Anointed Fighter's Blog

February 8

“Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.”

Luke 17:33

Life presents many challenges.  Accept the challenge!  Don’t stand around the gym and listen to those who have settle for less so they don’t have to put in the work it takes to be a champion.  There is rawness to the good fight.  Pursue it.  Keep punching and kicking until you win!  Your goal is not to make it through the fight; it’s to claim the victory that is already yours in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus says the options are clear.  You can either run around the cage of life trying to avoid every spiritual punch that comes your way, or you can stand your ground and exchange blows with the enemy.

Follow your heavenly trainer’s advice, knock out negativity.  Choke out worry.  Tap out discouragement.  Step inside the cage against the unknown. Sure it isn’t safe, but what fight is?

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

February 7

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day, they pour forth speech; night after night, they display knowledge. There is no speech or language

where their voice is not heard”.

Psalm 19:1-3

When we are in the solitude of the locker room within our minds after a loss inside the cage of life, it is important that we remember the power of the one to whom we cry out to.  It is easy to be preoccupied with what we see.  We see our pain.  He sees our opportunity to grow.  We see our failure.  He sees the cross.  We see our shame.  He sees grace.  We see our limitations.  The heavens declare he is limitless.

It is important that we never see our self through finite eyes.  We must remember that when God looks at us he sees the one who died in our place.  We are champions in Christ no matter how many fights we loose inside the cage of life. Punch with any lesser conviction and your punches are timid, shallow, and hollow.  However, spend some time training with Christ and watch how your punches are energized.

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

February 6

“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust”.

Psalm 103:11-14

Confession does for the soul what cardio does for the lungs when training for the fight. Before the warrior can make it through the fight, he must condition his lungs to endure the challenge. He knows that his punches will have more power and his kicks more snap if his cardio is in shape.

Confession is the act of inviting God to join us on the treadmill of our hearts.  Many fighters start well but find themselves defeated by lesser fighters who have better cardio.  The key to endurance in the “good fight” is confession.  Don’t make the mistake of stepping inside the cage of life without superior cardio.  Hit the road and run to the Father in Jesus name while confessing you sins.

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

February 5

“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted”.

Isaiah 53:3-4

Jesus feels your pain.  You have been knocked down at work? Jesus feels your pain.  You’ve got more punches coming at you than you can block?  So did he.  Training partners take and never give? Jesus feels your pain.  Your voice is choked out by the crowd?  Your friends have left you to fight alone? Jesus feels your pain.

You mean everything to him. He loves you so much that he stepped inside the cage of life so you would never be alone again.  So important to him that he defeated the cross so your hand would be raised with his for eternity.  When you struggle to get up and make it back to the corner, he cheers you on.  When you thirst, he gives living water.  When you question, he hears.  He has been there.

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

February 4

“Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave–just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many”.

Matthew 20:25-28

Jesus refused to take his eyes of the championship his Father sent him to win. He was focused and on a divine mission. Most fighters punch at the air and hit it. Jesus set his sights on knocking out sin for humanity.  He achieved his goal. He could summarize his good fighting career with one sentence:  “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost” (Luke 19:10).  Jesus was so focused on his fight that he knew when the bell rang, “It is finished” (John 19:30).

Jesus would spend days fighting for the sick and knocking out their diseases’. He would spend days with multitudes showing them how to defend against the takedowns of the evil one. He spent over thirty years preparing for his championship just to share it with us.

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

February 3

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 145:18-20

Healing begins when we step inside the cage of life and start throwing punches of faith at our circumstances. Healing begins when we cry out for help in between rounds.  Healing starts before we can feel the relief from the arm-bar of adversity.

God is in your corner ready to lift you off the mat and help get you back into the fight. However, you must first reach out your hand.  Victory comes from Christ.  Defeat comes from apathy.

God honors radical, risk-taking faith.  When Anointed Fighters throw blind punches of faith, sin tumbles. When prayer comes in Jesus name between rounds, fighters are refreshed.  When the world knocks you down, God lifts you up.

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

February 2

“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”.

Revelation 3:11-13

Some of you have never won a championship in your life.  Oh, maybe you have won a few fights here and there, but you have never had a belt wrapped around your waist that says you’re the champion! You’ve watched others get their hand raised in victory while getting the belt wrapped around their waist, but you have never felt that feeling personally. All you have are “almost” and “what ifs.”

If that punch hits you in the face, then you’ll love this promise:  “And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away” (1 Peter 5:4).

Your championship is coming.  What the crowd has overlooked, your Father has remembered, and sooner than you can imagine, your hand will be raised in victory.

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

February 1

“Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the LORD. “Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.

Zechariah 2:10-11

God became an Anointed Fighter.  He stepped inside the cage of life and took the punches of world.

“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

The key word of the verse is among.  He lived among us.  He trained in a human gym among average fighters.  He felt the pain in his human legs when walking mile after to mile searching for someone to lift off the mat.  He felt hunger during his fight in the wilderness.  He knew what it was like to be knocked down and struggle to get back up.  He knew what it was like to walk to the cage alone. He could have lived over us or away from us.  However, he didn’t.  He lived among us.

He became a friend of the sinner and a training partner of the poor.  He understands the fight you are facing now.  He faced it has a human.

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

January 31

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers”.

Galatians 6:7-10

Have you ever played the “trade punches” game?  It works like this… You punch your friend in the shoulder and then he returns the favor by punching you back.  Each punch is matched with the same intensity as the other.  The object of the game is to see who taps out first.  It is a crazy game, but one that is played nonetheless by kids all around the world every day. Life is a lot like this game.  We hit others with our words and actions and they hit us back.

The proof is everywhere you look.  Every wonder why some people have more spiritual bruises than others?  Could it be that they don’t hit people hard with insults and condemnation so in turn, they are not hit back hard?  How big are your bruises?

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter

Cage of Life Devotional

January 30

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus”.

Philippians 4:6-7

The Lord came to Gideon and told him he was to face the Midianites in the Eternity Fighting Championship. That’s like God picking the smallest boy out of the crowd and telling him that he has to fight the “Ultimate Fighting Champion”.

Look at it from this view… it is like telling a teen ager that they must walk away from peer pressure, telling a pastor that he must stand in front of his church and tell them that he approves of the youth going into the inner city and sharing the gospel in a strip club.  “I am not that tough, please get some one else” we stammer.  Then God reminds us that we are not alone.  He just wants to use our arms to throw the punches and our legs to kick fear out of the cage.  With this said, he helps us put on the gloves and walks us down the hall toward the cage of life.  He brings a spirit of peace.  A peace before the storm.  A peace beyond words.  He gave it to David after he stepped inside the cage with Goliath; he gave it to Saul after he was knocked down for sharing the gospel; he gave it to Jesus in the garden before is showdown with the cross.  He will give it to you.  Are you going to let him?

Remember, it is called a fight for a reason.  However, we fight from victory, not for victory.  Keep Fighting!

Danny White

Anointed Fighter