Pastor Steven Furtick delivers a motivational spoken-word track about persevering through difficulty by relying on faith. He contrasts human weakness with divine strength, referencing Jesus and resurrection, and uses call-and-response to urge listeners to keep going when discouraged.
Consistency separates winners from wannabes. Diligence makes the difference between all time greats and one hit wonders. For the race is not given to the swift or to the strong, but to the one who endures to the end. So pick yourself up, shake your past off, put one foot in front of the other and do it again. When you hear that little voice saying, no one believes in you, you're too far behind. You're too small. This isn't working and this isn't worth it. Another voice is to remind you that the same power, the same strength, the same spirit that raised the savior from a borrowed grave is alive and active in you. The same God who delivered you from the lion and the bear can and will deliver this new giant into your hands. So draw the line, take your stand, and just like you wielded your weapons last time, do it again. You've been here before. The battle is not yours, it's the Lord's. And if he caused you to try triumph back, then be confident.
He'll do it again.
Yesterday, today and forever. Jesus Christ is the same and in his name you are unstoppable. But receiving this promise requires perseverance. I know sometimes it's hard to keep it moving when you can't see your progress, when you've lost your perspective, when the pain has pushed you past your breaking point. But this is no time to tap out. Because the end of yourself is the beginning of him. So fix your focus, wake your courage, stir your confidence and do it again. Set your face like flint with determination and declare I will do it again. When it doesn't make sense.
I'll do it again.
When I have to go against the wind.
I'll do it again.
When all hell is breaking loose, when it feels like hope has disappeared from the horizon and I've waited for rain.
But I don't see any signs. I will look again, lifting my eyes to the skies. See a cloud the size of a man's hand starting to expand. And it may start small but little as much when God is in it. And I know I'll win if I just don't quit. Don't you dare quit. When you march six laps and still the walls won't fall. Take another lap. You're closer than you think you are. You're closer than you've ever been before. Walk on, show up today and the next day and the next day. Press till something happen. Pray till something changes. Push till something breaks. Say within yourself, whatever it takes, whatever the cost, no matter what they say, no matter what I feel. I've got a job to do and I will see this through until God's kingdom comes and his will is done. In my life, I'm leaving every excuse behind. I'm being transformed by the renewing of my mind. I'm taking up my cross and following the one who never stopped short, who never surrendered, who said he'd never leave me or forsake me. Jesus is with me always. He came and conquered. He died and rose again. And now he's calling me, causing me, commanding me to breathe again, hope again, trust again, give again, change again, expect again, rejoice again, again, rise again, right here, right now. In the name of Jesus, I will live again.
