Monday, June 6, 2011

FIGHT!

Crisis tests conviction and conviction determines direction. When we don’t feed our faith then we allow crisis grow and become chronic control. But when we strengthen our faith then it grows and sets us free to be what we believe.

The whole world is in crisis and will be until the end – if you’re in control, or controlled upon you depends.

You can’t control the crisis, but can control who, what and how you believe. And what you believe determines your quality of life and what you can achieve. Living by faith is a “fight” and it’s hard, but not as hard as being controlled by crisis. And like it or not you’re in the fight! You can either fight to win, or be lax and lose, but for you - only you can choose. No one else is going to come and do it for you because you’ve been given the power to overcome whatever’s set before you. The Almighty within, strengthening you without, that’s what living by faith is all about.

Heb 10:35-39
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

37 "For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him."

39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
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Rom 1:16-17
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
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Luke 22:31-32
31 And the Lord said, "Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren."
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1 John 5:4
4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.
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1 Cor 9:26
26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
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1 Tim 6:12
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
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2 Tim 4:7-8
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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