"I'm losing my athletic prime. I should have pushed harder in my early twenties when my body could handle it."
How it sounds in your head: Recovery takes longer now, injuries stick around, and the gains don't come like they used to. College athletes are hitting their peak while I'm feeling my body slow down. I had my window and I wasted it on Netflix and late nights.
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you."
-- Joel 2:25World system that worships youth athletics and declares men over 25 past their physical prime, creating artificial timelines.
Hangovers last two days now, that shoulder thing won't go away, and you can't train like you did at 22 without consequences. Pro athletes are 'old' at 30 and you can feel the difference in your body.
Caleb was 85 years old and declared himself as strong for war as he was at 40, then proceeded to drive out giants and take the mountain country. He demanded the hardest territory and conquered it in old age, making 25-year-olds look soft.
I REFUSE the lie that I'm past my physical prime or that my body is declining. IT IS WRITTEN that God restores the years the locust has eaten. I am not under the curse of decay - Christ redeemed me that the BLESSING might come upon me. IT IS WRITTEN that He renews my youth like the eagle's. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and resurrection power flows through my cells. The BARAK makes me blessed in my body, and the Lord commands strength upon me. I receive supernatural strength, recovery, and renewed physical capacity NOW in Jesus' name.
The Father isn't watching your athletic decline with resignation - He's the God who made 85-year-old Caleb stronger than men half his age. He's preparing to show you that HIS strength perfected in you makes 'prime years' irrelevant.