BUILDING SPIRITUAL STAMINA AGAINST THE DECEPTIONS OF THE DEVIL (PART 2)
We started looking at this topic last week. We considered two main ways to build Spiritual stamina in these last days; namely:
The word of God (Wisdom) Matt. 7:24-27 and
Engaging Kingdom Mysteries (Putting on the whole armour of God.) Eph. 6:10-18.
BUILDING SPIRITUAL STAMINA AGAINST THE DECEPTIONS OF THE DEVIL
In the world we live in today, there are so many attacks being launched at the saints of God, in order to weaken and destabilize them from focusing on the important things that pertain to the things of life and godliness. Luke 22:31-32 AMP.
GROWING IN THE FAITH
Wisdom is knowing what to do and doing it. Having the knowledge of the times and seasons we are in God’s agenda for the earth will help us to give ourselves to doing the things that are needful and that will add up to our expectation as saints waiting for the return of our saviour.
UNDERSTANDING OUR ROLE IN THE END-TIME HARVEST (Part 2)
The happenings in the world today conform with the prophecies in the scriptures regarding the things that must be before the coming of our Lord and Saviour. (Matt. 24:33-36). Our focus in our study is not to dwell much on the happenings but on what is required of us as believers. The scriptures spell out what we need to do in advancing the kingdom of God here on earth while we wait for the return of the Lord.
UNDERSTANDING OUR ROLE IN THE END-TIME HARVEST (Part 1)
An account was given about the children of Issachar in (1 Chron. 12:32,) as men who had an understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do. As children of God, we need not be ignorant of the happenings around us signalling the closer we are to the end of the world and we need to know the things that are expected of us to make the most of the times and seasons we live in. We shall be examining the book of Ephesians chapter 5 in three different versions; KJV, Amplified, and the Message Bible.
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN IS ALIVE
Jesus came to this world among many other things to heal the sick and set the afflicted free. This is clearly stated in Luke 4: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised”
THERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD
The same question is being asked today from those people living lives of helplessness and without hope. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? The answer is, YES!!! There is a doctor who can heal the sin-sick souls of the lost sinner. And His name is Dr. Jesus hallelujah!!! “There is a balm in Gilead, to heal every sin-sick soul.”
YOUR PURPOSE IS YOUR IDENTITY
God has never made anyone an enduring servant or follower, Jesus said unto the disciples, follow me and I will make you. He asked them to follow Him in other to be made leaders, witnesses, and commanders of their time. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. (Isaiah 55:4)
VISION; THE BEARING OF LIFE
We are here to make the world better not bitter. Our essence of living is to be of great impact to the entire world. When we fail to meet up with God’s expectation of our being, we are worthless, our worth in life is doing what God has commanded us to do, and in fact the main purpose of our being is to change the world, to make this world a peaceable and habitable place for everyone.
ROLL AWAY THE STONE
Fear is anti – faith, when fear is in place then faith is out of place. Fear is False Evidences Appearing Real. It is never true but mirage. The only way out of a fearful life is living a faith-based life. For by faith we stand, walk etc. Faith is the total worth of a man’s living without faith at work in a man’s life; fear is giving a free day operation.