We need to lean on God to show us which path to take. This verse tells us to not depend on our own understanding as we are hardest on ourselves. We may even want to give up at times because we feel inadequate. All losses are our fault while all victories belong to the team. We internalize a great deal of our journey as an athlete.
Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.Īthletes are incredibly self-aware folks. Trust in the Lord with all your heart do not depend on your own understanding. Will we get beat sometimes? ABSOLUTELY! However, in performing with honor we can feel victorious even in a loss. If we do that, we will have performed in such a way that we will be nearly impossible to beat. This is telling us we need to perform at our absolute best and have the self-discipline to compete in a focused, well-practiced and strategic manner. It’s not about winning at all costs or abandoning your values to do anything it takes to win. Anyone can cheat and win but what does that do us morally. Competing with integrity is the key here. 1 Corinthians 9:24ĭo you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.ĭid you notice when reading this verse that it doesn’t say you must win or you will win? It is actually telling us the kind of effort and dedication victory requires. These bible verses encourage athletes to perform their best… and more importantly, be the best representative of their sport and themselves. While there are scores of verses which speak directly to this, here are my Top 10 bible verses for athletes. This divine intervention is clearly spelled out for us in the Bible. There is a certain percentage of luck and divine intervention.
#BIBLE VERSE ABOUT STRENGTH SWIMMING FULL#
Which their hands are full of and which they have spoiled or robbed others of or, "with the wiles of their hands" F15, as some, which they had by craft and insidious methods taken from others these shall be taken from them, and they be stripped of them or the words may, be rendered, "with the elbows", or "armholes of his hands" F16 as the swimmer with his arms keeps the water under him, and himself above it, so the Lord with the strength of his arm would bring down and destroy those enemies of his.į15 ( wydy twbra Me) "insidiis, vel cum insidiis manuum suarum", Montanus, Piscator.į16 "Cum cubitis, vel axillis manuum suarum", Pagninus, Tigurine version and Ben Melech, who mentions both senses.Every top athlete will tell you success in sports is more than endless hours of training. That is, God shall bring down the pride of Moab, which was notorious in them, and hateful to God, and was the cause of their ruin, ( Isaiah 16:6 ) with this compare the pride of the Romish antichrist, which God will humble, ( Revelation 17:7 Revelation 17:8 ) : together with the spoils of their hands But the former sense agrees best with what follows: and he shall bring down their pride Signifying, that as he should exert the power of his might, in the midst of them, he should strike on both sides, as a swimmer does and as easily and utterly destroy them as the swimmer parts the waters, and has the command of them though some interpret this of Moab stretching out his hands as the swimmer, either in a way of submission and supplication, or as catching, as men drowning do, at anything, to save them. &c.] In the midst of Moab, in the midst of the enemies of the church of God and so it denotes the utter destruction of them for the spreading forth of the hands is to be understood of the Lord, that should do so: as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth to swim And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them,
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