Satan attacks when we feel our strongest and 99.99% of the time we fall if we are not grounded in Christ. But as a brother once said, "The joy of rising over-shadows the failure of the fall." So praise God for that!
I would like to share a little testimony of what happened after I left Bend on Saturday. I had just pulled into Madras and coming upon two different highways, I couldn't remember which of the two was mine. So I took the one that seemed right. Had I not taken this route, which I soon found out was the wrong one, I would not have picked up the 50 year old hitchhiker that I did. To make a long stary short she had found out about the faith trip. It was at this point that she made a comment that left me thinking all the way home. She said, "It is one thing to test your faith for five days, it is another to live it for life."
Heb. 11:5 tells us that by faith Enoch was translated. Why? Because he pleased God. Then verse 6 of the same chapter says that without faith it is impossible to please God. How much of what we do each day pleases God? If we had been given a house, car, job, and a nice savings in the bank in those five days of faith, we would have said the Lord provided. But after it is all over, we return to our troublesome car, our unpleasant customers, our low income and high bills, and our ever so busy schedule, with all the worries and cares that come with them. We stop looking at how we might please God but rather how we might, by our own strength accomplish the tasks before us, hence pleasing not God, but ourselves.
The faith trip shouldn't just last five days of our lives, it isn't something we need to do a few times a year to see if we still have faith; It is something we should be living! In this I am not saying we need to leave everything behind physicaly, unless God calls us to do so, but rather we need to give and receive according to the measure God would entrust to us with. We need to seek out those things that please God. For as it says in 2 Peter, "Wherefor the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall." 2 Peter 1:10
So let us seek out that which pleases our Father, following the example of His Son, who humbling Himself, took up the cross, despising the shame, and died on the cross; yet now sits He at the right hand of the Father making intersession for us!
By His Faith,
Nathaniel
I would like to share a little testimony of what happened after I left Bend on Saturday. I had just pulled into Madras and coming upon two different highways, I couldn't remember which of the two was mine. So I took the one that seemed right. Had I not taken this route, which I soon found out was the wrong one, I would not have picked up the 50 year old hitchhiker that I did. To make a long stary short she had found out about the faith trip. It was at this point that she made a comment that left me thinking all the way home. She said, "It is one thing to test your faith for five days, it is another to live it for life."
Heb. 11:5 tells us that by faith Enoch was translated. Why? Because he pleased God. Then verse 6 of the same chapter says that without faith it is impossible to please God. How much of what we do each day pleases God? If we had been given a house, car, job, and a nice savings in the bank in those five days of faith, we would have said the Lord provided. But after it is all over, we return to our troublesome car, our unpleasant customers, our low income and high bills, and our ever so busy schedule, with all the worries and cares that come with them. We stop looking at how we might please God but rather how we might, by our own strength accomplish the tasks before us, hence pleasing not God, but ourselves.
The faith trip shouldn't just last five days of our lives, it isn't something we need to do a few times a year to see if we still have faith; It is something we should be living! In this I am not saying we need to leave everything behind physicaly, unless God calls us to do so, but rather we need to give and receive according to the measure God would entrust to us with. We need to seek out those things that please God. For as it says in 2 Peter, "Wherefor the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall." 2 Peter 1:10
So let us seek out that which pleases our Father, following the example of His Son, who humbling Himself, took up the cross, despising the shame, and died on the cross; yet now sits He at the right hand of the Father making intersession for us!
By His Faith,
Nathaniel
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