Stand Your Ground- Keep Shooting // The Last Arrow

Imagine doing everything you were meant to do with your life. Imagine coming to the end of it all knowing that you shot every arrow in your quiver and you never gave up too soon. To do that is costly. You will face great risks. There is no backup plan. Everything is required, even your last arrow. Yet it is the only way to pursue life’s deepest joys and greatest battles—with a full heart and an empty quiver.

Opposition comes to everyone. But if you are going to live a life that pleases God and never settles, you will have to stand your ground and keep shooting with the arrows you have been given. There is never a time to stop and say, “I gave enough.” If you keep shooting your arrows, risking all the way, opting to live until you have nothing left to give, you will outlast your own life.

Message Notes

We all are born with a quiver of arrows no one else can shoot. 

To lead a last arrow life: 

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Matthew 20:28

Quit running and stand your ground.  Decide what defines you. 

Decide what is worth fighting for and what hill you are willing to die on.

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him. Mark 3:1-6

Be predictable.

Fight for others, not for yourself.

Disregard the approval ratings.

Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips. When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
John 19:28-29

Live to leave with your quiver empty. 
The last arrow life will have a power that not even death can conquer.