 9   Make Your Bed

Chapter 10   Can Anything Good Come Out Of This?

Chapter 1

A FIGHTING CHANCE

1 Samuel 17 VS 32-37

32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.

We think when we are faced with battles, we would be strong and courageous.

We think the next level would feel like reward and success, but in reality there would be so much persecution and you won’t realize that you are on the next level.

There is so much struggle on this level, as it was on the previous level.

It is only a different type of struggle and if we are not careful enough, we will not recognize that we are in an interjectory of promotions.

The bible says he will add to us anything we have lost plus persecution, however we only see the persecution.

The fact we are in a fight means that we have a chance, but sometimes the struggle of the fight can convince us that we do not have a shot.

We make our thoughts control us by thinking, maybe we will not make it the way we thought we would.

Maybe we will not break the generational curses, because there is a fight.

And wherever there is a fight, it makes us believe we do not have the confidence to overcome it.

It is crazy how people will sleep on you, even when you say to them, you will come out of this situation and when you come out on top everyone’s surprise.

There is a crazy kind of faith, that makes you start picking fights with giants.

You start telling people I’m coming out of this and I know it don’t look like it, I know the odds are against me, I know you think there are millions of people that could do what I do.

But really there is no one that could do it the way that I do it, so when I tell you I am going to do it, you have to believe me.

No one has ever done it the way that I have done it and if I sign up to do it, then I’m going to do the blood, sweat and tears.

Whatever it takes for it to be manifest because that’s just who I am, it is not about who has already done it, it is about who is going to do it now.

If you’re ready to slay any giant that is standing in your way, you don’t just have a chance but you have a fighting chance.

Which means you’re not going to let life happen to you and you are not just going to sit back heartbroken.

Or sit in the corner and watch everyone else go after it, however you will fight.

You may have to face some insecurities or even feel awkward like you don’t know anything.

Always remember if God placed you in the room, you might as well stay in the room.

We are all blessed with favor, our breath is a promise that we have something to do on this earth.

You might be trying to figure out what it is, having favor can be tricky when you have favor without strategy.

Having favor without strategy can open up doors for everyone to validate your favour.

We have to be careful of how we use our favor, sometimes we can use our own favor to stroke our own egos.

It is not about what God wants to do on the earth, but letting other people know we are special.

Maybe God hath not given you the strategy for your favor, because he don’t know if you would post it or you would pray about it when the door opens.

We think favor is proving other people wrong about us, I want favor so I can post about it.

To prove everyone back home that they were wrong about me, I want favor so I can prove to my exes that they was wrong to leave me.

Favor so I can prove people wrong not knowing that favor is not about proving anyone wrong but proving God was right to invest air into your lungs.

He gave you a heartbeat, he placed something on the inside of you and gave you favor to manifest it.

When mixing favor with insecurities it becomes this toxic combination that leaves you stagnant.

Having favor means you can talk to anyone, you can become friends with anyone.

Start having a strategy for your favor, everyone may have work ethics but not everyone has strategy to keep them in the game.

The bible tell us our gifts will make room for us, in reality it will not keep you in these rooms, strategy will.

Instead of being so impressed that you are in a room, start asking questions that will keep you coming back in the room.

God wants you to start separating your identity right now, don’t wait for the dream to come through and don’t wait for the people to acknowledge you.

He said if I could get a I used to be in your spirit then I could get a blank canvas and start laying out dreams and goals for your life only if you could get a I used to be.

I USED TO BE the one that wasn’t going to make it.

I USED TO BE, the one that did not have integrity.

I USED TO BE the one you could not count on.

I am not that any longer and I am not saying you have to validate my I USED TO BE.

I am so validated down on the inside that if no one else sees it, then that’s fine because I know what I used to be.

I had to let go of who I used to be in order to grab hold of what God has called me to be.

Start minimizing your current obstacle to the size of something you have already conquered in the past.

It will no longer seem insurmountable as it does now, which means whatever you are facing right now, you have already won it in a different version in the past.

We need to start looking at life and start saying I have already overcome this thing.

I dare you to start prophesying over your mountain, you need to look at the trail of dead bodies behind you.

If you look at what faith has done in the past, you should not even be in this room.

You should not be open to love again, you should not be dealing with the things you’re dealing with;

Because you have made it to the other side and there are skeletons behind that reminds you of things you have killed in the past.

God said if you start seeing yourself correctly, giants won’t scare you anymore.

If you start seeing the totality of who you are then you would stop discrediting your abilities in this season.

If you had enough faith than what was on the outside of you, you would have recognized when the word said touch not my anointing.

Which means when people started talking about you, don’t be afraid because you knew you was anointed.

People are not just coming up against you, that’s why we cannot live life with selfish ambition.

Life comes up against us, But