There’s no way around it…we all need to be around fellow Believers. There’s nothing like being with like-minded Christians…sharing, listening, and bearing each others burdens in prayer. All of us need encouragement and our faith strengthened by interacting with other Believers…we all need to hear how God is moving in other’s lives. As it says in Proverbs 27:17, ” As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Think of it…something the Lord has brought you through is exactly what someone needs to hear today.
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II Peter 1: 5-7 ” For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. “
Your Christian walk starts out on a Christ-shaped foundation…grounded in His Word…built on the solid rock of His love for you. But then starts the journey all Believers must make towards maturity. This scripture shows the progression from baby Christian to deeply rooted saint. Like a house being built on a stable foundation, each moral quality is stacked on top of the next…teaching, disciplining, and encouraging as we go. And in the end, a perfectly built structure will stand before our God.
John 1:12 ” Yet to all who received Him, to those who believe in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.”
As a Christian, we have the birthright and authority as children of our Heavenly Father. We have identified and embraced the name above all – Jesus Christ…for it is only by His name we can be saved. Thus as joint heirs, we are beneficiaries of the glorious riches and splendor of heaven.
Matthew 9: 6-7 ” Then He said to the paralytic, ‘Get up, take your mat and go home.’ And the man got up and went home.”
A group of friends brought a paralyzed man to the Lord and Jesus gave him a three-stage command. “Stand up on your once useless legs, pick up and carry the mat you were brought here on, and go home and witness. Jesus was asking the paralytic to do something he couldn’t do before …”Stand to your feet.” Jesus then commanded him to pick up his only means of transportation and carry what had carried him in the past. And finally, He said, ” Go home and testify of your healing to everyone that has only known you as a paralytic…and take the mat as a remembrance. “
John 6: 28-29 ” Then they asked Him, ‘What must we do to do the works God requires?’ Jesus answered, ‘The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.’ “
God’s not asking for our toil and labor. He’s not looking for elaborate and great achievements we can do in His name. No, He’s quite simply asking us to believe…to believe that He sent His Son into the world to save it and give us eternal life. But for many, it’s hard to just trust…for we think we have to “do something” to gain this pardon. But it’s very true, the only thing God asks of us… is to believe.
I Kings 17: 15-16 ” She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food everyday for Elijah and for the woman and her family. For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.”
God had told Elijah to travel to Zarephath and a widow would supply him with food during a severe drought. When Elijah asked the woman for bread she replied she had only a handful of flour and a little oil left. Then Elijah prophesied that the jar of flour and the flask of oil wouldn’t run out until the Lord brought rain. At that moment the widow had two choices…allow fear to rule in her life, or step out in faith and believe God. Everyday fear will make us choose between Fearing the Enemy And Running or Facing the Enemy And Rising.
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