FAITH IS THE OPPOSITE OF FEAR.
CHRIST MOST BELOVED:
TO FOLLOW CHRIST JESUS IS A DECISION ALREADY MADE, AND THERE IS NOTHING ON PLANET EARTH THAT CAN CHANGE THAT IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT OUR SALVATION.(ROMANS, 8:-35-39) LUKE, 9:-62: JESUS PROCLAIMED, “NO ONE HAVING PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOW, AND LOOKING BACK, IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”
WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT THERE IS NO SUCCESS WITHOUT STRUGGLE: THAT IS TO SAY, IF WE INTEND TO REIGN WITH CHRIST, WE MUST BE READY TO SHARE IN HIS SUFFERING. (ROMANS, 8:-17-18)IT IS AN OPEN SECRET THAT CHRISTIANITY IS WAR. IT IS NOT A TOBOGGAN RIDE DOWN A GENTLE SLOPE.
BUT IT IS A TRUDGING TYPE OF JOURNEY UP A ROUGH HILL IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE AND UNFORGIVEN CONDITION. (JOHN, 15:-18-25)
IT IS A KNOWN FACT THAT FEAR AND FAITH ARE TWO OPPOSITE THINGS.
WHERE THERE IS FAITH, FEAR DON’T STRIVE, AND WHERE THERE IS FEAR, FAITH DISAPPEARED.
WHEN FEAR IS ALLOWED INTO ONE’S LIFE, IT IS VERY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD. (HEBREWS, 11:-6)
WE ALL REMEMBER THE STORY OF JOB; DESPITE HIS ORDEAL, HE PERSEVERED. JOB, 42:-2 “I KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING AND THAT NO PURPOSE OF YOURS CAN BE WITHHELD FROM YOU.”
IN CONCLUSION: IF THERE IS ANYONE AMONG US WHO IS CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH SOME SORT OF HARDSHIP, PLEASE BE PATIENT IN YOUR AFFLICTION. GOD IS CLOSER TO YOU THAN YOU ENVISAGED.
THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, “WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT, BUT JOY COMES IN THE MORNING.” (PSALM, 30:-5) 1 CORINTHIANS, 10:-13 “NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU THAT IS NOT COMMON TO MAN. GOD IS FAITHFUL, AND HE WILL NOT LET YOU BE TEMPTED BEYOND YOUR ABILITY, BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION HE WILL ALSO PROVIDE THE WAY TO ESCAPE, THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ENDURE IT.”
PLEASE HOLD ON TO THE CROSS. YOUR JOY COMMETH SOON.
PLEASE JOIN US IN PRAYER FOR OUR PERSECUTED BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST AROUND THE WORLD, MOSTLY THOSE IN NIGERIA, IN ADDITION TO OUR ONGOING PRAYERS FOR LOVE AND UNITY AMONG CHRIST-FOLLOWERS REGARDLESS OF DENOMINATION. PRAYER FOR PEACE IN JERUSALEM AND VICTORY FOR THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL-ALONGSIDE PRAYER FOR GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE TEARING HIS CHURCH APART FOR PERSONAL REASON.